[Voterescue] HELP NEEDED at Commissioner's Court next Tues., 5/6!

[Vickie Karp]

Hello VoteRescuers!

We got their attention last Tuesday!

Even with just three of us there at Commissioner's Court last Tuesday
(due to my own late notice to all of YOU,) we had an impact!

We alerted the Commissioner's Court to the allegations made in the
recently unsealed lawsuit against Hart InterCivic, charging that the
equipment is insecure, AND that Hart lied to election officials in order
to sell the equipment.  The Commissioners were paying attention--even
asked us to be sure and leave a package of information (which we'd
brought for each of them) with the County Attorney.  And you can bet we
did!

We will be returning next Tuesday to read more condemning information
about Hart into the record (and onto their videotape.)  WE NEED YOUR HELP
once again to come give a 3 minute statement to the Commissioners.  YOU
DO NOT NEED TO PREPARE anything--we will be happy to give you material to
read during your 3 minutes.  You DO need to be a resident of TRAVIS
County in order to make a citizen comment.

We are beginning to attend these sessions and hope to become "regulars"
there because the County Commissioners control the "purse strings" for
purchase of voting machine equipment (and any new software versions or
licensing renewals, etc.)  for the County Election office (Dana
DeBeauvoir).  We visited each of the Commissioners individually last year
and gave them each a notebook of information about the problems with the
voting machines, and a copy of our book, "HACKED!  High Tech Election
Theft in America". 

The Court meets in a voting session each Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in the
Commissioner’s courtroom on the first floor of the Travis County
Administration Building at 314 W. 11th St., Austin. The public is welcome
in the courtroom and  it is the practice of the Travis County
Commissioners Court to allow the public to testify before the
Commissioners Court on any item listed on this agenda, whether it is
posted formally as a public hearing or not.  (Voting systems are not on
their agenda for tomorrow, but we will therefore be allowed to make our
comments on them anyway.)

We are working on getting the subject of the Hart Voting Systems on the
Agenda for the Court, and there will be a public notice posted when that
occurs.  We will give you plenty of notice when that happens, because
more time will be devoted to this issue and we will try to fill the
courtroom with interested citizens.  While we are waiting to officially
get on their agenda, we intend to continue reading condemning information
about Hart into the record and would still love to have as many of you
there each Tuesday that we attend as possible.  

Each citizen will have 3 minutes to make a statement or read something
into the record.  Again, the location and info are below:

County Judge: Samuel T. Biscoe
314 W. 11th St - (Courtroom is on the first floor)

Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 854-9555

If you can make it, please e-mail me to let me know.

Hope to see you next Tuesday morning.  Thanks in advance to any of you
who can help us out.

Vickie (and Karen) 

775-3737/496-7408
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