Premier Failings Reinforce Case for Handcounted Ballots

The North Bay Report

by Bruce Robinson

http://krcb.org/north-bay-report/ [2]

Apr 01 2009

 

 

 

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Dan Ashby Interview on Diebold Sleepovers in CA-50 (July 2006)

Interview [7] featuring Dan Ashby of EDA and California Election Protection Network (10 min.) On Diebold sleepovers in San Diego, bootloader and wireless attacks, No Confidence and handcount remedy, Red-Team Sequoia test in Alameda, Debra Bowen's candidacy for SoS.

Dan Ashby on the CA Diebold lawsuit (May 2006)

Click here to play audio file [8] of K-Quake (San Francisco) radio interview with Dan Ashby about the California Diebold lawsuit and electronic voting generally. (Audio courtesy of The Will & Willie Show on Quake radio AM 960, recorded March 2006)

Greg Palast on the Mexican elections (July 11, 2006; 19 min.)

Greg Palast speaks out [9] on the disappearing and reappearing 3 million Mexican ballots.

Laura Flanders and Ion Sancho on Free Speech TV

Interview [10] between Laura Flanders and Ion Sancho on Free Speech TV. Ion Sancho is the 17 year veteran Election Supervisor from Leon County, FL who administered a test now known as the "Hursti Hack" on the Diebold touch screen machines slated for use in his county. He has come under intense pressure as major election system vendors have colluded to prevent him from completing purchases mandated by HAVA.

Mark Crispin Miller, Steve Freeman and Bev Harris, on Sunday Salon, Pacifica Radio, 10/01/06

In our first hour...(this is a two-hour recording; the elections section is the first half).

There's just one month left before the general election. Recent elections have seen trouble with electronic voting machines, hanging chads, and possible fraud -- will your vote count?

Our guests:

Mark Crispin Miller ( http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com [11] ), author of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections and Why They'll Steal This One, Too (Unless We Stop Them) (Basic Books)

Steve Freeman, co-author, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count (Seven Stories)

Beverly Harris, author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century (Talion) ( http://www.blackboxvoting.org [12] )

Audio file download link: http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20061001-Sun0900.mp3 [13]

or stream from link below:

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Stream to your computer's media player (24kb/s mp3).	Download this program to your hard drive (this file is about 20.58 megabytes).

Mimi Kennedy, Emily Levy of CD50 on Peter B. Collins Show

By word of explanation, this excerpt from Dave Berman's We Do Not Concede blog:

"The Peter B. Collins syndicated radio show streams online at PeterBCollins.com. Peter has been an absolute champion to the election integrity movement, most recently focusing on San Diego.
. . . Here is the final hour of yesterday's show featuring guests Mimi Kennedy of the Progressive Democrats of America, and Emily Levy of California Election Protection Network and the CA-50 Action Committee. I also got on the air as a caller, plugging the upcoming media accountability forum, and Dan Ashby of the Election Defense Alliance got through to discuss the TSx bootloader hack, described in this report BBVtsxstudy.pdf [15] as the means to alter election results not only on one machine and in the present but on many machines and into the future. This was a great hour of radio."

Note: Drag slider to the final third of the time line, where the election segment of the show starts.

Permalink:
http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/2006/07/san-diego-lehto-collins-and-c... [16]

Mimi Kennedy, Emily Levy on CA-50, Peter B. Collins Show, 7/28/06 [15]

Nancy Tobi interviewed by Bob Fitrakis

Nancy Tobi interviewed by Bob Fitrakis [17] on her recent visit (Spring, 2007) to Columbus, Ohio.

Other Audio Coverage of Election Integrity Issues

Source : http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/List_of_interviews_related_to_election_integrity [18]

