Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday, 3/6/07 Congress Critter Calls needed!

[Melissa G]

Call some Congress Critters Today! and Check out some Election Reform News while you might be waiting:)



Here's what you can do: Go to VotersUnite.Org and take part in the action to ask Congress to support an amendment to ban DRE voting machines....

from John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

There are many good provisions in the new election reform bill (HR 811 introduced by Congressman Rush Holt D-NJ), called the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007.” There is significant momentum in the U.S. House to pass the bill as written; and it is on a "fast-track."

BUT, the bill allows the continued use of electronic "ballots" --- invisible data on a computer --- as the ballots of record. Democracy demands that voters can know the selections on their own ballots. This means all ballots must be cast on paper and only paper – no electronic ballots, which keep the ballot secret from the voter.

The members must hear from us - NOW - that the bill urgently needs an amendment to ban electronic ballots.

We are not seeking to "kill" the bill, but to gain support for an amendment banning electronic ballots and the use of Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines, which create them. We believe we have a chance!
DU discussion here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x468808



Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday, 3/6/07


All members welcome and encouraged to participate.



Please post Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News on this thread.

If you can:
1. Post stories and announcements you find on the web.


2. Post stories using the new Spring 2006 Edition of "Election Fraud and Reform News Directory" listed here:

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[Melissa G]

1. Amend Holt Now! Voter's unite call to action.

Amend Holt Now! Voter's unite call to action.


Contact your Congress critter Now!

Here's what you can do: Go to VotersUnite.Org and take part in the action to ask Congress to support an amendment to ban DRE voting machines....http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/ban-e-ballots.asp

from John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

There are many good provisions in the new election reform bill (HR 811 introduced by Congressman Rush Holt D-NJ), called the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007.” There is significant momentum in the U.S. House to pass the bill as written; and it is on a "fast-track."

BUT, the bill allows the continued use of electronic "ballots" --- invisible data on a computer --- as the ballots of record. Democracy demands that voters can know the selections on their own ballots. This means all ballots must be cast on paper and only paper – no electronic ballots, which keep the ballot secret from the voter.

The members must hear from us - NOW - that the bill urgently needs an amendment to ban electronic ballots.

We are not seeking to "kill" the bill, but to gain support for an amendment banning electronic ballots and the use of Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines, which create them. We believe we have a chance! http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/ban-e-ballots.asp

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead

DU discussion here...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x468808

[Melissa G]

2. Press release PFAW Momentum is Growing for Election Reform on Capitol Hill

Momentum is Growing for Election Reform on Capitol Hill


Edit Memo from Ralph G. Neas

With just over 600 days left until the 2008 elections, congressional leaders are proposing legislation to address serious problems in our nation’s electoral system—and meet the urgent need to act quickly so that needed reforms can be put in place in time for the coming presidential election and thousands of state and local races.

Six years after a Caltech and MIT study found that some four million Americans were disenfranchised in the 2000 elections, serious problems remain. Voting technology that cannot be verified or audited, or is inaccessible, deceptive tactics that attempt to deceive voters and suppress turnout, burdensome identification requirements, indefensible barriers to registration and voting and incompetent election administration—all these problems persisted in the 2006 elections. We simply cannot afford more of the same in 2008.

Members of Congress stand ready with legislation to address these problems, but time is very short. Unless legislation is enacted by the fall of 2007, election officials will not have sufficient time to implement reforms.

A strong coalition of voter advocacy and civil rights groups is coalescing in support of federal election reform legislation, including People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation, Common Cause, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, MoveOn.org, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Brennan Center, MALDEF and the NAACP. Momentum is building daily.

Ensuring fair elections must be an urgent, bipartisan priority. Indeed, our goal is to ensure that every Republican, Democrat, and Independent can cast a vote and have that vote counted. This memo lays out the problems we face, the proposed reforms, and the pressing need to act, including the provision of adequate funding to put the reforms in place.

THE PROBLEMS

We don’t have to go back far to find problems—the 2006 midterm elections gave us plenty of examples.

Voting machines

Perhaps the biggest fiasco was the congressional race in Sarasota County, Florida, where evidence suggests voting machine errors caused more than 18,000 votes simply to disappear in the congressional race. Numerous accounts from Sarasota voters at a hearing sponsored by People For the American Way Foundation provide compelling testimony that faulty machine programming or malfunctioning touch screens disenfranchised voters. People For the American Way Foundation is co-counsel in a lawsuit calling for a revote. The case, which is still in litigation, highlights one of the most fundamental problems in our electoral system: with current voting technology, most voters cannot verify that their votes were counted as they intended before they leave their polling places, nor can they expect any kind of meaningful audit of the machines.

Five other counties in Florida and many jurisdictions in other states experienced similar problems with the same voting technology—the iVotronic machine—used in Sarasota. Election officials in Williamson County, Texas, say iVotronic machines malfunctioned, counting each vote three times. After voting concluded in a mayoral race in a small town in Arkansas, the iVotronic count had one mayoral candidate with zero votes, even though he voted for himself, as did his wife.

Deceptive practices and intimidation

In Prince George’s County, Maryland, voters were handed a bogus “Democratic Sample Ballot” that used the unauthorized pictures of three prominent African American Democratic politicians, falsely claiming their support for a Republican ticket. Hispanic voters in Orange County, California received a letter threatening them with jail time for voting, a dirty trick that was traced to a congressional campaign.

Voters across the country reported a wave of annoying, deceptive “robocalls” made on behalf of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The calls purported to be from Democratic candidates, automatically redialing frustrated voters after they hung up. The apparent intent was to annoy voters so much that they would switch their vote, or simply not show up at the polls.

Voter ID and Provisional Ballots

Longtime voters in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington, D.C., reported poll workers requesting photo identification, although none of these jurisdictions have laws requiring such identification from longtime registered voters.

And while provisional ballots were intended to provide voters who encounter problems at the polls a way to cast their votes, they have instead become a barrier. Regulations vary from state to state, even from one polling place to the next, and provisional ballots often go uncounted. The resulting voter frustration can lead to lower turnout.

THE SOLUTIONS

Earlier this month, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) introduced the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007, a bill to require that all voters be permitted to cast a ballot on auditable, secure voting machines that are accessible to all voters. The Holt bill would make voting machines meet basic federal standards in time for the 2008 elections.

With 196 cosponsors already signed on, including 17 Republicans, the bill would require that:
all voting machines produce a paper ballot which would count as the official ballot for purposes of all recounts
election machines be manually audited, with electronic totals compared to paper records
all voting machines software be available for inspection
wireless technology be removed from all voting machines
voters with disabilities and limited English proficiency be able to vote privately and independently on secure machines
People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation both support this important legislation.

Also, both organizations strongly support Sen. Barack Obama’s Deceptive Practices and Intimidation Prevention Act, introduced with Sen. Charles Schumer and eight other Senate cosponsors, as well as a similar bill introduced in the House by Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) with 43 cosponsors to date. The bills would:
provide comprehensive definitions of what constitutes a deceptive practice
criminalize such practices and assess appropriate penalties
call on the Department of Justice to work with other federal agencies, state officials, and leading civil rights and voter protection organizations to help immediately disseminate corrective information to voters
create a reporting structure for incidents that would help citizens to address grievances
In addition, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “Count Every Vote Act,” a comprehensive reform measure that People For the American Way supported during the last Congress, is set to be re-introduced tomorrow in the Senate, with corresponding legislation in the House to be introduced by Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH).

