"Nash-ional" Conference OH Election Theft Panel: now on Velvet Revolution

[Fly by night]

At long last, we are proud to announce that audio presentations from our National Election Reform Conference in Nashville (April 8-10) are available for downloading from our exclusive web-host: Velvet Revolution. This three day conference brought together election researchers and voting rights activists from thirty states to discuss a host of election reform and election justice issues.

The first panel that are on www.velvetrevolution.us are four of our Ohio election theft experts. Each week, we will post another 4-6 speakers on Velvet Revolution until the entire plenary sessions from the conference are available to you. The first four speakers are the ones whose speeches we sent to John Kerry's camp to help persuade them to stay in the Ohio election theft lawsuit with the Greens and Libertarians. I am sure you will be impressed and informed. Here are the four speakers:
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Dr. Clifford Arnebeck: Dr. Arnebeck is chairman of the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign of the Alliance for Democracy. This campaign was the vehicle for the legal challenge to the reported victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election, contrary to the independent exit poll results for Ohio and the nation. Arnebeck is also Co-chair of the Alliance and he also serves on the Ohio Advisory Board of Common Cause, as Chair of its Legal Affairs Committee, and he is on the National Advisory Board of Public Campaign. Arnebeck has successfully led litigation against the Ohio Chamber of Commerce over the period 2000 to the present in its use of illegal corporate treasury money to influence the outcome of Ohio Supreme Court elections. He has twice run for Congress, once as a Republican and once as a Democrat, on an election reform platform. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan and Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard.

Dr. R.H. Phillips: Dr. Phillips resides in Canton, New York. He served as the leading statistician in the AMoss v. Bush@ lawsuit seeking to overturn the Ohio election results. In this capacity, Dr. Phillips analyzed precinct canvass reports in 15 counties and he presented 21 research papers under oath to the Ohio Supreme Court. A former college professor, he earned his PhD in Geomorphology from the University of Oregon. He is a longtime environmental activist and a recognized expert witness in karst hydrology. In this capacity, he has testified under oath in federal proceedings as a forensic statistician in opposition to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first permanent nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Ms. Joanne Roush: Ms. Roush is a resident of Menasha, WS who served as a recount volunteer for the Ohio recount. She is a retired small business owner, freelance designer, and sometimes truck driver who lives in a swing county in the swing state of Wisconsin. She is a passionately practical Liberal with roots in the Vietnam antiwar movement, who believes in the power of grass roots organizing, in the ability of minorities to become majorities, and in leveraging personal commitment to achieve great things. She is currently working to elect progressive candidates in her county, and working to find citizens who are willing to believe that peace is achievable and absolutely essential to the survival of the human species.

Dr. Bernard Windham: A resident of Florida, Dr. Windham is a national election data-sets analyst (including the Election Incident Reporting System). He is a statistician, mathematician and demographer, with graduate degrees in each field. He has served on scientific advisory panels for 4 federal agencies and several state agencies. He is the founder and member of several local political and environmental programs and advisory committees. In the past, he has also served as a lobbyist for Common Cause.
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So listen to these speeches and send them to any of your friends who still don't believe the 2004 election was stolen. In coming weeks, we will post speeches from Nashville civil rights leaders, from other Ohio election fraud experts, from researchers from New Mexico, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, Arizona and other states -- all with their stories of an election stolen, in whole and in part. You will also hear from some of the nation's premier election reformers and persons pursuing election justice in our country.

Please help us spread the word. And listen to the unvarnished and very real truth of a highjacked democratic process, in Ohio and elsewhere. And then spread the word some more.

We are the ones we have been waiting for. Peace out.

[Melissa G]

1. Nominated! One more reason why you rock Fly!

Thanks for this!:yourock:

[MadeinOhio]

2. IMPORTANT: WKYC news reported on special prosecutor baxter.

Special prosecutor baxter is considering sharing all evidence with attorney Gregory White, who is investigating Tom Noe!!!!

According to Columbus news, he is considering handing over valuable evidence and there is no way this should happen. Greg White is not an impartial prosecutor, he was appointed with the help of Tom Noe's friend!!!!

The fraud in Ohio must be exposed and there needs to be an outside special counsel, someone to deliver the evidence to. NOT Greg White!!!! Somebody needs to follow up on this.

