| VoteRescue Radio Fri.6/20, 6-8pm:John Brakey, Debra Medina! |
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| Friday, 20 June 2008 | |
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Hello from VoteRescue Radio, Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!
Tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, from 6-8pm, we are excited to announce two dynamic guests: DEBRA MEDINA,
Republican Party Chair of Wharton County, Texas, will be on during our
first hour to talk about her temporary restraining order against the
Texas State Republican Party, granted June 4th; her purpose was to
restore order and integrity to the Party and ensure fair treatment of
all of the delegates at the Texas Republican State Convention. We'll
hear from Debra tomorrow as to whether or not that happened last
week at the Convention, which was held in Houston.
In our second hour, we'll be talking with JOHN BRAKEY ,
Co-founder of AUDIT-AZ. (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity,
and Transparency in Elections, Arizona) and the Special Task Force
Leader of the Arizona Democratic Party Election Integrity Committee, in
which he works as Co-Coordinator for Investigations along with David
Griscom of the Election Defense Alliance (EDA).
John says he became an election integrity activist "at 3:30 pm November 2, 2004".
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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. 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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