For all those Election Protection folks: Bonifaz made the Ballot!

Just in....

John Bonifaz made it on the ballot for Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Mass.!

Details to follow - Looks like we captured 20-25% of the vote at the convention!

He will be on the Septemember Ballot!

more about his speech and the video that played at the convention here: http://spidel.net/blog/?p=665

on edit: must watch video here: http://www.spidel.net/video/Bonifaz-web.lg.mp4 (large download, but worth it!)

Bonifaz bio:

Bonifaz, a lawyer and constitutional scholar from Boston, is the founder of the National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI). Since 1994, NVRI and Bonifaz have been on the cutting edge of the defense of voting rights for all Americans. Bonifaz and NVRI were at the forefront of the fight to defend the Massachusetts Clean Elections law, which was overwhelmingly approved by the people but defunded by the threatened politicos in the state legislature. Bonifaz and NVRI won a landmark ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on this issue, forcing the state to provide the necessary funds to all qualified candidates running in the 2002 state elections.

Bonifaz and NVRI have also been fighting against the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that equated unlimited campaign money and spending as free speech. Their work on this has been aimed at defending mandatory campaign spending limits, public financing of elections, and other important campaign reforms.

More recently, Bonifaz threw himself completely into the fight for a recount of all votes cast in the overwhelmingly shady presidential vote in Ohio in 2004. An amazing number of complaints from voters, as well as reports of outright fraud by eyewitnesses, continues to stain the official outcome of that all-important vote. Bonifaz represented Libertarian and Green Party candidates Michael Badnarik and David Cobb in their ongoing legal challenge to this vote, and was able to bring John Kerry and John Edwards into the suit. We know today about what really happened in Ohio last November because of Badnarik, Cobb and John Bonifaz.



This is a race we all need to look at if you care about Election Protection.

Woo-hoo!

TC

Thanks for posting this wonderful news! :kick:

:loveya:

I've been waiting all day for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:woohoo:

Go Jon!

I love listening to John Bonifaz speak

:kick:

:applause:

But Galvin did have the best Convention T-Shirt. (I cannot be bought off with just a T-Shirt. Maybe if one of the Gubernatorial candidates had offered to pay off the college loans on my daughter, hmmm, maybe. BTW, just kidding.)

BONIFAZ: A man who knows how to fight for democracy ...
A rarity these days,

25% of the conventoin delegates...not bad for a newbie to political candidacy. And he's going to take off with the electorate. About September, when things reach critical mass, he'll look damn good.

:hi:

his bid for SOS.. and won't the NASS and NIST cozy SOS Election stealing buttheads be frustrated to have to face John in their cozy little meetings...won't diebold go cowering in the corner and ES&S when they face a single SOS that won't take their bribe money?????
Diebold is ONE MORE WHISTLEBLOWER/CLASS ACTION suit away from being out of business... let's get John into office so he can push those little electronic vote stealing machines over a cliff....

John Bonifaz deserves to win his election..

I encourage people from other states to contribute to his campaign to make sure this American hero continues to fight for honest elections!!!

Goosebump material. As well as all his other presentations, and always well-researched, knowledgeable, FACT-based knowledge of the Constitution and Rights.

He's such a good attorney, so energetic...yet maintains a healthy idealism that "wrong" can be "made right."

Kudos to Bonifaz as potential Sec. of State!
Bravo!