Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Saturday, Sept. 30,2006

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1889 : Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote.

                        
American suffragist who was instrumental in the passage of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory (1869) and was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States (1870).


On this day in 1889, the Wyoming state convention approves a constitution that includes a provision granting women the right to vote. Formally admitted into the union the following year, Wyoming thus became the first state in the history of the nation to allow its female citizens to vote.

That the isolated western state of Wyoming should be the first to accept women's suffrage was a surprise. Leading suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were Easterners, and they assumed that their own more progressive home states would be among the first to respond to the campaign for women's suffrage. Yet the people and politicians of the growing number of new Western states proved far more supportive than those in the East.

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1. House Committee Hearing Testimony

House Committee Hearing Testimony
By Edward W. Felten, Professor, Department of Comouter Science, Princeton University
September 30, 2006

Open the lid of an electronic voting machine and look inside; what you will see is a computer, much like an ordinary desktop PC or Mac. Because they are computers, e-voting machines are susceptible to familiar computer problems such as crashes, bugs, mysterious malfunctions, data tampering, and even computer viruses. The question is not whether we can eliminate these problems – we cannot – but how we will cope with them.

Unlike ordinary desktop computers, e-voting systems are entrusted with the most important process of our democracy – collecting and counting votes – and must perform that process accurately, reliably, accessibly, and securely. Trust in election outcomes is necessary for our electoral system to work, but the political system often does not lend itself easily to trusting relationships. Voting technologies must help to build this trust. Today’s e-voting infrastructure is not up to the task, but tomorrow’s can be.

Two weeks ago Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and I released a paper analyzing in detail the security of the Diebold AccuVote-TS, one of the most widely used e-voting systems.

The main findings of our study were as follows:

1. Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.

>more (note: the link to the website mentioned would not work for me)

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1832&Itemid=26

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2. Diebold: Criticism Off-base

Diebold: Criticism Off-base
Marc Songini and Marc L. Songini

October 02, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A Diebold Election Systems official fired back at e-voting critic Avi Rubin, calling the Johns Hopkins University professor and Maryland elections judge a “strong activist against e-voting.”

Mark Radke, director of marketing at Allen, Texas-based Diebold, contended that Rubin, an author of a study and a book critical of Diebold e-voting machines, is predisposed to finding that e-voting machines lack adequate security.

Rubin was critical of the security and performance of Diebold electronic voting machines in Maryland’s primary election held Sept. 12.

Radke defended the security of Diebold’s AccuVote TS voting machines used in Baltimore County, where Rubin worked as an election judge during the Maryland primary election.

>more

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=265748&intsrc=hm_topic

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3. Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002...

The full article is below.
Syndication policy:

This article may be reprinted in full at no cost where Atlanta Progressive News is credited.

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com.nyud.net:8090/images/Atlanta-Progressive-News.jpg

Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say

By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (September 28, 2006)

(APN) ATLANTA – Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia’s electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Former Diebold official Chris Hood told his story concerning the secret “patch” to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Kennedy’s second article on electronic voting in this week’s Rolling Stone Magazine.

Hood’s claims corroborate a second whistleblower who spoke with Black Box Voting and Wired News in 2003.

Whistleblower Accounts

“With the primaries looming, Urosevich was personally distributing a ‘patch,’ a little piece of software designed to correct glitches in the computer program,” Rolling Stone Magazine reported.

"We were told that it was intended to fix the clock in the system, which it didn't do," Hood told Rolling Stone. "The curious thing is the very swift, covert way this was done."

"It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state," Hood told Rolling Stone.

"We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from Urosevich. It was very unusual that a president of the company would give an order like that and be involved at that level,” Hood told Rolling Stone.

The “patch” was applied to about 5,000 polling places in Fulton and DeKalb Counties in 2002, Rolling Stone reported.

Hood did not immediately return a text message from Atlanta Progressive News and his voicemail was not operational.

The second whistleblower, Rob Behler, was contracted to work with Diebold in the lead up to the 2002 Elections.

Two patches were applied in June and July 2002 respectively while Behler worked in the Diebold warehouse; another patch was applied in August 2002 after Behler left the warehouse, Wired News reported.

“Behler said Diebold programmers posted patches to a file-transfer-protocol site for him and his colleagues to apply to the machines,” Wired News reported.

Diebold officials first denied any patches were applied in an interview with Salon in 2003, according to Wired News.

