VIRGINIA VICTORY 2005 – DEMOCRATS WHOMP ‘EM

NORTHERN VIRGINIA HOLDS THE LINE AGAINST 100% FALWELL-ROBERTSON TICKET

First time EVER. Northern Virginia goes solid Democrat for Governor--we are the next Marin County!

GOVERNOR: FAIRFAX COUNTY 60%-38 Democrat - ARLINGTON COUNTY 74%-24 Demmocrat - ALEXANDRIA CITY 72%-26 Democrat - LOUDOUN COUNTY 52%-45% - (SAME AS STATE WIDE TOTAL)



My precinct was even better. We laid down the smack down. Northern Virginia is in full revolt against the Republican party. They tried to shove a 100% Pat Rebertson-Jerry Falwell ticket down our throats. The above is our response. Kerry carried Northern Virginia by a few points in 2004. In 2008, the Democrats can look forward to these numbers and they can plan on taking the whole state. Kaine, Gov, won state wide (51%-45%) and there is a recount (which we WILL win) for Attorney General, in which the Robertson clone by 410 votes for now. btw



66% Democratic Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attn. General, 30% or so Republican ticket. Mission accomplished. Autorank, Precinct captain, VA

VIRGINIA VOTED!!!

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This election was the Virginia Democratic party against an exclusively Pat Robertson-Jerry Falwell ticket. It was a head on contest with the most repressive, bizarre elementsw of society and the hopes of progress and civil comity. The Democrats won. This election was decided in Northern Virginia—Alexandria City, Arlington, Fairfax County, Loudoun County. These high tech—very high density two working professional family area went 65% for Kaine, the Democrat succeeding Gov. Mark Warner. Kaine won it largely on his own but with help from Warner. He also won in Northern Virginia with the “pissed off working womens vote” combined with the intelligent uncommitted-independent vote which can go either way at times.

Victory validates Warner policies

http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/40501

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Michael Sluss

Tim Kaine won because Virginians apparently are happy with the direction of state government.

RICHMOND -- For Tim Kaine, his election as Virginia's 70th governor represented the triumph of competence over ideology.

For fellow Democrat Mark Warner, the man Kaine will succeed in January, Tuesday's election represented a validation of the centrist management style he brought to Richmond four years ago and may try taking to a national stage in 2008.

Kaine rode to victory over Republican Jerry Kilgore by touting the achievements of "the Warner-Kaine administration" and pledging more of the same under his own governorship. Despite holding politically risky positions on the death penalty and some hot-button social issues, Kaine planted his feet in the middle of the road and effectively turned the 2005 election into a referendum on Warner's performance. That strategy thwarted Kilgore's attempts to paint Kaine as too liberal for Virginia's generally conservative electorate.

"We've heard the litany of kind of the social, hot-button issues coming from the other side, and some of those issues are important," Warner said Friday at a news conference with Kaine. "But 98 percent of your job as governor -- and I think Tim understands this -- is how do you balance the budget, how do you educate your kids, how to you provide your safe communities, get folks to and from work in a transportation system that works? That's what people want."

Kilgore campaign manager Ken Hutcheson acknowledged that Tuesday's results suggest that Virginians are generally happy with the direction of state government and that Kilgore could not make a strong enough case for change.

"The fact of the matter is we've got a state that's relatively happy with the status quo," Hutcheson said Thursday during a forum sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

"The economy is humming along," Hutcheson said. "There is not a real desire for change out there. If we failed at anything, we failed at convincing Virginians that we could manage the state better and that there was a need to change course from the direction we were heading in."

Music to our ears. He said this on the podium election night when the gap between Falwell-Robertson Republican McDonnell and Democrat Deeds was 900 votes. Now it’s 410 and the Democrats are locked and loaded. ISN’T THIS GREAT. DEMOCRATS WHO INSIST ON FAIR ELECTIONS AND WANT TO WIN. I’M THRILLED AND PROUD OF MY STATE.

Gap between candidates shrinks
In attorney general race, McDonnell leads Deeds by margin of 410 votes

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768119756&path=!news&s=1045855934842

BY TINA ESHLEMAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Sunday, November 13, 2005

The closest statewide race in modern Virginia history just got closer.
Republican Robert F. McDonnell was leading Democrat R. Creigh Deeds by 410 votes in the attorney general race, according to unofficial results posted on the State Board of Elections Web site as of 7 p.m. yesterday. The totals were 970,635 for McDonnell and 970,225 for Deeds.

On Wednesday, the board's site had listed McDonnell's margin as 2,023, while The Associated Press reported a 1,944-vote lead.
McDonnell, a delegate from Virginia Beach, declared victory that day, though Deeds, a state senator from Bath County, refused to concede the race.

