BBV: SF Chron censoring LTE & protest suggested election day 10/7 [View All]

[Bushfire]

and a call for volunteers in Northern CA found in an interesting letter to the Whatreallyhappened.com website:

"I just spoke with one of the webmasters of this site:

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/index.asp

. . and he asked me to let as many people know about it as possible - they are in need of volunteers to help out. That person was located in Northern CA. He was somewhat concerned about the number of Justice Dept viewings he was seeing of the site.

Here in Alameda County, CA, our machines apparently have no paper trail, and it appears that some of them may be Diebold machines, but I'm in the process of trying to find out. The Secretary of State had a 'task force' that took public comments for quite awhile, but nothing seems to have come of it.

I've noticed that our local paper, the SF Chronicle, edits out any criticism I include about the voting machines in letters (that get published), and has never published anything I've written concerning them. Henry Knor, the tech writer who was fired from the Chron, spoke out strongly against the voting machines in an article published soon before that. While many think he was fired due to attending a peace march, I have to wonder.

One group had started building for a protest at the Federal Building in Oakland on election day (Oct 7th), but now that date is up in the air. I really think it's the only way we'll force the newspapers to cover the issue of the voting machines, is at the minimum to have protests on election day."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/letters.html
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I was trying to find out who owns the SF Chron, but came up with conflicting statements from a Feb 2003 article:

"A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Hearst Corp.'s $660 million purchase of the San Francisco Chronicle, a century-long rival of Hearst's Examiner."

"The Independent's publisher, Ted Fang, has announced plans to switch the Examiner from afternoon to morning publication in August and compete with the Hearst-owned Chronicle."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/30/national/main178183.shtml

I'm sure another DUer would have more insight on this than myself.