Check it out here - apparently it is true.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/straightticket.asp
Subject: ELECTION ALERT: Pass it along, Avoid this vote counting trap
ELECTION ALERT: Straight Party Voting Trap. You may have read about
this; Here are the details and what to do about it:THE PROBLEM:
"Straight party voting" on voting machines is revealing a bad pattern of
miscounting and omitting your vote, especially if you are a Democrat.
Most recently (Oct. 2008), a firm called Automated Election Services was
found to have mis-coded the system in heavily Democratic Santa Fe
County, New Mexico such that straight party voters would not have the
presidential vote counted.STRAIGHT PARTY VOTING is allowed in 15 states.
Basically, it means that you can take a shortcut to actually looking at
who you are voting for and instead just select a party preference. Then
the voting machine makes your candidate choices, supposedly for the
party you requested.HOW TO PROTECT THE COUNT against Straight Party
Trap:1) NEVER CHOOSE THE STRAIGHT PARTY VOTE OPTION, because it alerts
the computer as to your party preference and allows software code to
trigger whatever function the programmer has designed.
2) SEND THIS INFORMATION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, blog it, root n' toot it out there to get the word out.
3) ESPECIALLY GET THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, which
have straight party voting options:
Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West
Virginia, Wisconsin
4) DEMAND COMPLETE AND CAREFUL TESTING OF THE STRAIGHT PARTY OPTION IN
LOGIC & ACCURACY TESTS.
5) LOOK FOR UNDERVOTES (high profile races with lower-than-average
number of votes cast) and flag them, post them, bring them to the
attention of others for additional scrutiny.Details, links to documents,
news stories, more specifics
here:http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/78367.htmlVoting
machine miscounts of straight party votes were proven by California
researcher Judy Alter in the 2004 New Mexico presidential election; in
Alabama Democrat straight party votes were caught going to a Republican,
and Wisconsin a whole slew of straight party votes disappeared
altogether.
Both DRE and optical scan machines are vulnerable. Private contractors
are involved; private firms like LHS Associates, Automated Election
Services, Harp Enterprises, Casto & Harris and others will program
almost all systems in the USA this November. ES&S scanners were involved
in examples cited, but Diebold has also issued a cryptic Product
Advisory Notice in 2006 about unexpected results from certain Straight
Party option programming practices. (More:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/78367.html )PERSPECTIVEThe
big "Oops" needs a new frame of reference. For example: You are counting
the cash for a fund raiser. Somehow, it's discovered that $500 didn't
make it into the count and someone put it in their pocket. They say
"Oops" and tell you it was a mistake. Really? Will you let them count
the cash again? Probably not. Consequences! Where are they for Automated
Election Services, ES&S, or Diebold?A LEHTOISM - From voting rights
attorney Paul Lehto: "Being at the mercy of whoever's in power is not a
definition of freedom, if I may seize on the power of understatement."*
* * * *
Skopelos and Virgin
-by Skorda
when first you see it
across the water,
rising round and new above the mountain.
Open your mouth and swallow
while youth holds its roundness near,
and you are running fearless in the dark.
Hold it inside, it is still warm
and you will need its light,
there, inside you.
Down the road of time, somewhere
after you’ve aged, traveled,
Explored, discovered.
And the dust around your doorway
has been pounded hard and smooth under your feet.
When you find yourself growing weary and bored,
when your eyes see only ruins,
and your heart is empty.
You may believe, in your exhaustion,
that this is truth, at last.
That the mystery has unraveled,
leaving no wilderness to explore or tame.
All secrets have been shared,
the frontier has dissolved.
Know then, with these thoughts,
you have been swallowed.
The warm belly of the beast
comforts with confining darkness
and lulls with rhythmic sounds
Murmuring to you,
Curl up and sleep,
just go to sleep.
Shake your head,
stretch your legs,
do not sleep now.
Remember what you know.
You swallowed the moon,
you hold it inside you.
Not as a magpie hoarding shiny things,
or wearing the moon for beauty
or bartering the moon for wealth.
You swallowed the moon for this moment.
When you will walk to the water’s edge,
open your mouth, release the moon
and let its light build you a pathway
across the wine dark sea.
©Skorda 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
ELECTION ALERT
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