[Bill Bored]

6. Call the Toledo Blade! nt

[Bill Bored]

3. Thanks Fly!

BTW, does anyone know why Bernie Windham was banned from DU?

[Melissa G]

4. see your inbox BB n/t

[Bill Bored]

5. This was riveting. nt

[Fly by night]

7. We should have all the audio up within 2-3 weeks.

Here is the conference program and a bio sketch for everyone you'll hear from when everything is posted. This is a long post, but it will show you what's coming in depth:
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NATIONAL ELECTION REFORM CONFERENCE
NASHVILLE, TN, APRIL 8-10, 2005
CONFERENCE AGENDA

Friday, April 8: Pre-conference press conference

The following conference speakers presented a preview of their remarks at the pre-conference press
conference. Their biographic sketches are included in each section of the program where they presented.
Speakers during the press conference (in order of appearance) are as follows:

Bernard H. Ellis, Jr., MA, MPH, Gathering To Save Our Democracy, Tennessee
Teresa Hommel, wheresthepaper.org, New York
Dr. Judith Alter, New Mexico
Dr. Charles Kimbrough, Nashville NAACP, Tennessee
Larry English, Information Impact International, Inc., Tennessee
Lara Shaffer, Open Voting Consortium, California
Sharona Merel, National Ballot Integrity Project, New Hampshire
Dr. Bernard Windham, Florida
Dr. R.H. Phillips, Ohio
Kathy Dopp, USCountVotes, Utah
Dr. David Griscom, Arizona
Brad Friedman, BradBlog, California
Andy Stephenson, VoteTrustUSA, Washington state
Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA, California
David Lytel, left.org, District of Columbia


Friday, April 8: Introduction: What It Was Like -- Fighting for the Vote

Bernard H. Ellis, Jr., MA, MPH: Mr. Ellis is the organizer for the Tennessee grassroots organization, Gathering To Save Our Democracy. This ad-hoc, nonpartisan group has worked to educate Tennesseans about the evidence for voter intimidation and disenfranchisement -- and other elements of election fraud -- that occurred in the 2004 election (and before), and to inform Tennesseans about the reforms necessary to prevent such abuses of our franchise in the future. Mr. Ellis is a public health epidemiologist with over 30 years of research and program management experience at the state, national and tribal levels. He did his undergraduate study at Vanderbilt, and his graduate work at Vanderbilt, Texas, Stanford and UC-Berkeley.

Dr. Charles Kimbrough: Dr. Kimbrough is a Nashville resident who currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Nashville Branch NAACP. His work in the civil rights movement began during his studies at Tuskegee Institute=s School of Veterinary Medicine in the early sixties. His involvement was motivated by memories of personal experiences of discrimination while growing up in Prospect, TN (the Tennessee county where the Ku Klux Klan was organized). While at Tuskegee, Kimbrough and other members of the Tuskegee Civic Association confronted the practice of legalized gerrymandering that prevented Blacks from voting. He has devoted his life to expanding civil rights for all Americans.

Reverend V.H. (Sonnye) Dixon: Reverend Dixon has been associated with Hobson United Methodist Church in Nashville, TN for the past twelve years, the last four years as senior pastor. Rev. Dixon is currently a commissioner with Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, where he is the first vice president, the Board of Directors for Nashville Public Television, Renewal House, United Way Neighborhoods Initiative Council, ACLU-TN, The Wesley Foundation/TSU and the Pencil Foundation. He is a member of the Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship, where he currently serves as the secretary; and is a life member of he NAACP Nashville Branch, where he is the immediate past president of the local branch.

Dr. Michael Grant: Dr. Grant has actively participated in a number of presidential elections dating back to 1972. In 2004, he was an advisor to Bob Tuke, Tennessee director of Senator John Kerry=s campaign. Dr. Grant holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Howard University. He has taught political science at Morgan State University. A past president of the Nashville Branch of the NAACP, he now serves as the state coordinator for the State of Tennessee Conference of Branches= 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


Friday, April 8: The Front Line -- A Report from Ohio

Dr. Clifford Arnebeck: Mr. Arnebeck is chairman of the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign of the Alliance for Democracy. This campaign was the vehicle for the legal challenge to the reported victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election, contrary to the independent exit poll results for Ohio and the nation. Arnebeck is also Co-chair of the Alliance and he also serves on the Ohio Advisory Board of Common Cause, as Chair of its Legal Affairs Committee, and he is on the National Advisory Board of Public Campaign. Arnebeck has successfully led litigation against the Ohio Chamber of Commerce over the period 2000 to the present in its use of illegal corporate treasury money to influence the outcome of Ohio Supreme Court elections. He has twice run for Congress, once as a Republican and once as a Democrat, on an election reform platform. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan and Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard.

Richard Reinoehl: Mr. Reinoehl has been a social, political, and environmental activist for over 30 years, beginning as a peace activist during the 1960's. His most recent activities include directing the NE Ohio Green/Libertarian Vote Recount Observation Teams. He is an Affiliate Scholar at Oberlin College, and has worked as a consultant to many organizations and community groups as Director of the Human Development Consortium, Inc. He has a master=s degree from the School of Social Development, University of Minnesota, and did his PhD work at Cornell University.

Dr. R.H. Phillips: Dr. Phillips resides in Canton, New York. He served as the leading statistician in the AMoss v. Bush@ lawsuit seeking to overturn the Ohio election results. In this capacity, Dr. Phillips analyzed precinct canvass reports in 15 counties and he presented 21 research papers under oath to the Ohio Supreme Court. A former college professor, he earned his PhD in Geomorphology from the University of Oregon. He is a longtime environmental activist and a recognized expert witness in karst hydrology. In this capacity, he has testified under oath in federal proceedings as a forensic statistician in opposition to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first permanent nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Joanne Roush: Ms. Roush is a resident of Menasha, WS who served as a recount volunteer for the Ohio recount. She is a retired small business owner, freelance designer, and sometimes truck driver who lives in a swing county in the swing state of Wisconsin. She is a passionately practical Liberal with roots in the Vietnam antiwar movement, who believes in the power of grass roots organizing, in the ability of minorities to become majorities, and in leveraging personal commitment to achieve great things. She is currently working to elect progressive candidates in her county, and working to find citizens who are willing to believe that peace is achievable and absolutely essential to the survival of the human species.

Dr. Bernard Windham: A resident of Florida, Dr. Windham is a national election data-sets analyst (including the Election Incident Reporting System). He is a statistician, mathematician and demographer, with graduate degrees in each field. He has served on scientific advisory panels for 4 federal agencies and several state agencies. He is the founder and member of several local political and environmental programs and advisory committees. In the past, he has also served as a lobbyist for Common Cause




Friday, April 8: Other Front Lines -- Reports from Other States

Dr. Bernard Windham: A resident of Florida, Dr. Windham is a national election data-sets analyst (including the Election Incident Reporting System). He is a statistician, mathematician and demographer, with graduate degrees in each field. He has served on scientific advisory panels for 4 federal agencies and several state agencies. He is the founder and member of several local political and environmental programs and advisory committees. In the past, he has also served as a lobbyist for Common Cause

Warren Stewart: A resident of California, Mr. Stewart serves as the National Ballot Integrity Project Director of Legislative Issues for the National Ballot Integrity Project and Vote Trust USA. In this capacity, Mr. Stewart advocates for election reform in the U.S. House and Senate and has contributed analysis and advice to state level activists. His work on the 2004 General Election in New Mexico was influential in promoting public awareness of problems with electronic voting and positive legislative action in that state. He is a contributor to a forthcoming anthology summary of the 2004 Election to be published by the Free Press. In addition to his work on election reform, Mr. Stewart is a conductor and cellist and serves as artistic director for the San Francisco-based early music ensemble Magnificat.

Dr. Judith Alter: A resident of California, Dr. Alter participated in Recount New Mexico and documented voting irregularities in Santa Fe, NM. She earned an Ed.D. (1980) and an M.A. in Teaching (1961) from Harvard Graduate School of Education; and an M. A. in Dance (1970) from Mills College. She is an emeritus Associate Professor of Dance and Dance Education in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. She is the author of four books and articles on injury prevention, dance philosophy and the creative potential of performing arts students. She is new to political activity, except when she worked for both of the Adlai Stevenson campaigns in her teens.

