National Election Experts to Give Evidence of Hacking Electronic Voting Machines

at Austin , TX Capitol Hearing, Wednesday, June 25^th. 2008

VoteRescue and its Coalition Bring in Compelling Witnesses

And Host Two Related Events

Who:  Austin-based election protection group VoteRescue and its Coalition, Texans for REAL Elections, bringing in experts to testify

What:  National experts and former election officials debunk the myth of electronic voting security and accessibility for the disabled, and will present documented testimony before the House Committee on Elections’ Interim Hearing 

When:  Wednesday, June 25^th, 9 a.m. PLUS two other events that day – media invited

Where:  Austin , Texas , Capitol Building , 11^th & Congress, Rm. E2.028

Witnesses will include:

Bruce Funk:   23 year veteran Emery County Utah election official who in 2006 invited in the Black Box Voting “hacking team” to examine his touch screen machines with printers added.  They discovered “the worst security holes ever found” in electronic voting systems.

Clint Curtis:   Computer programmer from Florida who designed “vote-flipping” software while employed at Yang Enterprises in 2000; became a whistleblower who gave a deposition about this in court. (Clint was invited by the State to testify)

Jim March:  Technology expert, Black Box Voting Board member, co-plaintiff  in the 2004 California lawsuit against Diebold for running uncertified software in their machines, which Diebold lost. Jim will discuss the ineffectiveness of the federal certification process of electronic voting systems.

Noel Runyan:  Expert on evaluation of accessibility of  electronic voting systems for the disabled.  Wrote the 2007 report for the University of California stating that NONE of the e-voting systems currently in use:  Hart, Sequoia, or Diebold/Premier, fulfill the HAVA mandate for the disabled.  He has also confirmed

this for ES&S.

VoteRescue media contacts can arrange private interviews during the Hearing with our experts.

The link to watch the Hearing live, if you cannot attend, is:  http://www.house.state.tx.us/media/welcome.php

TWO RELATED EVENTS for County Clerks/Election Administrators,

PRESS INVITED:  COME MEET THE EXPERTS!

Breakfast event, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m, June 25^th, prior to the Hearing, in Capitol Room E2.002 A

Reception, June 25^th, 5:00 p.m. (or at close of Hearing) until 8:00 p.m. light dinner fare, wine & soft drinks served, Capitol Room E2.002 A   

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John says he became an election integrity activist "at 3:30 pm November 2, 2004". On that day, which was Election Day 2004, John was Democratic "Cluster Captain" for four precincts in Arizona Congressional District 7, which had 80% non-Republican, predominately Hispanic voter registration, yet would be recorded as having voted 42% for Bush.

Throughout Election Day, John witnessed suspicious behavior by poll workers at three of his four precincts. An hour after the polls had closed, he caught poll workers at one of these stations in the act of altering the poll books. Shocked, John immediately launched what would grow into a 1,000+ hour audit of the voting at precinct #324, beginning by salvaging the poll-worker-annotated “Advice to Voter” slips from the trash the next morning and then buying copies of all other pertinent public records. John entered all of these data on Excel spreadsheets and began e-mailing them to Dave Griscom with highlighted oddities and irregularities.

Eventually, the team of Brakey and Griscom uncovered evidence of an elaborate "hack and stack" poll-worker fraud designed to alter the optical scan ballot count and evade detection in a recount. Griscom was able to calculate the probability of the seven irregularities the found being committed exactly 11 times each. The odds that these seven irregularities were random accidents due to poll-worker incompetence, were less than one chance in 20 million. Conclusion: The poll workers did these things on purpose, and they religiously followed a formula whereby they could have swung the vote by as much as 12.8%--without being detected in a manual recount of the ballots.

John, together with his Audit-AZ team including colleague Jim March (whom John affectionately calls "Jimmy the Geek") have just had a huge win in the courts, where Pima County, Arizona election officials have been ordered to release all of the electronic voting databases for all future elections, and for past elections going back to 1998. This offers an amazing opportunity to discover fraud with the electronic voting systems, and is the first court victory of its kind giving citizens the kind of access they deserve to election records.

Hello from VoteRescue Radio, Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!

This Friday, June 6th, from 6-8pm CDT, we have a show jam-packed with fantastic guests! We are honored and excited to welcome to the show this week ION SANCHO, the Supervisor of Elections in Leon County, Florida.