"We're in the realm where anything is possible," Mark Bergman, a spokesman for the legal team helping Deeds with the postelection vote canvass, said yesterday. "I think this is close enough Creigh and his team are preparing to be the next attorney general of Virginia."

But McDonnell's campaign manager, Janet Polarek, said, "It would be historically unprecedented for the canvass process to reverse the election-night results."

McDonnell is "still confident that he'll be the next attorney general of Virginia, although the cushion isn't as large as it was," said John Phillippe, communications director for the campaign. "While the margin has gone down, he's still confident because the possibility of it going down was factored in to begin with."

Electoral boards around the state are supposed to certify their totals this afternoon, said Jean R. Jensen, secretary of the State Board of Elections. She said that since Tuesday's election, local electoral boards have been counting provisional ballots and reviewing tallies from voting machines and absentee ballots.

Norfolk's election officials were still meeting yesterday, because their computer system was down on Friday, Jensen said.
The State Board of Elections will certify the results on Nov. 28, she said. After that, the losing candidate has 10 days to request a recount.

IL: DuPage Republican Honcho Gets Nabbed by Local Heat
Here we go. I predict that this is part of a wave of Republican indictments for election fraud, leading right up the ladder to Rove and Bush.

Republican consultant charged with forgery and election fraud

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4109050&nav=1sW7

WHEATON, Ill. A DuPage County grand jury has indicted longtime Republican strategist and pollster Rod McCulloch on felony counts of forgery and perjury, as well as a misdemeanor count of election fraud.
The charges against the 40-year-old Westmont resident stem from a suburban election seven months ago in which McCulloch allegedly submitted forged signatures on petitions to get Milton Township Assessor Jim Gumm's name on the ballot.

Gumm, who dropped out of the race after the petitions were challenged, is not accused of any wrongdoing.

DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett said yesterday he believes that more than 100 signatures on the petitions were forged -- though not by McCulloch himself.
McCulloch denied any wrongdoing yesterday and accused Birkett of attempting to criminalize the political process.

SMACK DOWN!

:hi:

Bonifaz: A Candidate for the Rest of Us

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_051113_bonifaz_3a_a_candidate.htm

by David Swanson

http://www.opednews.com

John Bonifaz is seriously considering running for election next year as Massachusetts Secretary of State, or more properly, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A victory for him would be a victory of national importance for election reform and voting rights.

John's Voters' Bill of Rights includes "a guarantee of open and transparent elections with verified voting, paper trails, and access to the source codes for, and random audits of, electronic voting machines …a guarantee that we the people, through our government, will control our voting machines — not private companies."

John is apparently not planning to model his service on that of Katherine Harris or Ken Blackwell.


He deserves our support

But John Bonifaz is also not your typical liberal candidate. He is one of the nation's leading experts on voting rights. Further provisions in his Bill of Rights reflect that background. They include:

--election day registration;
--early voting;
--ensured absentee voting;
--publicly financed elections and campaign spending limits;
--instant run-off voting;
--cross endorsement voting (fusion voting);
--proportional representation;
--redistricting reform;
--eliminating language barriers;
--non-partisan election administration;
--and support for congressional re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and for a constitutional amendment that affirmatively guarantees the right to vote.

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ER

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x401287

and GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5352009#5352361

Well, the pre-election poll shifted from a 26% favorable in Issue 2 to a 30% unfavorable…that’s a 55% reversal. Amazing, unheard of, not in Ohio. How much more of this will Ohio and America take. Indict Blackwell now!

Has American Democracy Died An Electronic Death In Ohio 2005's Referenda Defeats?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00192.htm


by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
November 11, 2005
From: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559

While debate still rages over Ohio's stolen presidential election of 2004, the impossible outcomes of four November 8 referendum issues may have put an electronic nail though American democracy.

Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic manipulation, fraud and incompetence on voting issues that call into question the sanctity of America's right to vote, and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state.

<snip>

Issues Two-Five were meant to reform Ohio's electoral process, which has been under intense fire since 2004. The issues were heavily scrutinized throughout the state. They were backed by Reform Ohio Now, a well-funded bi-partisan statewide effort meant to bring some semblance of reliability back to the state's vote count. Many of the state's best-known moderate public figures from both sides of the aisle were prominent in the effort. Their effort came largely in response to a bitterly disputed 2004 presidential vote count that gave George W. Bush a second term and led to U.S. history's first Congressional challenge to the seating of a state's delegation to the Electoral College.

