Our allies at VoterGA.org have been preparing for two years for the hearing that Judge Michael D. Johnson will preside over on Monday Sept. 8 at 2:30pm in Fulton County Superior Court, in Room 8B at 185 Central Ave, downtown Atlanta, approximately two blocks south of the Underground Atlanta and the Five Points Marta station. 

We need you there to show support for our fair elections case in court, and to prevent the powerful electronic voting lobby from applying pressure to the judge to dismiss this case, despite the evidence favoring a judgment in VoterGA's favor to declare electronic voting unconstitutional.

The VoterGa.org suit can benefit all nine million current and future Georgia voters. It contends that our current electronic voting method is illegal and unconstitutional according to state law.  A review of the case's legal arguments includes astonishing facts regarding our voting machines' machine inaccuracy, recount-ability, improper certification, and lack of  ballot secrecy, as well as Georgia's illegal acquisition of these machines.   Constitutional challenges include counts regarding the legitimacy of an “electronic ballot”, people's participation in elections, equal protection, and due process. 

Please consider taking some time off from work Monday to bear witness to this historic occasion and show support for fair elections.  There are 72 seats to be filled in this courtroom and we need to fill them all!  Badges of support will be available at the entrance to the courtroom. 

Please send this message to your email lists, and to anyone who believes democracy is a core American value that is worth defending.   Thank you,

John Fortuin
404.438.2389
Defenders of Democracy

Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Friday July 18, 2008

A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.

Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies. At a little noticed press conference in Columbus, Ohio Thursday, he discussed his investigation of a computer patch that was applied to Diebold Election Systems voting machines in Georgia right before that state's November 2002 election.

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Source: http://www.velvetrevolution.us/#071808
7/18/08

Yesterday, Ohio Attorney Cliff Arnebeck launched a new legal strategy to expose a national strategy of election manipulation directed by Karl Rove.  The implications are stunning.  Arnebeck has asked the Ohio Federal Court to allow for targeted under oath depositions of key individuals including Rove, Bush IT guru Michael Connell, Jack Abramoff, Ken Blackwell and others.  This will be the first opportunity ever to place these individuals under oath.

Arnebeck indicated that he has amassed a great deal of information from various sources including whistleblowers implicating Rove.  He wrote in yesterday’s court filing that the suspected lead perpetrator of this conspiracy against the civil rights of the plaintiffs and against the rule of law in the United States is Karl Rove. Rove’s politicization of  the Justice Department is currently being investigation by the US House Judiciary Committee.  Click here to Continue

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Now is your best chance to to help make the 2008 Presidential election verifiable. Please ask your members of Congress to co-sponsor H.R. 5036, the "Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008”, Representative Rush Holt's bill to provide emergency funding for paper ballots voting systems and random hand counted audits of the November elections.

The Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act (download pdf) offers states or counties reimbursement for purchasing paper ballot systems in time for the November elections, and reimbursement for conducting random hand-counted audits of the November election results.

The bill would offer money only for the most reliable voting systems: those that use voter-marked paper ballots, with accessible ballot-marking devices to serve voters with disabilities. By offering crucial funding, Congress can empower state and county officials to do the right thing in time for November.

Rep. Holt's bill could not be more timely. As the Presidential primary season unfolds, 14 states will use paperless electronic system in their primaries, either as the statewide system, or as the system used in many counties.

It doesn't have to be this way in November. Urge your Representative to cosponsor the Confidence in Voting Act. Take action now by clicking here to send a fax to your Representative!