August 5, 2007
Protecting
Ron Paul, the Rest
of the “2nd Tier” and America
Citizen
Vigilance Essential
As things stand today, about 60 citizen camera crews and
about 200 citizen volunteers are needed to conduct a
“citizens’ exit poll” to double check the easily rigged
Diebold electronic voting machines which the Iowa GOP
intends to use to “count” the vote at the Ames, Iowa Straw
Poll on August 11, 2007 – just a week from now.
If you can possibly attend
and/or donate to help with this “citizens’ exit poll” – see
the action items at the end of this update – but first:
Picture this:
Next Saturday, from 10 am to 6
pm, more than 25,000 residents of the State of Iowa will
arrive on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames. They
will be 18 years of age or older. They will be there to
choose one man from a list of eleven men as their choice to
be the next President of the United States of America.
At one of 60 vote stations they
will receive a paper ballot. They will pencil in an oval
next to the candidate of their choice. They will enter the
paper ballot into a machine that will scan the entire ballot
and record the vote. After voting, each voter will place a
thumb into a container of purple ink.
After scanning each ballot the machine will deposit the
ballot into a “black box” within the Diebold machine. At 6
pm each machine and black box are transported to a
centralized “tabulation” room. The door to the room will
be closed to the public.
The ballots are not removed from
their black boxes or counted. Instead, a button on the
machine is pressed. In response, the machine ejects a slip
of paper showing the number of votes recorded by that
machine for each candidate. The results are tabulated.
Someone then leaves the room and announces the results of
the vote to the assembled media representatives. Each person
casting a vote will have paid $35 to do so. The ten men on
the list are all Republicans. The Iowa Republican Party is
sponsoring the event, which is known as the Ames Straw Poll,
also the Iowa Straw Poll.
NOTE: During
every
August in which the Republican
presidential nomination is undecided Ames plays
host to the
Ames
Straw Poll, which gauges support for the various
Republican candidates. The straw poll dates back to 1979,
and is frequently seen as a first test of organizational
strength in Iowa by the national media and party insiders;
as such, it can be very beneficial for a candidate to win
the straw poll and thus enhance his aura of inevitability or
show off a superior field operation. Ames is a city located
in the central part of
Iowa,
about 30 miles north of
Des
Moines. As of the
2000
Census, the city population was 50,731. For more
information go to
www.google.com and enter “Ames Straw Poll.”
Now picture this:
On the list of eleven candidates
will be the so-call party insurgents or second tier
candidates, including Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter,
Sam Brownback, and Mike Huchabee.
Vote fraud is a problem, even in
America, where elections have been stolen from non-party
favorites by political parties. One such event occurred in
Iowa in 1995. See “A
House Without Doors, Vote Fraud in America,”
by James J. Condit, Jr., published in the November 1996
edition of Chronicles Magazine.
“Political parties,” according
to Thomas Jefferson, “are by their nature, corruptive.”
The Iowa Republican Party will
use 60 Diebold computers to record and count the votes.
NOTE: A study by computer
scientists at the University of California paid for by the
Secretary of State of California (publicized last week, July
28, 2007, in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times)
showed that the Diebold computers were easily hacked, easily
rigged, -- and totally unreliable for conducting elections.
The UC study confirmed the results of several other
authoritative studies from MIT, Cal Tech, Princeton
University, and numerous other sources. A search of “Diebold
Princeton University” on YOUTUBE will yield a 9 minute
demonstration. Adding “FOX News” to the search will yield
another 3 minute demonstration by the Princeton scientists.
Los Angeles Times 7/28/07
“Scientists prove Diebold computers easily rigged and
totally unreliable in elections…”
The New York Times 7/28/07
“Computer scientists from California universities have
hacked into three electronic voting systems used in
California and elsewhere in the nation and found several
ways in which vote totals could potentially be altered,
according to reports released yesterday by the state.”
United Press International 7/28/07
“. . . computer experts . . . found several ways to change
the vote totals by breaking the codes to Diebold Election
Systems . . . the New York Times reported Saturday.”
HBO Documentary 10/06
“Hacking Democracy” shows actual hacking of Diebold
computers in Leon County, Florida”
The Diebold computers being used
to “count” the votes at the Iowa Straw Poll could be used to
steal the election from Ron Paul or one of the other party
insurgents by, say, “stuffing the ballot box“ with “votes”
for a party favorite(s) by thousands of phantom voters, or
by transposing some set percentage of votes from one or more
of the insurgents to one or more of the party favorites,
thereby showing the insurgent(s) such as Ron Paul with far
fewer votes than he actually received.
Now picture this:
On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, a
letter is delivered to the Iowa Republican Party and the
State and County Boards of Elections. The letter is signed
by various good-government and election reform organizations
and holders of $35 tickets that entitle them to vote in the
Ames Straw Poll. The letter says that unless the
following 10-point program is agreed to, a court order will
be sought to enjoin and prohibit the Ames Straw Poll until
the reforms are agreed to:
1. From the time the voter
votes to the time the results of the vote are publicly
announced, all paper ballots are never out of the view of
the public.
