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In 2004, Rady Ananda joined the growing community of citizen journalists. Initially focused on elections, she investigated the 2004 Ohio election, organizing, training and leading several forays into counties to photograph the 2004 ballots. She officially served at three recounts, including the 2004 recount. She also organized and led the team that audited Franklin County Ohio's 2006 election, proving the number of voter signatures did not match official results. Her work appears in three books.
Her blogs also address religious, gender, sexual and racial equality, as well as environmental issues; and are sprinkled with book and film reviews on various topics. She spent most of her working life as a researcher or investigator for private lawyers, and five years as an editor.
She graduated from The Ohio State University's School of Agriculture in December 2003 with a B.S. in Natural Resources.
All material offered here is the property of Rady Ananda, copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. Permission is granted to repost, with proper attribution including the original link.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007Honor Mom: Don't Drive for a Week You know you're an organizer when holidays become public outreach events. Communication tactics abound with upcoming fairs, civic and Pride celebrations. Here's one I leapt on because it landed in my mailbox. I printed 100 copies of this "Letter to the Editor" of a local volunteer newsletter, and distributed it in my neighborhood.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007911 Stand Up Bootleg Culture: 9-11 Truth CD "We hold these truths to be self-evident: No. 1. George W. Bush is not president. No. 2. America is not a true democracy, and No. 3. The media is not fooling me."
Friday, April 13, 2007Boo Who Vu? San Diego County recently hired Cuyahoga County, Ohio's disgraced elections official, Michael Vu, who resigned under a storm of controversy stemming from the rigged recount in 2004 and a 2006 scientific study condemning Cuyahoga's elections. Election integrity demands Vu's removal from the field of public elections.
Friday, April 13, 2007Electoral Management Design Handbook Review The Electoral Management Design Handbook is written for electoral administrators, electoral administration designers and other practitioners involved in building professional, sustainable and cost-effective electoral administrations that can deliver legitimate and credible free and fair elections. It offers many sound practices that are relevant to any election worker, including parallel election workers.
Friday, April 6, 2007Seizing the Polls Firing the entire Cuyahoga Board of Elections is a stunning display of official accountability. Cuyahoga's violations were stunning. They lost not only hundreds of memory cards, but also 29 voting machines. If Brunner can replace the Cuyahoga Board with competent democracy advocates, surely we salute her, Citizen oversight is especially vital now, in this transition stage.
Friday, March 2, 2007Silver City In "Silver City" director John Sayles uses mining, arguably one of the most environmentally toxic processes of industrialized society, as a backdrop to expose the multiple and often hidden layers of profit-driven power. Instead of a movie about election fraud, it's about the fraud of elections.
Thursday, January 18, 2007Electronic Voting & Fair Vote Counts: 15 Expert Reports Annotated bibliography of 15 Expert Reports on electronic voting and fair vote counts -- summarized and sourced for your reference.
Thursday, January 11, 2007Secret Ballot Winner of several awards, including Best Director (Venice Film Festival), this 2001 film presents a delightful view into voting. With charm and comedy, director Babak Payami challenges our conceptions of the meaning and import of elections.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007HCPB Implementation Strategy 2007 While machine advocates try to justify electronic voting, even going so far as to add yet another electronic gadget (assuring us this is the magic bullet that will fix all our electronic voting system "glitches"), here's a less expensive, common sense strategy for 2007.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007Overview of Major Expert Studies on Voting Systems Non-technical summary of several major expert reports on the security of various electronic voting systems. Reports reviewed included Brennan Center, Princeton, RABA, CompuWare, Hursti-BBV, Election Science Inst., GAO (2005), Congressional Research Srvc (2003)and two news articles. This overview will be updated as other reports are reviewed.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006Death Bed Unity for HCPBs (Hand Counter Paper Ballots) My Republican family now finds hand-counted paper ballots a viable solution, amid our Christmas crisis.
Thursday, November 23, 2006Meet the New Boss: Jennifer Brunner, Secretary of State Ohio's new Secretary of State promises to "examine the machines" and to expand early voting. While many are happy with the Democratic sweep, the election system hasn't changed. We still have election conditions which provide no basis for confidence in reported results. Links to many reports for bringing the new crop of politicians up to speed.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006Parallel Election Results Summary Two-page summary of Parallel Elections results from Central Ohio. Link to 10-page spreadsheet: http://tinyurl.com/yhj8cf
Tuesday, October 31, 2006Take your Camera, Cell Phone or Mini CVCam to Your Polling Place It's as easy as 1...2....3... Take your camera, cell phone or mini dvcam to your polling place. Make a video of any irregularities. Upload to You Tube and www.thepeoplechoose.org
Thursday, October 26, 2006Everybody ona Move If you want to do more than just vote on Election Day, read this!
Thursday, October 19, 2006SWARM: See What Activism Really Means SWARM - the whys, wherefores, and whatnots of civic engagement.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006We Count Seize the Polls: HCPB bill introduced for 2008 Recaps Ohio's election integrity conferences and events in the past month. Calls for swarm of election "protection" activities.
Saturday, October 7, 2006Diebold Memory Cards Stolen Diebold memory cards, which provide election results, were stolen during the May 6, 2006 primary in Cuyahoga County, as reported by the AP yesterday.
Wednesday, October 4, 2006The Critical Issue: Stealing America vote by vote Review of Dorothy Fadiman's Stealing America: Vote by Vote (preview version)
Monday, September 18, 2006Unfit for Use in ANY Democracy Learn why computerized voting takes "We the People" out of public elections. Links to recent expert reports and action items are included.
