will stand up for our right to vote!!!!! She's bucking big time corruption (both Dem and Repub). That's been part of the problem. Some Dems DO care, but they are overpowered by the combined force of bipartisan electronic voting system corruption, wrought by the $4 billion HAVA boondoggle, lavish lobbying and "revolving door" employment.
F. i., our former Repub Sec of State Bill Jones and his chief aide Alfie Charles now work for Sequoia electronic voting systems, one of the big three, and also run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY software. They brought this e-voting disaster to Calif, now they work for that industry. On the Dem side, Diebold advocate Connie McCormack in Los Angeles is best friends--wines, dines and vacations--with Diebold's former chief salesperson in Calif, Deborah Sieler, who is now ass't registrar in San Joaquin County. And they all wine and dine together at posh events, like the one at the Beverly Hilton this August--a week of fun, sun and high end shopping for election officials from around the country, sponsored by...guess who?...Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia!
See Amaryllis' post on the Beverly Hilton event. It'll burn your eyeballs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340-----------
We need...
Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)
or, at the least
Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% automatic recount (AT LEAST), very strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code! (...jeez!).
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We also need verification tools for '06 and '08...
--"parallel elections"
--vigilant statistical and other monitoring (see www.UScountvotes.org)
--INDEPENDENT EXIT POLLS (get on the Dems about this!)
--and other verification tools
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See Bob Koehler's column on the recent Diebolding of Ohio election reform initiatives, which got flipped from a pre-election prediction of a 60/40 win, to a 60/40 election day LOSS (!)--the most audacious vote flipping yet!
http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1824-------
For an easy to read pamphlet on the perils of electronic voting, see "MythBreakers":
www.votersunite.org
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For the GAO report on Election 2004 (grave insecurity and hackability, massive election number anomalies, suspicious (and outrageous) incidents and suppression of Dem votes):
access to pdf:
http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-05-956text only:
http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05956.html