Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns

I have watched this board for awhile, Bush has screwed them left and right, it's all been for show ...

April 22, 2005

The first chairman of a federal voting agency created after the 2000 election dispute is resigning, saying the government has not shown enough commitment to reform.

DeForest Soaries said in an interview Friday that his resignation would take effect next week.

Though Soaries, 53, said he wanted to spend more time with his family in New Jersey, he added that his decision was prompted in part by what he called a lack of support.

"All four of us had to work without staff, without offices, without resources. I don't think our sense of personal obligation has been matched by a corresponding sense of commitment to real reform from the federal government," he said.

Soaries, a Republican former New Jersey secretary of state, was the White House's pick to join the Election Assistance Commission, created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to help states enact voting reforms.

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Soaries is probably a guy who was set up as a 'front' without knowing it. It's pretty obvious that no staff, offices, and resources spells no action.

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I read about this on Bradblog. He was obviously just being used by the Bush administration.

Bush first of all takes his sweet ass time before he puts them on this board and then cuts their funding almost immediately afterwards. Gee, I wonder why? Because the mixture of machines this country voted on was a perfect setup for fraud.

Never seen so much openly obvious FRAUD election-wise. It's not VOTER FRAUD, it's not LIBERAL WHINING... it's ELECTION FRAUD because all 3 voter tabulation companies are owned by corporations w/proven ties to the Chimp.

Republican "non-partisan organization" that are all controlled by Republican activists- which give them more control of the spin.

it doesn't matter how it's packaged, the answer is still, BS!
Meanwhile, we slowly progress accumulating more and more information.
Now the whole Clinton impeachment thing is seen as a partisan hack job, not a moral quest of truth, etc. & details of corruption are starting to leak out about Iraq and Afghanistan. The more information is revealed about the corruption and culpability of the Republican neocons the stronger we are.

All of :yourock:

without House or Senate makeover? Everything is in place for a continuing fascist sweep, first in 2006. I hope we're not in a position to ask the same question again. Election fraud evolved since election 2000 and surely 2004's is already obsolete. It is highly probable in the existing political environment-given no huge changes-to again be outsmarted by mentalities accustomed to shady ops. After all, they live there.

Even if a criminal election fraud case (election 2004) was filed tomorrow, the legal apparatus is so populated with fascist JDs that it would take years to go to the trier of fact. The tax break bought media will continue to do the White House's bidding, as well. Not to bring rain here, but our opportunity for real change without massive organized protests on the largest imaginable scale is bleak, at least until 2008. By then, new fraud techniques will miraculously appear, outsmarting the honest who, once again, thought they had prepared for any contingency.

What we need is our own B_I_G media machine and all the police, fire, and medical unions standing with us. Combined with overwhelming numbers of protesters, we might be able to penetrate the thick fundamentalist mindset and effect change. It wouldn't hurt to begin educating the militarists too. We need to compel through action. Time to remove the gloves.

Remember, the Attorney General is one of them. He will quash or act to quash anything that threatens the junta.

Stephen