[NV Greens] [usgp-dx] Fwd: [usgp-media] COBB 2004 RELEASE: Cobb Calls On Voting Companies to Open Machines & Records

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>     Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:18:40 -0800
>     From: "Blair Bobier, Esq." <b2 at bobierlaw.com>
>Reply-To: "Blair Bobier, Esq." <b2 at bobierlaw.com>
>  Subject: [usgp-media] COBB 2004 RELEASE:  Cobb Calls On Voting 
>Companies to Open Machines & Records
>       To: "Blair Bobier, Esq." <b2 at bobierlaw.com>
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>COBB/LaMARCHE 2004 GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
>http://www.votecobb.org
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>NEWS RELEASE
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>For immediate release:  March 16, 2005
>Contact:   Blair Bobier, Media Director at 541.929.5755
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>COBB CALLS ON VOTING COMPANIES
>TO OPEN MACHINES & RECORDS FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION
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>2004 Green Presidential Candidate Sends Letter to Nine Voting Machine
>Companies
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>              Saying that "public involvement and oversight in the voting
>process is essential," 2004 Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb
>today sent letters to the heads of the nine major voting machine companies
>in the U.S. demanding "accountability and transparency."
>             "As an American citizen and a recent presidential candidate, I
>want to have faith in the vote counting process. Unfortunately, with more
>than 50,000 documented instances of irregularities in the past election, I
>am unable to trust either the vote counting process or its results without
>an open, accountable and independent method of public verification," Cobb
>wrote in his letter.
>             In his letter, Cobb said that a number of steps "must be taken
>immediately to restore faith in our elections and the winners that they
>produce.  These steps must include:  having a paper ballot for each vote
>cast, independent analysis of voting machine software and hardware, open
>software source code, no contributions from voting companies to candidates
>for public office, no networking of machines and the public dissemination of
>all relevant voting data and documents."
>             These specific demands have been endorsed by a number of voting
>rights organizations including Velvet Revolution and by Congressman John
>Conyers.
>             To send an email message to the voting machine companies in
>support of electoral transparency and accountability, go to
>www.velvetrevolution.us/.
>             For more information on electoral reform and the status of
>litigation concerning the Ohio and New Mexico presidential recounts, visit
>www.votecobb.org.   The website for the national Green Party is www.gp.org.
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Paul Etxeberri

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