The entire Democracy Now! show today was on election fraud. EVERYONE needs to see this.

Democracy Now!
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter Challenges

Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation

If you've never watched or listened to Democracy Now!, there is about 5-10 minutes of headline news at the beginning. the rest of the show is all about the GOP's effort to steal this coming election, which is very real and happening RIGHT NOW!

Everyone needs to see or listen to this. Spread it far and wide!

For video or audio of the show:
http://www.democracynow.org/
after today the show will be archived under OCTOBER 9!

just rec'd it to another DUer, myself

wouldn't be suprised if Rove is behind it

I feel it coming.

On edit: I'm referring to CNN's segment tonight about ACORN.

Thanks for the post and the link to Democracy Now!

Folks are ending up casting "provisional ballots".

A provisional ballot ain't a ballot at all! That f*cker does not get counted!

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, I’d like to ask you, you’ve been now Secretary of State—you replaced the infamous and controversial Kenneth Blackwell. And in the first year, you had a report called “EVEREST” that looked at the situation in the voting system of Ohio. Could you tell us about some of the main concerns that you had out of that report?

JENNIFER BRUNNER: We focused on four areas. We focused on security; reliability of the equipment and the systems; the configuration, whether all of the systems throughout the state were configured to the same software level; and also whether or not procedures that local officials used were mitigating some of the concerns that we found.

Unfortunately, all of the equipment failed—I hate to say the word “miserably,” but it was a very big disappointment when we compared the equipment, which is essentially computer-based equipment, to general standards for security in the computer industry, computers that we would use for banking, for travel, for communication. The type of security that would be required was just not engineered in this equipment. Not to say that it can’t count correctly, but there were so many risks presented that we took this to the legislature, asked the legislature to fund us for all-paper ballot systems throughout the state. But unfortunately, I think in part due to budget problems in Ohio, but also due to the partisan nature of how that body is operating, they were silent on providing us with any relief.

So, what we did instead was to move forward with a bipartisan team of election officials, devise best practices for security during every step of the voting process, and then we have required security plans from every board of elections. So we’re making the best of it. In the process, we discovered that the Diebold system, as memory cards from the individual voting machines were being uploaded into the server in one county, votes were dropping. So we are in the middle of litigation against Diebold for that.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/9/ohio_secretary_of_state_jennifer_brunner

The really scary part is that Dems are fiercely resisting doing ANYTHING about this because they're scared it will suppress the turnout.

Let's see, one out of five voters in swing states purged and/or forced to cast a worthless provisional vote, and they think a little action could make things any worse?

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this makes me think the dems are in on it. I don't want to believe it but WTF when they don't do anything about it?

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