Taken together, these bills address the full range of problems that we have seen in recent elections. They also take steps to remove barriers to the ballot box and encourage wider voter participation through measures like same-day registration, early voting, uniform counting of provisional ballots, equitable distribution of resources, and permanent no-excuse absentee voting. They deserve immediate attention from the leadership on both sides of the aisle.

In addition, we applaud Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for the recent election reform hearings focusing on voting technology, including the debacle in Sarasota. People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation continue to urge Congress to thoroughly investigate the problems in Sarasota and in other locations where the voting process failed, where voters were misled or intimidated, or where serious questions have been raised about the integrity of the voting process.

CONCLUSION

With a huge turnout expected in the presidential election of 2008, it is highly probable that unless we act immediately, the problems we saw in 2006 will arise again. Martin Luther King Jr. often used the phrase, “The urgency of now.” If these reforms are to be in place for 2008, Congress must act now.

We can have paper trails that voters can verify on the spot. We can ban secret voting machine codes that can’t be examined. We can ensure that our election machinery works, through systematic manual audits. We can make sure citizens with limited English skills can vote in the language they understand best. We can make sure that voters with disabilities have privacy and ease of access to the ballot. We can ban deceptive practices that intimidate voters and keep them away from the polls. We can open up access to the ballot box with initiatives like same-day registration, early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting. And we can ensure there is fair and equitable distribution of voting machines for all voters.

In short, we can have election reform that will ensure that every citizen has the opportunity to vote, and to have that vote counted. Such reform is within our grasp. Nothing less than the future of our democracy is at stake.

With hundreds of members of Congress already signed on to reform legislation, momentum is growing, but the clock is ticking. We have only a few months left to implement reforms in time for the 2008 elections. Six years after the fiasco in Florida that called the integrity of our elections into question, it’s time to act. People For the American Way and our one million members and activists around the country will continue to push for immediate reform.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=23637

[Melissa G]

3. E-voting vendor Diebold wrestles with rumours

E-voting vendor Diebold wrestles with rumours
Company said to be considering dropping computer voting business

Shaun Nichols in California, vnunet.com 06 Mar 2007

As the UK prepares to try its hand at new ways of electronic voting, one of the largest makers of e-voting machines in the US is fighting off rumours that it wants to quit the business.

Diebold, which deployed more than 130,000 voting machines during last November's US election, is said to be mulling over severing ties with its e-voting subsidiary, according to a report by Associated Press.

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Much of the speculation comes from Diebold's recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in which it cited "the failure of governments to certify election systems products" as a possible risk factor for the company.

Diebold stated in the filing that the inability of local and state governments to properly adopt and implement the systems could harm the company's reputation, and prompt it to "eliminate, modify or cancel components of our services that could result in additional development costs and the possible loss of revenue".

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2184810/voting-machine-vendor-wrestles

[Melissa G]

4. No-confidence vote

No-confidence vote
Diebold deciding on strategy for its election unit

By M.R. Kropko
Associated Press


CLEVELAND - Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation.

Though Diebold Election Systems - the company's smallest business segment - has shown growth and profit, it's faced persistent criticism over the reliability and security of its touch-screen voting machines. About 150,000 of its touch-screen or optical scan systems were used in 34 states in last November's election.

The criticism is particularly jarring for a nearly 150-year-old company whose primary focus has long been safes and automated teller machines.

"This is a company that has built relationships with banks every day of every year. It pains them greatly to see their brand tarnished by a marginal operating unit," said Gil Luria, an investment analyst who monitors Diebold for Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/BIZ/703060322/1001

[Melissa G]

5. 2007 Florida legislative session begins

2007 Florida legislative session begins
By Florida Capital Bureau staff
10:50 a.m.

Lowering property taxes is a mandate this session, House Speaker Marco Rubio says, but he also is asking lawmakers to pursue his agenda for "world-class schools" and alternative sources of energy.

As he convened the 2007 legislative session this morning, Rubio set a tone Gov. Charlie Crist is sure to follow shortly in his State of the State address, echoing themes of bi-partisanship and centrist ideas.

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Senate Democrats are already quietly grumbling that Crist has stolen some of their best issues by supporting the creation of paper trails in electronic voting machines and restoring the civil rights of convicted felons who have served their time.

Later today, the Senate will take up Crist's top priority: an 'anti-murder' bill that would put violent offenders back in front of a judge if they violate probation.

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/CAPITOLNEWS/70306017

[Melissa G]

6. Careful with that ballot

Careful with that ballot
Make sure to vote, and to avoid common mistakes


All registered Sarasota County voters have a date with a ballot this month, and voters in the city of Sarasota and the town of Longboat Key face additional decisions, as well. We urge citizens not to miss this opportunity to have a voice in local affairs.

Whether you plan to vote on Election Day (March 13), mail in an absentee ballot, or participate in early voting (now through Sunday), please watch out for some common mistakes that can disfranchise you.

In absentee balloting, a method that has grown in popularity, votes are sometimes invalidated because of simple slip-ups. These include inadequate postage, late delivery, out-of-date signatures that don't match voter records, and failure to follow all the instructions. If you haven't updated your signature in years, we recommend that you remedy that situation soon by heading to a supervisor of elections office. (Call 861-8600 for help and locations.)

If you plan to vote on Election Day, you must do so in your assigned precinct in order for your ballot to be valid. Your voter card has your precinct information.

Whether you vote early (available at three elections offices and the Longboat Town Hall) or in a precinct, bring identification. In dealing with the touch-screen machines, check your review page carefully to ensure that it reflects your selections, and remember to finalize your ballot by pressing the flashing red button when ready. Ask a poll worker for help if you need it.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/OPINION/703060363/1030

[Melissa G]

7. Old Voting Machines Destroyed

Old Voting Machines Destroyed

Old voting machines in Lackawanna County were hauled away to be crush then shipped to a steel mill.


Monday, March 5, 5:42 p.m.
By Josh Brogadir

Lackawanna County is generating thousands of dollars from old voting machines. Most of the clunky old machines went from a warehouse to the scrap yard.

Thirteen U.S. presidents were elected on them from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. The machines served Lackawanna County well but now with computers, the old voting booths are history.

The machines add up to well over 100 tons of steel that looks something like upright pianos but with levers, ballots and political parties.

With the shipping out of the voting booths Monday went about 75 years of Lackawanna County history, more than three decades of that under the watch of Carl Goldyn.

http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=6180992

[Melissa G]

8. Dems take aim at vote flaws

Dems take aim at vote flaws
Bucks candidates say county has failed to assure valid tallies.
By Scott Kraus Of The Morning Call
Computer science experts at Lehigh and Princeton universities will soon begin poring over voting machines like the ones purchased last year by Bucks County, looking to expose their flaws and vulnerabilities.

But the Democrats challenging for county commissioner already have identified the county's selection of the machines as one of their incumbent opponents' potential weaknesses in both the primary and general elections.

''I think its probably one of our top issues,'' said Diane Marseglia, a Democrat who along with Steve Santasiero is mounting a primary challenge to incumbent Democrat Sandy Miller and former commissioner Andy Warren. ''I think it borders on an outrage.''

