8-13-2016 SAT Election Updates - 17 New Links - Excellent Resources

Submitted by CA Democrat on Sat, 08/13/2016 - 11:46am

Highly Recommended Links

8-12-2016-TYT Politics - Election Fraud in 2016: Is This Democracy? - TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) spoke with lulu Fries'dat, the lead author of "An Electoral System in Crisis", an extensive 38 page statistical examination of the accuracy of the 2016 primary voting. Fries'dat explains the methodology of the study, as well as the reason why the results that they uncovered showed significant problems in the way that votes were counted. [9,200 video views as of 8-13-2016]
7-26-2016 - An Electoral System in Crisis - 6 Page Executive Summary - A large and growing body of research provides convincing evidence that U.S. electronic voting equipment in many areas throughout the country is not counting the votes accurately. This could be due to malfunctions in computer equipment that in 43 states is over a decade old, and long past its natural life. However, in many cases, the evidence strongly suggests that fraud is the likely explanation. These problems have been occurring since at least 2004, and are certainly present in the current 2016 presidential primaries.

7-25-2016 - An Electoral System in Crisis - 42 Pages - At a congressional briefing on voter suppression, held on April 21, 2016, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) expressed grave concern about the security of the voting equipment: “There is a very insidious, treacherous and deceitful method of voter suppression, and it has to do with the integrity of the voting process itself… one possibility, and I think it's a very good one, is that someone's manipulating the counting of the votes. Someone is hacking into these computers that tabulate the votes."

7-24-2016 - TrustVote.TV - Election Justice USA Releases New Report: An Electoral System in Crisis - - You can find the full paper here (now 100 pages):

8-3-2016 - Citizens' Oversight Press Conference- Ray Lutz, founder of Citizens' Oversight Projects, announces the positive and sad rulings in the anti-election fraud lawsuit in San Diego County.

WI

8-12-2016 - BradBlog - Emergency Petition Filed at 7th Circuit to Avoid Mass Photo ID Law Disenfranchisement in WI Action sought as partisan court panel rolls back remedy meant to restore voting rights to nearly 10% of WI electorate.. -

New Links

8-3-2016 - TrustVote.TV - Could the 2016 Election Be Stolen with Help from Electronic Voting Machines? - 8 min video

8-2-2016 - ELECTION FRAUD - WE NEED PAPER BALLOTS - an 8 minute home made montage of recent election reporting - 100 views as of 8-13-2016

8-12-2016 - ProPublica - 2016 Voter Suppression ~~Election Lawsuit~~ Tracker: The New Election Laws and the Suits Challenging Them -Courts are scrambling to rule on state election laws in time for the elections being held later this year. We’re keeping track of their decisions.

SAT 8-6-2016 Election Updates – Election Issues Go Mainstream – Critical Mass Building? 25+ New election links, must reads, videos and posts

8-4-2016 - ACLU - LAWSUIT SEEKS MEANINGFUL VOTE FOR LATINOS IN PASCO CITY, Washington COUNCIL ELECTIONS - In a lawsuit filed today by the ACLU of Washington, Bertha Aranda Glatt, a lifelong Pasco resident, challenges the City of Pasco’s at-large election system for violating the Voting Rights Act by unlawfully diluting the vote of Latinos in City Council elections.

8-3-2016 - The Mercury News - Defeated San Jose, CA councilman files lawsuit to challenge election - The incumbent councilman, who's been in office a little more than a year, is not giving up. His attorney claims the June 7 primary election was botched by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters and Nguyen should get a second bite at the apple. [includes copy of his initial lawsuit]

4-6-2016 - ThinkProgress - Ohio Election Chief Sued Over Voter Purges - Ohioans who do not vote in three consecutive federal elections automatically have their registrations cancelled. In 2015, that meant that roughly 40,000 people living in Ohio’s largest county — largely low-income and minority voters — were disenfranchised. Over the last five years, roughly two million people have been removed from the rolls.
Demos and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio filed a lawsuiton Wednesday against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, alleging that the massive purge of Ohio’s voter rolls is illegal and violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), know as the “motor voter law.” Under that law, states can only remove voters from the rolls if they request the removal, die, or move out of state, and the list maintenance program must be nondiscriminatory.

update: 7- 27-2016 - CINCINNATI: A federal appeals court in Cincinnati is slated to hear arguments over the way swing state Ohio maintains its voter rolls.

