{"id":1303,"date":"2005-04-04T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2005-04-04T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T16:58:20","slug":"election-software-developer-group-endorses-vrs-divestiture-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Election Software Developer Group Endorses VR&#8217;s &#8216;Divestiture for Democracy&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/siren.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openvotingconsortium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Voting Consortium<\/a> (OVC), a non-partisan group with Republican, Democratic, Green Party and Libertarian Party support, has today become the first Election Software Developer to publicly endorse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VelvetRevolution.us\" target=\"_blank\">Velvet Revolution&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Divestiture for Democracy&#8221; campaign!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/OVC_Endorsement.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.VelvetRevolution.us\/Images\/OVC_Logo.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/OVC_Endorsement.php\" target=\"_Blank\">open letter<\/a> sent today to VR by OVC President, Alan Dechert, the group announced their intentions of adopting the standards set forth in VR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/VRLetterToEVoteCompanies_022105.php\" target=\"_blank\">February 21st letter<\/a> to America&#8217;s Voting Machine companies, calling on them to do the right thing for their country by &#8212; amongst other things &#8212; voluntarily opening hardware and software for inspection and certification to ensure transparency in our electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>Dechert calls, in his letter, for the voting process to be &#8220;clear, transparent, fair, trustworthy, orderly, observable, and auditable.&#8221; We couldn&#8217;t agree more. Why so many seem to be frightened by such an idea, is beyond us. If you haven&#8217;t already, please join the Revolution by sending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetrevolution.us\/mailing.php?Mailing=05FC507D500021102290C\" target=\"_blank\">an Email to America&#8217;s Voting Machine companies<\/a> stating your support! It&#8217;ll take you 60 seconds!<\/p>\n<p>OVC joins a growing list of supporters to the VR &#8220;DV4D&#8221; Campaign which, along with over 100 Voting Rights and Electoral Reform groups, also currently includes <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/CongressionalVoteMachineLetter.php\" target=\"_blank\">23 U.S. House members<\/a>, and 2004 Presidential Candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/Cobb_Endorsement.php\" target=\"_blank\">David Cobb<\/a> (Green) and <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/Nader_Endorsement.php\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader<\/a> (Independent). All of these Americans are now calling for a trustworthy, auditable, transparent and verifiable voting system in the world&#8217;s most important democracy!<\/p>\n<p>The VR Press Release, with the full copy Dechert&#8217;s letter of endorsement is <a href=\"http:\/\/velvetrevolution.us\/Campaigns\/DV4D\/OVC_Endorsement.php\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Voting Consortium (OVC), a non-partisan group with Republican, Democratic, Green Party and Libertarian Party support, has today become the first Election Software Developer to publicly endorse Velvet Revolution&#8217;s &#8220;Divestiture for Democracy&#8221; campaign! In an open letter sent today to VR by OVC President, Alan Dechert, the group announced their intentions of adopting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}