Using an Internet government surplus auction and a rental truck, the Coalition for Voting Integrity, a Bucks County nonprofit, obtained, from Tennessee, five Danaher electronic touch-screen voting machines like the ones used in Bucks County.

Coalition members say the machines are impossible to check for errors because they don't produce a voter-verified paper ballot. The group has provided electronic machines like the ones used in Bucks and Montgomery counties to Dan Lopresti of Lehigh University and Rebecca Mercuri, founder of Notable Software and an electronic voting expert.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/quakertown/all-b1-2votingmar06,0,569499.story?coll=all-newslocalquakertown-hed

[Melissa G]

9. County works on voting upgrades

County works on voting upgrades
Dutchess focus is education, aiding disabled


By David Paulsen
Poughkeepsie Journal

As state elections officials deliberate over which new high-tech voting machines New York should use, progress toward compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act can be seen in smaller steps at the county level.

In Dutchess County, elections officials have secured grants and some county money totaling $265,000 to educate voters and poll workers and to improve poll access for voters with disabilities.

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New York had aimed to have new machines in place in time for September's primary elections, but counties have waited in vain for the state Board of Elections to certify any of the available optical scan or touch screen machines.

The Dutchess Legislature voted in January to ask for the state's permission to continue using lever machines for the foreseeable future. The Legislature also asked the state to push back its deadline for new machines to 2009.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060320/1006/NEWS01

[rumpel]

10. Dopp: Please contact your US Senators and US Representative

Hello Fellow Patriots,

Please contact your US Senators and US Representative (especially
Representative Rush Holt's office and Senator Bill Nelson's office)
and ask them to read this paper which explains the problems of trying
to verify the software integrity of voting machines:

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf


from the pdf file:

Avoid Another HAVA Train Wreck: Software Disclosure Requirements are a Good Long Term Goal But Need to Be Redrafted in Current Federal Election Integrity Legislation.

U.S. Representative Rush Holt and Senator Bill Nelson have proposed publicly disclosing software in all voting systems in their bills (HR811 and S559) i HR811 and S559 both say: “(9) PROHIBITION OF USE OF UNDISCLOSED SOFTWARE IN VOTING SYSTEMS- No voting system used in an election for Federal office shall at any time contain or use any software not certified by the State for use in the election or any software undisclosed to the State in the certification process. The appropriate election official shall disclose, in electronic form, the source code, object code, and executable representation of the voting system software and firmware to the Commission, including ballot programming files, and the Commission shall make that source code, object code, executable representation, and ballot programming files available for inspection promptly upon request to any person.”

Definitions:

Source code is normally thought of as the humanly readable instructions that programmers use to create instructions for computers or DRE voting machines. There are dozens of different programming languages used to create source code software for any one voting machine, and programmers generally specialize in one to a few languages, so no one programmer is familiar with all the languages for writing computer instructions.

Object code is the translation of that human-readable code to something that the machine reads, today, usually in the form of human-readable assembly code produced by the compiler program, and then turned into binary instructions for the computer by the assembler. "Source" and "object" code are relative terms. Given a device for transforming programs from one form to another, source code is what goes into the device, and object code (or "target" code) is what comes out. The target code of one device is frequently the source code of another. In summary, programs typically go through a series of transformations from higher level to lower level languages.

Binary Machine code is code that could be directly executed by a processor. The code produced by a compiler from the source code is usually in the form of machine language that a computer can execute directly, or sometimes in assembly language. It is not possible for anyone, no matter how technical, after an election to read through the machine code instructions which ran an electronic voting machine because the humanly readable (high level computer programming language) instructions are "compiled" into "machine language" instructions in order to execute the instructions on the voting machine. The machine language code cannot be returned to the high level computer programming language that a programmer can understand. At most, the program code can be de-constructed to "assembly language".

Assembly Language code is time-consuming and tedious to read. Very few technical persons know how to read assembly code. Although it would be possible to tell what the code did after a very long time, a statewide paper ballot recount would likely be faster. No court order could remedy this situation.

Open Source code is free publicly disclosed software.

Disclosed Source code denote public access to source code with a complete list of all third party code embedded in or accessed by the disclosed software when such software is run.

COTS software is Commercial Off-the-Shelf software

Easter Egg An Easter egg is hidden code in the machines that can only be activated by someone who knows how. A simple key stroke could activate it on Election Day. This hidden code will never be detected by any amount or kind of testing.

[Melissa G]

12. Don't stop there... Call a few more while you're at it!

Here is a handy dandy table courtesy of voter's unite!

Call the direct numbers in the table below, or call the switchboard at 202 224-3121 and ask for the Representative by name.
(Sorry I don't know how to do the column trick!
But a better link is right here...http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/ban-e-ballots.asp)




