16 Articles

Thursday, June 21, 2007
HR 811 (The Holt Bill) and The Commission: Alien invaders in our democracy
Centralizing the power to control votes and determine who controls our country is more a form of national socialism than democracy. This is what The Commission does. We need to abolish this alien creature from our government.

Monday, June 11, 2007
Kucinich announces withdrawal of support for Holt Bill
(1 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich announces support for election integrity and opposition for HR 811 at national activist gathering in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
HR 811 (The Holt Bill): Time to put us out of its misery
(6 comments) HR 811 has a long and controversial history. Embraced primarily by well funded lobbyists, the general citizenry, election officials, and activists oppose the bill. In the ultimate bait and switch, all carrots dangled in front of activists have been eaten up: full software disclosure is now full nondisclosure. Implementation on key aspects is moved from 2008 to 2010. Let's kill this thing and put us all out of its misery.

Monday, May 28, 2007
HR 811 (The Holt Bill): Let the debate begin
(3 comments) Proposed federal election reform legislation, HR 811 (aka the Holt Bill) stands to impose dramatic and dangerous changes to our country. Opponents of the bill challenge its proponents to public debate on its merits.

Saturday, May 26, 2007
White House Agency Takes Aim at Paper Ballots
(6 comments) The national commissioners of the count, the EAC, are expanding their control over the nation's elections, now moving to control paper ballots. Does the citizenry consent?

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Real Threat from the Holt Bill as Written
(5 comments) The real threat from the Holt Bill as written is that it presents infinite opportunities for litigation challenges and judicial resolution rather than citizen determination our election results and outcomes. Now for all you activists jumping with glee over the opportunity to sue the pants off your corrupt state and local election officials, bear one single thought in mind: Florida 2000.

Monday, May 21, 2007
The Neighborhood Penny Candy Shop and Why Holt (HR 811) Needs To be Fixed or Discarded
Nancy uses the neighborhood penny candy shop to show how the new requirements of HR 811 will affect your state."But pretty soon you figure out that you are flat broke, that nobody will work in your shop anymore because the requirements are too burdensome and complicated, and you have to shut the whole thing down.This is the incrementalism in bills like HR 811: an incremental path to completely BREAKING OUR ELECTION SYSTEMS."

Friday, April 27, 2007
Rebuttal to Dill's support of the HR 811 Trojan Horse
(21 comments) Dr. Dill's arguments in support of HR 811 fall apart from the moment he promotes an "it's this or nothing" position. Every argument he makes in support of the bill is easily deconstructed when we remember we are fighting for our American democracy and not the right for corporate technologists and computer expert elitists to run our elections. We did away with the literacy test as a right to vote a long time ago.

Monday, April 23, 2007
SAVE THE DATE: DEMFEST IN NH JUNE 9-10
All presidential primary candidates are invited to attend the event, and we expect that in the good NH tradition, DFest participants will be able to meet them on the "streets" of the "Town of Democracy" where DFest is taking place.

Saturday, April 14, 2007
The EAC Gopher Bash
(2 comments) Just like a Gopher Bash, with a permanent EAC, technovoting requirements can keep coming back to haunt you. You can knock down as many gophers as you want, but the EAC can keep making them pop up again. And the gophers will have ruined your country. Game Over.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
End secret vote counts - a story for everyone
(2 comments) The moral of this story: Most of our election workers are good patriotic Americans. And with respect to hand counting as the best democratic practice: as my good friend likes to say "Anyone can come to Democracy." We just need to open the door.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
End secret vote counts - a story for everyone
(2 comments) The moral of this story: Most of our election workers are good patriotic Americans. And with respect to hand counting as the best democratic practice: as my good friend likes to say "Anyone can come to Democracy." We just need to open the door.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Urgent call to FAX Congressional Reps and House Admin Ctte on election reform fast tracking
(15 comments) The Democratic majority is leading a misguided push to ram through sweeping election reform. If they are successful, we will not even recognize our own democracy. Take action now!

Monday, March 19, 2007
Ohio's Secretary of State Brunner Sets Model for the Nation
Newly elected Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner shows the nation we can clean out corruption and create election integrity.

Sunday, March 18, 2007
Podcast interview: Illegal voting equipment in 2008 Elections
Learn why the majority of states in the nation are at risk of running the 2008 elections on illegal voting equipment.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Why the EAC Must Be Abolished
Many legislative proposals seek to make permanent the Election Assistance Commission. This is a dangerous idea. The democratic processes of the American Republic are based on decentralized power. Centralized power led to the American Revolution. Centralized power is the antithesis to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.