Letter from Steve Freeman to US house of reps re Florida CD-24.

Letter from Steve Freeman to US house of Reps re Florida CD-24.
Steve gave me permission to post this in full.



Subject: Please consider the evidence of a corrupted count in Florida CD-24

Honorable members of the US House of Representatives Committee on
Administration

Today the US House Committee on Administration is being asked to consider
the evidence of a corrupted count in Florida CD-24. As House members should
know, a parade of scientific studies have shown the corruptibility of new
electronic voting machines. Indeed, there is little debate among scientists
that elections can be stolen by insiders who control the proprietary
software which reports vote totals; the only real issue is whether a
particular election has been stolen.

Unfortunately, we are rarely in a position to determine whether a particular
election has been stolen because electronic voting machines provide no audit
trail by which an investigation can be conducted. And even in highly suspect
elections, investigators have been prevented from access to machines that
could provide key evidence. Of course, that very shortcoming provides the
opportunity that emboldens those who have means and motive to steal votes.

In Florida CD-24, we have the rare situation in which evidence has been
painstakingly documented indicating a corrupted count, and also in which we
have evidence of an incumbent, Tom Feeney, using the power of public office
to undermine democratic process.

The evidence of a corrupted count in the US Florida CD-24 congressional
elections includes, but is not limited to, signed affidavits from voters in
several Florida precincts indicating more votes cast for the challenger,
Clint Curtis, than he received by machine counts.

In November 2000, Feeney, the incoming speaker of the Florida House of
Representatives, gained national notoriety, openly defying the Florida
Supreme Court and the Florida electorate by vowing to choose Presidential
electors for George W. Bush regardless of whether a court-ordered recount
showed that Gore won Florida. The evidence indicating that the incumbent has
further sought to illicitly negate the will of the electorate, includes, but
is not limited to a signed affidavit that Feeney, in October 2000,
approached the engineering firm of Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), a computer
consulting firm in Oviedo, Florida to design a "vote-rigging software
prototype" to "rig the vote in South Florida."

All that we, the growing numbers of election integrity activists, are asking
is that the committees fully consider the evidence. Indeed, if an
investigation is not pursued, the result will be taken as further evidence
that US elections are no longer decided by the will of the people, but
rather by those who control the machinery of voting, and that even a
Democratic Congress cares neither about its voting constituencies, nor about
democracy itself.

In the name of justice, values, the future of democracy in America, and
self-interest, Congress must hear this evidence. If Feeney and friends, in
fact, are manipulating vote counts, our right to representative government,
and indirectly all other rights are in jeopardy. Indeed, it would be
difficult to overstate the danger. At some point the degradation to
democracy may no longer be possible to reverse. To address the threat while
it is still possible to do so, this committee must take pains to find out
what, in fact, has been happened in Florida CD 24 in 2006.

Steven F. Freeman
Founder, Election Integrity
Research Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Center for Organizational Dynamics,
University of Pennsylvania

"Official" results don't come close to matching sworn affidavits by the voters in precinct after precinct.

HR 811 a bill that does not eliminate DRE voting machines, (paperless machines), excludes a group of people, that want to do a hand count of all ballots IN FULL VIEW OF ANYONE THAT WANTS TO WATCH (THATS DEFINITELY NOT WHAT THEY WANT) to look at Clint Curtis's evidence, FOR CHRIST SAKES we have a lady that won Sarasota WITHOUT A DOUBT, tons of evidence online, and now we are going to beg these CROOKS to look at some evidence that Clint Curtis put together, I could go on and on, COME ON, WE HAVE TO STOP BEING SO NAIVE.

THEY ARE F.CK.ING CROOKS!! THEY ARE CROOKS !! ONE MORE TIME, THEY ARE CROOKS!! THEY WERE VOTED IN WITH THESE MACHINES, WHICH MAKES THEM CROOKS (PERIOD)

K&R...........

"to find out what, in fact, has been happened in Florida CD 24 in 2006."

Looks like two bonus words to me. A corrupted count.

That may be minor. So is the paragraph where he includes the so-called evidence, nothing but brief mention of signed affidavits in several precincts.

I'd love to bet the over in number of congressmen who skim the document and toss it. It's world class boring. I realize no one here will agree, due to fervor over this issue. But you can't expect anyone to pay attention if you feature a Sominex presentation like that, with so many generic paragraphs at beginning and end with almost no direct examination of that 24th district and its '06 vote. I guess it's like a prosecutor who can't pick his own witnesses. But if I headed the election reform movement I'd damn sure want someone more compelling than Steve Freeman. Maybe he's outraged over 2004 since he was John Kerry's speech writer. It certainly reads that way.

Please post a sample letter of your own that exemplifies what you would like to see said. I would be very happy to help distribute such a letter and get behind it.

It would, of course, require you to actually take positive action, though.

And the jerks and traitors in our own party leadership refused to look into this! They are protecting the secret code--the corporate privatization of our elections!

They have refused to investigate 4 out of the 5 challenges! Please see my comment of disgust at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2839446

You wonder why the war goes on and on and on. This is why. "Trade secret," PROPRIETARY vote "counting," owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. And they are...

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things).

These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy. And they are STILL doing so.

Freeman is so right when he says:

"If Feeney and friends, in fact, are manipulating vote counts, our right to representative government, and indirectly all other rights are in jeopardy. Indeed, it would be difficult to overstate the danger."

Only I would take out the "if." Because, presuming that, given the capability to steal, literally, millions of votes, undetectably, it is a sure bet that Bushites would do so, and, presuming that they have done so explains so much that has happened.

The shocking thing is the Democrats who may be benefiting. Their protection of the secret code is the tipoff. How can anyone maintain that this acceptable? It is the worst of tyranny! It is outrageous. It is mind-boggling that people who call themselves Democrats are not shouting from the top of their lungs and chaining themselves to their desks to restore TRANSPARENT VOTE COUNTING!

THANK YOU!! :toast:

See this BRAD BLOG story.