NY EVENT:How Can We Restore the Integrity of Our Electoral System?

How Can We Restore the Integrity of Our Electoral System?
Let's Talk About the Bottom Line

Dear Lilly,

What: "A Call for Honest Elections: How Electronic Voting Threatens
Democracy and What We Can Do About It"

Where: The Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist, 40 E.
35th Street, New York

When: Wednesday, December 14th at 6:30 p.m.



The most basic step toward building the type of America we want is
putting people in office who share our vision. If the way we cast and
count votes is broken, nothing else can get fixed.

>From lost votes to hackable software, the electoral system is
>broken. Noted authors and activists are coming to New York to talk
>about what can be done. Can you join in?

The event is called "A Call for Honest Elections: How Computerized
Voting Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It", and it's on
Wednesday, December 14th at 6:30 p.m. The program will feature
musical satire, illuminating discussion, and activist networking and
action.

This event, which will be a launching pad for effective action, will
be held at The Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist,
40 E. 35th Street, New York, NY. Tickets are $15, $10 for
seniors/students/fixed or low income. (Your money can have more
impact for a $50 or $100 ticket - you'll receive a signed copy of
Mark Crispin Miller's recent book and you'll be contributing to the
great work of New Yorkers for Verified Voting and TrueMajority's
SpeakEZ.)

http://action.truemajority.org/TrueMajority/events/speakez12_14_05nyc/details.tcl


The discussion will be led by panelists who are well-known advocates
of electoral reform:

Mark Crispin Miller, author of FOOLED AGAIN: How the Right Stole the
2004 Election Why They’ll Steal the Next One, Too (Unless We Stop
Them)
Rachel Maddow, Host of Air America's "The Rachel Maddow Show"
Robert Fitrakis, co-author of How the GOP Stole America's 2004
Election and Is Rigging 2008
Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verifiable Voting

We also need dedicated volunteers to help at the event, including
seating, admission, tabling, sign-ups, etc. If you can help, please
write to SpeakEZ@truemajority.org and include your name, the date and
times you are available, and any task preferences.

This is a 501(c)(3) event sponsored by New Yorkers for Verified
Voting, TrueMajority's SpeakEZ, and Business Leaders for Sensible
Priorities (BLSP).

Reserve your seat now for this important event! Your participation
will help spread the word and create critical mass to make this an
issue not to be ignored! Meet like-minded folks and make a difference
for all of us.

Many thanks,

Diane Jones
SpeakEZ Coordinator


Mark Crispin Miller, author of the recent FOOLED AGAIN: How the Right
Stole the 2004 Election & Why They’ll Steal the Next One, Too (Unless
We Stop Them) (purchase here) is a professor of media studies at New
York University and a well-known public intellectual. His writings on
film, television, propaganda, advertising and the culture industries
have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including The
Nation and The New York Times. He is the author of The Bush
Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001) and Cruel and
Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (2004). A frequent commentator
on TV, radio and the Internet, Miller has appeared on Frontline, The
PBS Newshour, The O’Reilly Factor, Washington Journal, as well as
many other television shows, and has been a guest on countless radio
programs. He is a regular commentator on Air America, appearing often
on "Morning Sedition" and "The Al Franken Show."

Rachel Maddow hosts "The Rachel Maddow Show," the daily morning news
show at Air America Radio. Rachel has a Doctorate in Politics from
Oxford University and a degree in Public Policy from Stanford. Her
background is in commercial radio (WRSI, WRNX) and political
activism. She lives in New York City and West Cummington,
Massachusetts, where she and her fellow 774 Cummingtonians vote by
making big X's on paper ballots with a golf pencil. The town clerk
then drops the ballots in a box, turns a big crank that rings a bell,
and somehow magically the Democrats always win.

Robert Fitrakis is a Political Science Professor at Columbus State
Community College in Ohio, and has a long political, legal, and
journalism background. Fitrakis was an Election Protection attorney
on November 2, 2004 in Franklin County in Ohio, and he and Harvey
Wasserman most recently co-wrote How the GOP Stole America's 2004
Election and Is Rigging 2008 (purchase here). He is the Executive
Director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ)
and has published the Free Press since 1992 and acted as editor since
1993. Fitrakis earned a J.D. in 2002 and his Ph.D is in Political
Science. Dr. Fitrakis is a frequent speaker on political, labor and
social policy issues at national academic and political conferences.

Bo Lipari is the Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting, a
citizens group working for secure, reliable, accessible, and
verifiable standards for voting systems and elections. A professional
software engineer for 20 years, Bo has developed software for
companies both large and small. Like many computer professionals, Bo
is concerned about the rush to use touch screen electronic voting
machines in our elections. He has been speaking and organizing all
over New York State alerting people to the problems with electronic
voting, and the potential for compromising the integrity of our
elections.



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