National Conference on the 2004 Election and the Need for Election Reform Nashville, Tennessee, April 8-10, 2005

(PRWEB) April 6, 2005

Hundreds of concerned citizens and nationally recognized election reform activists are expected to attend the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville, TN, April 8-10, 2005. Proclaimed as Â?the most important gathering in America since 1775,” the conference is hosted by “Gathering to Save Our Democracy”, a Tennessee grassroots organization, this forum will focus on the still unresolved discrepancies and fraud issues from 2004 election and the crucial need for election reform in America. With support by over 40 local, state and national election reform organizations (see below), the event features a prestigious panel of speakers, many of whom are experts in their related fields or are well known for their work on the election fraud investigations. Conference sessions and pre-and post-conference discussion groups will be explore the current threats to our democratic process and ways to achieve meaningful election reform and election justice moving forward.

Featured speakers and panelists include Robert Fitrakis Attorney at Law, Moss V. Bush; Bernie Ellis, Tennessee, Gathering To Save Our Democracy; David Cobb, California, 2004 Green Party Presidential candidate; Michael Grant, TN NAACP Statewide coordinator Voting Rights Act celebrations; Cliff Arnebeck, Ohio, Moss v. Bush; David Lytel, District of Columbia, http://www.left.org; Susan Truitt, Ohio, CitizensÂ? Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE)-America; Leatrice Tolls, Ohio, Ohio recount coordinator; Robert Koehler, Illinois, syndicated columnist; (Chicago) Tribune Media Services; Brad Friedman, California, BradBlog/Velvet Revolution; Lowell Finley, California, Help America Recount; Clinton Curtis, Florida, election fraud whistle-blower.

Supporting organizations this conference include 51 Capital March; NAACP; Alliance for Democracy; Citizens’ Alliance for Secure Elections; Coalition Against Election Fraud; Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism; Common Cause; Count The Vote; Justice Through Music; Libertarian Party of the United States; Fisk University Civil Rights Institute; Progressive Democrats of America; Open Voting Consortium; Election Fraud and Reform Center; Help America Recount; Velvet Revolution; Voters Unite; Honest Elections Campaign Fund; Illinois Ballot Integrity Project; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

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Candidate Clint Curtis, Election Fraud Whistleblower Praises Robert F Kennedy, Jr. Expose on Election 2004; Calls for a Federal Investigation into Electronic Voting

Titusville, FL (PRWEB) June 7, 2006

With the November midterm elections fast approaching, and primary races already melting down in nearly every state around the country, the release of an explosive article exposing the flaws and dirty politics in the 2004 election wins high praise from election fraud whistleblower Clint Curtis, Candidate for U.S. Congress (FL-24th district).

“Rolling Stone and author Robert Kennedy, Jr., should be given medals for bringing the ’04 election manipulations to a wider audience. Americans really aren’t yet aware just how vulnerable and insecure our elections are, or how easy it is to flip the results of a national election and change the course of the country. This is a very, very serious situation, with grave consequences for our democratic process,” said Curtis.

Published in the June 15th issue of Rolling Stone, the article offers an in-depth and long over-due examination of the persistent questions surrounding the 2004 presidential election. Moreover, Curtis joins Kennedy in his sidebar article calling for a full federal investigation into electronic voting machines, the vendors who produce the hackable machines, and those congress members responsible for enabling the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which is making all of our elections more un-secure than ever.

“It is time to insist on verifiable and properly conducted elections in America” Curtis says. “Mr. Kennedy estimates that 350,000 voters were disenfranchised in Ohio alone – and that’s only the tip of the iceberg; thousands of election ‘irregularities’ went uninvestigated by both congress and the media in 2004. No voter should be forced to use proven-hackable and insecure voting machines, nor wait ten hours in the rain to exercise their right to vote. Public elections should never be sold off to private corporations, run on secret software, nor overseen by wildly partisan officials.” He adds, “Unfortunately, the voters in Florida know all of this as well as anyone.”

