Election Reform & Related News, Friday 3/23/07 Constitutional Crisis

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Apologies for posting late...

The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
— Abraham Lincoln

The doctrine of nondelegation is explicit or implicit in all written constitutions that impose a structural separation of powers. It is usually applied in questions of constitutionally improper delegations of legislative powers to executive branch officials, but may be more broadly applied to questions of improper delegations of legislative powers to judicial officials, improper delegations of judicial powers to legislative or executive officials, improper delegations of executive powers to legislative or judicial officials, improper delegations of legislative or judicial powers to clerical subordinates within their branches, or improper delegations of legislative, judicial, or executive powers to private parties, or improper delegations of private powers to public officials. Although it is usually constitutional for executive officials to delegate executive powers to executive branch subordinates, there can also be improper delegations of powers within an executive branch.

The standard practice for violating the nondelegation doctrine is to proclaim, disingenuously, that no power has been delegated, and the administrative agency is only "advising" the court, who has the final decision. But then the court merely rubberstamps the agency finding or actions, without adequate review, "deferring" to its judgment. This ruse has the effect, in practice, of delegating both lawmaking and judicial power to the agency, contrary to U.S. and state constitutions. This is the way income taxes are assessed and collected. Officials maintain language that is formally constitutional, but defeat the constitution in practice (or "as applied" to use the term of art).

That means if the Powers that Be don't like you, they will incarcerate you, maybe ruin your body, or even kill you, by hiring "agents" to operate under color of law, and then standing aside when it comes to supervising them.

Finally, there is the broadest application of all, the nondelegation from the people of a power to any officials in a constitution, the principle of which is set forth in the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.constitution.org/ad_state/ad_state.htm

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1. OH: Another member of Ohio county’s election board resigns

Napa Valley Register

By M.R. KROPKO
Associated Press
Friday, March 23, 2007

CLEVELAND — A second elections board member in Ohio’s most populous county quit Thursday, and a state official filed a complaint to remove the two remaining members because of persistent voting problems.

A day after saying he wouldn’t step down, Democratic board member Loree K. Soggs resigned, Cuyahoga County elections board spokesman Alan Melamed said.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, informed board members Sunday that they had to resign by Wednesday or face removal.

Brunner, who took office in January, sent a complaint to the board’s two Republicans — chairman Robert Bennett, the head of the GOP in Ohio, and Sally Florkiewicz. A removal hearing will begin April 2, she said.

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/03/23/news/national/doc4603ccb358235885366051.txt

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2. Partisanship deadlocks FEC

Capitol Hill Blue

Friday, 23 March 2007

Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission say the Republican Party in 2004 improperly paid more than $40 million in ads that benefited President Bush's campaign.

But three Republican commissioners maintain neither the party nor the Bush campaign violated the law. The deadlock has left the issue unresolved and is likely to lead to new rules specifying how campaigns and parties can share ad costs.

The split on the commission came to light Thursday when the commissioners voted to accept an audit of the Bush-Cheney '04 general election finances.

At issue is a decision by the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee to split the $81 million cost of a series of ads that ran during the 2004 general election campaign. The ads mentioned Bush or his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry. They also made reference to Democrats, Republicans "our leaders in Congress" or "liberals in Congress."

Commission Chairman Robert Lenhard and fellow commission Democrats Ellen Weintraub and Steven Walther argued in a joint statement Thursday that the ads mainly benefited Bush and spent little time advocating for other Republican Party candidates.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/332/159/

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3. BradBlog: House Administration Hearings on Rush Holt's Election Reform Bill (HR811) Today...

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 3/23/2007 2:52AM

It's a big day in the House on Friday, with hours of hearings set for Rush Holt's HR811 Election Reform bill in the House Adminstration Committee's Subcomittee on Elections, with four big panels set.