7-25-2016 - Progress Illinois - Chicago Election Board Sued Over Alleged 'Discrepancies, Improprieties' During Post-Primary Election Audit - A federal lawsuit was filed last week against the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, alleging "discrepancies and improprieties" occurred during the audit of the March 15 primary returns.

VARIOUS STATES

7-22-2016 - CA, FL, KS, NV, NC, OH, TX, USA, DNC, DOJ – Election Update FRI 7-22-2016 – Lawsuits, Arrests, Grand Juries – Issues: Vote Counting, Vote Switching, Registration Switching, Voter Suppression, AND OVER 13,000 Voters ask to JOIN Class Action Lawsuit – Links and Evidence Growing Exponentially

7-21-2016 - Activist Post - New York Lawsuit Claims 2016 Election Was Rigged -

Critical Fundraising links:

Group: Election Justice USA
Facebook: Election Justice USA – Facebeook or Election Justice USA – Facebook
Twitter Link: #ElectionJusticeUSA or @Elec_Justice
Link: Election Justice USA Lawsuits

Group: JAMPAC
Web Page JAMPAC – DNC Fraud Lawsuit
Facebook Page: JAMPAC – Facebook
Twitter Page: #DNCfraudlawsuit or #DNCLawsuit
Court documents: DNC CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT – This page contains court-filed documents available for download.
To sign up as a class representative for the lawsuit, please email:dncfraud@jampac.us
YouTube Page: JAMPAC – YouTube

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Comments

Submitted by featheredsprite on Sat, 08/13/2016 - 5:50pm

I like your picture in the upper right hand corner!

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Submitted by featheredsprite on Sat, 08/13/2016 - 5:51pm

Lots of good links here.

Thank you for your work.

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Submitted by Shockwave on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:07am

I wonder how we would score on a new Harvard study

Last year we scored 62 and came in #47. With these new data ponts we cannot move up.

The Year in Elections, 2015

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 7:59am

Apparently, the most important thing about the primaries

is not whether they were honest, but whether Russia hacked the DNC. The issue is not whether the DNC violated its own charter or whether the state parties engaged in shenanigans, but Russian interference in US elections.

We have a corrupt system, enabled, aided and abetted by a corrupt media and I don't have a clue whether we can do a thing about it.

Submitted by tle on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 10:58am

Unplug The Vote

I've been pondering the wording for a (state) constitutional amendment:

All voting shall be on paper. The final ballot shall be in the physical possession of the voter for personal inspection prior to submitting the ballot. All official counting shall be by hand.

In that second sentence, the word "final" is important. In addition to using pre-printed ballots with the circles you fill in, I see no reason why machines can't be used which allow you to make your selections, then PRINT OUT the ballot. The voter can review the resulting ballot and, if it's in error, turn it in for immediate destruction, and vote again. A machine to review the ballot and verify that it's error-free would also be allowed - but the voter wouldn't be required to use it. Such machines would be particularly useful in a ranked-choice-voting election.

Submitted by gustogirl on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 5:09pm

A computer can be programmed

to print out the ballot you specified yet flip the vote internally.

There are no trustworthy machines for voting.

Submitted by tle on Tue, 08/16/2016 - 7:24am

Apparently I was unclear.

The approach I described is no more than a glorified printer. There is no internal counting or storage of the vote, it's solely a device for producing a paper ballot. You're certainly right; there are no trustworthy machines for voting. What I have in mind is a convenience, and would be especially useful for RCV, but IT doesn't count any votes.

Submitted by DonMidwest on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:02pm

Now sure how quickly things will happen or what will happen

One of the law suits is by a Columbus attorney Bob Fitrakis. It is described in this paragraph from the trustvote.org web site

I went to their monthly salon at Bob's house and talked with him. Bob has written or co written 6 books on elections and he says it is clear that the election was stolen. With limited funds he is running the suit below against a law firm with tons of money.

