In January 2005, Lehto and Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman were co-authors of a significant paper entitled “Evidence of Election Irregularities in Snohomish County, Washington, General Election 2004” involving Sequoia touchscreen “DRE” electronic voting machines. Sequoia’s claim of proprietary trade secrets and refusal to allow production of data and information regarding the 2004 election thwarted further scientific investigation, which then led to a lawsuit by Lehto and co-plaintiff John Wells seeking to void the purchase contract for the Sequoia electronic voting machines on numerous public policy and state constitutional grounds.

These grounds revolve around the illegality of secret vote counting in democracy, and the inappropriateness of secrecy in general in the process of legitimate democratic elections. The relief sought includes declarations of law that trade secrets are not valid in elections, that democracy can not be outsourced in order to minimize or eliminate the public’s rights, that the right to count votes can not be made secret and given to a single corporate party, and that the public’s rights to know and observe elections are fundamental, non-waivable and non-delegable, and must be such in order for “government by the people” to exist.

Election Activism
In the aftermath of the 2004 election, O'Dell co-founded US Count Votes, a volunteer scientific research project to investigate the integrity and accuracy of American elections. He left that group in 2005, but has continued to work on scientific analyses of exit poll and election data. He recently collaborated with Jonathan Simon on a computer simulation of the reliability of election auditing proposals.

Information Technology
In the early 1980s O'Dell worked at Control Data Corporation on research and development of artificial intelligence, robot vision systems, and satellite imagery analysis, but most of his career has been spent in financial services data processing.

He is familiar with the design and operation of very large-scale computer systems with stringent security, audit and accountability requirements. He recently had leading roles in large-scale e-Commerce and security projects while employed by American Express and by the finance arm of General Motors. At American Express he was lead software architect for a project to create a company-wide security component, and received their Chairman's Award for Quality, in 1998, for helping to define methods for securely deploying new software to networks of thousands of computers. As a Principal Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation one of his system designs was nominated for a national technical quality award.

His current consulting practice centers on e-Commerce security and the performance and design of very large-scale computer systems for Fortune 100 clients. He recently spent a year as the chief technical architect in a company-wide security project at one of the top twenty public companies in America, and is currently helping to design a bond underwriting application that will safely process trillions of dollars of other people's money.

He lives just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, and shares a love of good books with his wife - and her beautiful garden, with their talkative cat.

Dr. Simon is a member of Alliance for Democracy and We Do Not Concede, and has worked closely with several key election integrity organizations, including National Ballot Integrity Project and National Election Data Archive. He has authored or coauthored several papers addressing statistical anomalies and other evidence of computerized election fraud, and has collaborated with Bruce O’Dell in the development of an effective handcount sampling protocol to be deployed as a check mechanism where computerized vote tabulation is used.

Nancy is the author of numerous articles on election integrity, including "The Gifts of HAVA: Time to Ask for a Refund," "What's Wrong with the Holt Bill," "We're Counting the Votes: An Election Preparedness Kit," and the newly released "Hands-on Elections: An Information Handbook for Running Real Elections, Using Real Paper Ballots, Counted by Real People".

Nancy's focus on federal election reform legislation such as the "Holt Bill" and the HAVA-spawned White House agency, the Election Assistance Commission, has resulted in groundbreaking research, analysis, and reporting on the ramifications of federal acts and agencies to the integrity of the American Republic and its particular form of representational democracy.

Under her leadership the NH Fair Elections Committee has sponsored and helped to pass positive state election law legislation, while successfully blocking legislation that would have undermined the openness and transparency of the New Hampshire election system. The Fair Elections Committee has sponsored several public education gatherings with New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner and other state and local election officials, and consults regularly with the NH State Legislature's Election Law Committee.

The Committee, with its parent organization, Democracy for New Hampshire, was prime sponsor of the 2007 DemocracyFest, featuring an entire election integrity track, including training on running hand count, paper ballot elections. The Fair Elections Committee has organized numerous public actions in support of fair elections, including record-breaking turnout for the 2006 NH Ballot Law Commission hearing regarding the approval of Diebold voting machines, and "Citizens Gone Wild: Taking Control of Our Democracy", an action focused on passing local control ordinances limiting the use of secret vote counting technologies and corporate control of vote counting.

Nancy has been a featured speaker on radio and TV programs, as well as live grassroots and university programs, dealing with election integrity issues. She serves as grassroots representative on the New Hampshire Help America Vote Act (HAVA) State Plan Committee.

She is married to Ariel, and has two children. Nancy holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Education and works professionally in the field of online learning.

Ms. Delozier has co-produced press conferences in Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas, on the issue of vote fraud, one being on September 22nd, 2004, at the National Press Club titled, "Hacking the Presidential Election: A Bipartisan Problem, Anyone Can Do It." There, Bev Harris, computer security expert Dr. Herbert Thompson, and Jeremiah Akin demonstrated six ways election software could be easily hacked. The other was co-produced in conjunction with True Majority.org and took place at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, coinciding with national activities supporting "The Computer Ate My Vote Day!"