Ion made major election integrity news in 2005 when he invited in the "Black Box Voting hacking team" (as I call it), including Finnish Harri Hursti and Dr. Herbert Thompson, to examine the Diebold optical scan counters which were being used in his county. This was the first time that voting integrity experts had been invited to examine real election equipment. What was demonstrated there, and widely publicized afterward, was the fact that election results could be hacked in minutes by simply switching out the memory card in the machine with one containing a live "hacking" program. This famous hack can be viewed in its entirety on the emmy-award nominated HBO documentary, "Hacking Democracy" (purchase through www.hackingdemocracy.com) . A link to the clip of the hack is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36Jfkxd1vA

Serving since January 1989, Ion has been reelected four times and is the only Supervisor of Elections in Florida without party affiliation. He has devoted special attention to studying voting technologies and citizen participation in our electoral system. Under his administration Leon County is now has the highest voter turnout of Florida 's 67 counties. We'll relay more about Ion's amazing career and experience when we introduce him on Friday's show.

We will also have returning guest BOB SCHULZ of We the People Foundation, who will complete the details from last week's interview on the amazing citizens' action he is orchestrating to present Petitions for Redress of Grievances to Congressional leaders of the U.S.; Bob will detail how YOU can help; and tell us about his upcoming hunger fast related to this dramatic and important action.

We also welcome back another returning guest, JIM MARCH, to give us an update on the recent victory by the Democratic Party of Pima County, Arizona. In the court case which Jim has reported on during a prior show, the judge's recent decision will force the county election officials to release election data to citizens which will allow them to review those records for possible election fraud.

VoteRescue Radio can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 FM; is streaming live on www.wtprn.com (for "We the People Radio Network"), AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 512/485-9010! All shows are archived at the above web site, usually within a couple of hours after 8pm CDT.

The call-in number for the show is: 512-646-1984. Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" Friday!

WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!! With thanks for your support,

Vickie and Karen
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ROBERT "BOB" SCHULZ

Bob has been active in the defense of Constitutional issues for over 22 years. He has focused courtroom actions on government wrongdoing and the right of citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances, a protection given us in the last ten words of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Though not an attorney, Bob has won many court cases "pro-se" (Click here for a list of the citations of the 99 state court decisions and 15 federal court decisions in the cases Bob has brought against governmental wrongdoing.)

Last year, Bob directed his attention to the electronic voting machine issue prior to the Iowa Republican Straw Poll. Diebold optical scan counters were being used there, of the same type successfully hacked by Bev Harris's Black Box Voting "hacking team", including Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti. Schulz filed in Iowa the first of what would become a 50 state "National Clean Election Lawsuit" ("NCEL") against all of the Secretaries of State or State Boards of Elections for allowing electronic voting machines to be used, in violation of the Constitution. Bob was also present during much of the New Hampshire Republican Prmary recount in January and February of this year, gathering data which later led to clear findings of much higher discrepancies between ballots that had been electronically counted on Election Day, rather than hand-counted, compared to the recount tallies.

Bob will be updating us on the "NCEL" lawsuit, AND about a very important movement he has initiated regarding the redress of grievances section of the First Amendment. See these two YouTubes of Bob for a preview of his plan to confront the government on the illegal Iraq War, the Federal Reserve, the IRS, the Patriot Act, the North American Union, gun control, and other governmental "policies" which are in violation of the Constitution: YouTube and Google . This may be one of the most powerful actions available to liberty loving patriots today - you won't want to miss this interview! In our first hour, we will be discussing the HBO "Recount" documentary, Arkansas's major election snafus causing two elections to be overturned; Texas Attorney General settles vote suppression case, and other election news. Our special guest co-host this week will be Abbe Waldman DeLozier.

VoteRescue Radio can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 FM; is streaming live on www.wtprn.com (for "We the People Radio Network"), AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 512/485-9010! All shows are archived at the above web site, usually within a couple of hours after 8pm CDT.

The call-in number for the show is: 512-646-1984. Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Friday! WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!! With thanks for your support,

Vickie and Karen
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www.voterescue.org
www.coalitionforvisibleballots.org
http://www.hackedelections.com