URGENT! 2-minute action item to save our elections - deadline today!

NOW IS THE TIME!!! We have only a few hours to help ensure that every American vote will be counted in the 2008 election and beyond. The Federal Election Assistance Commission closes the public comment period on their proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines at 5 p.m. TODAY.

Please send the following phrase or whatever you would like to express on the proposed guidelines immediately to votingsystemguidelines@eac.gov . Many technical people are submitting detailed comments, but we learned yesterday that governments around the world are WATCHING to see what America – YOU – think.



“I want Section 6.8 to require a voter-verified paper audit trail for ALL voters and voting systems. It should be mandatory.”


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http://guidelines.kennesaw.edu/vvsg/intro.asp

Reproducing the text in full, since it's from a govt. website and therefore public domain:



Off the subject...does anybody know why this information is being hosted at Kennesaw State University, a Georgia state institution in Cobb County (NW of Atlanta, home territory to both Newt Gingrich and Julia Roberts)?

Tabulation by any other means is not acceptable.

Let's cross - post to everybody..

da done done done!

Done

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Section 6.8 should require a mandatory voter-verified legitimate paper record for all voters and voting systems, and the voting machines should be open to public scrutiny. No "industrial secrets" when it comes to the inner workings of our elections.

apparently my first one did not count, because of some electronic glitch.

Thanks for the heads-up.

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Dear EAC:

America’s election system has been hijacked by partisan corporations who insist on “trade secret,” proprietary programming code in their contracts with states for electronic voting systems, and has been additionally compromised by lack of a real paper ballot for recounts and audits, and in many cases, no “paper trail” of any kind, by inadequate automatic recounts and audits, by lavish lobbying (such as occurred at the Beverly Hilton this August*), and by lack of controls on these extremely insecure and hackable electronic systems, including a lack of independent exit polls as used in many other countries to verify elections and check for fraud. The one set of exit polls we had in 2004 were doctored late on election day to fit the results of Diebold’s and ES&S’s “trade secret” vote tabulation, thus depriving the American public of evidence of election fraud (that John Kerry won the exit polls). This is a practice that other democracies would find intolerable, as they would secret, proprietary programming code and no paper ballot backup for recounts.

We need...

1. Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)

or, at the least...

2. Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% automatic recount, very strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code!

Our election system has become non-transparent, and our elections have become unverifiable, with the onset of the electronic voting boondoggle. These machines should be dumped into “Boston Harbor,” just like the English tea of old. Non-transparent, unverifiable elections are tyranny! They are its very definition. And transparent, verifiable elections are a no-brainer. Not difficult. If you, and Diebold, and ES&S, and the Bush regime, and the War Democrats, had wanted an honest election in 2004, we would have had one. Clearly, that is not what was intended.

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*Please see the following post at Democratic Underground for a description of the week of fun, sun and high-ending shopping that was provided for election officials from around the country, at the Beverly Hilton this August, with sponsors including Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia. The lavish lobbying and “revolving door” employment in the electronic voting industry is disgraceful:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

Yours sincerely,

xxxx

Twice

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