Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Legacy Or Lethargy? Ohio Officials Brunner And Cordray Asked To Deal With 2004 Election Fraud In Their Final Hours In Office

2010-11-06T19:55:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to move Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to action on the unresolved election criminal issues remaining from the Ohio 2004 election, the Ohio Election Justice Campaign sent the following letters on November 5, 2010. The letters speak for themselves. What follows is a brief background on why these letters are more urgent than ever.

Brunner and Cordray have much in common. Both are Ohio Democrats in their final days in office. Both lost elections this year. Both offices will be returned to Republican control in January 2011. Their offices are located in downtown Columbus, Ohio, not far from the federal courthouse. Both are younger politicians, who entered office with much promise.

Of the two, Richard Cordray has dedicated his life to public service, holding many lower political offices until appointed to the Ohio Attorney General's office by Governor Ted Strickland (D) following the exit of the elected Attorney General in 2006, Marc Dann. Richard Cordray, before he was Ohio Attorney General, also helped Jennifer Brunner campaign for her position as Secretary of State.

Both are also, largely, from Central Ohio. They are both hugely Midwestern in demeanor and attitude. Both of them were also involved, through their offices, in blocking eight members of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign from participating in the federal lawsuit that seeks election justice, King-Lincoln v. Brunner (formerly King-Lincoln v. Blackwell).

Although the Democrats have, perhaps, not been watching this lawsuit, the Republicans have been keenly interested in its progress (or rather, lack thereof).

Because of the self-generated and narcissistic media attention they have produced for themselves, not to mention the unique and theatrically paranoid blend of disinformation mixed with truth that they so skillfully spin around the hopeful, the disenfranchised, and the curious, we must regretfully include the names of Robert Fitrakis and Clifford Arnebeck in this introduction.

Because neither the offices of Jennifer Brunner nor the offices of Richard Cordray would have been successful in blocking eight members of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign from participating in this federal lawsuit without the active (if not eager) cooperation of these two attorneys.

Bear in mind, that the point of blocking The Ohio Election Justice Campaign was also to delete, entirely, the evidence we had submitted to federal court. Over a thousand pages of evidence is now entirely gone from the court record, evidence we believed would compel the federal court to convene a grand jury.

And not long after ordering the evidence stricken, the federal judge assigned to this case, a newly appointed O.S.U. trustee, sat happily in an airplane, flying to watch the Rose Bowl game on O.S.U.'s (i.e. taxpayer) dime with, really, could it be, Wally O'Dell??? Wally is the infamous Diebold (election machine company) CEO who in 2004 promised to deliver Ohio to George W. Bush in a fundraising letter. Other such characters who had an interest in seeing this lawsuit and the whole election mess fade from memory also were on that plane to the Rose Bowl. OH-IO!.

Had Fitrakis and Arnebeck done the work themselves, or just not blocked us, Ohio election officials could have been dished out legal justice years ago. Arnebeck… a man so full of hot air he can’t resist expanding.

Six years have passed, legal deadlines have passed, members of Congress that stood up for Ohio have passed on (to heaven, blessings to them), and yet no one has served a day in jail, and there has been no accountability for the theft of the Ohio 2004 Presidential election.

So when you hear of Arnebeck and Fitrakis’s multi-year yet unsuccessful work chasing Carl Rove, remember nothing has been accomplished that held even one person accountable in Ohio, not one person. Yet they blocked many from receiving justice. Why? For whom?

Imagine the world we would live in today if the Ohio election thieves (and thus, presidential election thieves) had met with a reckoning.

Would former Delaware County Prosecutor, David Yost, a Republican who blocked and delayed the recount while Kenneth Blackwell certified the election now be elected to statewide office? Consider that our elected auditor is also the same person whose office blocked public record requests for election records, refused to answer record requests, wanted to charge nearly $2,000 to access public election records, allowed a technician to manipulate the tabulators during the 2004 election recount, and blocked election observers in 2008. Not only will he be the new State of Ohio Auditor, but also Mr. Yost will have a seat on the apportionment board, which determines the electoral districts in Ohio for the next ten years.

Quite a reward -- and only possible with the continued lethargy or complicity of those we elected (or whom we trust) to deal precisely with these issues. Should we wonder what new unsightly gifts will come from his office, “possibly even more intense gerrymandering” or hope that his election to higher office is the Peter Principle in politics?

Much of our evidence and legal writing pertaining to the real history of Ohio is available for viewing at: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php
Sadly it is no longer in federal court. Gee, who benefited from that?

The two letters to Brunner and Cordray are contained below. If you are reading this, please also join us in asking Brunner and Cordray to take action on the 2004 election fraud in their final hours. It's no more than what the governor does before he leaves (grants a bunch of pardons) but in reverse.

Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State
180 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215

By e-mail and by fax: jbrunner@sos.state.oh.us (614) 644-0649

November 5, 2010

Dear Jennifer Brunner,

Once again members of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign stand united to request a meeting and action from you in capacity as the Ohio Secretary of State in your few remaining days. The issue of the alleged crimes of the 2004 election and the destruction of the election records in defiance of the federal court still sits in the room with us all, and the pile stinks of decay and neglect at a time that it could be a shining beacon of justice coming from the Ohio Secretary of State to the state of Ohio, the United States, and the world.

In your final days, will you do this? Or will you do continue to do nothing? Will we remember it that while the Democrats ruled Ohio, the election fraud and those who committed it were intentionally and with effort in court ignored? Will we only remember that elected Democrats in Ohio helped to cover-up the election crimes that put George Bush in office for his second term? We all know that he was never elected, not in 2000 and not in 2004.

I do not know if you personally reviewed the evidence that myself and seven other members of my organization submitted to the federal court in the King Lincoln v. Brunner case. Did you? If not, will you do this now?

Apparently incompetent or else corrupted plaintiffs' attorneys Clifford Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis had thousands of pages of evidence stricken from the court record, records we submitted, rather than allowing it to stay, or better yet, using it. As we have been blocked from entering the case, of which you were part of blocking us, would you now be willing to resubmit it and use our evidence?

This evidence included the letters from the County Board of Election (BOE) officials regarding destruction of the 2004 records that they sent to you. My research shows that 59 of Ohio’s 88 Counties are missing records. In 2007, you told the Voting Rights Institute those records had been given to the court, and yet they were not in the court record until we submitted them in July of 2008. Then they were stricken. You could still submit them. The court should, for the sake of the citizens of this nation, take seriously the deliberate defiance of the court order to protect the 2004 election records. It was illegal.

Included in the stricken court records were photocopies of ballots from Delaware County’s Genoa I precinct. These show what appears to be fraud. Will you look? Will you resubmit them? What were all the real reasons that it was Delaware that fought in county and federal court to block the recount? Can we talk about what we have learned? Do you care enough to pull this and other 2004 election issues from the depths of intentional darkness into the light in your final days as the Ohio Secretary of State?

We today received an email from you encouraging action and presenting your view of your preferred legacy. Quick action at this late date, rather than a continuation of the cover-up, will be the greatest legacy you can leave as Ohio Secretary of State.

I phoned in a request to meet with you this morning to your staff member Brian Morgan. We are available for a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss these issues in more detail. It has now been 1,186 days since we first in 2007 requested a meeting with you over these very issues.

Sincerely,

Members of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Paddy Shaffer
Founder, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
(614) 266-5283

Richard Cordray,
Ohio Attorney General
30 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215

By e-mail and by fax: richard.cordray@ag.state.oh.us (866) 347-9194

November 5, 2010

Dear Richard Cordray,
I am writing on behalf of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, a non-partisan, statewide group of concerned citizens, to request a meeting with your office as soon as possible to discuss the unresolved alleged election crimes from 2004 and to present citizen-documented evidence to your office. This would indeed be a boost to a struggling nation and a fitting tribute to your legacy in the office of The Ohio Attorney General.

We met with senior officials from Marc Dann's office shortly after he was elected. Upon review of our evidence, they committed to take action. As you know, Mr. Dann and his senior officials left office shortly after his election (and our meeting). These issues remain unresolved.

Although some people believe these election issues remain unresolved for lack of evidence, the hard truth is that some of this evidence has been kept from the public for partisan reasons. Both your office and the federal court have been provided with evidence. Sad but true, the evidence was stricken from the court record in King-Lincoln v. Brunner (S.D. Ohio, Marbley, J.). This makes little common sense, but it was the attorneys for the plaintiffs, Clifford Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis who had the evidence stricken. Evidence they could have used, and some of it which they could have submitted themselves but failed to. In our group opinion, they have failed to do many things, thus failing the plaintiffs, the nation, and the world.

For example, the Delaware County ballots that were submitted to the court that show fraud were part of the stricken records. Remember, it was Delaware County and Delaware County Prosecutor David Yost that blocked the statewide recount, and it was Delaware County that apparently rigged the recount while I was there as the Delaware County Recount Coordinator for the Green Party. Evidence and data analysis show that both the 2004 presidential election and the Ohio Supreme Court races were rigged in Delaware.
Delaware went to county and federal court claiming they couldn’t afford the recount. The final cost given to me from former Delaware County Board of Elections (BOE) Director Kim Spangler was $0. They did it with office staff, on office time. Delaware’s Board of Elections had a budget of just under a million dollars a year in 2004. Yost had six prosecutors in federal court to fight that recount. His office has been unable or unwilling to give me a cost for that, and the names of all the prosecutors involved.

Further, the letters from election officials written to the Secretary of State in April of 2007 admitting to their alleged crimes of the destruction of the “public records” of the 2004 election were stricken from the court record. Neither your office, the Ohio Secretary of State, nor the attorneys for the plaintiffs gave these to the court; it was done by myself and seven other Ohio citizens from 4 counties. So far my personal research shows 59 of Ohio’s 88 counties destroyed records. This destruction was in direct violation of a federal court order. Have you read those letters? They are both important and disturbing.

We harbor concerns that what remains of the 2004 ballots that the Secretary of State has in custody on the OSU campus will remain protected as you leave office. What can you legally do to assure that? They are evidence, and it was staff of your office that assured us they would be safe prior to the massive destruction of so much of them. From the evidence we submitted to the federal court, it appears there was a statewide, coordinated effort to destroy the 2004 records/evidence in 2006. The destruction of the remaining 2004 records that the counties should retain has continued, and evidence of this was also submitted to court and likewise stricken.

The serious and detrimental actions taken by the Assistant Attorney General assigned to the King-Lincoln case and charged with protecting this evidence and the ballots are also a matter of grave concern to us. We understand that your office has an obligation to defend the Office of the Ohio Secretary of State, but we have followed the proper procedures so that the election crimes we allege are rightfully now under the jurisdiction of your office.

We request a meeting with you as soon as possible since your days in office and the impact they can have for the good of this state and nation are now numbered. So far we have been very disappointed by many who sat as the Ohio Attorney General: Jim Petro, Marc Dann, and Nancy Rogers.

We are still deeply concerned and waiting for your response to meet. We request an hour, although we could work with less time, but would prefer more if possible. Please lets talk and move with lightning speed to take action in your final days in office. If anyone has the intelligence, integrity, and courage to resolve at least a few of the unresolved election crimes, we believe it would be you, a fitting legacy to your tenure as Ohio Attorney General.

Sincerely,

Members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Paddy Shaffer
Founder, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
(614) 266-5283
paddy@columbus.rr.com

Pay No Attention To that Coshocton County Behind The Curtain

2009-04-15T08:40:00.000-07:00

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Bob Batchelor
Coshocton County Prosecutor
318 Chestnut Street
Coshocton, Ohio 43812
(740) 622-3566
bobbatchelor@coshoctoncounty.net

April 15, 2009

Re: Questions, Comments, and a FOIA for ongoing request for election fraud investigation of Coshocton County.

Dear Bob Batchelor,

I would like to know if you requested an investigation for possible election fraud in the Coshocton County 2004 General Election in regards to the over 6,800 votes for write-in candidate David Corbett that appear to be in the handwriting of one to several people. There are a small number of votes sprinkled through the 43 precincts that do appear to be in the handwriting of a variety of people, which I have assumed are actual votes. If those 6,800 ballots do indeed contain election fraud, I wonder if they are even real?

I originally wrote to you about this on October 14, 2008, and addressed the apparent conflict of interest for you to investigate as you provide legal council to the Coshocton County Board of Elections. I also recently noticed that you were a candidate on those same ballots. I do not know if that would add to the conflict of interest issue. When I originally wrote to you about this, I sent photos of the actual ballots. The Secretary of State’s (SOS) attorneys say they lost their photos I sent in October. One of the same SOS attorneys, Eleanor Speelman previously lost a request for an investigation into election fraud for the 2004 Coshocton County Recount that was filed by Coshocton resident, Tim Kettler. Kettler is a witness to another SOS employee, Pat Wolfe and her involvement in the alleged rigging of the 2004 recount. I know Peter Jones who witnessed that same SOS employee, Pat Wolfe’s involvement in the alleged rigging of the Green County recount. Please watch out for your county and provide the needed legal guidance.

It certainly seems difficult to get the people paid with taxpayer money to do oversight, people whose job it is to have such investigations done… to actually do those investigations in Ohio. I wonder why? Today is April 15, tax day, I hope for better use of our money in the near future.

It is my understanding that for the Ohio Attorney General to conduct an investigation into the issue of alleged election fraud in Coshocton County, that either the County Prosecutor or the Ohio Secretary of State must request the investigation. Brian Green who was an attorney under Jennifer Brunner did promise me such an investigation last fall. Since making that promise Brian has changed jobs and now works in the State of New York. Strangely he never contacted me to withdraw his promised investigation. I am told that Secretary Brunner has not yet requested the investigation with the Attorney General into alleged election fraud on those David Corbett ballots.

According to Paul Scarsella the Sections Chief of Special Prosecutions at the office of the Ohio Attorney General, you also have not requested the investigation. So what will it take for you to make this request? Lets just start with the subject of the sheriff race, although there are others things we could expand to later. Would you like to join me and view the actual ballots? It is easy to see the similarities. I think it is important enough that I will make the time to do that with you. I have learned that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification has on staff a handwriting expert. It seems to me that we shall need such talents to figure out what has happened in the Coshocton County 2004 General Election. Could you please quickly request not only the investigation, but to immediately bring in the handwriting expert.

I understand you told a reporter that someone from the Attorney General’s office looked at 30 Coshocton ballots and did not find a problem last fall. Please tell me who this was and when this happened. When I reviewed the security records which detail every person that has entered the storage facility, no such person existed. When I asked Paul Scarsella if he had anyone look at those ballots last fall, the answer was no. So please tell me how you learned of this inspection. Security is very tight at the storage facility, and if someone got in undetected and was posing to be an employee of the Ohio Attorney General, handled the ballots without someone providing oversight, and then lied to you about conducting an investigation, we will need a legal investigation of that also.

Please advise me on how to assist you in requesting the Coshocton County investigation through the Attorney General, and could you kindly answer the questions I have asked. As you can see, I’m confused that this has not moved faster. That requests for investigations and photos of evidence have been lost, employees have promised investigations then quickly left their jobs, imposters have viewed the ballots and slipped through security and made untrue statements to you, an SOS employee who is still employed at the SOS was involved in alleged rigging of your county recount (and I understand you were told of this but no investigation happened), and neither you nor the Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner have taken a leadership position and sought to address the situation. Wow… this is a mess. Do I understand it correctly?

As per ORC 149.43 I request copies of all correspondence in regards to my request for an election fraud investigation for Coshocton Counties 2004 general election and the write-in votes for David Corbett between yourself and any and all staff of the Coshocton County Prosecutor’s office and Sheriff Timothy Rodgers, the Ohio Attorney General and any and all staff, and the Ohio Secretary of State and any and all staff. I request copies of all notes and correspondence from the original reporting by Tim Kettler of the alleged rigging of the recount, including any papers filed. Please send this in paper or electronic format. These requests are severable to speed the processing.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 266-5283

CC: Richard Cordray, Ohio Attorney General
Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State
Brandi Seskes, Elections Council, SOS
Tim Kettler, OEJC, Coshocton County Resident
Brian Gadd, Coshocton Tribune
Bev Harris, Blackbox Voting
Marian Lupo, OEJC
Marlys Barbee, OEJC
Mike Tigner, OEJC
Victoria Parks, OEJC
Dan Stanton, OEJC
James Nash, Columbus Dispatch
Mark Niquette, Columbus Dispatch
Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition
David Cobb, Former Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, 2004
John Bonifaz, Esq.
Tim Carpenter, PDA
Mimi Kennedy, PDA
Nancy Tobi, Democracy for New Hampshire
Dan Ashby, Election Defense Alliance
Sally Castleman, Election Defense Alliance
Ian Urbina, New York Times
Greg Palast, BBC

http://electiondefensealliance.org/oejc

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

2009-03-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

ATM maker Diebold Inc. said yesterday that its chief financial officer, Kevin
J. Krakora, stepped down after receiving a "Wells notice" from the Securities
and Exchange Commission staff related to a probe of how the company had been
reporting revenue.

A Wells notice indicates that the agency's enforcement division might
recommend that the SEC take legal action against those receiving it. Recipients
of such a notice can respond to the enforcement division before it makes a
formal recommendation to the SEC.

The company said it thinks the notices are related to issues addressed in
restated financial statements that it had filed.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/03/26/biz_briefs_0326_ART_03-26-09_C9_54DBSCO.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101&title=NEWS+BRIEFS

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Diebold Chief Financial Officer Kevin Krakora steps down after
receiving SEC notice

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Janet H. Cho

Plain Dealer Reporter

Diebold Inc.'s chief financial officer has stepped down in the wake of a U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into possible violations of
federal securities laws.

Kevin Krakora, 53, who also stepped down as executive vice president, will
remain in a nonfinancial reporting capacity until the matter is resolved,
Diebold said Wednesday in a filing with the SEC.

The SEC's Division of Enforcement notified Krakora on Friday in what is known
as a "Wells notice" that it may recommend that the commission pursue a civil
case against him, the company said.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business-12/1238056525145310.xml&coll=2

Ohio Election Status, 2009: Cleaned Up Or Covered Up And By whom?

2009-03-10T08:55:00.000-07:00

With unresolved 2004 election theft issues in Ohio, and the national crisis as a result of the mismanagement of the Bush administration, is Ohio Secretary of State Brunner a fit US Senate Candidate?

By: Paddy Shaffer Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

March 10, 2008

Ties from Ohio election officials connect with the unelected administration of Bush and Cheney who smashed the US reputation with an illegal war, the death of thousands of US soldiers and possibly over a half million Iraqis, Gitmo, torture, with bank failures spreading like the plague and the taxpayers left paying for the looting of this nations finances for war profiteering and allowing white collar bank robbing.

Yes, those Ohio county election officials who allegedly rigged Ohio and the Supreme Court Judges who in 2000 appointed Bush some responsibility for the current situation. They did this, and now with millions out of work, retirement and savings decimated, and homeless numbers climbing… it is time for justice for those who rigged our presidential election, which lead to the current depression.

It is important to remember that Ohio had a statewide recount following the 2004 election and that the 2005 challenge to certification of Ohio's electoral votes, led by Boxer (D-CA) and Tubbs Jones (D-OH), was the first time in U.S. history that a state's entire electoral college vote was challenged.

In a statement for why Ohio Secretary of State (SOS) Jennifer Brunner is now running for the US Senate she wrote, Leadership is not about saying "no"; it's about having the humility to listen, the creativity to see opportunities, and the persistence to enact solutions. Many members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) are still seeking accountability for past election crimes in Ohio, many are the actual witnesses to these crimes. We are not feeling the warmth and potential of the above quote.

Our view is more like that of Harry Markopolis, a citizen investigator of financier Bernard Madoff http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/04/cbsnews_investigates/main4776338.shtml .

Harry reported the apparent financial robbing of many investors to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), only to be repeatedly ignored for years, while the robbery continued.

Harry recently testified to congress: http://financialservices.house.gov/markopolos020409.pdf . During Bush's time as the unelected president Representative John Conyers held congressional hearings. Nothing was allowed to be resolved. For years OEJC members have informed not only the SOS of many cases of election fraud, but also the Ohio Attorney General's office, who serves as legal council for Secretary Brunner. But like the SEC, those in power in Ohio, ignore these crimes, adding to our national shame.

Elected in 2006, Brunner campaigned then and now for Senate as a reformer, but lets look at actual events. Federally protected election records retained as evidence in the class action election case, King Lincoln v Blackwell http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php case no. 2:06-cv-745 are destroyed in 58 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Brunner, a former judge, provides excuses for the destruction of evidence and then does not file county 2004 ballot inventories and the letters with excuses for destruction of those records to the court. On August 21, 2007 she tells members of the SOS Voting Rights Institute, including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP that, This information was all turned over to Judge Marbley. We have had no updates from his court as of today.” Yet in early July 2008 wondering why nothing had been done, research by The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) proved that the court had never been given those records by the SOS. The plaintiff's attorneys also did not file those documents with the court. Over 1.5 million ballots were destroyed. On July 7, 2008, eight pro se members of the OEJC filed a motion to intervene

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Lincoln-Intervene-7-7-08.pdf

and on July 10, 2008 they filed a motion for a special grand jury

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Lincoln-Intervenor-7-10-08.pdf

for the King Lincoln case. Pro se means that we serve as our own attorneys, and we filed the documents on the destruction of the 2004 records with the court, after the SOS had been in possession of them for over a year. Brunner and her legal council at the Ohio Attorney General's office filed to block our intervention in the King Lincoln case.

The plaintiffs attorneys had also not filed with the court the documents on record destruction. Like the SOS, they are seeking to block our intervention and have additionally asked to have the records stricken. Why? Stricken means removed, the court would then no longer have this critical evidence for the case. The counties admit in their own words to their crimes in those documents. We asked the court to enforce its own order that destruction of those 2004 election records is a fourth degree felony, and they can be held in contempt of court. We asked for an investigation and a report so that is all goes public. Nothing has happened, nothing resolved, we await the court.

Candidate Brunner claims, it's about having the humility to listen, yet she said no to meeting with members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign, journalists, and several documentary filmmakers to discuss resolving election fraud. Brunner has allowed election officials who committed crimes in 2004 beyond the destruction of records, which have been thoroughly documented by citizens and the information provided to her, to remain uninvestigated and those alleged federal criminals continue to run Ohio elections.

As far as enacting solutions, Brunner had the Ohio Association of Election Officials lobbyist Aaron Ockerman, (whom along with his firm State Street Consultants has lobbied for election vendor's Diebold and ES&S) choose the election officials for the SOS EVEREST study of Ohio's election machines. Most of those chosen officials had destroyed 2004 election records, which is a felony. The Diebold/Premier machines failed the SOS testing, and those who watched the testing were sworn to secrecy until 2017.