List of interviews related to election integrity

From dKosopedia

• David Bender's February 21, 2007 interview of Brad Friedman [19] (subject is H.R.811 [20])
• December 7, 2006 on debriefings held by CT elections officials [21]; no discussion of memory card failures; Evan Davis [22] tells "cautionary tale of Ohio election and recount madness"
• Mike Malloy's November 3, 2006 interview of Brad Friedman about release of unredacted SAIC report [23] (full show is here [24])
• October 30, 2006 broadcast (WBUR, NPR, Boston) "On Point: The Validity of the 2006 Election" [25] panel includes Sean Greene [26] (director of research at electionline.org [27]), Mark Crispin Miller [28], John Fund [29], and Avi Rubin [30]; callers include "George from Cambridge" (dKos member gmoke)
• October
  24, 2006 broadcast (KPFK, Southern CA) Verified Voting.org's nationwide
  coordinator Pamela Smith interviewed on Election Transparency Project [31]
• August 28, 2006 podcast from Wesley Clark on election integrity [32] panel includes Debra Bowen [33], David Dill [34], Mark Crispin Miller [28]
• August 15, 2006 podcast from Wesley Clark on election integrity [35] panel includes Debra Bowen [33], David Dill [34], Mark Crispin Miller [28]
• August 8, 2006 podcast from Wesley Clark on election integrity [36]
• July 5, 2006 NPR segment "Study Raises Concerns About Electronic Voting" with Lawrence Norden, co-author of study [37]
• June 24, 2006 interview with Holly Jacobson, Jason Aaron Osgood [38]
• June 7, 2005 workshop given at a voting rights teach-in in Cleveland, Ohio [39]; recorded by Evan Davis [22]
• January 3, 2005 TUC Radio: Election Fraud in Ohio [40]; recorded by Evan Davis [22] on December 30, 2004
• January 2, 2005 Hacking the Matrix [41];
  the first of a three part documentary The Power of Nightmares (adapted
  for radio) about how creating fear has become the currency of political
  power, then a look at developments in the investigation of election
  fraud in last November, and legal challenges to Bush's purported
  victory; features Bob Fitrakis [42] and Evan Davis [22]
• December 27, 2004 updates from Ohio [43]; features Bob Fitrakis [42] and Evan Davis [22]
• December 14, 2004 news report on Ohio election developments [44]; features David Cobb [45], Jesse Jackson [46], Cliff Arnebeck [47], Maxine Waters [48]
• December 7, 2004 update on election-related happenings in Ohio [49]; features a clip from a speech by John Bonifaz [50]
  (then of the National Voting Rights Institute, later of Progressive
  Democrats of America) and interviews with street activists and a
  spokesperson for the Ohio Secretary of State's office

Links

• Election Defense Internet Radio Show [51]; streams Tuesdays, Sundays; call-in number; downloadable podcasts
• Coalition for Voting Integrity's "Voice of the Voters" [52] (Wednesday podcasts at 8 p.m. Eastern time beginning at least as early as January 13, 2006)
• Moritz Election Law Center's archive of weekly podcasts [53] (Tuesday podcasts beginning September 12, 2006)

Related articles

• Voting Rights [54]

Pokey Anderson interviews Nancy Tobi on Pacifica Radio, Houston

Nancy Tobi interviewed by Pokey Anderson on Pacifica Radio [55]

Radio journalist and election integrity researcher Pokey Anderson produces The Monitor [56] radio program on KPFT Houston and has a deep backlist of election integrity-themed shows and interviews on archive.

Voice of the Voter Interview with New Hampshire Secretary of State

Voice of the Voters interview with New Hampshire Secretary of State Gardner and Assistant Secretary Stevens [57]

Voice of the Voters Radio and Podcast Archive

Audio links to the programs described on this page are found at:
http://mysite.verizon.net/resq4lzq/cvi/id267.html [58]

Voice of the Voters is broadcast over terrestrial radio WNJC 1360 AM.

Voice of the Voters is now also available as a podcast at iTunes.com under "Voice of the Voters" in the News & Politics category.

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Featured Song: "If You Want to Be a Voter (The Ballad of Sarasota)" [59] by Lori Rosolowsky

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Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections for Florida's Leon County, will be Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 8-9 PM.

June McWilliam of Buckingham, PA, will receive CVI's Citizen Making a Difference Award for helping people and animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, saving close to three hundred animals.

John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org, will report on the week's top voting news stories. Read his Daily Voting News.

Tune in to WNJC 1360 AM, or to listen to the show live from your computer, Click here [60].
Call 856-227-1360 to ask the guest or host a question or submit your question online in advance.

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Noel Runyan, access technology expert, and Suzanne Erb, social worker and advocate for the blind, spoke with Mary Ann Gould on Voice of the Voters! on March 14, 2007, from the point of view of the disabled community. Noel Runyan authored the report Improving Access to Voting, published by Demos and Voter Action. June McWilliam of Buckingham, PA, received CVI's Citizen Making a Difference Award for helping people and animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, a leading authority on computer security and electronic vote tabulation, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on March 7, 2007. John Gideon later joined the discussion of Rush Holt's evoting bill H.R. 811.

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John Bonifaz, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant"), was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on February 28, 2007. A Senior Legal Fellow at Demos, Bonifaz is a consulting attorney for Voter Action in the Sarasota, FL, case and is providing strategic legal advice in Voter Action's other cases around the country.

John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org, reported on the week's top voting news stories.

Lori Rosolowsky sang and spoke about composing her newly released song "If You Want to Be a Voter (The Ballad of Sarasota)." Podcast 2/28/2007 [58].