"We have analyzed that situation and have no indication of that happening at all," Joseph Richardson, Diebold spokesperson, is reported to have told Salon at the time.

This story later changed.

Activists Speak Out

Elections integrity activists are outraged by the relevations, although they say the apparent secretive nature of “the patch” has only confirmed the things they already suspected and feared.

“The fact that they were doing any patch of any kind is very disturbing,” Garland Favorito of VoterGA, an organization that is suing the State of Georgia over the meaningless nature of elections here, told Atlanta Progressive News.

“It raises the distinct possibility the machines might have counted different on Election Night than when certified,” Favorito said.

“It corroborates two of our key points of the suit. One, machines can count differently on Election Night than when certified. So, the only way is to verify on Election Night. Two, it’s another example of how people have been removed from the counting of the votes,” Favorito said.

“I’m not surprised people are playing tricks. As far as the patch, I say ‘time out’ for that,” Donzella James, who is contesting her purported loss in the Democratic Primary in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District to US Rep. David Scott (D-GA), told Atlanta Progressive News.

“I’m definitely going to look into it. I’m glad there’s a credible person–Kennedy–who has brought this information forward,” James said.

An outspoken advocate for a voter verified paper trail since her days in the Georgia State Senate, James said she is getting ready to run again in 2008 whatever the outcome of her lawsuit.

“It immediately shows Diebold has not been telling the truth, has been covering up facts, in state after state, year after year. This is someone who knows. He has insider knowledge,” Brad Friedman of BradBlog told Atlanta Progressive News.

“These are things people suspected. He confirmed it. Diebold never gave a damn about security, accuracy, or transparency,” Friedman said.

What is worse, the use of last-minute patches on electronic voting machines are routine, Friedman said.

“It has happened all over the country. Because they find out about security issues at the last minute and apply them without going through the proper procedures,” Friedman said.

At a recent press conference called by Donzella James, poll watchers say one county official locked herself in a room with the machine for three unexplained minutes during the recent Primary.

Cathy Cox’s Role

Where was Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox during all this?

Apparently, Diebold leadership asked employees to not let her office know about the patch or patches.

And Diebold first alleged this application of patches wasn’t going on.

However, Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox appears to have found out anyway.

And Diebold appears to have at some point acknowledged the patches existed.

At least one patch was approved by Kennesaw State University, who got a state contract to do so, according to Wired News.

And Diebold admitted to the Elections Assistance Commission about the “0808" patch, Garland Favorito said.

Cox wrote a letter after the 2002 Elections, asking Diebold to address a total of 29 problems with the functioning of their E-voting machines, technology, and procedures, Rolling Stone reported.

This list of 29 items was also brought up in a press conference by US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, her first major press conference on electronic voting.

Cox referred to the item of the mysterious patch as “The application/implication of the 0808 patch.”

“The state was seeking confirmation that the patch did not require that the system ‘be recertified at national and state level’ as well as ‘verifiable analysis of overall impact of patch to the voting system,’” Rolling Stone Magazine reports.

But shouldn’t they be seeking her confirmation and not the other way around?

Diebold’s reply to Cox’s letter, if one exists, has not been made publicly available, according to Rolling Stone.

“She should be the one confirming it, not the vendor. She’s the one responsible for running elections in Georgia,” Favorito told Atlanta Progressive News.

“She appears to be trying to privatize the election system to the point where she’s trying to ask the vendor to determine if they’re in compliance, rather that using their own resources,” within the Office of the Secretary of State, Favorito said.

“They claim to have changed the operating system and not the tabulating software. We believe the law says the systems have to be re-certified with a patch of any kind. The State did not certify those patches. The State took Diebold’s word,” Favorito said.

“However, State Law does not seem to support Diebold’s testimony,” Favorito said.

Atlanta Progressive News will be looking more into how Diebold was, or was not, able to satisfy Cox’s 2002 concerns.

“Atlanta Progressive News is the only media outlet in Georgia that’s covering this story,” Garland Favorito of VoterGA said.