Why would we want to not know what they saw? Transparent? The failed Diebold machines are still being used across most of the state. One county to free itself of the bad Diebold machines was Cuyahoga. ES&S technicians rather than election workers ran the new ES&S tabulators for the 2008 primary in Cuyahoga County. Why? Ohio law reads one Democrat and one Republican count the votes. Why would technicians ever run all the tabulators?

Would a Senator Brunner seek accountability and solutions on a national level, when holding even rural Ohio election officials accountable is beyond her, and she hasn't stopped the OEJC documented ongoing destruction of federally protected 2004 election records? OEJC investigation continues of 2004 records, fraud is easily found. On September 19, 2008 I requested an SOS investigation on over 6,800 write-in votes for a Coshocton County sheriff candidate David Corbett in the handwriting of one to several people, affecting each of the counties 43 precincts.

Only the election officials have such access. OEJC member Tim Kettler witnessed the alleged rigging of the recount in 2004. We know there are problems there. I was hopeful when promised by SOS Attorney Brian Green that I would get such an investigation, yet half a year later, nothing has been done, and those same election officials ran another presidential election. I could not even get the SOS office to provide oversight of Coshocton's Board of Elections during the 2008 presidential election. This is one of many investigations the OEJC asked of Brunner.

Having a proven track record that Secretary Brunner will not deal with Ohio's mountains of election problems, it is the OEJC's hope that she will remove her court response to block our intervention in the King Lincoln case, and encourage Judge Algenon Marbley to proceed with the special grand jury we requested, thereby allowing a real federal investigation. Such a move would show leadership in admitting what she is unable or unwilling to do.

In our collective OEJC opinion, SOS Jennifer Brunner is not qualified for US Senate, and without radical change and actually cleaning up election corruption in Ohio, Brunner also isn't qualified for a second term as Ohio SOS. Rather than elevated, she should be impeached.

Additional information on the destruction of Ohio election records: Michael Collins articles:
Part One: http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/HL0710/S00300.htm
Part Two: http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/HL0711/S00161.htm

Prosecutors Bully Ohio Voters: Ohio Election Justice Campaign Calls for Day of Silence on January 6, 2009

2009-01-06T12:01:00.000-08:00

Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.

Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) calls for Day of Silence this Tuesday, January 6, 2009 to commemorate "Boxer Rebellion." Four years ago on this day, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election, the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged. An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, most unaddressed to this day. Alleged acts of voter intimidation ongoing during the 2008 presidential election include the alleged assault of an election observer in Lucas County, the refusal of Delaware County to permit certain election observers, and Franklin County Board of Election's ongoing practice of referring public record requests to its prosecutor.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) January 6, 2009 -- The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) calls for a Day of Silence this Tuesday, January 6, 2009, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the "Boxer Rebellion."

This day marks the peaceful legislative challenge to the re-election of George W. Bush on January 6th, 2005. Our silence stands in solidarity with voters around the world whose voices have been extinguished through violence, fear-mongering, and election fraud.

Four years ago, on January 6th, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election. This was the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged.

If the challenge had been successful, Bush would have lost the electoral college votes he needed to clinch the election.

Joining Boxer and Jones in the challenge, known as the "Boxer Rebellion," were 30 representatives, including Kucinich (D-OH), Conyers (D-MI), McKinney (D-GA), and civil rights leader John Robert Lewis (D-GA).

An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, most unaddressed to this day.

Not only have the election officials allegedly responsible for the acts of voter intimidation, voter suppression, and election fraud in 2004 escaped accountability, many of them still holding office, King-Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., 2:06 CV 00745 (S.D. Ohio, filed Aug. 31, 2006, Marbley, J.), but also J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's secretary of state in 2004 and state chair of the Bush 2004 re-election campaign, is now a serious contender for chair of the Republican National Committee.

According to Paddy Shaffer, Director of the OEJC, "Although we are grateful for the efforts of thousands of election protection volunteers in Ohio during the 2008 presidential election and the progress made by Ohio Secretary of State Brunner to ensure a fair election for every voter, the OEJC regrets to report ongoing acts of voter intimidation in 2008, which demonstrate that democracy has not yet been restored to Ohio."

As reported by Ms. Shaffer, alleged acts of voter intimidation during the 2008 election include

1. The alleged assault of an elections observer in Lucas County. For the election day interview with this observer, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKf_SbrMT4 .

2. Under the office of Delaware County prosecutor David Yost, assistant prosecutors Christopher Betts and William Owen denied seven election observers representing a third party access to the polls. Evidence of possible past election fraud was presented to the court to demonstrate the need for observers. Constitutional Party of Ohio v. Delaware County Board of Elections, 08 CV H 10 1462 (Delaware County Common Pleas Court, Ohio, filed Oct. 31, 2008).

Yost was also responsible for attempting to block the 2004 recount in Delaware County, which temporarily blocked the 2004 presidential recount in the entire state while the 2004 results were being certified. Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney, et al. v. National Voting Rights Institute, et al., 2:04 CV 01139 (S.D. Ohio, filed Dec. 29, 2004, Sargus, J.).

3. Franklin County Board of Election's ongoing practice of referring public record requests to its prosecutor, Patrick Piccinni.

In addition, Greene County Board of Elections allegedly threatened to prosecute a voter who took a picture of his own ballot, while Warren County prosecutor Rachel Hutzel still has failed to address the fake level-10 homeland security alert called in Warren County during the 2004 presidential election. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html.

Under Ohio law, the county prosecutor is the legal counsel for the elections board.

Only two Ohio counties to date have had independent counsel appointed for election justice issues: Cuyahoga and Morgan.

The Cuyahoga investigation led to several criminal indictments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401441.html. .

According to Michael Tigner, of the OEJC, the former Morgan County prosecutor, Richard Welch, was allowed to vote, run for office, and hold the office of county prosecutor for six years in that county, although he was allegedly not a resident.

In 2004, Timothy Kettler, now of the OEJC, filed a police report with the Coshocton County Sheriff's Department requesting an investigation into the 2004 presidential recount. Mr. Kettler informed Coshocton County prosecutor Robert Batchelor that he felt the prosecutor was acting in conflict, which may be seen as improper and unethical.

According to Mr. Kettler, his ethical concerns were dismissed by Batchelor as irrational, and Mr. Kettler was told the prosecutor would no longer take his calls, although he had made only two calls. Mr. Kettler said that Prosecutor Batchelor directed him to resolve any issue about the prosecutor's methods of handling the case with the Ohio Supreme Court.

The OEJC has recently uncovered additional evidence of 2004 electoral irregularities on over 6,800 write-in ballots representing every Coshocton County precinct. Although the Ohio Attorney General, by the request of the Ohio Secretary of State, was asked to investigate this possible election fraud, no results are yet available.

Records released pursuant to public records requests demonstrate that Ohio election officials, their organization, the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO), and their lobbyist, Aaron Ockerman of State Street Consultants, were allegedly linked to 2004 election crimes. King-Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., 2:06 CV 00745 (S.D. Ohio, filed Aug. 31, 2006, Marbley, J.).

The OAEO, which meets in Columbus, Ohio on January 27-29, 2009, has been brought into a case that contained allegations by the Ohio Secretary of State of fraud in the inducement of contracts for voting technology provided by Premier Election Solutions, a subsidiary of Diebold (DBD). Premier Election Solutions, Inc. v. Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, et al., 08 CV 007841 (Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Ohio, filed May 30, 2008).

According to Ms. Shaffer, the OEJC has several public records requests outstanding from the Franklin County Board of Elections, including public records related to the activities of the board during its October 2008 inquisition of young voters for alleged "voter fraud."

For more information or to donate: http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

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See the original story at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1823794.htm

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

2008-10-04T17:06:00.000-07:00

For Immediate Release:

How the Ohio Democratic Party proves it is worthless and complicit in the area of not protecting our elections and maintaining people who care about those elections.

By: Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

New unfolding ugliness in Ohio... (A message from Susan Truit below this little write up to prepare you for what she will describe).

I would like to remind all of you of some background information before you read about State Senator Teresa Fedor losing her position as Minority Leader, compliments of what appears to be... The Enemy Of We The People. This will allow you to understand why we are not able to resolve the election issues in Ohio. The Democrats are also involved! Face it, it currently takes two parties, and the story is just starting to flow. The party people and the election officials that prefer to protect their club of election officials and protect the surrounding illegal business actions that run our elections, rather than look out for the people need their asses exposed, just like the little girl in the old Coppertone suntan add with the dog tugging on her bathing suit... her ass was hanging out, and now so are theirs.

Bernadette Noe, wife of Tom Noe (now in prison for robbing the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation Fund) is the former Director of the Lucas County Board of Elections. It is pretty bad when even J. Kenneth Blackwell fired her for the problems at that BOE. Bernadette Noe is Chris Redfern's cousin. Chris Redfern is the current Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, current Ohio State Representative for District 80, and the former Ohio House Minority Leader. http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/MemberDetails.jsp?DISTRICT=80

Tom Noe was convicted of 29 counts, including theft, corruption and forgery. (Jeremy Wadsworth - AP) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301305.html?nav=rss_print/asection

Thomas W. Noe Prison Information: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Noe&Middle=&FirstName=Thomas&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0

Federal Prisoner Number 26157-018, age 53, White, Male...

Thomas W. Noe, Prison Release date is October 27, 2008.

The Ohio Democrats were having a field day beating up on the Noe's for all their criminal and other problems. "Coingate" http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/NEWS24/60402016 is the main title given to this sad sick story, as Tom Noe spent $50 million of BWC dollars on collector coins and beanie babies... and donating heavily $$$ to Republican campaigns. George W. Bush's campaign received over $100,000, and Noe was given the title "A Bush Pioneer."

http://ohio15th.blogspot.com/2007/12/latta-did-get-money-from-tom-noe.html

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=12303

This money was gathered for the use of injured workers, and their widows and orphans. Chris Redfern told the Ohio Democrats to stop the criticism because Bernadette is his cousin. They did, all except Marc Dann, our current Attorney General. Dann was a champion of the people, forced this needed issue to court, and also rode it as a means into his current office.

Former Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Chairman Denny White left his downtown office window open and got his computer stolen with all the ODP data. Denny left the job and went to the Deputy Director position at the Franklin County Board of Elections (which is now under investigation, the last guy with that job, Hackett was just convicted of crimes for selling voting machine carts, needed because of HAVA to the BOE. The conviction was just last week). Then the Chairman job at the Ohio Democratic Party opened up.

I assisted Ohio Honest Elections run a public forum for all the candidates for the job. Redfern was the least of the 7 candidates that showed up and planned to work two jobs. All the others planned to focus on the ODP. When the vote came up days later for the ODP job, it was reported to me that Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones entered the room where the voting was to take place, upset. Why, we need to know. (I heard that people were reporting that they had received calls telling them that they must vote for Chris Redfern.) That vote, normally done on a private ballot, was instead done publicly. Each voter had to go public with their choice, and raise their hand for their candidate choice. Chris Redfern won. A fair election? http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/12/ohio_democrats.php

I requested a meeting with Chris Redfern shortly after he took his new job as ODP Chairman, I was a candidate for the US Congress. I attempted to have dialog on what he was going to do about the election mess, which was the driving issue for me as a candidate. He wouldn't touch it, but instead recommended I raised lots of money and wrote thank you cards to donors. When I managed the Green Party Governor Candidate's 2006 Campaign, he blocked my candidate from the Governors debates, telling me "It is my job to get Strickland elected," when I asked him "what about democracy... why are you blocking the Libertarian and Green Party Candidates?"

The cover up for our 2004 and subsequent elections continues. The Attorney General and Secretary of State will not touch the issue. How big does the pile of elephant crap in the room have to be before we admit it is there?

Again,... I am sickened. And the misdeeds continue. Help if you can.

________________________________________________________________

From Susan Truit:

Please WRITE - EMAIL - CALL Ohio Dem Leaders - contact info below

The Ohio Democratic Party has ousted staunch election reform advocate, State Senator Teresa Fedor, from her position as Minority Leader. Senator Fedor was sounding the alarm regarding the unsafe nature of touch screen voting machines (DREs) years before most people had ever heard of them. Her removal as the leader of the Democrats in the Ohio Legislature is a dramatic blow to the election reform movement in Ohio. She has worked tirelessly for years for election reform, first as a State Representative and then as a State Senator.

Among other things, Senator Fedor spearheaded the 2004 Joint Committee on Ballot Security, which, with the help of CASE Ohio members, prevented the purchase of any new DREs in Ohio prior to the 2004 election. She invited many computer experts, and others, to testify before the Committee, educating not only the legislature, but also the public, about the dangers of DREs. She introduced and passed the Bill requiring paper on any voting machine. But she has not stopped there - she has continued to advocate for voting rights and voting reform for years.

She was also instrumental in exposing the Thomas Noe scandal in Lucas County - (see

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2005/10/noe-indicted-for-helping-steal-2004.html ), and the scandal of Congressman Bob Ney, who, unfortunately, pushed through HAVA (Help America Vote Act) before he was embroiled in his scandel.

Who is behind her removal from power and why? Who expressly and tacitly approved it?

Why, with only months to go before a Presidential election, have the Dems removed from a leadership position the one Legislator who has devoted herself to election reform?!? Especially in the key state of Ohio?

Is this move driven by those who do not buy in to the grave nature of the election system in Ohio, and in the entire U.S.? Is it more insidious than that? This move clearly indicates that there are Ohio Democrats in key leadership positions who are unaware of the dire situation regarding the unreliable, unverifiable, and untrustworthy DREs. To oust Senator Fedor as a party leader, after her years of devotion and unflagging work, is an abomination.

Who will lead the election reform charge, now?

Write, email, and call the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, Chris Redfern, and ask him:

Chris Redfern
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: (614) 644-6011
Fax : (614) 719-6980
Email Address: district80@ohr.state.oh.us

Write, email, and call the Chief Legal Counsel for the Governor, Kent Markus, who also serves as the Chief of State-Legislative Relations, and ask him:

Kent Markus

kent.markus@governor.ohio.gov

kmarkus@law.capital.edu

Office of Governor Ted Strickland
77 South High Street
30th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117
Phone:614/466-3555
Fax:614/466-9354
Capitol Phone:614/466-2000

EVEN IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN OHIO - IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ELECTION REFORM, Call, Email, and Write them now and demand some answers about why Senator Fedor has been punished for her years of exemplary service to the State of Ohio and to the issue of election reform.

Regards,

Susan Truitt

International Observers Ohio SOS Records Request

2008-08-27T20:14:00.001-07:00

Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Brian Green

Elections Council, Ohio Secretary of State

180 East Broad Street

Columbus, Ohio 43215

August 27, 2008

Dear Brian Green,

I understand that in 2004 international election observers wanted to come to Ohio for the General Election. It is also my understanding that former Ohio Secretary of State (SOS), J. Kenneth Blackwell and/or his staff denied them access.

Do I understand this correctly?

As per ORC 149.43 I request any and all paper and electronic records from 2004 in regards to international election observers wanting access to Ohio's elections. I additionally request any and all paper and electronic records from 2004 in regards to the replies and communication from J. Kenneth Blackwell and any and all staff members replying to the requests to have international election observers. Also, if you are able to locate the interoffice communications of the former SOS and any and all staff as they discussed and made decisions about the issue of international observers wanting access to Ohio's general election in 2004.

To bring this matter to this current year of 2008 and our upcoming general election, I request any and all communication regarding having international election observers this year, for November 4, 2008. This is to include but not be limited to the international election observer's requests and all correspondence in reply, including the interoffice communications discussing international election observers this year. I am assuming that a request has been made for such international election observers this year. If that has not taken place, or not taken place yet, please just tell me.

Please send this in electronic format if possible, if not, paper will be fine. These requests are severable if need be to speed up the reply process.

Thank you for your assistance,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

paddy@columbus.rr.com

(614) 266-5283

CC: Victoria Parks, OEJC

Bev Harris, Blackbox Voting

Tim Kettler, OEJC, Candidate Ohio Senate

Dan Stanton, OEJC

Election Officials May Face Criminal Charges: OEJC Files in Federal Court

2008-07-28T22:38:00.000-07:00

Columbus, Ohio, PRWEB, July 11 -- Eight members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign filed papers on Thursday in United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, asking Hon. Judge Algenon Marbley to begin criminal contempt proceedings for the destruction of ballots from the November 2004 election.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) submitted over 1000 pages of supporting documents.

In the case before Judge Marbley, King Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., Civ. No. C2 06 745 (S.D. Ohio), the judge had issued specific orders directing Ohio's 88 county boards of election to preserve all ballots from the election until a decision was rendered in the case.

At least 56 county boards assert they have destroyed some ballots from 2004; seven counties assert they have destroyed all ballots.

This citizen-initiated action is pro se litigation in which the plaintiffs act as their own attorneys.

The papers in front of Judge Marbley also ask him to impanel a Special Grand Jury to investigate the destruction of ballots.

A Special Grand Jury, as a collection of citizens authorized to hear the evidence, is uniquely suited to sorting out the degrees of culpability associated with the destruction of the ballots. It is also authorized by statute to issue a public report, which can then be circulated to the employer of appointed public officials.

Paddy Shaffer, director, OEJC, said, "The time for accountability is now, prior to the November election of our next president. Many counties allegedly destroyed ballots before the election was even certified. Why would we trust these people with the upcoming elections?”

Mark Brown, a plaintiff in the suit and a candidate for public office in 2004, said, "Justice delayed is justice denied is injustice repeated."

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign was formed by concerned citizens, many of whom participated in the 2004 election as observers, election protection workers, poll workers, and election investigators as well as organizers and witnesses in Ohio's 2004 Presidential Vote Recount.

Plaintiff Tim Kettler, currently a Green Party candidate for Ohio Senate District 20, ran for Ohio Secretary of State in 2006. Kettler believes the only way to stop this type of criminal behavior and incompetence is through citizen action: "Whether we challenge these offenses in court or run for public office, we must replace those who would show such contempt for the law."

For this article on PRWEB, see http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20080711/bs_prweb/prweb1092204;_ylt=AljYOBmObuR_og9MIv_gojs51sIF

Contacts:

Paddy Shaffer
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

Tim Kettler
tmkettler@aol.com
(740) 502-6453

For more information visit www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

Attachments for above article see links below:
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Contempt%20Charges.pdf
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Motion%20To%20Intervene.pdf
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Delaware%20County-Genoa%20Precinct%20Ballots%20Appendix%20A.pdf

If I Were A Terrorist, A James Pence Video

2008-05-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

Federal law now requires statewide databases of voter registration

2008-03-25T22:00:00.001-07:00

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1. Nebraska Voter Registration Database Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/nebraska_voter_registration_datab...
]

Nebraska Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached is the Nebraska Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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2. North Dakota Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/north_dakota_voter_registration_i...
]

North Dakota Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached under the "Attachment" link at the foot of this article, is
the North Dakota Voter Registration Information as set forth in Making
the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration, published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
North Dakota's registration regulations couldn't be simpler: North
Dakota does not register voters. It is the only state in the union that
does not.
Apparently, since North Dakota does not practice voter registration,
there is no requirement to assemble the centralized statewide voter
registration base required by HAVA of all other states that do have
voter registration systems.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process.
Evidence demonstrates that poor policy and procedure choices could
result in the unwarranted disenfranchisement of millions of eligible
citizens attempting to register to vote. The new statewide databases,
and their role in the voter registration process, are poorly
understood,
but extremely consequential.
The "Making the List" report, issued just as the state databases begin
to come online, presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely
varying state database practices governing how (and in some cases,
whether) individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter
rolls.

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3. Florida Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/florida_voter_registration_inform...
]

Florida Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached is the Florida Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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4. Georgia Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/georgia_voter_registration_inform...
]

Attached is the Georgia Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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5. LibertyVote Still Suing to Force DREs on NY State
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[ http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/libertyvote_NY_DRE_lawsuit ]

From Bo Lipari's blog, 3/22/08:
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/03/22/the-law-litigation-and-libertyvote...
[100]

Vendor to sue NY again to allow DREs
I told you the DRE vendors are like zombies [101], and will never, ever
stop trying to force DRE machines on New York
State voters. Once again, LibertyVote and their Dutch partner Nedap are
preparing to go to Court to challenge county purchases for accessible
paper ballot systems, and to overturn New York State's right to test
our voting machines to the strict standards we worked so hard to
achieve.

[100]
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/03/22/the-law-litigation-and-libertyvote...
[101] http://nyvv.org/blog/2008/01/theyre-back.html

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Summit County Ohio, the GOP, the SOS, and a State Senator

2008-03-10T19:50:00.000-07:00

By Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
March 10, 2008

For a better understanding of the Dispatch article below... a little history has been provided on several of these Ohio characters, and the voting machine integrity in Summit County.

Ohio State Senator Kevin Coughlin who is pointing out problems with Alex Arshinkoff has some issues of his own. Kevin was very involved in Ohio's voter suppression bill, officially titled House Bill 3. It seems as though Kevin's job was to trump up the charges of Voter Fraud in his testimony before the Ohio Senate Rules Committee, when Ohio's problem is not that, but alleged Election Fraud by vendors, technicians, and election officials.

Coughlin's testimony seems to have been successful as House Bill 3 adopted the voter ID provisions which currently disenfranchise hundreds, or hundreds of thousands of Ohioans. When you can't vote, or are forced to vote provisionally anywhere in Ohio because of the new voter ID rules, thank State Senator Kevin Coughlin (you might want to drop him a card, or call him).

kcoughli@mailr.sen.state.oh.us
(614) 466-4823 phone
(614) 644-5879 fax

As for Arshinkoff and Summit Counties elections: In 2006 Alex Arshinkoff was a board member for the Summit County Board Of Elections. That November Summit County had reported that over 100% of the people voted in 34 precincts for November.

Bryan Williams, the director of the BOE blames it on the ES&S machines counting some of the ballots twice, because the ballots are two pages. Yet some absentee's got counted only once. He said it was a software problem. I must let my gentle readers know that in Ohio the Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner is now in March of 2008 looking at spending 64 million dollars, up from 31 million dollars in December 2007 on more ES&S machines to tabulate our votes. I presented Kathy Spinelli, of The Ohio Secretary of State's office in the spring of 2007 with the undervote/overvote report from Summit County, and the following results which I have provided for you, and so much more that was in that report. Remember... this is some of the fine work of ES&S.

Actual Official 2006 Certified Election Results from just a few Summit County Locations:

Silver Lake Vill - registered voters 2049 - ballots cast 2899 - turnout percentage 141.48%
Richfield Twp - registered voters 1771 - ballots cast 2396 - turnout percentage 135.29%
Bath Twp - registered voters 7598 - ballots cast 10287 - turnout percentage 135.39%
Northfield Ctr Twp - registered voters 3944 - ballots cast 5009 - turnout percentage 127.00%
Sagamore Hls Twp - registered voters 8236 - ballots cast - 10056 - turnout percentage 122.10%

As for the final official count and the official certified results (certified by former SOS Blackwell), Director Bryan Williams said, "The report is meaningless", referring to his report on the certified totals. Byran also claimed that many voters voted for both Blackwell and Strickland for Governor. Hmmm... who would do that? According to the overvote and undervote report that I requested from Director Williams, 2208 people overvoted for Governor.

And yes folks... this is Ohio elections, and the vendors we buy voting machines from.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign recommends that we go to Hand Counted Paper Ballots, counted at the precinct. We also recommend a recall and a refund for the voting machines. Ohio needs to go to the front of the line to get our money back. The OEJC recommends that not one more dime be spent on ES&S, nor Diebold, and that we no longer certify vote totals of over 100%.

According to the below article, Arshinkoff will be taking his complaints about Secretary Brunner and his losing his job before The Ohio Supreme Court.

Summit Board of Elections Website
http://www.summitcountyboe.com/

The next link is for "The Godfather in the Closet Story" on Arshinkoff. Disturbing stuff, be prewarned.

http://www.clevescene.com/2003-06-11/news/the-godfather-in-the-closet/full

Paddy Shaffer
_______________________________________________________________

Read below for GOP guys in a circular firing squad.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/10/z-apoh_party_boss_0310.ART_ART_03-10-08_B5_FM9JJ6P.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

GOP chief under fire
Kicked off elections panel, he could lose Summit County post
Monday, March 10, 2008 3:03 AM
By Julie Carr Smyth
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Critics are lining up against one of Ohio's longest-serving, most-powerful political bosses.

Summit County Republican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff, a man President Bush has called the most effective party chairman in America, was removed from his seat on the county board of elections last month by Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. She cited concerns that employees in Akron were being harassed, intimidated and threatened.

Arshinkoff challenged her decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, for which depositions are to begin this week.

Within his party, Arshinkoff faces a power struggle with a Republican state senator who wants him dethroned as county GOP chairman.

"I think that people are just fed up," said state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, whose ouster effort is dubbed the New Summit County Republicans. "Everyone's got their own reason for letting him go, whether it's how he treats people, how he spends the money, or his losing record of 10 wins and 67 losses over the last six years."

Coughlin, who lives in the Akron suburb of Cuyahoga Falls, said he thinks enough new central committee members were elected last week to push Arshinkoff out for good.
Brunner said she also based her decision to remove Arshinkoff on evidence that he was running his party operation out of elections-board offices.
Also, three local judges signed affidavits saying that Arshinkoff interfered with their official duties.

"I really did not want to lose the opportunity to have this board function in a more civil and professional manner," Brunner said. "When you visit there, it feels kind of like a rubber band pulled tight."

Arshinkoff, who took charge of the county party in 1978 at the age of 23, defends his record and his approach. He said he has never been accused or convicted of a crime or found to have broken an ethics or elections law in three decades of service.
"Do I kick ass sometimes to make sure things get done? You're damn right," Arshinkoff said in a telephone interview. Referring to his party, he said: "When you don't have the (backing of the local) paper, and you don't have the (voter) numbers, you have to."

Coughlin accuses Arshinkoff of exploiting his position with the party to steer business to his lobbying firm and to pay for a car and other personal perks.
"He's got about $600,000 that he budgets for loosely defined operational overhead, which includes a Cadillac Escalade and three meals a day, a bloated staff, and his pay," Coughlin said. "We want a chairman who's interested in winning elections and not feathering his own nest."

Arshinkoff calls Coughlin "truth-challenged."

He said he makes $72,000 a year as party chairman, and he and his wife, Karen, have often taken on personal debt to make the contributions to the party that are required of central committee members.

Arshinkoff also noted that the win-loss record Coughlin assigns him neglects the party's influence outside the county. For example, Coughlin counts state Auditor Mary Taylor of the Summit County suburb of Green, whom Arshinkoff recruited and groomed, in the "loss" column because she did not win her Democrat-heavy home county on her way to statewide victory in 2006.

Arshinkoff has built a small county party into a fundraising dynamo that has given millions of dollars to candidates. In 2000, Arshinkoff's fundraising machine gave $2.8 million to elect then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush president.

Arshinkoff's demands that donors give to the party rather than directly to candidates is both the source of the county party's might and the heart of criticism of it. Most county party chairmen no longer require such loyalty.

Arshinkoff said the attacks by Coughlin and Brunner are politically motivated.
Coughlin aspires to be Ohio's next governor and is using his attacks to build a statewide reputation among Republicans, Arshinkoff said.

As for Brunner, undercutting Summit County's fundraising prowess for Republicans would benefit her and the Democratic Party, Arshinkoff argued.
"Would it perhaps be in her interest not to have us donating $1 million to statewide Republican candidates in 2010?" Arshinkoff said.

Coughlin did not deny having political aspirations, but fighting Arshinkoff won't necessarily benefit his career, he said.

"The safe thing for me to do would have been to stay on the sidelines with my eyes shut and my mouth shut to Alex," Coughlin said. "Whether or not it's a smart political move on my part, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. This guy's conduct has to stop."

Brunner said prudence, not politics, motivated her decision. "It might have been easier to keep him on the board, politically," she said. "But I think the way the board was operating, it wasn't serving the best interests of the voters."
"Do I kick ass sometimes to make sure things get done? You're damn right."
Alex Arshinkoff
Summit County GOP chief

I Give This Ohio Election Issue An "F"

2008-03-06T08:44:00.000-08:00

Look at pictures of the ballot boxes below, no security in those seals.

These make the post-it-note stickers in New Hampshire look like an armored truck in the way of security.

Folks, why would they make security so lame... "The Dumbass Excuse" applies here. Too stupid to actually seal the box. I must ask, where are the responsible adults?

I seem to remember video of New Hampshire's Assistant Secretary of State, David Scanlan being asked (I think this was compliments of Susan Pynchon), "Who ordered the stickers?" "Who is responsible?" Time for a repeat of that line of questioning here in Ohio. Scanlan did not have a decent answer. Video on this New Hampshire scene will be available at blackboxvoting.org when it is ready.

The GOP site here asks why the ballots were driven with a person of one party. I don't know if they changed requirements specially for this afternoon pick up, but in Ohio, the ballots always go with one person, of one party. This is determined by which party won the most votes in the Gubernatorial Primary. Winner gets to have the precinct judge position, and drive the ballots for the next four years. It makes sense that a truck load would have more than one party represented in who does the transportation of the ballots. Unless they only picked up Democratic Precincts, this seems like a problem. Yet I believe the law is written that the precinct judge drives them. Cleveland does vote heavily Democratic. I would like to know who the photographer was of these pictures.

Heaven Help Us,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

http://ohiogop.blogs.com:80/state_of_the_union/2008/03/brunner-botches.html

False Flag Security Alerts

2008-02-27T21:35:00.000-08:00

Go to page three in this link, then to the video at the top of this page of videos. The picture is of a woman with glasses. Below is says this is by Videographer James Armstrong, and is Video number 183.
http://www.videothevote.org/display.html?page=3&state=OH

Title: ColsOHapplegate3
Date/time: 2006-11-07 16:57:12
Description: It's a warm fall day. So this volunteer questions why there is a row of large snow plows obstructing the view to the Board of Elections in Columbus. She asks officials and they tell her the plows are there for "homeland security".
Zip: 43214
Location: board of elections
Problem type: other
Videographer: James Armstrong
Video id: 183

Ohio Election Justice Campaign Is Joining Project Vote Count

2008-02-24T19:09:00.000-08:00

Protect our votes with www.projectvotecount.com!

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign is joining Project Vote Count in this GREAT election protection effort. We are gathering eager volunteers to conduct Citizen Exit Polls on March 4, 2008. As a Citizen Exit Pollster you will be asking voters to participate in an exit poll which will be like them casting their vote a second time. In Florida, they had a 70% response rate in some precincts.

The participants are quite happy to participate. You will often be thanked for doing what you are doing! Respondent voters will swear that they voted just as they did on the official ballot they just cast at the polls. They also sign and date their CEP ballot as an affidavit which makes their participation and vote irrefutable and legally defendable. What make a CEP different from an exit poll conducted by, for example, Zogby, is that we are volunteers, non-partisan citizens and are not paid by any political party, politician or media company and serve no poilitical agenda other than to verify official vote counts. We are not paid at all. And we tell people that. Then usually, we are thanked!

We are not allowed to campaign for any candidate while conducting CEP's. But, wouldn't it be great to defend your candidate's vote in a non-manipulated, honest way, by taking back your power collecting genuine election data? To get REAL numbers on how we voted and not rely on central tabulation? CEP's may prove to be necessary. Jennifer Brunner has told the precincts they do not have to post precinct results. WHAT??? This makes citizen Exit Polls all the more critical.

Brunner is also making sure any automatic recount will be centrally tabulated which means that we will have to rely on precinct totals that your county BOE SAYS were the results. Back to "Just Trust Us" elections. NO WAY!! Project EVEREST proved results can be manipulated. And we know human nature, don't we? Elections are not about "Just Trust Us" anymore.

People who have been CEP pollster's say that it is actually a really fun and enriching experience. It is a long day but if you have enough people you can do morning and afternoon shifts. Three volunteers per shift are good for a precinct of two to three hundred voters. Get four for a precinct with seven hundred voters or more.

Let's catch them in the act. The only people who are going to keep them honest are you and me. GO TO Projectvotecount.com and follow the links to sign up in your county or come and join your nearest CEP in a neighboring county, or lead your own CEP as a Project Coordinator where you live. This is how we fight back as citizens against a machine determined to keep our vote counts secret from YOU.

We are the people and the only people who are going to make sure our vote counts is YOU. Contact Marj Creech at honestelectionscow@gmail.com, 740-739-1390 or me Victoria Parks parksongs@columbus.rr.com 614-851-1437 and make sure you sign up at projectvotecount.com.

REMEMBER ALSO: QUARANTINE THAT MACHINE!

Victoria Parks
Ohio Election Justice Campaign in cooperation with Project Vote Count
parksongs@columbus.rr.com
614-851-1437

Your Personal Signature Used By The State

2008-02-23T20:08:00.000-08:00

IS THE STATE USING AND ABUSING YOUR PERSONAL SIGNATURE AND YOUR DATA UNBEKNOWNST TO YOU?

by Jane Schiff

The title and content of this Public Diary was emailed individually to each of the following officials on Saturday, February 16, 2008: Marc Dann, Attorney General of Ohio, Richard Colianese, Assistant Attorney General , State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State and Richard Cordray, Treasurer, State of Ohio. As of today, Friday, February 22, 2008 I haven't yet received any responses.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

My husband and myself obtained new Ohio Drivers' Licenses (although we had current licenses, we had moved precincts) at the BMV on Thursday, January 24, 2008, to avoid having to cast Provisional Ballots. On Friday, January 25, 2008 we updated our voter registration cards in person at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections to avoid having to cast Provisional Ballots. We were given the Acknowledgment Notices with the new precinct information in person at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections. In the past, we had received those types of cards, by mail, despite registering also in times past, in person at The Hamilton County Board of Elections.

Monday, February 11, 2008

A Second Acknowledgement Notice arrived in our mail for my husband with a Barcode on it. I didn't get a Second Acknowledgement Notice. I immediately contacted Ann Strasser (513) 632 - 7036at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections. Ann and I spoke from 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Ann said that the BMV AUTO - FILLED the Ohio BMV's voter registration cards but insisted we signed them on January 24, 2008 at the Redbank Road Deputy Registrar's Office at this branch of the Ohio BMV. Ann told me that she would mail copies of those "Voter Registration Cards" that were AUTO - FILLED OUT that again - she insisted that we had signed. Ann examined our data further and determined the following:

My husband and I were serviced by two different persons at the same BOE because we made separate trips on the same day. Ann said that during reconciliation of data, Question #24 was erroneously answered by the typists doing the reconciliation for my husband. In a nutshell, the question is phrased "Send Duplicate Notice?" The typist who was reconciling my husband's data INCORRECTLY typed "YES" IN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. Apparently, the person who typed the answer to Question #24 on my data answered the question "Send Duplicate Notice" CORRECTLY by typing "NO." Ann said I won't be getting a second card.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008:

We received these documents from Ann Strasser at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections.

These documents are disturbing. Our signatures and our responses to 2 Voting Inquiry Questions at the top, were used without our knowledge and consent at The Bureau of Motor Vehicles without revealing that one of the purposes was to register us to vote.

1. Are you a U.S. citizen? YES box NO box

2. Will you be at least 18 years of age on or before the next general election?

YES box NO box

"If you answered NO to either of the questions, do not complete this form."

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITIZEN IS NOT ASKED IF HE/SHE WANTS TO VOTE.

I am also complaining about the accuracy of MY AUTO - FILLED info. The information intended for my previous address appeared as my current address with an erroneous apartment number during the process of WHAT I THOUGHT WAS JUST A DRIVER'S LICENSE RENEWAL AND MERGING OF DATA. I told Maria, the clerk to fix it. She said she would but evidently failed to do so. I expect all of the errors to be corrected.

I'm cognizant of The Real ID Act and all related "bechmarks" requiring the "seamless merging" of The Ohio Secretary of State/The Department of Homeland Security/The Ohio Department of Public Safety/The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

All of you have a responsibility to inform citizens that when they get their Drivers' Licenses renewed, that all of your agencies as I itemized above have gone far afield re: Homeland Security Requirements.

Although I am a Voter Rights activist with The Ohio Election Justice Campaign I feel you have violated all Ohio Citizens' Constitutional Rights NOT TO VOTE IF THEY SO CHOOSE NOT TO VOTE by making people THINK that they are simply renewing Ohio Drivers' Licenses and merging data.

I am not a Jehovah's Witness, but I know some people are. My best guess is that Jehovah's Witnesses expect high levels of Homeland Security like other citizens; but literally sticking license renewal info onto Voter Registration cards with AUTO - FILL and thenUSING SIGNATURES WITHOUT PERMISSION is UNCONSTITUTIONAL for anybody and interferes with the right of Jehovah's Witnesses to practice their faith by remaining apolitical.

Do not permit: THE OFFICE OF THE OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE/THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY/THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY/THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES/THE BOARDS OF ELECTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THE CREATION OF PHONY VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS.

Figure out the software issues - don't take it out on We The People.

I don't believe for one minute that HAVA calls for phony voter registration cards with our signatures TAKEN without our knowledge, informed consent and permission.

I await your responses.

Sincerely,

Jane Schiff, Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Power To The "We the People"

2008-02-18T23:04:00.000-08:00

By Dan Stanton

Although most nonpartisan computer engineers and academics agree that all the current systems of electronic vote counting are not to be trusted and easily subject to manipulation and fraud, our elections officials discount the evidence and continue the use this technology. Vote counting has been outsourced to private election system companies. Boards of election officials depend on these companies to run the vote counting process. When there are problems these companies send technicians who “fix” the problems. These technicians are not government officials and subject to no background checks.

As an election reform activist and member of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign it has become abundantly clear that public oversight is discouraged and increasingly excluded from the election system.

Attempts to address concerns with Ohio Representatives, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and the media have largely fallen on deaf ears.

It is understandable when you realize today’s culture is one of partisanship and polarization, where gamesmanship, fraud and corruption is the rule of the day. Morality, ethics, right and wrong is sidelined for the benefit of political partisanship.

As a result the average citizen understandably wants no actual personal involvement in the political process. With public oversight now seriously lacking, it is only natural that there is a general sense of hopelessness and powerlessness.

The first step to making Ohio and this country less polarized and more unified has to be more citizen oversight of the election process. Discovery and official public documentation of election crimes and irregularities is crucial. Law enforcement should support and encourage people to file official police reports documenting irregularities encountered not only at the polling places and the board of elections, but anywhere in the government. This puts problems on an official public record for all to see and acknowledge.

Filing official police reports will serve to give citizens a sense of empowerment and enable the law enforcement community to be more aware of citizen concerns before they become more serious public altercations.

From the psychological point of view, for a true sense of wellbeing and happiness people need have some sense of control. Until our government becomes more than just a partisan two party system, documentation of crimes is important. Maybe over time the weight of documented evidence will stimulate “the people” to overcome partisan two party politics and demand a more progressive, moral, and ethical future.

Regards,
Dan Stanton

VoteRescue Radio New Hampshire Recount

2008-02-17T20:21:00.000-08:00

Here are the Archive links.

Sun., February 17, 2008: Playlists: M3U | RAM (Individual MP3s: Hr1 Hr2 )

found here

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_vickie_k_080216_voterescue_radio_2_2f1.htm

Hello from Radio Land!

This Sunday, February 17, from 2-4pm Central time, VoteRescue Radio will be focusing on a New Hampshire recount update and we are proud to announce we will have as our guest ALBERT HOWARD, the Republican Presidential candidate who is responsible for filing and paying for the statewide recount which just completed there last Monday the 11th. On New Hampshire Primary Election Day, January 8th, Albert watched his totals go FROM 178 votes DOWN to 44 votes; this began his commitment to find the truth of what really happened on Election Day.

We will also be talking with BOB SCHULZ, founder of We the People Foundation and instigator of the 50 state NCEL (National Clean Election Lawsuit) which was filed against every Secretary of State or Board of Elections in the nation for allowing electronic voting machines to be used, counter to the Constitution; Bob spent considerable time at the recount and gathered relevant data comparing final results of ballots that had originally been counted by hand to those counted by Diebold optical scan counters; he is about to complete this report and will share them during the show.

WALTER REDDY, founder of Liberty Broadcast Network, (an election results reporting website and source for election affidavits) who was present in New Hampshire both on January 8th for the Primary, and for the entire Republican recount; Walter played various roles there, from citizen videographer; to observor of the actual counting, to providing moral support and assistance to Albert; to following/chasing the van and police car driven by "Butch and Hoppy" which retrieved the boxes of ballots from the various towns and brought them back to the State Archive Building in Concord to be counted. He and Massachusetts election reform activist Carolyn Sharpe (another dedicated volunteer who helped organize the recount observors and who videotaped events there) were present on Friday to film Albert Howard filing the Appeal with Secretary of State William Gardner

We'll also be talking to ABBE WALDMAN DELOZIER, Co-Editor with Vickie Karp of "HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America", Board Member of Election Defense Alliance (EDA) and PR Director for Coalition for Visible Ballots, and SALLY CASTLEMAN , co-founder and National Chair of EDA , both of whom, along with Vickie, co-authored the Petition for Appeal of the recount (with assistance from Nancy Tobi, Jonathan Simon, Bev Harris, and others) which was filed this past Friday, February 15th, with 30 minutes to spare from the 5pm Eastern deadline.

The New Hampshire recount has been a dramatic and critical piece of evidence gathering on chain of custody issues, well-documented by BEV HARRIS of Black Box Voting and others; the challenge to this recount will allow more time for yet more evidence to be discovered and publicized.

Other primary election updates and evidence gathering in Florida and around the country will be covered!

The show can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 FM; is streaming live on www.wtprn.com (for "We the People Radio Network"), AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 512/485-9010!

This is a CALL-IN show The call-in numbers are: 1-888-202-1984, and in the Austin area, or if you have unlimited long distance, the number is 512-646-1984. Not sure how many calls we'll be able to take on this show with all the interviews, but we'll do our best!

Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Sunday!

WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!

With thanks for your support,

Vickie and Karen
karp@mail.com
karen@voterescue.org

Commissioners Show interest in "DRE Product Liability Suit"

2008-02-14T20:01:00.000-08:00

Commissioners Show interest in "DRE Product Liability Suit"
By General Bruce - Feb 14th, 2008 at 6:16 am EST

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Franklin County OHIO Commissioner Brooks said,
when my question of "getting our money back for the DRE (Touch Screen) voting machines which have been shown to be faulty" to the Top two Franklin County BOE personal was directed to the Commissioners or County Prosecutor,

"and if I might say, I would certainly be open to that, um we'll we'll take a look at that, it's been discussed um at the County Commissioners State Board Meeting, and a lot of people around the State are very concerned about the money that has been spent on these machines, um but first and foremost we want everyone to have confidence in the vote, and to have a good um tabulation."

PG (Peace General)Bruce said, "Yes yes thank you."

OEJC Franklin County Commissioners -short- 2-12-08>1:14 minutes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2106812051248246062&hl=en

OEJC Franklin County Commissioners 2-12-08 >16 minutes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=560609446484051806&hl=en

Major Network TV Producer: "You, the Citizens, are the New Media" on "Voice of the Voters!"

2008-02-13T22:39:00.000-08:00

Please help circulate,,,and tune in too,,this is going to be info you will want to hear,,,and use Thanks
ROLL THE NEW “PRESSES”

A major Network TV Producer who has reached the pinnacle of her career in Traditional Media, and is now moving to the"New Media" will tell us why We the People are becoming more powerful than mainstream media, the factors that have led to disgust and distrust with the corporate-controlled mainstream media, and what we need to do to communicate effectively

An award winning producer (including prize for Ethics in Journalism) of original blockbuster features and investigations for 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline, and Nightline says the networks as "old media" are now fighting to keep up with the you-- the "net generation. ” Tune in for fascinating, thought- provoking, provocative and useful discussion.



on "Voice of the Voters!"

Wednesday, February 13, 8 pm ET

Heard on 1360 AM Greater Philadelphia

& the Internet www.voiceofthevoters.org or http://wnjc.duxpond.com/

                    CITIZEN JOURNALISM…THE EVOLVING  FOURTH ESTATE

                   How did Your voice become more Powerful than traditional Media?

What are the signs that people-- viewers and listeners began to feel they were being kept in the dark?

When did citizens become weary of the polished entertainment that is supposed to be news?

                JOURNALISM: YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN!

How has citizen journalism taken over the reigns of communication in the U.S. and how can you be effective?

The mainstream media knows new media is coming through the window - how can citizen journalists keep a foothold in the face of corporate ambitions?

What are the mistakes and tips that will show YOU how to effectively get the word out?

                                       Balance in reporting

                                       Following the Law

                                       Documenting Everything you Can

                                       Getting the Word Out.

The Net Generation is here with citizen journalism. What are YOU going to do about it? Tune in and get important tips if you want to make an impact and get your message heard!

Plus discussion on how mainstream media has changed, how the role of the fourth estate was meant and then was "contained", the impact on America …and comments on some key stories you read, hear and see including:

Why haven't there been more stories on election problems?

Why is Congress not leading needed change in America?

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Voice of the Voters, hosted by Mary Ann Gould, plus news update from John Gideon of Voters Unite,  is devoted to voting rights and election reform. Ultimately it is an exploration of Representative Democracy itself and the responsibilities of citizens and their elected representatives. It airs every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM ET on 1360 AM and on the Internet. (http://wnjc.duxpond.com/)

Dial-up Internet users: Please turn off all other programs in order to receive clearest broadcast.

