"JUST DO IT."

[garybeck]

CALL TO ACTION

Please take action and forward to your contacts. Copy this page into an email and forward it to everyone.

This has national implications. For the first time ever, we have the opportunity to subpoena key voting industry witnesses to get them under oath in front of a senate hearing to investigate what the Sam Hill they were doing when they created and recommended tamper-friendly voting systems.

We're sure by now you're aware that Calif. did an about face and certified Diebold's entire line of products -- hackable touch screens, hackable optical scanners, and extremely hackable GEMS tabulators -- despite 100% public opposition and numerous attacks proving the sytems' fatal flaws and insecurities.

But this isn't just California. Get these people under oath in California, and you get them questioned for the whole nation.

Everything is at stake.

We are putting some very important phone numbers and emails here along with simple instructions for what we all need to do.

We have everything to lose if we don't all take a few simple steps immediately. EVERY STATE is experiencing issues with secret, privatized voting equipment examined by mysterious private contractors who won't answer any questions at all about what they do.

Here is the most efficient, easiest strategy to counteract shoving illegal and insecure systems that we never asked for down our throats. This action is the culmination of years of hard-core work by Black Box Voting and others. JUST DO IT.

Here are the simple, painless suggestions. See below for why they are so important.

This comes down to only FIVE emails, FIVE faxes, FIVE calls.

Do you have one good excuse for not being able to make five contacts? On second thought-- don't think one up. Just do it, please.

Remember; your tax dollars are paying not only for this equipment, but for the voting machine examiners who refused to answer any questions in last week's Calif. Senate Elections Committee hearing.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS CALL TO ACTION:

1) All we need is three out of five senators.
2) All five are interested and willing to listen
3) This is the FIRST time Black Box Voting has issued a call to action.

We believe grass roots calls to action lose their punch when overused. We have waited until now because, like the Black Box Voting Hursti project, we know THIS effort is highly strategic and can create real change, quickly.

WHO TO CONTACT:

California Senate Rules Committee. Only they have the power to authorize subpoenas.

WHY DO WE NEED SUBPOENAS?

Key voting industry witnesses, including all federal testing lab personnel, chickened out of Calif. Senate Election Committee's Feb. 16 hearing on how this stuff got certified in the first place. They don't want to answer questions.

Subpoenas will legally compel them to show up so they can be questioned under oath. Black Box Voting believes that perjury will follow. A plan is in the wings for what to do if/when key witnesses perjure themselves.

By the way, documents can also be subpoenad - like the NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS signed by voting system examiners, which reportedly have prevented them from telling what they know. And like the documents requested under Calif. public record law by the Senate Elections Committee which the current secretary of state -- in violation of the law -- has failed to answer or provide.

HERE IS THE CONTACT LIST FOR THE FIVE RULES COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

all the info:
http://www.solarbus.org/election/articles/060301-action.shtml

[kster]

1. Kick-n-Recommended.....nt

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[kster]

3. (+) post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x544886

[kster]

4. Question

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x544886#544919

[Trevelyan]

5. K&R - This is the most important issue and we need to get a head start

this time. Thank you for letting us know.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

Don't forget to keep visiting BradBlog for the latest in taking back our power to vote.

[garybeck]

7. unfortunately "they" got the big head start

because this whole thing was planned out and we've been 5 steps behind all the way. but I think we might be catching up with them.

[nicknameless]

6. Off to Greatest for more to see ... and email & phone. ;-)

ALSO... If you haven't already, PLEASE send the Senator Bowen email (at the link below) to CA's SoS, urging him to reverse his decision on Diebold.

So far only 2,500 have taken part. We can do better! :)

http://ga3.org/campaign/diebold

[Wilms]

8. I hope people don't get halfway through that and log out.

It's been posted on DailyKos, and a few threads here in a few different mangled forms. It's of controversial pedigree, as well.

Is the trademark breathless repetitiveness of that piece the reason the petition campaign is having a tough time?

It tells me over and over that it's going to tell me something instead of just telling me.

My Pet Goat is probably more informing and less time consuming a story written for children.

[garybeck]

9. the point?

no offense comrade, but writing style is irrelevant here. We're trying to save our democracy. I've read, and so have you, many articles that are more long-winded than this. To say that My Pet Goat is more informative that this, well, I'll just laugh at that I guess.

[Wilms]

10. No offense Gary.

But writing style is not irrelevant. Nor is the source of the info.

The MPG quip was just that. The rest of what I wrote wasn't.