Andrew Silver: Mr. Silver resides in North Carolina. His lobbying efforts in 2004 with both his state senator and Congressional representative led to the introduction of bills for a moratorium on purchase of electronic voting equipment in North Carolina which led to the establishment of a Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting. He is a member of the North Carolina Committee for Verified Voting. He works as an epidemiologist. He was a civil rights volunteer with SNCC-COFO in Mississippi in 1965. Afterward, he lived in Israel 13 years and in Thailand 8 years. He is a dual citizen of the US and Israel.


Friday, April 8: And Even More Front Lines

John Michael Fortuin: Mr. Fortuin is the Director of Defenders of Democracy, a three year old nonpartisan grassroots organization in Georgia. Defenders Of Democracy is an outgrowth of the efforts of a group of people in Georgia to reclaim the voting system for the citizens of Georgia after their disenfranchisement by the state's purchase of proprietary, secret, unauditable, and therefore unaccountable Diebold electronic voting equipment as the single means of voting in Georgia. Defenders of Democracy has been a constant presence in the halls of the Georgia legislature in their efforts to achieve voter-verified paper ballots and mandatory random manual recounts for all elections in Georgia.

Mary Beth Kuznik: Ms. Kuznik has served for over fifteen years as an active precinct pollworker in her native Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. She was one of the nine Regional Coordinators for the 2004 Green Party Ohio Recount, where she worked with counties in the Eastern Ohio / Pennsylvania Border Area. Since the Recount, Ms. Kuznik has been studying the many anomalies and incidents which occurred her own state on Election Day 2004. She is currently working to bring together an alliance of Pennsylvanians committed to fair elections, voting rights, and electoral reform. Ms. Kuznik comes from a prior career background in education and non-profit arts management, with nearly two decades of writing and producing educational theater for young audiences.

Sharona Merel: Ms. Merel is a resident of New Hampshire, where she is a researcher, writer, poet, composer, and political activist with degrees and certifications in Business, Media Communication, Journalism, Counseling, Ministry, and Metaphysics. As the Co-Founder of the National Ballot Integrity Project and the NH Ballot Integrity Task Force, she helped knit together a network of organizations, citizen activists, authors, investigators, technologists, candidates, litigators and legislators committed to accountability, transparency, and integrity in America's elections. She participated in the facilitation of the Nader/Camejo-requested recount in New Hampshire.

Dr. David Griscom: Dr. Griscom is a resident of Arizona, and a retired government researcher and Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is a co-founder of Americans United for Democracy, Integrity and Transparency in Elections (AUDIT). An adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, he worked as a MoveOn volunteer prior to the November election. Along with John R. Brakey, he has investigated irregularities in Tucson=s 7th Congressional District. After months of shared effort, Griscom and Brakey produced a "balance sheet" of the irregularities in four precincts in this Congressional district, elucidating some of the ways poll workers carried out massive cheating using a Diebold optical-scan machine.


Friday, April 8: A Summary of the Election Battlefield

Dr. Robert Fitrakis: Dr. Fitrakis is a professor of political science at Columbus State Community College. He is an award-winning investigative journalist, author or co-author of seven books and is the Editor of the Free Press and freepress.org. He was an Election Protection attorney on November 2 in Columbus and called for the first hearings of public testimony about the election irregularities in Ohio. He is also one of the four attorneys who sued to overturn the election results in the Moss v. Bush case. He is currently editing "Another Stolen Election" and producing a documentary about the events leading up to the January 6 Congressional challenge to the Ohio electors


Saturday, April 9: The Problems with Electronic Voting

Andy Stephenson: Mr. Stephenson is the Education Director of VoteTrust USA. He was formerly the associate director of Black Box Voting. In that role, he was integral to bringing the problems associated with electronic voting to the public's attention. Before becoming involved in the voting rights cause, he worked in the telecommunications industry. He also ran as the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in Washington State. Mr. Stephenson is a graduate of The University of Texas.