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Topic: Rush Holt's E-voting bill H.R. 811. Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting (NYVV); David Allen, who helped draft the nation's toughest anti-electronic voting machine legislation; and George Washington were Mary Ann Gould's guests on Voice of the Voters! on February 21, 2007, the eve of our first president's birthday. John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org, reported on the week's top voting news stories. Podcast 2/21/07 [58]

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Michael Clingman, Secretary of Oklahoma's Election Board and Secretary of the State Senate, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on February 14, 2007. He discussed Oklahoma's decision to take ownership of all voting machine programming and open it up for all to see plus why optical scan works for his state.

Dr. Alan Brau discussed the problems with WinVote machines in Northampton County, PA.

John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org, reported on the week's top voting news stories. Audio Link. [61] Podcast2/14/07 [62].

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Ben Price, of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on February 7, 2007. "CELDF was formed to provide free and affordable legal services to community-based groups and local governments working to protect their quality of life . . ."

John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org and author of the Daily Voting News, reported on the week's top stories.

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Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting (NYVV), was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on Wednesday, January 31, 8-9 PM. Watch Bo Lipari in this clip from Bought and Sold-- Electronic Voting in New York. Read Bo's Blog.

Interviews with Marcia Merrins, President, and Aimee Allaud, Elections/Government Specialist, of the League of Women Voters of New York State, have been postponed.

John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.org and author of the Daily Voting News, reported on the week's top stories.

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Ellen Theisen, founder of VotersUnite! and CEO of Vote-PAD, Inc., and election law attorney Paul Lehto, profiled here at BradBlog, were Mary Ann Gould's guests on Voice of the Voters! on January 3, 2007.

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Brad Friedman, author of the BradBlog.com, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on December 13, 2006. The BradBlog is one of the foremost sources of e-voting news on the internet. Kindra Muntz, John Gideon, and Paul [Bob Gerenser] Revere also joined the conversation. Audio Link. [63]

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Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey’s 12th District was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on December 6, 2006, 8-9 PM. Congressman Holt introduced e-voting machine security legislation H.R. 550, the “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act.”

Kindra Muntz of the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections (SAFE) gave an update on the campaign for a revote of Florida’s 13th District Congressional race.

Paul Revere [Bob Gerenser] stopped by as well.
Podcast 2/21/07 [58]

Bev Harris, founder and director of Black Box Voting, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 8-9 PM. Ms. Harris is featured in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy.

Kindra Muntz was honored for her work as Chair of the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections (SAFE)—read why! >Audio Link.

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Dr. Steve Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy on Wednesday, November 15, 8-9 p.m., on WNJC 1360AM. He is the author of Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count.

Barry Kauffman, Executive Director of Common Cause PA, discussed the problems reported to the 866-MYVOTE1 and 866-OURVOTE hotlines.

Marian K. Schneider, Esq., one of the lead attorneys for a lawsuit challenging the use of DRE (touchscreen) machines in Pennsylvania, was also heard. Several members of the Coalition are plaintiffs in the suit. Audio Link. [64]

Joan Krawitz, Executive Director of VoteTrustUSA, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! on Wednesday, November 8, for a post-election wrap-up. Audio Link. [65]

Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, computer/voting security expert, author of Brave New Ballot, and coauthor of Analysis of an Electronic Voting System, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 8-9 p.m., on WNJC 1360AM. Audio Link. [66]
You can also hear an archived audio of Avi Rubin on NPR/WHYY's Talk of the Nation on Oct. 27.

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Dr. Daniel Lopresti, Associate Professor, Lehigh University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 8-9 p.m., on WNJC 1360AM.

In October 2006 Professor Lopresti and two colleagues "released the results of a telephone poll of PA voters measuring their attitudes towards e-voting . . . . Voters overwhelmingly want to see a Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail." See more on e-voting at Professor Lopresti's website.

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Lowell Finley, Esq., noted election law attorney, was Mary Ann Gould's guest on CVI's new radio show, Voice of the Voters! The Power and Responsibility of Democracy, which premiered Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 8-9 p.m., on WNJC 1360AM. Audio Link. [67]

Vote Rescue Radio

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Vickie Karp and Karen Renick host VoteRescue Radio, a new weekly two-hour radio show each Sunday, airing 2-4 pm Central time, streaming live on We the People Radio Network [69] (90.1 FM in the Austin area).
Click here [68] to listen live on the internet. Or listen by phone at 512-495-8010.

The show features election news, exciting interviews with guests working on election reform nationally, and action ideas for citizens who want to
reclaim their elections. The focus: returning to hand-counted paperballot elections ASAP!

Click here [70] to listen to previous shows.

Vote Rescue Podcast Archives:

2007
http://mp3.wtprn.com/VoteRescue07.html [70]

2008

http://mp3.wtprn.com/VoteRescue08.html [71]