[Davis Democrats] Petition

Fri Mar 18 14:15:42 PST 2005

Greetings All,

This is from Davis Democrat Club (DDC) board member Adrienne Kandel.

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Petitions only work if politicians look to elections, and elections only
work if votes are counted openly, and recountably with paper trails - not by
Republican donors with "black boxes" they promise you are counting votes
right - even though ALL the mistakes in the last election were in Bush's
favor.

So for the Tubbs/Jones/Boxer/Lautenberg/Clinton/Kerry. Count Every Vote Act
only has 116,000 citizen sponsors, although the NY Times calls it "the gold
standard of election reform."

1.	Go to this site to sign on as a citizen cosponsor.

http://www.friendsofhillary.com/CountEveryVote
<http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=C44E3E:36F0466> 

2.  Go to this site to ask your Congresspeople and Senators to sign or - or
ask them more directly.

http://ga4.org/campaign/counteveryvote/d7b7sn9zj83m8e

------------------  FURTHER INFO BELOW, BUT NO NEW TASKS TO DO
------------------------------

Among many other important facets of this legislation, the "Count Every Vote
Act" will: 

*	Provide voter-verified paper ballots for every vote cast on
electronic machines 
*	Set uniform standards for provisional ballots 
*	Ensure equal access to voting machines and election personnel in
every community 
*	Designate Election Day as a federal holiday 
*	Reduce wait times for voters at polling places 
*	Make deceptive voter suppression activities a federal crime 
*	Restrict the political activities of state elections officials and
voting machine manufacturers 

20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE 2004 ELECTION

1.  80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold
and ES&S.

2.  There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the
U.S. voting machine         industry.

3.  The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

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."

5.  35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became
Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6.  Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family,
was caught lying about his        ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics
Committee.

7.  Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice-presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer

in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

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.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of
which log each transaction and

can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people
who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts
of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President 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.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls
in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was
so bad.

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen
voting machines with no

paper trail.

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and
reported in Florida went in favor

of Bush or Republican candidates.

19. Florida's governor, Jeb is Bush's brother.

20. Major voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush -- have
been mathematically

demonstrated and questioned by experts.  The odds of some of these amazing
voting anomalies demonstrated and questioned by experts.  The odds of some
of these amazing voting anomalies were the equivalent of statistical
miracles.

-=-=-=-=-

Why would anyone dream of allowing "black box" unverifiable voting?

1.       Diebold, ES&S, and others say they can't make reliable paper trails
that won't jam.  

WHAT'S WRONG:  Diebold makes ATM machines with reliable paper trails that
don't jam.

2.       They say they need their computer code to be a "trade secret" so
you can't even check if they cheated by reading it.

WHAT'S WRONG:  Any computer programming student can program a computer to
offer voter-choice menus, to count votes, and to add votes.  Menus, adding
and counting may be the simplest operations a computer can do.  If the
companies want fancy, user-friendly interfaces they can get copyright
protection for them the way musicians get copyright protection for their
music - they don't have to keep it secret.  Even then, the creative part if
thinking up the interface (which everyone will see), not translating those
thoughts into (routine) computer code.

-=-=-=-

Democracy has always relied on verifiable, re-countable voting.  We used to
make fun of totalitarian countries with "pretend" falsifiable voting. Even
if you trust today's voting machine makers and the Republican candidates
they support, can you trust all future ones that might appear?  Have human
beings with an opportunity to gain power ever proven to be universally
trustworthy? 

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Petitions only work if politicians look to elections, and
elections only work if votes are counted openly, and recountably with paper
trails – not by Republican donors with “black boxes” they
promise you are counting votes right – even though ALL the mistakes in
the last election were in Bush’s favor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

