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VoteRescue Radio NEW DAY/TIME: Fri.5/23,6-8pm,Bruce Funk! |
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 14:57 |
Hello from VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!
Vote Rescue Radio has a new day and time slot - Fridays, 6-8 pm, Central time!
We hope that even more of you will be able to join us at our new time slot - and we're celebrating this Friday, May 23rd, 6-8pm CDT by bringing on an honored guest: Bruce Funk.
Bruce is the 23 year veteran clerk of Emery County, Utah, who called in the Black Box Voting "hacking team" to examine the Diebold election equipment delivered to his office in 2006 when he noticed some suspicious things about the machines. The resulting examination of the Diebold systems by Harri Hursti, Finnish computer programming expert brought in by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting, uncovered "the most serious security gap ever discovered in an electronic voting system" as characterized by Michael Shamos, A Carnegie-Mellon computer science professor who certifies voting machines for the state of Pennsylvania.
Bruce, who was one year away from retirement, was locked out of his own office and then fired by the County Commissioners, then subsequently audited by the IRS. Bruce Funk is one of the true heroes of the election integrity movement and his story is compelling and important. We hope you'll tune in for our interview of this courageous leaders in the battle for citizens to take back our elections.
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 4pm CDT.
We the People Radio Network is fundraising right now. If you enjoy the content of this or other shows you hear through this Network, please consider making a donation through the website (above). Thank you!
The call-in number for the show is: 512-646-1984.
In our first hour, we will be covering primary news on Kentucky and Oregon. talk about Bev Harris's exciting new 2008 Citizens' Tool Kit for actions people can take on Election Day in November; Ron Paul's visit to Austin this week; and other timely election-related news.
Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Sunday!
WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!
With thanks for your support,
Vickie and Karen
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VoteRescue Radio 5/18, 2-4pm CDT: David Earnhardt |
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Friday, 16 May 2008 09:18 |
Hello from VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!
This Sunday, May 18th, from 2 - 4pm CDT, we are excited to welcome our special guest David Earnhardt, Producer/director/writer of the spectacular film expose on election fraud and voter disenfranchisement, "Uncounted - The New Math of American Elections".
This
powerful film demonstrates how millions of people's votes are uncounted
in major election after major election, either through voter
suppression - where people showing up to the polls on Election Day are
prevented from exercising their right to
vote
- or through the many problems with the electronic voting that
comprises the way 85% of voters now cast and/or have their ballots
counted.
David has been touring the nation for the last
several months with this blockbuster film and getting rave reviews
everywhere. 400 "House Party" screenings have been held in 42 states;
the film has sold in all 50 states and 206 countries through its
website, "UncountedTheMovie.com". Approximately 10,000 viewers have
been "fired up" for action by this dynamic and important film.
As David said in a recent e-mail blast,
"As we
finish up this tumultuous primary season and head into the general
election, "Mayday" is the emergency code word and international signal
for distress that should be on everyone's lips. For as much progress as
we've made on the issue of election integrity, come November we are
still only a Supreme Court decision or state law away from your
precious vote being denied, lost, or altered." David will offer
specific actions citizens can take to get the word out on this film and
this issue.
To view the trailer of "Uncounted", go to: http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/trailer.html
THE FILMMAKER
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David Earnhardt, Producer/Director/Writer
An
Emmy-winning producer/director of 31 years, David has produced a wide
range of television and video productions including documentaries,
entertainment programs, and educational videos. His work has been
recognized with numerous Emmy, Iris and Telly
national awards. After seventeen years in television, Earnhardt started
a new phase of his career in 1993 with Earnhardt & Co., which has
grown to be one of Nashville's most prestigious production companies.
Originally
co-founded by David and Patricia Earnhardt in 1993, the company
specializes in high quality video presentations for a variety of
nonprofit organizations. Longtime creative professional Mac Pirkle
joined the firm as a partner in 2002 - and the company was soon after
renamed Earnhardt Pirkle, Inc. Earnhardt Pirkle has produced projects
for more than 250 clients and has won more than 60 national awards in
its 14-year history. Mac Pirkle and Patricia Earnhardt are executive
producers of UNCOUNTED.
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David
Earnhardt is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he
majored in film studies. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia - and grew
up in Greensboro, North Carolina. UNCOUNTED is Earnhardt's first
full-length documentary film.
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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 4pm CDT.
We the People Radio
Network is fundraising right now. If you enjoy the content of this or
other shows you hear through this Network, please consider making a
donation through the website (above). Thank you!
The call-in number for the show is: 512-646-1984.
In our first hour, we will be covering recent
primary news and updates on local progress in Austin/Travis County
where we have been presenting before the County Commissioners Court and
City Council regarding the recently unsealed "whistleblower" federal
fraud lawsuit against Hart InterCivic.
Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Sunday!
WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!
With thanks for your support,
Vickie and Karen
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VoteRescue Radio 5/11:Rebroadcast, BRAD FRIEDMAN interview |
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 18:45 |
Hello from VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!
This Sunday,
May 11th, we VoteRescue Radio Moms are taking off for Mother's Day -
(Happy Mother's Day, Y'all!) so we're going to rebroadcast from 2-4 CDT
our March 30th interview with BRAD FRIEDMAN of BradBlog.com as our special guest!
BRAD FRIEDMAN...
Aside from being named Time Magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year",
(along with all of us other activists, I've now learned! :) Brad is an
investigative citizen journalist/blogger, political commentator and
broadcaster. He is the creator and managing editor of The BRAD BLOG (http://www.Bradblog.com).
Just some of the many notable national stories he's broken on his blog include "The White House Website Scrubbing", the "Tom Feeney/Clint Curtis/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal", the story of the phony GOP front group, "American Center for Voting Rights", the E-Voting Machine "Sleepover" controversy
in San Diego's Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election and his
continuing coverage of Electronic Voting Machine companies such as Diebold
who are destroying American democracy. He has been reporting on other
stories closely related to election integrity since at least November
3rd, 2004.
Reports and breaking news from his popular website, The BRAD BLOG, are frequently cited by the national media, and can be read at www.BradBlog.com. He
has appeared in numerous documentary films, as well as on ABC News,
CNN, CourtTV and elsewhere to discuss his reporting and expertise on a
variety of issues.
Enjoy this
lively interview with Brad, discussing the breaking stories on the
unsealing that week of the Hart whistleblower lawsuit; the "Sequoia
threatens Princeton" story and the followup about Kwaidan Consulting,
the "independent company" hired by Sequoia to review their voting
systems (aka Mike Gibbons, whose Myspace page until recently
advertised his desire to meet a blonde nymphomanic) and other fun and
outrageous stories broken by Brad recently and in the past!
We also focused
on Texas on this show; news about the Texas Primary; final Exit Poll
results from VoteRescue; discrepancies on the Secretary of State's
website re: election results reporting; and returning guest Debra Medina,
Wharton County Republican Chair also joined us for an update on her
battle to eliminate ES&S Ivotronic machines from her Primary
election after the Jim Welch "voteflipping incident" in November's
state election.
The show 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!
While we are normally able to take some callers, since tomorrow's show is a rebroadcast, we won't be able to this week.
Hope you will listen in on Sunday!
WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!
With thanks for your support,
Vickie and Karen
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BBV report: Exclusive - Indiana's Incredible Shrinking Voter List |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 22:24 |
In April 2008 when Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced
the release of "record high" voter registration rolls, with 4.3
million voters set to vote in the Tuesday May 6 primary, he didn't
mention that a whopping 1,134,427 voter registrations have been
cancelled.
Now, the voter rolls are supposed to be tidied up prior to each
election. Indiana's last general election was in Nov. 2006, and they
have had a slew of special and general elections since then. So how
have 1.1 million voters -- 26 percent of the current statewide list --
escaped the voter registration cleanup squad? Who are these million
voters and where do they come from?
One quarter-million of them come from just two northwestern Indiana
counties: Lake and Porter. Lake County reports purging 137,164 voters
and neighboring Porter County cancelled out 124,958 voters.
Lake County, the home of Gary, Indiana, has spawned the Jackson Five
and a great old musical (The Music Man) and has been referred to as
"the second most liberal county in America." Lake County also has one
of the heaviest concentrations of African-American voters that you'll
find anywhere in the USA.
Nearby Porter County, the home of Valparaiso, is 95% white and went
solidly for Bush in the 2004 election. It's also got a lot of college
students.
For whatever reason, these two counties had ... what ... massive data
entry problems? Exceptionally messy records? Lots of dead people who
climbed back into their graves? I truly hope we aren't going to see a
lot of disappointed voters on Tuesday, when they perhaps learn that
they were among the lucky million people who got purged.
HERE'S WHERE THE HEAVIEST INDIANA PURGES ARE:
Lake 137,164 48% (Gary)
Porter 124,958 115% (Valparaiso)
Marion 68,120 10% (Indianapolis)
Monroe 66,009 85% (Bloomington)
Tippecanoe 53,456 58%
Madison 42,952 47% (Anderson)
Hamilton 42,325 26%
Here's a picture map with the numbers and percentages for the whole state:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/cancelled-from-indiana-voter-rolls.png
The percentage represents the ratio of the number of purges to the
current voter list. Example: If a location currently has 100,000
voters on its rolls, and purged 53,000 along the way, we assign a
ratio of 53% to the purge vs. current list.
