Brad Friedman up at 6:15 pm Central. The Monitor

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The Monitor
June 18, 2006


Today's Guests:

-- BRAD FRIEDMAN on election reform
-- GREG PALAST on current events

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<> ~ 6:15 pm CST -- BRAD FRIEDMAN on verifiable elections



Brad Friedman is one of the nation's most intrepid citizen journalists/activists in the field of election reform. He is also the co-founder of VelvetRevolution.us, an umbrella organization of citizens groups taking on everything from election reform to media reform to the war in Iraq. He blogs and broadcasts from Los Angeles. Brad visited Crawford, Texas in August last year where he broadcast 50 hours of live radio from Camp Casey.

Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson will talk with Brad to get updates on the latest developments in the continuing story of citizens attempting to get transparent, recountable elections. Lawsuits have broken out in numerous states, including a new one in Texas demanding verifiable elections under the state constitution.

A new article appeared this month which seemed to crack the invisible wall which has been thwarting much serious national media coverage of election problems. That article, available online, was researched for four months by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and a Rolling Stone editor, and lays out in great, documented detail what happened in Ohio in the 2004 election. (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen )

Brad has been closely following a San Diego special election for US Congress, to replace the imprisoned Congressman Duke Cunningham. (Cunningham resigned after pleading guilty; he basically sold his influence and the US Treasury to defense lobbyists.)

In that current race for an open US House seat, Republican Brian Bilbray edged past Democrat Francine Busby. Or, did he? Brad notes that the voting equipment, made by Diebold, spent one or more nights at the homes of election clerks before election day, in what he calls "sleepovers." Whether or not any bodily fluids were exchanged in the voting machine sleepovers, recent supervised hack demonstrations on Diebold electronic voting equipment and optical scan equipment in Utah and Florida show that it only takes a few minutes access by someone with moderate knowledge to completely and thoroughly hack the equipment. So, is the current election legal? Acceptable? Verifiable? Do we know who won?

WEBSITE:
www.bradblog.com

ARTICLES:
If you only read one, read this one!

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House."
Rolling Stone
Issue 1002, June 15, 2006
Article: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
Exclusive documents, sources, charts and commentary:
http://rollingstone.com/news/story/10463875

Mark Crispin Miller:
"Some Might Call It Treason: An Open Letter to Salon"
Huffington Post
June 16, 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-crispin-miller/some-might-call-it-treaso_b_23187.html

Robert C. Koehler:
"A Vote of No Confidence -
Democracy left to languish in living rooms, garages"
June 15, 2006
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0615-34.htm

Voters Unite.org:
"Vote-Switching Software Provided by Vendors:
A Partial List - 51 Ballot Programming Flaws Reported in the News"
June 2006
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapVoteSwitch.pdf

<> ~ 6:35 -- Journalist Greg Palast



Greg Palast is an award-winning investigative journalist. Among other stories, he broke the story about the felons list in Florida in the 2000 presidential election. Greg Palast's reports appear on the BBC's top current affairs show, Newsnight, and England's Guardian newspapers. He has written for The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Salon.com, as well as numerous other publications. He is the author of the bestselling "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and has a new book out, "Armed Madhouse."

Randi Rhodes calls him, "The top investigative journalist in America -- and the funniest."

Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will talk with Greg about his investigations and current events.

Greg will be the featured speaker at a KPFT event tomorrow, Monday; that event is now sold out.

WEBSITE:
http://www.gregpalast.com

EVENT:
Greg Palast will be in Houston tomorrow, Monday, June 19th, 7:30 at the River Oaks Theatre.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!!

BOOKS BY GREG PALAST:
Armed Madhouse (new)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

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ENGINEER: Byron Jackson

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