Action

Car Pools to Sacramento Hearing, October 15

webmaster — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:28:26 -0400

Post Rides Offered or Needed
to CA Voting System Hearing

This is a quick and simple ride board, built on a blog form that should enable posts and replies.

Thinking ahead to the ES&S Decertification hearing that has been rescheduled to October 15, 2007, use this space to post requests and offers for shared rides.

Drivers: List how many passengers you can take, and your location and time of departure

List whatever form of contact information you wish.

Riders: State how many in your party, and your approximate location of departure

List whatever form of contact information you wish.

Use the Comment and Reply links at the foot of this window

--Amtrak Train is also an option; the Capitol Corridor line runs up from the Peninsula to Sacramento.

Click here for Amtrak ticket and route information

Click here for the Sacramento train schedule

Click to download Walking Map from the Sacramento Amtrak station to the Secretary of State building (30-minute walk)

How About an Open, Public Debate on HR 811?

EDA — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:55:11 -0400

"The language of the 62-page bill is so dangerously ambiguous in so many critical areas, that we ought to expose the ambiguities to the light before HR811 becomes the law of the land and our elections are thrown to the courts to decide what means what."

By Nancy Tobi

There is a raging and often destructive debate among voting activists. The source of the discord is "The Holt Bill," a piece of federal election reform legislation named for its primary author, Democratic Congressman Rush Holt from the great state of New Jersey. The destructive nature of the exchanges among activists has led some of us who oppose the bill to propose, in the best of our American democratic traditions, a public debate on the merits of the bill.

ACTION ALERT: House Admin Comm Spiking FL-24 Investigation

EDA — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:16:48 -0400

The following emergency response action comes from The PEN (Peoples' E-Mail Network)

Please phone the House Committee on Administration (HCA) TODAY using the phone numbers provided below.

Everyone has heard about the dramatically suspicious results in the Jennings congressional race in FL-13, but did you know that there were massive parallel shenanigans going on in FL-24 as well? And yet we got a tip late today that tomorrow the House Administration committee is secretly, and without public notice, preparing to dismiss their own inquiry into this other still NOT conceded race run by Clint Curtis, the famous voting software rigging whistle blower.

Be a Citizen Reporter: Video the Vote!

EDA — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:39:50 -0400

NOW on PBS: Will New Voting Machines Cause an Election Day Debacle?

EDA — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:28:15 -0400

Watch PBS tonight!
September 8, 2006

Programming Note http://www.pbs.org/now/

Airdate: Friday, September 8, 2006, at 8:30 p.m. on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html.)

Will new voting machines cause an Election Day debacle? This time on NOW.

Will new voting machines cure election headaches or cause them? The Help America Vote Act divided 3.1 billion dollars among all 50 states to update their voting systems with new technology. On Friday September 8, at 8:30 pm, NOW takes a close look at one Michigan county on Primary Day to see how the new machines are working, but also checks in on other states, including Texas, Iowa, New Mexico, and - you guessed it - Ohio. What we found was alarming - computer and human error, nonexistent contingency plans, and extreme vulnerability to tampering.

BBV's Citizen Toolkit:: A Declaration of Independence

EDA — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:35:56 -0400

THIS TOOL KIT IS A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FOR CITIZENS
Black Box Voting's full citizen's tool kit is now available in a single document.

Citizens are concerned. They want to know what they can do. Here's your chance to get started on meaningful elections reform action that will make a real difference in November.

The above link contains all 20 stand-alone modules in one consolidated document
(make sure you have Adobe Acrobat installed to read the pdf files. You can download it for free.

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO TAKE BACK YOUR ELECTIONS:
1. Pick any module.
2. Choose any action within the module.
3. Then just follow through on it.
4. Every action in the Tool Kit starts another pebble rolling down the hill.

NEW MODULE IS UP: Pertains to fundraising for local elections reform people:
ACTIONS FOR HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUALS

NEW MODULE IS UP: About ACTIVATING CELEBRITIES in the election oversight issue:

Candidates in three states have already notified us that they are already making use of the module to help CANDIDATES protect their own elections (The toolkit just went up a few days ago!):

It's time for you to recognize your own power. You don't need us. You don't have to find someone to follow. When you use these tools things will happen. Pick any module. Pick a single action in it. See it to its completion. You've just opened the door to an unexpected evolution of citizenship, the likes of which have not been seen for a long, long time.

"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." – Declaration of Independence

You may notice that the order of the Citizen's Tool Kit modules has changed. Select actions from any of the following, depending on your interests and skill sets:

MOBILIZATION MODULES
Module 1: Have a House Party
Module 2: Organize a Town Meeting
Module 3: Give a Speech to a Group

CREATIVE & SPECIALTY MODULES
Module 4: Be the Media
Module 5: Adopt a Public Official
Module 6: Check Out the Money Trail: Who's Getting Paid?
Module 7: Find Out If Officials Following the Rules

HARD CORE EVIDENCE MODULES
Module 8: Get Public Records and Freedom of Information Documents
Module 9: Adopt Part of an Election: Watch the System Testing
Module 10: Adopt Part of an Election: Watch Voter Registration Lists
Module 11: Adopt Part of an Election: Become a Poll Worker or Elections Judge
Module 12: Adopt Part of an Election: Monitor the Voting
Module 13: Adopt Part of an Election: Monitor the Counting
Module 14: Adopt Part of an Election: Watch the Chain of Custody
Module 15: Adopt Part of an Election: Audit for Accuracy
Module 16: Legal Actions

'PLAN B' MODULE
Module 17: Count the Votes Yourself

MODULES FOR CANDIDATES, CELEBRITIES, AND WEALTHY CITIZENS
Module 18: Candidates: How to Protect Your Election
Module 19: For Famous Voices (Action ideas for Celebrities)
Module 20: Actions for High Net Worth Individuals

Be part of the solution: Please sign up for the NATIONAL HAND COUNT REGISTRY

Black Box Voting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) elections watchdog group supported entirely by citizen donations. We refuse funds from any vendor or vested interest.

To support Black Box Voting: click to http://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html or send to:
Black Box Voting / 330 SW 43rd St Suite K / PMB 547 / Renton WA 98055

SAN DIEGO CA ACTION --TUES 7/18 --NO DIEBOLD TSx in November!

EDA — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:51:20 -0400

URGENT ACTION -- San Diego County, CA

HELP PREVENT THE USE OF DIEBOLD TSx VOTING MACHINES IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN NOVEMBER!

HERE'S HOW:

**Come to the Board of Supervisors meeting**

Tuesday, July 18 at 9:00 am
County Administration Building
Board of Supervisors North Chamber
1600 Pacific Coast Hwy, Room 310, San Diego

9:00 A.M.
Activists will make a presentation. They need you there to show support.

10: 30 A.M.
Jess Durfee, Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party, will make a public statement for the media in front of the County Administration Building.