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I am designing a comic book on election fraud, have been consulting
with Judy Alter, and she pointed me to your site. It's absolutely fabulous. Clear, well-written, just fantastic. Thank God for your effort, and I'd like to stay in touch, so I can avail myself of your knowledge AND make sure that people are pointed to your site as a GREAT resource.
BTW - I don't know your name!!!!

My deepest thanks.

Onward,
- Sheri M.
(Currently in New Orleans)

And Now - Poetry Corner!! February 25, 2006

Excellent Website!! I’ve been following this issue for quite some time and read Mark Crispin Miller’s book and found it very enlightening and potentially disturbing if there aren’t legitimate changes in how we count votes. I have since written a poem that highlights the problems and challenges to our democracy around this fundamental right. You are welcome to publish it on your website if you choose to. I am not looking for compensation, but only exposure to add my take on this extremely important issue. Thank you for your website and attempts to educate the public about the corporate usurpation of our democracy through voting machines.

- Mark L.

Diebold or NOT Diebold
By Mark Lysgaard | 2004

Diebold or NOT Diebold
That is the election...
Whether tis nobler to use
Butterfly ballots or
A black box machine,
The outcome of an inside job
Makes a dirty election clean.

Like little Miss Harris
Who can’t be embarrassed
Unless it is a bad make-up job,
When along came an insider,
Called the Supreme Court decider
That delivered Florida to the Bush mob.

Or little Boy Blackwell
Whose state he would stack well
With big Buckeye bucks for the GOP,
And this GOPfather,
Where ethics can’t be bothered
Subverts the people’s will
To be free.

So whether you’re in Florida
Ohio or some other state,
And a black box arrives
To decide your fate,
Ask for open source software,
Before it’s too late.
Because hackers and hi-jackers
Have proven in the past,
That pointing to a voting screen,
No guarantee your vote’s been cast,
And the overseers subvert the will
Democracy CAN NOT last.

February 17, 2006

I recommend the Web site.

She's got one of the best and most readable sites around right now on the history of the problem, the players, and more.

Black Box Voting has the most kick-ass research in America, but we are definitely the "advanced curriculum." For those getting to know the issue, I definitely recommend the whoscounting.net site. I know how much work this is. She's done a phenomenal job with very accurate, sourced material.

Bev Harris

Black Box Voting

October 19th, 2005

Thank you for taking the time to contact me with your concerns pertaining to electronic voting in the state of Ohio. It is important to me to hear from my constituents on matters such as this.

I would also like to take the time to thank you for supplying a wealth of information on this subject within your email. In your letter, you have done an excellent job in outlining a fair and tamper safe method for implementing electronic voting. Additionally, the information you have provided on these companies prior donation records proves to be very troubling. Moreover, the past hiring practices of these companies raise further questions about this procedure.

Again, I thank you for providing me with this plethora of information on electronic voting. I will certainly keep this information in mind, and utilize your very thorough and comprehensive website should this issue be addressed in the General Assembly. If you have any further questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. It has been my pleasure to serve you in the 28th District of The State of Ohio.

Sincerely,
Kimberly A. Zurz
Senator, 28th District

October 8, 2005

Great website. You've got lots of excellent info.

You should include a section on the optical scanner memory card vulnerabilities, and the Harri Hursti report which demonstrated 3 ways to hack optical scanner systems (and alter both the scanner and tabulator totals so that they'd agree).

As for What To Do there are quite a few additional options on the BBV website that could be added to your list (e.g., specific actions to be taken in relation to any voter's local election office; FOIA requests; how to audit an election; and ways that local and state election laws can be used as a tool for election reform because often municipalities and states aren't following their own rules, and how to use the HAVA rules as NONE of the machines currently being sold meet the technical/testing requirements of HAVA--but the election officials and most members of the public don't realize this.)

In your section on Be The Media you could add a few more suggestions (hand out flyers, phone a local radio station, write a letter to the editor of the local paper).

It would be great to include a special section re: Disabilities/HAVA since electronic systems are being "sold" with the false impression that they are required under HAVA when recent rulings have explicitly state that electronic machines are not necessary to meet the needs of HAVA. Mention how the "good" cause of appealing to our desire to support voters with disabilities to vote without assistance is being manipulated to bring in systems that destroy election integrity for all voters. (And machine vendors have given funds to some major disability groups to ensure their support.) You could link to the VotersUnite.org section where they show specific paper-based solutions that enable disabled voters to vote independently. Mention in any case, no single system (paper, electronic, whatever) will be suited for all kinds of disabilities. And some of the electronic systems that claim to be HAVA-compliant have been rated poorly by disabled voters (and besides none of the machines are HAVA compliant, anyways). Too many election officials and media have bought into the mistaken concept that HAVA requires them to purchase new equipment. Please counter this disinformation strongly!

I think your into section ("Fire" etc.) would benefit by being shorter.

Best of luck and congratulations,

Catherine A.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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