The witnesses this time may be more good than bad for a change, and include, among other familiar names, Debra Bowen (CA SoS) and Noel Runyan, the blind technology expert who, with many other disabled voter advocates released a statement here calling for "an immediate ban" on DREs last week. (My interview with Runyan, during last week's guest hosting stint for Action Point on Air America/Nova M Phoenix is here for your listening pleasure. I'm back again this Sunday, btw, with a special exclusive broadcast interview premiere! Stay tuned for details!). The rest of the witnesses are listed below.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4316

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4. MO: McCaskill passes up chance at donation leniency

News-Leader

Published Friday, March 23, 2007
Pamela Brogan
[e-mail]

Washington -- Sen. Claire McCaskill will voluntarily comply with stricter federal campaign donation limits to pay a $1.6 million debt from her failed 2004 governor's race, her spokeswoman said Thursday.

McCaskill made her decision despite a Federal Election Commission ruling Thursday that would allow her to follow Missouri law and raise unlimited contributions.



Federal rules limit McCaskill to receiving a maximum of $4,600 in contributions from individuals and $5,000 from political action committees during a two-year election cycle.

Spokeswoman Adrianne Marsh said McCaskill, a Democrat, also would not accept donations from individual federal lobbyists and that she would disclose contributions to the Missouri Ethics Commission.

Republicans have charged that McCaskill avoided paying her state debt and would court special interests to pay it.

The FEC ruled 5-0 on Thursday that federal candidates or office holders, like McCaskill, are exempt from federal campaign limits in cases where solicitation, receipt or spending of funds "is solely in connection with his or her state or local campaign."

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070323/NEWS06/703230389/1015

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5. Alternet: An Opposing View on the Progressive Voting Machines Debate

By Brad Friedman, AlterNet. Posted March 23, 2007.

A response to People for the American Way and other progressives' recent statements on an important election reform bill pending in Congress.

This article by Brad Friedman addresses some of the arguments on voting machines and election reform put forth in a recent AlterNet article by Steven Rosenfeld, "Are Voting Machine Purists Standing in the Way of Reform?".

The Saturday before last I was interviewed on Air America's Ring of Fire with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio concerning my call for the Election Reform Bill (HR811) by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) to be amended to include a full ban on Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems.

The interview was pre-taped, and an edited-for-time version was aired. The complete, unedited version of that 15 minute interview, along with a text-transcript is now posted here.

This past Saturday, Ralph Neas, the president of People for the American Way (PFAW), one of the groups supporting the Holt Bill as is, and fighting against a ban on DRE voting systems, was interviewed on Ring of Fire. I had been critical of PFAW's unwaivering support of the bill during my interview the week before (as I have been in many articles here and elsewhere), so Bobby Kennedy asked Neas, a number of times, to answer directly to some of my criticisms.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/49636/

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6. NJ: Pilot clean-elections plan will be another failure

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 03/23/07

BY LEONARD T. CONNORS JR., CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
AND BRIAN E. RUMPF
Story Chat Post Comment

The Legislature has approved a measure establishing the Clean Elections Pilot Program, which will be conducted in three legislative districts. If this sounds familiar, it is. This program was tested two years ago and was considered by many to be a failure.

Among other requirements this time around, candidates who participate in the program and obtain 400 $10 contributions from registered voters would receive state funding for their campaign, paid for with taxpayer dollars. The goal, on the surface at least, is to reduce the influence of money in state politics. There are far better approaches to help solve this pressing issue than proposed under this bill.

While some may see this as a productive attempt at campaign reform, we consider this legislation nothing but a diversion from the most promising route to reform. Eliminating existing pay-to-play loopholes in current law and prohibiting wheeling, the practice of funneling campaign cash from one county to another, would be two effective means of reforming the current system.

