"Divestiture for Democracy" launched by VR [View All]

[understandinglife]

I did a search on DU and found a previous post from 7 Feb 2005 indicating that VR was going to launch the "Divestiture against voting machine companies" campaign. So, I thought I would just post a comment to that thread that the campaign actually launched on President's day, and I did:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x320158

However, when I refresh the list, I can't find the post in the current list. So, I'm posting a new thread, because it is important for this group at DU to know the effort has been launched. If this is a dupe, I will remove, immediately, just let me know, because I can't find a post of the announcement since Monday, 21 Feb 2005.

"On February 21, 2005 (President's Day), Velvet Revolution sent a letter to each of the nine major American Voting Machine companies -- (Advanced Voting Solutions, Diebold, Danaher-Guardian, Election Systems & Software , HartInterCivic, MicroVote, Sequoia Voting Systems, Triad GSI and UniLect Corp) -- asking them to do the right thing for our country!"

Letter sent to the following companies can be found at the link below the list:

Walden W. O’Dell, CEO, Diebold Inc.
David Hart, Chairman, HartInterCivic
Larry Ensminger, President, Advanced Voting Solutions
Jack Gerbel, President, UniLect Corp.
Jim Ries, President, MicroVote
Todd Urosevich, Vice President, Election Systems & Software (ES&S)
Tracey Graham, CEO, Sequoia Voting Systems
Matt Lilly, Sr. VP, Danaher-Guardian Voting Systems
Brett Rapp, President, Triad GSI

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D/VRLetterToEVoteCompanies_022105.php

Letter includes a large list of supporting organizations.

Letter's demands, in summary:

Voluntarily open their hardware and software for independent public inspection and analysis.

Provide auditable, voter-verified paper ballots for all votes cast.

Assure that there can be no form of networking on their machines.

Allow for non-partisan, independent monitors of the vote tabulation process.

Institute a corporate policy prohibiting the company and all of its executives from supporting candidates for public office or political action groups.

Disclose all data, codes and records from the last three national elections, if requested.

Adopt all feasible best practices suggested by a national committee of experts.

Do all of the above at no extra cost to their governmental clients with which they work.

If the companies publicly commit to all of the above within the 60 days, we will broadly recognize them for their efforts.

If, however, they choose not to take these steps to ensure free, fair.....

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/DV4D/

Peace.


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