ACTION ALERTS for AUGUST 2008
County Supervisors
are elected to 4 year terms with no
term limits. They
all voted to purchase Diebold/Premier machines to secretly count and tabulate our votes in San Diego.
Stealing Votes - The Grand Theft of Our Democracy
The partisan privatization of our elections has given one party illicit control over election results nationwide.
A well known 2006 Princeton study says that converting
votes from one candidate to another is simple with electronic
voting.
Tests were done to see if it really is that easy to change votes with electronic voting. ANSWER: YES
Watch a Diebold Optical Scanner (like the ones used in
San Diego) read in 2 yes and 6 no votes from paper ballots and then output the results as 7 yes and 1 no vote on a tape
for Ion Sancho, Leon County, Florida Elections Supervisor.
Documented current electronic voting machine failures and questionable election results give many voters cause for concern. The remedy to this dilemma must come from congress,
but it will only come in response to public demand.
Unfortunately for American voters today, these links represent merely a drop in the bucket, as
examples of why electronic voting systems owned by private partisan corporations should have no part in elections held in a democracy.
Paper ballots should be counted at the precincts by hand and by people of all parties, watched by people of all parties, with hand auditing at precincts and election headquarters. Publicly owned optical scanners using open source programming could assist.
It is done in many countries around the world. It can be done. All that is needed now is for our congress to respond to a public demand, and give us legislation that bans the counting of votes in all public elections by partisan private corporations, and restores elections to "We the People."
As spiritual progressives, election integrity must be our primary goal, in order to restore our voice as we walk the path toward a "New Bottom Line" for our country.
San Diego county has spent over $31 million to convert to electronic voting/vote
counting, and that is just the initial expense in December 2003. Of note:
Testimony from a computer expert about how election results in electronic tabulators can be changed, and leave no evidence of tampering,