National Summit to Save Our Elections - Portland, Sept. 30, Oct. 1 & 2

[Amaryllis]

National Summit to Save Our Elections
A Call to Rescue Our Democracy * Portland, Oregon * 9/30 to 10/2

Come and learn how corporate-owned electronic election systems affect your vote, and how you can help restore citizen ownership of our elections.

Top election reform advocates and renowned independent media personalities will lead the Summit and present strategies to restore election integrity in America:
• The Honorable Jesse Jackson Jr., U.S. House of Representatives
• David Cobb, 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate
• Thom Hartmann, Radio talk show host and author
• Bob Koehler, nationally syndicated columnist, Tribune Media Services
• Brad Friedman, writer and producer of the Brad Blog
• Ronnie Dugger, Alliance for Democracy
• Cliff Arnebeck, Ohio Honest Elections Campaign
• Ellen Theisen, VotersUnite
• Paul Lehto, Attorney, plaintiff in lawsuit against Sequoia Voting Systems and Snohomish County, WA
For more information and updates on the conference visit
www.Summit.OregonVRC.org

The conference will be held in downtown Portland at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th and Portland State University, 724 SW Harrison
Sign up to receive future conference announcements: [e-mail]
Oregon VRC contact information:
503-499-9000 or [e-mail]

DRAFT AGENDA
Friday, September 30, 2005
Location

First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th Ave
Portland, OR 97205

Noon – 7:00 PM Registration Opens

Oregon Election System Poster Session: Learn how Oregon’s Vote-by-Mail system works through poster presentations and videos and have your questions answered by Oregon election officials and citizen experts.

1:00 – 5:00 PM Concurrent Workshops and Panel Presentations

1A. Engage, Educate, Elect
Jefferson Smith, Chair of The Bus Project

1B. Making Electronic Elections Transparent and Accurate
(i) Open Voting Consortium, Open Source Software

(ii) Oregon Voter Rights Coalition, Election Audits

2A. Working with the Media
Blair Bobier, Media Director, Green Party 2004 Presidential Campaign
Penny Little, People to People TV, Producer of “Electile Dysfunction”
Lara Shaffer, Development Director, Open Voting Consortium

2B. Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport
(i) Rady Ananda, J30 Coalition, “Democracy is Something You Do”

(ii) Alliance for Democracy – Portland, “Using Ballot Initiatives to achieve Campaign Finance Reform Initiative”

3A. How Can I Make A Difference?
Kat L’Estrange, We Do Not Concede and Producer of the Brad Show
Warren Linney, Author of “The Patriot Test”

3B. What is IRV, PR or a CVR Database?
(i) Steve Chessin, President, Californians for Electoral Reform, “Electoral Systems 101: What is Instant Runoff Voting and Proportional Representation?”

(ii) Matthew Pascarella, investigative researcher for journalist Greg Palast, “Centralized Voter Registration Databases and the Threat to Our Democracy”

5:00 – 7:00 PM Dinner on your own

7:00 – 9:00 PM Opening Plenary Session * Welcome Remarks
Native American Cultural Performance

Panel Discussion: What’s Wrong with Electronic Elections?
Brad Friedman, moderator * Ellen Theisen, Voters Unite * Clint Curtis, software programmer and whistleblower * Matthew Pascarella, investigative researcher for journalist Greg Palast

Feature Presentation: Brad Friedman, Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Koehler Discuss Election Fraud, Legal Strategies for Election Reform and the Media’s Role

Bob Koehler, nationally syndicated journalist, Tribune Media Services * Cliff Arnebeck, Ohio Honest Election Campaign and National Co-Chair, Alliance for Democracy * Brad Friedman, host of The Brad Show and BradBlog.com

9:00 PM Adjourn
Saturday, October 1, 2005

First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th Ave
Portland, OR 97205

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Open

Oregon Election System Poster Session: Learn how Oregon’s Vote-by-Mail system works through poster presentations and videos and have your questions answered by Oregon election officials and citizen experts.

8:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Corporate Ownership of Our Elections: The Threat to Democracy
Thom Hartmann, radio talk show host and author

Panel Discussion: Corporate Ownership of Our Elections – Current Developments
Thom Hartmann, moderator
John Gideon, Voters Unite
Nancy Price, National Co-Chair, Alliance for Democracy
Paul Lehto, Attorney and Plaintiff in lawsuit against Sequoia Voting Systems

Concurrent Workshops and Presentations:

1A. Digital for Dummies: The Perils of Electronic Elections
Kip Humphrey, Systems Integration Consultant
Clint Curtis, software programmer and whistleblower

1B. From Good Intentions to Powerful Action: How to Make a Difference
Emily Levy, United for Secure Elections, http://www.juiceforjustice.com/

12:15 – 1:30 PM Lunch on your own (box lunch may be ordered at registration)

1:30 – 5:30 PM Plenary Sessions

Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Jesse Jackson Jr., U.S. Representative, D-IL

Featured Speakers:
Oregon Secretary of State (Invited)

David Cobb, 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate

Ronnie Dugger, Founder of Alliance for Democracy and
author of “How They Could Steal the Election This Time.”

JoAnne Bowman, Former Oregon House Representative

Panel Discussion: Verifying Election Results
Election Audits, Oregon Voter Rights Coalition
Parallel Elections, Judy Alter, UCLA retired Emeritus professor
Exit Polls, TBD

5:30 – 7:30 PM Dinner on your own

7:30 – 8:30 PM Democracy Revival
Paul Lehto and Thom Hartmann

OR

Election Reform Film Festival
Sunday, October 2, 2005

Portland State University
724 SW Harrison
Portland, OR

7:30 AM Registration Open

Oregon Election System Poster Session: Learn how Oregon’s Vote-by-Mail system works through poster presentations and videos and have your questions answered by Oregon election officials and citizen experts.

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Dealing with Diebold in Georgia
Brad Friedman interview with Representative Cynthia McKinney (invited)

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Concurrent Workshops and Presentations

1A. Local Strategies for Election Reform
David Berman, Co-Founder, Voter Confidence Committee of Humboldt County, CA

1B. Citizen Audit Parallel Election Project
Judy Alter, retired Emeritus professor from UCLA

2A. Thinking Patriotically, Acting Locally (and NOW)
Bernie Ellis Jr., MA, MPH, Organizer, Gathering To Save Our Democracy (Tennessee)

2B. Protecting Our Elections
(i) John Washburn, Certified Software Quality Engineer, “How to Test Voting Machinery Software”

(ii) Mary Beth Kuznik, VotePA, “THE POLLWORKER – Eyes on the Poll”

11:00 – 12:30 Closing Panel: Where do we go from here?
Paul Lehto, moderator
Rady Ananda
Brad Friedman
Ellen Theisen

12:30 Adjourn

[loudsue]

1. Great news! We need one of these in every state!!

:kick:

[FogerRox]

14. every state----- YES

[meganmonkey]

2. Wow - that's quite a line-up of folks

I really wish I could make it there - I have seen some of these people do presentations before and this should be such a great event. I can't do the DC march and this. Oh well.

I HIGHLY recommend this event to people in the Portland area - If you are anywhere near there PLEASE GO!!! The more you learn, the more you can do to secure free and fair elections in your community!!!

Never. Give. Up.
:patriot:

[me b zola]

5. I'll be attending!

Wouldn't miss it for the world!! :bounce:

[MelissaB]

3. What a line up!

Thanks for posting this. :hi:

[tommcintyre]

4. Join the "SaveOurElections" mailing list" - RECOMMEND

As mentioned above, sign up at: [e-mail]

"Welcome to the SaveOurElection mailing list! Welcome to
our Summit Supporters list. You've previously signed up at an Oregon
Voter Rights Coalition event, so we have added your address to this
important list. The list will operate for the next two months for the
purpose of promoting our Nat'l Summit to Save Our Elections on 9/30 to
10/2. Once the summit is over, we'll convert this list to a general
announcement list for our ongoing election reform events. We hope you
will join us in presenting a world class, cutting-edge election reform
conference in Portland in October. If you can assist as a volunteer,
please let us know at: [e-mail]. If you would like to
attend the event, please register online as soon as possible at:
http://www.Summit.OregonVRC.org."