Representative State District Phone
Young, Don (R) AK At Large 202-225-5765
Bonner, Jo (R) AL 1st 202-225-4931
Everett, Terry (R) AL 2nd 202-225-2901
Rogers, Mike (R) AL 3rd 202-225-3261
Aderholt, Robert B. (R) AL 4th 202-225-4876
Cramer, Robert E. (Bud) Jr.(D) AL 5th 202-225-4801
Bachus, Spencer (R) AL 6th 202-225-4921
Davis, Artur (D) AL 7th 202-225-2665
Berry, Marion (D) AR 1st 202-225-4076
Snyder, Vic (D) AR 2nd 202-225-2506
Boozman, John (R) AR 3rd 202-225-4301
Ross, Mike (D) AR 4th 202-225-3772
Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. (D) AS Delegate 202-225-8577
Renzi, Rick (R) AZ 1st 202-225-2315
Franks, Trent (R) AZ 2nd 202-225-4576
Shadegg, John B. (R) AZ 3rd 202-225-3361
Pastor, Ed (D) AZ 4th 202-225-4065
Mitchell, Harry E. (D) AZ 5th 202-225-2190
Flake, Jeff (R) AZ 6th 202-225-2635
Grijalva, Raúl M. (D) AZ 7th 202-225-2435
Giffords, Gabrielle (D) AZ 8th 202-225-2542
Thompson, Mike (D) CA 1st 202-225-3311
Herger, Wally (R) CA 2nd 202-225-3076
Lungren, Daniel E. (R) CA 3rd 202-225-5716
Doolittle, John T. (R) CA 4th 202-225-2511
Matsui, Doris O. (D) CA 5th 202-225-7163
Woolsey, Lynn C. (D) CA 6th 202-225-5161
Miller, George (D) CA 7th 202-225-2095
Pelosi, Nancy (D) CA 8th 202-225-4965
Lee, Barbara (D) CA 9th 202-225-2661
Tauscher, Ellen O. (D) CA 10th 202-225-1880
McNerney, Jerry (D) CA 11th 202-225-1947
Lantos, Tom (D) CA 12th 202-225-3531
Stark, Fortney Pete (D) CA 13th 202-225-5065
Eshoo, Anna G. (D) CA 14th 202-225-8104
Honda, Michael M. (D) CA 15th 202-225-2631
Lofgren, Zoe (D) CA 16th 202-225-3072
Farr, Sam (D) CA 17th 202-225-2861
Cardoza, Dennis A. (D) CA 18th 202-225-6131
Radanovich, George (R) CA 19th 202-225-4540
Costa, Jim (D) CA 20th 202-225-3341
Nunes, Devin (R) CA 21st 202-225-2523
McCarthy, Kevin (R) CA 22nd 202-225-2915
Capps, Lois (D) CA 23rd 202-225-3601
Gallegly, Elton (R) CA 24th 202-225-5811
McKeon, Howard P. ``Buck'' (R) CA 25th 202-225-1956
Dreier, David (R) CA 26th 202-225-2305
Sherman, Brad (D) CA 27th 202-225-5911
Berman, Howard L. (D) CA 28th 202-225-4695
Schiff, Adam B. (D) CA 29th 202-225-4176
Waxman, Henry A. (D) CA 30th 202-225-3976
Becerra, Xavier (D) CA 31st 202-225-6235
Solis, Hilda L. (D) CA 32nd 202-225-5464
Watson, Diane E. (D) CA 33rd 202-225-7084
Roybal-Allard, Lucille (D) CA 34th 202-225-1766
Waters, Maxine (D) CA 35th 202-225-2201
Harman, Jane (D) CA 36th 202-225-8220
Millender-McDonald, Juanita (D) CA 37th 202-225-7924
Napolitano, Grace F. (D) CA 38th 202-225-5256
Sánchez, Linda T. (D) CA 39th 202-225-6676
Royce, Edward R. (R) CA 40th 202-225-4111
Lewis, Jerry (R) CA 41st 202-225-5861
Miller, Gary G. (R) CA 42nd 202-225-3201
Baca, Joe (D) CA 43rd 202-225-6161
Calvert, Ken (R) CA 44th 202-225-1986
Bono, Mary (R) CA 45th 202-225-5330
Rohrabacher, Dana (R) CA 46th 202-225-2415
Sanchez, Loretta (D) CA 47th 202-225-2965
Campbell, John (R) CA 48th 202-225-5611
Issa, Darrell E. (R) CA 49th 202-225-3906
Bilbray, Brian P. (R) CA 50th 202-225-0508
Filner, Bob (D) CA 51st 202-225-8045
Hunter, Duncan (R) CA 52nd 202-225-5672
Davis, Susan A. (D) CA 53rd 202-225-2040
DeGette, Diana (D) CO 1st 202-225-4431
Udall, Mark (D) CO 2nd 202-225-2161
Salazar, John T. (D) CO 3rd 202-225-4761
Musgrave, Marilyn N. (R) CO 4th 202-225-4676
Lamborn, Doug (R) CO 5th 202-225-4422
Tancredo, Thomas G. (R) CO 6th 202-225-7882
Perlmutter, Ed (D) CO 7th 202-225-2645
Larson, John B. (D) CT 1st 202-225-2265
Courtney, Joe (D) CT 2nd 202-225-2076
DeLauro, Rosa L. (D) CT 3rd 202-225-3661
Shays, Christopher (R) CT 4th 202-225-5541
Murphy, Christopher S. (D) CT 5th 202-225-4476
Norton, Eleanor Holmes (D) DC Delegate 202-225-8050
Castle, Michael N. (R) DE At Large 202-225-4165
Miller, Jeff (R) FL 1st 202-225-4136
Boyd, Allen (D) FL 2nd 202-225-5235
Brown, Corrine (D) FL 3rd 202-225-0123
Crenshaw, Ander (R) FL 4th 202-225-2501
Brown-Waite, Ginny (R) FL 5th 202-225-1002
Stearns, Cliff (R) FL 6th 202-225-5744
Mica, John L. (R) FL 7th 202-225-4035
Keller, Ric (R) FL 8th 202-225-2176
Bilirakis, Gus M. (R) FL 9th 202-225-5755
Young, C. W. Bill (R) FL 10th 202-225-5961
Castor, Kathy (D) FL 11th 202-225-3376
Putnam, Adam H. (R) FL 12th 202-225-1252
Buchanan, Vern (R) FL 13th 202-225-5015
Mack, Connie (R) FL 14th 202-225-2536
Weldon, Dave (R) FL 15th 202-225-3671
Mahoney, Tim (D) FL 16th 202-225-5792
Meek, Kendrick B. (D) FL 17th 202-225-4506
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R) FL 18th 202-225-3931
Wexler, Robert (D) FL 19th 202-225-3001
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie (D) FL 20th 202-225-7931
Diaz-Balart, Lincoln (R) FL 21st 202-225-4211
Klein, Ron (D) FL 22nd 202-225-3026
Hastings, Alcee L. (D) FL 23rd 202-225-1313
Feeney, Tom (R) FL 24th 202-225-2706
Diaz-Balart, Mario (R) FL 25th 202-225-2778
Kingston, Jack (R) GA 1st 202-225-5831
Bishop, Sanford D. Jr.(D) GA 2nd 202-225-3631
Westmoreland, Lynn A. (R) GA 3rd 202-225-5901
Johnson, Henry C. ``Hank'' Jr.(D) GA 4th 202-225-1605
Lewis, John (D) GA 5th 202-225-3801
Price, Tom (R) GA 6th 202-225-4501
Linder, John (R) GA 7th 202-225-4272
Marshall, Jim (D) GA 8th 202-225-6531
Deal, Nathan (R) GA 9th 202-225-5211
(D) GA 10th 202-225-4101
Gingrey, Phil (R) GA 11th 202-225-2931
Barrow, John (D) GA 12th 202-225-2823
Scott, David (D) GA 13th 202-225-2939
Bordallo, Madeleine Z. (D) GU Delegate 202-225-1188
Abercrombie, Neil (D) HI 1st 202-225-2726
Hirono, Mazie K. (D) HI 2nd 202-225-4906
Braley, Bruce L. (D) IA 1st 202-225-2911
Loebsack, David (D) IA 2nd 202-225-6576
Boswell, Leonard L. (D) IA 3rd 202-225-3806
Latham, Tom (R) IA 4th 202-225-5476
King, Steve (R) IA 5th 202-225-4426
Sali, Bill (R) ID 1st 202-225-6611
Simpson, Michael K. (R) ID 2nd 202-225-5531
Rush, Bobby L. (D) IL 1st 202-225-4372
Jackson, Jesse L. Jr.(D) IL 2nd 202-225-0773
Lipinski, Daniel (D) IL 3rd 202-225-5701
Gutierrez, Luis V. (D) IL 4th 202-225-8203
Emanuel, Rahm (D) IL 5th 202-225-4061
Roskam, Peter J. (R) IL 6th 202-225-4561
Davis, Danny K. (D) IL 7th 202-225-5006
Bean, Melissa L. (D) IL 8th 202-225-3711
Schakowsky, Janice D. (D) IL 9th 202-225-2111
Kirk, Mark Steven (R) IL 10th 202-225-4835
