[Voterescue] my letter published in the Austin Chronicle

[Jenny Clark]

the chron published my letter! ya hoo!
posted below are the links for the 2 stories I am responding to.
FYI
Jenny

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Community/Postmarks
(Scroll down the page to see the letter from the link above)
Date Received: Tue., Jun. 10, 2008
'ELECTION FRAUD IS A SERIOUS CRIME Š'
    Dear Chron,
     Re: "AG and Dems Settle Š Then Fuss" [News, 
June 6]. Thanks to Lee Nichols for covering this 
story.
     Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is correct 
to say, "Election fraud is a serious crime that 
undermines our democratic system of government." 
However, he is grossly misguided to target the 
voters as criminals. It is not the voters but the 
electronic voting systems that are suspect, 
because our votes are counted in secret instead 
of publicly by the citizens.
     Our votes are cast and counted using secret 
proprietary software in electronic voting 
machines.
     "Naked City" [News] May 2 briefly reported 
about a recently released 45-page qui tam federal 
fraud lawsuit alleging serious security flaws in 
Hart InterCivic's e-voting systems.
     Whistle-blower William Singer was a computer 
specialist for Hart, a former esteemed employee. 
He alleges that Hart knowingly misled the federal 
government by falsifying information about the 
accuracy and security of its voting systems.
     In 2004, Mr. Singer wrote the Texas secretary 
of state to alert him of Hart's misconduct. Yet 
today, Travis County voters are still forced to 
use these risky voting systems.
     If Abbott is serious about "election fraud," 
he should issue a recall and refund counties for 
all the e-voting systems used in the state, as 
one would do with any faulty product.
     The simplest and most accurate voting system 
is paper ballots, hand counted in full public 
view at the precinct level.
     Readers can learn more about this 
underreported issue on the Emmy-nominated HBO 
documentary Hacking Democracy and through 
numerous publications including Hacked! High Tech 
Election Theft in America - 11 Experts Expose the 
Truth co-edited by local election integrity 
activists. Tune in to Vote Rescue radio on Friday 
nights from 6 to 8pm on 90.1FM and on the We the 
People Radio Network on the Web.
     Chronicle readers would really benefit from a 
regular feature about this issue.
    Jenny Clark,
    Vote Rescue member

AG and Dems Settle.. Then Fuss
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A632214

Naked City
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A618823
* County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said she is 
committed to a point-by-point review of the 
county's eSlate machines, in the wake of a 
federal whistle-blower's lawsuit alleging that 
Hart InterCivic overpromised and underdelivered 
on the machines. The organization Vote Rescue was 
on hand at Tuesday's Commissioners Court meeting 
to provide copies of Hart technician William 
Singer's lawsuit, which alleges that Hart 
stretched reports of the performance of the 
eSlate in Ohio in order to secure its share of 
the $4 billion set aside in the Help America Vote 
Act. DeBeauvoir said she's not yet willing to 
pull the plug on the machines but would if she 
found significant problems in light of the 
lawsuit's allegations. Vote Rescue would prefer 
the county return its machines and choose to 
count ballots by hand. - Kimberly Reeves
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