Jim March
Member
Folks,
Some of you know I've been tracking the Diebold vote fraud scandal in some detail. If not, check out my letters to the California Secretary of State at:
http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.html
Extreme short form: Diebold sells the hardware and software to vote with, to county governments. The security of same is so bad, it seems highly likely this turkey was rigged for vote fraud. Internal memos have been leaked showing the %$#^@s laughing about it amongst themselves
. It's *bad*, OK?
Well on Thursday at 10:00am, the "voting certification panel" will be meeting to, supposedly, make a decision on whether or not to keep this Diebold crapola in the state.
Here's the meeting schedule and agenda:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/vsp_011504.pdf
California SecState main office:
1500 11th Street
1st Floor - Auditorium
Sacramento, CA 95814
If you're catching the SacCity light rail system, it's smack dab at the Archives Plaza light rail station, and one block from the state capitol building.
Recent events: the SecState's office started an audit on the Diebold hardware and software pieces in use among the 17 counties that have bought Diebold gear. Each component and software version is supposed to be "certified" - approved by the Federal Election Commission via testing labs, then tested and approved by the Calif SecState.
Of the 17 counties, NOT ONE was using a completely legal set of components. Swear to God. Diebold had been installing whatever they want with no oversight. Total nightmare, and totally illegal.
They need to be voted off the island - de-certified for use in the entire state. They've been stalling the decision while seeking "more data" but every time more data comes in, the situation looks even worse. SecState Shelley is on record as saying he "doesn't want to de-certify Diebold, but he'll go down that road if he has to" - in an unprecidented public speech to the voting cert panel during the last meeting in December of '03.
So far, these certification hearings have been sparsely attended. Only a handful of folks have been paying attention. That has to change. We need warm bodies, folks. Even if you're new to the issue, we need to fill that auditorium, we need to PROVE at a gut level that people are now paying attention and the SecState bureaucrats better do their jobs.
This is important enough that if you CAN take a day off work, do so. OK? This is for real, not a drill. Read over my open letters to the SecState, they form a decent short intro to the subject, (the longest is 7 pages, the shortest 4).
You can fill out a speaker card and comment if you like, or not. Doesn't matter that much, so long as we get BODIES. The room seats about 400, the most I've seen is maybe 35 and most of those are voting systems manufacturer's sales reps (virtually all of which used to be SecState elections division staff I kid you not). The most activists so far: about a dozen.
This is a call for reinforcements.
NOTE: this is a personal project of mine, not connected with CCRKBA.
Some of you know I've been tracking the Diebold vote fraud scandal in some detail. If not, check out my letters to the California Secretary of State at:
http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.html
Extreme short form: Diebold sells the hardware and software to vote with, to county governments. The security of same is so bad, it seems highly likely this turkey was rigged for vote fraud. Internal memos have been leaked showing the %$#^@s laughing about it amongst themselves
. It's *bad*, OK?Well on Thursday at 10:00am, the "voting certification panel" will be meeting to, supposedly, make a decision on whether or not to keep this Diebold crapola in the state.
Here's the meeting schedule and agenda:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/vsp_011504.pdf
California SecState main office:
1500 11th Street
1st Floor - Auditorium
Sacramento, CA 95814
If you're catching the SacCity light rail system, it's smack dab at the Archives Plaza light rail station, and one block from the state capitol building.
Recent events: the SecState's office started an audit on the Diebold hardware and software pieces in use among the 17 counties that have bought Diebold gear. Each component and software version is supposed to be "certified" - approved by the Federal Election Commission via testing labs, then tested and approved by the Calif SecState.
Of the 17 counties, NOT ONE was using a completely legal set of components. Swear to God. Diebold had been installing whatever they want with no oversight. Total nightmare, and totally illegal.
They need to be voted off the island - de-certified for use in the entire state. They've been stalling the decision while seeking "more data" but every time more data comes in, the situation looks even worse. SecState Shelley is on record as saying he "doesn't want to de-certify Diebold, but he'll go down that road if he has to" - in an unprecidented public speech to the voting cert panel during the last meeting in December of '03.
So far, these certification hearings have been sparsely attended. Only a handful of folks have been paying attention. That has to change. We need warm bodies, folks. Even if you're new to the issue, we need to fill that auditorium, we need to PROVE at a gut level that people are now paying attention and the SecState bureaucrats better do their jobs.
This is important enough that if you CAN take a day off work, do so. OK? This is for real, not a drill. Read over my open letters to the SecState, they form a decent short intro to the subject, (the longest is 7 pages, the shortest 4).
You can fill out a speaker card and comment if you like, or not. Doesn't matter that much, so long as we get BODIES. The room seats about 400, the most I've seen is maybe 35 and most of those are voting systems manufacturer's sales reps (virtually all of which used to be SecState elections division staff I kid you not). The most activists so far: about a dozen.
This is a call for reinforcements.
NOTE: this is a personal project of mine, not connected with CCRKBA.