About the author:

Matthew Cardinale is the News Editor for Atlanta Progressive News. He may be reached at [e-mail]

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0091.html

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4. Editorial: The Statesman: The Danger To Elections Is Real

Saturday, 30 September 2006

special article

Vulnerable EVMs
The Danger To Elections Is Real

Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy

Deployment of paramilitary forces and close monitoring and supervision by the Election Commission ensured a reasonably rig-free election to this year’s West Bengal assembly. The fact that the CPI(M)-led Left Front still secured an overwhelming mandate for the seventh time in a row raised suspicion of manipulation of the electronic voting machine (EVM). During the vote count many ruling Front candidates, including some ministers, trailed consistently their opponents and then suddenly surged ahead to victory, heightening the suspicion.

At a seminar organised by the Trinamul Congress at the Science City, computer specialists, including university professors, explained the vulnerabilities of the EVM, but for want of a real one, the experts could not demonstrate their point. While public interest in West Bengal has gradually tapered off, a raging controversy has been in progress in the USA over the malfunction and vulnerability of EVMs ever since the unexpected landslide victory of the Republican candidate Chuck Hegel in the Nebraska Senate election respectively defeating the incumbent Democrat Senator and Vietnam war veteran Max Cleland in 1996, and Charlie Matulka in 2002.

>big snip of problems noted in US

The microchips used in the Indian EVMs are imported from the United States. These can be copied in minutes for tinkering with the voting machines software. It is argued that as long as the electoral system and electoral officials function to expectation in terms of their integrity and impartiality, there is absolutely no chance of programming the EVMs in a particular way to favour any particular candidate or political party.

True, but in a state like West Bengal election officials are drawn from among the incorrigibly politicized state government servants and school and college teachers who have high stakes in the Left Front win in every election.


>more


http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=131492

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5. SC:Former Sanford Spokesman Set To Help GOP Campaigns

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 7:39 AM

Former Sanford spokesman set to help GOP campaigns

By JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press

COLUMBIA - A former spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford who pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge last year will help three top Republicans in their races for lieutenant governor, comptroller general and state treasurer.

Will Folks has been hired by political consultant Rod Shealy, a longtime adviser to Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom and state treasurer candidate Thomas Ravenel.

It's an inside political job that seldom would get attention, but a year ago, Folks pleaded guilty in a Columbia municipal court to criminal domestic violence. The incident occurred three days after Folks announced he would resign to launch his own business, Viewpolitik LLC.

>snip

Opponents of the three campaigns Folks is helping with didn't hold back their criticism.

"You've got a guy who has been convicted of election fraud and a guy who has been convicted of domestic violence managing Richard Eckstrom's campaign," said Phil Bailey, campaign manager for comptroller general candidate Drew Theodore.

>more

http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=localnews&tableId=110874&pubDate=9/30/2006

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6. Media Matters: Fox's unfair coverage of campaign ads (Santorum/Casey)

http://mediamatters.org.nyud.net:8090/static/images/mmfa_logo300.gif

Fri, Sep 29, 2006 9:01pm EST

Gibson aired Santorum ad attacking Casey and stated "it's safe to say that Casey hit Santorum just as hard" -- but didn't air Casey ad

Summary: Discussing negative campaign ads on The Big Story, John Gibson aired a clip by Sen. Rick Santorum's campaign attacking his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr., without including an ad or even a response from the Casey campaign.

On the September 28 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson aired a campaign advertisement by Pennsylvania Senate candidate Sen. Rick Santorum attacking his Democratic opponent, Robert Casey Jr., without airing an ad or a response from the Casey campaign. Instead, Gibson simply stated: "t's safe to say that Casey hit Santorum just as hard."

Gibson broached the subject of campaign advertising by stating: "Negative campaign ads. It's pretty bad this year. Take a look at this one." Gibson then aired a Santorum campaign ad showing billboard workers changing a Casey campaign slogan from "Bobby Casey for Auditor General" to "Bobby Casey for Governor" to "Bobby Casey for State Treasurer," and finally, to "Bobby Casey for U.S. Senate," while an announcer stated:

ANNOUNCER: Bobby Casey loves running for office. Showing up to do the job -- that's a different story. As auditor general, Casey skipped so much work running for governor, he never completed over 800 audits and lost anyhow. So, he announced for treasurer where he has skipped work almost half the time campaigning for Senate. Bobby Casey -- before running for a new job, shouldn't he show up for the one we already pay him for?

>more including video link

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609300005?src=other

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7. White House Disputes Clout of Abramoff

White House disputes clout of Abramoff

By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau

September 30, 2006

WASHINGTON -- As a congressional report raised new questions Friday about contacts between disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, President Bush planned to campaign next week for two California congressmen whose own connections to Abramoff have become issues in their re-election campaigns.

