Think the 2006 elections went great?

Think again.

Look at Sarasota, Florida, and think what will happen to 2008 if we let this one go.

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[What's this about?  Scroll down for the what McPherson's crew has, and has NOT, provided to California taxpayers]

 Let your views be known, please attend the hearing & press conference:

Date :  Wednesday, August 9, 2006

 Time :  9:00 a.m. sharp

 Place :  Secretary of State's Office at 1500 - 11th Street, Sacramento, CA

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Many of you know I've been following the election integrity issue here on the DailyKos since the 2004 election.  And on many of these posts, I receive comments from many of you muggles (non-election integrity folks) who are incredulous that 80% of our voting counting is performed by just two companies.  And probably 99.9% of all vote systems in the United States are one of the following four:  Diebold, Sequoia, Hart-Intercivic and ES&S.

How on earth does that come to be?

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Blackboxvoting.org finally had its day to prove that the Leon County, Florida, Diebold voting systems were hackable, and read what happened.

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They're back: Diebold voting systems again seeks California certification:  The public is invited to this important public hearing in Sacramento on November 21, 2005.  

After an unusually long hiatus the Voting System Panel* (VSP) will brave its first voting system hearing since June 19th. This last hearing was a remarkable event with over 200 citizens voicing their opinions about Diebold--and with the exception of a couple of county clerks--opinions were unanimously negative for this company who has become the Enron of voting system manufacturers. [Scroll to end for important update**}
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CALIFORNIA'S SPECIAL ELECTION CRISIS:

 
Please help us, the CALIFORNIA ELECTION PROTECTION NETWORK, a non-partisan organization of over 25 groups across California coming together to achieve our mutual election integrity goals, to inform the public that Los Angeles voters have a double-standard of vote integrity.  This is illegal and it is an outrage. More below

Why is California about to allow an election that WILL turn its political landscape red by way of redistricting maps decided by Regan-era retired judges just ONE MONTH before the mandatory voter verified paper trails go into effect?  On January 1, 2006, the required paper trails will make it possible to audit for all to know whether their voting machines are accurate.

But. . . you say. . . at least the voting systems must first meet rigorous certification standards BEFORE use in our elections?

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WHY SHOULD WE DO THAT?

It's distressing to read that our new Schwarzenegger appointed Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, has decided to oppose Senator Debora Bowen's newest election integrity measure SB370, which would merely allow our paper trails to be counted. Both republicans and democrats of California's Senate and Assembly have approved this "no brainer" good government legislation with their nearly unanimous support.

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This is America?  No doubt you heard it on the 6:00 p.m. news, or would have liked to:  

Yesterday a man at a San Diego grocery store was indignant that the cash register monitor was turned so that he couldn't see it.  He merely wanted to see how much he was charged for his groceries.  Sounds mundane, but wait. . . .  

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Did you know that the Election Assistance Commission ("EAC") is the protocols arm of the Hate America Vote Act ("HAVA"), and that they are taking recommendations on how to implement HAVA's mandate that every state have centralized voter registration by January 1, 2006.  Here's what the organization I belong to put together over the last month.

Please feel free to copy all or part of it and add your name and/or your affiliation's name to customize it, and then email it to the following email address before the deadline for input expires at 5:00 EDT on 5/25/06.

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It's enough to ruin a holiday weekend--there's a new strain of Red Fever evidenced by Arnold's flexing his two big exploding muscles (fat with GOP money and pulled with Dieboldical tendons), but then we remember that millions of us peons [See more below the fold]

Yesterday, 3/16/05, I went to our state capitol in Sacramento to attend the Senate confirmation hearing of Gov. Schwarzenegger's nominee Bruce McPherson who will likely be confirmed to replace our elected Secretary of State Kevin Shelley.

Our local DFA group had prepared questions for the senators to assist them in demanding baseline conditions of employment to replace an elected official: 1. Affirm VVPATs by 2006,  2. Retain VSPP staff and  3. Abstain of political partisanship.

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Thomas Jefferson said, "An informed democracy behaves responsibly." Yet how can we inform our fellow citizens if we feel like we've got a cup peanut butter in our mouth everytime we try to make clear our ideas while untwisting all the double-speak, e.g. Yes, I am patriotic--I'm just not for the Patriot Act,

Here's a solution that I'd like my fellow Kossacks to vet:
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Democrats helped to oust their own champion of voters rights, despite showing no significant wrongdoing in his recent audit hearing.

California's Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has just resigned, due to lack of funds for his legal defense to ward off his reward for standing up for us--the "Ken Star" treatment where no less than FIVE government entities were looking for skeletons.

Now our friend of Enron, who seeks to redistrict California, gets his prize--the control to choose the key player California elections--the Secretary of State.  [What's Next?  See below the fold]

D-day is approaching for our heroic leader of the mandatory paper trails and de-certifier of Diebold, and if we Democrats were to get a grade on our support of this hero, it would be a D.

I know, I know, you're afraid that he might not be clean, and we're the clean party, it's true.  But, we Democrats are quickly going the way of that dumb bird that used to start with a D, before it went extinct, and so we've got to get smart and strategic--right quick.

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