Brad is going to broadcast the Brad Show live from the Portland Summit on Saturday from 4-8 PM. He will broadcast the Friday evening presentation (see below), where he interviews Paul Lehto, Ellen Theisen, Clint Curtis, and then he and Bob Koehler will have a discussion on the media.
Then he will be doing live interviews for the rest of the show, from six to eight.
Here is the Friday night lineup:
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Brad Friedman
What's Wrong with Electronic Elections and What Can We Do about It?
Panel presenters and moderator Brad Friedman will explore how electronic voting and vote counting threaten our democracy and how we can reclaim our elections.
Panelists:
Paul Lehto
Lehto will introduce core concepts explaining the threat posed to democracy when private, for-profit corporations count our votes using trade secret software, not viewable even by election officials. When our ballots are counted using trade secret software and we have no way to verify the accuracy of the election results, there is no rational basis for confidence in corporate controlled elections results. These corporations have taken over our elections and radically altered our election checks and balances. The American public does not need further confirmation of specific misdeeds and election fraud before taking back their democracy. They can take it back now!
Ellen Theisen
America’s election systems are now being controlled by two factors: HAVA (Help American Vote Act) and computers. The overwhelming majority of Americans don’t understand either. Misinformation abounds about both. Yet, decision-makers across the country are basing legislation, administrative rules, and purchasing decisions on these misunderstandings and misinformation. Arm yourself with the facts so you can fight for democracy intelligently.
Clint Curtis
Curtis is a computer programmer who in October 2000 was asked by Florida Congressman Tom Feeney (the initial running mate of Governor Jeb Bush) to write a program for touch screen voting machines that would make it possible to change the results of an election without detection. Curtis, a lifelong Republican, assumed initially that this effort was aimed at detecting Democrat vote fraud, but later learned that it was intended to allow the Republican Party to alter election results without detection. Curtis testified under oath before the Minority House Judiciary Committee at the now famous “Conyers Forum” on Dec. 13, 2004, where he told this story, which he will relate tonight.
Meet the Press: The Media Stumbling Block – Bypassing a Complacent Media to Sound the Alarm on Elections in Crisis
Brad Friedman and Bob Koehler
Nationally syndicated columnist Bob Koehler and blogger Brad Friedman will discuss the role of the media (or lack thereof) in getting the word out about the crisis in America’s elections and about the need for major reform. Can we have election reform without media reform? How can we interrupt “groupthink?” How can we, as citizens, “be the media,” since mainstream media is not doing the job?
For the rest of the agenda, see
http://summit.oregonvrc.org/files/Session%20Descriptions.pdfwww.summit.oregonvrc.org
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