Abbe Waldman DeLozier was born in Dallas, Texas. She attended college in Mexico for 6 months at the University of the Americas and lived with a local family while studying Mexican language, culture, and history. She then spent a year studying overseas in Israel, living, studying and working on a kibbutz for 9 months and then continued her travels in Europe. She received an associate's degree in General Education at Palomar College. She has owned and managed her own businesses in landscaping and real estate.

She has also created and coproduced sizeable charitable events as well as volunteered extensively helping political organizations with media, strategy and publicity. Ms. DeLozier also created and produced two charitable fundraising events that benefited the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

In 2003 she created and produced a political awareness event for 2,500 people called the 'Get Up Stand Up! Rally For Your Rights! This event featured political and community speakers as well as had 50 non-profits who tabled at the event stressing community involvement, charity, and political action. Some of the featured speakers were Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower, Granny D-Doris Haddock, Reverend Joseph Parker, and Liz Carpenter to name a few.

In addition she has co-produced press conferences in Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas, on the issue of vote fraud, one being on September 22nd, 2004, at the National Press Club titled, "Hacking the Presidential Election: A Bipartisan Problem, Anyone Can Do It." There, Bev Harris, computer security expert Dr. Herbert Thompson, and Jeremiah Akin demonstrated six ways election software could be easily hacked. The other was co-produced in conjunction with True Majority.org and took place at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, coinciding with national activities supporting "The Computer Ate My Vote Day!"

She recently co-Edited and Co-Authored a book titled- "Hacked! High Tech Election Theft in America-11 Experts Expose the Truth". Ms. Delozier has been working on a national level in the area of election fraud and reform for the last 5 years. She volunteers with the Election Defense Alliance which is a national coalition of voting rights and election reform organizations. She is involved on an ongoing basis planning events to help educate the public and election officials on the dangers of electronic voting machines. She is also a regular guest on national radio shows speaking on the topic of election fraud.

Vickie Karp is an election reform activist from Austin, Texas, who has worked on exposing the electronic voting machine fraud issue since 2003. She has served on the Board of Directors of Bev Harris’s non-profit Black Box Voting; is the National Chair of the Coalition for Visible Ballots, and the PR Director of Austin-based VoteRescue. In 2006, Vickie and fellow activist Abbe Waldman DeLozier co-edited the book, “HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America” in an effort to help educate the public on the ongoing threat of stolen elections resulting from the use of electronic voting machines.

Vickie has co-produced numerous educational events and press conferences on this issue, given numerous public presentations on the topic to political and citizens groups; has appeared on MSNBC and Austin TV news channels and has been a guest on various radio shows around the country presenting her views on the topic. She and VoteRescue founder Karen Renick currently co-host a radio show on We the People Radio Network (www.wtprn.com) called “Vote-Rescue Radio: Where Citizens Count – One Vote at a Time”. Vickie is dedicated to a return to hand-counted paper ballot elections, with enhanced security measures, and totals posted at the precinct level.

Lynn Landes is an award-winning journalist, columnist and author of a dozen books on politics, history, the environment and energy. With Bob Fitrakis he helped break many of the key stories in Ohio 2004, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson calling them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election." Their WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO ? (New Press) and HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA 'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008 (www.freepress.org) are at the core of the controversy. Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA: OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030 and HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (www.harveywasserman.com) are cult classics in the alternative history and energy movements.

Jeremiah Akin first got involved in electronic voting after observing a Logic and Accuracy Test in Riverside, California. Among other problems with the test, Jeremiah observed that members of the Riverside County Grand Jury had signed a statement saying that the test had successfully completed before the test was even finished. Members of the Registrar of Voters office tried to convince Jeremiah to sign the same paper even though they had conducted portions of the test outside the view of the test observers. Having seen first hand how inattentive local government was when it came ensuring that voting equipment was secure, Jeremiah decided to start researching the subject himself. His work has been featured in two books, Black Box Voting, and Steal this Vote. Jeremiah has been quoted on the subject of electronic voting by Newsweek, the Associated Press, Salon, Wired News, and many other news sources.

Jeremiah grew up in Riverside California, attended college at UC Santa Cruz, and is now residing in Austin, Texas, where he works as a Sr. level software developer for a Fortune 500 company.

