Bruce O'Dell and Jonathan Simon on Monitor, up now

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The Monitor
November 5, 2006


Today's Guests:


-- Bruce O'Dell and Jonathan Simon outline our task on reforming elections

-- Noted attorney Chip Pitts on the Bill of Rights

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<> ~ 6:15 pm CST -- Bruce O'Dell and Jonathan Simon, speaking in Cleveland at an election reform conference

Bruce O'Dell is a self-employed information technology consultant with more than twenty five years experience who applies his broad technical expertise to his work as an election integrity activist.

In the aftermath of the 2004 election, O'Dell co-founded US Count Votes, a volunteer scientific research project to investigate the integrity and accuracy of American elections. He left that group in 2005 after publishing a paper that disputed that organization's claim to have proven vote fraud through analysis of exit poll data alone. He is currently affiliated with the Election Defense Alliance (EDA), a new non-profit organization working to achieve transparent, secure, and accurate elections.

O’Dell recently had leading roles in large-scale e-Commerce and security projects while employed by American Express and by the finance arm of General Motors. At American Express he was lead software architect for a project to create a company-wide security component, and received their Chairman's Award for Quality, in 1998, for helping to develop methods for securely deploying new soft ware to networks of thousands of computers. As a Principal Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation, one of his system designs was nominated for a national technical quality award. He lives just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and shares a love of good books with his wife - and her beautiful garden, with their talkative cat.


Jonathan Simon, a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, is a member of the Bar of Massachusetts. As a result of his prior experience as a political survey research analyst for Peter D. Hart Research Associates in Washington, he became an early advocate for an exit poll-based electoral "burglar alarm" system, independent of media and corporate control, to detect computerized vote shifting in Election 2004. In the absence of such a system, he was nevertheless able to capture and analyze critical official exit poll data briefly posted on the web prior to its election-night disappearance, data which served as an initial basis for questioning the validity of Election 2004.

Dr. Simon is a co-founder of the Election Defense Alliance -- www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org -- a national coordinating body for citizen electoral integrity groups and individuals. He is also a member of Alliance for Democracy -- http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org.

Both these speeches were made recently in Cleveland, and were recorded thanks to Evan Davis of Ohio.


<> ~ 6:45 pm CST -- Chip Pitts on the Bill of Rights


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