>little snip

But Abramoff billed lobbying clients for hundreds of contacts with White House officials--including 10 contacts with chief political strategist Karl Rove--and provided tickets to sporting events and concerts for Rove's assistant, according to a report of the House Government Reform Committee released Friday. The business records of Abramoff and his associates offer "an unusually detailed glimpse into a sordid subculture of fraud and attempted influence-peddling," the report said.

>snip

Bush maintains that he does not personally know Abramoff, and the White House is dismissing the lobbyist's claims of connections, saying they are exaggerations by an "admitted and proven liar" who is overstating his own influence and overbilling his clients.

"Jack Abramoff was an exuberant practitioner of sleaze," said White House press secretary Tony Snow, pointing out that the report found the administration had hired only one of more than 20 people Abramoff recommended for jobs. "If he was telling people that he was getting results, they were getting ripped off."

> much more

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609300099sep30,1,4538040.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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13. Democrats Press White House on Abramoff Contacts

Democrats press White House on Abramoff contacts
By: Caren Bohan

Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:14 AM ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats called on the White House on Friday to explain a congressional report showing many contacts with Jack Abramoff, but aides to President George W. Bush dismissed the notion the disgraced lobbyist wielded any influence.

Abramoff and his associates have pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and related crimes, in an influence-peddling scandal that Democrats are using this election season to wrest control of Congress from the Republicans.

"For months, White House officials have refused to be straight with the American people about Jack Abramoff," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

"Now we know the truth: a disgraced lobbyist traded perks and campaign contributions for special access to the Bush White House," she said.

>more

http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=15221

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8. Craig Crawford: The Element of Surprise

Craig Crawford: The Element of Surprise
By Craig Crawford
8:59 PM; Sep. 29, 2006

While the political world braces for the White House to spring an October surprise that turns the fight for Congress to Republican advantage, the Democrats have been stumbling their way into a series of pre-emptive strikes that keep their chances in play by returning the spotlight to George W. Bush’s failings as a warrior against terrorism.

Thanks to a feisty former president, a disturbing administration report on Iraq and signs that at least the Senate races are turning on national issues that help them, Democrats have a shot at winning control of real turf on Capitol Hill five weeks from now.

Bill Clinton might have done himself no favors in melting down on the Fox News Channel, seemingly losing control in a Sept. 24 interview as he wagged his finger at broadcaster Chris Wallace and offered a strident defense of his administration’s efforts to catch Osama bin Laden. But Clinton might have done his party some good by giving grass-roots activists the sort of passion they have long yearned to see from elected Democratic leaders.

Clinton’s tirade followed on the heels of the furor over ABC’s television drama that explored government missteps before the Sept. 11 attacks. Both served to revive a national debate about whether Bush was lackadaisical during the first eight months of his presidency in response to warnings about bin Laden’s aims.

>more

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/09/craig_crawford_the_element_of.html#more

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9. Four Incumbents Fell From the Heights, With No Safe Landings for GOP

Four Incumbents Fell From the Heights, With No Safe Landings for GOP

By Greg Giroux | 8:56 PM; Sep. 29, 2006

Most of the House contests in which Democrats are staging strong bids to take over Republican-held seats were predictable as early as Election Night 2004.

For example, Democrats are again targeting Indiana’s 8th District, where Republican Rep. John Hostettler has won six terms but never by an overwhelming margin, and Pennsylvania’s 6th District, where two-term Republican Rep. Jim Gerlach faces a rematch with Democrat Lois Murphy after edging her by just 2 percentage points in 2004.

But if the Democrats manage to make the net gain of at least 15 seats they need to take control of the House, the difference could be made in a handful of longtime Republican strongholds — all of which appeared “safe” for the GOP when the current election cycle started — that came into play only because of the personal downfalls of long popular Republican incumbents.

The latest of the newly competitive districts, Florida’s 16th, became so only on Friday, with the stunning announcement by six-term Republican Rep. Mark Foley that he was resigning from Congress and dropping his re-election bid — amid revelations that he sent inappropriate e-mails to a teen-age boy who is a former congressional page.

>more good "views"

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/09/four_incumbents_fell_from_the.html#more

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10. Yesterday's ERD...Many great articles!

