BBV: Action Alert: "Area readies touch-screen machine"

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030923/NEWS05/109230092

Lucas County will be in the first wave of counties in Ohio to employ new touch-screen voting machines in compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act, state and local elections officials said after a meeting here yesterday.

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Lucas County has entered into an agreement with Diebold Election Systems of North Canton, Ohio, to supply electronic touch-screen and optical scan voting machines to the county on an iterim basis, and to provide the county with a full contingent of the company's touch-screen machines on a permanent basis, once federal money is allocated to pay for those machines.

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Duers we must get active. Here is a suggested plan for action in this county. We can deluge the Board of Elections with objections to these blackbox voting machines. Everyone send an e-mail to the below addy with your own short, honest objections or links as to why they should reconsider these machines. You need not be a resident of the county or even Ohio. You can be a "concerned and knowledgable citizen". Then cc your e-mail to the Toledo Blade reporter also addy below. The Toledo Blade has done some honest reporting in the past few weeks on these machines. We can help them out.

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[PATRICK]

1. is there a critical amount

of support for an economic veto of the purchase by people committed to use only absentee ballots? Can enough people stay away from the machines to make them economically unfeasible? Is the somewhat peeved Democratic Party of Ohio going to do anything? A touchscreen boycott can't do any more harm than what will occur when these machines take over everywhere.

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2. Sure a boycott might help

but, so far, we can't get the sheeple even interested in the story. For right now there is just a few hundred activist really trying to halt the spread of these vote stealers and we must do all we can, even though it may seem to be "grasping at straws".

The message is we must have a verifiable paper ballot. In Ohio the SOS (or should that be the SOB?) Blackwell specified in the Request For Proposals that the machines must NOT be capable of printing a paper ballot because of the possiblity of "fraud". It is OK to have our vote stolen, but the voter may attempt some kind of fraud. ?????? This is a real WTF statement.

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3. Kick this up for the night crew

I realize that many Duers have not kept up with the details of blackboxvoting. So maybe, if you could just send a link to one of your favorite articles or to one of the best web sites. Just something to let them know that we are concerned.