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Kathy Dopp has sent this out:

TODAY there will be a Diebold voting machine demonstration in the hall of the Park City Municipal Building on Marsac Ave in Park City.
Please attend. The Summit County Clerk’s website is: http://www.summitcounty.org/clerk/

Also, please consider taking these positions:

1. Utah Counties are looking for poll workers for the primary and general election. There is a mandatory training session which will be very educational to attend to see what procedures will be in place for the election using the new Diebold voting machines, and

2. Diebold has contacted Utah Job Service to hire technicians to work with its voting machines here in Utah during elections.

Please apply or volunteer for these jobs as they will be good places to observe the process. There will be a required training session soon for poll workers who are paid $8/hour (at least in Summit county).
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Today Tom and I attended the Governor’s Operations Committee Meeting at the Utah State Capitol Building. We attended because they had on their agenda to discuss the voting machine issue.

Kathy Dopp of Utah Counts Votes was there with Bruce Funk, Elections Director of Emery County (btw, I was supposed to go to Emery County yesterday to attend the biweekly commissioner’s meeting, but was later warned against doing that since it was determined that “outsiders” might hurt the cause, so I didn’t go.). The public was not permitted to give comment at this meeting, but Kathy was permitted to give her document “What Utah Lt. Governor’s Office is Not Telling You” (see below) to committee members.

Michael Cragun, Director of Elections for Utah, gave a briefing on HAVA (Help America Vote Act, and the new voting system in Utah, bascially saying how wonderful the system is going to be. He answered a few logisitical questions of committee members and then continued to give them symbolic pats on the back for all the hard work and passing HB 348 which was what helped move the Diebold Voting Machine Acquisition forward. He also really played up Diebold and how much support they are giving Utah.

That part of the meeting lasted about 15 minutes. Since there was no public comment, Tom and left (we rode our bicycles from West Jordan, using TRAX, to attend this.). Kathy reports that she was interviewed by KCPW radio and the Salt Lake Tribune.
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PDF version of “What Utah Lt. Governor’s Office is Not Telling You”
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Kathy Dopp sent out this announcement:

EAC Commissioner Martinez Resigns & Advises Audits for all Elections by Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA – April 10, 2006

Commissioner Met With Election Activists On Saturday

Commissioner Martinez’ Letter of Resignation

The current vice chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Ray Martinez submitted his resignation to President George W. Bush this morning. Mr. Martinez’ resignation will become effective June 30, 2006. He cited family considerations as his primary reason for stepping down and lauded his colleagues at the EAC and the agency’s staff for their continued work on behalf of the nation.Martinez had been recommended for nomination by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle
(D-SD) in 2003.
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There is an article in the Emery County Progress on Emery County Elections Clerk Bruce Funk and his rejection of the Diebold voting machines for use in that county. The article explains at length how Funk discovered the deficiencies in the machines.

I have just committed to traveling to Emery County on April 18th for the Emery County Commission meeting (9am – 12noon at the Castle Dale courthouse) with Kathy Dopp.

This should be an interesting trip.

Kathy Dopp is nationally known for her work in exposing voter machine fraud. Kathy is running for Summit County Clerk for the Desert Greens Green Party of Utah. She aims to win and work towardsa more equitable voting system.

Kathy has been sending out notices on the recent fallout over voting machines in Emery County:

Help Please if you can. Bruce Funk “really” needs our support right now (see
http://utahcountvotes.org)

What a con job Diebold has done to bill $40,000 to Emery County to “fix” the damage that the best security experts in America did by examining two voting machines. Yet our state election director, Michael Cragun, is colluding with Diebold after they sent Utah falling apart, mixture of new and old rejected machines from other states, with printers without paper guides that are designed to fail, and a system that one might imagine is deliberately designed for undetectable tampering! I’m amazed at how many times Diebold has defrauded our election officials who keep colluding with Diebold against the interests of Utah voters! Anyone with a smidgeon of knowledge of computer security understands that the biggest security threat comes from the insiders (i.e. Diebold itself) not a nationally renowned security firm! Our state election director, Michael Cragun is, as we speak, giving Diebold access to the storage facility to tamper with the voting machines at Carr Printing in Bountiful, perhaps so that they can cover up the evidence of their fraudulent sale!

Costly fallout in Emery over vote machines By Josh Loftin Deseret Morning News

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635194949,00.html

Concerns about potential tampering with electronic machines have come back to those making the accusations: the Emery County clerk and an independent election security firm.

Now, the county will have to pay to bring in technicians to reinstall the software on approximately 40 electronic voting machines after the clerk let security experts from Black Box Voting, a national elections security watchdog group, test the machines. The cost to the county could be upward of $40,000, according to Joe Demma, the chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert.
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