Weller, Jerry (R) IL 11th 202-225-3635
Costello, Jerry F. (D) IL 12th 202-225-5661
Biggert, Judy (R) IL 13th 202-225-3515
Hastert, J. Dennis (R) IL 14th 202-225-2976
Johnson, Timothy V. (R) IL 15th 202-225-2371
Manzullo, Donald A. (R) IL 16th 202-225-5676
Hare, Phil (D) IL 17th 202-225-5905
LaHood, Ray (R) IL 18th 202-225-6201
Shimkus, John (R) IL 19th 202-225-5271
Visclosky, Peter J. (D) IN 1st 202-225-2461
Donnelly, Joe (D) IN 2nd 202-225-3915
Souder, Mark E. (R) IN 3rd 202-225-4436
Buyer, Steve (R) IN 4th 202-225-5037
Burton, Dan (R) IN 5th 202-225-2276
Pence, Mike (R) IN 6th 202-225-3021
Carson, Julia (D) IN 7th 202-225-4011
Ellsworth, Brad (D) IN 8th 202-225-4636
Hill, Baron P. (D) IN 9th 202-225-5315
Moran, Jerry (R) KS 1st 202-225-2715
Boyda, Nancy E. (D) KS 2nd 202-225-6601
Moore, Dennis (D) KS 3rd 202-225-2865
Tiahrt, Todd (R) KS 4th 202-225-6216
Whitfield, Ed (R) KY 1st 202-225-3115
Lewis, Ron (R) KY 2nd 202-225-3501
Yarmuth, John A. (D) KY 3rd 202-225-5401
Davis, Geoff (R) KY 4th 202-225-3465
Rogers, Harold (R) KY 5th 202-225-4601
Chandler, Ben (D) KY 6th 202-225-4706
Jindal, Bobby (R) LA 1st 202-225-3015
Jefferson, William J. (D) LA 2nd 202-225-6636
Melancon, Charlie (D) LA 3rd 202-225-4031
McCrery, Jim (R) LA 4th 202-225-2777
Alexander, Rodney (R) LA 5th 202-225-8490
Baker, Richard H. (R) LA 6th 202-225-3901
Boustany, Charles W. Jr.(R) LA 7th 202-225-2031
Olver, John W. (D) MA 1st 202-225-5335
Neal, Richard E. (D) MA 2nd 202-225-5601
McGovern, James P. (D) MA 3rd 202-225-6101
Frank, Barney (D) MA 4th 202-225-5931
Meehan, Martin T. (D) MA 5th 202-225-3411
Tierney, John F. (D) MA 6th 202-225-8020
Markey, Edward J. (D) MA 7th 202-225-2836
Capuano, Michael E. (D) MA 8th 202-225-5111
Lynch, Stephen F. (D) MA 9th 202-225-8273
Delahunt, William D. (D) MA 10th 202-225-3111
Gilchrest, Wayne T. (R) MD 1st 202-225-5311
Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch (D) MD 2nd 202-225-3061
Sarbanes, John P. (D) MD 3rd 202-225-4016
Wynn, Albert Russell (D) MD 4th 202-225-8699
Hoyer, Steny H. (D) MD 5th 202-225-4131
Bartlett, Roscoe G. (R) MD 6th 202-225-2721
Cummings, Elijah E. (D) MD 7th 202-225-4741
Van Hollen, Chris (D) MD 8th 202-225-5341
Allen, Thomas H. (D) ME 1st 202-225-6116
Michaud, Michael H. (D) ME 2nd 202-225-6306
Stupak, Bart (D) MI 1st 202-225-4735
Hoekstra, Peter (R) MI 2nd 202-225-4401
Ehlers, Vernon J. (R) MI 3rd 202-225-3831
Camp, Dave (R) MI 4th 202-225-3561
Kildee, Dale E. (D) MI 5th 202-225-3611
Upton, Fred (R) MI 6th 202-225-3761
Walberg, Tim (R) MI 7th 202-225-6276
Rogers, Mike (R) MI 8th 202-225-4872
Knollenberg, Joe (R) MI 9th 202-225-5802
Miller, Candice S. (R) MI 10th 202-225-2106
McCotter, Thaddeus G. (R) MI 11th 202-225-8171
Levin, Sander M. (D) MI 12th 202-225-4961
Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. (D) MI 13th 202-225-2261
Conyers, John Jr.(D) MI 14th 202-225-5126
Dingell, John D. (D) MI 15th 202-225-4071
Walz, Timothy J. (D) MN 1st 202-225-2472
Kline, John (R) MN 2nd 202-225-2271
Ramstad, Jim (R) MN 3rd 202-225-2871
McCollum, Betty (D) MN 4th 202-225-6631
Ellison, Keith (D) MN 5th 202-225-4755
Bachmann, Michele (R) MN 6th 202-225-2331
Peterson, Collin C. (D) MN 7th 202-225-2165
Oberstar, James L. (D) MN 8th 202-225-6211
Clay, Wm. Lacy (D) MO 1st 202-225-2406
Akin, W. Todd (R) MO 2nd 202-225-2561
Carnahan, Russ (D) MO 3rd 202-225-2671
Skelton, Ike (D) MO 4th 202-225-2876
Cleaver, Emanuel (D) MO 5th 202-225-4535
Graves, Sam (R) MO 6th 202-225-7041
Blunt, Roy (R) MO 7th 202-225-6536
Emerson, Jo Ann (R) MO 8th 202-225-4404
Hulshof, Kenny C. (R) MO 9th 202-225-2956
Wicker, Roger F. (R) MS 1st 202-225-4306
Thompson, Bennie G. (D) MS 2nd 202-225-5876
Pickering, Charles W. ``Chip'' (R) MS 3rd 202-225-5031
Taylor, Gene (D) MS 4th 202-225-5772
Rehberg, Dennis R. (R) MT At Large 202-225-3211
Butterfield, G. K. (D) NC 1st 202-225-3101
Etheridge, Bob (D) NC 2nd 202-225-4531
Jones, Walter B. (R) NC 3rd 202-225-3415
Price, David E. (D) NC 4th 202-225-1784
Foxx, Virginia (R) NC 5th 202-225-2071
Coble, Howard (R) NC 6th 202-225-3065
McIntyre, Mike (D) NC 7th 202-225-2731
Hayes, Robin (R) NC 8th 202-225-3715
Myrick, Sue Wilkins (R) NC 9th 202-225-1976
McHenry, Patrick T. (R) NC 10th 202-225-2576
Shuler, Heath (D) NC 11th 202-225-6401
Watt, Melvin L. (D) NC 12th 202-225-1510
Miller, Brad (D) NC 13th 202-225-3032
Pomeroy, Earl (D) ND At Large 202-225-2611
Fortenberry, Jeff (R) NE 1st 202-225-4806
Terry, Lee (R) NE 2nd 202-225-4155
Smith, Adrian (R) NE 3rd 202-225-6435
Shea-Porter, Carol (D) NH 1st 202-225-5456
Hodes, Paul W. (D) NH 2nd 202-225-5206
Andrews, Robert E. (D) NJ 1st 202-225-6501
LoBiondo, Frank A. (R) NJ 2nd 202-225-6572
Saxton, Jim (R) NJ 3rd 202-225-4765
Smith, Christopher H. (R) NJ 4th 202-225-3765
Garrett, Scott (R) NJ 5th 202-225-4465
Pallone, Frank Jr.(D) NJ 6th 202-225-4671
Ferguson, Mike (R) NJ 7th 202-225-5361
Pascrell, Bill Jr.(D) NJ 8th 202-225-5751
Rothman, Steven R. (D) NJ 9th 202-225-5061
Payne, Donald M. (D) NJ 10th 202-225-3436
Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. (R) NJ 11th 202-225-5034
Holt, Rush D. (D) NJ 12th 202-225-5801
Sires, Albio (D) NJ 13th 202-225-7919
Wilson, Heather (R) NM 1st 202-225-6316
Pearce, Stevan (R) NM 2nd 202-225-2365
Udall, Tom (D) NM 3rd 202-225-6190
Berkley, Shelley (D) NV 1st 202-225-5965
Heller, Dean (R) NV 2nd 202-225-6155
Porter, Jon C. (R) NV 3rd 202-225-3252
Bishop, Timothy H. (D) NY 1st 202-225-3826
Israel, Steve (D) NY 2nd 202-225-3335
King, Peter T. (R) NY 3rd 202-225-7896
McCarthy, Carolyn (D) NY 4th 202-225-5516
Ackerman, Gary L. (D) NY 5th 202-225-2601
Meeks, Gregory W. (D) NY 6th 202-225-3461
Crowley, Joseph (D) NY 7th 202-225-3965
Nadler, Jerrold (D) NY 8th 202-225-5635
Weiner, Anthony D. (D) NY 9th 202-225-6616
Towns, Edolphus (D) NY 10th 202-225-5936
Clarke, Yvette D. (D) NY 11th 202-225-6231
Velázquez, Nydia M. (D) NY 12th 202-225-2361
Fossella, Vito (R) NY 13th 202-225-3371
Maloney, Carolyn B. (D) NY 14th 202-225-7944
Rangel, Charles B. (D) NY 15th 202-225-4365
Serrano, José E. (D) NY 16th 202-225-4361
Engel, Eliot L. (D) NY 17th 202-225-2464