I became interested in analytical assessment of election results following the 2004 Presidential election. I have analyzed reports of electronic vote switching from the Election Incidence Reporting System (EIRS), in which incidents favoring Bush over Kerry occurred at a ratio of 12 to 1, while the rate of such incidents occurring in 11 swing states compared to the other states occurred at a ratio of 9 to 1.
The other 2004 data I evaluated concerned the purging of registered Ohio voters apparently targeted at Democrats (likely more than 200,000 in Cuyahoga County alone).

In 2004, while he was Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Griscom happened to meet John R. Brakey. On Election Day 2004, Brakey was Democratic Cluster Captain for four precincts in Arizona Congressional District 7, which had 80% non-Republican, predominately Hispanic registration, yet would be recorded as having voted 42% for Bush.

Having witnessed suspicious behaviors by poll workers at three of his four precincts, John Brakey launched a 1,000+ hour audit of the voting at precinct #324, and called on David Griscom for assistance in analyzing the voting records.

Eventually, the investigative duo uncovered a pattern of poll-worker fraud, and Griscom was able to use simple gambler’s odds to prove that the probability of seven different irregularities being committed exactly 11 times each, was less than one chance in 20 million if they were seven random accidents due to poll-worker incompetence.

Conclusions: The poll workers did these things on purpose, and they religiously followed a
formula whereby they could have swung the vote by as much as 12.8% -- without being detected in a manual recount of the ballots.

One of Gail's initial efforts was to organize a van full of people to attend a Voting Systems and Procedures Panel meeting at the California secrtary of state's office in Sacramento in April of 2004.

In November of 2004, Gail served as a "commander" (supervising attorney, one of about 95 across the U.S.) for the Election Protection Coalition national voter protection hotline, 866.OUR.VOTE. Two days after the election when it was evident that Ohio was the "hotspot," Gail spent the next couple of months finding recount observers and attorneys from across the country to go to Ohio. Twelve recount observers and six attorneys went to Ohio to help challenge the election. Eighteen additional attorneys offered research assistance.

Gathering up $2,000 in small donations from 50 personal contacts, Gail Jonas, Dan Ashby, and three more California activists flew to Columbus, Ohio on January 30, 2005, and helped the citizens there organize the "J-30 Coalition," an election integrity group that has done primary research on the 2004 ballots, proving fraud in that election and in the recounts that ensued.

In the 2006 election cycle, Gail again served as a commander on the national voter protection hotline coordinated by National Campaign for Fair Elections (NCFE) with the goal of acting as liaison between that organization and EDA. While on the hotline, one of Gail's tasks was to alert Video the Vote to incidents occurring at the polls so that they could speed there and capture the incident and upload it to YouTube.

Throughout Election Day, John witnessed suspicious behavior by poll workers at three of his four precincts. An hour after the polls had closed, he caught poll workers at one of these stations in the act of altering the poll books. Shocked, John immediately launched what would grow into a 1,000+ hour audit of the voting at precinct #324, beginning by salvaging the poll-worker-annotated “Advice to Voter” slips from the trash the next morning and then buying copies of all other pertinent public records. John entered all of these data on Excel spreadsheets and began e-mailing them to Dave Griscom with highlighted oddities and irregularities.

Eventually, the team of Brakey and Griscom uncovered evidence of an elaborate "hack and stack" poll-worker fraud designed to alter the optical scan ballot count and evade detection in a recount. Griscom was able to calculate the probability of the seven irregularities the found being committed exactly 11 times each. The odds that these seven irregularities were random accidents due to poll-worker incompetence, were less than one chance in 20 million. Conclusion: The poll workers did these things on purpose, and they religiously followed a formula whereby they could have swung the vote by as much as 12.8%--without being detected in a manual recount of the ballots.

In addition to her role as Volunteer Coordinator for Election Defense Alliance, Sherry is a co-founder of the California Election Protection Network, chairs the election reform committee of Marin-Democracy for America, and is a Democratic Party delegate for California's 6th Assembly District. During the 2004 presidential election campaign she was the volunteer coordinator for Marin County's highly efficient team of 600 Howard Dean for President volunteers. Recently, Sherry was invited to join the board of directors for California's Tangible Ballot Initiative.

Sherry frequently lobbies California elected officials in Sacramento advocating election integrity reform measures. She has produced a number of election reform public events, including a highly successful San Diego Town Hall meeting hosted by Ed Asner and featuring prominent national election integrity leaders. The event received extensive airplay on Link TV and other television channels in the critical week prior to the November 2006 election that resulted in Debra Bowen’s election to the office of California secretary of state.

Bob is a member of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project and serves as chairperson of the Suburban Cook County Chapter, a member of the board of directors and executive committee and acting general counsel. The Mission of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is to inform and educate the public, media and government officials about important election integrity issues and to promote the adoption of legislation and policies designed to secure the democratic process.

IBIP has been active in opposing the certification of Direct Recording Electronic voting devices and systems, devoting much of their efforts toward attempting to educate and persuade the Illinois State Board of Elections, an eight-member appointed body which certifies voting systems. Wilson has authoring a number of white papers on such topics as "The Case Against DREs" as well as specific vendor-focused papers on Sequoia and Diebold. IBIP was active in helping to develop significant changes to the Illinois Election Code in 2005, including VVPAT and a 5% audit of DREs, post-election. Current efforts are being directed toward the state legislature to further strengthen the code.