Saturday, April 9: The 2004 Election -- A Review of the Evidence

Dr. Bernard Windham: A resident of Florida, Dr. Windham is a national election data-sets analyst (including the Election Incident Reporting System). He is a statistician, mathematician and demographer, with graduate degrees in each field. He has served on scientific advisory panels for 4 federal agencies and several state agencies. He is the founder and member of several local political and environmental programs and advisory committees. In the past, he has also served as a lobbyist for Common Cause

Dr. R.H. Phillips: Dr. Phillips resides in Canton, New York. He served as the leading statistician in the AMoss v. Bush@ lawsuit seeking to overturn the Ohio election results. In this capacity, Dr. Phillips analyzed precinct canvass reports in 15 counties and he presented 21 research papers under oath to the Ohio Supreme Court. A former college professor, he earned his PhD in Geomorphology from the University of Oregon. He is a longtime environmental activist and a recognized expert witness in karst hydrology. In this capacity, he has testified under oath in federal proceedings as a forensic statistician in opposition to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first permanent nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Kathy Dopp: Ms. Dopp is a resident of Utah and the President of US Count Votes. She is the founder and operator of a pioneering internet service provider in Park City UT; and is an amateur architect and landscape designer; former mathematics teacher, ski instructor and actuary, with an MS in mathematics with emphasis in Computer Science from the University of Utah. She has been working with statisticians studying election results data and the presidential exit polls discrepancies. US Count Votes is leading the Nationwide Election Archive Project to develop systems by November 2006 for statistically analyzing all election results data immediately following elections.


Dr. Jonathan Simon: Dr. Simon is a resident of Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law. He is a member of the Bar of Massachusetts and also directs a health clinic in Cambridge. Dr. Simon was able to capture critical official exit poll data briefly posted on the web prior to its election-night disappearance, data which served as a primary basis for the questioning and challenging of the 2004 election result. He is a member of Alliance for Democracy and We Do Not Concede, and has worked closely with the National Ballot Integrity Project and the Coalition Against Election Fraud. He is also at work on a book to be entitled @While America Slept: The Theft of Election 2004 and the Death of American Democracy@.

Dr. Josh Mitteldorf: Dr. Mitteldorf teaches statistics at Temple University in Philadelphia and writes as a volunteer for the National Election Data Archive. He graduated from Harvard and has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania. His present research involves biological aging and the evolution of altruism, modeled in computer simulation. He has been an environmental activist and advocate for peace, public health, and smoke-free policies. He is an avid amateur musician (piano and French horn) and teaches a weekly yoga class.


Saturday, April 9: The Response of the Media in the Post-Election Period

Robert Koehler: Mr. Koehler is a resident of Illinois and a syndicated columnist for the (Chicago) Tribune Media Services. He has been a Chicago-based journalist, columnist and editor for more than 25 years. His essays and columns have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines and been heard on public radio, and have garnered a number of national and local awards (e.g., from Suburban Newspapers of America, National Newspaper Association and the Chicago Headline Club). The column he writes is intensely political without being trapped in partisan politics. He thinks of it as a column of secular spirituality, back-lit with reverence for life; it explores emotional territory journalism often avoids but which readers hunger to read about. It is a column about values and meaning.

Brad Friedman: Mr. Friedman is the writer and editor of BradBlog.com. His investigative reporting has been picked up by mainstream organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. Evidence uncovered via his investigative work has been entered into the United States Congressional Record and has also lead to requests by Congress for criminal investigations and special prosecutors by the Justice Department. In January, he co-founded VelvetRevolution.us, a coalition bringing together nearly 100 organizations in the name of democracy, transparency and free and fair elections. VR has just launched their "Divestiture for Democracy" campaign taking on America's Electronic Voting Machine Companies to encourage them to do the right thing for our country. Brad is perhaps best known, however, for the work that he's done in breaking the news story of the Clint Curtis/ Tom Feeney/ Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal.

Dr. Robert Fitrakis: Dr. Fitrakis is a professor of political science at Columbus State Community College. He is an award-winning investigative journalist, author or co-author of seven books and is the Editor of the Free Press and freepress.org. He was an Election Protection attorney on November 2 in Columbus and called for the first hearings of public testimony about the election irregularities in Ohio. He is also one of the four attorneys who sued to overturn the election results in the Moss v. Bush case. He is currently editing "Another Stolen Election" and producing a documentary about the events leading up to the January 6 Congressional challenge to the Ohio electors


Saturday, April 9: Election Reform -- A Multi-Party Issue

R. Lee Wrights: Mr. Wrights is a resident of North Carolina and the Vice-Chair of the Libertarian National Committee. He is a free-lance writer, editor and political activist; and is the co-founder and Editor-in-chief of the free speech online magazine Liberty For All, an Editor for Rational Review News Digest, an Editor for Freedom News Daily and a Contributing Editor for Rational Review. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina and Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Forsyth County.