Archived Voice of the Voters shows are available here.    www.voiceofthevoters.org

Coalition for Voting Integrity

Quarantine That Machine! Citizen Action To Take Back Our US Elections

2008-02-05T21:57:00.000-08:00

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign Announces
Quarantine That Machine!
Citizen Action To Take Back Our US Elections

If the voting machine you use, behaves in an illegal manner, it should
be treated as part of a crime scene. The theft of your vote is a crime by the voting machine & its vendors against YOU. Treat it as such.

What should I do, you ask?

If the touch screen voting machine you vote on in 2008, or at any time in the future, is behaving in a manner that appears illegal, it should be investigated.

What to look for, including but not limited to:
Vote Hopping – This is when you vote for a candidate or an issue, and your vote hops and goes to another candidate or issue on the screen. We are generally told it is a calibration problem. For the voter, this means your vote is not recorded for who or what you intended. You have been robbed.

Paper Tape records other than what you voted – Please take the time to read the paper tape when you vote. If you find that the tape prints something other than what you voted, remember…there are many problems with the machines counting our votes in secret. There is no way to verify that the machine counted your vote as you see it on the screen, nor as the paper tape reads. Yet, if there is a recount audit, the paper record is the voting record. Your vote will be counted as the paper trail reads at such an audit. The paper tape should read the same information as what you voted. If you wear glasses, bring them, some tapes are printed very light, and therefore are hard to read.

Take Action!
Tell the Poll Worker / Election Judge what happened. Let them know you want the voting machine pulled from use in the election. IMPORTANT! Do not harm or manipulate the machine. It needs to bet in the “same condition” for any forensic investigation. Tell the poll worker not to manipulate the machine in an effort to correct the problem. The most important step of taking action is then filing a police report with local law enforcement to document this possible case of election fraud. The statistics later will document how widespread the problem is.

Typical reflexes to expect to your complaint:
The reflex action of a typical judge when told that a voting machine is malfunctioning is to try to help the voter to get the machine working properly. But, when the malfunction is a mismatch between the faceplate and the paper trail, the normal “be-helpful” response many result in the destruction of evidence in a crime scene.

Let us say that a voting machine had been reprogrammed to flip every twentieth vote from candidate XX to candidate YY. Such an occasional “malfunction” would not provide an easy-to-detect pattern. Further, it would be reasonable to assume that such a reprogrammed machine would also be set to discontinue using the flipping subroutine when someone tries to correct the apparent “malfunction” by, for example, canceling and re-voting.

Therefore, it seems reasonable for Poll Workers and Election Judges to be trained on how to react when a voting machine has a mismatch between the faceplate and the paper trail, or for a vote that hops.

(a) Have the voter move away from the machine. Thank the voter for catching the discrepancy, and explain to him/her what just happened.
(b) Place an OUT OF ORDER sign on the machine and report the “malfunction” to independent law enforcement and notify the Board of Elections or election officials in your state of the problem. Then treat the problem voting machine as evidence in a possible crime scene.
(c) Restart the voter on another machine, or on a paper ballot that will be counted, not a provisional ballot that “may” be counted.

Empowering the Voters and Poll Workers for Detecting Possible
Election Fraud and Demanding Legal Investigation

A Special Note for Poll Workers and Election Officials
You are the public guardians of our elections. Please quarantine any machine for which a voter tells you of problems, asks for it to be quarantined, or any that you are aware is malfunctioning in a suspicious manner; regardless of whether the voter knows that they may request this. Please treat voters with respect if they ask to Quarantine The Machine, and do not push the buttons, or manipulate the machine in any way. Treat the machine as part of a crime scene. Contact Law Enforcement to pick up the machine and investigate it, and write it up. Let the Board of Elections, or other proper election officials above you know what has happened. A forensic examination of the machine is needed, to study why it malfunctioned. It is our hope that law enforcement will confiscate these machines as possible evidence and assist the public to get such a study done. These machines should not be returned to your local election officials but rather quarantined by independent investigative authorities. We realize that there is going to be a huge problem. How do you get the existing votes out of such a machine? It is our hope, that you will let them sit, and wait for the needed investigation.

In Ohio on December 17th, Michael W. Deemer, Chief Deputy Attorney General for Government Affairs of the Ohio Attorney General’s office, and two other legal staff members were informed of the Quarantine The Machine program. His phone number is (614) 728-5462. They were asked to put something in place across the state of Ohio, and across the nation via the other state Attorneys General, to prepare for this program. A prepared written plan for law enforcement is needed, and has been requested. These proper authorities should have qualified individuals available to investigate the voting machines that are quarantined on election night.

If the state of Ohio is not ready to deal with the citizen action of Quarantine That Machine, and the nations law enforcement has not been warned, you might want to call Chief Deputy Deemer and ask why. As of this date, February 4, 2008, and according to his office staff, nothing is in place now. They have informed the OEJC they will only prepare law enforcement if the Secretary of State requests them to. The Attorney General's office has been advised by the OEJC to prepare Ohio, and to let the other Attorneys General across the nation know this is coming. Prepare your Attorney General in your state, they may not know.

For questions and press inquires, contact Paddy Shaffer, Director,
The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, paddy@columbus.rr.com (614) 761-0621 http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC , http://www.wakeupandsaveyourcountry.com/oejc.html

Foreclosures And Bankruptcies Are About To Savage The Voter Registration Bases

2008-02-03T17:47:00.000-08:00

WATCH OUT!!! More Provisional Voting

By Jane Schiff,
Ohio Election Justice Campaign
February 3, 2008

This is urgent re: VOTER REGISTRATION, Provisional Voting, Absentee Voting and Regular Voting and EMERGENCIES faced by people who have had their dwellings foreclosed on, or have had to file bankruptcies and or have been rendered homeless.

Due to the rate of foreclosures and bankruptcy filings across Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio as well as the rest of the nation I believe Ohio's March 4, 2008 Presidential Primary and other states' Primaries are at stake. Notwithstanding the ambiguous language in the former "best of times" about instructing poll workers and officials about the who, when, where and why of CASTING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS, we now are facing imminent potentially mortal blows to the Voter Registration Process and the potential for the powers that be to permanently terminate our rights as fought for, by We The People.

A media release dated January 7, 2008 was issued by Julie Ehrhart, a Public Information Officer from The Ohio Department of Public Safety announced that there is a server problem here and in every state.

"The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators acts as a portal through which all states must access federal databases in order to verify information before being allowed to issue any driver license or state ID card." Julie Ehrhart, the above Public Information Officer from The Ohio Department of Public Safety said "there is not estimated time as to when the server will be completely functional." She is " urging all driver license and state ID card applicants to call their local Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) Deputy Registrar Agency before driving to the location since it is possible that the transaction may not be able to be processed."

My husband encountered an outage in September of 2006 when he went to the Downtown Cincinnati Branch of the Ohio BMV to get another driver's license with an updated address due to our having to move. He was told to leave because "the system was down."

Evidently, these longstanding problems have remained longstanding problems but now have the potential to further erode our rights to CAST PROVISIONAL VOTES, ABSENTEE VOTES AND REGULAR VOTES IN OUR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES FOR 2008.

What kind of emotional and physical resources do these American families have while they are undergoing foreclosures, bankruptcies, and trying to obtain new living arrangements while having to go to work at the same time?

Absentee Request Forms For Voting And Websites In Ohio Have Problems.

2008-02-03T17:21:00.000-08:00

By Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com

February 3, 2008

Last night I received information from several of our wonderful alert election activists in Dayton, Ohio, that Montgomery County's Board of Elections has a problem with it's online absentee ballot request form. It seems that if you fill it in as a Democrat, it won't hold that information on the form. If you fill it in as a Republican, an Other Party (and you must specify that party), or that you are voting only on issues, it will retain the check mark for that information. The website is at: http://www.mcboe.org/ The problem here is that if you know you checked the box before printing the form off, many people might not go back and check the boxes after it is printed off. If you didn't tell them you want a Democratic Party ballot to vote absentee on, and nothing is checked... what will you get? Is Voting in Ohio a game of skill, or a game of chance?

Here is an article on this that showed up yesterday:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/01/ddn020208elex.html
I made the request to some of my Ohio researchers to comb through the websites for our 88 counties to look at the absentee forms for requesting an absentee ballot. I was pleased to wake up this morning and find most of that work already completed by Jennifer Alexander.

While she was looking, she also reported on the health of the websites, and a report on all of this will be coming soon for the nation to see. Of importance now to all of you... surprise, surprise (imagine Gomer Pyle saying this), Ohio has problems, and your state might also.

One county, Shelby says to fax the form in. For Warren (the Homeland Security Lockdown County) and Montgomery it says: "NO FAXED ABSENTEE APPLICATION REQUESTS ARE PERMITTED BY LAW". Some counties ask for you to qualify to be allowed to vote absentee, and only people with a few predetermined reasons can ask for an absentee ballot. Ohio has for the last several years had a no fault absentee ballot, anyone can request one, and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is promoting it. One county is asking for the full Social Security number, when they are only allowed to ask for the last four digits. It is enough to say, the whole country needs combed over. If others are able to get this done, let me know. We could combine the reports to give an overview on the health of the nation on the websites and applications for absentee ballots, and voter registration forms. If anyone is able to undertake this, please let me know.

In 2006, Sherole Eaton and I gathered the voter registration forms from many of Ohio's counties from public libraries. This is one of the places that then Secretary of State Ken Blackwell's website said to pick up such a form. Some of the forms were adequate, but many of the forms were outdated, asking for information no longer needed, or not asking for the current identification requirements. If a voter sent those in, the election officials would not have the right information to register the voter.

Please look at the data in your state, and if you get that done, and can adopt another state, please do so. We are all in this together. Sink or swim. Please let me know what states are being studied, and we will work out a way to file a group report. Thanks!

A Special 2008 Subpoena (Regarding The 2004 Ohio Election) For Blackwell From Conyers

2008-02-01T21:35:00.000-08:00

By:
Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

February 1, 2008

J. Kenneth BLACKWELL refuses to come and testify before the wonderful Congressman John Conyers and the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. It appears a subpoena may be needed.

Updated information compliment of an article by Jon Craig from the Cincinnati Enquirer, some details on Blackwell and the possible subpoena are provided below this article.

Why is it that Ken Blackwell is still walking the streets of this nation? Why is it that the election officials, for which citizens have documented the alleged election crimes of 2004 (and more since then) are still running our elections? How wonderful that a congressman from Michigan, (the state from up north... for you Buckeye fans) shines as a hero in addressing our Ohio problem, which became the nation and the worlds problem... more years of George W. Bush pretending to be the president, and his illegitimate appointments running the country. Since the FBI, CIA, Ohio's past and current Attorney General's, Petro and Dann, and our current Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, the county prosecutors, and the Ohio Highway Patrol can't look into the landfill sized crime documentation pile of our rotting, and stinky election nightmare scenario. This bit of horrible theater is loaded with real people that should be locked up in jail. We are needing a hero, thanks Congressman Conyers, it seems there are very few real men in Ohio, and most of the women leaders aren't doing much better.

JUST LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE!!!
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner now has in her possession, over 2200 boxes of the 2004 election records. It should be more. 57 of Ohio's 88 counties destroyed or disposed of (or lost, or spilled coffee on, or shredded, or flooded, or had the Green Team pick up, etc) those election records. The good news is... there still is enough evidence to prove the case that the Ohio 2004 election was stolen, and we the people have the evidence, and we can point to which precinct ballots need looked at. For instance, Delaware County ballots show both the rigging of the US Presidential Election, and of the Ohio Supreme Court. Janet Brenneman was Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections in 2004. To make sure that Ohio is ready for the 2008 election (of which we so often hear is the only thing the top election officials of the state can do), under the guidance of our new Democratic Leaders... Janet Brenneman is again the Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections. How special. Is this what being ready looks like? And this is just one of many problem counties.

It is 2008, another Presidential election year. J. Kenneth Blackwell still walks the streets of this nation, and I hope Congressman John Conyers sends him a subpoena! Michigan and Ohio... Will a Wolverine save the Buckeyes?

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The link for the below article: http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/

By Jon Craig

Blackwell could be subpoenaed
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has been asked to testify next Friday in Washington, D.C., by the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.The topic: "Voter Suppression," according to this letter sent Tuesday to Blackwell, who now works for the Family Research Council, Buckeye Institute and other conservative policy groups.The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat, is investigating election irregularities, including long lines and challenges to voter registrations.Blackwell, a Republican from Cincinnati, said he received the invitation, "however, my schedule will not permit me to attend the hearings."Jonathan Godfrey, a Conyers spokesman, said Blackwell has not responded and could be subpoenaed if he doesn't appear voluntarily."I don't think it's unlikely," Godfrey said today of a subpoena.But it would take a majority vote of committee members to issue a subpoena, probably delaying the day Blackwell would be asked to appear, according to Godfrey."As we look forward to the 2008 Presidential Election, the Committee seeks to explore policies that should be implemented to avoid future voting problems and ensure that every American can exercise their right to vote," Conyers and Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler wrote in their invitation to Blackwell.Blackwell said, "For a better understanding of Ohio’s voting performance during the 2004 election, I recommend Chairmen Conyers and Nadler review the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2004 post-election analysis."The Census Bureau found Ohio experienced record voter turnout among both African-American voters and those between the ages of 18 to 24, he said."In addition, voter registration rolls grew by one million new voters from the year before and voter turnout increased by one million more voters from the previous presidential election," Blackwell said.
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A Special Two-Hour VOICE OF THE VOTERS with Brad Friedman, Paddy Shaffer and others

2008-01-30T12:18:00.000-08:00

Around the Country and in the Counties - Reports on
Election 2008
A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR VOICE OF THE VOTERS
Tonight Starting at 7pm!
Special Guest Co-Host: Jim Strait
Special Guests:
Bucks County Commissioner, Diane Marseglia
Alysoun McLaughlin of the National Association of Counties
AND YOU!
on Voice of the VotersWednesday, January 30, 7 pm ET
Heard on 1360 AM and on the InternetCall In to Add Your Questions & Comments
856-227-1360 or 856 232 7078

Part I: Starting at 7pm, We'll Take a Trip Around the County to Hear Reports from Key States and Voting Integrity Advocates

First Brad Friedman of the dynamic website, Bradblog.com, will present an overview of the country's elections/voting systems: what are the chalellenges? Where are the hotspots? What issues most need to be addressed. Will we? Can we? Brad will share his outlook for the November 2008 elections.

Then we'll open a discussion with leading voting integrity advocates as we take a trip around the country to visit Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, Colorado and more.

Call in to give your own report on the status of your state's elections and voting issues. What's working? What isn't? What challenges are being addressed? What are the expectations for the November 2008 elections? We want to hear what's happening in your state. Questions also encouraged!

Then we'll open a discussion with leading voting integrity advocates as we take a trip around the country to visit Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, Colorado and more. Call in to give your own report on the status of your state's elections and voting issues. What's working? What isn't? What challenges are being addressed? What are the expectations for the November 2008 elections? We want to hear what's happening in your state. Questions also encouraged!

Part 2: Starting at 8pm, The Counties

Alysoun McLaughlin, Associate Legislative Director of the National Association of Counties - the Voice of America's Counties. (NaCo) will discuss the diversity of challenges facing counties around the nation as we seek to improve our elections process. She will address some of the differences that have developed among elections officials, county governments and voting integrity advocates. "We're in a place of change. The system was designed around election officials, cnadidates and parties," says Ms. McLaughlin. "Now as more and more citizens want to become more involved, how do we integrate? How do we build bridges? How do we deal with hot buttons of technology?"

Ms McLaughlin will also review NaCo's position on HR 5036, The Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008 and will also discuss problems created for the counties, especially for the smaller ones, by voluntary guidelines issued by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission.

In all the talk and attention on Florida, Ohio and California, Pennsylvania has become the forgotten state. The silence on the issue in the media and from state leaders is deafening. Yet, in 2008, Pennsylvania may be the most critical battleground state, becoming the Florida/Ohio of 2008. Predominantly a paperless state, dependent on DRE (direct record electronic) machines, there is no way to recount results independent of the machines. We are facing a faith-based election in Pennsylvania in 2008.

Bucks County Commissioner Diane Marseglia will share her ideas on improving citizen involvement in county government and improving the flow of information between the citizenry and their government. She will discuss election systems weaknesses in Bucks County as well the possible impact of the 2008 Pennsylvania elections on the country. Commissioner Marseglia will address problems around using paperless DREs and her own position on what remedies are needed in time for 2008.

She will also review her standing on HR 5036 and address whether there is enough time in her county to change systems.

Calls to Ms. McLaughlin and Commissioner Marseglia will be welcome.

As always, the incomparable John Gideon of Voters Unite will be on hand to share up-to-the-minute voting news and analysis you won't hear anywhere else.

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Voice of the Voters, hosted by Mary Ann Gould, is an hour devoted to voting rights and election reform. Ultimately it is an exploration of Representative Democracy itself and the responsibilities of citizens and their elected representatives. It airs every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM ET on 1360 AM and on the Internet. (http://wnjc.duxpond.com/)

Dial-up Internet users: Please turn off all other programs in order to receive clearest broadcast.

Listeners can call in questions live at 856-227-1360 and submit questions in advance at the Voice of the Voters website.

Archived Voice of the Voters shows are available here.

Bio for Alysoun McLaughlin

Alysoun McLaughlin is a lobbyist with a decade of experience representing state and local governments on Capitol Hill. As Associate Legislative Director with the National Association of Counties, she organizes lobbying efforts by county officials to oppose unfunded mandates and strives to foster coordination among federal, state, and local governments in addressing a broad range of policy challenges facing the nation. Alysoun is a leading national advocate for the county officials who are responsible for administering most elections for federal, state and local office. She is also a pollworker in Montgomery County, Maryland, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Pollworker Institute.

Coalition for Voting Integrity

IF IT'S BROKE, DON'T FIX IT

2008-01-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

January 29, 2008 at 11:49:52

Headlined on 1/29/08:
IF IT'S BROKE, DON'T FIX IT

by Teresa Blakely (Posted by Victrola) Page 1 of 1 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

Crony Capitalism and the Demise of Our Democracy
The final chapter?

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's EVEREST study has demonstrated how badly the Ohio taxpayers were ripped off by dishonest voting machine vendors and complicit Board of Election Officials. Brunner has been forced to act decisively ahead of the presidential election to address a crisis of election integrity that she inherited from former Secretary J Kenneth Blackwell and former Ohio Republican Party Chair and Director of Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Bob Bennett. Bennett's "kill the messenger" attack on Brunner is a way to divert blame for the consequences of years of corrupt and incompetent "bad old boy" election management. Bennett remains true to his crony constituency, the voting machine vendors, by refusing to address the dangers posed to our democracy by notoriously fraud-friendly touchscreen voting machines. Push a button, accept the computer output, no audits, no questions asked. A most excellent way to choose the next leader of the free world.

It boggles my mind that Bennett, can tell reporters that he had not seen the EVEREST report yet claim there is nothing wrong with the voting machines. This sort of willful ignorance is what contributed to the purchase of inadequately tested, fraud-friendly electronic voting machines in the first place. Secretary Brunner does not want to have insecure, defective voting machines in use in Ohio for the next presidential election. Any attempt to thwart this goal is suspect.

--What confidence crisis?

The following Republicans have not conducted themselves in a manner that inspires trust in their judgment and integrity in managing our elections. Jack Abramoff represented Diebold at the time when the House Government Operations Committee, chaired by Bob Ney, was establishing rules for electronic voting systems. Diebold contributed at least $275,000 in lobbying fees to Jack Abramoff's law firm, Greenberg Traurig. Former Ohio Congressman Bob Ney, another convicted felon and the lead sponsor of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA)strongly opposed legislation requiring a paper audit trail[1]. Ney spearheaded the hasty move to electronic voting machines [2]. Diebold's then CEO Wally O'Dell, who promised to deliver Ohio votes to George W. Bush [3], resigned amidst securities fraud litigation [4]. Ken Blackwell was Secretary of State while co-chairing the Bush/Cheney campaign[5]. Now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers' report on "What Went Wrong in Ohio" described massive and unprecedented voter irregularities in 2004 caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Blackwell [6]. Mitch Given, a Diebold lobbyist contributed $10,000 to Blackwell's gubernatorial campaign. [7] Looking back to the early 1990's, convicted computer fraud felon Jeff Dean programmed what became Diebold's optiscan software.[8] In 2004 Franklin County Board of Election Director Matt Damschroder accepted $10,000 from a Diebold intermediary and donated it to the Franklin County Republican party. [9] Remarkably, in 2007 Damschroder was unanimously elected President of the Ohio Association of Election Officials.[10] In 2006 the Republican dominated Ohio Legislature removed the HB-3 requirement for a random audit of the electronic voting machine tallies. Ethically challenged individuals will always be drawn to high stakes political endeavors. This is precisely why our method of vote counting must be above reproach.

-- Read the Report. I call this broken.
( The following section was previously posted by this author to OP ED news on 1/6/08)[11]

EVEREST like the countless credible, critical, reviews of electronic voting machines that preceded it, found numerous serious security vulnerabilities in basic electronic voting machine system design and implementation. The academic reviewers on the EVEREST team describe the electronic voting system put in place under Ken Blackwell as possessing "critical security failures that render their technical controls insufficient to guarantee a trustworthy election." As part of the EVEREST project, MicroSolved, Inc. (MSI), performed penetration tests of three voting machines systems in use in Ohio: Premier (Diebold), ES &S and Hart Intercivic. MSI's Executive Summary report concluded that all three vendors had failed to adopt, implement and follow "even the most basic set of information security guidelines" used in other industries.

MSI uncovered a myriad of common vulnerabilities and weaknesses many of which have been known for several years and still exist in the system components. They reported that many components lacked basic security controls such as firewalls, antivirus and other mechanisms for protecting system integrity. [12]

Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten considered the EVEREST report to be the scariest e-voting security report yet. He questioned how the ES&S iVotronic touchscreen voting machine ever got certified, noting that a machine with so many design errors must be susceptible to misrecording or miscounting votes due to ordinary glitches that plague computer systems. He considered the iVotronic too risky to use even if all poll workers and voters were angels. Among the many potential touchscreen security breaches that alarmed Felten was an undocumented backdoor function that allows a voter or poll worker to alter vote totals using a magnet and a personal digital assistant. [13]

-- Expensive. What's an honest election worth?

How is it that the cost of moving to a more secure accountable method of vote tabulation is now too expensive? In 2003 Blackwell was moving full speed ahead to purchase Diebold DRE's that he explicitly did not want to have a paper trail. Blackwell issued this directive in January of '05, the same month in which it was discovered he had acquired Diebold stock worth almost ten-thousand dollars. [14] Blackwell and company could not spend 100 million fast enough when purchasing incompetently designed electronic voting machines from disreputable vendors. Ask Ken Blackwell what sort of election official opts for voting technology that is unaccountable in the first place. How does one explain the expenditure of $100 million of taxpayer money on voting machines that are so insecure as to be untrustworthy in our elections? Ohio still has never had a complete accounting of how Blackwell spent HAVA money in 2005. What we see here is unregulated, partisan, crony capitalism from the Federal Election Commission all the way down to our County Boards of Election.

It would be a serious mistake to continue to use DRE voting machines that are extremely fraud friendly in a time when it is widely known how insecure these voting machines are. When a DRE voting machine is corrupted or malfunctions on election night, votes are irretrievably lost. If our election outcomes are to be decided by competing hackers or election insiders who infect electronic voting machines with computer viruses then our democracy is history.

References:

[1] Abramoff-Diebold connection: http://coloradovoter.net/bcv-archive/msg03062.html
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[2] Ney opposes audit trail for DREs: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2262
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[3] O'Dell fundraising letter (2003): http://rawstory.com/printstory.php?story=1570
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[4] O'Dell securities fraud litigation: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5468
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[5] Blackwell co-chairing Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign: http://www.thesentinel.com/283370491126756.php">href="http://www.thesentinel.com/283370491126756.php">http://www.thesentinel.com/283370491126756.php/>
[6] Massive and unprecedented irregularities in 2004: Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio, Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff (Rep. John Conyers, Jr.), January 5, 2005. Page 4:

[7] Diebold lobbyist donates to Blackwell: http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=5012724/>
[8] Jeff Dean: http://www.defendersofdemocracy.com/drupal/node/54
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[9] Damschroder: $10,000 donation: http://www.thesentinel.com/283370491126756.php
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[10]Damschroder OAEO: http://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/boe/assets/pdf/press-releases/PR-03092007.pdf
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[11] Blakely: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_teresa_b_080106_everest_3a_the_truth_a.htm
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[12]Ohio SOS Everest Executive Summary>http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/EVEREST/04-Microsolved--Comprehensive-ExecSummRpt.pdf
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[13]Felton's comments: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1236
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[14]Blackwell buys Diebold: http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/04/04/20060404-A1-01.html
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[15]Blackwell can't account for how all HAVA money spent;
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/081905Madsen/081905madsen.html

BALLOTS WERE NOT SECURED FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE RECOUNT

2008-01-29T07:26:00.000-08:00

Please take a few minutes and watch the below video from New Hampshire. There is more information coming on this story. I also assisted, along with other patriots to start the investigation days prior to the start of the recount, and then as it began. Bev Harris has stepped up unlike no other citizen I know to make sure that America gets to see "behind the curtain" in New Hampshire's presidential election. Of importance here... New Hampshire holds the first primary for the office of President of the United States, which sets the tone for the nation. The current tone is one hell of a bad song. Please look for yourself, and distribute the below video links and information widely. If you are able, please donate to Blackboxvoting.org.

Onward to Justice,

Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC
http://www.wakeupandsaveyourcountry.com/oejc.html

WOSU Call In Election Reform with Board of Elections Officials

2008-01-28T22:14:00.000-08:00

http://streaming.osu.edu/wosu/openline/012808bOL.mp3

11:00 AM - Election Reform with Board of Elections Officials
Franklin County Board of Elections officials discuss reform of the election process.

The New Hampshire recount "Shame of Custody"

2008-01-26T08:55:00.001-08:00

For those of you interested in the unfolding story of the New Hampshire recount, take a moment and look at the below link.

http://www.opednews.com:80/articles/opedne_bev_harr_080125_the_new_hampshire__22s.htm

The video has already had over 19,094 views. Many thanks to Bev Harris for inviting me to join her, and for all her work while I was there, and her continuing work after I left. For those of you able to donate, please send off some dollars to www.blackboxvoting.org and know that Bev puts that money to good use.

Onward with Liberty and Justice for All,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

paddy@columbus.rr.com

(614) 761-0621

Slacker BOE Members Ignore Brunner Survey Order

2008-01-24T20:24:00.001-08:00

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/default.asp

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Survey says. . .

Despite a directive by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner ordering all county Board of Elections members to respond to a survey about voting systems by a Friday deadline, Brunner's office has not received responses from 98 of the boards' 352 members as of today.

Jeff Ortega, a spokesman for Brunner, said it's unclear what legal or punitive action board members could face. The office's election division is calling tardy members -- which make up about 28 percent of all board members today, Ortega said, adding: "Just fill out the survey.''

Brunner's survey found 61 percent of Republican board members are not concerned about a scientific report last month that all of Ohio's voting systems "carry serious risks to voting integrity." About 71 percent of the Democratic respondents, however, said they are concerned about the study's findings.

The survey also reflects a split within county boards when asked if they wanted to keep touch-screen voting machines -- which Brunner recommends replacing. If funding is available, about 31 percent of all respondents favored switching from touch-screen to optical scan -- which uses paper ballots.

Of the optical scan counties, only 13 percent said they'd agree to counting ballots centrally instead of at the precinct level.

Preliminary results indicate a general resistance to change, even if funding is provided, Brunner said.

Respondents:
254 total respondents out of 352 (72 percent of total)
133 or 53 percent Republican
121 or 48 percent Democrat

Do you have concerns as a result of the EVEREST findings (Direct Recording Electronic & Optical Scan counties)?
Total respondents 254
180 responded no (71 percent of total)
110 or 61 percent Republican
70 or 39 percent Democrat

68 responded yes (27 percent of total)
20 or 29 percent Republican
48 or 71 percent Democrat
(Four Democrats and two Republicans did not respond)

Do you wish to change your county's voting system to Central Count from the current precinct-level count? (Optical scan counties only)
Total respondents: 97
80 responded no (73 percent of total)
41 or 51 percent Republican
39 or 49 percent Democrat

14 responded yes (13 percent of total)
10 or 72 percent Republican
4 or 29 percent Democrat

7 did not respond

If funding is available to cover costs, do you wish to switch from touch-screen to Optical Scan or Central Count? (touch-screen counties only)
Total respondents: 158
92 responded no (58 percent of total)
44 or 48 percent Republican
48 or 52 percent Democrat

50 responded yes (31 percent of total)
26 or 52 percent Republican
24 or 48 percent Democrat

16 did not respond

"Change is difficult for many people, and our election officials seem to be struggling with our recommendations to move to optical scan paper ballots to provide more security and accountability for Ohio's election system," Brunner said in a news statement. "We must move forward now to prepare for November."

Since the results of Brunner's EVEREST report were made public last month, Brunner said her office "has been barraged with unsolicited calls and e-mails from individuals in the voting public who are mostly in favor of the need for the study and the proposed recommendations."

The running tally of responses is nearly 4-to-1 in favor of Brunner's plans to move to a paper ballot optical scan system to protect the integrity of the vote, according to her staff.

"Most voters seem to be asking why the controversy over a change to paper ballots that will provide for greater accountability and confidence that their vote will be counted," Brunner said today.

For readers able to access an Excel spreadsheet of all respondents, go here

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Ohio Secretary of State to Talk Live With Citizens on Radio and the Internet & Important News from S.C.

2008-01-22T20:46:00.001-08:00

A Vital Dialogue with Citizens
Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer L. Brunner, to participate in live discussion via radio and the Internet with citizens about serious election issues/problems

Call In & Add Your Questions & Comments

Plus A Separate SC News Announcement

on "Voice of the Voters!"
Wednesday, January 23, 8 pm ET
Heard on 1360 AM Greater Philadelphia & and on the Internet www.voiceofthevoters.org or http://wnjc.duxpond.com/

In the best tradition of American representative democracy, Ohio's Secretary of State, Jennifer L. Brunner, will hold an on-air Radio and Internet Dialogue with Citizens of Ohio and throughout the United States to address the issues surrounding voting problems and possible ways to make some improvements in time for the November 2008 elections in Ohio and thus in turn for the Nation..
Madame Secretary will open with an update on the status of Ohio Election Issues and expected next steps followed by a Dialogue with Citizens.
This program is being presented as an example of how OUR representatives may listen and work with citizens, creating a true dialogue/partnership that supports a vibrant and good working representative democracy.
The 2008 election is proving to be one of major concern over the security, reliability and verifiability of our votes. Many fear that the problems continually found in electronic voting machines and the secrecy of the programming as well as other issues relating to registration and voter ID will lead to a major meltdown in November. Some even believe that 2008 could prove far worse than 2000 and 2004. This story is finally becoming front page news as more people become aware of the looming issues that must be addressed. Can they be? Will they be? What will the short term and long term solutions look like?
Ohio has already identified major problems in electronic voting machines and processes through the EVEREST study, instituted by Secretary Brunner, the findings of which were far worse than expected. (details here: http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/info/everest.aspx )
The vote belongs to the people! This week's "Voice of the Voters!" is an opportunity for the people of Ohio and the rest of the United States to hear from the Secretary of State Brunner directly and to express their questions and concerns to her.
Then Mark Adams, lawyer and voing rights activist, will be making a very important news announcement on actions concerning South Carolina elections.
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Listeners can call in at 856-227-1360 or 856 232 7078 or send in questions via the Voice of the Voters website at http://mysite.verizon.net/resq4lzq/cvi/id252.html. All questions must be received before 4pmET on Wednesday.
Questions from all over the country are welcome. We especially want to hear from Ohio citizens.
As always, the incomparable John Gideon of Voters Unite will be on hand to share up-to-the-minute voting news and analysis you won't hear anywhere else.
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Voice of the Voters, hosted by Mary Ann Gould, is an hour devoted to voting rights and election reform. Ultimately it is an exploration of Representative Democracy itself and the responsibilities of citizens and their elected representatives. It airs every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM ET on 1360 AM and on the Internet. (http://wnjc.duxpond.com/)
Dial-up Internet users: Please turn off all other programs in order to receive clearest broadcast.
Listeners can call in questions live at 856-227-1360 or 856 232 7078 and submit questions in advance at the Voice of the Voters website.
Archived Voice of the Voters shows are available here.
www.voiceofthevoters.org
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Bio: Secretary Jennifer L. Brunner
Jennifer Brunner served as a Judge of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court for more than four years. She was elected to an unexpired term in 2000, edging out a governor's appointee, and was reelected to a 6-year term in 2002. Brunner resigned on September 1, 2005, in order to run for Ohio Secretary of State.
Working with leaders in the criminal justice and treatment communities of Columbus, Brunner formed and presided over Franklin County's first adult felony drug court. The drug court is a specialized docket that Brunner operated in addition to her regular docket that promotes accountability by offenders to maintain drug and crime-free lives. Franklin County's drug court is used by the Supreme Court of Ohio as a model for other county courts that want to start drug and mental health courts.
While a judge, Jennifer Brunner adopted the practice of permitting jurors in criminal and civil trials to take notes and ask questions, a practice aimed at improving trial outcomes and juror satisfaction. The procedures she used and developed were appealed in the case of State v. Fisher, a case tried in Brunner's court in 2001. The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the practice and the procedures used by Jennifer Brunner. The high court thereafter operated a pilot project allowing questioning by jurors and has adopted rules for questioning by jurors in trial courts throughout the state.
Jennifer Brunner's interest in public service dates back to her days as a committee secretary and legislative aide in the Ohio Senate, as Legislative Counsel for former Secretary of State Sherrod Brown, now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-13, Ohio), and as members of the Franklin County Board of Elections and the Ohio Student Loan Commission.
After serving in Secretary of State Sherrod Brown's first administration as a deputy director and legislative counsel to the Ohio legislature, Jennifer Brunner developed a statewide law practice in election law. Working with her husband, she grew a law firm from two people to thirty people, and in her work assisted local, statewide and presidential candidates, legislative caucuses, labor unions, businesses, associations and other organizations in complying with often-complicated election laws and in successfully accessing Ohio's election system. While a judge, Brunner served as a board member for the Ohio Community Corrections Organization, representing common pleas judges from throughout the state. She continues to serve as a board member for the Mental Health Association of Franklin County.
Jennifer and her husband, Rick, have three adult children and live in Columbus, Ohio.
Coalition for Voting Integrity

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

2008-01-20T09:29:00.001-08:00

For Immediate Release:

How the Ohio Democratic Party proves it is worthless and complicit in the area of not protecting our elections and maintaining people who care about those elections.

By: Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

New unfolding ugliness in Ohio... (A message from Susan Truit below this little write up to prepare you for what she will describe).

Thomas W. Noe Prison Information: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Noe&Middle=&FirstName=Thomas&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0

Federal Prisoner Number 26157-018, age 53, White, Male...

Thomas W. Noe, Prison Release date is October 27, 2008.

http://ohio15th.blogspot.com/2007/12/latta-did-get-money-from-tom-noe.html

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=12303

Again,... I am sickened. And the misdeeds continue. Help if you can.

________________________________________________________________

From Susan Truit:

Please WRITE - EMAIL - CALL Ohio Dem Leaders - contact info below

She was also instrumental in exposing the Thomas Noe scandal in Lucas County - (see

Who is behind her removal from power and why? Who expressly and tacitly approved it?

Who will lead the election reform charge, now?

Write, email, and call the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, Chris Redfern, and ask him:

Chris Redfern
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: (614) 644-6011
Fax : (614) 719-6980
Email Address: district80@ohr.state.oh.us

Write, email, and call the Chief Legal Counsel for the Governor, Kent Markus, who also serves as the Chief of State-Legislative Relations, and ask him:

Kent Markus

kent.markus@governor.ohio.gov

kmarkus@law.capital.edu

Office of Governor Ted Strickland
77 South High Street
30th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117
Phone:614/466-3555
Fax:614/466-9354
Capitol Phone:614/466-2000

Regards,

Susan Truitt

Petition To Recoup Election Machine Financing

2008-01-18T06:11:00.000-08:00

Categories: Consumer and Worker Protection, Economic Fairness and Security, Honest and Ethical Government, Election Reform
Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the petition:

"Ohio Secretary of State, Sue Voting Machine Vendors for Product Liability".

Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and join me in signing the petition.

It takes just 30 seconds, but can truly make a difference. We are trying to reach 1000 signatures - please sign here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-save-Ohio-voting

Once you have signed, you can help even more by asking your friends and family to sign as well.

Thanks,

OEJC

Reference http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/OEJC/C3gS

Excerpts quoted here:

"Representatives from Boards of Elections (BOE) plagued by election irregularities, such as failing to preserve their 2004 ballots in violation of federal court order, are now sitting in review of the state's electronic elections systems, courtesy of a lobbyist."
....

"Of the twelve election officials, nine come from BOEs that disposed of 2004 election records protected by court order in King Lincoln v. Blackwell (S.D. Ohio), http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php, four of the nine serving as BOE Director in 2004. Two of the nine disposed of their records before certification of the 2004 election; and another three have not submitted the requested explanation to the SOS for their missing records."

see also:

http://www.ohiodems.org/index.php?page=blog&full=311

In The Meantime, We Want Our Money Back

2008-01-16T19:16:00.000-08:00

By Victoria Parks

Secretary Brunner should immediate decertify the touchscreens and go to 100% paper in those Ohio counties that use touchscreens. In the optical scanner counties, she should organize citizens for a truly random, 10% in-precinct audit before the ballots go anywhere. I speak of the central tabulation point in each county. Even though Secretary Brunner wants centralized tabulation in a chain of custody she prescribes, it is still necessary to allow citizens to verify their own votes. In this way the vote count would be voter-verified before being made vulnerable in any chain of custody. All precinct totals should be posted at the precinct for at least 15 days. Secretary Brunner, that is how you will restore voter confidence.

In the meantime, taxpaying voters want their HAVA money back. Because Jennifer Brunner has such a difficult task ahead of her restoring voter confidence in Ohio, I urge Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's office to pick up the ball and build the Election Integrity Unit he promised us in '06. Then he should sue these vendors on behalf of Ohio taxpayers through his Consumer Fraud Division as I suggested before AG Dann's Assistant Chief for Governmental Affairs, Michael Deemer, in a meeting with the OEJC on December 17, 2007 where 16 members of the OEJC were present.

We requested this action by the Ohio Attorney General's office because taxpayers have been sold a bill of goods and now we are broke. Secretary Brunner needs the funding. Her predecessor Blackwell, drained the treasury and we still have never had an accounting of how all the HAVA money was spent in '05. Secretary Brunner will need that HAVA funding to help assist Ohioans in the conduct of clean elections.

And here is another reason we need 100% paper in a 100% hand-count:

Vendors should not be rewarded with more state contracts with yet more of our taxpayer money. They should not be enriched further. They need to be sued. We taxpaying voters want our HAVA money spent on clean elections and now we want our HAVA money back. Ohio voters deserve nothing less.

Victoria Parks

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Republican election officials discuss Brunner's ballot changes:

2008-01-15T09:28:00.001-08:00

Republican election officials discuss Brunner's ballot changes:

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/01/14/gop_confab.html?adsec=politics&sid=101&rfr=nwsl

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

2008-01-11T22:13:00.000-08:00

For Immediate Release:

How the Ohio Democratic Party proves it is worthless and complicit in the area of not protecting our elections and maintaining people who care about those elections.

By: Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

New unfolding ugliness in Ohio... (A message from Susan Truit below this little write up to prepare you for what she will describe).

Thomas W. Noe Prison Information: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Noe&Middle=&FirstName=Thomas&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0

Federal Prisoner Number 26157-018, age 53, White, Male...

Thomas W. Noe, Prison Release date is October 27, 2008.

http://ohio15th.blogspot.com/2007/12/latta-did-get-money-from-tom-noe.html

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=12303

Again,... I am sickened. And the misdeeds continue. Help if you can.

________________________________________________________________

From Susan Truit:

Please WRITE - EMAIL - CALL Ohio Dem Leaders - contact info below

She was also instrumental in exposing the Thomas Noe scandal in Lucas County - (see

Who is behind her removal from power and why? Who expressly and tacitly approved it?

Who will lead the election reform charge, now?

Write, email, and call the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, Chris Redfern, and ask him:

Chris Redfern
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: (614) 644-6011
Fax : (614) 719-6980
Email Address: district80@ohr.state.oh.us

Write, email, and call the Chief Legal Counsel for the Governor, Kent Markus, who also serves as the Chief of State-Legislative Relations, and ask him:

Kent Markus

kent.markus@governor.ohio.gov

kmarkus@law.capital.edu

Office of Governor Ted Strickland
77 South High Street
30th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117
Phone:614/466-3555
Fax:614/466-9354
Capitol Phone:614/466-2000

Regards,

Susan Truitt

2004 Video - US Citizens Demand Honest Elections in Ohio

2008-01-09T22:28:00.000-08:00

2004 Video - US Citizens Demand Honest Elections in Ohio

Dear State of Ohio Employees at the Offices of the Ohio Attorney General and The Ohio Secretary of State,

I ask that you take the 5 minutes and 10 seconds to review this video titled "Ohio (Get Up On The Bus) by Wil b" of The Political Power of Hip Hop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyX0PxUo5w

This video documents the 50 Freedom Winter Busriders that traveled from Ohio, joining with citizens from across this nation in Washington DC on January 6, 2005 (the 3 year anniversary just passed) to protest the certification of the Ohio Electoral College. We lobbied the Senators and demanded that action be taken.... it was.

This is the day of the Boxer Rebellion where Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones gathered with them 30 US Representatives, for a total of 32 members of the United States Congress to block the certification of the vote. The bulk of leadership at that time, came from the Black Congressional Congress.

In Ohio at that time, the offices of the Secretary of State and Attorney General assisted the cover-up, and would not investigate, but put fines and sanctions on the attorneys who did their patriotic duty and stepped up to represent the people. In calling Jim Petro and asking for help with Delaware County's election officials, we were directed to the County Prosecutor. No one at the Attorney General's office would help. We let them know that the Delaware County Prosecutor office was a major part of our problem, they denied, blocked, or greatly stalled our record requests. At one time wanting to charge nearly $2000 to make copies of the 2004 ballots. These are public records.

To those of you working in the Attorney General and Secretary of State offices now. Help us, help your state, help your nation. Assist us to get the investigation going into the theft of the 2004 election, only real accountability will start to turn around those that would steal our elections.

Sincerely Concerned,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

paddy@columbus.rr.com

(614) 761-0621

A note from Wil b about the his video...

Wil b and a some very pissed off disenfranchised voters, representing over 100,000 folks from Ohio, take their fight to the streets against George W. Bush's second term by lobbying their Senators and "Gettin' Up On The Bus!" to Washington D.C. where it all went down January 6th, 2005.

Peace to the Winter Freedom Riders!

Peace to We Do Not Concede!

Peace to Ohio, Florida, New Mexico and all of the other states who've had their voters voices stolen by unfair elections.

VOTE 2006-2008

Interview with Jennifer Brunner/OEJC, Brad Blog And Voice of the Voters Audio

2008-01-07T21:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5463
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 12/20/2007 1:18PM
Exclusive: BRAD BLOG's In-Depth, Post-EVEREST Interview with Ohio's Secretary of State
Jennifer Brunner Responds to Kudos, Criticism Following State's Massive and Disturbing E-Voting Assessment
'The last thing I want for my state, is to be looked at as a pariah, like it was for 2004'
-- By Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG

Voice Of The Voters
Dec. 19: Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and Dan Lopresti of Lehigh U. discuss the Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing (EVEREST) report, a review of voting systems used in Ohio and throughout the country, which found “critical security failures.” Paddy Shaffer and Marian Lupo of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign. John Gideon with a voting news update. Audio. Podcast.

Strait Talks: “Secretary Brunner was candid when she stated, 'I had hoped to see some bright spots, it was extremely disappointing that none of the systems functioned well.'” [continued]

Thugs Gag Your Vote: OEJC Calls for Day of Silence on Sunday, January 6th, 2008

2008-01-04T20:52:00.000-08:00

Photos By Troy Seman
Jan 4, 9:09 AM ET

Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) calls for Day of Silence this Sunday, January 6th, 2008. Three years ago on this day, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election, the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged. An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, including the fake level-ten homeland security alert in suburban Warren County, Ohio. Acts of voter intimidation are ongoing and include the rumors of an uprising in Mombasa, Kenya in 2002 and the attempt to barricade the Franklin County Board of Elections, Columbus, Ohio in 2006.

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) January 5, 2008 -- On this week's Voice of the Voters, the Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) called for a Day of Silence this Sunday, January 6th, 2008, www.voiceofthevoters.org, WNJC 1360 AM.

This day marks the peaceful legislative challenge to the re-election of George W. Bush on January 6th, 2005. Our silence stands in solidarity with voters around the world whose voices have been extinguished through violence, fear-mongering, and election fraud.

Three years ago, on January 6th, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election. This was the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged.

If the challenge had been successful, Bush would have lost the electoral college votes he needed to clinch the election.