(I forgot to add it in the OP, and too late to edit, sloooowwww poster that I am.):shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=451243&mesg_id=451243

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11. Foley’s Abrupt Resignation Puts Fla. 16 Seat Up for Grabs

Foley’s Abrupt Resignation Puts Fla. 16 Seat Up for Grabs

By Rachel Kapochunas | 6:07 PM; Sep. 29, 2006

Republican Rep. Mark Foley announced Friday that he is resigning from Congress — and dropping his bid for a seventh House term — amid revelations about e-mails Foley sent to an underage former congressional page.

The announcement created chaos in the race for his seat in south-central Florida’s 16th Congressional District, with just 39 days remaining before the Nov. 7 election in which the Democratic nominee is businessman Tim Mahoney. In wake of the uncertainty created by Foley’s downfall, CQPolitics.com is changing its rating, at least temporarily, to No Clear Favorite from Safe Republican.

According to the Florida secretary of state’s office, 16th District Republican officials will be able to choose a new nominee as a substitute for Foley. One lawmaker, state Rep. Joe Negron, has already tried to lay claim to the seat, saying, “I’m in the race,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.

>snip

The Republicans’ problems go well beyond choosing a replacement nominee, however. While it appears that while the Republicans can choose a new candidate, they won’t be able to remove Foley’s name from the ballot and replace it with that of their substitute, according to Jenny Nash, spokeswoman for the Florida Secretary of State’s office.

>more

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/09/foleys_abrupt_resignation_puts.html

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12. CQ: Battleground Dispatches for Sept. 29

From CQ Politics

Battleground Dispatches for Sept. 29

By David Miller | 10:32 AM; Sep. 29, 2006

Here are today's Battleground Dispatches — a roundup of what is going on right now in the year's hottest races, based on reports from local and national media.

• Tennessee Senate: Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll shows Republican Bob Corker leading Democrat Harold Ford Jr., 47.6 percent to 42.4 percent; Corker says a new Ford ad claiming he accepted pay raises while freezing pay of Chattanooga police and firefighters while mayor is "blatantly false," says the Knoxville News Sentinel; Ford criticizes Corker for not disclosing his IRS tax schedules, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

• New York 24: Democrat Michael Arcuri and Republican Ray Meier debate last night at open forum in Utica, the Observer Dispatch reports.

• Michigan Governor: First Lady Laura Bush stumps for GOP challenger Dick DeVos in Bloomfield Hills, the Detroit News reports.

• Virginia Senate: GOP Sen. George Allen introduces bill to aid black farmers, the AP reports; polls from SurveyUSA and Zogby/Wall Street Journal both show Allen leading Democratic challenger Jim Webb, 49 percent to 44 percent.

>more races across the country with links to articles

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/09/battleground_dispatches_for_se_16.html

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14. NC Opinion:Who's Being Tried at the Geddings Trial?

Who's Being Tried at the Geddings Trial?
Date 2006/9/30 6:15:40 | Topic: Opinion

By John Hood

RALEIGH North Carolina voters following the current Kevin Geddings trial can be forgiven for wondering just who is on trial. While federal prosecutors are currently in a Raleigh court trying to convict Geddings of several criminal counts of fraud, related to his work for the lottery firm Scientific Games and his brief tenure on North Carolina's lottery commission, much of the evidence being presented has the effect of calling into question the veracity of House Speaker Jim Black.

This is hardly a novel observation. Kevin Geddings himself, upon exiting the courtroom on the afternoon of the starting date, reportedly remarked, "I hope you enjoyed the first day of the Jim Black trial." At least the defendant and his defense team have a clear understanding of what is going on here.

According to one possible version of the prosecution's case, Jim Black should be counted among the victims of Geddings' crime - which is, again according to the prosecution, failing to report on his state disclosure form that he was a paid consultant to Scientific Games, and other wise conspiring to keep this knowledge from officials and the public so as to "deprive" the state of his "honest services." Black had picked Geddings for a slot on the lottery commission after his initial idea for the position, Charlotte attorney Bob Cordle, proved problematic. Cordle, a Black ally, was already serving on the state board of elections, and apparently Gov. Mike Easley sent the word that he wanted Cordle to stay there.
Black has said in the past that while he knew Geddings had a background in state lotteries, including a key role in the creation of the South Carolina Lottery some years ago, he did not know of Geddings' business relationship with Scientific Games. If he had known it, Black said, he would never have made the nomination. The speaker was the first to be defrauded by Geddings, in other words, and only after that was the state as a whole made victim.

