DIEBOLD WHISTLEBLOWER STRIKES PLEA DEAL ON FELONY CHARGES...Stephen Heller Agrees to Plead Guilty, Pay $10,000, Apologize and Receive Three Years Probation After Being Charged with 'Burglary' for Sharing Diebold Lawfirm's Privileged Documents with Newspaper, Election Integrity Activists Tells BRAD BLOG He Has 'No Assets Left, Other Than House' and Deal is Meant to Protect Him and His Wife as 'Best Deal I Could Get Based on the Circumstances".

Read: PUNISHMENT FOR GOOD DEEDS

This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab. Mitigating these threats will require changes to the voting machine's hardware and software and the adoption of more rigorous election procedures. Read Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine.

When Governor Schwarzenegger ran for office in 2003 he promised to work for the people of California and not for the special interest, now in 2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the champion of special interest groups. The 2006 bond and tax package, presented by the governor and the state legislature, is the worst package ever offered to California voters in the state’s history. Read the details.

The Socialist Equality Party candidate John Burton is seeking office in the 29th Congressional district, however, the County Registrar has rejected some 3,600 of their required petition signatures. Read the full story.

The 29th district was rocked earlier this year when two progressive, anti-war candidates, Bill Paparian and Bob McCloskey, campaigned to make headway against longtime incumbent Adam Schiff, who supported the war, is friendly to business interests, and keeps his family's primary residence outside of the district. Recent gerrymandering put more liberal parts of the west San Gabriel Valley into the district, shifting the balance toward liberal Pasadena, against the traditional conservative base in Burbank and Glendale.

LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2006 – Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan came to a rally to support Marcy Winograd this Tuesday. Winograd is challenging incumbent Jane Harman in the 36th District for congress. Harman has been a supporter of the war in Iraq and Bush policy. Winograd is running on an End the war in Iraq, Bring the troops home now, platform. She is also challenging Harman on her vote for the patriot act and her support for Bush’s domestic spying program. Progressive Democrats are hoping to defeat Harman in the Primary elections this June 6th. From the Newswire

LOS ANGELES - March 14, 2006 - Marcy Winograd, longtime Democratic Party activist, announced today she will challenge incumbent Jane Harman for the 36th Congressional district seat in California’s June 6 primary.

“My campaign is building on a groundswell of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s policies, which continue to remove the civil liberties of American citizens,” Winograd said. “In just the few weeks since I decided to run, I’ve received an outpouring of public support and political endorsements.”

From the Newswire: Peace Activist, Marcy Winograd, to Run for Congress

Every proposition pushed by Gov. Schwarzenegger and his corporate allies has been rejected by California voters. In fact all propositions 73 through 80 have been given a NO vote. Independent Progressive voters, Greens, and left of center Democrats are celebrating and claiming victory in what many see as a referendum against the Governor and his party.

From the newswire:Nov 8: WE WON THE NOV 8 CALIFORNIA ELECTION! by Lee Siu Hin || Results

ELECTION DAY, November 8, 2005, California voters go to the polls today to vote in a special election called by a widely unpopular governor. The election, designed as end run around the state House and Senate, was neither asked for nor wanted by most voters. The election now seen as a referendum on the current governor who’s approval ratings have hit an all time low of 32%, Progressives are urging a NO vote on all of the governor’s sponsored propositions.

From the Newswire:LA Greens Party Voter Recommendations || If you Vote, VOTE NO || 11/8 ELECTION DAY is TODAY. VOTE TODAY

JANUARY 2, 2005 - Two months after the national elections many are still questioning the validity of the outcome. Legal battles and protests continue with little to no corporate media attention. Independent media outlets, however, are still receiving new reports and are covering the story. Reports:

BTL:Historic Congressional Challenge to Ohio Election Results Spotlights... by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

VoteFraudNews.com ~ New Years Update by Tom Paine

Must! Do NOW !-1 Focus 1 Mission 1 Goal 1 RESULT=NewVote by J20 by CultureJamCleveland

Rep. David Wu on Voting Irregularities by Rep. David Wu

HELP! EveryDay AmeriCAN Heroes URgently Needed for Duty-Defending a Just Future... by CultureJamCleveland

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The list of evidence is growing that the US election was anything but a fair vote. Who could possibly think that all of these voting problems are just a minor aberation? The long lines are always in Democratic counties, that the computer ’glitches’ always favor Bush, and the new e-machines were made by a Bush ’Pioneer’ (top donor) that pledged to deliver for Bush. Funny how Diebold makes bank machines which print paper receipts millions of times daily, but they couldn’t get the printer to work in the voting machines.

Growing Collection of Vote Fraud links by Richard Lofgren

Bush Regime Maintains Power Through Electoral Fraud by STEVEN ARGUE

NEVER in U.S. presidential politics have massive crowds shown up to endorse an incumbent! by CultureJamCleveland

Doebold & ES-S owned by Urosevitch bros, count 80% of US vote by repostman

States With Electronic Voting Machines Gave Bush Mysterious 5% Advantage by bluelemur

VOTERGATE! Suppression in Ohio, and the best evidence yet in Florida by Bill Simpich