Lowey, Nita M. (D) NY 18th 202-225-6506
Hall, John J. (D) NY 19th 202-225-5441
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (D) NY 20th 202-225-5614
McNulty, Michael R. (D) NY 21st 202-225-5076
Hinchey, Maurice D. (D) NY 22nd 202-225-6335
McHugh, John M. (R) NY 23rd 202-225-4611
Arcuri, Michael A. (D) NY 24th 202-225-3665
Walsh, James T. (R) NY 25th 202-225-3701
Reynolds, Thomas M. (R) NY 26th 202-225-5265
Higgins, Brian (D) NY 27th 202-225-3306
Slaughter, Louise McIntosh (D) NY 28th 202-225-3615
Kuhl, John R. ``Randy'' Jr.(R) NY 29th 202-225-3161
Chabot, Steve (R) OH 1st 202-225-2216
Schmidt, Jean (R) OH 2nd 202-225-3164
Turner, Michael R. (R) OH 3rd 202-225-6465
Jordan, Jim (R) OH 4th 202-225-2676
Gillmor, Paul E. (R) OH 5th 202-225-6405
Wilson, Charles A. (D) OH 6th 202-225-5705
Hobson, David L. (R) OH 7th 202-225-4324
Boehner, John A. (R) OH 8th 202-225-6205
Kaptur, Marcy (D) OH 9th 202-225-4146
Kucinich, Dennis J. (D) OH 10th 202-225-5871
Jones, Stephanie Tubbs (D) OH 11th 202-225-7032
Tiberi, Patrick J. (R) OH 12th 202-225-5355
Sutton, Betty (D) OH 13th 202-225-3401
LaTourette, Steven C. (R) OH 14th 202-225-5731
Pryce, Deborah (R) OH 15th 202-225-2015
Regula, Ralph (R) OH 16th 202-225-3876
Ryan, Tim (D) OH 17th 202-225-5261
Space, Zachary T. (D) OH 18th 202-225-6265
Sullivan, John (R) OK 1st 202-225-2211
Boren, Dan (D) OK 2nd 202-225-2701
Lucas, Frank D. (R) OK 3rd 202-225-5565
Cole, Tom (R) OK 4th 202-225-6165
Fallin, Mary (R) OK 5th 202-225-2132
Wu, David (D) OR 1st 202-225-0855
Walden, Greg (R) OR 2nd 202-225-6730
Blumenauer, Earl (D) OR 3rd 202-225-4811
DeFazio, Peter A. (D) OR 4th 202-225-6416
Hooley, Darlene (D) OR 5th 202-225-5711
Brady, Robert A. (D) PA 1st 202-225-4731
Fattah, Chaka (D) PA 2nd 202-225-4001
English, Phil (R) PA 3rd 202-225-5406
Altmire, Jason (D) PA 4th 202-225-2565
Peterson, John E. (R) PA 5th 202-225-5121
Gerlach, Jim (R) PA 6th 202-225-4315
Sestak, Joe (D) PA 7th 202-225-2011
Murphy, Patrick J. (D) PA 8th 202-225-4276
Shuster, Bill (R) PA 9th 202-225-2431
Carney, Christopher P. (D) PA 10th 202-225-3731
Kanjorski, Paul E. (D) PA 11th 202-225-6511
Murtha, John P. (D) PA 12th 202-225-2065
Schwartz, Allyson Y. (D) PA 13th 202-225-6111
Doyle, Michael F. (D) PA 14th 202-225-2135
Dent, Charles W. (R) PA 15th 202-225-6411
Pitts, Joseph R. (R) PA 16th 202-225-2411
Holden, Tim (D) PA 17th 202-225-5546
Murphy, Tim (R) PA 18th 202-225-2301
Platts, Todd Russell (R) PA 19th 202-225-5836
Fortuño, Luis G. (R) PR Resident Commissioner 202-225-2615
Kennedy, Patrick J. (D) RI 1st 202-225-4911
Langevin, James R. (D) RI 2nd 202-225-2735
Brown, Henry E. Jr.(R) SC 1st 202-225-3176
Wilson, Joe (R) SC 2nd 202-225-2452
Barrett, J. Gresham (R) SC 3rd 202-225-5301
Inglis, Bob (R) SC 4th 202-225-6030
Spratt, John M. Jr.(D) SC 5th 202-225-5501
Clyburn, James E. (D) SC 6th 202-225-3315
Herseth, Stephanie (D) SD At Large 202-225-2801
Davis, David (R) TN 1st 202-225-6356
Duncan, John J. Jr.(R) TN 2nd 202-225-5435
Wamp, Zach (R) TN 3rd 202-225-3271
Davis, Lincoln (D) TN 4th 202-225-6831
Cooper, Jim (D) TN 5th 202-225-4311
Gordon, Bart (D) TN 6th 202-225-4231
Blackburn, Marsha (R) TN 7th 202-225-2811
Tanner, John S. (D) TN 8th 202-225-4714
Cohen, Steve (D) TN 9th 202-225-3265
Gohmert, Louie (R) TX 1st 202-225-3035
Poe, Ted (R) TX 2nd 202-225-6565
Johnson, Sam (R) TX 3rd 202-225-4201
Hall, Ralph M. (R) TX 4th 202-225-6673
Hensarling, Jeb (R) TX 5th 202-225-3484
Barton, Joe (R) TX 6th 202-225-2002
Culberson, John Abney (R) TX 7th 202-225-2571
Brady, Kevin (R) TX 8th 202-225-4901
Green, Al (D) TX 9th 202-225-7508
McCaul, Michael T. (R) TX 10th 202-225-2401
Conaway, K. Michael (R) TX 11th 202-225-3605
Granger, Kay (R) TX 12th 202-225-5071
Thornberry, Mac (R) TX 13th 202-225-3706
Paul, Ron (R) TX 14th 202-225-2831
Hinojosa, Rubén (D) TX 15th 202-225-2531
Reyes, Silvestre (D) TX 16th 202-225-4831
Edwards, Chet (D) TX 17th 202-225-6105
Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D) TX 18th 202-225-3816
Neugebauer, Randy (R) TX 19th 202-225-4005
Gonzalez, Charles A. (D) TX 20th 202-225-3236
Smith, Lamar (R) TX 21st 202-225-4236
Lampson, Nick (D) TX 22nd 202-225-5951
Rodriguez, Ciro D. (D) TX 23rd 202-225-4511
Marchant, Kenny (R) TX 24th 202-225-6605
Doggett, Lloyd (D) TX 25th 202-225-4865
Burgess, Michael C. (R) TX 26th 202-225-7772
Ortiz, Solomon P. (D) TX 27th 202-225-7742
Cuellar, Henry (D) TX 28th 202-225-1640
Green, Gene (D) TX 29th 202-225-1688
Johnson, Eddie Bernice (D) TX 30th 202-225-8885
Carter, John R. (R) TX 31st 202-225-3864
Sessions, Pete (R) TX 32nd 202-225-2231
Bishop, Rob (R) UT 1st 202-225-0453
Matheson, Jim (D) UT 2nd 202-225-3011
Cannon, Chris (R) UT 3rd 202-225-7751
Davis, Jo Ann (R) VA 1st 202-225-4261
Drake, Thelma D. (R) VA 2nd 202-225-4215
Scott, Robert C. ``Bobby'' (D) VA 3rd 202-225-8351
Forbes, J. Randy (R) VA 4th 202-225-6365
Goode, Virgil H. Jr.(R) VA 5th 202-225-4711
Goodlatte, Bob (R) VA 6th 202-225-5431
Cantor, Eric (R) VA 7th 202-225-2815
Moran, James P. (D) VA 8th 202-225-4376
Boucher, Rick (D) VA 9th 202-225-3861
Wolf, Frank R. (R) VA 10th 202-225-5136
Davis, Tom (R) VA 11th 202-225-1492
Christensen, Donna M. (D) VI Delegate 202-225-1790
Welch, Peter (D) VT At Large 202-225-4115
Inslee, Jay (D) WA 1st 202-225-6311
Larsen, Rick (D) WA 2nd 202-225-2605
Baird, Brian (D) WA 3rd 202-225-3536
Hastings, Doc (R) WA 4th 202-225-5816
McMorris Rodgers, Cathy (R) WA 5th 202-225-2006
Dicks, Norman D. (D) WA 6th 202-225-5916
McDermott, Jim (D) WA 7th 202-225-3106
Reichert, David G. (R) WA 8th 202-225-7761
Smith, Adam (D) WA 9th 202-225-8901
Ryan, Paul (R) WI 1st 202-225-3031
Baldwin, Tammy (D) WI 2nd 202-225-2906
Kind, Ron (D) WI 3rd 202-225-5506
Moore, Gwen (D) WI 4th 202-225-4572
Sensenbrenner, F. James Jr.(R) WI 5th 202-225-5101
Petri, Thomas E. (R) WI 6th 202-225-2476
Obey, David R. (D) WI 7th 202-225-3365
Kagen, Steve (D) WI 8th 202-225-5665
Mollohan, Alan B. (D) WV 1st 202-225-4172
Capito, Shelley Moore (R) WV 2nd 202-225-2711
Rahall, Nick J. II(D) WV 3rd 202-225-3452
Cubin, Barbara (R) WY At Large 202-225-2311

