This Wednesday the W Stands for Whistle Blowers

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4.30.2007


Stephen Heller, Bruce Funk and the legendary Ion Sancho, three Diebold whistle blowers, will be the guests on Voice of the Voters this Wednesday at 8PM. Voice of the Voters is broadcast at 1360AM but if you can’t pick that up then it’s also available on the Internet at this link.

Heller, Funk and Sancho have all had direct experience with Deibold treachery and have seen the inner workings of the American elections process firsthand. On Wednesday, they’ll use that experience to paint a comprehensive picture of electronic voting in America, the deceptive practices of corporations, the often misguided relationships between election officials and electronic voting machine vendors, the various system inadequacies and how the voice of the citizen is left out of the elections process.

Here’s a little bit of background on each of them:

Steve Heller became known as the “Diebold Whistle blower” when in January 2004, he stole and exposed legal documents providing smoking gun evidence about Diebold Election Systems’ nefarious activities in the State of California. Partly as a result of Heller’s actions, in April 2004, former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley de-certified Diebold in California for what he called their “fraudulent,” “despicable,” and “deceitful behavior.”

From Utah, Bruce Funk , who with Harry Hursti, was able to prove the insecurity of Diebold machines and the fact that votes could be made to disappear without evidence. He is the Emery County Clerk, who, under pressure, resigned his position rather than preside over elections that used Diebold machinery.

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