Stop Diebold From Infecting Ohio!

Stop Diebold From Infecting Ohio!

Many of you are already aware of the very dire situation we’re in regarding the purchase of electronic voting machines for 31 Ohio counties. Right now, the only way to stop the purchase is to file a lawsuit to halt the purchase of these machines in time for the ’04 election.

CASE (Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections) needs donations in order to cover legal fees. They’ve been working with The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in California, to set up a fund for Ohio litigation on the electronic voting issue.

You can pay two ways:

1. Go to the EFF website http://www.eff.org and pay by credit card online. IMPORTANT: Indicate in the "notes" section that your donation is for "Ohio E-Voting Litigation."

2. Send a check payable to Electronic Frontier Foundation and mail it to:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-436-9333


IMPORTANT: Be sure to write on your check that your donation is for the "Ohio E-Voting Litigation."

EFF is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations to EFF are tax deductible, to the extent permissible by law.

Please do this today. Give $100 if you can. If you can’t, give $20 and find 4 other people to do the same. We all are working very hard to get Bush out of office. That’s not going to happen if these machine purchases are not stopped. It’s as simple as that.

Thanks to everyone! And please spread the word!

Some Background on the Voting Situation:

Ohio is about to making a huge mistake. In spite of all you may be hearing from the media about boards of election having second thoughts regarding the purchase of new machines, many counties are poised to purchase these flawed DRE machines for 2004. These DREs will not offer a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) meaning voters will have no way of knowing if their vote has been recorded correctly. Also, there is no mechanism for a recount. These machines have recently been decertified in California but Ohio is moving ahead to purchase them anyway.

For more, please visit http://www.votersunite.org

Also, check out http://www.ohiovoters.org/

and http://www.geocities.com/democratsforohio/index.html

Today I’ve taken action to protect the vote in Ohio, where electronic voting machines are set to be in place in 31 counties without a paper trail verification of each votes. The 2004 election is going to be very close - and could come down to just a handful of votes in this key state.

Please join me in signing the “Paper Trail Petition” today and pass it on to everyone you know.

http://actforvictory.org/act.php/home/petitions/diebold_ohio

Everybody in Ohio should be doing this!

again

C.A.S.E. (Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections) is a non-partisan organization of citizens from across the state who are very concerned that Ohio is moving forward in 2004 with the implementation of DRE’s (electronic voting machines) that are not secure, not reliable and not voter verifiable.

In addition to all of our efforts to influence the Boards of Elections to refrain from purchasing electronic voting machines without V-VPAT, members of C.A.S.E. are in the process of filing a lawsuit in Ohio to stop the implementation of electronic voting machines, unless they are certified as being secure and also offer a voter verified paper audit trail (V-VPAT.)

We just heard back from EFF (The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is helping us out by collecting donations.) We seem to have stalled in the fundraising initiative. They have collected just over $1200. While this is terrific in that we have enough to fund the first phase, we are still quite a distance from our goal of $10,000+ to cover legal fees.

http://www.caseohio.org/