Californians, vote for DEBRA BOWEN for Sec of State! Critically important!

Spread the word: Californians, vote DEBRA BOWEN for SoS!

A very tight race in the Dem Primary pits knowledgeable, savvy, anti-Diebold DEBRA BOWEN against clueless, naive (on electronic voting) Deborah Ortiz for what is arguably the most important office in state government these days: the one that runs elections, Secretary of State! With Bushite corporations poised to convert the state to black box vote tabulation, we need a strong and knowledgeable counterforce acting in the public interest. DEBRA BOWEN!

Please advise all your lists, and family and friends, to vote for DEBRA BOWEN in the California Democratic Primary this Tuesday.

And donate to this effort to put Bowen ads on Spanish radio stations today and tomorrow:

"Latinos for America has produced (pro-bono) Spanish language radio ads for the Los Angeles market that will run in Spanish talk radio on Monday and Tuesday of next week.

"We need your help to get the ads placed. Whatever you can give will help: Follow the link to 'Valley Grassroots for Democracy'
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/9271
and make a donation ending in $.06 (for example $50.06 or $500.06 -- whatever you want to give). The $.06 will let Valley Grassroots for Democracy know that your contribution is to go to the Bowen ads in Spanish. Discussion at this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2662470

It's easy! Do it now! To donate...
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/9271

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Bowen is is a strong, strong supporter of open government, is very knowledgeable and savvy about electronic voting, and has been aggressively challenging Schwarz appointee Bruce McPherson on his illegal actions on behalf of Diebold (the Bushite election theft corporation). Bowen's opponent Deborah Ortiz doesn't have a clue. She has made frighteningly uninformed statements about it, like "trust, but verify." Trust Diebold? Right.

But Bowen is slightly behind in the pre-election polls with large undecided. What may be happening is that people are simply responding to Ortiz's Hispanic name, in ignorance of the issues in this down-ticket race. That would be tragic! Nothing could be worse for Hispanic voters--and for all of us--than Bowen NOT winning this primary!

Bowen is the one who has been challenging Diebold, from a position of expertise and experience. She is the one we need countering Diebold shill McPherson in the fall! She was endorsed by 80% of the rank and file Democrats at the recent state convention. She is the VERY BEST Secretary of State candidate imaginable.

It's a very, very close race. Turnout will very likely be light. Every vote counts. Every ad counts. Spread the word!

Also see: www.debrabown.com

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I have been passionately active in the election reform movement since Nov. 3, 2004. I make this VERY STRONG recommendation from a position of detailed knowledge of the issues and the players.

This may be the most important vote you ever cast. We need to restore election integrity and transparency in California. As California goes, so goes the nation.

We are dealing with serious corruption in the election theft industry. The new electronic voting systems, pushed through and funded with nearly $4 billion by a Bushite Congress, are run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled mostly be two connected corporations--Diebold and ES&S--both with very close ties to the Bush regime and far rightwing causes, and a third player, Sequoia, which employs our former Repub Calif Sec of State, Bill Jones, and his chief aide, Alfie Charles, to peddle their machines (an outrageous example of corrupt "revolving door" employment).

We need a strong counterforce--someone who understands this technology AND the critical importance of a return to TRANSPARENT vote counting. That someone is DEBRA BOWEN--the first state legislator to have a web site and an email address, who has worked very hard to provide government documents on line, for easy public access, and who has held state legislative hearings on the Diebold/McPherson lawlessness. We need a good Sec of State in place before the Bushite takeover of our election system is complete. The grass roots is fighting back. For instance, a citizen lawsuit recently resulted in 7 counties setting aside Diebold machines and using paper ballots for this primary.

See, California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496
Seven of these counties have promised the judge they would use PAPER BALLOTS, and were dismissed from this lawsuit (4/27/06).
http://kcbs.com/pages/29285.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2249205

We MUST restore integrity and transparency to our voting system! Having a knowledgeable Secretary of State who is on the side of the public will be a great help to this enormously important struggle to recover our democracy and our country.

Vote for DEBRA BOWEN! Donate to the ads! Spread the word!

Send a message to our two, "business as usual" frontrunners, Angelides and Westly. Check out Strimling's web site and weep for a true Left platform! www.michaelstrimling.com. Ex.: Angelides and Westly both support capital punishment. Strimling opposes it. Need I say more?

So vote Angelides.

Since Westly and Angelides went so negative on each other I couldn't bring myself to vote for either of them.

Strimling it is.

We are going to get whoever Diebold and the CorpMedia wants us to have so I harbor no illusions that my vote actually means anything beyond absolving me of any responsibility for how screwed up things get.