Rather than amend campaign finance laws and potentially disrupt the flow of political contributions, the legislative leadership will turn to the state coffers for millions in taxpayer dollars as a remedy to fix a problem created by politicians.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070323/OPINION/703230389/1030

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7. Paper-records debate hits Hill

Brandenton Herald

Posted on Fri, Mar. 23, 2007

Florida governor among those testifying before House panel on voting measure
By DUANE MARSTELLER
[e-mail]

Gov. Charlie Crist, election-reform advocates and a voting-machine specialist are among the witnesses set to testify today before a congressional committee considering a bill to require paper records for electronic voting machines.

Missing from the witness list: Representatives of the companies that make the machines, like the ones at the heart of the disputed 13th Congressional District race.

The House Administration Committee hearing is on a bill by Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., that would require all electronic voting machines to use paper ballots or record each vote on paper. It also would require each polling place to have at least one voting machine accessible to those with disabilities.

Holt first proposed the bill last year but it was defeated in the Republican-controlled Congress. He reintroduced it earlier this year, after about 18,000 ballots cast on Sarasota County's touch-screen voting machines had votes in other races but not the congressional contest between Vern Buchanan and Christine Jennings.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/16957002.htm

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8. Explosive new vote fraud developments continue to rock Ohio and Florida

The Free Press

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
March 23, 2007

Breaking news in vote fraud cases in both Ohio and Florida are feeding a firestorm of controversy that is likely to continue escalating, with major implications for the 2008 election and the future of e-voting machines.

In Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, the newly elected Secretary of State, has received two of the four resignations she requested from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE). The two Democrats on the Board, Edward Coaxum, Jr. and Loree Soggs, have complied with her call for their departures from Cleveland's scandal-ridden election authority.

However, Robert Bennett, who chairs both the Cuyahoga BOE and the Ohio Republican Party, has thus far refused Brunner's request. So has Sally Florkiewicz, Bennett's fellow Republican on the BOE. Should they continue with their refusal to resign, Brunner has threatened to hold public hearings, in the wake of which she could force the resignations.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that a criminal investigation is underway which centers on the Cuyahoga BOE's conduct of the November 2006 election. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason has turned again to Erie County Prosecutor Kevin Baxter who recently won felony convictions of two BOE workers for rigging the 2004 presidential recount for another criminal investigation. Baxter will be investigating “possible criminal wrongdoings” related to ballot security and the scanning of absentee ballots.

A Cleveland State University Center for Election Integrity study has exposed various election irregularities in Cuyahoga County in the 2006 election. Among the most egregious were the BOE’s failure to secure the dual keys (one for the Dems and one for the Republicans) required for the vote counting rooms; that they allowed shared computer passwords; and that they allowed an unexplained cable connection to the county’s vote counting computer.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2506

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9. FL: Crist calls for use of paper ballots in early voting

Sun-Sentinel

By Anthony Man
Political Writer
Posted March 23 2007

Tallahassee – Expanding his plan to rid Florida of touch-screen voting machines, Gov. Charlie Crist wants to eliminate the dispute-provoking devices from early voting sites by using on-demand printing technology to produce a paper ballot for anyone who shows up to vote early.

Crist plans to update his plan today during an appearance before a congressional subcommittee in Washington, D.C. His secretary of state, Kurt Browning, said Thursday the governor's wants "to move as many ballots to paper as we possibly can. And this revised proposal will actually put 99 percent of all the ballots cast in any election ... on paper."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fvoting23mar23,0,4683279.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

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10. PA: Westmoreland officials want aid if voting system nixed

By Rich Cholodofsky
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, March 23, 2007

Westmoreland County officials say they will demand that the state or federal government pay for new computerized voting machines if Congress enacts a law to decertify the county's year-old equipment.

Earlier this month, a bill was introduced in Congress that would amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each computerized voting machine have a printer so a verifiable paper trail of votes can be generated. The bill also requires a certain quality of paper.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_499192.html

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11. CA: Calif. To Review E-Voting; Santa Clara May Halt It

CBS

Mar 22, 2007 7:08 pm US/Pacific

(CBS 5 / KCBS) SACRAMENTO The California Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday it would evaluate every electronic voting system used in California for accuracy, security, and other access issues.