Issue Two was designed to make it easier for Ohioans to vote early, by mail or in person. By election day, much of what it proposed was already put into law by the state legislature. Like Issue One, it was opposed by the Christian Right. But it had broad support from a wide range of Ohio citizen groups. In a conversation the day before the vote, Bill Todd, a primary official spokesperson for the opposition to Issues 2-5, told attorney Cliff Arnebeck that he believed Issues 2 and 3 would pass.

The November 6 Dispatch poll showed Issue Two passing by a vote of 59% to 33%, with about 8% undecided, an even broader margin than that predicted for Issue One.

But on November 8, the official vote count showed Issue Two going down to defeat by the astonishing margin of 63.5% against, with just 36.5% in favor. To say the outcome is a virtual statistical impossibility is to understate the case. For the official vote count to square with the pre-vote Dispatch poll, support for the Issue dropped by more than 22 points, with 100% of the undecideds apparently going into the "no" column.

This sounds pretty convincing.

And really, really dumb for election-fixers, to tip their hand so obviously.

I suspect this shows that there's more than one group on the right that knows how to fiddle with election machines.

The smart disciplined national Men-in-Black ones that made sure that vote totals matched Rove's "new value voters" church hypothesis in 2004 -- and the provincial, defensive Ohio Dumb-and-Dumber ones that fixed the 2005 referenda to protect their turf.

The nice thing is that even the dumb Ohio 2005 fix establishes that Republican untraceably fix election totals ... and the walls come tumbling down.

Naive mainstream Democratic reluctance to admit the possibility of stolen elections becomes more difficult.

This is under the category, “know your enemy.” The utter outrage of this person insisting that DRE’s are better than paper. What does he propose to recount? Screen shots? I don’t think so. What a whiner!

For the sake of voting accuracy

http://www.al.com/opinion/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1131877064123990.xml&coll=3

Sunday, November 13, 2005

/byBy ED KAHALLY SR.

Special to the Register

I congratulate and applaud the county leaders who are resisting the pressure from some state officials and others to force Mobile, Montgomery and DeKalb counties to give up their electronic voting systems and revert to a paper ballot (optical scan) system.

Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Worley and others are pushing this paper ballot system, saying that it is the cheapest in cost. This is not true.

The equipment cost for the paper ballot system may be cheaper, but the printing cost associated with it is extremely expensive. When the total costs are considered, the electronic system is less costly.

I suggest that county commissioners verify this with the state comptroller's office in Montgomery. An analysis of election costs for each county in Alabama will show that the cost per voter with the paper ballot system is considerably higher than the cost with an electronic system.

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The Staggeringly Impossible Results of Ohio's '05 Election

Brad Friedman

November 13, 2005

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With so much going on, few have noticed the extraordinary outcome of last Tuesday's election in Ohio where the crooked state that brung you -- by hook and by crook -- a second term for George W. Bush may have turned in results so staggeringly impossible, that perhaps even the Mainstream Corporate Media (if only in Ohio?!) will have no choice but to look into it.

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The Columbus Dispatch's pre-election polling, which Fritrakis and Wasserman describe as "uncannily accurate for decades", called the race correctly within 1% of the final result. The margin of error for the poll was +/- 2.5% with a 95% confidence interval. On Issue 1, the Dispatch poll was right on the money. They predicted 53% in favor, the final result was 54% in favor.

But then came Issues 2 through 5 put forward by < ahref="http://ReformOhioNow.org">ReformOhioNow.org -- a bi-partisan coalition pushing these four initiatives for Electoral Reform in the Buckeye State largely in response to their shameful '04 Election performance led by the extremely partisan Secretary of State (and Bush/Cheney '04 Co-Chair) J. Kenneth Blackwell.

On those four issues, which Blackwell and the Christian Right were against, the final results were impossibly different -- and we mean impossibly! -- from both the Dispatch's final polling before the election and all reasoned common-sense. Take a look:

snip/more

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/the-staggeringly-impossib_b_10589.html

Thanks to lizzieforkerry
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x401315

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Voter Confidence Committee Holds First Parallel Election

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x401279#401362

Election Updates

Sunday, November 13, 2005

by Michael Alvarez

More photographs, from the election odyssey

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Just navigate to Franklin's website, and click on the link to "California Special Election 2005." Thanks to Franklin for distributing his photographs!

There are some really excellent images of Alpine Recreation Center and of the Norwalk operation in Los Angeles County. Don't miss the two short movies that Franklin has of the tabulation of ballots on the third page of photographic documentary.