2. Instead of being
deposited into a black box, each completed paper ballot is
deposited into a numbered, clear-plastic, container that is
in clear public view all day. The number on the container
matches a number on the machine. The numbers are 4 inches
high, black on white.
3. Each candidate on the
ballot has the Right to have an observer present for an
inspection by the County of each container. The single
inspection is scheduled to take place 9:55 am at each of the
60 vote stations.
4. Surrounding each vote
station at a distance of 30 feet from the numbered clear
plastic container is a rope beyond which any person can
quietly stand to quietly observe the clear-plastic
containers and the number of voters.
5. As the voting period
ends, each ballot box is set on one of two 72”
cafeteria-style tables that have been set up at each of the
60 voting stations. There, the ballots are separated and
hand counted.
6. Besides two members of
the staff of the County or State Board of Elections, each
candidate has a Right to have a representative participate
in the counting process. All county and candidate Counters
must agree on the candidate allocation of each vote. Once
all Counters are in agreement on the allocation of all
votes, the result of the count is read aloud for public
consumption.
7. The paper ballots are
then returned to the numbered, clear-plastic containers,
which are then transported to a central location, --
never out of view of the county and candidate observers or
the general public.
8. At the central location,
the containers are placed inside an area that has been roped
off. Within the roped off area, chairs have been set up for
the county and candidate counters.
9. As each numbered
container arrives at the central location, the results of
the hand-counted vote is read aloud by one of the County
observers and entered into a computer for projection onto a
screen in the room and for posting on the County and State
websites.
10. After the results of the
vote from each of the 60 vote stations is read aloud, the
cumulative totals from the hand-counts are agreed to by the
county and candidate Counters, read aloud and entered into
the computer for projection onto the screen in the room and
for posting on the County and State websites. This process
is continued until the results of the vote at all 60 vote
stations have been read aloud and added to the prior total.
NOTE: The Ames Straw Poll is
the very first contest that has any meaning in the run up to
the Presidential election. The People need to do everything
possible to insist that elections are fair and votes are
counted properly. Besides the possibility of a court order
on the side of a fair vote count there is a serious effort
underway by Citizens For a Fair Vote Count and the “Vote In
Sunshine Project” to conduct a “Citizens’ Exit Poll” that
would include a signed, notarized affidavit by the voter
stating who he/she voted for. For more information about the
Citizens’ Exit Poll go to
www.votefraud.org.
The Iowa Republican Party can be
expected to resist this “open and honest vote count” process
at the Straw Poll. Therefore, Citizens For a Fair Vote Count
urgently needs 200 volunteers to help conduct the
double-check on the easily rigged Diebold machines at Ames
this Saturday (August 11, 2007), and they need some funds
for the printing of “exit poll” pamphlets, signs and paper
ballots and the tents. There will also be filing fees and
other costs associated with any legal action. Please
volunteer and/or contribute to help us accomplish this vital
step for honest elections everywhere. A breakthrough is
needed now.
NOTE: Whatever gets
painted on the canvas of history depends on the people we
see when we look into the mirror.
Here is what you can do:
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If you live in Iowa,
make sure you are in Ames next Saturday to
VOTE. Talk to
your friends and relatives; pool your money and car
pool. How or whether you are registered to vote
makes no difference. All you need is proof that you
are 18 or over and that you live in Iowa. |
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Whether you live in
Iowa or another state, be in Ames next Saturday as a
volunteer. To VOLUNTEER,
click here. |
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Whether you live in
Iowa or another state, and whether or not you are in
Ames next Saturday as a volunteer, please
DONATE money to
cover expenses.
To donate to the Citizens for a Fair Vote Count
“Vote in Sunshine” effort at the
Ames, Iowa Straw poll: go to
www.PayPal.com , hit the tab that says: “Send
Money”, then send to:
action@networkamerica.org.
You will have the option to use VISA, MASTERCARD,
AMEX, etc.
OR by
sending a check/money order to:
Network America, PO Box
11555, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
To donate to the WTP Foundation, please click
here:
Donation. |
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Whether or not you
live in Iowa and you would like to
SHARE A RIDE with
someone else to Ames,
click here.
(You will be directed to the volunteer page)
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If you do not live
in Iowa, but you know people who do, let them know
how important it is for them to vote in the Ames
Straw Poll. FORWARD
THIS MESSAGE! |
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Update
Related Links
To
VOLUNTEER or
SHARE A RIDE
click here.
To donate to the Citizens for a Fair Vote Count “Vote in
Sunshine” effort at the
Ames, Iowa Straw poll: go to
www.PayPal.com, hit the tab that says: “Send
Money”, then send to:
action@networkamerica.org. You will have the option to
use VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX, etc.OR
by sending a check/money order to:
Network America, PO Box 11555, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
To make a tax-deductible donation to the WTP
Foundation, please click here:
Donation.
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