The announcement came as Santa Clara County officials said they were considering pulling the plug on e-voting altogether.

The state review follows many complaints from poll workers and voters about everything from how votes are logged to access for the disabled, said Secretary of State's office spokeswoman Nicole Winger.

“We certainly have heard of irregularities,” she said, “so this review will make certain once and for all that we know exactly how strong and safe and accessible every voting machine is in California.”

Election officials will examine both the hardware and software of every type of machine used in each of the state’s 58 counties.

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_081221542.html

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12. Gideon: Daily Voting News For March 22, 2007

Scoop

Friday, 23 March 2007, 4:13 pm
Opinion: John Gideon
Daily Voting News For March 22, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Today is one of those days when I wish I could act like the US Senate and just claim the absence of a quorum and put on “Pachelbel’s Canon” or some concerto by Mozart or Bach. There is a lot to talk about; but not a lot to say about; any one thing. I did find out from Steven Harsman, Montgomery Co. Ohio Board of Elections, that they inspected a total of 256 voting machines but the test done for screen calibration was done on 124 machines and they found that 56 of those machines needed recalibration. Also today CA SOS Bowen issued a press release and a draft of a plan to review every voting system used in the state. If the present draft is finalized as it is now it is going to be hard for DRE machines to pass the review and maintain certification. In Cuyahoga Co. Ohio a second Board of Elections member has resigned leaving only two recalcitrant members who are refusing to leave their jobs. Meanwhile in the county there is another investigation into misdeeds within the county elections office. This time investigators are gathering evidence that will show someone entered the county voting system prior to election day and printed absentee and early voting results illegally....

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00406.htm

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13. NM: Behind the firings: GOP assault on one person, one vote

Author: Emil Shaw


People's Weekly World Newspaper, 03/22/07 12:51


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Behind all the furor around U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, one of eight federal prosecutors who were fired by the Bush administration, was an effort by the Republican Party to suppress massive voter registration in New Mexico during the 2004 election.

According to reporter Michael Coleman of the Albuquerque Journal Washington Bureau, Mickey Barnett, a former Albuquerque Republican national committeeman, sent an e-mail message to Iglesias in September 2004 chastising him for “appointing a task force to investigate voter fraud instead of bringing charges against suspects.”

During the 2004 election campaign, New Mexico ACORN engaged in a huge voter registration drive in which individuals were paid to bring in valid voter registrations. It only took one informant to come forth and “confess” to obtaining registrations fraudulently for the whole New Mexican Republican machinery, along with its daily mouthpiece the Albuquerque Journal, to proclaim that this mass voter registration was illegal.

It should be noted that the trumped up “voter fraud” claims have racist and anti-working class aspects. The first to be challenged on voter eligibility are usually Latino, Black, immigrant or low-income – or a combination of any of these.

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10759/1/364

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14. AR: Improving Voting for Residents in Lawrence County

March 22, 2007 04:23 PM

WALNUT RIDGE, AR -- This past November many counties in Region 8 had various problems with their election process.

For Lawrence County, one of the problems was having to hand count the paper ballots. Last fall all polling sites had to have electronic voting machines available for voters. Still, many people chose to vote the old fashioned way.

snip

"I'd like to see it 75% using electronic as opposed to 25% using paper just to make it go easier," said Stowers.

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6267730&nav=0jsh

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15. MD: Bills restoring felon voting rights closer to final passage—

WMDT 47 (ABC)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -
Legislation allowing former felons to register to vote is closer to winning final legislative approval.

The current law prohibits people convicted of multiple felonies from voting for three years after completing their sentences.

People with multiple violent felony convictions can't vote at all.

Information from: The Washington Post,

http://www.wmdt.com/wires/displaystory.asp?id=59843166

[stellanoir]

16. 1st rec rumps happily given.

Great quotations and links too.

[rumpel]

19. danke

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more:
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[stellanoir]

26. LOL now can you kindly provide us with a joke in every language???

Then we'll surely arrive at a lasting world peace.

best to you and gratitude is a great place to start for sure.

