More and more people are catching on to this scandal every day. Maybe we'll get somewhere in getting rid of these damned machines, after all!

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Thanks Brad, for throwing this letter in. It'll be handed out here in TN to our state legislators. We got a bill - HB 3211/SB 3457 that we're trying to pass for Voter Verified Paper Ballots. We've got a great group of patriots that is talking to legislators every day the Capitol here in Nashville. Please all y'all fighters against electile disfunction, call everybody you know in Tennessee and let them know the bill numbers and tell them it's HUGELY important for them to call their state senators and reps in favor of our bills.
As we've seen in other states, we get a lot of support from the people and from legislators; but the powers that be (mainlyTN Elections Coordinator Brook Thompson and his boss, SOS Riley Darnell) are fighting for DREs using the same bulls*** stuff we see around the country:
"We test our DREs in Tennessee, so there are never any problems." (answer *** they "test" 'em everywhere, but still have gigantic problems - many times with the tests - see FL and Leon Sancho - see CA)

"Paper reciepts take away the privacy of the ballot." (*** nobody is looking for a reciept that the voter takes with 'em, only a paper ballot)

"We don't have time to count paper." (*** It's your job. The rest of the 1st world counts paper. It ain't hard and it can be done, and it doesn't confuse Poll Worker Granny like computers often do. Why do we need instant questionable results over verifiable correct results that may take a few hours longer?)

"Y'all must be working for a printer." (***The expenses associated with DREs are so much bigger than those associated with paper ballots, it's amazing. You must be working for a DRE vendor!)

"People have been stuffing ballot boxes forever." (*** Yes, and that's why we need to get away from voting systems that allow MILLIONS of stuffed votes and no paper trail to even find them. The physicality of paper is still the safest way to go.)
"We need to use new technology." (Sometimes old technology is better. They used to use Astroturf in football stadiums, now they're back to "old-fashioned" grass.)

Now's the time in Tennessee. Can y'all help us?

peace out,
shw

BREAKING NEWS from BBV

http://www.bbvforums.org...tml?1143554268#POST19198

Diebold attempts to explain TSx memory defects

On March 18, Black Box Voting released the first part of findings from an examination of the Diebold TSx touch-screen machines in Emery County, Utah.

Diebold has responded. Harri Hursti and also Security Innovation Inc. have rebutted Diebold's initial explanation. Diebold then came up with a new explanation, while trying to maneuver Emery County's elections chief into resigning.

Bruce Funk, the elected official who has run elections in Emery County for 23 years, noticed a critical shortage in flash memory/storage in seven of his 40 brand new Diebold machines. He arranged for an independent evaluation, a right granted to Utah county officials in the Diebold contract. Black Box Voting secured the services of Harri Hursti and also Security Innovation, Inc. for the Emery County evaluation.

The initial assessment was not encouraging: The memory was so low it appeared likely to compromise elections held on the affected machines, and the most likely explanations were all pretty bad: 1) Different programs on the machines 2) Data already residing on the machines from use elsewhere 3) Flash memory near the end of its life cycle.

[more, including screen shot, in the full article Maybe a good slogan would be "Diebold = Diabolical"]

Shannon Williford -

Thanks for the info, I'm in Tennessee and I've not even heard of those bills.

I'm on activist legistlative alert lists for arts and education issues, is there a similar one for election issues in Tennessee?