Joining Boxer and Jones in the challenge, known as the "Boxer Rebellion," were 30 representatives, including Kucinich (D-OH), Conyers (D-MI), McKinney (D-GA), and civil rights leader John Robert Lewis (D-GA).

The following senators failed to support the challenge and voted "yes" to accepting Ohio's votes as votes for Bush: Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Feingold (D-WI), Lieberman (D-CN), and Obama (D-IL).

Twenty-five senators were absent and did not vote, including McCain (R-AZ) and Feinstein (D-CA).

132 members of the House of Representatives were absent and did not vote; Pelosi (D-CA), Kaptur (D-OH), and Strickland (D-OH) voted to accept Ohio's votes.

An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, including the fake level-ten homeland security alert in suburban Warren County, Ohio, called on election day, 2004, http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html.

Planned in advance, the fake alert included dogs sniffing for bombs while children of election officials transported ballots from the precincts to the Warren County Board of Elections (BOE) for secret tabulation. Warren County, one of the last counties in Ohio to report, went overwhelming for Bush.

Acts of intimidation were also used in Kenya prior to its 2002 presidential election; rumors of an uprising near Mombasa caused voters to flee from their province of voter registration.

During Kenya's Dec. 27, 2007 presidential election, which resulted in allegations of election fraud and large-scale violence, observers were turned away from tabulation centers in the Central province, whose results proved decisive, http://allafrica.com/stories/200801030632.html.

During tabulation of the 2006 vote, the Franklin County Board of Elections, Matt Damschroder, Director, attempted to barricade the BOE in Columbus, Ohio by lining the street in front with snow plows. Photos attached.

For information or to donate: http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC.

More Ohio election justice videos: http://www.vocabvideo.com.

Background info: "Ohio Holds Funeral on Anniversary of 2004 Elections," http://www.prnewsnow.com/TextNews/168067.html; "Lobbyists Hack Your Elections: The OEJC Calls for Voting Systems Recall, Return, and Refund," http://www.prnewsnow.com/Public_Release/Legal%20And%20Law/170544.html.

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Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Paddy Shaffer
1-614-761-0621
E-mail Information Trackback URL: http://prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3F1YS1TdW1tLVByb2YtQ291cC1Mb3ZlLVplcm8=

REMEMBER THOSE 2004 OHIO STICKERED BALLOTS FOR JOHN KERRY... WHICH BECAME VOTES FOR GEORGE W. BUSH?

2007-12-31T18:03:00.000-08:00

REMEMBER THOSE 2004 OHIO STICKERED BALLOTS FOR JOHN KERRY... WHICH BECAME VOTES FOR GEORGE W. BUSH?

By Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

December 31, 2007

It seems that on this final day of 2007, that a stiff drink might be needed for some who have been following the Ohio Election Theft fiasco from 2004. I rarely drink, but recommend a stiff one now for those of you that can be responsible consumers. Compliments of a reporter, I was just sent the following article:

This link is for a Saturday August 11, 2007 Cincinnati Enquirer blog titled "Clermont County's ballots.
http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/2007/08/clermont-countys-ballots.asp

From the article:
Brunner had no firsthand knowledge about the two stickered ballots, but said her staff is committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004, while working to improve future elections.

Please make note that on August 6th, 2007 I was in Secretary Brunner's office with Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips photographing those very ballots. We were in room 1706, on the 17th floor. We went to the 16th floor via elevator, to the office of Secretary Brunner and in person made a request (which I had done hours earlier via phone as per the suggestion of Doug Miller) to Bobbie Gilbert, Jennifer Brunner's Executive Assistant that we were inviting Secretary Brunner to come to room 1706 to view the stickered ballots. This is the actual physical evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election, which was right there in her office, in a room where Doug Miller her Manager of Security was overseeing our photographing of these election records. We told Bobbie that if we even only had 20 to 30 seconds of the Secretary's time, we just thought it very important that she see the actual ballots. Bobbie Gilbert said that Secretary Brunner was too busy that day. I then requested that she come herself or send other staff, Chris Nance, Kellye Pinkleton, Kathy Spinelli, Brian Green, or other top staff. Just send someone to come and see the stickered ballots while they were there.

Richard and I went back to room 1706, and spent the next several hours continuing to photograph Clermont, Delaware, and other county ballots. Not one of Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner's staff, nor Brunner herself showed up to look at these stickered ballots. Doug Miller, Manager of Security did see it, as did several other staff members that came into the room to speak to or to help Doug. One lady that was having a job interview got to see one of the ballots when we took it to Doug's personal office to have natural light with which to photograph it by his window. The conference room we were working in had a yellowish light to it. Richard and I wanted to show everyone, tell everyone in the office we could the story. So there are a few people there that have seen stickered ballots. We hope their jobs are safe. But why would the leadership people avoid this?

I must question this... Brunner had no firsthand knowledge about the two stickered ballots, but said her staff is committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004, while working to improve future elections.

How does ignoring and avoiding any look at the 2004 election (with the slight exception of some changes in Cuyahoga County... though still no one has gone to jail there, or anywhere for the many documented election crimes) count as being, "committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004...."?

It has now been 146 days since she was asked to meet with what has become The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, and there has been no meeting. It is the last day of the year 2007. Not one person has served time in jail for this election theft, the largest crime in the world. Brunner has in her possession over 2200 boxes of 2004 ballots and election records, which they refuse to investigate, including the stickered Clermont County ballots. The Attorney General also has not investigated, although he and his office have Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips book full of detailed information and statistics on those ballots. Brunner has many chapters of the book. Both offices have a large amount of information that I have provided, and information from Tim Kettler and Paul Harmon Esq. They both have all the information in the King Lincoln lawsuit. Both offices have Sherole Eaton's whistleblower lawsuit regarding the Triad technician switching out the hard drive on the voting machine tabulator prior to the recount.

Just when does this nation see justice? When do the people paid to enforce our laws actually enforce them and represent the people, and not these corrupt election officials and employees of the voting machine company's? How much can we as the public allow them to ignore, and for some of us, how much can we ignore because it's just not comfortable to deal with the magnitude of the lies. So if this has all been illegal, and this constitutional crisis blows out, what part must the average citizen play? What does that mean to us individually. What if you voted for or against these election thief's...? Will you let it continue for your kids? I've had people say... "My guy won so why should I care". Wow... you are the folks with the biggest "enabler" burden to carry. I hope those stones are heavy on your shoulders, I hope one day you hurt like this country is hurting, this is just NOT allowable. Please put some deep thought into this.

For those of you that say, it couldn't have happened there were both Democrats and Republicans there. I have an important observation to share with you, both parties were involved. This may be a reason the current Attorney General and Secretary of State don't want to deal with it. Would such scandal help the Democrats win a presidential year? No, it won't help anyone. This is terrible, treasonous, rotten issue for everyone. The Republicans as the beneficiaries own much of it. Then there is the Ohio State Democratic Party, and the National Democratic Party, who have both allowed this to happen. I do mean allowed, they know. Then there is John Kerry and John Edwards, who have both been provided with documents on the election fraud. Both also have neglected to take on the issue. I gave them to Kerry; my brother provided them to Edwards.

At this point I don't bother to ask what party the election officials represent because we have mountains of evidence that both deserve credit. Lets start where my investigation started, it was Delaware County Democrat and Deputy Director of the Board of Election Kim Spangler, along with Delaware County Democrat and Board of Election member John Myers who stepped up to block the 2004 recount. John claimed such a high level of poverty for that BOE that they couldn't afford to plug in the tabulators for the recount, thus the temporary injunction to stop the recount, which they were taking to court to make permanent, which then blocked the full state. I asked John Myers if they needed a 220 outlet like a clothes dryer, or a regular wall outlet? John said a regular wall outlet. I then told him to unplug the coffee pot. The budget for the Delaware County BOE for 2004 was over $900,000.00 and they can't afford to plug into a wall outlet in the Rutherford B. Hayes County Building. Oddly enough, the building is named for a former US President that also stole his election. Go figure.

In just under 7 hours it will be 2008, another Presidential Election Year. Whoopee... the same alleged criminals run everything. Please to all the Americans out there that read this, this is not a partisan issue. This is national security, treason, the blatant arrogant trashing of democracy. Join us and take a stand, make your voice heard. NEVER AGAIN!!! All the "Looking Forward" that the Secretary of State has been doing is leaving us totally unprepared for the upcoming elections, with the same alleged criminals in place. How is this preparing? Now she plans to give them 15 days to run elections, let them know which precincts will be the ones to be audited for a recount, close the small precincts for super precincts which destroys the usage of historical data on how an area votes, and more. This is dire. Plus we can spend more money on more crap machines to tabulate our votes, machines that Colorado just decertified. And what about those Clermont County ballots that Brunner should have learned about as a candidate, or when we went to her office to invite her to see them, which in the below article she claims to have no firsthand knowledge about. Plausible deniability doesn't work. We all know about those ballots, and Secretary Brunner should be embarrassed to claim ignorance of them.

Please read the below article, and access the above link to see it in its original format. Thanks to Carl Weisner for writing this blog article.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Clermont County's ballots

Jon Craig brings you the sage of the missing ballots in Sunday's Enquirer. You can also read it here.

Meanwhile...

The groups behind the lawsuit say they have uncovered evidence of possible tampering in Clermont County, a traditionally Republican-leaning county where Bush won easily.

For example: oval-shaped stickers were inexplicably found on at least 10 ballots in Clermont County, for several state and local races as well as president and the same-sex marriage ballot issue.

The tiny white stickers would have blocked an optical scanner from counting a vote for the pencil mark that’s visible below. Two of those ballots from Pierce Township were preserved and observed by Enquirer reporters Thursday.

Brian Green, an elections attorney at Brunner’s office, confirmed that the stickered presidential ballot – which negated a vote for Kerry – is perplexing and that the Bush oval above it clearly has a darker, wider pencil mark. None of the other ovals marked on the two-page ballot are as dark or outside the oval to the same extent.

Clermont County elections officials said they no longer use stickers to remake spoiled or mismarked ballots. The county has since purchased newer optical scanners that would not count stickered ballots.

Clermont County Board of Elections Director Mike Keeley, who became director in March 2006, said he is unaware of anyone misusing stickers during the 2004 election. The county’s newer optical scanning equipment would not count votes if stickers were placed on ballots today, he said.

“That would show as an invalid ballot,” he said Thursday. “That was old equipment, old procedures, old process.”

The county’s former Board of Elections director, Daniel Bare, did not return phone calls for comment, but Bob Drake of Anderson Township, a mathematical education professor at the University of Cincinnati, signed a sworn affidavit saying Bare and other county election workers acknowledged stickers were used to cover stray marks on ballots during the 2004 election.

In an interview with The Enquirer, Drake said he and others “noticed some ballots had stickers completely covering (a) Kerry vote. A different shade of pencil where the Bush bubble was filled in. ... There should’ve been an investigation. There was criminal activity.”

Brunner attributed the sticker problems more to inconsistencies in county procedures statewide, something she aims to iron out.

The checkmark present next to the Issue 1 oval is of concern to her, she said, because if it was there before the paper ballot was run through an opti-scan machine, that vote would not have been counted.

Brunner had no firsthand knowledge about the two stickered ballots, but said her staff is committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004, while working to improve future elections.
posted by Carl Weiser at 8/11/2007 03:16:00 PM
(If you go to the link, there are 24 comments.)

Now, do we get our money back??

2007-12-16T21:55:00.001-08:00

Project Everest Commentary from Victoria Parks

In my last commentary, I stated that is just plain "wrong to assume." And now we know. The Secretary of State of the great State of Ohio just released her long awaited tests results in Project Everest, Secretary Brunner's plan to determine once and for all where vulnerabilities lie with Ohio's voting machine hardware and software. I just want to say that on the one hand the results of the Project Everest testing were brilliant—so revealing and so damning. I feel vindicated. Long time election justice activists everywhere have indeed won the argument on the DRE voting machines. The touchscreen voting machines have proven a danger to democracy. It is just one more nail in the coffin of lies and deceit. Whew, that was a long haul. Though I am pleased and feel vindicated I have to ask, was it worth 1.9 million dollars to prove this again? Just because something is really, really expensive does that mean it is worth what you paid for it? On the other hand, Secretary Brunner has no plans to decertify the touchscreens. Why not? Even more rigorous testing was done in California which found even more vulnerabilities which resulted in the unprecedented action of California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertifying the all three voting machine vendors in that state. Even with the findings, yesterday's news from the Secretary of State didn't produce what most of us in the Ohio Election Justice Campaign were hoping for. Surely, she would do the same, and decertify the machines, we thought. And just look at those test results. Why, it is as if the vendors designed the machines to fail! hmmm. That's getting my blood pressure up. I also want to know, how was that 1.9 Million in HAVA money spent? Blood pressure is going even higher now. To whom did it go? ...higher... Why did it pay for testing which resulted in conclusions that have already been established? ...pop. So many questions, so few real answers. Now, I hear Project Everest managers and observers had to sign a non-disclosure agreement that shuts them up until 2017. So, complain all you want public, "you have no right to know what we are doing." "Just trust us." That is the message. No transparency, still no trust.

The fact that so many holes were poked in vendor claims of voting machine security is absolutely another victory for long-time election justice activists who have long claimed this. For that I am grateful and congratulate the Secretary of State for looking into this critical matter even though it came at a price of 1.9 million to taxpayers way too late. Voters have long awaited official confirmation of these allegations. The fact remains though that the primaries are only two months away and that is unsettling. We all remember what a mess the last election turned out to be. We expect it will be again in '08. Will we just hear more overtures of "everything went just fine" in '08? The tests are better late than never but where will that put us in two months? I only wish this testing had been done early in the year after we had given Secretary Brunner all the ammo in the world to decertify. To her credit she did take action in Cuyahoga County. And, now she has tested the machines and confirmed what we all suspected—that these voting machines are like crack houses. The door is always left unlocked and you may not know who is inside at any one time, but, you do know that crimes are being committed while the criminals are inside. Enforcing the rule of law is now long overdue. I know Secretary Brunner has a huge task ahead of her in 2008 and I will try to take that into consideration, but I also must say that essentially nothing has changed. The same group of officials are still in place who botched the last general election so badly. What is worse, many of the Project Everest observers were Ohio BOE officials who defied a Federal Court Order to preserve '04 election records. What does that say? They should be held in contempt of court. So, what were they doing observing Project Everest? Was it meant as part of their learning curve? And what was a registered lobbyist for ES&S doing picking the observers for Project Everest? I am worried indeed.

I must ask the Secretary of State, why not decertify the machines?? Because the state doesn't have the money to go to a hand-counted paper ballot system? The answer could be "well, yes, we're broke. We just blew our HAVA wad on machines that went for about five thousand dollars a pop." That's all the more reason to get our money back. Or, does the Secretary of State's reasoning not to decertify reflect the view that "we already spent so much money on them, we have to continue spending money with these vendors to try to make electronic voting work!"? That reasoning is so flawed. Like I said, putting good money after bad is not only illogical, it is stupid. Secretary Brunner you know this. You also know we don't have the money. Heck, we've already spent 1.9 million to prove something we activists, and the California SoS already knew. That is why it is so troubling that you choose NOT to decertify the machines as California's Secretary Bowen so wisely chose to do. I am bewildered. Proving your independence of judgement apart from that of Calfornia's Debra Bowen, will not score political points for you. This will not wash with voters. I guarantee it.

Madame Secretary, don't you think we should get our money back??

I've said previously, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results", a saying from our great founder, Ben Franklin who had little respect for lightning but much respect for scientific process. OK, Project Everest did not reveal results any different from those in California, Of course. that was an easy assumption to make. Now, can we move on and get our money back because we all know what landfill these machines turned out to be? Respectfully, there is something else that bothers me and it has nothing to do with you, Madame Secretary. The Help America Vote Act which forced these voting machines on us in the first place, was written in Bob Ney's office with the help of Jack Abramoff and two-hundred-seventy-five thousand dollars from the Diebold corporation. Yes, our tax money went to vendors who finance people like Bob Ney (Federal Prisoner #28882-016) and Jack Abramoff (Federal Prisoner #27593-112). If Bob Ney and Jack Abramoff are both convicted criminals, what does that make HAVA?

Brunner's recommendations long on money, short on transparency

Secretary Brunner enjoyed a great coup at her press conference on 14 December when she revealed her damning Project Everest findings. For a politician to get press like that in front of a 30 foot Christmas tree is a slam dunk. Good on her.

Nevertheless, one could conjecture that absolutely nothing will change in Ohio for the primaries. Her recommendations will not be implemented because there isn't the cash, nor the time now, to put her recommendations into place for '08. We will keep using the DRE's, certainly in every other county save Cuyahoga perhaps. Her recommendation may not be enough to solve the great challenges that lay ahead for Ohio voters in '08. If the past is any indication, the primaries are guaranteed to be a mess when once again we expect to be told by elections officials that everything went "just fine", "just trust is" and "move along. There is nothing to see here." However, as Bev Harris of Black Box Voting pointed out recently, appeals of "just trust us" don't wash anymore with voters. This is not about "just trust us." This is "prove our vote count is correct beyond a doubt by implementing the proper checks and balances." Harris is spot on. We the people are entitled to full transparency in our elections and we are just not there. We are angry and we are still waiting for genuine election integrity by means of genuine transparency.

Secretary Brunner made it clear that in-precinct vote tabulation audits using optical scanners against hand-counts are gone. She, in doing so, has eliminated the most critical opportunity to achieve election transparency. Her move towards strict central tabulation effectively shuts down transparency at the precinct level. Secretary Brunner, we need MORE transparency in the precinct, not LESS. But you know that. No, Secretary Brunner, We the People would demand a mandatory, truly random, ten percent in-precinct hand count audit against the optical scanners on election night. We the people will not let another elections official, politician or bogus legislation, eliminate every avenue to transparency that was once available to us. A real paper ballot provides us that one chance to make sure the vote count is right on election night and you understand this. We will achieve this through a process called citizen oversight. So let's not make it a paper trail. Let's make it a paper ballot. Give us that in our precincts.

I am dreading the March primary. Ohio doesn't have the money for the Secretary's recommendations to shift to optical scanners and paper ballots for '08. Where will we ever find the money? Even if we did have the money, are we to understand her recommendation would be to continue rewarding the vendors— the vendors who sold taxpaying voters a bill of goods in the first place and whose only punishment will be?.... drum roll please... A BRAND NEW CONTRACT for the manufacture of 2 billion-dollars-worth of NEW ELECTRONIC Voting machines!? Oh, that again. I can see it now just as clearly as a train coming down the track and guess who is tied to the tracks? The voters are. The taxpayers are. That is just not going to wash with us anymore. We are tired of spending billions for questionable elections. We want verifiable election results. Anything less than total transparency is unacceptable. We want our money back so we get get back on track—that is, on the train, not the tracks. Methinks it is not only time for real transparency but that it is time for some hefty lawsuits filed against the vendors for the biggest democracy-killing taxpayer rip-off in history. Vendors shouldn't be rewarded, they should be decertified, then they should be sued.

If we ever do get our money back, which I doubt, we should spend it on hiring randomly selected independent auditors to conduct in-precinct random 10% hand-count audits against the optical scanners counting our precious, real paper ballots. Now THAT would prevent the cheaters from cheating. Yes. It would offer genuine checks and balances by the people, for the people offered the freedom to verify their own election results. That's real transparency. Remember, it's not about "just trust us" anymore. Accustomed to disappointment once again though, voters get coal for Christmas. We have been duly informed that in-precinct audits are off the table by Secretary Brunner.

Though some of Brunner's recommendations on the surface appear to be actually quite good, like the 12-day window voters would be given to cast their ballot in "Super-precinct polling stations", the recommendations do nothing to address the urgent need for real transparency. Consider for example, what might happen if some unscrupulous individual counted super-precinct ballots early and was able to use the early results like an exit poll that could be used to fine-tune a rig? The possibilities for fraud are stunning. For another example, weak links in the chain of custody exist for the transport of millions of paper ballots to an ill-conceived "Central Tabulation" point in each county. Without polling station audits with citizen oversight, we still won't know if our vote truly counted.

Transparency is the key word in verifiable elections and we still have none of it. What Secretary Brunner has proposed guarantees voters will have solved some old problems but will gain an entire boatload of new ones—more than we had during the Office of Secretary of State under Blackwell. If anything, voters fear we will feel the noose again in '08 amidst the chaos and desperation of voters who fear their vote, and perhaps their voter registration as well, will be manipulated again. The election of '08 may well become just another fake election that "went just fine." Prove me wrong, Oh please, prove me wrong. In the meantime, can we get our money back?

FW: Invitation to Attorney General Meeting, Monday, 12/17, 2 p.m.

2007-12-16T21:52:00.000-08:00

The OEJC is meeting with members of the Ohio Attorney General's Office tomorrow, Monday, December 17th, at 2:00 p.m.

We will be meeting at Victorian's Midnight Cafe, 251 W. Fifth Avenue (at Neil), at 11:45 a.m. for preparation. Car pools to the Attorney General's Office will be leaving from Victorian's at 1:00 p.m.

For those of you who prefer to travel separately, please plan to arrive in the Attorney General's reception area no later than 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.

The Ohio Attorney General's office is located at 30 E. Broad Street, in the Rhodes State Office Tower, on the 17th Floor. Ask to be directed to the Main Conference Room to meet with Christopher Geidner and Michael Deemer, that you are a member of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign.

Convenient parking is located under the Ohio Statehouse in the underground parking garage.
There is an underground tunnel that will take you directly from the garage to the state office tower.
The state office tower is directly across Broad Street from the Ohio Statehouse.

If you are not already scheduled as a speaker, and we have several, and you are able to attend, please know that you come in as a witness. Be prepared that we have only a short amount of time that they scheduled for. We must stay on topic, for what we have set up. Please hold your comments until the end, and if time allows, we want them to hear from many of us, that they begin to know us as a group. We also don't want to frighten them away, but to begin to work to resolve these issues. We must succeed, our nation needs us.

Dress professionally, and lets impress them with our integrity.

Make it a Powerful Day,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

Ohio Voting Machines And The Potential Of Product Liability Lawsuits For Recall, Refund

2007-12-06T21:55:00.000-08:00

Sample Lawsuits Delivered by Ohio Election Justice Campaign
to the Secretary of State and other Elected Officials on November 30, 2007

By Patricia “Paddy” Shaffer
Director, OEJC
December 2, 2007

A Voting Machine Jingle:
It was the final day of testing and all through the state, voters were praying that the machines would just go away, up on the tables they saw with a grin, a package of real paper ballots and pencils and pens, hand counted at the precincts, by locals they knew, and the outcome was auditable, no longer would the voters be screwed.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2970925220524280238&hl=en

OEJC Holiday Jingle for the Project Everest testing.11-30-2007

On November 30, 2007, the final day of the testing of Project Everest, the 1.8 million dollar HAVA taxpayer funded testing of Ohio’s Voting Machines by Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, hopeful packages from The Ohio Election Justice Campaign were delivered in the capital city of Columbus Ohio. The deliveries were to Governor Ted Strickland via a staff member named Peg; the Ohio Senate and the Ohio Controlling Board who approved the money for this project; to Attorney General Marc Dann via Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora; and to Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, via Executive Assistant Bobbie Gilbert who said the package was on her own desk.

