22,414,661 members doing good!
about our ads
share your passions, stories, inspirations, and more
Help the I Count Coalition To Ensure Paper Trails on Voting Machines
Mar 12, 2006
Focus: Election
Action Request: Visit - in person
Location: Texas, United States
I URGE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO HELP US TO ENSURE FAIR AND ACCURATE VOTER COUNTS BY HELPING THE I COUNT COALITION DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS TO COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIALS IN YOUR COUNTIES AND TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTION ALERTS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION REGARDING VOTER MACHINE IRREGULARITIES.  IT IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR DEMOCRACY AND OUR FUTURE IN OUR COUNTRY.  PLEASE HELP TO RESTORE DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS!!!!!!

Ask Congress to Make Our Voting Machines Secure!
Come to Washington, D.C. on April 6 & 7
to Advocate for H.R. 550 and Voter Verified Paper Records!
Click Here to Sign Up! H.R. 550, a bill introduced by Rep. Holt of New Jersey, would protect the integrity of our elections by requiring a voter verified paper record of every vote, requiring mandatory random hand counted audits to verify the accuracy of electronic tallies, and prohibiting the use of secret software and wireless communication devices in voting machines.
The recent change in leadership of the Committee on House Administration has created a new opportunity for passage of this vital election integrity measure. Previous constituent meetings in June and August of 2005 were a huge success, generating 24 new co-sponsors of the bill from both parties. Please join us in Washington, D.C. on April 6 and 7 to build even greater bipartisan support for this critical bill.


If you can't make it to Washington, D.C., you may still be able to help out in your home state.
Click here to find out what you can do to help at home!
The HR 550 "I Count!" Lobby Days Coalition -- Common Cause, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VerifiedVoting.org, VotersUnite.org, VoteTrustUSA, and Working Assets -- looks forward to seeing you in Washington DC in April!
Read the Myth Breakers PDF below:

http://www.votersunite.org/MB2.pdf

One very interesting fact about voting machines in Travis County, Texas, or Austin, Texas:

WHEN?  The 2004 Election:

Strange Phenomenon, huh?

1)  Election officials provide a default presidential candidate:

Travis County, Texas, October 2004

"A default selection is a selection automatically preset  by the software.  It remains selected unless the user specifically chooses to change it.  To provide a default selection on a DRE voting machine is to give a voter a ballot with a candidate already marked. 

Yet election officials in Austin set up the eSlate DREs with Bush/Cheney as the default choice for president/vice-president.  Voters who voted a straight party Democratic ticket watched their presidential votes changed to Bush on the review screen.  Officials said voters caused this by pressing the wrong button on the second screen of the eSlate machine.

Gail Fisher, manager of the county's election division, theorizes that after selecting their straight-party vote, some voters are going to the next page on the electronic ballot and pressing "enter," perhaps thinking that they are pressing "cast ballot" or "next page."  Since the Bush/Cheney ticket is the first thing on the page, it is highlighted when the page comes up, and, thus, pressing "enter" at that moment causes the Kerry/Edwards vote to be changed to Bush/Cheney."



This irregularity was reported on the mainstream television news on election night, and the number of people who was supposed to be affected by this was said to be about 60 people.  I'm speculating that it was probably a lot more than that, because people voting a straight-party ticket were finding themselves voting for Bush for president.  Doesn't make sense to me.  What was it then, Bush by DEFAULT?

Please urge your Congress people to vote for HR 550.
(1) | () | | send green star | flag as inappropriate
Visibility: Everyone
Tags: , , ,
Posted: Mar 12, 2006 1:15am

 
 
 
Content and comments expressed here are the opinions of Care2 users and not necessarily that of Care2.com or its affiliates.

Author

Eva Cox
female, age 61, single, 2 children
Austin, TX, USA
Shares by Type:
All (264) | Blog (217) | Alert (23) | Tribute (2) | Message (22)

Showing shares tagged with: voting [show all]
ads keep care2 free
SHARES FROM EVA'S NETWORK
May
14
(0 comments  |  discussions )
Please be careful....A friend of mine sent me this information and I wanted share it to help us all be safe. Caringly, Stuart  http://www.snopes.com/cri me/warnings/bottlebomb.as p  PLEASE READ AND FORWARD. Ki...
(0 comments  |  discussions )
Ashley is our middle cat and only female.At 11:48 a.m. Thursday, 9 May 2013 in a valiant battle against agressive lung cancer, Ashley died at home.
May
12
(1 comments  |  discussions )
Mama's Day Cards You Won't Find at the Drugstore Society & Culture  (tags: mothersday, mothers, families, queer, transgender, immigrants, strongfamilies ) BMutiny  - huffingtonpost.com The group...commissioned a group of artis...
May
9
(0 comments  |  discussions )
The largest genocide in human history happened where? Most people would answer Germany, and the Jewish Holocaust. Actually though, the largest genocide happened in the USA, with the native American Indians, with estimates of 19 million to 100 millio...
May
8
(0 comments  |  discussions )
(0 comments  |  discussions )
Official Nuclear Radiation Study; Tokyo University Hayno, R.S., et al (2013) Internal Radiocesium Contamination of Adults and Children 7 to 20 Months After the Fukushima NPP Accident as Measured by Extensive Whole-Body-Counter Surveys, Proc. Jpn....
(0 comments  |  discussions )
+++  In these times of uncertainty, chaos and pain,  you can choose to only rely upon yourselves  - face the music and do as best as you can,  with whatever ''concrete means'' you have at your disposal -  or  you can ch...
May
6
(0 comments  |  discussions )
Toxic radiation accumulates in water supplies after nuclear accidents. Radiation bioconcentrates in fish that live in fresh water and salt water. Runoff of fresh water from land which has been contaminated ends up contaminating oceans, and salt wate...
(0 comments  |  discussions )
66 Atomic Bombs were exploded on the Bikini Island Atolls. Hundreds of islanders were removed from the islands, but not from harms way. One hydrogen bomb exploded near the islands, and the children played with the dust from the bomb, as it fel...
May
5
(0 comments  |  0 discussions )
"Under our current law, a suspected terrorist on the FBI's No-Fly List can't board an airplane -- but they can still legally purchase guns and explosives. This loophole, known as the “Terror Gap,” is ...

Copyright © 2013 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved