GA: 2006 Election Candidates Join E-Voting Rights Suit

[Wilms]

Georgia: 2006 Election Candidates Join E-Voting Rights Suit

By VoterGA Press Release

November 26, 2006

VoterGa, a diverse non-partisan coalition that organized an E-Voting rights lawsuit filed in Georgia during July of this year, announced today its intent to enjoin three 2006 election candidates as plaintiffs to the suit. Included are a Democrat, Republican and an independent write-in candidate who are questioning the 2006 primaries, run-off and general election, respectively.

Mary Wilhite, a Republican who took first in a House District 22 primary but was edged in a run-off by 35 votes, stated she was offered a recount that could not truly be performed. “Our Cherokee County Elections Director agreed to a recount because the victory margin was only 1% but state procedures simply re-accumulate previous totals. No ballots were ever recounted because no ballots actually exist. The process was completed in about a half hour with no change in results.”

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Woody Holmes, independent write-in candidate for Georgia House District 65, stated that on the day his election was certified, Fulton County reported he had only two votes. After he questioned the results, the next day the county changed the total to 217 but Holmes believes he got that many votes in a single precinct. He explained: "Our campaign went door-to-door and collected signatures of support from over 800 voters, we distributed 250 yard signs, mailed 4000 campaign pieces to homes in the district, operated a phone bank to get out the vote as well as using automated phone calling to reach out to voters. My message was grounded on issues important to the voters in the district, noting the differences between me and my opponent who was the only named candidate on the ballot."

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The landmark lawsuit challenges the legality and constitutionality of Georgia’s current voting method including the audit trail pilot. It charges that recounts are not currently possible, ballots and people were unconstitutionally removed from elections, electronic voters are not afforded the equal protection given absentee voters and that machine accuracy cannot be determined on Election Day with or without the pilot.

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http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2076&Itemid=113

[philb]

1. Documentation on Widespread Irregularities in Georgia Elections in 2006 and 2004

Support for your suit

2004 www.flcv.com/georgia.html

2006
www.flcv.com/eirstss6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsppp6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsdt6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsoth6.html


See also the VotersUnite.org sites

(the URLs for 2006 also have info on irregularities in over 20 states)

[philb]

6. updated summary of widespread irregularities and suppression in Georgia in 2006

www.flcv.com/Georgia6.html

Georgia was one of the most problematic states in 2006 in terms of touch screen manipulation,
glitches, minority voter purges and registration problems, ID problems, voter suppression

[Stevepol]

2. This sounds like a sure winner in court, if the judges in GA still have brains. K&R!

[EFerrari]

3. kick

[w4rma]

4. I think some of these election officials are just flat out inventing vote totals.

I think that the machines keep eating votes and having their memory cards erased, etc. I think these guys don't want to lose their well paid, slack positions so rather than jepordize their jobs by releasing information to the public, they cover it up and just make up some numbers that big media should usually believe.

And they stonewall the relatively few people that ask too many questions.

[philb]

5. Since the Diebold programmers control the elections in all counties of Georgia

and have total access to program the machines any way that they desire,
with no checks and balances,
why would anyone trust the results from any election in Georgia??
what is the basis for trusting such a totally unreliable system??