In this update here, we will talk about the Ohio Election Integrity lawsuit. During the primary, it appears to be the case that Edison Research edited exit poll results, taking votes from Bernie Sanders and giving them to Hilary Clinton, so that the election results would match the electronic vote totals. Currently Bob Fitrakis has sued Edison Media Research to release unadjusted exit polls for 12 states in the primary. Edison Media Research has told Bob Fitrakis now to communicate with their lawyers. This response is basically a carefully worded refusal. Their law firm is BakerHostetler, a global law firm that reported earnings of over 600 million dollars in 2015. It will be very difficult for Bob Fitrakis to get the unadjusted exit poll results from Edison Media Research for the primary. The Media consortium and the DNC clearly favored Hillary Clinton getting the DNC nomination throughout the time that Bernie was campaigning. When looking at the nature of the law firm used by Edison Media Research, we can see clearly how much power lies in our country in the hands of extremely large corporations and the legal firms associated with them.

Of course, when Bernie was running the Washington Post called people wondering about the hacking of the primary results ” conspiracy theorists”. This term, originated by Karl Rove in 2004 has been used to discredit people who have been concerned about hacking all the time. The issue is that the mainstream media is being biased in its reporting in that it did not support people concerned about the hacking of the primary, but would very much be concerned about the hacking of the November election where Hillary is concerned.

There is another attorney living here in Columbus OH, Cliff Arnebeck. His assistant was on youtube saying that the primary was stolen and they had the proof. Problem is that his law suit has not been filed yet and not sure if or when it will be filed. It takes a lot of time and money to pull these things off. I was hopeful that even before the convention that election fraud would put Bernie over the top, but that time has past.

US has the worst elections for any democracy but the establishment wants it that way to have the facade of a democracy.

And there are so many immediate issues, like the F***ing TPP that Obama and the oligarchs are going to shove down our throat .....

I am sending this article by CA Democrat to Bob Fitrakis and asking him if any corrections or updates are needed.

Bob was in Philly at the convention and spoke with Berners. Bob is co-chair of Green party in OH

Bob Bites Back: Fear and hacking at the Democratic National Convention

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 1:01pm

Joe had an excellent interview with Fitrakis (by TRN)

a couple of days ago in his Evening Blues.
[video:https://youtu.be/Gg9cauzuEsw]
Worth watching.

Submitted by DonMidwest on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 2:48pm

Thanks. Had not seen this interview. Good for others.

I get to see and talk with Bob almost every month.

He has said these things over the years and I trust him and the work he has done.

This is such a significant issue, and politicians are doing everything they can to run away from it, and the media does not want to consider it, so ......

Little or nothing gets done

There are a rash of cases happening right now, but don't see the decision to fix the election system by the establishment

Submitted by ThoughtfulVoter on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 12:36pm

History professor Gary Leupp

History professor Gary Leupp writes, mid-way through his article:

Let the American people see how thoroughly rotten both candidates are, and how thoroughly rotten the system that barfed them up.

Bernie in a fair process would be the Democratic nominee now. Clinton didn’t so much steal the election as buy it in advance, arranging the details through lackey Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Trump would not be the Republican nominee but for the editorial decisions of cable news producers to—from the very inception of his campaign—announce BREAKING NEWS and cover his nearly identical rants every time he held a rally.

This gratuitous coverage obviated the need for any (other) Trump advertising. Even as the anchors, commentators and other talking heads ridiculed, denounced and appeared puzzled about the Trump phenomenon, the networks made the viewers imbibe his vapid rants. They hooked the most reactionary elements of the population on this blowhard billionaire nut case.

In the Democrats’ case, Wall Street and Wasserman Schultz controlled the primaries. In the Republican case, the corporate news media (for its immediate profit motives) advertised a total dick who happened to be a billionaire and represent the One Percent every bit as much as Hillary.

He later asks this question:

Julian Assange described the U.S. presidential race as a choice between cholera and gonorrhea. Why should the people of this great country of 310,000,000 people—many with great creativity, integrity and intelligence—be assigned this sick choice of Clinton or Trump by the One Percent that controls everything?

and then writes about alternatives, which you can read for yourself in more detail:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/12/finally-the-eruption-of-the-clint...