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[Pokey Anderson]

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The Monitor
August 13, 2006

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Today's Guest:

-- PAUL LEHTO, a leading attorney in the battle for clean elections

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<> 6:00 pm CST -- HEADLINES

<> ~ 6:25 pm CST -- Attorney PAUL LEHTO, on the fight for clean elections



Attorney Paul Lehto will join Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson in an update of the latest in the litigation efforts to achieve honest, transparent elections. He is actively involved in litigation in Kentucky and California; he may also become active in a new lawsuit in Georgia. He says expecting voters to trust e-voting as presently carried out is "like asking everyone to put blindfolds on."

He also previously sued his own county and Sequoia, a vendor of electronic voting, saying that the company's interest in keeping its info proprietary was not as important as the public's need to know how elections are tabulated. ''These are entities that are providing the most central governmental function that we have, the counting of the vote.''

Paul practices law in the Seattle area. He got his law degree from Seattle University School of Law, and has been elected to the Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association. He’s been voted a Rising Star in both 2003 and 2004 and nominated as a Washington SuperLawyer by Washington Law and Politics magazine.

He draws strength from his colleagues around the country in the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics, saying that "it encourages the others' work toward a more just, caring and sacred society." Paul also is nourished by his relationship with nature -- he grew up in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He spent time while in college radiotracking wolves in northern Minnesota, and volunteering in Yellowstone.

QUOTE:
"When Jesse James robbed a bank, he didn’t get to be bank president or set future vault security policy. But when someone steals an election, they get to preside over the next election and change election security." -- Paul Lehto

ARTICLE:
Paul R. Lehto:
"The Jesse James Principle:
Verifiable Ballot Counts Would Stop Freefall of Public Confidence in Elections"
June 1, 2006
Real Change News
http://www.realchangenews.org/2006/2006_05_31/jessejames.html

STUDY:
"Evidence Of Election Irregularities
In Snohomish County, Washington, General Election, 2004"
by Paul Lehto
http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/mediaSnohomishCounty.htm

PAUL'S BLOG at Democratic Underground:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Land%20Shark

RELATED ARTICLE:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House"
Issue 1002, June 15, 2006
Rolling Stone
Article: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

LOCAL Op-Ed today:
Needed: A paper trail for county ballots
County clerk and mayor shouldn’t ignore troubling situation any longer
By STAN MERRIMAN
Op-Ed in HoustonChronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4113258.html


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[Pokey Anderson]

1. Thanks to Paul for his efforts.

The interview was half as long as intended, because of a series of phone, well, glitches -- it took two problems on his end, and two or three phone problems on the radio station end, resulting in "dang, we lost Paul!" and couldn't get him back on air.

We'll try again another time, Paul.

Meanwhile, I'm proudly wearing my T-shirt which just arrived in the mail, made by the folks fighting the good fight in CA-50.

It is so darn cute, and so darn true. (We have election machine sleepovers here in Harris County, TX too.)



Be the first on your block -- www.nosleepovers.org - hit the "Store" link on the left.

[emlev]

2. Thanks for having Paul on the air, Pokey!

How does the shirt look? I helped make it happen--it was designed by a DUer on very short notice, without pay. I can't afford one myself, so haven't actually seen the real thing.

[autorank]

3. Thanks for having Paul and reporeting on free & fair election requirements