So for the Tubbs/Jones/Boxer/Lautenberg/Clinton/Kerry. Count
Every Vote Act only has 116,000 citizen sponsors, although the NY Times calls
it “the gold standard of election
reform.”<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=2
face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Go to this site to sign on as a
     citizen cosponsor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ol>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=C44E3E:36F0466">http://www.friendsofhillar
y.com/CountEveryVote</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2.  Go to this site to ask your
Congresspeople and Senators to sign or – or ask them more
directly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://ga4.org/campaign/counteveryvote/d7b7sn9zj83m8e">http://ga4.org/
campaign/counteveryvote/d7b7sn9zj83m8e</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>------------------  FURTHER
INFO BELOW, BUT NO NEW TASKS TO DO
------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal
style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Among many other important facets of this legislation, the
"Count Every Vote Act" will: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<ul type=disc>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Provide voter-verified paper
     ballots for every vote cast on electronic machines
<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Set uniform standards for
     provisional ballots <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Ensure equal access to voting
     machines and election personnel in every community
<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Designate Election Day as a
     federal holiday <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Reduce wait times for voters
     at polling places <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Make deceptive voter
     suppression activities a federal crime <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal
style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
     auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Restrict the political
     activities of state elections officials and voting machine
manufacturers <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE 2004
ELECTION<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>1.  80% of all votes in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
 w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> are counted by only two
companies: Diebold and ES&S.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

2.  There is no federal agency with
regulatory authority
or oversight of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
voting machine        
industry.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>3.  The vice-president of Diebold and the
president of ES&S are brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>
deliver its electoral votes to the president next
year."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>5.  35% of ES&S is owned by Republican
Senator <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Chuck</st1:PersonName> Hagel, who became
Senator based on votes counted by ES&S
machines.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>6.  Republican Senator <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Chuck</st1:PersonName>
Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his

ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics
Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

7.  Senator <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Chuck</st1:PersonName>
Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential
candidates.<o:p></o:p>

8. ES&S is the largest
voting machine manufacturer<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
and counts almost 60% of all <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
votes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

9.  Diebold's new touch screen voting machines
have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there
is<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>no way to verify that the data coming out of the
machine
is the same as what was legitimately put in by<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>voters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners,
and ticket
machines, all of which log each transaction and<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>can generate a paper
trail.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

11. Diebold is based in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p>

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers.
These are the people who write the voting machine computer
code.<o:p></o:p>

13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean,
was convicted
of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.<o:p></o:p>

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was
convicted
of planting back doors in his software and<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>using a "high degree of sophistication" to
evade detection over a period of 2 years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

15. None of the international election observers were
allowed in the polls in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p>

16. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>
banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so
bad.<o:p></o:p>

17. 30% of all <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> votes are carried out on
unverifiable
touch screen voting machines with no<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>paper trail.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine
errors
detected and reported in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State>
went in favor<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>of Bush or Republican
candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

19. <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State>'s
governor, Jeb is Bush's brother.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>20. Major voting anomalies in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place
 w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State> – again always favoring Bush
-- have been mathematically<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>demonstrated and questioned by experts.  The
odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies demonstrated and questioned by
experts.  The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies were the
equivalent of statistical miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>-=-=-=-=-<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>Why would anyone dream of
allowing “black box” unverifiable
voting?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"'>      
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
font-weight:bold'>Diebold, ES&S, and others say they can’t make
reliable paper trails that won’t jam. 
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b><font size=2 face="Courier
New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>WHAT’S
WRONG:  Diebold makes ATM machines with reliable paper trails that
don’t
jam.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:42.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";
font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"'>      
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
font-weight:bold'>They say they need their computer code to be a “trade
secret” so you can’t even check if they cheated by reading
it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

WHAT’S
WRONG:  Any computer programming student can program a computer to offer
voter-choice menus, to count votes, and to add votes.  Menus, adding and
counting may be the simplest operations a computer can do.  If the
companies want fancy, user-friendly interfaces they can get copyright
protection for them the way musicians get copyright protection for their
music –
they don’t have to keep it secret.  Even then, the creative part if
thinking up the interface (which everyone will see), not translating those
thoughts into (routine) computer code.<o:p></o:p>

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Democracy
has always relied on verifiable, re-countable voting.
 We used to make fun of totalitarian
countries with “pretend” falsifiable voting.
Even if you trust today’s
voting machine makers and the Republican candidates they support, can you trust
all future ones that might appear?  Have human beings with an opportunity to gain
power ever proven to be universally trustworthy?
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G Richard Yamagata  PhD
CEO/President   VME Inc.   http://www.vme.net/

G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of 
Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democrat Club, 
President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Vice President of 
the Board of the Business Link of Woodland and Davis, and communications liason 
of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169.

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