It would be nice to have the original quantities, it would make for a
cleaner number, but this is not available on the Secretary of State's
Web site, so I haven't got a tidier statistic for you, wish I did. I
also wish the time period for these purges was clearly indicated, but
it is not indicated -- nor can it be derived -- from available
information at Indiana's official election Web site.
TOOLS YOU CAN USE
It's always interesting to look for impossible numbers on election
night, like the "more votes than voters" situation that sometimes
crops up. It speeds things up to have a place to plug the information
in. Here is a spreadsheet -- quick and not too fancy, I'm sure you can
improve on it. It has every Indiana county, along with their official
registered voter statistics for the 2008 primary, and some historical
data from 1992 to the present, along with links for the source
documents from the secretary of state:
http://www.bbvdocs.org/IN/state/quickrank-INDIANAreg.xls
(Excel file, 71 KB)
Here are links that may be very good to provide additional statistical
information which you can plug in:
http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/elections/index.html
And here is a link to the source document containing the cancelled
registration information used for this article:
http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/pdfs/Statewide_Voter_Count_by_County5.1.08.pdf
Here's a quick spreadsheet with the Indiana voting machines by county
-- you can get that on the Sec. State's Web site too, but it's not in
a database format. You can cut and paste these into your analysis
sheets if you'd like to get comparisons of results by county.
AND NOW ABOUT THOSE VOTING MACHINES
Another press release on the Indiana Secretary of State's Web site
deals with the $360,000 penalty he's hitting Microvote with for
failing to follow the law. Oh yes, and the Microvote Infinity voting
machine, which will be very widely used in the Tuesday May 6 primary,
has been DECERTIFIED!
That's not going to stop anyone in Indiana from using it, however. The
decision was that anyone who already bought these things gets to use
them -- despite the fact that these machines have been embroiled in
lawsuits in at least three places, one in Pennsylvania for machines
that just didn't work, and two in Tennessee where candidates have
asked to redo elections due to bizarre anomalies -- like vote totals
that wandered away in the wee hours of the night.
Microvote's insurance company declined to cover the firm, according to
yet another lawsuit, because the insurance company alleged that
Microvote was selling defective products. The judge ruled against the
insurance company, saying the product wasn't defective, it just didn't
work.
I haven't plugged this in yet, but those of you who are comfortable
with spreadsheets can quickly add the voting machines by county to
your voter registration spreadsheet, using that voting machine
spreadsheet I linked above, to see how many votes all together will be
subjected to Microvote.
Ah, but we aren't done with Indiana voting machines yet. Indiana is
also fond of the ES&S paperless iVotronic touch-screens, the ones that
lost 18,000 votes in Sarasota County Florida and were the subject of a
blistering report by Dan Rather. In Rather's report, he showed
shocking footage of the touch-screens being manufactured in a sweat
shop in the Philippines. Their quality control test was to shake the
machine and if it didn't rattle, it passed the test.
THINGS YOU CAN DO ABOUT INDIANA
1. Do some public records requests to either the state or the
counties, and ask for their VRG-5 form, which is the NVRA tracking
form on which the number of voters purged must be reported.
For tips on how to do the records requests, here's our tool kit,
scroll down to the section on public records:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html
Post the documents and ask for any advice you need here, and report
your front-lines information for both Indiana and North Carolina here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/73/73.html
I'm pushing hard right now to get TOOL KIT 2008 done -- it's a
stripped-down model with emergency measures for the fall election.
Unless you tell me not to, I'll let you know as soon as it's ready for
download.
2. Another useful form you can request: The CEB-9 form, which is the
Indiana County Election Report that must be turned in after the
election. Here's one, take a look at the information it contains:
http://www.in.gov/sos/elections/pdfs/CEB-9.pdf
3. If you are a number-cruncher, grab the spreadsheets here and wail
on 'em during Election night. You can get additional historical
information from this site:
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html
(Choose the drop-down menu "general by state" and select Indiana, then
choose the year you want. Confusion factor -- this site color-codes
Republican as blue and Democrat as Red. Has lots of good stuff).
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: People usually catch things like "more votes
than voters" weeks after the election. The dang Indiana information
doesn't break voter registrations out by party which makes crunching
the primary numbers a little harder. But you may still get the jump on
some red flags if you track this stuff as it's coming in on
spreadsheets that tell you what the stats are going in.
A WORD ABOUT THE TV PROJECTIONS
You'll notice that those projections often change -- sometimes
dramatically -- just an hour or so later. That's because we have
learned that they are paying elections officials (through their
associations or otherwise) to call and fax them the results off the
voting machine poll tape.