David Cobb: Mr. Cobb is a resident of California, and was the 2004 Green Party Presidential candidate. His ongoing demand for recounts in Ohio and New Mexico continue to raise awareness regarding the fundamental flaws of the 2004 election, and have been instrumental in helping to launch a new voting rights movement. He is currently a Senior Fellow with Liberty Tree Foundation for a Democratic Revolution. He is also the Campaigns Director for Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC), a local grassroots organization based in Northern California. DUHC educates citizens about the illegitimate seizure of our government and economic institutions, helping to design and implement grassroots strategies that exercise democratic power over corporations and governments.



Saturday, April 9: Election reform: What now?

Larry English: Mr. English is a resident of Tennessee and the president and principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.. He is recognized as one of the top authorities in the world in assessing and improving the reliability and accuracy of information processes. He conducted a major analysis of the 2000 Presidential Election, which was published as @Information Quality Mandate for Election Reform@ in DM Review, a four-part series beginning in October 2001. He writes the @Plain English about Information Quality@ column in DM Review. His book, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality, has been called @the Information Bible for the Information Age@.

Barbara Burt: Ms. Burt is a resident of Maine, and serves as a director of state program development and the leader of the election reform team at Common Cause. She joined Common Cause in 2003, where she has been responsible for helping Common Cause state organizations carry out plans for effective issue campaigns. Before joining Common Cause, Ms. Burt worked in publishing as a developer and writer of educational materials. She also worked on senate, congressional, and state legislative campaigns in positions ranging from volunteer organizer to campaign manager. She is a graduate of Boston University and has a masters degree from Harvard University.

Lara Shaffer: Ms. Shaffer is a resident of California and the Director of Development for the Open Voting Consortium. In this capacity, she organizes events, speaks to political groups, and appears on radio and television shows to educate the public about the need for election reform. She also coordinates volunteers in numerous states to work towards bringing an open voting system to their state and to collect data for a national database about election laws and procedures. She also worked with America Coming Together to register people to vote and increase voter turnout in St. Louis, Missouri last year. Ms. Shaffer received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Warren Stewart: A resident of California, Mr. Stewart serves as the National Ballot Integrity Project Director of Legislative Issues for the National Ballot Integrity Project and Vote Trust USA. In this capacity, Mr. Stewart advocates for election reform in the U.S. House and Senate and has contributed analysis and advice to state level activists. His work on the 2004 General Election in New Mexico was influential in promoting public awareness of problems with electronic voting and positive legislative action in that state. He is a contributor to a forthcoming anthology summary of the 2004 Election to be published by the Free Press. In addition to his work on election reform, Mr. Stewart is a conductor and cellist and serves as artistic director for the San Francisco-based early music ensemble Magnificat.






Dr. Larry Quick: Dr. Quick is a resident of Illinois. He is a management consultant, former university professor and a founding director of the Chicago Deming Association. He has taught leadership, management and accounting at DePaul, Benedictine and Aurora Universities and is currently serving on the faculty at Lake Forest College. In 2002, he was the Democratic Congressional Candidate for the 14th Illinois District. Larry is Director of the Quick N Clean Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing about creative democratic transformation, starting first with the Democratic Party, and then flowing naturally to all levels of government. He is also Chairman of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project and is a Co-founder of the National Ballot Integrity Project.

Teresa Hommel: Ms. Hommel is a resident of New York and the creator of www.wheresthepaper.org. Her voting machine simulation program, called the "Fraudulent Voting Machine," has been used internationally to help people understand the risks associated with computerized elections. She is the chairwoman of the Task Force on Election Integrity of Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist. A corporate trainer in computer technology and a computer consultant for 20 years, she has been speaking to groups in New York and other states about electronic voting and the threat it poses to the integrity of our elections and the legitimacy of our representative government.


