Questions for Democratic Candidates

Why are so many of our Democratic Leaders and Candidates:

· Complacent about private corporations counting our votes?

· Uninformed about the use of computerized voting to target minorities for “blank votes”?

· Unwilling to inform themselves, or meet with activists for paper ballots, optical scanners, and accessible ballot-markers for voters with disabilities or minority languages?

· Waiting for someone else to take a position or leadership?

· Refusing to acknowledge that if we don’t oppose electronic voting this year, we will have it next year in New York State?

· Refusing to follow the DNC recommendation to support paper ballots & optical scanners, and oppose electronic voting?

FACTS:

· In 2002, 74% of electronic “suspicious upsets” elected Republicans and gave them control of the US Senate

• There has never been an audit of an electronic election. There is NO OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE that the machines work, & hundreds of failures that show it doesn’t
• New York’s mandated 3% spot-check of the paper trail leaves 97% of votes to be counted in secret
• The FBI says 87% of companies’ computers were broken into, 44% by insiders. Do you think our Boards of Elections will beat the odds? Especially if they refuse to admit there’s a problem? Especially if they look forward to state-mandated vendor assistance for the first 5 years of computerized elections?
• With computers, one insider can control an entire state election and not leave any evidence of tampering
• There is a movement to refuse to work for candidates who won’t oppose electronic voting

For a briefing on electronic voting/paper ballots/optical scanners/accessible ballot-markers, call: Teresa Hommel, www.WheresThePaper.org, admin@wheresthepaper.org

Inform yourself: www.VoteTrustUSA.org www.VotersUnite.org www.VerifiedVoting.org www.WheresThePaper.org and www.nyvv.org (New Yorkers for Verified Voting)