[rumpel]

27. lol

finding a common joke the global community can all vote on...bet you some scholar already has done such research...


B-)

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17. OR: House Dems reveal true colors; voting rights sacrificed over gun issue

Bend Weekly

Mar 23,2007
by Alan Gottlieb

Congressional Democrats claim at every turn they "support the Second Amendment," but the truth came out Thursday when they pulled a coveted District of Columbia voting rights bill because of an amendment that would have ended the long-standing handgun ban.

"This shows the true colors of the Democrat leadership," Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms stated. "It should have been easy for the Democrat caucus to agree to the Republican- sponsored amendment, because of the recent federal appeals court ruling that declared the handgun ban unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

"Instead," Gottlieb said, "Democrats proved once again that all their avowed support for the Second Amendment is nothing but empty rhetoric. House Democrats had a chance to stand up and be counted, but instead they ran for cover, afraid to have a recorded vote prove that, as a party and as individuals, they remain as anti-gun as ever."

http://www.bendweekly.com/Opinion/3911.html

Intersting how Mr. Gottlieb writes about himself as an observer..

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18. OK: Cherokee Nation: Candidates’ eligibility challenged

Tahlequah Daily Press

March 23, 2007 10:27 am

By TEDDYE SNELL

Cherokee Nation Election Commissioners heard challenges made by citizens to candidates’ eligibility during a special meeting Thursday afternoon.
Candidates drawing challenges included Principal Chief Chad Smith; incumbent Tribal Councilors Buel Anglen, Joe Grayson, Don Garvin, Jackie Bob Martin, David Thornton and Melvina Shotpouch; and candidates Stacy Leeds, Robert Leach and Gary Keener.
Most candidates drew objections to the two-term limit set forth in the 1999 Constitution.
Commissioner Jim Briggs suggested objections to term limits be heard as a group at the end of the meeting, and the group agreed.
Leeds, candidate for principal chief, was first to respond to allegations she was in violation of the “bona fide residency requirement” by having residences in Cherokee County, Norman and Lawrence, Kan.
Cherokee citizen Robin Mayes wanted proof from Leeds that her home in Cherokee County was her primary domicile.

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/homepage/local_story_082102716.html?keyword=leadpicturestory

[kpete]

20. xlnt job

lots of treasure!!!

K&R

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22. things are surfacing it seems...

:hi:

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21. NY: Unidentifed voting machines cause snag in Sleepy Hollow recount

Lower Hudson Online

(Original publication: March 22, 2007)

The recounting of election results in Sleepy Hollow was unexpectedly halted this afternoon after a deputy election commissioner raised an objection.

After Tuesday, Republican Mayor Philip Zegarelli led challenger Thomas Capossela, a Democrat, by 29 votes.

The recount now goes back to the Westchester County Election Commissioners to determine if and when the machines can be reopened.

The matter could end up in court.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070322/NEWS02/703220455/1024/NEWS08

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23. WAPO:MD: Electronic Ballot Backup Clears Md. House

Washington Post

By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 22, 2007; Page B01

Voters in Maryland would have their electronic ballots backed up by a paper record under legislation that unanimously cleared the House of Delegates yesterday, one of several efforts underway in the General Assembly to change the way elections are run.

But like many proposals in the legislature this year, the move to create a paper trail system could fall victim to a lack of funding because of a looming budget shortfall that's putting a crimp in new spending.

Maryland would join 27 states that require paper receipts, amid concerns that the touch-screen machines now used across the country can't be verified for accuracy or checked in case of a recount. The House bill would not require paper records in time for next year's presidential election and allocates no funds to put a system in place.

