Whose testimony should be sought for Houston Election Assessment Hearing?

[emlev]

The day prior to the Carter-Baker Commission "hearing" in Houston, election rights workers led by Kip Humprey and others will be holding a hearing in that city to bring to light the evidence and information gathered and analyzed regarding election fraud, targeted disenfranchisement, the need for real election reform, dangers of DRE machines, etc.

Whose testimony do you think would be most important to have heard at such an event?

If you have a personal connection to those you recommend, please indicate (either in your post or via PM) in case your help is needed in contacting them.

[Carolab]

1. Chuck Herrin.

I don't have a personal connection except I've e-mailed him a few times and he always answers back. He's given lots of presentations, and the fact that he's a Republican helps, IMHO. He's worked with BBV in the past, too. Also, try Ellen Theisen at Voters Unite. They have a nationwide coalition and are excellent.

www.chuckherrin.com
www.votersunite.org

[emlev]

2. Thanks. Agree on both counts. n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

3. I just sent a personal invitation to Chuck!

Please follow up by writing Chuck and encouraging him to attend. Ellen and VotersUnite are endorsing the Election Assessment Hearing - thank you, Ellen and Voter Unite!

[AtLiberty]

4. Dream team...

John Conyers

Chuck Herrin

Bob Fitrakis

Andy Stephenson

[Kip Humphrey]

5. Election Assessment Hearing agenda and slots for testimony

Here is the proposed hearing agenda. Help by providing your choices for potential presenters of testimony:

Introductions & Introductory comments - .5 hour, 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Part 1: Findings of problems with the 2004 election - 2 hours, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

(Here's where John Conyers might testify)

Presenter:
Presenter:
Presenter:

Private Luncheon for panel members and presenters - 1 hour, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Part 2: Focus on Digital Voting - 2 hours, 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Presenter:
Presenter:
Presenter:
Presenter:

Part 3: Root Causes and Solutions - 2 hours, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Presenter:
Presenter:
Presenter:
Presenter:

Closing Remarks - 1/2 hour, 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Press Conference immediately follows - 1/2 hour, 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Private Dinner for invited attendees (hearing panel, presenters, election activists, and volunteer staff) - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Live Entertainment - 9:00 p.m. to 11:00pm (tentative)

B. June 30th actions:
1. Deliver Election Assessment Hearing documents (prepared statements with supporting documents, endorsed letter to C-B commission) to Carter-Baker Hearing - 1 hour, June 30th 10:00 a.m.

[Amaryllis]

8. Who's your target audience? Are you trying to get the commission members

to come? Or??? Do you actually have a apt to deliver the docs to the commission the next day? Great work, Kip! Good thoughts coming your way.

[Melissa G]

11. are DUers able to come watch? n/t

[emlev]

13. I don't know, but i think so, although

it would probably get more media attention if we held a "closed door" hearing than a public one!

Kip, will you answer this question? Is it open to the public?

[Kip Humphrey]

17. Of Coarse! Who do you think we are, the Carter-Baker Commission?

[truckin]

6. Lester Sola, the Elections Supervisor from Miami-Dade County

who recently issued a 35 page report explaining why he is recommending scrapping the $24.5 million worth of DREs that Miami-Dade has purchased and used in 3 elections.

[Bill Bored]

10. How about the woman he replaced, Kaplan?

She might have an interesting story to tell. For example, what if she was set up? This whole fiasco was due to bad ES&S Ballot Definition programming and that sort of thing. It probably happens all the time, deliberately or otherwise. If she's not being indicted or something, I'd like to hear what she has to say. Anybody?

[Zan_of_Texas]

23. Report from Miami-Dade

You gotta link handy?

[mod mom]

7. I would like to see Rev Jackson or possibly Rev Bill Moss (Columbus OH).

Both are African American and both can give very passionate speechs. I would also suggest Greg Moore from the NAACP, who brought me to tears recently when he spoke at the CASE Teach-In. If interested, pm me or else Bob (F) has contact info.