...........Paddy & David Sikora.....Paddy and Strickland Staffer ................................

David Sikora, Assistant Chief for Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann and a staffer of the office of Governor Ted Strickland, are handed packages of sample product liability lawsuits on the last day of Project Everest testing.

Marj Creech, Victoria Parks, and Paddy Shaffer assembled and delivered these packages including two product liability lawsuits: one by Paul Lehto for Washington, one by Patricia Axelrod for Nevada.
Product liability interview is at this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2641535466633314591&hl=en
In delivering the packages, it was explained that the purpose of us providing these packages to them is to raise awareness that Ohio can request it’s money back, to have a recall and refund on the voting machines. These lawsuits can serve as a sample or a template for what Ohio may need to do after the testing of our voting machines. Now that these elected officials have the sample product liability lawsuits, the topic has been raised for recall and refund. Plausible deniability is no longer a reason to continue to keep machines, if the only strong reason given after the testing reports have been viewed is because we have such a large financial investment in them, and that we must keep them. In this case the deciders of the fate of our voting machines will be fully aware they could ask for a recall and refund. The flawed reasoning of throwing good money after bad is devoid of good fiscal judgment. These vendors have been decertified in California after exhaustive testing by the Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Why then should we expect different results in Ohio? They are the same vendors being tested. One only hopes that the testing Brunner conducted will have proven just as rigorous. One recalls the words of our founder Benjamin Franklin who said, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." He was a wise man.

The package also contained several items including information on other lawsuits in the US and documents from Leonard Samuelson, an Electrical Engineer and software developer for thirty years. Leonard covered a variety of important topics regarding electronic voting machines, including:
Voter verification
Count auditing required.
Testing only validates expected behavior.
Hidden capability is easy to prepare.
Hidden capability is easy to use.
It’s possible to limit access to hardware.
Paper and pen are very reliable.
Testing cannot prove “no tricks.” (OEJC's favorite)

All offices were informed that we shall follow up in about a week to make sure the package was reviewed, and will be seeking comments.

At the office of the Attorney General Marc Dann, we supplied the package to Assistant Chief Damian W. Sikora. In the past, Damien has done defense work on behalf of J. Kenneth Blackwell regarding election justice cases such as Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell, and the League of Women Voters v. Blackwell. He is listed on the papers as being in the Constitutional Offices Section.

These packages were delivered on the final day of testing for Project Everest, for which The Ohio Election Justice Campaign has repeatedly requested both verbally and in writing, to have observers for. All requests heretofore had gone unanswered. We were told permission would have to come from Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Nance. Christopher never returned our phone calls or letters regarding our request. Sadly he was unable to come out and speak with us while we were there at his office. He was said to be in a meeting with the SOS at that very moment. While there, we were told that he was writing us a letter, and would send it soon. That was Friday November 30, 2007, and the letter arrived via email on Sunday afternoon, December 2, 2007 at 4:06 p.m. This is that letter:

November 30, 2007

Dear Ms. Shaffer:

Thank you for your recent correspondence and request to have observers from the Ohio Elections Justice Campaign observe the EVEREST testing process.

While I understand your interest in observing the testing process, I am respectfully denying your request to observe the testing process.

In a recent email (dated November 22, 2007), you also made numerous requests of information. Please note, that any specific public record requests you made are being addressed and Brian Green, Elections attorney for our office, will be sending you information shortly.

If you have any questions, you may contact my office at 614-644-0764.

Sincerely,

Christopher B. Nance
Assistant Secretary of State

cc: Jennifer Brunner
Kellye Pinkleton
Brian Green

Election transparency denied again. It is now day 117 since the OEJC has requested a meeting with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General.
The OEJC was informed that members of the Voting Rights Institute who were invited to go to the facility where the testing is taking place were asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. This forbids them from talking about what they witnessed until the year 2017. Two members went, many others declined, not willing to sign the agreement. The OEJC has requested public records, including all non-disclosure agreements that the SOS has asked anyone to sign in 2007, including for Project Everest. These are mentioned in the above letter.

At the office of Ohio Secretary of State we had the pleasure of speaking to Secretary Brunner’s Executive Assistant Bobbie Gilbert. We spoke of what was in the package, and on the subject of plausible deniability. We also addressed several other items, including Clermont County's RC-3 form (a “certificate of records disposal”) that I had personally provided Bobbie to give to the SOS on August 6, 2007. The form was proof that Clermont County Board of Elections Director Mike Keeley was still in July of 2007, destroying the 2004 election records that Judge Marbley had ordered protected and safeguarded under the threat of a fourth degree felony and contempt of court charges. I wanted them to do something about it, and to remind all the counties to safeguard the records, and for the SOS to request an inventory of what still existed. While we were there talking to Bobbie, I let her know that my continuing research of this very week had revealed that the Poll Books and Tally Sheets mentioned on that RC-3 form, are regarded as election records with a six year record retention schedule, not a 22 month retention schedule, like the ballots. (The Ohio Auditor of State, Mary Taylor’s office approved the destruction of these records according to the stamp on the form in July 2007). The Clermont County poll books in question were destroyed along with the ballots.

Ms Gilbert, Victoria, and myself went around and around until she appeared exhausted with us, never gaining satisfaction that we activists will go comfortably back to sleep and stop paying attention to that man behind the curtain, we fear that might be the guy doing the testing of our voting machines? After requesting to speak with Chris Nance we were told he was busy and that Kellye Pinkleton would speak to us. After having waited for Kellye for a half an hour, we'd like to thank Ms. Gilbert for stepping up to the plate to speak with us. When these SOS employees are unable to resolve our problems, they along with us must feel frustration.

It was addressed to Bobbie that having the same people running the 2008 elections, who ran and committed alleged election crimes in 2004, did not appear to be getting ready for 2008, but rather appeared to be simply repeating the same types of past behaviors; for example, the destruction of public records without consequence. As the counties are preparing for 2008 in the current situation, we have no reason not to expect massive record destruction of election documents once again. Now, that is a problem. Records destruction is an addictive behavior, like alcoholism. First one has to admit the problem before effectively handling the addiction. Looking forward won't do a darn thing until we all look back to figure out how we got here.

For the many alleged crimes and alleged criminals we spoke of, we were repeatedly told that, “We are looking forward to 2008, we are getting ready for 2008, Secretary Brunner knows what needs done, we are looking forward to 2008", again and again and again. A mantra that plays over and over from the mouths of elections officials at the office of the Secretary of State (and previously at the office of the Attorney General), but doesn't play well with Ohio voters who want corruption out of our BOE's and out of our elections for good. The days of "just trust us" elections are over. We want transparency and accountability and we want it now.

It is wrong to assume

2007-12-05T23:06:00.000-08:00

It has been said that to "assume" is to make an "ASS Out of You and ME." Fair enough. That being said, I believe it also fair to say that there are certain things in life that one is reasonably allowed to assume, like if it can go wrong, it eventually will—a saying attributed to a guy named Murphy; that absolute power corrupts absolutely, for example. There are other universal laws like what goes up must come down, like Bush's disasterous approval ratings; that waterboading is in fact, torture, no matter what one calls it; that if voting machines are tested for reliability in one state and fail miserably, that they would perform similarly in another state—like, say Ohio?—especially when HAVA funds to the tune 1.8 million dollars have been spent to prove otherwise regarding the exact same voting machines?

The People's elections are supposed to be transparent and accountable, therefore, is it unfair to assume that when the results of the Project Everest testing are published on the Secretary of State's website on December 14th, that the machines will have failed miserably like they did in California? Is this presumptuous of me? No, it could be assumed. Was it not our Founder Ben Franklin who said, "Insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results"? He was a wise man.

Therefore, to assume that the Project Everest will prove that the machines are OK is illogical. If these tests, the testers and the Voting Rights Institute observers, do in fact find the machines are OK, for the sake of the truth then, it is necessary that one talk about the actual tests that have been performed.

What everyone is talking about:

So far, no one is talking about the tests. In fact, folks involved in Project Everest are also not talking about the non-disclosure forms all Project Everest observers were required to sign which (legally?) keeps them from talking about what they observed until 2017. Wow. Mum's the word. That must have something to do with that "secret source code" that vendors say they can't talk about with the People. They are also not talking about Aaron Ockerman, a registered lobbyist with ES&S, being charged with choosing those who got to observe the Project Everest testing in the first place.

In October of 2007 before the Project Everest testing began, SoS Brunner spoke at a lobby day at the Vern Riffe Center at which time she requested those attending submit their questions to her on paper. Unfortunately my question was not chosen but we were all promised her office would commit to answering all questions submitted. Well, I have called Secretary Brunner's office to get an answer to the question I submitted that day, "Will Certified Ethical Hackers" be performing tests in Project Everest?" Sadly, no one from the Secretary of State's office has called me back, and now, the testing is over.

I ask the Voters of Ohio, is it fair to assume the testing has been rigorous? Fair? We will all know on December 14, 2007. If the machines are not found infallible then it is fair to question the tests and those who conducted those tests. I await the results of the Project Everest tests with eager anticipation.

Victoria Parks
Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Fwd: ES&S technician Sam Hogsett Manipulates Tabulators at 2004 Recount, also works in Michigan, and more...

2007-12-04T08:05:00.001-08:00

The fate of the nation and the world can depend on Ohio...

Ohio Elections Outcomes Are Determined by people who

Manipulate Tabulators and do Butt Busting during a Recount such

as Sam Hogsett:

The two letters at the bottom of this article are but a window into the chilling thoughts of one man, authorized by multiple Ohio counties and Michigan to be counting our votes. These letters were found in 2006 as Letters to the Editor from Sam Hogsett with a Crown City, Ohio address. Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips and myself found these while researching some of the colorful characters involved in the alleged theft of the United States Presidential 2004 Election in Ohio.

Crown City is on the southeastern boarder of Ohio, next to the Ohio River and West Virginia. Sam Hogsett has shown up in several Ohio counties where there is a strong need for legal investigation and it would likely follow with the need for prosecution of alleged violations of election laws.

Delaware county is just one, and I was an actual witness of alleged illegal behavior during the 2004 recount, which involved election officials Kim Spangler and Janet Brenneman and was done in front of Chris Betts who is a Delaware County Prosecutor. Hogsett was allowed to manipulate the keyboard for the computer on the tabulator, load the punch card ballots, and call out the precinct totals, all during the final few hours of the recount. This happened after Janet had a precinct where she had trouble getting the numbers to work, and had spent time crunching numbers on her old fashioned adding machine.

I spoke with Kathy Spinelli, at the Ohio Secretary of State's (SOS) office earlier this year about my concerns with Sam Hogsett. That they should become aware of where he was working and what he was doing, and to let Michigan officials know that he is also in their state. A 9-25-07 record request I sent, asking to know all the Ohio Counties that ES&S technician Sam Hogsett has worked in, and the dates, went to the SOS office. On 11-5-07 Election Council Brian Green's reply states that, "This office does not maintain the information you seek. Please direct your inquiry to ES&S or the county boards of elections." It is my understanding that as ES&S is a private company, their records are private, another form of outsourcing our elections. If the things that have happened regarding this man are an alleged violation of the law, an investigation is needed. The first thing that would be needed would be to know where he has worked. Kathy Spinelli left me feeling confident that it would be looked into early in the year... I don't feel confident they are looking at all now, and I don't understand how this fits into the picture of "we are getting ready for 2008", the statement we have repeatedly been told as to why no one in a position of authority on Ohio elections will turn their heads and look any other direction... other than forward. Sometimes it is very wise to look to the side, and even behind oneself to know where you are and what stinky stuff you are standing in.

Back to Delaware... The Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections, Janet Brenneman was so pleased with Sam Hogsett that during the 2004 recount, she was butt busting with him... where you swing your hips back and forth like dancing, and both people bump repeatedly into one another. Now really, is that appropriate with a big audience made of citizens, election observers, BOE workers, the County Prosecutor Chris Betts, all in attendance watching? Not to sound prudish, but it really seemed like something more appropriate for a private time. It also made me wonder just how well Janet the BOE Director and Sam the technician knew each other?

Additional research I have done shows that Sam Hogsett also works for ES&S as a technician in the state of Michigan.

According to the ES&S contract with Michigan...

I found Sam Hogsett, page 113

2004 ES&S contract with Michigan (third sending)

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/E_S_&_S_Cost,_Training,_and_Project_Mgt_Summary_89497_7.pdf

"Sam Hogsett has over fifteen years of Technical Field Service experience, and has served as Field Service Technician for ES&S for more than twelve years. His current responsibilities include implementation, maintenance, and support of all ES&S hardware and software installed in ES&S's global customer base. In addition, Sam coordinates scheduling to conduct Field Service maintenance visits with customers.

And now the letters... please read and decide for yourself if this is someone you would want to be programming your voting machine?

_________________________________________

From: www.herald-dispatch.com

Voice of the people
Scheer way off about gun lawsuits

I recently read in this pitifully left-leaning
editorial section that the spineless, thoughtless,
moral less, useless, left-wing liberal America hater
Robert Sheer is unsuccessfully attempting to use an
apples-to-oranges comparison to wrongfully attack our
Second Amendment rights. What a loser.

Does he actually think, which obviously is very
difficult for him and his ilk, that if I took a Ford
and purposely ran over him, that his family should be
able to sue Ford or the dealership which sold it to me
for damages?

Unbelievably, he must, because he also believes that
if I were to take a Smith & Wesson and blast his
little pea brain to bits, that his family should be
able to sue the manufacturer and the gun dealer who
sold it to me. He just doesn't get it.

As he sits around groveling and talking to himself in
the pathetically miserable world he often describes, I
imagine he needs his dribble bib changed between each
sentence he ekes out on his word processor.

Sam Hogsett
Crown City, Ohio
__________________________________________
Letters to the editor (second letter)

Apply drug laws to government landlords

The editorial opinion given by The Herald-Dispatch on
cracking down on landlords and confiscating their
property is totally correct as long as the same rules
apply to city, county, state and federal housing
authorities.

Imagine every time there is a drug bust in a Section 8
housing property, we the people will be able to evict,
confiscate and, according to a recent Supreme Court
decision, develop the property into something useful
and profitable.

We can't just arrest, evict and rent the property out
again. Forfeiture is the only answer, since our
government won't do background checks on their tenants
or more importantly, random drug test on all Section 8
residents and welfare recipients.

Why should we expect more out of private landlords
than we expect out of our tax-supported welfare
landlords?

Sam Hogsett
Crown City, Ohio

ES&S connection - CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela

2007-12-03T13:31:00.001-08:00

For more on ES&S and Venezuala look at the following link http://www.votersunite.org/info/ES&Sinthenews.pdf

According to this link...

Remember, AIS, precuresor to ES&S, was founded by two brothers, Todd Urosevich, currently ES&S Vice President of Customer Support, and Bob Urosevich, currently President of Diebold Election Systems.

it reads in part, on page one... 1998, However, during the same election season, the Dallas devices initially failed to count 41,000 votes. And two years later, massive breakdowns and technical difficutlies with ES&S systems rocked the Venezuelan national elections, causing the vote to be suspended. Pres. Hugo Chavez and Venezuelan election officials accused the company of "trying to destabilize the country's electorial process," while protesters chanted "Gringos go home!" at ES&S technicians.

ES&S connection - Re: [ei] CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela and the

2007-12-02T22:17:00.000-08:00

ES&S is in Venezuela (Read the below letter too)

In the 2004 Recount in Delaware County Ohio, the ES&S technician, Sam Hogsett that was allowed and encouraged to run the keyboard for the tabulator computer, load ballots, and call out precinct totals for several hours.... told me something during our lunch break. (I repeatedly read the law to the group, including Chris Betts, a Delaware Prosecutor, and let them know they could not legally do that) Everyone else involved in the recount left the building for lunch, I stayed to watch the Sheriff watch the ballots. Sam stayed also. We talked. I asked where else his company did election work. Canada and Venezuela were both mentioned. Sam said he had not worked in Venezuela, but I later learned that he does work in Michigan also. Many of the places where Sam shows up, things seem to get tinkered with. If he has been in your state, you want to know this, and I want to know also. The address he gave was a PO Box in Crown City, Ohio, which is along the West Virginia boarder.

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

More on Sam Hogsett... from this website http://www.democratictalkradio.com/wordpress/?p=422 (lots more interesting reading about Sam here).

This is part of a letter I wanted to share with all of you, a letter that Sam wrote, which Richard Hayes Phillips and I found very late one night, while wondering and researching who Sam Hogsett is:

Sam Hogsett is more than an ES&S technician according to Shaffer and
others who investigated him, who have found his letters to the editor
quite alarming. Voting rights activists troubled by Hogsett’s role in
the recount found letters posted under the name Sam Hogsett, Crown City,
at the southeastern Ohio newspaper website www.herald-dispatch.com. One
of the letters begins as follows: “I recently read in this pitifully
left-leaning editorial section that the spineless, thoughtless, moral
less useless left-wing liberal America hater Robert Sheer is
unsuccessfully attempting to use an apples-to-oranges comparison to
wrongfully attack our Second Amendment rights.” Hogsett goes on to
write: “… He [Sheer] believes that if I were to take a Smith and
Wesson and blast his little pea brain to bits, that his family should be
able to sue the manufacturer and the gun dealer who sold it to me.”

----- Original Message -----

From: Michael Green

To: ElectionIntegrity@googlegroups.com

Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:22 PM

Subject: [ei] CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela

http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7475 Eva Golander writes:

An internal CIA memorandum has been obtained by Venezuelan counterintelligence from the US Embassy in Caracas that reveals a very sinister - almost fantastical, were it not true - plan to destabilize Venezuela during the coming days. The plan, titled "OPERATION PLIERS" was authored by CIA Officer Michael Middleton Steere and was addressed to CIA Director General Michael Hayden in Washington. Steere is stationed at the US Embassy in Caracas under the guise of a Regional Affairs Officer. The internal memorandum, dated November 20, 2007, references the "Advances of the Final Stage of Operation Pliers", and confirms that the operation is coordinated by the team of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) in Venezuela. The memo summarizes the different scenarios that the CIA has been working on in Venezuela for the upcoming referendum vote on December 2nd. The Electoral Scenario, as it's phrased, confirms that the voting tendencies will not change substantially before Sunday, December 2nd, and that the SI (YES) vote in favor of the constitutional reform has an advantage of about 10-13 points over the NO vote. The CIA estimates abstention around 60% and states in the memo that this voting tendency is irreversible before the elections.

Officer Steere emphasizes the importance and success of the public relations and propaganda campaign that the CIA has been funding with more than $8 million during the past month - funds that the CIA confirms are transferred through the USAID contracted company, Development Alternatives, Inc., which set up operations in June 2002 to run the USAID Office for Transition Initiatives that funds and advises opposition NGOs and political parties in Venezuela. The CIA memo specifically refers to these propaganda initiatives as "psychological operations" (PSYOPS), that include contracting polling companies to create fraudulent polls that show the NO vote with an advantage over the SI vote, which is false. The CIA also confirms in the memo that it is working with international press agencies to distort the data and information about the referendum, and that it coordinates in Venezuela with a team of journalists and media organized and directed by the President of Globovision, Alberto Federico Ravell.

When Steven Freeman was writing Was the 2004 Election Stolen? I offered what little help I could, far less of which found its way into the final product. Hard facts unearthed by Greg Palast proved malicious intent from Bush & Co. in Florida 2000 to rig the presidential election by hiring CIA-linked Database Technologies on a $4,000,000 contract -- instead of the prior contract of $5,000 which its predecessor had -- in order to scrub minorities from the voting lists, but the book had to smear a lot of Vaseline over the ugly particulars that proved such scheming intent. We may be the victims of electoral fraud, but that doesn't mean that we have to be rude.

At one point, Steven asked whether there were evidence of the CIA attempting to influence foreign elections. I provided many, but I do not think that any made it to print. America wasn't ready for this kind of prime time news.

Eva Golinger, an American attorney, used FOIA documents to learn details of the CIA-backed April 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez that is memorialized in the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a movie that ran briefly in the States but no longer has any US distributor. Golinger wrote The Chavez Code: Cracking US intervention in Venezuela (2006). The book details CIA and USG military participation in the coup with the Venezuelan generals it had trained, but especially vast funding of anti-Chavez organizations from unions through newspapers to political parties to destabilize his government, all with the active participation of both the Venezuelan private media and our own CNN:

At 2:15 p.m. [April 11, 2002], the high military command was broadcast on national television, attempting to diffuse rumors of violence that were circulating throughout the country. Earlier that day, in the eastern part of town, ten high-level military officers had summoned CNN correspondent Otto Neustald to a residential location to record a prepared statement for subsequent broadcast. Read by Vice Admiral Hector Ramirez Perez, who was subsequently named Minister of Defense by the Carmona coup government, the testimony deplored the massacre of innocent civilians, announcing that a macabre conspiracy had been implemented by Chavez resulting in the death of six Venezuelans, killed at the hands of government forces. [NOTE: Both the book AND the video documentary prove that the innocent civilians were shot by the coup plotters.] Ramirez Perez called for military insurrection, citing the violence as justification. Neustald had to do two takes of the vice admiral's testimony. It was recorded before any violence had erupted in the opposition of pro-Chavez demonstrations. [NOTE: BBC & CNN announced the collapse of WTC7 20 minutes before it collapsed. The BBC woman announcer is seen against a backdrop of NYC with WTC7 still standing. When someone notices the premature announcement, the woman is pixelled out as though a transmission failure occurred and a switch to another topic occurs. When the error became public 5 years later the networks said that it was an innocent error. I am going from memory that it was BBC and CNN, but these tapes are now well known.]

A few months later, Neustald, participating in a forum entitled "Journalism in Times of Crisis" at the Bicentennial University of Aragua in Venezuela, revealed that:

On the 10th, the night they called me on the telephone and said, Otto, tomorrow the 11th there will be a video of Chavez, the march will go toward the presidential palace, there will be deaths and then 20 military officials of high rank will appear and pronounce themselves against the government of Chavez, and will request his resignation. They told me this on the 10th at night.

