CNN-LouDobbs: The South Carolina democratic primary is now less than three days away. Incredibly, the state of South Carolina plans to use the same electronic voting machines that mall functioned last Saturday in the republican primary. Voters were forced to use scraps of paper to cast their ballots. South Carolina election officials, well they continue to defend that electronic voting system of theirs but as Kitty Pilgrim now reports, an increasing number of states are giving up on electronic voting and ensuring the integrity of their state’s votes.

CNN-Lou Dobbs: South Carolina’s election commission kept insisting that everything would be fine, even though there was no way to do a recount. However, as Kitty Pilgrim reports, for one county in South Carolina, the primary was simply a disaster.

By Mark Adams
http://www.opednews.com

South Carolina elections are unconstitutional? How could that be? Surely, no one in our government would conduct any election which violated the Constitution, and if any scheme threatened to undermine the very foundation of our government, our power to elect our leaders, the press would expose it, wouldn’t it?

After all, our government was founded upon the principle that all of its actions must comply with the Constitution. In fact, Article VI of the Constitution of South Carolina requires all of the State’s officers to swear an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of this State and of the United States.” So, they would probably at least read it before enacting any new law, right?

CNN-Lou Dobbs: Election activists warn the 11,400 ES&S voting machines used in the Michigan primaries could malfunction. And without a paper trail, will not be able to be accurately recounted. This as New Hampshire begins recounting its results today. New Hampshire’s recount made possible by their paper trail.

by Jim Condit Jr.

Dear Friends,

This space will now be used for my quick personal updates on what is happening. The advantage of these “weBlogs” is that one can upload news and information quickly.

You are also invited to subscribe to the Network America e-wire (going since Jan 10, 2000), which will be the “article” length updates (go to votefraud.org, scroll to the bottom of the home page, sign up, and then you must answer the confirmation email to be subscribed; Network America e-wire covers the entire political gammut, not just “honest elections vs. computerized votefraud”). Video updates are at www.YouTube.com/JimConditJr for our video updates.

Uploading via internet - Eye Witness Reports of the real vote count from each local or remote reporter on voting night - Tuesday - January 8th, 2008

Go to : libertybroadcastnetwork.org

CONFERENCE CALL NUMBERS
* For Correspondents in NH and those at-home:
* Conference Call Sunday, Jan 6, 08: 6 PM to midnight EST
* Conference Call Monday, Jan 7, 08: 6 PM to midnight EST
* Conference Call Tuesday, NH PRIMARY NIGHT Jan 8, 08:
4 PM till Midnight or beyond, EST

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We’re down to the wire, but what a few hundred of us do in the next 60 hours will make the difference on how closely the vote in Iowa will be watched.All is now centered around the reporting software up on LibertyBroadcastNetwork.org -

We are going to have conference calls today, New Year’s Day, 2008, starting at 4 PM today, and 5 PM, and 6 PM - and every hour up until midnight. These will be strategy calls, not theory calls.

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The list of in-home Liberty Broadcast Network correspondents will be published on the LibertyBroadcastNetwork.org website before voting day.

Colorado Springs Gazette

This is in response to a story in the Dec. 22 Gazette, “Vote machines worry officials.”
There is a simple solution to all the angst about voting machines: Destroy them! Make everyone go to the polls and vote on a paper ballot.

Also, I question all the absentee ballots. You used to have to be absent to get one of these. Now, anyone can get one, even if it is just because they are lazy. Maybe it would be better if these folks didn’t vote. I realize there are people who need absentee ballots to vote. So be it! Just don’t pass them out like candy. Voting is a privilege and should be treated that way.

The Tucson Citizen

“The county should be making every effort to ensure utmost security for the November 2008 general election. That is, after all, the year in which Americans choose the next leader of the free world. The accuracy and security of that vote is paramount; the bond issue should wait. Trial testimony showed that common software can be used to hack into the county’s Diebold-GEMS elections system and doctor election results….”

Pima County must refrain from seeking voter support for a huge bond issue until after its election system has been replaced.

