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
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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
Monday, March 10, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
I Give This Ohio Election Issue An "F"
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
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
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
False Flag Security Alerts
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
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Ohio Election Justice Campaign Is Joining Project Vote Count
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
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
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Your Personal Signature Used By The State
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
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.
::::::::
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
Monday, February 18, 2008
Power To The "We the People"
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
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
Sunday, February 17, 2008
VoteRescue Radio New Hampshire Recount
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
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
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