[Melissa G]

11. Press Release CVI'spurchase of Danaher/Shouptronic and Sequoia Advantage full-face voting machines.

WHAT: Press conference to announce CVI's purchase of Danaher/Shouptronic and Sequoia Advantage full-face voting machines.

WHEN: Monday, March 5, 1:30PM

WHERE: Pearl S. Buck Room, Doylestown Free Library 150 S. Pine Street Doylestown, PA 18901-4932
Background:
Read about the Coalition for Voting Integrity at www.SaveOurVote.com
Listen to CVI's nationally known radio show, Voice of the Voters: the Power and Responsibility of Democracy via our archives at: http://mysite.verizon.net/resq4lzq/cvi/id267.html

Listen to leaders from the voting issues community to the halls of Congress, who have been interviewed on Voice of the Voters, the Power and Responsibility of Democracy, including Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12), Rep. Ron Paul (TX-14), voting rights activist and academic, Dr. Avi Rubin, civil rights attorney Joann Bonifaz, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Dr. Gordon Wood and University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Steve Freeman.

Three relevant reports from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU:

The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World at http://www.brennancenter.org/stack_detail.asp?key=97&subkey=36343&proj_key=76
Most broadly, the report found:
· All three voting systems have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities, which pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state, and local elections.
· The most troubling vulnerabilities of each system can be substantially remedied if proper countermeasures are implemented at the state and local level.
· Few jurisdictions have implemented any of the key countermeasures that could make the least difficult attacks against voting systems much more difficult to execute successfully.

The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Usability at http://www.brennancenter.org/stack_detail.asp?key=97&subkey=36941
The Brennan Center report concluded that two of the most commonly purchased electronic voting systems today are better at recording voter intentions than older systems like the punchcard system used in Florida in 2000. At the same time, the report faulted one electronic voting system under consideration in New York and in use in parts of New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. This system, the "full face DRE," continues to unduly hamper voters' ability to easily and accurately cast a ballot for their preferred candidate without undue burden, confusion and delay.

Among the report's key findings:
Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) and Scrolling Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems are more accurate at recording voter intention than older voting systems. In 2004, residual vote rates were less than 1% for both technologies.

Full-face DRE systems continue to be plagued with an unacceptably high residual vote rate. In 2000, 2002 and 2004, it exceeded that of either PCOS or scrolling DRE systems.

Residual vote rates among voters earning less then $25,000 are higher on full faced DRE's (2.8%), than on either PCOS (1.4%) or Scrolling DRE's (1.3%).

The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost at http://www.brennancenter.org/stack_detail.asp?key=97&subkey=38150
The report is the final product of the first comprehensive, empirical analysis of electronic voting systems in the United States. It comes after nearly two years of study with many of the nation's leading academics, election officials, economists, and security, usability and accessibility experts.

Up until this point, there has been surprisingly little empirical study of voting systems in the areas of security, accessibility, usability, and cost. The result is that jurisdictions make purchasing decisions and adopt laws and procedures that have little to do with their overall goals.

New Mexico also chose to discard their Danaher/Shouptronic machines due to undervotes ranging from 6 to 16 times the national average and in comparison to optical scan machines during the 2004 election.
Dr. Rebecca Mercuri's bio:
Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, globally recognized as a leading authority on computer security and electronic vote tabulation and a member of the committee that advises the government on standards for electronic voting machines. She is president/CTO of Notable Software, Inc., www.notablesoftware.com.

A technology specialist, with degrees in computer science and engineering, Rebecca Mercuri happened to defend her doctoral dissertation "Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks & Balances" at the University of Pennsylvania, just eleven days before the 2000 U.S. Presidential election.