Robin Delaney/Managing Editor
The Daily Democrat - Iowa

“Iowans gather by party preference to elect delegates to the 99 county conventions. Presidential preference on the Republican side is done with a straw vote of those attending the caucus. This vote is sometimes done by a show of hands or by dividing themselves into groups according to candidate. In precincts that elect only one delegate they choose the delegate by majority vote and it must be a paper ballot….”

In two weeks Iowans will be in the national spotlight as the rest of the country watches for the first indication of preferred presidential candidates to surface at the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses.

County Voting Machines Lose Certification
By Phillip Yates
Glenwood Springs Post

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Millions of dollars have been invested in new voting machines after the curse of the hanging chad. Millions more may have to be spent after the machines meant to avoid a repeat of the debacle have run into their own problems.

All 64 Colorado county clerks, including Garfield County Clerk and Recorder Jean Alberico, may be re-evaluating the voting machines used in their counties after Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman announced on Monday that he was decertifying three electronic voting machines across the state based on accuracy and security problems. He required the companies to reapply for recertification.

Emergency call to get citizens to eye-witness the vote count in the Iowa Caucus, counted 100% in the open, and the New Hampshire primary, counted 25% in the open. The theft happens at the state level, not the local level. The purpose is to protect the vote of Ron Paul — and everybody else. Citizen witnessed results must be immediately uploaded to the internet for the world to see, to checkmate the 5 TV Networks, AP, and the 4 mega-computer companies, who are neck deep in computer vote fraud.

Evidence Suggests Ron Paul Was Cheated

Ron Paul’s fifth place in the Iowa Straw Poll questioned due to voting machine failure, fuzzy figures and conflicts of interest

Steve Watson - Infowars.net

A host of curious events at the Iowa Straw Poll at the weekend has raised questions as to whether there was some kind of tampering with the final vote count, with evidence to suggest Ron Paul may have been wrongly placed in fifth position behind Mitt Romney and three second tier candidates.

Comment from YouTube: Ron Paul is being cheated right now! The media’s manipulation of EVERYTHING has gotten completely out of control. From the constant repeating of useless nonsense about Giuliani’s and Romney’s every movement or word spoken to the disgusting media-induced artificial rise of Mike Huckabee (in order to hide Paul’s TRUE meteoric rise), they are trying to shut Ron Paul out of our minds. America MUST see the truth about vote fraud and soon!

Through 2004 VoterGate’s filmmakers traveled the country examining how well electronic voting is working.
This film explores questions like: How do we know our votes are counted?; Are electronic machines secure?; How do the flaws impact democracy?

By Julie Carr — AP Statehouse Correspondent
Akron Beacon Journal

A Treo and a magnet would be tools enough to tamper with the workings of electronic voting machines used in Ohio as well as across the country, the political swing state’s top elections official said Friday.

In a $1.9 million review with national implications, both corporate and academic scientists identified a host of ways in which votes cast on touch-screen technology are vulnerable to manipulation. Such machines have been purchased across the U.S. as part of a $3 billion conversion laid out in the federal Help America Vote Act.

“The problems Bowen found were sufficiently troubling to cause her to decertify California’s voting machines, and should raise eyebrows across the rest of the country. As it turns out, there are many ways to compromise the standard voting system…”

by Kai Stinchcombe - The Stanford Progressive

If you are a Californian, you can go to the polls with the certainty that your vote will be counted in this February’s presidential primaries. Debra Bowen, California’s secretary of state, recently undertook a top-to-bottom review of all voting machines and procedures in an attempt to identify problems and potential weaknesses in California’s voting system.

“After one Diebold optical-scan system had been certified, a Finnish computer expert executed what’s become known as the “Hursti hack.” In May 2005, Harri Hursti showed that an optical scanner’s removable memory card could be reprogrammed to alter vote totals. Then, this August, California’s SOS released jaw-dropping findings (conducted by academic computer security experts) about the state’s machines. On Diebold touch screens, ordinary objects could disable the voter-verified printed ballots (needed for recounts). Hart’s optical-scan software could be rewritten to alter vote totals, and its touch screens’ printers could be manipulated to produce multiple records. California’s SOS has since decertified almost all e-voting machines in the state….”