Siegel expects that a large percent of young voters lack the driver's license, passport, utility bill, or bank statement accepted as viable identification at the polls. Student IDs are not accepted as proof of identification in many states. Now that they have finally found a candidate who inspires them . . .
The way to be sure that your vote goes uncounted is not to vote, said Rebecca Wilson, last but certainly not least. Maryland had electronic voting machines before HAVA and Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, one of the first outspoken critics of this jarring system, found Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions [solutions??]) source code on line.
Five years later, but better than never, said the spirited Wilson. Maryland voted to eliminate all of its electronic machines (paperless, as in direct recording, or DREs) by 2010. Think small when you think about voting: the focal unit is the county, with some state input (and HAVA as the fiery dragon to fight off?). Maryland EI advocates are hoping also to pass audit legislation.
Election judges are badly needed. A national movement has formed, Pollworkers for Democracy. She predicts long lines in Maryland because of the touchscreen machines, so few for so many and most voters show up at the same time, before or after work hours. Emergency paper ballots are supplied by some states up against this problem, but in Maryland this happens only if all machines in a polling place malfunction. Save Our Votes is working for a better Plan B, she said.
The weapons against the rampant corruption are voter outreach and education and two hotlines to call if and when problems present themselves on Election Day.
During the Q&A session that followed, more people lined up than could be heard. The first questioner was an election judge in Maryland who reiterated that Diebold, rather than the citizenry, runs elections. We must take back control.
There are not a lot of punitive convictions, said Earnhardt, though improprieties were caught on tape and screened in the EI movie Hacking Democracy shown on HBO in 2006, exposing the skullduggery of the voting machine industry over a three-year period. We need more aggressive punishment, he said. There are many different ways to hack the machines and the methods leave no footprints.
"Computers and elections don't work well together."
Diebold has recently admitted that its uploading program, GEMS, has never functioned well-and what impact has that wreaked on recent U.S., if not world history?
In a recent lawsuit in Ohio against Diebold, agented by the enlightened new SoS Jennifer Brunner abetted by Steve Spoonamore, a prominent Republican and cyber security expert, one issue is that all the votes dropped were cast by Democrats.
Addressing Earnhardt's issue, Mimi Kennedy said that the principle "innocent until proved guilty" has in this particular scenario blocked more direct action and abets all the protracted litigation and discontent that justice is just not being accomplished.
Another questioner brought up the issue of vote caging, a sinister device "invented" in 2004 by Tim Griffin (former U.S. attorney, Republican, and Rove protégé). In a nutshell,
the process involves sending out letters to registered voters guaranteed not to reside at their registered addresses, so that the letters are returned "undeliverable." In Ohio alone, six hundred thousand of these were sent out. Such victims who turn up to vote in their accustomed polling places are turned away or given provisional ballots.
Said Siegel, this occurs also in college communities, where letters are sent to dorm addresses rather than to the post office boxes where students receive their mail. A law against vote caging has been introduced in Congress. Fitrakis added that between 2001 and 2004 24.93 percent of Cleveland voters were purged from records-a scandal born in Florida in 2000 with the infamous list of alleged felons that kept so many blacks and minorities from voting.
The film's largest point, said another questioner, is to prove that rampant corruption is flourishing. Exit polling has been ineffective, he said. Instead, one out of every ten votes cast should be on paper, a method similar to exit polling but more tangible [provided this process is not somehow corrupted-let me count the ways, but there are too many].
The issue concerns all of us, said Earnhardt. Everyone wants every citizen to have the right to vote. The cause can pull us together. We must share the issue, by means of Uncounted inter alia. Don't wait for the media. Grassroots activism is necessary, the heartbeat of democracy.
The way to be sure that your vote goes uncounted is not to vote, said Rebecca Wilson, last but certainly not least. Maryland had electronic voting machines before HAVA and Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, one of the first outspoken critics of this jarring system, found Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions [solutions??]) source code on line.
Five years later, but better than never, said the spirited Wilson. Maryland voted to eliminate all of its electronic machines (paperless, as in direct recording, or DREs) by 2010. Think small when you think about voting: the focal unit is the county, with some state input (and HAVA as the fiery dragon to fight off?). Maryland EI advocates are hoping also to pass audit legislation.
Election judges are badly needed. A national movement has formed, Pollworkers for Democracy. She predicts long lines in Maryland because of the touchscreen machines, so few for so many and most voters show up at the same time, before or after work hours. Emergency paper ballots are supplied by some states up against this problem, but in Maryland this happens only if all machines in a polling place malfunction. Save Our Votes is working for a better Plan B, she said.
During the Q&A session that followed, more people lined up than could be heard. The first questioner was an election judge in Maryland who reiterated that Diebold, rather than the citizenry, runs elections. We must take back control.
There are not a lot of punitive convictions, said Earnhardt, though improprieties were caught on tape and screened in the EI movie Hacking Democracy shown on HBO in 2006, exposing the skullduggery of the voting machine industry over a three-year period. We need more aggressive punishment, he said. There are many different ways to hack the machines and the methods leave no footprints.
"Computers and elections don't work well together."
Diebold has recently admitted that its uploading program, GEMS, has never functioned well-and what impact has that wreaked on recent U.S., if not world history?
In a recent lawsuit in Ohio against Diebold, agented by the enlightened new SoS Jennifer Brunner abetted by Steve Spoonamore, a prominent Republican and cyber security expert, one issue is that all the votes dropped were cast by Democrats.
Addressing Earnhardt's issue, Mimi Kennedy said that the principle "innocent until proved guilty" has in this particular scenario blocked more direct action and abets all the protracted litigation and discontent that justice is just not being accomplished.
Another questioner brought up the issue of vote caging, a sinister device "invented" in 2004 by Tim Griffin (former U.S. attorney, Republican, and Rove protégé). In a nutshell,
the process involves sending out letters to registered voters guaranteed not to reside at their registered addresses, so that the letters are returned "undeliverable." In Ohio alone, six hundred thousand of these were sent out. Such victims who turn up to vote in their accustomed polling places are turned away or given provisional ballots.
Said Siegel, this occurs also in college communities, where letters are sent to dorm addresses rather than to the post office boxes where students receive their mail. A law against vote caging has been introduced in Congress. Fitrakis added that between 2001 and 2004 24.93 percent of Cleveland voters were purged from records-a scandal born in Florida in 2000 with the infamous list of alleged felons that kept so many blacks and minorities from voting.
The film's largest point, said another questioner, is to prove that rampant corruption is flourishing. Exit polling has been ineffective, he said. Instead, one out of every ten votes cast should be on paper, a method similar to exit polling but more tangible [provided this process is not somehow corrupted-let me count the ways, but there are too many].
The issue concerns all of us, said Earnhardt. Everyone wants every citizen to have the right to vote. The cause can pull us together. We must share the issue, by means of Uncounted inter alia. Don't wait for the media. Grassroots activism is necessary, the heartbeat of democracy.
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