Neustald affirmed that at the time of the recording, which specifically cites deaths caused by Chavez forces, no violence had yet appeared. The US media had in effect been in the service of the coup. (pp. 68-69)

I am very thin-skinned and the prospect of being called "our own fring nut case" is too much for my refined sensibilities, so I do wish to state for the record that no such complicity between the media and the covert operations branches of the USG and ruling class ever occurs in the United States, despite there being a classic example of one in my essay,

http://www.911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/TheAssassinationOfJFKJr.html

I wish that Skull and Bones were all that we had to worry about, or even the Illuminati, but it is much more concrete and unmysterious than that. By the way, the Global Research URL outlines the "help for democracy" provided by the CIA and its front office affiliates, all of which is detailed in Golander's book. The GR outline follows:

How is this to be done?

In the memo, the CIA proposes the following tactics and actions:

Take the streets and protest with violent, disruptive actions across the nation

Generate a climate of ungovernability

Provoke a general uprising in a substantial part of the population

Engage in a "plan to implode" the voting centers on election day by encouraging opposition voters to "VOTE and REMAIN" in their centers to agitate others

Start to release data during the early hours of the afternoon on Sunday that favor the NO vote (in clear violation of election regulations)

Coordinate these activities with Ravell & Globovision and international press agencies

Coordinate with ex-military officers and coupsters Pena Esclusa and Guyon Cellis - this will be done by the Military Attache for Defense and Army at the US Embassy in Caracas, Office of Defense, Attack and Operations (DAO)

To encourage rejection of the results, the CIA proposes:

Creating an acceptance in the public opinion that the NO vote will win for sure

Using polling companies contracted by the CIA

Criticize and discredit the National Elections Council

Generate a sensation of fraud

Use a team of experts from the universities that will talk about how the data from the Electoral Registry has been manipulated and will build distrust in the voting system

The CIA memo also talks about:

Isolating Chavez in the international community

Trying to achieve unity amongst the opposition

Seek an aliance between those abstentionists and those who will vote "NO"

Sustain firmly the propaganda against Chavez

Execute military actions to support the opposition mobilizations and propagandistic occupations

Finalize the operative preparations on the US military bases in Curacao and Colombia to provide support to actions in Venezuela

Control a part of the country during the next 72-120 hours

Encourage a military rebellion inside the National Guard forces and other components

Those involved in these actions as detailed in the CIA memo are:

The CIA Office in Venezuela - Office of Regional Affairs, and Officer Michael Steere

US Embassy in Venezuela, Ambassador Patrick Duddy

Office of Defense, Attack and Operations (DAO) at the US Embassy in Caracas and Military Attache Richard Nazario

Venezuelan Political Parties:

Comando Nacional de la Resistencia

Accion Democratica

Primero Justicia

Bandera Roja

Media:

Alberto Federico Ravell & Globovision

Interamerican Press Society (IAPA) or SIP in Spanish

International Press Agencies

Venezuelans:

Pena Esclusa

Guyon Cellis

Dean of the Simon Bolivar University, Rudolph Benjamin Podolski

Dean of the Andres Bello Catholic University, Ugalde

Students: Yon Goicochea, Juan Mejias, Ronel Gaglio, Gabriel Gallo, Ricardo Sanchez

Regards,

Michael Green

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Cleveland video on broken paper tapes and machine...

2007-11-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

Really great footage and coverage of Diebold hardware problems.
I'm hoping soon the citizens will start to ask for their money back
from defective product they were sold.

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=49066
Watch the video! Jam printers, unreadable tapes, crashes.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=78881

Paulson said,"I think most people admit they bought the wrong system. You don't want to be a laughingstock because your equipment doesn't work.

Board chairman Jeff Hastings said, "It looks like a hardware issue, not a training issue. We need to go to the vendor and say we have a problem with your equipment. Why do we have a problem."

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Posted By nation.of.gandhis to Neocon Panic Attacks at 11/30/2007 02:56:00 PM

2008 Voter Suppression Tactics Pursued By The Right on NOW

2007-11-27T12:15:00.001-08:00

In other news, Democracy Campaign Director David Becker will appear on PBS's NOW this Friday. David sat down with NOW host David Brancaccio in October to discuss the current state of voting in this country and challenges voters face as we approach the 2008 elections -- particularly in terms of voter suppression tactics pursued by the Right. The entire half-hour show will be devoted to David's interview. Check your local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html and set your Tivo now!

Bio http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/7A8/62B

culled from PFAW email

Ohio Election Theft Kills

2007-11-24T22:11:00.001-08:00

This is an important video, titled "More Dead Cause of Ohio" that ties in the theft of the Ohio Election with the many soldiers now dead... because of what has happened in Ohio. The ripples in this dark pond water are rolling around the world, and the dead are buried.

This Video is based on a Neil Young song, and it includes scenes from the new David Earnhardt movie "UNCOUNTED". David is a supporter of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, and we recommend the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdvsJKzmN0

Multiple requests - SOS - Observers for testing of Voting Machines, Project Everest, OH Sec. Of State

2007-11-23T07:09:00.000-08:00

Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State
Chris Nance, Assistant Ohio Secretary of State
Kellye Pinkleton, Director, Voting Rights Institute
Brian Green, Elections Council

Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2007

Dear Secretary Brunner, Christopher Nance Brian Green, and Kellye Pinkleton,

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and the staff at the Ohio Secretary of State's office.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) writes to you this evening about the growing concern of many of the members of the OEJC regarding the multiple written and verbal unanswered requests we have made to be observers of your Project Everest testing of the Ohio voting machines. As we understand it, according to Kathy Spinelli of the Secretary of State's office, the testing finishes at the end of this month, with a report due out in mid December.

As we have repeatedly asked to be observers of the testing, we have continually been told that someone will get back to us, or we get no answer at all.

That leaves us now with a maximum of 6 day's left to observe, and this 6 days would include the Friday after Thanksgiving... which for many is still part of the holiday. So that takes us on a more practical level to 5 days of testing remaining.

Has any member of the public gotten to observe? As this 1.8 million dollars is taxpayer HAVA money (our money), used to do the testing, should not we as taxpayers get to take a look?

We understand that the members of the Voting Rights Institute (VRI) that were offered a chance to view the testing of the voting machines, on November 14th were also offered a dilemma. It is our understanding that to view the facility where the testing was, with the possibility that they might see some of the testing, they were informed they must agree to silence. It is our understanding that they would have had to sign a non disclosure agreement, to not speak about what they saw until the year 2017, ten years in the future. Do we understand this correctly? Could you please explain why this was a condition of observing the testing.

We request a copy of the form that you asked them to sign, please send it and the other documents we will now be requesting to our contact person, Paddy Shaffer. We request to know what they were told, verbally and in written form. Did any of them observe the testing? We request the forms of any VRI members that signed such a form.

What if they saw something that really troubled them, something that did not show up in your report. Do you really think they should not tell the public what they saw?

Who else was asked to sign a non disclosure agreement regarding Project Everest? If there are other versions of non disclosure forms that your office has asked people to sign this year, we request to have copies of these records.

Please send copies of all non disclosure agreements that you have asked any member of the Voting Rights Institute to sign, or for them to even consider signing this year in regards to anything having to do with interaction with the VRI, the office of the Secretary of State, or Ohio Elections. We request these items as part of the Ohio Public Records Laws, ORC 149.43

If there have been other verbal requests to "keep quiet" or not share information either verbally, photographically, audio, video, or other means from members of the VRI, or the public in their interaction with any County or State Ohio Election Officials, with venders of Ohio election machines, silence requests that in any way have come from the Ohio Secretary of State's office, from any member of the SOS staff, we request to know the details, and what and when things were agreed to. If this is in writing please provide it, if it is all been verbal, please write it down, that we may know what our tax dollars are paying for in the way of public servants.

It is known that Brian Green, who sends out the record requests from the SOS office likes to only provide paper records, but this topic is so very important and for our fragile democracy to survive, and for us to trust what we now see as non trustworthy voting machines, that we feel it is necessary to know about it all, and to know about it now. We hope that if the requested information has only been verbal up until this time, that it will be deemed necessary to put it in writing, and provide it to us.

If we can schedule observers in for watching the testing during the final week, we are interested. If we would also be asked to sign a non disclosure agreement to do this, we would of course, need to see what it says.

Sincerely,

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Contact Person:

Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

Cc: All of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
Mark Niquette
Jon Craig
Ian Urbina
Brian Rothenberg

P.S. Below you will find a previous request to view the testing, it was never resolved.

----- Original Message -----
From: Paddy Shaffer

Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: SOS - Observers for testing of Voting Machines, Project Everest, OH Sec. of State,

Chris Nance, Assistant Ohio Secretary of State
Kellye Pinkleton, Director, Voting Rights Institute

November 7, 2007

Dear Chris Nance,

Dear Assistant Secretary Nance,

I write today to request to be able to place observers from The Ohio Election Justice Campaign to witness the Project Everest 1.8 million dollar tax payer supported testing of the Ohio Voting Machines. I wrote you about this previously in a letter about several subjects, and did not get a response. As I now wonder if my request was overlooked, I thought it was important that I repeat it.

It is my understanding that the testing is to be complete on Thursday November 15th, 2007. Is this correct? As there are only a few days before that date, please send me details on how to have observers in to watch some of the testing, and the location for which they would need to go.

Please let me know what the anticipated date is for your Project Everest Report on the findings to be complete.

Thank you so much for your assistance Chris and Kellye.
Sincerely,

Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign,
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

cc: Bev Harris
Victoria Parks
Dan Stanton
Tim Kettler
Sheri Myers
Jon Craig
Mark Niquette
Nancy Tobi
Ian Irbina
Paul Lehto Esq.
Brad Friedman
Greg Palast
Stephen Caruso
Jamia Sheppard
Ray Beckerman Esq.
Blair Bobier, Esq.
Tim Kettler
Paul Harmon, Esq
Michael Collins
Joan Quinn
Jo Anne Karesek
Jane Schiff

LOBBYISTS HACKING YOUR ELECTIONS?

2007-11-22T11:10:00.000-08:00

LOBBYISTS HACKING YOUR ELECTIONS?
The Case for Voting Systems Recall, Return, and Refund (Part I)

photo collage by Victoria Parks, 2007

Ohio Election Justice Campaign Press Conference of November 21, 2007.
This is 107 days after a meeting was requested with Jennifer Brunner, The Ohio Secretary of State, and Mark Dann, The Ohio Attorney General to begin the discussion of dealing with the need for investigation, prosecution, and a way for the public to follow the progress. So far, they have not agreed to meet with this growing national group, and their main comment for every question is "We are looking forward to 2008, we are getting ready for 2008", yet we have noticed that while they do this they also ignore a very troubling past.

As today is Thanksgiving, November 22, 2007... we have only 39 days until it is 2008, a presidential election year, and according to Secretary Brunner, absentee ballots go out in January. The continuing research by The Ohio Election Justice Campaign shows that more needs investigated now, not less. It seems Secretary Brunner has now inserted lobbyists of the voting machine companies into the picture. We hope that many things can be worked out for the benefit of the people, with Secretary Brunner and Attorney General Dann.

Artists Creating Justice members... Paddy Shaffer and Victoria Parks sculpted a large roasted turkey sculpture to help get the points of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign out to the world... The OEJC asks to "Toss Out These Turkeys" in reference to the Diebold, ES&S, and Hart Intercivic Voting Machines.

Thanks and Blessings to Progress Ohio for hosting our Press Conference!

Many Thanksgiving "Thanks" to Peace General Bruce for the below video of this press conference.

OEJC Press Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA >11-21-2007 (part-1-)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2329730873176308759&hl=en

OEJC Press Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA >11-21-2007 (part-2-)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8852338345804631566&hl=en

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A blog article by Columbus Dispatch reporter Mark Niquette (who was out of town on holiday and not at the press conference, but did give us some coverage - thank him) is in the below link. This has a place below for comments. Please add one.

http://blog.dispatch.com/dailybriefing/

Lobbyists Hack Your Elections: The OEJC Calls for Voting Systems Recall, Return, and Refund (Part I)

2007-11-21T10:56:00.000-08:00

The OEJC is calling for the recall, return, and refund of Ohio's electronic voting systems, widely documented as unreliable, inaccurate, and subject to manipulation, and subject of several product defect suits nationally. Lobbyist suggested elections officials to current review of Ohio 's voting systems. Selected officials include representatives from counties plagued by election irregularities such as failing to preserve 2004 ballots as ordered by federal court. Voting systems purchased pursuant to HAVA, co-authored by former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), met with lobbyist Abramoff during drafting, both serving prison terms for convictions related to bribery and corruption of public officials, respectively.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) November 21, 2007 -- In a press conference today, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) is calling for the recall, return, and refund of voting systems used in Ohio, the state that clinches presidential elections. Representatives from Boards of Elections (BOE) plagued by election irregularities, such as failing to preserve their 2004 ballots in violation of federal court order, are now sitting in review of the state's electronic elections systems, courtesy of a lobbyist.

According to the Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's answers to the State Controlling Board, which approved $1.8 million in Help America Vote (HAVA) funds to review Ohio's elections systems, the final recommendations will be the "responsibility of the Secretary of State's Office working with a representative group of the state's election officials."

Brunner's letter to this same board, dated Sept. 20, 2007, states, "The list (of election officials) was compiled with Aaron Ockerman who met with me this morning and suggested the names of those to be involved."

Aaron Ockerman, of State Street Consultants, is a registered lobbyist for the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO), a corporation that promotes the business interests of Ohio election officials. He was a registered lobbyist for Election Systems & Software, ES&S, (ESS) in 2003.

Neil S. Clark and Paul Tipps, founders of State Street Consultants, were registered lobbyists for ES&S, 2002-04, and for Diebold (DB), 2004 and 2005. Clark is currently a registered OAEO lobbyist.

Ockerman, also a registered lobbyist for ACS (ACS) State and Local Solutions, Inc., formerly Lockheed (LMT) Martin IMS, co-hosted a reception for the Ohio SOS and others during the winter 2007 OAEO conference.

Of the twelve election officials, nine come from BOEs that disposed of 2004 election records protected by court order in King Lincoln v. Blackwell (S.D. Ohio), http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php, four of the nine serving as BOE Director in 2004. Two of the nine disposed of their records before certification of the 2004 election; and another three have not submitted the requested explanation to the SOS for their missing records.

As of this date, almost half come from counties with various alleged recount irregularities, and one from a county with alleged voter suppression, King Lincoln v. Blackwell (S.D.Ohio). Although Ohio does have many BOEs secure from these problems, only two are represented on the list.

HAVA earmarked $3.9 billion in tax payer money to implement electronic voting systems. Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) co-authored HAVA, meeting with lobbyist Jack Abramoff during its drafting. Ney and Abramoff are now serving prison terms for convictions related to bribery and corruption of public officials, respectively.

The electronic elections systems have been widely documented as unreliable, inaccurate, and subject to manipulation. California decertified its electronic voting machines, Florida tossed them out, and New York has not even introduced them.

Lawsuits alleging breach of warranty, Lehto v. Sequoia (King County, Washington) and Axelrod v. Sequoia (Washoe County, Nevada), have been filed in state court. A complaint naming the Ohio SOS was filed in U.S. District Court, Schulz v. State of New York (N.D.N.Y.), seeking an injunction until elections are open, verifiable, and transparent.

To support the OEJC, donate at www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC. For background information on the failure to preserve the 2004 ballots, see http://www.prnewsnow.com/TextNews/168067.html.

Election Education Program

2007-11-19T07:14:00.000-08:00

On November 11, 2007 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbus, Ohio, at the Community Leaders Forum multiple members of The Ohio Election Justice Campaign spoke about Ohio's ongoing election issues. This video documents the start of our Election Education Program, as we seek to teach the stories, and provide the actual accompanying documents for Ohio's election issues. We do this so that many can tell the stories, and have the documents to support the story, and then together we can resolve the issues.

Enclosed below is the video of this event. Many thanks to Peace General Bruce for the video, and to Earl Wurdlow, our generous host and moderator.

Warm Thanksgiving Blessings,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621

Earl Wurdlow on Truth 11-11-2007

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2256569015086148914&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 1 ) Paddy Shaffer

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4343550207887107984&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 2 ) Tim Kettler

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1167800014891261786&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 3 ) Victoria Parks

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3499095301239630559&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 4 ) Gloria Kilgore

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3864437158517936981&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 5 ) Q and A

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4949272307577333269&hl=en

Community Leaders Forum, OEJC, 11-11-2007 (Part 6 ) Q and A

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7176946520371142585&hl=en

100 Days Since Meeting Requested With Brunner And Dann

2007-11-15T07:57:00.000-08:00

AS OF TODAY, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2007 IT HAS NOW BEEN 100 DAYS SINCE THE REQUEST WAS MADE ON AUGUST 8, 2007 FOR A MEETING WITH THE OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE JENNIFER BRUNNER, AND OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL MARC DANN TO MEET WITH WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS THE OHIO ELECTION JUSTICE CAMPAIGN...

There are only 46 days left until the end of the year... and then it will be 2008. According to Secretary Brunner, absentee ballots start getting sent out in January.

The SAME people (with the small exception of a retirement in Fayette County, Licking County both Director and Deputy Director left their job, replacement of the Cuyahoga Board, and a job switch in Delaware County, Miami County Deputy Director quite her job the day a record request from Richard showed up, and possibly a couple others that we are not aware of, who may have left their jobs in the Ohio Boards of Elections) are running our elections. There are 88 counties... and little has changed in most of them.

With this number of 100 days passed... we can also mourn the dismal failure of these newly elected officials (the SOS and AG) to deal with most blatant crime in US History... with hunks and wads of evidence just laid out all over the state of Ohio.

We have added a new witness of election crime to our group, Dr. Andrew (Drew) Feight, who witnessed and documented the rigging of the Scioto County Recount in 2004. He tried to get the prosecutor to deal with it, and to go higher when he got no help. We will now be helping him, and our strong pile of evidence gains another glowing hot piece. Welcome Drew... we want to help you, and your story will help us all.

We have a Press Conference next week, to deal with the topic of the testing of Ohio's Voting Machines, a 1.8 million dollar taxpayer funded test. I have repeatedly, both in writing and verbally contacted the Secretary of States office, and asked to have observers there to watch. Chris Nance, the Assistant Secretary of State is who I have been told gets to decide... and he will not respond. Why? The testing has been ongoing for awhile, and they are scheduled to finish at the end of the month. I have an article I am writing about this and more darkness in what I see for this testing as it is now going. I'll try to get it out, and you all informed in the next few days.

Below is a shortened version of the video of the Memorial Event we held on November 2, 2007 on the 3 year Anniversary of the theft of the Presidential Election. Some wrote and said they were unable to open it up. I hope this works. If not, please give me feedback. Thanks to Bruce for doing this, and he also added a George Carlin video, with a warning.

Make it a Powerful Day,

Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com(614) 761-0621

OEJCHonest Election Funeral 11-02-2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=667276555347081129&hl=en
15 Activists gathered at the Ohio State Capitol in Columbus, Ohio, USA to mourn the "Death of Honest Elections." The Procession went to the 1. Franklin County Board of Elections, 2. The Ohio Secretary of States Office, and 3. The Ohio Attorney Generals office.

Subject: George Carlin on the American Dream
so called because you have to be asleep to believe it... 3-minute video:

Warning: offensive language. and yes, this is related to fake elections with fake choices (among other topics).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18690.htm

Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Legacy Or Lethargy? Ohio Officials Brunner And Cordray Asked To Deal With 2004 Election Fraud In Their Final Hours In Office

Pay No Attention To that Coshocton County Behind The Curtain

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

Columbus Dispatch, 3-26-09

NORTH CANTON, Ohio

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

Diebold Chief Financial Officer Kevin Krakora steps down afterreceiving SEC notice

Ohio Election Status, 2009: Cleaned Up Or Covered Up And By whom?

Prosecutors Bully Ohio Voters: Ohio Election Justice Campaign Calls for Day of Silence on January 6, 2009

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

International Observers Ohio SOS Records Request

Election Officials May Face Criminal Charges: OEJC Files in Federal Court

If I Were A Terrorist, A James Pence Video

Federal law now requires statewide databases of voter registration

Summit County Ohio, the GOP, the SOS, and a State Senator

I Give This Ohio Election Issue An "F"

False Flag Security Alerts

Ohio Election Justice Campaign Is Joining Project Vote Count

Your Personal Signature Used By The State

Power To The "We the People"

VoteRescue Radio New Hampshire Recount

Commissioners Show interest in "DRE Product Liability Suit"

Major Network TV Producer: "You, the Citizens, are the New Media" on "Voice of the Voters!"

Quarantine That Machine! Citizen Action To Take Back Our US Elections

Foreclosures And Bankruptcies Are About To Savage The Voter Registration Bases

Absentee Request Forms For Voting And Websites In Ohio Have Problems.

A Special 2008 Subpoena (Regarding The 2004 Ohio Election) For Blackwell From Conyers

A Special Two-Hour VOICE OF THE VOTERS with Brad Friedman, Paddy Shaffer and others

IF IT'S BROKE, DON'T FIX IT

BALLOTS WERE NOT SECURED FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE RECOUNT

WOSU Call In Election Reform with Board of Elections Officials

The New Hampshire recount "Shame of Custody"

Slacker BOE Members Ignore Brunner Survey Order

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Survey says. . .

Ohio Secretary of State to Talk Live With Citizens on Radio and the Internet & Important News from S.C.

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

Petition To Recoup Election Machine Financing

In The Meantime, We Want Our Money Back

Republican election officials discuss Brunner's ballot changes:

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

2004 Video - US Citizens Demand Honest Elections in Ohio

Interview with Jennifer Brunner/OEJC, Brad Blog And Voice of the Voters Audio

Thugs Gag Your Vote: OEJC Calls for Day of Silence on Sunday, January 6th, 2008

REMEMBER THOSE 2004 OHIO STICKERED BALLOTS FOR JOHN KERRY... WHICH BECAME VOTES FOR GEORGE W. BUSH?

Now, do we get our money back??

FW: Invitation to Attorney General Meeting, Monday, 12/17, 2 p.m.

Ohio Voting Machines And The Potential Of Product Liability Lawsuits For Recall, Refund

It is wrong to assume

Fwd: ES&S technician Sam Hogsett Manipulates Tabulators at 2004 Recount, also works in Michigan, and more...

ES&S connection - CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela

ES&S connection - Re: [ei] CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela and the

Cleveland video on broken paper tapes and machine...

2008 Voter Suppression Tactics Pursued By The Right on NOW

Ohio Election Theft Kills

Multiple requests - SOS - Observers for testing of Voting Machines, Project Everest, OH Sec. Of State

LOBBYISTS HACKING YOUR ELECTIONS?

Lobbyists Hack Your Elections: The OEJC Calls for Voting Systems Recall, Return, and Refund (Part I)

Election Education Program

100 Days Since Meeting Requested With Brunner And Dann

Diebold Chief Financial Officer Kevin Krakora steps down after
receiving SEC notice