Thank you, Oregon Voter Rights Coalition

To post to this list, send your email to:

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[Bill Bored]

6. kick nt

[Joanne98]

7. NOMINATED!

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Keeping kicked

[bleever]

9. Outstanding selection of speakers and panels!

Nominated and heartily kicked.

This is what the road to success looks like.


:yourock:

[autorank]

10. Nobody can stop the truth from emerging: this Conf. is the next step.

I was in DC on 1/6/2005 at the Rally at Lafayette Park across from the White House, at the march to Capitol Hill, and at the Rally in front of the Dirksen Building on the Hill.

I've got news for all those who mock voting rights and election fraud advocates: if Boxer had not stood and objected to Ohio, the Democratic party would have been finished off that day.

Why you ask? Because what happened in Ohio was an act of racism. The efforts in Ohio were directed primarily at black voters. The media didn't report this, which for some means it didn't occur, but black voters and black politicians knew. Had there been no gesture to acknowledge this, Jesse Jackson and others would have been fully justified in leading a break away from the Democratic Party (and he would have been right to do so).

2004 saw the traditional racist voting rights violations in the form of discarded "spoiled ballots." These lost votes cost the Democratic Party 1-2% of the Presidential vote every four years.

2004 also showed a new form of voting rights violations that crossed racial boundaries. Now anyone who votes for Democrats is at risk for losing the franchise.

Failure to acknowledge fraud in 2000 and 2004 is akin to the Cardinals failing to look through Galileo's telescope for fear that to do so would force them to deny church doctrine that the earth was the center of the solar system. Brazile, Dean, his 2004 primary consultant KOS, and the rest of the quiescent Democratic establishment can deny, even ridicule, massive fraud. Nevertheless, election fraud occurred and will occur again. The stakes of losing control are too great for the Republicans to allow otherwise (as Krugman pointed out on 8/19).

This conference offers an opportunity to see gain a comprehensive view of election fraud and meet the heroes who have stood against powerful forces on all sides and endured the questions and ridicule, sometimes from the left, in order to allow our votes to be case and counted fairly.

[Fly by night]

11. This conference could be the eye of the "perfect storm". Everyone come!!

If I can make it from Tennessee (Sunday morning workshop), so can all of you folks. Ya'll come.

This conference will distill much of what we know, what we've learned and what we're doing -- on the local, state and national levels -- to achieve the necessary election reforms and the appropriate election justice to prevent another stolen election in this country. Now is the time to be discussing what we know and what we're demanding to be done about it. YOU need to be there.

This conference has superb speakers, it is extremely well-organized and the Oregon folks say they'll have the 600+ meeting hall packed. The content will be dense and the networking will be intense (and fruitful). It will all be good.

So why don't all ya'll do your best to be there. There are always complications and commitments and conundrums and ceaseless obligations. BUT there is only one September 30-October 2, 2005; and only one National Summit to Save Our Elections: A Call to Rescue Our Democracy, in the one-and-only Portland, Oregon. And only one chance for us to recharge our batteries and come out fighting even more effectively by coming together on the Left Coast to refine our focus -- face-to-face.

The discontented winter of the election thieves is approaching. I feel an early chill coming on, blowing all the way from Portland. But as my Eskimo friend would say, "All good things come from the north."

Only this time, it's more like from the north-west. Ya'll come, y'hear.

[Amaryllis]

12. Dang, but you're articulate, Fly!

[Cleita]

13. I hope Bev Harris isn't going to be there.

She was Air America's "Politically Correct" show this afternoon. Although she can sound credible, I know she's taking credit for all the work others have done. She's still blabbing on about Volusia. I really feel like telling the host of the show (can't remember his name off-hand) that he should talk to Randi before he has her on again.

[Kelvin Mace]

15. What?

I thought AAR had learned to avoid her. She is persona non-grata on Malloy, Randi and Franken.

[Cleita]

16. That's what I thought, but there she was.

Somebody has to clue him in on her. There are other people working on election fraud who are far more credible and should be interviewed instead.

[Carolab]

17. KICK