The bill's lead House sponsor said lawmakers felt compelled to pass something this year to give voters more confidence in the system and increase turnout.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101946.html

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24. OpEd: Halting Holt Thoughts

March 22, 2007 at 14:37:10

by andi novick

http://www.opednews.com


Today I received an email from Doug Kellner, Co-Chair of the New York State Board of Elections, with his comments in response to Doug Lewis’s March 20, 2007 testimony regarding the Holt Bill. Doug Kellner’s comments were also posted at http://www.wheresthepaper.org/CommentDouglasAKellner.htm.

The Lewis testimony can be found at http://www.wheresthepaper.org/HouseAdminTestimonyDougLewis3_20_2007.pdf. Lately I’ve been spending a good deal of time thinking about who are these people who are my would-be allies, but support the Holt Bill, which I believe to be terribly damaging to our ability as a people to regain control over our democracy. Doug’s email came in the midst of my pondering. One particular comment, excerpted below, really moved me and provided me with needed insight:

I thought that you might be interested in my comments on Doug Lewis’s testimony regarding the Holt Bill (HR 811)… The comments have generated considerable debate, generally agreeing that HR 811 needs revision, particularly among advocates of verified voting.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070322_halting_holt_thought.htm

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25. and a final treat

VOTESCAM

THE STEALING OF AMERICA

JAMES M. COLLIER
KENNETH E COLLIER

Victoria House Press, 67 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Copyright 1992 © by James M. Collier

ISBN: 0-9634165-0-8

CONTENTS
Chap. Title Page
Book One: 1970-1989
HTML Version Text Version The Premise 1
HTML Version Text Version 1. Electronic Hoodwink 4
HTML Version Text Version 2. Ballots Not Bullets 25
HTML Version Text Version 3. The Silent Press 58
HTML Version Text Version 4. It Takes a Thief 82
HTML Version Text Version 5. A Tangled Web 100
HTML Version Text Version 6. Hounds of Hell 128
HTML Version Text Version 7. The Petersen Memo 140
HTML Version Text Version 8. Video Vigilantes 144
HTML Version Text Version 9. Shots in the Dark 166
HTML Version Text Version 10. Watergatetown 184
HTML Version Text Version 11. Power Corrupts 203
HTML Version Text Version 12. Strange Bedfellows 234
HTML Version Text Version 13. Full Circle 248
HTML Version Text Version 14. Star Chamber Session 269
Book Two: 1990-1992
HTML Version Text Version 15. Pieces Of The Puzzle 288
HTML Version Text Version 16. The 13th Floor 298
HTML Version Text Version 17. The Last Dispatch 314
Epilogue
HTML Version Text Version 18. Knowledge Is Power 325
HTML Version Text Version 19. Can't You Hear The Whistle Blowin'? 339
HTML Version Text Version Appendix 364
HTML Version Text Version Index 384

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm

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28. ON DU : Justice's new U.S. attorneys have partisan records

thanks to Newsjock


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2779325&mesg_id=2779325

[Land Shark]

29. Good quote on nondelegation! K*R, Our WA State appeal is mostly nondelegation

issues in the appellate brief, whether vote conting as a core public function can be delegated to the private sector vendor of the government's choice.

....or improper delegations of legislative, judicial, or executive powers to private parties,...

see www.votersunite.org/info/lehtolawsuit.asp oral argument in the WA state Court of Appeals is set for APril 18

[rumpel]

31. wow

I did not know... have you been sending vibes on this case recently? lol

Please keep us posted on the case. :hi:

[Land Shark]

30. Bradblog: If you need more evidence that the FIRST COUNT is most important...

Court delays hearing oral argument on CA 50 Busby Bilbray appeal, then calls case "moot" since term is over. Does this mean the truth in elections doesn't matter any more??

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4313

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32. MI: Politicians convicted of election fraud involving absentee ballots

Mistake was in using visible evidence-creating absentee ballots. Busted. Next time try electronic voting where the evidence is reduced or missing, Mr. Criminal:

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6270962&nav=menu44_2

[livvy]

33. Nice thread!

Looks like someone had a busy afternoon....




To a job thoroughly well done!