{"id":1895,"date":"2005-10-05T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2006-07-02T02:15:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T09:15:06","slug":"tom-feeney-alleged-vote-rigging-conspirator-introduces-new-elections-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Tom Feeney — Alleged Vote-Rigging Conspirator — Introduces New Elections Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.Org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

In a move that some people found amazing and others expected, Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) has filed a new elections bill. HR-3910 ? Verifying the Outcome of Tomorrow’s Elections Act of 2005<\/i> does nothing to verify the outcome of “tomorrow’s” elections, but it does further the RNC’s wish to keep as many poor, elderly, disabled, and people of color (in other words ? normally Democratic voters) away from the polls as they possibly can.<\/p>\n

And who is this Rep. Feeney? If you recall, he was the person alleged to have asked for a programmer to write software to switch the touch-screen votes, undetected, in Florida. Clint Curtis, whose story was originally broken here at BRAD BLOG<\/a>, was the programmer. When asked about this latest step by Feeney, he responded via email simply: ?Appears that Mr. Feeney is still trying to protect his fixed voting system?.<\/p>\n

Around the water coolers on ?The Hill?, there has been talk that Rush Holt’s Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act (HR 550)<\/i> would be going to mark-up sometime in October. It is timely that suddenly Rep. Feeney would produce a bill that will now allow the House leaders to blend the two bills and make one bill that represents their view of privatization of elections.<\/p>\n

This bill provides for a voter verified paper audit trail but it leaves to the states how that audit trail will be used, if at all. No verification there.<\/p>\n

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The outrageous portion of the bill<\/a> is the part that discusses a voter ID requirement. No driver’s license, state ID card, student ID, library card or utility bill will do, according to this bill. Instead, in order to qualify, a voter will require:<\/p>\n

(2) MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS- To meet the requirements of this subsection, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following information and features on each photo identification issued to a person by the State for purposes of subsection (b):<\/p>\n

(A) The person’s full legal name.<\/p>\n

(B) The person’s date of birth.<\/p>\n

(C) The person’s gender.<\/p>\n

(D) The person’s number for the form of the identification.<\/p>\n

(E) A digital photograph of the person.<\/p>\n

(F) The person’s address of principle residence.<\/p>\n

(G) The person’s signature.<\/p>\n

(H) Physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes.<\/p>\n

(I) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.<\/p>\n

(3) MINIMUM ISSUANCE STANDARDS<\/p>\n

(A) IN GENERAL- To meet the requirements of this subsection, a State shall require, at a minimum, presentation and verification of the following information before issuing a photo identification to a person for purposes of subsection (b):<\/p>\n

(i) A photo identity document, except that a non-photo identity document is acceptable if it includes both the person’s full legal name and date of birth.<\/p>\n

(ii) Documentation showing the person’s date of birth.<\/p>\n

(iii) Proof of the person’s social security account number or verification that the person is not eligible for a social security account number.<\/p>\n

(iv) Documentation showing the person’s name and address of principal residence.<\/p><\/div>\n

And what if the voter is an absentee voter? According to this bill they will have to include a copy of their ID, with SSN and address and personal information, in the envelope along with their ballot.<\/p>\n

Last week, in response to the unbelievably poor Baker-Carter Commission report<\/a>, and the rumors in DC that HR-550 may be going for ?mark-up’, VoteTrustUSA and other groups began a write-in campaign<\/a> asking members of congress to leave HR-550 untouched. This seems to be the best approach at this time. <\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the text of the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guest blogged by:
\nJohn Gideon, Information Manager
\nVotersUnite.Org<\/a> and VoteTrustUSA.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For more info on The BRAD BLOG’s <\/a> continuing investigative series on The Clint Curtis\/Tom Feeney\/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
\n– A Quick Summary<\/a> of the story so far.
\n– An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence<\/a> in the series so far.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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