‘Daily Voting News’ For March 23, 2007

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In what may be the first local action to HR-811, Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania is asking for more state or federal funds to allow them to change voting systems if their present system is affected by federal legislation.

Meanwhile Florida’s Governor, Charlie Crist, has announced that he wants to use new ballot on demand technology for early voting thus allowing the state of Florida to go to 99% paper ballots in any election.

In Ohio newly elected SOS Jennifer Brunner warned members of the Cuyahoga Co. Board of Elections that they all need to resign. The two Democratic members of the board have taken this advice but the two Republican members have decided to ignore Brunner’s warning that she will air their dirty laundry if they don’t resign. True to her word, and as reported here on The BRAD BLOG, Brunner has sent an 18 page document to each of the hangers-on that spells out their failures and makes those failures public. The failures include numerous instances of misfeasance, nonfeasance, and violations of state election law in five distinct areas. The big question now is who is going to conduct elections in this county? The Board is gone, the election director was fired, one manager is now going to prison for 18 months along with one employee, and there have been many resignations. And all of this is on top of yet another criminal investigation to find out whether vote counts from early and absentee voters were totaled before Election Day. …

  • NAtional: An Opposing View on the Progressive Voting Machines Debate LINK
  • NAtional: Return to paper ballots could be on horizon LINK
  • NAtional: House Administration Hearings on Rush Holt’s Election Reform Bill (HR811) Today… LINK
  • NAtional: House Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on HR 811 LINK
  • NAtional: Rep. Susan Davis Introduces Bill to Track Mail-In Ballots LINK
  • NAtional: Explosive new vote fraud developments continue to rock Ohio and Florida LINK
  • NAtional: Paper-records debate hits Hill
    Florida governor among those testifying before House panel on voting measure LINK
  • CA: CA SoS Debra Bowen Releases ‘Top to Bottom Review’ Criteria for E-Voting Machine Certification in California LINK
  • CA: California Secretary of State Releases Draft Criteria for Top-to-Bottom Voting Machine Review LINK
  • CA: Secretary of state to review e-voting LINK
  • CA: CA50: Appellate Court Dismisses Busby/Bilbray Election Contest as Now ‘Moot’ LINK
  • CO: Denver – Denver Election Commission Tests Voting Machines LINK
  • FL: Crist calls for use of paper ballots in early voting LINK
  • FL: Crist tells Congress state moving toward paper trail LINK
  • FL: Crist updates Congress on plans to eliminate touch-screen voting LINK
  • FL: Task force convened over D-13 LINK
  • FL: Task Force Formed to Investigate Florida 13th Election LINK
  • FL: GOP withholds member to protest FL-13 task force LINK
  • FL: Sarasota County – Jennings claims coverup of damaging memo LINK
  • NY: Recount in Sleepy Hollow election halted LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – New criminal investigation into Ohio elections LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County ““ Editorial – Brunner made right move in Cuyahoga LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections board ouster move begins LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – OH SOS Brunner Slams Remaining Cuyahoga County, OH Election Board Members LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County ““ Opinion – Get out of the way
    Board of Elections members should drop their fight, quit their posts and let the critical task of rebuilding begin LINK
  • OH: Cuyahoga County – Secretary of State tightens screws on Elections Board LINK
  • PA: Westmoreland County – Westmoreland officials want aid if voting system nixed LINK
  • WI: ES&S MELTDOWN ’07: Trainwreck Begins Anew as Voting Machine Company Fails in Wisconsin LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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      Dredd said on 3/24/2007 @ 5:42am PT: [Permalink]

      Ghouls of the Thor Hearne ACVR scandal have arisen, and it isn’t even halloween yet.

      We now have a link to the new US Attorney in Arkansas, who was Rove’s point man on “voter fraud” (anti-minority dems), and Rove and the ACVR conspiracy.

      Check this out:

      Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little Rock, Ark., was accused of participating in efforts to suppress Democratic votes in Florida during the 2004 presidential election while he was a research director for the Republican National Committee.

      (Link Here, emphasis added).

      Before last year’s election, I posted this:

      The fact of the matter is that election felonies are being directed from the White House itself:

      The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race — will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan, according to a motion filed by his attorney Thursday.

      (Raw Story, bold added).

      It turns out that Bradblog was on the right trail when this was happening behind the scenes:

      Suffice to say, Karl Rove spoke to Republican lawyers this weekend (carried on C-SPAN) and thanked them for their work ensuring “clean elections” in 2000 and 2004.

      He singled out Mark F. “Thor” Hearne by name. Hearne was the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. who, along with RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, created the so-called non-partisan “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR) just three days before being called to testify before Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-OH) U.S. House Administrative Committee hearing in March of 2005 on the Ohio Election. The front group, which declared tax-exempt 501(c)3 status, has still failed, to our knowledge, to disclose any information of it’s funders or proof of their 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan status. They operate out of a PO Box in Houston, TX, though neither of their founders live in Texas.

      ACVR was the only “Voting Rights” group called by Ney to testify at the hearings, and identified himself only as a “longtime advocate of voter rights” in his testimony. He failed to mention his connections to Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc.

      (Bradblog Article, emphasis added).

      Ney is now in prison where Gonzales and Rove should go … after all Scooter will be there too.

      Bottom Line: Rove ran the largest criminal election fraud organization in American history … directly from the White House!

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