Divestiture campaign aginst voting machine companies

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

More on election fraud


Hello, as many of you already know, www.velvetrevolution.us
will be launching a massive divestiture campaign against the nine major vote machine companies on February 10 demanding that they have open source code, paper ballots, no networking, no CEO involvement in elections, independent analysis of vote machines hardware and software, etc.

If they do not comply within 60 days, we will put them out of business through divestiture.

We already have more than 60 orgs signed onto
this Divestiture for Democracy Campaign and we want other interested
orgs to do so asap.

Strength comes in numbers and we want to show the
vote companies that we are strong and united.
So, if you have an org that wants to join VR and the DV campaign, please email me at jtmpinfo @ comcast.net.

[s-cubed]

1. great!

[OneBlueSky]

2. I got a hunch that the BIG investors in these companies . . .

(e.g. the Chuck Hagel's of the world) aren't going to be too interested in divesting . . . my guess is that their investor bases are heavily weighted to the Republican side . . . how may people do you know who are invested in any of these outfits? . . . not many, I would guess . . .

[understandinglife]

3. "Divestiture for Democracy" launched by VR

"On February 21, 2005 (President's Day), Velvet Revolution sent a letter to each of the nine major American Voting Machine companies -- (Advanced Voting Solutions, Diebold, Danaher-Guardian, Election Systems & Software , HartInterCivic, MicroVote, Sequoia Voting Systems, Triad GSI and UniLect Corp) -- asking them to do the right thing for our country!"

Letter sent to the following companies can be found at the link below the list:

Walden W. O’Dell, CEO, Diebold Inc.
David Hart, Chairman, HartInterCivic
Larry Ensminger, President, Advanced Voting Solutions
Jack Gerbel, President, UniLect Corp.
Jim Ries, President, MicroVote
Todd Urosevich, Vice President, Election Systems & Software (ES&S)
Tracey Graham, CEO, Sequoia Voting Systems
Matt Lilly, Sr. VP, Danaher-Guardian Voting Systems
Brett Rapp, President, Triad GSI

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D/VRLetterToEVoteCompanies_022105.php

Letter includes a large list of supporting organizations.

Letter's demands, in summary:

Voluntarily open their hardware and software for independent public inspection and analysis.

Provide auditable, voter-verified paper ballots for all votes cast.

Assure that there can be no form of networking on their machines.

Allow for non-partisan, independent monitors of the vote tabulation process.

Institute a corporate policy prohibiting the company and all of its executives from supporting candidates for public office or political action groups.

Disclose all data, codes and records from the last three national elections, if requested.

Adopt all feasible best practices suggested by a national committee of experts.

Do all of the above at no extra cost to their governmental clients with which they work.

If the companies publicly commit to all of the above within the 60 days, we will broadly recognize them for their efforts.

If, however, they choose not to take these steps to ensure free, fair.....

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D/

Peace.


PROVE MY VOTE COUNTS

[Eloriel]

4. Love the idea

don't know how practicable it is, but I do love it.

[FogerRox]

5. This is a kick

[Vidar]

6. Great idea. Thanks for posting.