• http://www.vote411.org – They also have a good rundown of statewide ballot measures with pros and cons.
• http://www.democrats.org/pollingplace

Election Day Problems? Toll Free:

• 1-866-MYVOTE1 (Common Cause non partisan voter alert line)
• 1-888-DEM-VOTE (DNC Voting Rights Institute, Democratic voter assistance)
• 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (League of United Latin American Citizens)
• 1-866-OUR-VOTE (Velvet Revolution)
• 1-888-VOTETIP Fraud Reports Only*

(* VelvetRevolution is offering a $500,000 reward for information about election fraud and manipulation in the November 7th mid-term elections. That’s half a million dollars to the persons or persons who provide us with definitive and conclusive proof that a United States House or Senate election has been rigged by illegal means. The information must result in an overturning of a congressional election and a conviction of the person or persons responsible for the fraud. We want whistleblowers to come forward and to provide us with evidence, documents, tape recordings, and admissions. Send to tips[at]velvetrevolution.us. Or call our hotline at 1-888-VOTETIP. This hotline is for fraud tips only. All other reports of election problems should be made at 1-866-OUR-VOTE.)

For Legal Help:

• 1-866-OUR-VOTE (Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Laws Election Protection)
• 1-877-523-2792 (ACLU)

Report Online

• http://www.democrats.org/voterprotection/report
• Report experience, good or bad, at commoncause.org/election2006

Princeton researchers have produced a video to demonstrate security flaws in a Diebold electronic voting machine. These flaws allow electronic voting machines to be rigged to steal votes. (Thanks for sending, Corinne!)

That’s what can be done from the outside.

But what it’s already programmed on the inside? The video reminded me of an interview I heard a few years ago with a programmer who claimed he had written vote fraud software for the Republicans. A little digging, and I found the general bits of the story.

Programmer Clint Curtis claims Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) asked for creation of e-vote fraud software at an October 2000 meeting

Curtis says that Feeney “was very specific in the design and specifications required for this program.”

“He detailed, in his own words, that; (a) the program needed to be touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment (c) the programming to accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was inspected.”

At Just a Fly on the Wall, he notes:

What I did not anticipate was that this country would allow the placement of voting machines where the source code was not provided. The programs were pre-compiled (you have no idea what is in them or what hidden triggers exist), and where no paper trail would be required to check their accuracy. Any moron could build a voting program that could flip the vote under those circumstances and no amount of testing could discover the deception.

• Interview at The Anteater Interviews
• The Code

Video of Clint Curtis’ sworn testimony before the US House Judiciary Members in Ohio

He passed a lie detector test on all of this, but it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere.

Wow! I see that Clint Curtis ran – and won by a landslide! – in the Democratic Florida Congressional Primary. He’s running against Tom Feeney! Good for him!

By the way, Feeney isn’t just a regular Republican interested in the workings of machines. He is one of those who played golf in Scotland on Jack Abramoff’s money (remember? DeLay? Ney?). He was been named the third most corrupt member of Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Connect the dots, please.