House Judiciary Committee Hearing "Protecting the Right to Vote" March 7@3pm

[mod mom]

AM I THE ONLY ONE DISAPPOINTED WITH SOME OF THE PANEL MEMBERS? (DONNA BRAZILE, JOHN FUND, WTF? WHERE IS KEN BLACKWELL (I really want his sorry ass subpoenaed!), FITRAKIS, MCM, GREG PALAST:

For Immediate Release Contact: Jonathan Godfrey(202) 226-6888
March 06, 2007 Melanie Roussell(202) 226-5543

(Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-M I) announced that the Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing, entitled, "Protecting the Right to Vote: Election Deception and Irregularities in recent Federal Elections." The hearing will be held TOMORROW, March 7, 2007 at 3 pm in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.

"Election intimidation and deception have become an unfortuante aspect of recent federal elections, threatening to undermine Americans' confidence in a democratic government," Conyers said. "This hearing will expose some of the problems that voters have experienced, the causes of those problems, and offer leadership in developing meaningful solutions. Our goal is to protect every citizen's constitutional right to vote, and to thwart any future attempts to disenfranchise eligible voters through fraud, deception and intimidation."

Who: Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr.

Panel I

Sen. Barack Obama (Ill)

Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.)

Rep. Rham Emanuel (D-Ill)

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)

Rep. Peter King (R-IA)

Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA)


Panel II

Ms. Donna Brazile, Chair, DNC Voting Rights Institute

Professor Eve Sandberg, Oberlin College

Mr. Ralph Neas, President and CEO, People for the American Way

Mr. John Fund, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal



When: TOMORROW, March 7, 2007, 3:00 p.m.



Where: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

[mod mom]

1. Please contact Rep Conyers and call for subpoenas for those who subverted the vote

in '04 (Blackwell, Rove, Bernadette Noe, Matt Damschroeder, Triad, Mark Radke from Diebold, Michael Vu, to name a few)

http://judiciary.house.gov/newscenter.aspx?A=773

[L. Coyote]

2. OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study

The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html
Discussion at:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620

This hearing is good news. The scope is broad, so details of past irregularities may not be the main focus. It is a step in the correct direction, and where it will lead is yet to be seen.

[AtLiberty]

3. Are there two Peter King's?

I thought Peter King was a NY rep.

[mod mom]

5. "It's all over but the voting and we'll taking care of the votes" is the only Peter King I know.

[mod mom]

4. If you contact Conyers, Pls mention this new Palast article on Tim Griffin, Bush Appointee

for US Attorney-he was behind a '04 Voting Scheme:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x360137

[rumpel]

7. Wow.

but then again - the usual - rewarding those who are complicit in their crimes...

thanks for the heads up.

[AtLiberty]

6. Is this just an introductory hearing?

I hope so...

What a joke! King and Bilbray serving on this panel -- I don't know whether or not to laugh or cry.

Does anyone know if it will be broadcasted on C-SPAN?

[rumpel]

8. Live webcast:

http://judiciary.house.gov/

on edit: you have to click on "latest on election reform", and it will take you to the page


looks like C-span does not have it on their schedule

[rumpel]

10. webcast is on now

but they are still wandering about....

[L. Coyote]

11. Webcast just ended. Recommended. This is well worth the BOOKMARK.

Recommended:

http://judiciary.house.gov/

Just click the button "view live webcast"

Conyers emphasized that the Justice Dept. has a responsibility.

In closing, he made clear that this hearing is related to one bill before them, but the issue is much broader.

[AtLiberty]

12. The Repukes kept repeating the "need" for voter ID

Fortunately, the Dems weren't buying into it...asking for documentation of alleged illegal immigrant voters.

Obama said that voter ID is not part of his bill and will make sure there's no confusion.

But the Repukes wouldn't shut up...

It was actually a very good hearing.

SANCHEZ AND CARDIN WERE AWESOME!!!

Sanchez said (paraphrasing) that she didn't believe that over 800 illegal immigrants had voted in her district in the last election, nor would she believe it without documentation which the Republicans and the local election board both fail to present!!!

[rumpel]

9. Just In: Another hearing today

"The Financial Services Subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee will hold a hearing on "Ensuring the Integrity of Elections"
on

Wednesday March 7 at 2:00 PM in the Rayburn House Office Building.

Witnesses for this hearing will be
EAC chair Donnetta Davidson,

former EAC commissioner Ray Martinez,

Randolph Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and Systems,

United States Government Accountability Office and

Avi Rubin, Director of ACCURATE and professor of computer science at
Johns Hopkins
University."
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This was reported by John Gideon in his Daily Voting News.

I do not know if the hearings will be aired on C-Span or not.