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 [1]

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.

Featured Song: "If You Want to Be a Voter (The Ballad of Sarasota)" [2] by Lori Rosolowsky

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 [3].
Call 856-227-1360 to ask the guest or host a question or submit your question online in advance.

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.

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.

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 [4].

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 [5]

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. [6] Podcast2/14/07 [7].

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.

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.

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.

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. [9]

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 [10]

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.

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. [11]

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. [12]

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. [13]
You can also hear an archived audio of Avi Rubin on NPR/WHYY's Talk of the Nation on Oct. 27.

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.

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. [14]