NASED conference in Beverly Hills Aug 12-14th

[sunshinekathy]

I need a place to stay in or around Beverly Hills for the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) conference that is taking place at the Bevery Hills Hotel on August 12-14th.

This is a critical conference for the National Election Data Archive project to attend. (http://electionarchive.org) because we need to make contact with state election officials to obtain their cooperation and help in obtaining the detailed election data that will be needed immediately following the November 06 election to ensure that the correctly elected candidates are sworn into office in January 07 and afterwards. (See http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf to see how the detailed data can be used to detect probable vote miscounts in time for candidates to contest the election.)

The National Election Data Archive project has fewer than 50 sustaining donors who've committed to pay $10/month (less than $500/month) and our donations have averaged altogether only about $1400/month, so that I have had to not only pay all my own living expenses for over a year to do full-time elections activist work (researching & writing papers with PhD mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists, speaking, designing database and informations systems with volunteer programmers, travelling to conferences, studying, purchasing hardware, etc.), I have also had to put about $500/month out of my own pocket into the National Election Data Archive project for system administration, hardware, travel, and other expenses. I do not have anyone to support me. I am not rich. I cannot continue to do this much longer as I have no retirement savings to speak of.

I attended the NASS.org conference in July and made some excellent contacts that will be very important to ensuring that the right candidates are sworn into office in a few states, but I was told by a Secretary of State that I needed to attend the NASED.org conference in Beverly Hills. The airfare and conference fee total $700 - without hotel.

There are no hotel rooms left at the Beverly Hilton, and the nearby hotels cost about $400/night!! Please help if you can, by finding me someone to stay with in or near the Beverly Hills area for August 12th through August 14th.

The combination of random audits in a small percentage of precints, along with the mathematical analysis of the complete detailed election results can probably find every vote count error that might cause the wrong candidate to be sworn in following elections. (see http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Paper_Audits.pdf) Please help us build the National Election Data Archive project, by donating or by passing out brochures and signing up members. We cannot build the National Election Data Archive systems without full-time paid staff.

http://electionarchive.net/docs_pdf/info/US/USCVbrochure.pdf
http://electionarchive.org/fairelection/donate.html

Please help find a place for me to stay August 12-14th in Beverly Hills or nearby if you know someone who lives there.

Please read the August issue of Harper's where NASED was mentioned twice.

Thank you.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
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