PDA declares No Confidence in Busby/Bilbray Election!--nat'l significance

Momentum is building in California--We The People are declaring the San Diego election must be hand counted in order to be valid.

So far, Progressive Democrats of America, VoteTrustUSA and Velvet Revolution have all issued No Confidence statements. Read up on this here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2680941

Get your organizations to issue their own statements!

Tell everyone to sign Velvet Revolution's petition!
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/content/busby-bilbray/busby-bilbray.php

Begin declaring no confidence in your elections--past and future. There is no need to wait until an election happens to get this going. We *know* the conditions are unacceptable!

do you think all electronic voting should be banned? 80+ percent voted yes so far. www.loudobbs.com

IF YOU CALL FOR A HAND COUNT, YOU MUST ALSO CALL FOR A FULL ACCOUNTING OF THE BALLOT AND PAPER TRAIL CHAIN OF CUSTODY!

You must also be prepared to say "No Confidence" if there is anything at all fishy about the paper ballots.

If they let people take the voting machines home, what do you think has happened to the paper ballots since June 6?

PDA + DFA members get it!

TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2006
The Strange Case of San Diego’s: Lazy Independents, Self Destructive Minutemen, and Closet Libertarian, Voters

In a previous post (see: “Something Smells Fishy in San Diego”, June 10 post on www.baiman.blogspot.com ), I noted that the official returns for the Run-Off Election and Primary for the 50th Congressional District in San Diego conducted on June 6 – the Busby / Bilbray race, are very odd.

This was an election held on the same day, in the same polling places, in which voters could vote in a particular party Primary (Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, or Peace and Freedom) and vote for a candidate for the upcoming November 2006 general election for the seat, and also vote for the Special Run-Off election to fill that seat until November. I’ve been told that under California law, Voters can “Decline to State” a party preference and get a Democratic, Republican, American Independent Party, or Non-Partisan (with no Primary Candidates) ballot, but are required to register for other parties (Libertarian or Green for example) if they want to vote in one of these Primaries. Candidates for the Run-Off election had already nominated in a previous April 11th Special election.

According to the official returns ( All figures are from the San Diego Registrar of Voters website: http://www.sdvote.org/election/primary.xml as of from June 13, 2006 16:54:56 100% of precincts reporting) about 35% of the difference between total Primary and Run-Off votes (7,587 out of 21,698) went to Libertarian (1,858) and Independent (5,729) candidates. In the Primary the same Libertarian candidate received 579 votes (a Peace and Freedom candidate who was not in the Run-Off received 75). Total vote in the Primary was 131,072, which was 21,698 fewer votes (14% less) than the Run-Off total vote count of 152,770.

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WHO IS RON BAIMAN?

Ron Baiman is currently a Policy Research Project Development Analyst at Loyola University in Chicago, as well as an visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Econonomics from The New School for Social Research