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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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!

Kucinich Letter Cites Miscounts in NH, Requests State Carry Out 'Complete and Accurate Recount of All Ballots'

Democratic Presidential Candidate Details 'Significant Percentage Variances,' from 4 to 10%, Discovered So Far During Hand Counts as Paid for by His Campaign

SoS Downplays Mistallies After One County Counted: No Changes 'As Far as Where the Candidates Finished'...

By Brad Friedman,  1/23/2008  Source: www.Bradblog.com

Citing "significant percentage variances in four voting districts in Hillsborough County," Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is requesting that New Hampshire's Secretary of State, William Gardner, "order a complete and accurate recount of all ballots in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary election," according to a letter sent this morning, as

Robert Simms, Georgia's Deputy Secretary of State and former lobbyist with Massey & Bowers (Diebold Election Systems' lobbying firm in Georgia), continues the spin against election reform, transparency and accountability.  Simms describes the status of election reform bill H.R. 811 “The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act” from the biased perspective that the voting machine industry has successfully inculcated in many election officials nationwide. 

H.R. 811 mandates creating a paper ballot for every vote cast, allowing for meaningful recounts and audits of questionable election results.  Georgia's current voting system was deliberately designed to create no physical evidence, no paper ballots to document a voter's intent.  The big lie promulgated by opponents of fair elections is that H.R. 811 requires continued use of touch-screen voting machines, where the bill actually allows paper ballots to be used with optical scan systems.  No official from Georgia's Secretary of State office has ever acknowledged this fact since the bill's introduction. Furthermore, the spin from Georgia's Secretary of State Handel herself against the bill is divorced from the reality of the bill's text (read it here).

Georgians' tax dollars are being spent to stop the necessary election reform H.R. 811 provides, by having Simms and other election officials lobby against the bill.  H.R. 811 mandates creating a paper ballot for every vote cast, the best and most cost-effective method for catching and correcting voting machine errors and prosecuting fraudulent manipulation of voting machine totals.  No system exists in Georgia for catching voting system errors and fraud currently.

Video shot at Georgia's State Election Board meeting 9/25/2007 at the Georgia Capitol.