[VoteRescue] VoteRescue Radio for 8/29 - Debra Medina and Jenny Clark

Fri Aug 29 11:11:46 CDT 2008

Hello from /*VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count.....One Vote at a 
Time!*/
*//* 
This Friday, August 29, 2008, from 6 - 8 pm CDT, we are honored to have 
as our guest during our second hour DEBRA MEDINA, Republican Party Chair 
of Wharton County, Texas, who will be on  to talk about her lawsuit 
against the Texas State Republican Party for the purpose to restore 
order and integrity to the Party and ensure fair treatment of all of the 
delegates at the Texas Republican State Convention.  We'll hear from 
Debra tonight about new developments in the case. 

During the first hour of tonight's program, Jenny Clark of VoteRescue, 
who has guest co-hosted before, will be joining Karen to discuss the 
Travis County Commissioners Court voting session this past Tuesday at 
which the Court unanimously approved the spending of an additional 
$102,000 for 35 new Hart Intercivic eSlate Direct Record Electronic 
(DRE) voting machines to be used in two (2) new super-sized Early Voting 
centers in the upcoming November election. Jenny kicked off the official 
VoteRescue line-up of speakers responding in opposition to the County 
Clerk's purchase request with an excellent presentation of the multitude 
of findings by computer scientists throughout the country. Jenny's 
presentation featured video footage of Dan Wallach of the Computer 
Science Department at Rice University in Houston testifying this past 
June before the State House Elections Committee about how terribly 
insecure the voting machines are and that there is no way to test them 
to find the problems. Unfortunately, Dr. Wallach was unable to attend 
the session in person due to his teaching schedule, but she did her best 
to "channel" Dr. Wallach for the Court. Here's what the local Austin 
Chronicle reported in their August 28th edition about the meeting:

"Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir went before the Commissioners Court 
Tuesday to request the purchase of 35 more eSlate electronic voting 
machines for an expected heavy turnout in this fall's election. 
Meanwhile, advocates of a return to paper ballots turned out to demand 
no further money be spent on devices they say can't be trusted. In 
repeating the same points that they've made ad nauseam before, they 
didn't make much of an impression. "What is it going to take for you and 
the other public servants to listen and understand that using machines 
that count our votes secretly is wrong?" asked VoteRescue's Karen Renick 
in frustration. "I would say we are done presenting you with the 
evidence because unless you tell us what it's going to take, we don't 
know what to do." Judge Sam Biscoe replied: "It may help us to hear 
something new and different. I think we get your point, and I don't know 
that hearing it multiple times helps a whole lot." Biscoe said there was 
insufficient time this election cycle to make major changes in the 
county's voting system. Commissioner Ron Davis said he'd like to see 
VoteRescue's concerns addressed within a year. Ultimately, the vote 
passed 4-0."/ - Lee Nichols/

We will discuss in detail the farce that is playing itself out here in 
Texas when the politicians at _all_ levels of government absurdly take 
the word of just one County Clerk that _her_ testing can find the 
problems in the machines when computer scientists from all over the 
country say this is impossible.  Welcome to Alice in Wonderland, Texas, 
folks!

We had a terrific showing of over 30 VoteRescue supporters who came to 
the session to express their opposition to buying more machines and to 
tell the Commissioners Court to immediately cut off the county's funding 
to the machines already in use in Travis county and return to 
hand-counted paper ballots in November. 

We would love to hear from anyone who came to the Commissioners Court's 
session on Tuesday, whether you spoke or not, TO CALL IN TO THE SHOW 
THIS EVENING DURING THE FIRST HOUR and share your impressions of the 
proceedings that morning.  the call-in number is 512-646-1984.

/VoteRescue Radio/ can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 
FM; is streaming live on www.wtprn.com <http://www.wtprn.com/> (for "We 
the People Radio Network"), AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 
512/485-9010!  /All shows are archived at the above web site, usually 
within a couple of hours after 8pm CDT./

The call-in number for the show is:   512-646-1984.  

Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" Friday!

/*WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!*/

With thanks for your support,

Vickie and Karen
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