I especially like the photograph of the ballot boxes that have just arrived in Norwalk (this is image "DSCF0021" in Franklin's set of images, the twenty-first of twenty-three). What has happened is that the sealed ballot boxes (the red boxes) arrive at Norwalk in fire-proof bags; the bags are opened, and these sealed red boxes are scanned with a barcode reader, and then are placed in these cardboard boxes into this huge wheeled container. Periodically these containers are wheeled over to an elevator, then taken upstairs to the area where the boxes are unsealed, ballots inspected, and ballots sent for tabulation.

What is really interesting about this photograph is the box that has the yellow seal on it. This is a ballot box that for some reason was not sealed, or the seal was broken, when it came out of the fire-proofed bag. We saw a number of these re-sealed ballot boxes that evening, and they typically were taken to a special location for detailed inspection.

snip/more/links

http://electionupdates.caltech.edu/2005/11/more-photographs-from-election-odyssey.html

Sunday :: Nov 13, 2005

Tuesday's Election in Ohio: The End of Democracy?

Did you vote on a touch-screen system last Tuesday? If so, how confident are you that your vote was registered correctly? Were you surprised at the results?

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How else to explain the fact that one of the Reform propositions regulating the amount individuals could contribute to a campaign that polls on Sunday before the election showed was supported by 61% of the people and opposed by 25% (14% undecided) failed spectacularly with 67% of the voters opposing it?

Did 67% of the voters really think that individuals should be able to contribute $10,000 to a candidate when only 2 days before the election the polls said that only 25% supported that position? Who knows? The state voted on Diebold voting systems, so there isn't any way to check.

Folks, in 2006, it might not matter that 100% of the people vote against the Republicans because the way the voting systems are setup now, they'll win in a landslide.

snip/more

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/006003.php

Today's Voting Machines Story

November 12, 2005

by Dave Johnson

snip

The corrupt Republican government of Ohio wants Issue 1 to pass, and the results exactly match the pre-election polls. The Reform Ohio Now issues, however, showed dramatically different election returns than the pre-election polling, which was dead-on accurate for other issues.

snip/more

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2005/11/todays_voting_m_1.htm

Fur flies at meeting on voting technology

By George Bennett

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, November 14, 2005

With their requests to bring in outside critics, reopen past controversies and invite the public to air grievances, opponents of paperless electronic voting have exasperated the chairwoman and some other members of a technology panel put together by Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson.

"You all don't care about the technology. You just care about your personal agendas," Chairwoman Linda Mainord exploded at critics of touch-screen voting during last week's meeting.

snip/more

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2005/11/14/s1b_geo_col_1114.html

Voting errors add up

Workers count leftover ballots

Edward Barrera, Staff Writer

11/13/2005

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More than 15,000 absentee ballots need to be "duplicated," with workers trying to figure voter intent, said county Registrar Kari Verjil.

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Absentee ballots are read by a scanner, and a large number of the unreadable ballots were primarily due to simple voter mistakes, said Verjil, a chief deputy with the Riverside County Registrar of Voters Office for nearly 14 years. She said such a high figure was unheard of in Riverside County.

Voters were required on an absentee ballot to draw a line connecting two parts of an arrow, indicating their vote, and had to use a blue- or black-ink pen or dark pencil.

Verjil said the biggest errors were voters using the wrong marking pen or pencil, drawing circles around yes or no rather than connecting the arrows and writing in candidates' names that were already printed on the ballot.

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"We will be doing more voter education and discussing ways to fix the problem with Sequoia (Voting Systems, the firm issuing the ballots)," she said. "We will be doing something immediately because this can't continue."

snip/more

http://sbsun.com/news/ci_3207683

A Crime Without a Name
'Concern' about election fraud is useless without guts and anger

By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Tribune Media Services

November 10, 2005

Some news is so big it won’t fit into a headline. For example: WIDESPREAD VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN 2004.

Sorry. It may be true, but it’s a no-go on the front pages and TV news programs of America. The reality hovers namelessly, like the disappeared of Central America. Shhh, don’t refer to it directly. Wait 20 years, until they dig up the mass graves.

No matter the election was a multilayered travesty of disenfranchisement: widespread malfunctioning of electronic voting machines that continually worked to the benefit of George Bush over John Kerry; Jim Crow-style spurious challenges of African-American and other likely Democratic voters; preposterously long lines in inner-city neighborhoods while unused machines sat in warehouses; mysteriously inaccurate exit polls that picked Kerry until Bush suddenly emerged victorious; dirty tricks galore; more than 100,000 uncounted provisional ballots in the bitterly contested state of Ohio alone; and now, a just-released General Accounting Office report on electronic voting in 2004, which found evidence of lost and miscounted votes, sloppy security and other problems.