[BeFree]

9. Good Luck, yall!

A suggestion: Invite the commission members to your hearing. If you can find out who will be making presentations to the commission invite them too.

Hope yall have a kick-ass meeting.

[Wilms]

12. kick n/t

[LightningFlash]

14. Two groups I reccomend.

US Count Votes and their professors, including Stephen Freeman, to get a full frontal analysis of the entire situation.

Open Voting Consortium who are currently advocating for a new voter registration system, to hear about their overall concerns regarding security and being able to decipher where officials would try to purge.

[eridani]

15. Is this event actually going to happen?

Or is it still in the brainstorming phase?

[eridani]

16. Kick for information

I've had people emailing me as to whassup with this. Does anyone know?

[Kip Humphrey]

18. We have a few details to work yet, but it is on and will happen!

[eridani]

19. Please post here when things are set up

I don't want to direct people to an event that isn't nailed down firmly. Holding it at that place and time seems to be a good idea, but organizing something big on short notice is hard.

[Kip Humphrey]

25. Venue is firm, 15 volunteers recruited, Call for Submissions sent out,

First press announcement has been released, Hearing panel is being assembled, and we have some 11 folks who have indicated a desire to testify. The Call for Submission to testify deadline is June 16th. The Call for Submissions without testifying (for a CD release) is June 22nd. We should be announcing the panels between those dates.

Left to do: reserve A/V equipment, line up live music for Wednesday night, order food.

[demodonkey]

20. Pollworker(s). 1.8 million of us are part of your electoral process.

I have a suggestion... PLEASE include something about pollworkers, either by having one of us as a member of the Commission, or perhaps better yet by having one of us testify.

There are 1.8 MILLION pollworkers in the USA. I believe that many, no most, of us who hold this job twice each year consider our pollworker duty to be a sacred honor, because people died for our right to vote. At least I do. Those of us who take our responsibility seriously and honestly stand as the perhaps last defense against voters being disenfranchised, cheated, and/or denied a fair chance to vote when they reach the poll. Of course, malfeasance by pollworkers, or taking over of these important positions by people intent on forcing their own agenda, can be as disastrous as any paperless DRE (or will certainly at least enhance the dangers of the paperless DREs!)

I was treated like crap in D.C. at the American University Carter-Baker hearings, where I registered as a "concerned pollworker from Pennsylvania and former AU student". I guess I was considered to be so unimportant, I was never even asked to submit my credentials for security clearance, and thus I ended up on a "Do NOT Admit" list to the actual hearing room at AU! Hmm, that means I am OK/important enough to count over 1100 citizens' precious votes twice each year, but not OK/important enough to even sit in the same room as the all-powerful C-B Commission??

That notwithstanding, pollworkers were "important" enough to have been mentioned no less than 108 times during the actual Carter-Baker testimony on April 18. Many of these references were such that it appeared that pollworkers are a major, major cause of our electoral problems. I believe this to be a dodge tactic, a red herring, just as the emphasis on "voter fraud" etc. was.

It would be good for the 1.8 million pollworkers who are part of our electoral process to have an opportunity to be heard or participate in some way in Houston. Please understand that I am not necessarily requesting that I personally be the pollworker of choice to participate... However if the story of how ironically I was treated during Carter-Baker at AU can in some way further the cause of this hearing, I'll personally do anything I can to help.

MB

(above message based on something I already e-mailed to Kip for his consideration, am throwing it out here so that others can share)

[autorank]

21. Compendium ot TruthIsAll statistical analyses, especially head-to-head

with OTOH. This is amazing stuff. The numbers speak for themselves. This needs to be submitted and reviewed. They don't need to talk to anyone. It's all there. Of course, they can if they come here like others have done.

TIA and OnTheOtherHand Head to Head, Productive & Convincing

Or this:

reluctant Bushresponder Destroyed

Or this compendium:

National Exit Poll Compendium

TIA would, of course have the superiod collection of his work but this stuff is "all good", as they say.

[emlev]

24. Thanks for this. I've brought it to Kip's attention. n/t

[tommcintyre]

22. Ron Bainam or Kathy Dopp n/t