Curtis, a government whistleblower and election integrity advocate, knows from personal experience, the extreme vulnerability of electronic voting machines. He has given sworn testimony to a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing, filed a sworn affidavit and passed a polygraph test concerning his allegations that in 2000, while working as a computer programmer, he was asked by a high-ranking Florida official to create a prototype vote-rigging computer program. That official was Tom Feeney, now a U.S. Congressman (FL-24), close ally of disgraced former legislators Tom Delay and Duke Cunningham, former running mate of Governor Jeb Bush, and a guest of Jack Abramoff on one of his infamous golf junkets to Scotland.

Curtis aims to challenge Feeney for his congressional seat this November. “It’s time to end the corruption and restore integrity and accountability to Congress. Without verifiable, transparent, auditable elections, America is facing a crisis in its electoral system. Investigative reports like Kennedy’s are long overdue and I echo his call for a federal investigation into these serious matters which threaten the legitimacy of our very democracy. Mr. Kennedy’s article comes not a moment too soon.”

Clint Curtis is available for interviews. More information on his campaign may be found at http://www.ClintCurtis.com.

MEDIA CONTACT: Karyn Altman (305) 672-7759

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Statisticians Recommend New Measures to Ensure Vote Count Accuracy and Release ‘Ohio’s 2004 Exit Poll Analysis for Novices’

Park City, UT (PRWEB) February 16, 2006

On February 14, 2006, the National Election Data Archive, a group of volunteer mathematicians, released a report asking that new measures be taken to assure the accuracy of U.S. vote counts. The new report discusses why Americans should not rely on current measures to ensure vote count accuracy, such as testing and certification; discusses how evidence of vote miscounts are hidden by current election results reporting practices; and recommends independent vote count audits, public detailed election data monitoring, and public exit poll data.

The National Election Data Archive’s report also summarizes a scientific analysis of Ohio’s precinct-level exit polls in layman’s terms. Why should Americans care about Ohio’s 2004 vote counts? Ohio was a key battleground state, and whichever presidential candidate won Ohio became president. Ohio is also the only state for which pollsters publicly released sufficient precinct-level exit poll and vote count data to perform a valid mathematical analysis. Exit polls by the same exit polling firm, Edison/Mitofsky International, were recently used to judge when elections in the Ukraine and Azerbaijan were valid. Exit polls in the 2004 presidential election were not just randomly inaccurate: Bush’s reported vote tally was higher than the exit polls anticipated and the inaccuracy was highest in precincts with the highest reported Bush vote.

In June 2005 The Election Science Institute (ESI) and pollster Mitofsky issued a paper “Ohio 2004 Exit Polls: Explaining the Discrepancy” which asserts that an exit poll error explanation “is much more likely than the fraud accusation theory to account for most, if not all, of the observed discrepancy between the exit polls and the actual results.” However, In October, 2005, the National Election Archive released a paper which gives counterexamples to show that the Election Science Institute’s analysis was based on an invalid premise.

Precinct-level exit poll data released with ESI’s report shows that the overall average discrepancy between Ohio’s exit poll and certified vote count margins between Kerry and Bush was 11.7 percentage points. On January 17, 2006 the National Election Archive released its own scientific Ohio exit poll discrepancy analysis, “The Gun Is Smoking: 2004 Ohio Precinct-level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount”. This analysis concluded that Ohio’s huge exit poll discrepancy pattern is consistent with outcome-altering errors in vote counts.

Two things are certain in this controversy about U.S. exit poll accuracy:

1. The Election Science Institute and the National Election Archive cannot both be correct, and

2. Any university mathematics department in America could evaluate the two conflicting studies and decide which analysis is mathematically correct.

The National Election Archive challenges every journalist interested in discovering if outcome-altering vote miscounts or exit poll error is the more probable cause of Ohio’s exit poll discrepancy; to help resolve this critical question. The answer may make the difference as to whether Americans take steps to ensure vote count accuracy in future elections or not. The National Election Archive urges the National Election Pool media consortium to accept this “math challenge” by sharing these two conflicting election studies with mathematics faculty at any university to determine which analysis is mathematically correct.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf and http://electionscience.org/reports/view_reports


http://electionscience.org/Members/stevenhertzberg/report.2005-07-19.7420722886/report_contents_file/

The survival of democracy and the future of our civilization may depend on taking steps to ensure the accuracy of elections. As the Election Science Institute said, “The public has a right to know exactly how elections work and to verify for themselves that the voting and the counting is done right.”

The full report is available online at

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf

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