Best sites & resources for election fraud NEWBIES ?

I am working on a document I am boldly entitling, "Toward a National Strategy for Local Election Justice Advocates." I am working locally to educate citizens and party officials about electon fraud and strategies for election protection. In writing this doc I am gathering the "best of" information for people who want to help me - and maybe for others...

I have a list of websites & resources that I think will be most useful to NEWBIES -- did I miss a site and/or a resource that is very important? (I don't think of the DU Election Reform Forum as being for newbies, maybe I am wrong?)

VotersUnite.org http://www.votersunite.org/
:redbox: Listings of local election justice groups
:redbox: Voting system failures by vendor and by state
:redbox: Report: Mythbreakers: Facts about electronic elections
:redbox: Report: Vote-switching provided by vendors
:redbox: Report: Problems with ballot programming
:redbox: Report: US GAO: Electronic voting not yet secure and reliable
:redbox: Handout: Maps of election problems
:redbox: Handout: 10 types of DRE problems
:redbox: Handout: Pre-election testing

VoteTrustUSA.org http://www.votetrustusa.org/
:redbox: Read the Daily News!
:redbox: Subscribe to the Election Integrity Weekly Newsletter
:redbox: Report: Poll Monitors’ and Poll Workers’ Guide to Electronic Voting

VerifiedVoting.org http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
:redbox: Resolution on Electronic Voting
:redbox: Election Administration Project: Best practices for reliable elections
:redbox: The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS)
:redbox: The Verifier: Shows election systems used nationwide
:redbox: Handouts: Election Protection Questionnaires for State Election Officials, Local Election Officials, Pre-Election Testing (Logic & Accuracy Testing), Election Day Incident Reporting, and Litigation

People for the American Way: Civic Participation http://www.pfaw.org/
:redbox: Election Protection Program includes volunteer poll monitors, civil rights lawyers and advocates who preserve access to the polls, expose and prevent voter intimidation, work with election officials to identify and solve problems with new voting machines, technology and ballot forms, and protect voter rights.

Brennan Center for Justice http://www.brennancenter.org/
:redbox: Brennan Center report finds improper implementation of new voter registration databases could prevent millions from voting.

Free access to Election Reform Researchers' original research into problems with the 2004 election:
http://www.electionassessment.org/Submissions/2005-06-29EAH/index.htm

The Election Assessment Hearing was held in Houston Texas on June 29th 2005 where the following election reform researchers and activists presented sworn testimony based on their research into problems identified in the 2004 election:

Judy Alter, Election Investigator
Kathy Dopp, US Count Votes
Bob Fitrakis, Editor, Free Press
David Griscom, Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Rev. Bill Moss, Plaintiff, Moss v. Bush
Richard Hayes Phillips, Legal Statistician
Richard Winger, Ballot Access
Bev Harris, Black Box Voting
David Cobb, Green Party Presidential Candidate
Linda Curtis, Independent Texans
Jo Anne Karasek, CASE Ohio, J-30
Lynn Landes, Freelance Journalist
Sharona Merel, National Ballot Integrity Project
Ted Selker, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Cynthia Test, Coalition for Election Integrity
Heleni Thayre, Citizens for Voting Integrity
David Wager, Verifiable Votes Coalition of Houston

The site provides access to supporting original research and documents submitted by many of those testifying.


Election Assessment.org
Sponsored by:
51 Capital March.com

"Upon the conclusion of Pastor’s somewhat predictable, though amiable remarks, Chairperson Larry English asked the audience if there were any questions. When Lynn Landes, Bev Harris, Robert Hayes Phillips, and others lined up at the side of the room, the rest of us had an idea about what was about to ensue. As for Pastor, he appeared clueless. But he soon took on a deer in the headlights look as the questions began: He could not aptly answer Landes’ question about why major voting machine vendors’ ties to the Republican party had not been addressed by his commission; when asked by Harris why she and her team who had executed hacks on the voting systems had not been invited to testify, his response was "I don’t need to know how the machines were hacked"; when Phillips stated his qualifications and his analytical conclusion that the election was stolen, and asked if he was going to be invited to testify before the Baker Carter Commission, and if not, why not, Pastor’s response was We don’t need such detailed information. We are trying to keep our focus on more generic issues."

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Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

and protests will only be ignored. We must start suing for all the wrongs this administration is responsible for. See my bring on the law suits post in GD politics.

his Air America radio show last Saturday; he was discussing his book. He said that they had plans to begin serious lawsuits including against the electronic machine vendors to shut them down. Has anyone else heard this, or know anything more about these plans?

They are part of the reason why New Mexico Governor just signed a law requiring paper ballots -

If you want to track information about lawsuits keep an eye on the Election Reform Daily Thread here at DU and also VoteTrust.org -- all the news about election fraud/justice that is happening.

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I like to keep my old vvlobbydays updated with the basic info. Sometimes there is so much that I've seen where people will jump into a forum (like the PF on OLS) and NOT know much background and it's like any education- you have to have something to build on to grasp the concepts and comprehend the more complex details.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06219.html
"How They Stole Ohio
The GOP 4-step Recipe to 'Blackwell' the USA in 2008
Abracadabra: Three Million Votes Vanish "

My only regret is that I have but one recommendation to give you.

Greg has a website at gregpalast.com. There are several great election articles there, amidst other articles.

http://www.voteraction.org/

It's a beautiful thing!

people can DO to audit their own elections? Or to enlist experts at US Count Votes to audit elections?

I am trying to focus on what a handful of good people with energy and determination can do in their neck of the woods to save the world...

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A lot of great posts from you around DU these days! Thank you, IndyOp.