Prosecutors aren't selling that version of the story, however. They argue that the Geddings nomination was made just a day after Black had a meeting with Alan Middleton, a Scientific Games executive, and Meredith Norris, Black's close political aide and an (unregistered) lobbyist for the company. The intimation is that Black chose Geddings in least in part due to the urging of Middleton and Norris. If Black is called to testify under oath, sticks to his story, and is then contradicted by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the trial of Kevin Geddings could truly become the initial stages of a perjury trial of the speaker. More generally, the Geddings matter is bringing to light other unflattering information about how North Carolina's lottery came to be, information that reflects more on Black than on Geddings.

>more
http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5435

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15. Nevada: Sec. of State Candidates Zero in on Voter Fraud

Secretary of state candidates zero in on voter fraud
Don Cox ([e-mail])
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
September 30, 2006

Each of the three candidates running for secretary of state, the office charged with supervising elections in Nevada, is making voter fraud a key issue in the campaign.

Each has a plan to combat it.

Danny Tarkanian, the Republican, wants picture identification cards for voters to prevent non-citizens from casting ballots. Ross Miller, the Democrat, opposes that, supporting tougher penalties instead. Janine Hansen, the independent, wants ballots printed in English only.

"I want people to show proof of citizenship when they go to the polls," said Tarkanian, a Las Vegas businessman and attorney. "He's (Miller) against that."

>more of the other plans to solve this problem that in reality doesn't really exist. :silly:

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060930/NEWS10/609300329/1016/NEWS

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16. For Your Afternoon Viewing....

Votergate - The Presidential Election Special Edition (Election Fraud)
5 star 36 minutes
Votergate, an action documentary, follows a young team on their nationwide investigation of the current problems with our voting systems (warning: Bev Harris is interviewed as part of the video)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3555094491715905699&q=election+fraud&hl=en


Voting Machines Whistle Blower (Curtis testifying before Congress)
4 1/2 stars 12 minutes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5173816754727816515&q=election+fraud&hl=en

Invisible Ballots - A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud
4 1/2 stars 2 hours 20 minutes (you'll need :popcorn: )
Invisible Ballots - A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud Governments are installing computerized voting systems with no paper record to ... all » verify accuracy. Elections will be controlled by companies that do not allow voters to inspect their software. If vote counting becomes privatized, there may be no way to get it back. Hightech vote fraud is already a reality. If you value your vote, you must get this information to your friends – and fast!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3875476549496397083&q=election+fraud&hl=en

Fooled Again - America Outsmarted by George W.
3 1/2 stars 5 minutes
Interview
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6165561321612417255&q=election+fraud&hl=en

More videos found when you use the Google video search.

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17. Interview with Steven Freeman (Good interview!)

Interview: Professor Steven F. Freeman, Co-Author of Was the 2004 Presidential Elections Stolen?
September 30, 2006
Larry Sakin

With the 2006 Midterm elections just weeks away, many progressives have expressed a fear over possible manipulation of the vote by conservative republicans. Hundreds of scholarly articles and semi-scientific studies have been published this year alone which take a hard look at elections, presidential exit polling, and the technology used to record votes.

Steven Freeman, a Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics at University of Pennsylvania, and co-author Joel Bleifuss, editor of In These Times Magazine, recently published Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count on Seven Stories Press. The book is a fascinating analysis of election polling, and the flawed Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machines deployed in several states with funds provided by the 2001 Help America Vote Act. I interviewed Professor Freeman by phone and on the internet.

Larry Sakin: In the first chapter of your book, Was the 2004 Presidential Elections Stolen? President Bush seems very worried about the election outcome. If the Republicans stole the election, why would Bush be so concerned?

Steve Freeman: Good question. We included this anecdote because it happened on Election Day, involved exit polls, President Bush, was well sourced, and consistent with other evidence (e.g., we confirmed that Election Day broadcasts in the critical battleground state of Florida were in fact cancelled). Throughout the book we tried to present all relevant data whether it directly supported our main findings or seemed to contradict them.

>more of interview

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/30/100800.php

[CalmMan]

18. Excellent, excellent article.

Excellent, excellent interview. Thanks for posting it.