Wednesday, January 11, 2006

First County-wide Broward Election Reform Coalition Meeting

You are invited to attend
   First County-wide Broward Election Reform Coalition Meeting!
    
   “Achieving Election Reform in Broward County!”

    
   January, 18, 2006
   7-9:30 PM
   Leonard Weisinger Community Center
   6199 N.W. 10th St., Margate, FL 33063
   Phone: 954-972-6458
    
   Whereas the Declaration of Independence refers to the Consent of the Governed as

 the self-evident truth from which Government derives "just Power";
    
   When elections are conducted under conditions that prevent conclusive outcomes, the

Consent of the Governed is not being sought. Absent this self-evident source of

legitimacy, such Consent is not to be assumed or taken for granted.


    
   We are excited to have as our first Keynote Speaker Clint Curtis!


  

 Wonderful Whistleblower Clint has an intimate knowledge of Vote Fraud. He will

travel Far and Wide to whoever will listen with an open mind!  Clint has testified before

Congressional Commissions and is well known for his encounters with FL Congressman


 Feeney who asked him to write a Computer Program to Rig the Elections on Touch

Screen Voting Machines in South Florida.   Election Reform in Broward County is way

overdue! We are the sleeping giant!

 

What Can We Do???    How Do We Want to Vote???   Will My Vote Count???


   What’s Happening in Broward County?


 

THE BROWARD ELECTION REFORM COALITION is a Nonpartisan Broward

County think-tank, watchdog and action group with the primary goal of replacing the


 Current Paperless Voting Technology with Voter-verified Paper Ballots, handcounted

at the precinct level, reconciled with machine counts and used as the official election

result.  We will make recommendations to the Supervisor of Elections and County

Commissioners in Voting Technology, Election Policy and Practices.. We will keep our

elected officials honest, accountable, transparent and working in the public interest  We

will help influence Voter Verified Paper Ballot Legislation and participate and take a

lead in national and statewide election reform actions. The Broward Election Reform

Coalition is for all the Broward County Voting Rights Activists to have a central


 group to join together, brainstorm and unite! 

 

 Join our nonpartisan alliance and encourage your friends of all political parties to

attend!

 

   Please join our Broward Election Reform Newsgroup at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/electionreform/


   For More Info Contact: Ellen H. Brodsky, Broward


 Verified Voting, ehbrod@yahoo.com, 954-973-2819


  For Directions: 

 http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&cat=&address=6199+N.W.+10th+St.&city=Margate&state=FL&zipcode=+33063

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Did you know....
1.  80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:  Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold


2.  There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3.  The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4.  The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5.  Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S.  He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines. http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6.  Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee. http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7.  Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8.  ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9.  Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes.  In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindexhtml

10.  Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11.  Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12.  Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13.  Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold.  Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14.  Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15.  None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16.  California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad.  Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it!  (See the movie here:  http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.) http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17.  30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18.  All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
href="http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html">
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19.  The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20.  Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation. http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/ 
 


 

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