(US) 8/06 - Guard The Vote

Author Message   Marcell Dilworth Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Black_cell Post Number: 6 Registered: 06-2006 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 10:39 pm:        The polling data coming from Republican strategist is, that if the election were held today the Dems would most likely get the 15 seats needed to gain the majority. If Dems get the majority the likelihood would be that Bu$h will be investigated for impeachment charges. I believe The Bu$h Crime Family will be looking for many Different ways to steal votes or deny registered voters their right to vote & it is disappointing me that most Dems are acting as if we aren’t vulnerable to election theft in a way that the subject is a waste of time in many Democrat stomping ground. Elected officials don’t complain about election theft until after the election is over & they have lost a close race sounding more like sore losers. I really wonder what can we do to change this mind set.   Marcell Dilworth Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Black_cell Post Number: 7 Registered: 06-2006 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 12:48 am:        Americans Concerned About Election Transparency and Security New poll shows more than 60% have heard news reports of flaws in new electronic voting equipment A majority of Americans—61%—are aware of news reports of flaws in electronic voting machines and want members of the general public to be able to watch votes be counted following an election, a new Zogby International poll shows. The telephone survey of 1,018 likely voters was conducted Aug. 11-15, 2006. It carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. Asked whether Americans have the right to view and obtain information about how elections officials count votes, 92% of respondents concurred. "The 92% support for the public's right to view vote counting and obtain information about it is a very strong political value of transparency and against secret vote counting outside the observation of the public," said Paul Lehto, a lawyer and sponsor of the survey. "To put this figure in context, support for election transparency exceeds the support for tax cuts, exceeds the approval of Pres. Bush immediately after 9-11, and virtually all other political values being measured." Mr. Lehto is counsel in the 50th Congressional District election contest in California. Most of those surveyed— 80%—said they want votes to be counted in front of observers representing the public, and that elections officials should not rely solely on the proprietary software that operates electronic voting machines that are presently being installed all over the United States. In some models, the electronic machines tabulate votes cast on that machine and saves them to a computer memory card. Results from those cards are then added together to obtain results of an election. http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1163

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