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Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1541
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 9:55 pm: | 
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WASHINGTON, June 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- VelvetRevolution.us, a network of over 130 organizations, is leading a campaign to require a 100 percent paper ballot count of the special election between Democrat Francine Busby and Republican Brian Bilbray to replace convicted Congressman Duke Cunningham in CA-50. The reason for this challenge is that federal and state laws and procedures were violated when poll workers were allowed to take home the Diebold machines and memory cards in the days and weeks prior to the election.
All applicable laws and standards require that vote machines and memory cards used in California elections be kept totally secure to prevent tampering or manipulation of the machines. Recent tests in the state by security experts have demonstrated that a person with access to a Diebold vote machine for less than three minutes can insert a malicious software code that can rig an election. Accordingly, California's Secretary of Sate, Bruce McPherson, recently allowed these machines to be used in California under very strict conditions, including maintaining their security at all times and never letting them be in the possession of less than two persons. If the machines used are not kept secure, the election results should be considered compromised and untrustworthy.
In the past several days, VelvetRevolution has sent thousands of emails to the Busby campaign, the San Diego County Registrar's Office, and the Secretary of State's Office demanding a 100 percent count of all the paper ballots and paper trails from the Diebold voting machines used in the CA-50 election. Numerous others have joined VR with this campaign including the California Election Protection Network, Progressive Democrats of America, VoteTrust USA, California Congressional candidate Jeeni Criscenzo, Florida Congressional candidate Clint Curtis, Massachusetts Secretary of State Candidate John Bonifaz, Maryland Senate candidate Kevin Zeese, and Tribune Columnist Robert Koehler.
Citizens cannot have confidence in an election that is conducted in violation of the law, especially on Diebold vote machines that have been proven to be easily manipulated. VelvetRevolution is seeking an even broader coalition of groups, officials, individuals and the press to join in this campaign of No Confidence in the CA-50 special election.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=67808 |
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