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Simple Video to protect your vote
Please watch and pass it on....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKv6uuoYKEU
Posted:
Oct 29 2008, 2:33 PM EDT by Anonymous
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Addtional Voter Protection Resources
We are less than a week from November 4th, and Pennsylvania remains a political battleground that may well determine who wins the presidency and other critical elections throughout the state. But will all eligible voters be able to exercise their basic right to vote and will their votes be counted as cast?
Voter Action and its partners are continuing our Watch the Vote Project, a citizen-led election protection effort by monitoring the national 1-866-MY-VOTE-1 in collaboration with the NAACP National Voter Fund, the University of Pennsylvania and its law school, Video the Vote, state-based democracy organizations, and with citizens like you. Record voter turnouts are expected in the general election, and nationwide reports of voter registration database problems, voting machine breakdowns, and long lines remain rampant. We need your help. At Voter Action, we know that ensuring a functional democracy cannot happen without you. Join us to, your vigilance and commitment to an open and transparent election process can make all the difference. We are currently recruiting on-the-ground volunteers for our Watch the Vote 2008 Program. Team members will work with us on Election Day to identify and verify problems that emerge through the nationwide, 24 hour, English/Spanish hotline, 1-866-MY-VOTE-1, as well as address and report on resolutions. Democracy requires all hands on deck. Can you help us this election? Contact the Voter Action Pennsylvania team today to get started! Thank you for your support! Holly Jacobson, Director and Co-Founder of Voter Action Steve Strahs, Watch the Vote Pennsylvania Coordinator and Co-Founder, Election Reform Network Voter Action is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, pro-democracy organization dedicated to protecting the integrity of our vote and our elections. "Contact Steve@electionreformnetwork.us"? Thanks. Steve Strahs ELECTION REFORM NETWORK www.electionreformnetwork.us 215-782-8218
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Oct 29 2008, 11:29 AM EDT by
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Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
By Andrew Appel - Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
A judge of the New Jersey Superior Court has prohibited the scheduled release of a report on the security and accuracy of the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. Last June, Judge Linda Feinberg ordered Sequoia Voting Systems to turn over its source code to me (serving as an expert witness, assisted by a team of computer scientists) for a thorough examination. At that time she also ordered that we could publish our report 30 days after delivering it to the Court--which should have been today.
Three weeks after we delivered the report, on September 24th Judge Feinberg ordered us not to release it. This is part of a lawsuit filed by the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, seeking to decommission of all of New Jersey's voting computers. New Jersey mostly uses Sequoia AVC Advantage direct-recording electronic (DRE) models. None of those DREs can be audited: they do not produce a voter verified paper ballot that permit each voter to create a durable paper record of her electoral choices before casting her ballot electronically on a DRE. The legal basis for the lawsuit is quite simple: because there is no way to know whether the DRE voting computer is actually counting votes as cast, there is no proof that the voting computers comply with the constitution or with statutory law that require that all votes be counted as cast.
The question of whether this report can legally be suppressed was already argued once in this Court, in June 2008, and the Court concluded then that it should be released..."
READ MORE: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/judge-suppresses-report-voting-machine-security
Posted:
Oct 3 2008, 11:31 AM EDT by Anonymous
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