Subsequently, her testimony and opinions were sought in Bush v. Gore, and by the House Science Committee, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Federal Election Commission, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, the U.K. Cabinet, and numerous U.S. state legislatures. Many of Rebecca's views on electronic voting appear on her website at and she also authors the "Security Watch" column for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

She has been frequently quoted in the New York Times, on National Public Radio, by the Associated Press, in the Congressional Record, and various other venues, including TV appearances on Fox News, NBC Nightline and a debate on Lou Dobbs.

Having spent the last two years as a fellow at Harvard University, Dr. Mercuri returned this fall to New Jersey's Notable Software, Inc., the consulting company she founded, to continue her work as a forensic computing expert on a wide range of civil, municipal and criminal cases.

Dr. Dan Lopresti's bio:
After completing his doctorate, Dr. Lopresti joined the Computer Science Department at Brown University. He went on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton, and later also served on the research staff at Bell Labs in Murray Hill. In 2003, he joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University where he conducts research examining basic algorithmic and systems-related questions in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, and computer security.

At Lehigh, Dr. Lopresti holds the Class of 1961 Chair and is co-director of the Pattern Recognition Research Lab. He has authored over 80 publications in journals and refereed conference proceedings on a wide range of topics and holds 21 U.S. Patents. He has served on dozens of conference program committees and as editor for six international conference proceedings, and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition.

Coalition for Voting Integrity
Contact information:
Mary Ann Gould
email: [e-mail]
(c) 215.588.8518
(h) 215.357.5206

Coalition for Voting Integrity

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[Melissa G]

13. Please Sign Petition to Investigate Corrupt San Diego Registrar of Voters!

OK Patriot's, Plenty of work to do today. This was posted by our hardworking emlev...
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Please Sign Petition to Investigate Corrupt San Diego Registrar of Voters!
This petition was drawn up by Ken Simpkins, LandShark (Paul Lehto)'s co-counsel in the San Diego lawsuit challenging the Busby/Bilbray election last June. This petition deals specifically with issues from the November 2006 election, and requests that new California Secretary of State Debra Bowen launch an investigation.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/182978839?ltl...

BRAD BLOG has previously called upon San Diego registrar of voters Mikel Haas to resign.

Executive Summary

The conduct of elections in San Diego County has raised significant concerns for the electorate. This complaint is meant to address some of the most serious concerns raised by the November 7, 2006, election, and to request that the Secretary of State’s Office investigate and
report on the issues raised.

The perceptions of citizens are that the requirements for the certification of the Diebold election machines used in San Diego County have not been complied with. Requirements for acceptance testing and logic and accuracy testing have not been fully complied with. Requirements for maintaining a strict chain of custody for securing memory cards (ballot boxes) put in place to address vulnerabilities to tampering revealed by public and private studies have
been violated. The requirement for removing election machines from service when security seals are discovered to be removed was ignored. Voting machines without seals were allowed to continue in service without regard to the risk that votes cast on the machines could be deemed
illegal and discarded. The requirement that all available reports are to be printed from each machine at the end of the election and before the memory card is removed from the machine was not complied with. In San Diego County, all of the available reports are not printed, or are
printed after the cards are removed from the machine.

While the People own their elections, elections officials in San Diego County appear to view the public as an adversary to an official agenda that seems more aligned with partisan and corporate interests than with democratic values. ...

[Melissa G]

14. After Ohio’s recount rigging convictions in Cuyahoga-is Coshocton County next? Fitrakis & Wassserman

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After Ohio’s recount rigging convictions in Cuyahoga-is Coshocton County next? Fitrakis & Wassserman


After Ohio’s recount rigging convictions in Cuyahoga, is Coshocton County next?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
March 6, 2007

After the recent convictions of two Cuyahoga County Board of Election workers for felony recount tampering, Republican County Prosecutor Robert Batchelor is stonewalling efforts to investigate similar well-documented charges in Coshocton County, Ohio.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE) third-ranking employee and an assistant manager were each convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct and a misdemeanor count of failing to perform their duties during the 2004 recount. The convictions stemmed from the secret pre-counting of precincts prior to the lawfully required open recount. The convicted election workers only allowed the pre-counted precincts that matched the official results to be used in the recount. This caused the special prosecutor to tell the jury that the election recount was “rigged” in Cuyahoga.

Testimony and eyewitness reports document similar activity in several Ohio counties regarding the illegal rigging of the 2004 recount.

much more at:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2462

[Melissa G]

15. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Clint Curtis Documents Evidence of Widespread 2006 Florida Election Fraud

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Clint Curtis Documents Evidence of Widespread 2006 Florida Election Fraud

The Whistleblower Turned U.S. House Candidate Continues His for Fight for Election Integrity and His Federal Challenge to his 2006 Race with the Corrupt Tom Feeney

-- Special to The BRAD BLOG By Guest Blogger Jim Cirile
NOTABLE QUOTES FROM CURTIS IN THE INTERVIEW:

"We have now found absolutely…more votes for Democrats than the official results show. Absolutely more votes. No trends, no guesses. More votes. That should never happen."

"The fact that we were robbed in the way we were is actually a blessing. It gives us a chance to prove it once and for all."

"If the Democrats had stuck with the 50-state strategy, I think they would have had better numbers than they had, but then again, if your machines aren’t counting, it doesn’t matter how much money you spend."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkpg=h...

[Melissa G]

16. Collins: Missouri Activists Say “Show Me The Vote”!

kster (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-27-07 09:46 PM
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}DUer - Missouri Activists Fight Back - No More E-Voting State Initiative Announced--Rocking!!! (X)
Posted by: autorank

DUer "galloglas" is behind this in a big way. It's the first real challenge to the e-voting monster that's ruined citizen access to elections and screwed us time and again. Lets support Missouri as a national model!!!



http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00271.htm

Collins: Missouri Activists Say “Show Me The Vote”!

Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 2:46 pm
Article: Michael Collins

Major Voting Rights Initiative Announced

Michael Collins
“Scoop” Independent News
Washington, DC


Kansas City, MO. A diverse group of Missouri activists made history today when they announced a 2008 ballot initiative to return their state elections to paper ballots. The country has adopted electronic voting at a break neck pace since 2000 propelled by over $6 billion in subsidies by the White House and Congress.

This announcement marks the first major resistance to the e-voting trend. If the initiative gets on the ballot and passes, Missourians will be voting on and hand counting paper ballots. Canada, Ireland, Italy, and England all vote on hand count paper ballots. The United States did as well until the rush to electronic voting rendered the traditional paper ballot all but extinct.

Phil Lindsey a Missouri activist and Director of ShowMeTheVote.Org, presented the initiative in a speech tonight at the University of Missouri, KC before a packed hall. The initiative announcement was preceded by Stealing America: Vote by Vote a film by Emmy award winner Dorothy Fadiman. A panel of election experts discussed the film and American elections in the age of e-voting..

Show Me!

Lindsey offered a stark assessment of the U.S. elections today by reviewing the short but intense history of wide spread electronic voting since 2000. He pointed out the thousands of reported failures plus key election results that were simply without explanation. He argued for the return of citizen access to and participation in elections. Under the proposal, citizen involvement in taking and counting votes represents the cure for inaccurate vote counts, suspected election fraud, and declining voter.
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