Hero Ion Sancho needs your help ASAP before Mon. meeting with FL SOS

[Amaryllis]

http://www.votetrustusa.org/supportsancho.html

Go to the above link to access live links in the article to take actions.

Support a True Election Hero!
By Joan Krawitz
March 11, 2006
Click Here to Tell Florida Officials to Stand With Ion Sancho!

Ion Sancho needs our help!! Florida officials are attacking this courageous Supervisor of Elections for trying to protect the integrity of our vote. Please click on the link below to send an email to Florida officials protesting their outrageous treatment of this courageous Supervisor of Elections.

In 2005, Supervisor Sancho authorized security tests of the Diebold voting system used in Leon County, Florida. These tests definitively proved election results could be altered without detection using only a memory card. A team of California computer scientists have sinced confirmed the Leon County tests and discovered additional severe security flaws in the Diebold system.

Instead of thanking Sancho for exposing flaws that should have been discovered by state and federal certifiers, state officials are threatening Sancho with legal action, which could include removing him from office. Instead of hailing him as a national hero, state officials have condemned and threatened him. On top of that, the only three companies with Florida certified voting systems (Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia) have blacklisted Sancho and are refusing to sell their voting machines to Sancho, either in retribution for exposing serious security vulnerabilities in the Diebold voting system, or out of fear that he will find similar flaws in their systems. As a result of the Sancho now has no voting system in place

Instead of demanding that these companies sell their state-certified systems to Leon County, state officials seem more concerned about protecting the vendors than about protecting the sanctity of our vote. To read more about Sancho's actions and his current predicament, look at these articles in the Miami Herald and VoteTrustUSA.

Do not delay! Florida's Department of State is demanding a meeting with Sancho on Monday, March 13.
Click here to send the following email to let Florida officials know that we will not tolerate their treatment of Ion Sancho! Feel free to add to or edit the text provided. Please be sure to sign your name and don't forget to let them know if you're a Florida voter!

To: Florida state officials:
Jeb Bush, Governor
Sue Cobb, Florida Secretary of State
Jenny Nash, Spokesperson for the Department of State Dawn Roberts, Director of the Florida Division of Elections

Leon County Commissioners:
Bill Proctor, Chairman, Bob Rackleff, Jane Sauls, Cliff Thaell, Dan Winchester, Ed Depuy, Tony Grippa,

CC: Ion Sancho, Leon County Supervisor of Elections: [e-mail]

Dear Florida and Leon County Officials:

I am writing to protest the disgraceful treatment of Ion Sancho, Leon County Supervisor of Elections by certain state and local officials. Mr. Sancho should be hailed as a national hero for having the courage and vision to conduct the kind of testing of his voting systems that should have been performed by state and federal certifiers. These tests exposed severe security vulnerabilities in Leon County's Diebold voting system, have since been duplicated and confirmed by California computer scientists, who also found additional severe flaws.

In return, the state has withdrawn Leon County’s Help America Vote Act Funds, threatened Mr. Sancho with legal action, and refused to require voting system vendors to do business with him.

It is not too late to make amends for this shameful treatment of a dedicated public servant. I urge you to:

* Support Mr. Sancho in his efforts to provide secure, verifiable, accessible voting equipment to the citizens of his county.
* Demand that voting machine vendors, who would not be doing business in the state of Florida without state certification, be required to sell voting systems to any and all Florida counties or lose their certified status.
* Return the $564,421 in Help America Vote Act funds to Leon County. %0A- Provide all Florida citizens with voting systems that provide a voter-verified paper trail.

Our nation needs secure, accessible, auditable voting systems to ensure that our democracy may not only thrive, but survive. Mr. Sancho's heroic actions are helping to accomplish that goal.

Sincerely,

Your name here

Click here to send the email NOW! Tell Florida officials that you support Ion Sancho!

[hedda_foil]

1. Thanks, Amarylis.

K&R!!!

We can't let JEB! and his henchwomen take Sancho down!

As a note, the live links on the VoteTrustUSA web page will work for almost everyone, except if you use webmail. If the links don't work, I've provided the email addresses and the text to cut and paste into an email of your own.

Thanks!!!

[Amaryllis]

2. Thanks Hedda! They corrected the links that weren't working in the

original.

[NYC]

3. Done. Interestingly, Jeb's email address is

[e-mail]

Not only is it MY Florida, it is .com, not .gov.

[EFerrari]

4. Thanks for the heads up. K&R

:kick:

[TexasLawyer]

5. kick

[autorank]

6. Lets do it. This guy walks the walk. He's being screwed by Jeb!

What do they fear about Sancho? Oh, he's honest and this is payback
for having done the hack on Diebold.

Did you know when he tried to buy from another vendor, they had too much
business...and Sancho was left without the ability to buy equipment.

He was set up. They take no prisoners. Well it stops here.

Support Sancho!

[Patsy Stone]

7. Thanks, Amaryllis

Done and done.

[ClayZ]

8. Thanks!

:kick:

[Wilms]

9. K&R n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. We need to support people like Sancho

and we need a lot more SOE like him.

[jarnocan]

11. will do... thanks

Ask Congress to Make Our Voting Machines Secure!
Come to Washington, D.C. on April 6 & 7
to Advocate for H.R. 550 and Voter Verified Paper Records!

http://www.icountcoalition.org/?tr=y&auid=1458428

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
US author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

[jarnocan]

12. Vote Trust Joan's pic at V V lobby Days - Second ones coming in April

http://vvlobbydays.blogspot.com Much more to do.
wrote a letter also sent to media.

[mod mom]

13. k + r

[jen4clark]

14. The link at VoteTrustUSA isn't working

for me and many others. If anyone has trouble with it, here are the email addy's:

(WARNING: CLICKING ON THE ADDRESSES BELOW WILL OPEN UP
YOUR DEFAULT EMAIL PROGRAM)

TO:

[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

CC:

[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

Copy these email addresses to your email program. Then copy the text on the VoteTrustUSA website for the body of the email - or compose your own message.


Thank you Amaryllis!

[Amaryllis]

16. That was supposed to have been fixed! Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=416617&mesg_id=416617
People have posted ways to get around the link not working.

[Melissa G]

15. K&R!

[Senator]

17. K & R & message sent

[FogerRox]

18. too late for an R- but heres a kick