Bev Harris, Founder, Director, Black Box Voting. Harris has been referred to as "the godmother" of the election reform movement by the Boston Globe. She is the author of the book "Black Box Voting." "Harris stumbled onto a national story ignored by every big-city newspaper in the land, and worked it deeper and deeper with scoops that would have made her career at the New York Times or Washington Post. >> founded the movement." -- Vanity Fair

In 2003, just weeks after a stunning electoral upset in Georgia that tipped control of the U.S. Senate, Harris discovered 40,000 secret voting machine files on the Web -- including a folder called "rob-georgia," containing instructions to replace Georgia's computerized voting files before the election. She downloaded the files and ultimately arranged to set them free into the wild, and the files were then studied by several security experts, revealing deep flaws in voting system security.

Harris's articles revealed that modern-day voting systems are run by private for-profit corporations, relying on a few cronies for oversight, using a certification system so fundamentally flawed that it allows machines to miscount and lose votes, with hidden back doors that enable "end runs" around the voting system. Harris filed a false claims action against Diebold Election Systems; in 2005, the firm paid $2.6 million in restitution to the state of California. Her investigations have led some to call her the 'Erin Brockovich of elections.

Her facts check out. Harris's original investigative work has now been covered in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, The Associated Press, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, and on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, and in many European media outlets.

Bob Fitrak is Editor and Publisher of the Free Press and freepress.org, is an award-winning investigative reporter, holds a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. He co-authored and edited the international election observers’ report on El Salvador ’s first free and fair election in 1994. He is co-author with Harvey Wasserman of “Did George W. Bush Steal America ’s 2004 Election? Essential Documents” and the forthcoming “What Happened in Ohio : A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election” (New Press).

Harvey Wasserman is an award-winning journalist, columnist and author of a dozen books on politics, history, the environment and energy. With Bob Fitrakis he helped break many of the key stories in Ohio 2004, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson calling them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election." Their WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO? (New Press) and HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008 (www.freepress.org) are at the core of the controversy. Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA: OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030 and HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (www.harveywasserman.com) are cult classics in the alternative history and energy movements.

May Schmidt has been working elections in Travis County, Texas since 1970. She was born in Austin (Travis County), Texas and graduated from the Austin Public Schools and the University of Texas at Austin. After serving in the Peace Corps in El Salvador, she returned to Austin and earned a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies and a Master of Library Science at the University of Texas at Austin. After a career at the Austin Public Library, she retired in 2000. Currently she is employed part-time at the University of Texas at Austin at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory. Her hobbies are archeology and sewing. She is married to Jim Schmidt and has two children and one grandchild.

Victoria Collier is the daughter and niece of James and Kenneth Collier, authors of the groundbreaking book, "Votescam: The Stealing of America." This book chronicles the brothers' 25 year investigation into how elections are covertly stolen using electronic voting machines, with the complicity of the major media networks and both major political parties.

Since the Collier brothers' death in the late 1990's, Victoria has continued to keep this vitally important information alive through radio and public speaking. She also runs a variety of projects promoting sustainable living and organic agriculture in Taos, New Mexico.

Victoria can be reached at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; http://www.votescam.com

Cynthia Ann McKinney, Georgia's first African American Congresswoman and the only woman serving in the state's congressional delegation, has emerged as an internationally renowned advocate for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the United States. She is known as a passionate, intelligent, charismatic and effective member of the House of Representatives.

As a Georgia state legislator from 1988 to 1992, Congresswoman McKinney gained national attention because of her determined struggle for a fair and just reapportionment plan in Georgia. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by a decisive margin in 1992, McKinney has continued that struggle. Congresswoman McKinney's increasing influence on Capitol Hill was acknowledged with her appointment to the powerful and prestigious Armed Services Committee. She is also a key member of the International Relations Committee, serving as Ranking Member on its International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee.

Kathleen Wynne, Associate Director, Black Box Voting. Kathleen Wynne has been a full time investigator with Black Box Voting since the organization was founded in 2004. Wynne mentors citizens, teaching them how to monitor local elections, and also consults with public officials. She has testified at numerous public hearings and has provided evidence to members of the U.S. Congress, the EAC, and other public bodies. Before coming to Black Box Voting Wynne spent 20 years as a senior administrator with major New York City law firms. Her extensive legal experience working has been invaluable in helping to teach citizens how to document elections problems with evidence that can stand up to scrutiny.

Wynne's videotapes documented recount breaches in the 2004 Ohio election which have since led to two indictments in Cuyahoga County. Her investigations into the money trail resulted in the first documented chain of money between Diebold and public officials. She also videotaped as elections records were pulled out of the Volusia County (FL) garbage shortly after the Nov. 2004 general election, and other obstructiveness by election officials. She videotaped all four of the Black Box Voting "hack" studies by Harri Hursti and Dr. Herbert Thompson in Leon County Florida and Emery County Utah.