Even the most high-profile victim of all this malfeasance and chicanery, the losing candidate himself, seems unable to give it a name, though he stands for all that’s right and good: “Barriers to voting — whether it’s intimidation, disinformation or a lack of voting machines — have no place in the freest, greatest nation in the world.”

snip/more

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col319.htm

Thanks to Amaryllis

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2249587

New Mexico: Election Officials Try to Block Machine Inspections

By Lowell Finley and Holly Jacobson, VoterAction

November 12, 2005

In the past week, two New Mexico election officials refused to allow the voter plaintiffs in the case of Patricia Rosas Lopategui v. Rebecca Vigil-Giron, et al. to conduct meaningful inspections of their electronic voting machines. This despite clear indications that there were serious problems in last year’s presidential election with these same machines, which do not produce a voter-verifiable and auditable paper record.

Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera has given no explanation for her sudden, flat refusal to permit any inspection after weeks of discussions between plaintiffs’ attorneys and attorneys for the county. Plaintiffs have sworn statements from Bernalillo County voters who tried to vote on the county’s paperless touchscreen voting machines, manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems, and whose votes were switched before their eyes from the candidate they supported to a different candidate. Plaintiffs also have evidence that the County’s widespread use of another type of paperless machine, the Shoup 1242, resulted in the erasure of votes that citizens tried to cast for presidential candidates.

San Juan County Clerk Fran Hanhardt permitted limited inspection of her county’s voting machines. She would not, however, open the voting machines to permit plaintiffs’ experts to examine their components. The experts included Dr. David Dill, a computer science professor from Stanford University with extensive knowledge of electronic voting machine issues. The reason? Doing so would void the County’s warranty from the manufacturer, Election Systems and Software (ES&S).

Ms. Hanhardt also refused to allow plaintiffs’ experts to examine or copy electronic files containing the results of the November 2004 presidential election that were stored in the machines’ “redundant memories.” The reason? The machines store the results of public elections in a secret, proprietary format that ES&S claims as its private property. According to Ms. Hanhardt, allowing plaintiffs’ experts to see those results in their original form would violate the county’s contract with ES&S, which prohibits disclosure of proprietary information.

However, plaintiffs’ experts did cast votes in simulated voting on two touchscreen machines, and noted several anomalies. Several times when they tried to vote for a candidate, the “X” appeared instead in the adjacent box for a different candidate. Once when boxes for two candidates were pressed at the same time, neither registered a vote but an “X” appeared in the box of a third candidate between them. In addition, the experts were able to cast ballots that contained no votes whatsoever, something the County Clerk and her staff had told them the machines would not permit. They did this by first selecting the “straight party” option, which marked votes for every candidate of the selected party on the ballot. Next, they pressed the boxes for each of the party’s individual candidates, which erased those votes. Finally, they pressed the “Vote” button, and the screen notified them that they had successfully voted

snip/more

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=50

Discussion

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Today We Have Two Choices: Fix the System, or Don't Bother to Vote

By Guy T. Sturino

October 22, 2005

You are a good citizen. You find out all you can about the important political issues. You research candidates. You put signs in your yard and stickers on your car to encourage others to see your side. You contribute time and money to political campaigns. You brave weather and long lines to be sure that you cast your ballot on election day. You have performed an important, probably the most important, civic duty. All is well with the world.

Or, is it? The reality is, with the advent of electronic voting machines without a voter verified paper trail, you don’t know today how your vote was counted in the last election.

Before you cry foul, or insist that this can’t be true, or worse yet – that this is no more than the raving of a sore looser liberal, I encourage you to investigate the reports from two organizations, the General Accounting Office (GAO), and The National Election Data Archive (NEDA), a nonprofit organization of statisticians and mathematicians devoted to the accuracy of U.S. vote counts.

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If there is one letter that every U.S. citizen of voting age should write, it is a letter to each and every one of their Senators and Congresspersons insisting that the electoral system be repaired before the November 2006 elections. If you value your democracy, do it now.

Our fate is in our hands.

snip/more

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3117

Discussion

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and shuts citizens out of meetings on the E-Vote machines...Harris County, TX

TrueVoteCT Responds to SOTS Letter of October 5

In a letter to Secretary Susan Bysiewicz dated October 26, 2005, TrueVoteCT Director Willard W. Bunnell reiterates TrueVoteCT's status as a non-profit, non-partisan organization with no vendor affiliation, and he addresses Bysiewicz's apparent confusion over TrueVoteCT's reasons for focussing on certain voting machine technologies. TrueVoteCT remains perplexed by the SOTS's dogmatic pursuit of DRE's and her continued shunning of a prudent technical and economic assessment of the range of voting systems and technologies available today.

snip/much more

http://www.truevotect.org