The information in the following email is very important:
From: Teresa Hommel [mailto:tahommel@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:04 PM To: Everyone who cares about the upcoming election Subject: What I told the Obama campaign
Below is a statement that I and a colleague made to the Obama campaign here in NYC when they were seeking input on "what should be at the heart of the Democratic Party" this year. They wanted folks to talk about platform issues, but I took the opportunity to talk about election integrity and the responsibility of the Dem party to protect the vote. We handed out 250 copies of this to people in the audience as well as about 30 delegates to the Dem convention, along with a few copies of the BlackBoxVoting "Toolkit." Everyone is welcome to use the material with your local parties. Teresa Hommel Resources to Protect against Election Fraud I urge the Obama Campaign and the Democratic Party to deal effectively and early this year with the problems of lost voter registrations and tampering in vote-handling/counting/tabulation. Election integrity activists, computer experts, and statistical experts have blamed the so-called Democratic "loss" of the presidency in 2000 and 2004 on wrongdoing in these areas. 1. Centralized, computerized voter registration enables last-minute deletion of registrations. For example in 2000, the dishonest deletion of more than 90,000 primarily Democratic registrations in Florida helped defeat Al Gore. Yesterday Greg Palast, investigative journalist, reported that Colorado has recently dumped one fifth of their voter registrations. In New Mexico, half the Democrats in one county found their registrations had disappeared. In Ohio and Nevada, tens of thousands of voter registrations are being cancelled as owners lose their homes to foreclosure.[9] The Democratic National Committee and Obama Campaign need to educate and support the Democratic organization in each state so that they can aggressively monitor and safeguard voter registrations. 2. When votes are recorded, cast, stored, handled, counted, and tabulated by computers, that is another area in which Democrats are not protecting their voters. Voters can't observe whether their votes are accurately recorded when the votes are inside computer memory. Observers can't observe whether vote storage, handling, counting and tabulating is being done honestly. Independent academic experts have hacked into these machines to expose their vulnerability to untraceable tampering. Computers should not be used for voting because they prevent average citizens from watching and understanding what's going on with the votes, but 31 states still use them. Of those, only 18 require mandatory manual audits of paper records vs machine records, but do not allow the public to observe the chain of custody of these records. There are ways to deal with these computers and prevent the dirty tricks that the GOP is now gearing up to commit. 1. The DNC needs to hire cyber security teams at least as good as the competition, as soon as possible, to investigate what they have done and prevent another stolen election. You can't wait till election day to figure this all out. 2. In states that count paper ballots with optical scanners, Democrats must provide observers to witness all handling of voted ballots, including the entire chain of custody, and observe audits that compare machine counts to hand counts. 3. Learn what's going on from election integrity activists: BlackBoxVoting.org's "Toolkit 2008" lists 13 common ways to suppress the vote. A link to the Toolkit is on the back of my statement, as well as links to other information. * Info on Election Fraud You'll find lots of information about this right after the fold.
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