Saturday, April 9: Election Justice: Options for Redress

Brad Friedman: Mr. Friedman is the writer and editor of BradBlog.com. His investigative reporting has been picked up by mainstream organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. Evidence uncovered via his investigative work has been entered into the United States Congressional Record and has also lead to requests by Congress for criminal investigations and special prosecutors by the Justice Department. In January, he co-founded VelvetRevolution.us, a coalition bringing together nearly 100 organizations in the name of democracy, transparency and free and fair elections. VR has just launched their "Divestiture for Democracy" campaign taking on America's Electronic Voting Machine Companies to encourage them to do the right thing for our country. Brad is perhaps best known, however, for the work that he's done in breaking the news story of the Clint Curtis/ Tom Feeney/ Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal.

Clinton Curtis: Mr. Curtis lives in Florida and could best be described as an election fraud whistle-blower. A software programmer, Mr. Curtis presented provided sworn testimony before members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee that he was asked by present U.S. Congressman Tom Feeney (R-FL) to design a "vote-rigging software prototype". Feeney was at the time incoming Speaker of the Florida. In November 2000, Feeney gained national notoriety after declaring open defiance of the Florida Supreme Court by vowing to choose Presidential electors for George W. Bush regardless of whether a court-ordered recount showed that Gore won Florida. Feeney eventually ascended to the U.S. Congress and today sits on the House Judiciary Committee.

Lowell Finley: Mr. Finley is a resident of California and one of the founders of Help America Recount. He is an attorney based in Berkeley, CA, who has specialized in election law for 20 years. He is the lead counsel in a pending New Mexico voters' lawsuit to ban paperless voting, and he represents the Green and Libertarian presidential candidates in their suit to obtain a recount of the 2004 presidential vote in New Mexico. Lowell Finley is a 1982 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

David Lytel: Mr. Lytel is a resident of the District of Columbia, and the founder of Left.org. He was the co-developer and managing editor of the White House Web site in the first Clinton Administration, ran the first Internet-based Federal PAC (Democrats Online, 1996), and operated ReDefeatBush.com in the 2004 election cycle. He has provided Internet campaign support for Senators Wellstone, Corzine and Edwards, for more than 3 dozen candidates for the House and a number of associations. A former Democratic elected official, he operates Majority Media, a producer of Web sites, videos and mobilization campaigns for candidates and causes.





Saturday, April 9: Election Reform: A National Imperative (and closing remarks)

Cynthia Ann McKinney: Congresswoman McKinney is a Representative from Georgia. She received her B.A. from the University of Southern California, and attended Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She was a diplomatic fellow at Spellman College and a faculty member at Clark Atlanta University and Agnes Scott College. She was a member of the Georgia state House of Representatives, 1988-1992 and then was elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-January 3, 2003). She was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002; but was re-elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Ninth Congress (January 3, 2005-present). Congresswoman McKinney was one of 31 U.S. Representatives who voted against accepting the electoral votes from Ohio on January 6, 2005. She remains unafraid to speak truth to power and stand for the interests of the people. Congresswoman McKinney is an independent and brilliant thinker and she returns to Congress with the respect and admiration of people of all races, walks, and faiths all over the world.

Bernard H. Ellis, Jr., MA, MPH: Mr. Ellis is the organizer for the Tennessee grassroots organization, Gathering To Save Our Democracy. This ad-hoc, nonpartisan group has worked to educate Tennesseans about the evidence for voter intimidation and disenfranchisement -- and other elements of election fraud -- that occurred in the 2004 election (and before), and to inform Tennesseans about the reforms necessary to prevent such abuses of our franchise in the future. Mr. Ellis is a public health epidemiologist with over 30 years of research and program management experience at the state, national and tribal levels. He did his undergraduate study at Vanderbilt, and his graduate work at Vanderbilt,

[Melissa G]

8. Kickin .for a nomination to Greatest! Need one more!

[Time for change]

9. This sounds like a great conference

Wish I could be there.

[Fly by night]

10. You'd need a time machine -- the conference was this past April.

But you can be there virtually once we get all the speeches up on the 'web. Which, hopefully, will be soon.

Thanks for the kick. How about a recommendation to get this on the "Greatest" page? Thanks.

[Bill Bored]

11. Hey Fly, I didn't know you were an epidemiologist.

So is TFC.

And you're both fighting the epidemic of election fraud!