[Voterescue] VoteRescue Radio Fri.6/20, 6-8pm:John Brakey, Debra Medina!

[Vickie Karp]

Hello from VoteRescue Radio, Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time! 
Tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, from 6-8pm, we are excited to announce two
dynamic guests:  DEBRA MEDINA, Republican Party Chair of Wharton County,
Texas, will be on during our first hour to talk about her temporary
restraining order against the Texas State Republican Party, granted June
4th; her purpose was 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 tomorrow as to whether or not
that happened last week at the Convention, which was held in Houston. In
our second hour, we'll be talking with JOHN BRAKEY , Founder and
Co-Coordinator for Investigations of AUDIT-AZ.  (Americans United for
Democracy, Integrity, and Transparency in Elections, Arizona) and the
Special Task Force Leader of the Arizona Democratic Party Election
Integrity Committee, in which he works with EDA Investigations
Co-Coordinator David Griscom.  John says he became an election integrity
activist "at 3:30 pm November 2, 2004". [IMAGE]On Election Day 2004,
John was Democratic "Cluster Captain" for four precincts in Arizona
Congressional District 7, which had 80% non-Republican, predominately
Hispanic voter registration, yet would be recorded as having voted 42%
for Bush.

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.

John, together with his Audit-AZ team including colleague Jim March (whom
John affectionately calls "Jimmy the Geek") have just had a huge win in
the courts, where Pima County, Arizona election officials have been
ordered to release all of the electronic voting databases for all
future elections, and for past elections going back to 1998.  This offers
an amazing opportunity to discover fraud with the electronic voting
systems, and is the first court victory of its kind giving citizens the
kind of access they deserve to election records. 

VoteRescue Radio can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 FM;
is streaming live on www.wtprn.com (for "We the People Radio Network"),
AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 512/485-9010!  All shows are archived
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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 Karenkarp at mail.comkaren@voterescue.org
www.voterescue.orgwww.coalitionforvisibleballots.org
www.hackedelections.com
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