Christine Jennings (FL-13) on The Monitor radio

[Pokey Anderson]

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March 25, 2007

Today's Guests:
-- Candidate Christine Jennings, discussing new developments in her contested race for Congress (Florida district 13)
-- Independent journalist Daniel Hopsicker, discussing his research on 9-11

<> 6:00 pm CDT -- Headlines

<> ~6:20 pm CDT -- Congressional candidate CHRISTINE JENNINGS of Sarasota, Florida discusses the aftermath of that razor-thin, contested election



CHRISTINE JENNINGS, a self-made banker, was the Democratic candidate for an open seat in the 13th Congressional district in Florida (FL-13), which includes Sarasota. The previous occupant was Katherine Harris, who resigned to make an unsuccessful run for US Senate. The tally in Jennings' contest states that Jennings' opponent, Republican Vern Buchanan, won the race by less than 400 votes. Countless other candidates, when faced with a losing tally under suspicious circumstances, have conceded and disappeared. However, Christine Jennings has fought to make sure every citizen's vote who attempted to vote in her contest was counted.

The election last November was run using paperless ES&S electronic voting machines. The machines' results tell us that 18,000 people apparently showed up to vote, and didn't cast a vote in the hotly-contested FL-13 race. Many of those same voters voted in low profile contests such as hospital district. About 15% of ballots cast on Sarasota's touch-screen machines registered no choice in the bitterly fought congressional race, about six times greater than the undervote in the rest of the FL-13 district, which spreads into four other counties. The undervote in the gubernatorial contest on the same ballot was only 2.6%. A meticulous analysis of the 18,000 ballots by the Orlando Sentinel found that the voters casting those particular ballots were disproportionately voting for Democrats in other races. ("SARASOTA RECOUNT Analysis: Ballots favored Dems, November 22, 2006, http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112206S.shtml )

Investigations have turned up a number of anomalies, including hundreds of voters reporting balky equipment on election day, and including a touchscreen slow-response problem that was known by ES&S before the election -- the machines had a flaw that sometimes caused machines to respond slowly to a voter's touch 'beyond the normal time a voter would expect to have their selection highlighted.'
An official test team investigated for Florida why some 18,000 ballots didn't have any vote cast. Just yesterday, journalist Kim Zetter published a heretofore secret letter in which ES&S instructs the test team how to investigate, the parameters of what it should and should not investigate. ES&S told the state's testers not to make statements rendering opinions on security techniques employed or not employed, or statements about possible vulnerabilities. ES&S also told the testers to assume that all of the voting equipment and materials have been physically secured as they should be, physical chain of custody of the equipment and materials has never been compromised, and that only the best election administration practices and procedures have been employed with these systems.

ARTICLES:
"Source Says Second ES&S Letter Tried to Dictate What Florida Test Reports Could Say"
By Kim Zetter
Mar 23, 2007
Informed Consent
http://informedconsent.typepad.com/informed_consent

"E-Vote Memo Is a 'Smoking Gun'"
By Kim Zetter
March 22, 2007
Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,73048-0.html

WEBSITE:
http://www.ChristineJenningsforCongress.com


<> ~6:40 pm CDT -- Independent journalist DANIEL HOPSICKER on oddities he has found re 9-11



Independent journalist DANIEL HOPSICKER will discuss some of the gumshoe work he did in Venice, Florida to unravel oddities about the flight schools, Mohamed Atta and the attacks on September 11. His information seriously clashes with the official 9/11 story.

He is the author of Welcome to Terrorland, Mohamed Atta & The 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (2004: Mad Cow Press). He has also done several series of articles on voting machine companies, as well as on the Duke Cunningham scandal. Hopsicker lives in Venice, Florida.

WEBSITE:
www.madcowprod.com

BOOKS:
Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida
Barry & 'the Boys': The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History

FILM:
Documentary Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus



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