In fact, the National Election Pool (used to be Voter News Service) is
getting this stuff BEFORE the election officials and way before the
secretary of state.
The first number they quote is the adjusted exit poll number, and it
comes from asking people about who they voted for. The point here is,
when what you thought was "exit polls" suddenly changes, that is the
impact of those called-in poll tape results. Yep. That's the voting
machines talking, and when they say something different than the
people answering the exit pollers' questions, we should be looking at
the programming on the machine, not the exit pollers, for answers.
I expect to see early projections altered significantly as soon as
those poll tape numbers are called in to NEP.
So to recap, good things to do Tuesday:
1. Public records
2. Number crunching
3. Pray
Good luck to us, all,
Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
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VoteRescue Radio Sun.5/4, 2-4 CDT: Clint Curtis, Jim March |
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Friday, 02 May 2008 09:14 |
Hello from Vote Rescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!
This Sunday, May 4th from 2-4pm CDT, VoteRescue Radio is excited to welcome CLINT CURTIS as our special guest!
Clint is a Florida computer programmer who rocked the election integrity movement world when he became a whistleblower, alleging publicly in a deposition that Florida Republican Congressman Tom Feeney hired him and his former employer, Yang Enterprises of Oviedo, Florida, to design vote-flipping software in 2000. You can view his deposition on this mindblowing topic here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs
In 2006, Curtis ran unsuccessfully against Feeney for the United States congressional seat in Florida 's 24th congressional district. He challenged those election results through citizen affidavits and he will share that story with us also. Clint is running for Congress again this year.
We'll also be welcoming returning guest JIM MARCH, Board Member of Black Box Voting, who was on with us last week. We wanted to finish our interview with Jim about the implications of the lawsuit filed by Democrats against the Pima County, Arizona election officials in regards to citizens' ability to get election records (specifically in this case, the Diebold/Premier database) to review for possible election fraud. CALVIN GRIFFIN, our "honorary VoteRescuer" from Hawaii, will be calling in with an election update from his state.
The show 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 4pm CDT.
We the People Radio Network is fundraising right now. If you enjoy the content of this or other shows you hear through this Network, please consider making a donation through the website (above). Thank you!
The call-in number is 512-646-6448.
Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Sunday!
WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!
With thanks for your support,
Vickie and Karen
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Robert Kennedy, Greg Palast: The Final Investigation? |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 19:42 |
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One million Democrats attempting to vote in this year's primaries
found their names missing from voter rolls. WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?
Law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Greg Palast are
launching an investigation. We want to know: where are these votes? Who
swiped them? How? And how do we  prevent it from happening in November?
The investigations team needs your help. RIGHT NOW.
Our investigation is non-partisan. It's not about saving Democrats, but saving DEMOCRACY.
The
not-for-profit Investigative Fund needs support to pay the cost of
phones, airfare, microphones (hidden, when needed), detective agency
fees, camera crew, researchers and all the infrastructure of inquest.
We need, right now, two dozen Producers to put up at least $1000 each
to pay for the preliminary investigation and production. You'll get a
tax deduction, a box loaded with DVDs of the finished films now planned
from broadcast internationally and maybe, just maybe, an honest
election.
This time we plan to put out our findings on the manipulation of the vote BEFORE November.
Bobby Kennedy, in his masterful article in Rolling Stone, exposed
how Ohio votes vanished in 2004. The Palast team, for BBC Television,
unmasked the vicious 'scrub' of Black voters in Florida in 2000.
Now Kennedy and Palast have joined together with an extraordinary
team of investigators to hunt the missing votes of 2008 BEFORE we have
a repeat of 2000 and 2004.
I haven't sought funding from you all this year but now I must. Neither I nor RFK take a dime of compensation from the Palast Investigative Fund.
But the fund's hit empty and we can't ask a our brilliant crew to
continue to survive on dog food they're beginning to bark at
embarrassing moments!
Our investigation is non-partisan. It's not about saving Democrats, but saving DEMOCRACY.
But we know who's playing games with the ballots.
FACT: On Super-Tuesday, the number of Democrats missing from voter
rolls in New Mexico exceeded George Bush's 2004 'victory' total by
300%. No wonder McCain's campaign says New Mexico is "in play." The
question is who's playing with it?
Join our effort. If you've got a tip, a document, a witness CONTACT US. And add your name to the list of Producers and Supporters.
Some Americans have taken a bullet to protect the ballot. All
we're asking is that you take a tax deduction. Add your name in bold on
screen as a producer of the film that will open eyes and stop lies. Donate HERE
and PASS ON this request to friends and patriots. Let's stop the
attack on democracy NOW so we can make this the final investigation
of a stolen election.
I can't tell you how much your support of our investigations has meant to us.
Yours,
Greg Palast
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