they've got to bust open the non-transparent election system, run by Republican corporations on "trade secret," proprietary programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls.
Recently, in Ohio, four election reform initiatives, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, were flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet. The machines and their masters are now controlling the election rules!
See Bob Koehler's article:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk
It's no wonder that, "Three men with more experience in countywide elected office and greater name recognition...turned down offers by the party's national House campaign organization last year to challenge GOP Rep. Bob Ney."
They probably know what the score is. Democrats, ARISE! UNITE! BUST THE VOTING MACHINES...NOW!
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Some resources:
www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.UScountvotes.org (monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors).
http://www.rushholt.com/petition.htmlwww.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
Also of interest:
Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340