J.A.I.L. News Journal
Judicial Accountability Initiative Law
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Los Angeles, California July 10, 2007
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The Battle
Lines are Drawn:
J.A.I.L. versus The Foreign Power
A Power Foreign to Our
Constitution
Altering
Elections
By Ron
Branson - National J.A.I.L. CIC
The
headlines of the Los Angeles Daily News for July 7, caught my eyes
entitled, "Voting System In Jeopardy," and I deemed it worthy of placing
it out as a public service for the benefit of our nation. Ironically, I
had just previously watched a full one hour and 20 minute film
documentary on how our elections in this country are being rigged by use
of voting machines, when I saw the below article.
The
video is entitled "Hacking America," and it is a very powerful
documentary presentation well worth everyone watching. Knowing that
not everyone will set this amount of time aside to watch this video
in full, I will apprise you of a high point you would see. You
may scoot the slide bar over to the last fifteen minutes of the
documentary in which an actual government election official charged with
keeping elections honest, agreed to participate in an experiment to test
if an election could be rigged before his eyes in which he would
have naturally certified the election to be honest.
Racks
and racks of official election machines were all listed by their
identification number on a slip of paper and placed in a glass fish bowl.
A candidate blindly drew out an identification number. This was to prove
that the particular election machine used was the standard
machine used in elections, and was not pre-tampered with to the
test.
Next,
the official turned on the machine and explained each step that is
taken in every election. He placed in the election recording card handed
to him by the computer programmer, and the official tested the recording
card to prove that it was legitimate and untampered with. It showed that
the card was set at zero by an official print out slip. There were
eight people present in the room who participated as the voters. The
question presented to these voters was, "Do you believe that a vote can
be rigged by a tested election card?" Two people voted yes, and six voted
no. The official placed into the machine a sheet to officially close the
election and tabulate the vote results. The machine printed out the
official results of the election, and it showed that seven people voted
in favor that the voting card could change the election, and only one
voted that it could not.
The
government official was shocked at the results, but proceeded to test the
integrity of the vote and the voting machine. To his amazement, his
test showed that the vote was an honest election. There was absolutely no
evidence in any manner that the election was anything but entirely
honest, yet he personally knew that it was not. This video may be seen
at:
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For
those who may not be aware, J.A.I.L. appeared on the South Dakota State
Ballot this last year (2006) seeking judicial accountability
for judges. There was not one government official in the state that
identified themselves in favor of this judicial accountability. As
we entered the election season, polls were as high as four to one in
favor of the judicial accountability. J.A.I.L. held the lead all the way
through the election period, but on the day of election the results was
89% against, and only 11% for judicial accountability. Thereafter, Tom
Barnet, the director of the South Dakota Bar who directed the opposition
in South Dakota, appeared before the Florida Bar where he boasted how he
pulled it off in South Dakota, and advised the lawyers to do
the same in Florida should J.A.I.L. appear there on the
ballot. href="2007-07-04.html">www.jail4judges.org/JNJ_Library/2007/2007-02-08.html
The below are excerpts of the article,
"Voting System In Jeopardy."
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Los Angeles Daily
News
Published Saturday, July 7, 2022
Voting system in
jeopardy
Key part of L.A. County
operation may be decertified due to delay
By
Harrison Sheppard, Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO - California's secretary
of state is considering decertifying an "essential" new part of Los
Angeles County's voting system because a vendor missed a deadline
to provide key information about it.
Decertification would be a blow to the
Golden State's largest county, leaving it struggling to comply with
federal regulations for the state's first February presidential
primary.
Secretary of State Debra Bowen said
the action comes as her office reviews voting systems statewide, and
the vendor repeatedly refused to provide the source code for software
used in Los Angeles County's InkaVote Plus system. ....
According to Bowen's office, vendors
throughout the state were informed March 26 about the pending review
and told they had 30 days to provide the necessary software and
equipment.
The review involves hiring a team of
computer experts to try to hack into the systems, exploit
vulnerabilities and find any potential flaws or errors.
Some vendors were given additional
time, but it was not until June 26 - after repeated requests and an
unusual effort to circumvent the company by obtaining the source code
from a third-party escrow company - that ES&S complied, Bowen's
office said.
By then, it was too late for the
review, which is supposed to conclude in two weeks.
Deputy Secretary of State Lowell
Finley said there also are discrepancies between the software version
number held by the escrow company, and the version that was certified
by McPherson last year.
If the software was updated since the
certification process without notifying the state, that could be a
potential violation of state Election Code, he said.
Finley, in a recent letter to the
company, said Bowen's office still intends to review the InkaVote
Plus system, but it is likely to be more expensive and difficult
because it could involve reassembling the outside team conducting the
current review.
If the Secretary of State's Office
does not move to decertify the system, it could instead require Los
Angeles County to take additional precautions when tallying votes
next year - including using more manual recounting or installing new
security measures.
Agreement reached
At the same time this dispute is
brewing, the county and Bowen's office recently reached an agreement
that a separate element of the county's system will not be subject to
the top-to-bottom review.
The county uses an aging Microcomputer
Tally System in its central headquarters to count votes that have
been cast at thousands of precincts.
That system is due to be replaced next
year by a GEMS II system made by Diebold. Bowen's office and the
Board of Supervisors recently signed an agreement that the equipment
and software for MTS does not have to be submitted for the
review.
GEMS II has been submitted to the
normal state certification process, which will now be as rigorous as
the pending top-to-bottom review.
If GEMS II is not certified or
otherwise not ready in time for the Feb. 5 primary, Bowen has agreed
that the county can continue to use MTS, even though it has not been
subject to the top-to-bottom review.
Staff Writer Troy Anderson contributed
to this report.
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He has combined
with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution,
and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to
their acts of
pretended legislation. - Declaration of
Independence
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless
minority keen to set
brush fires in people's minds.." - Samuel Adams
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who
is
striking at the
root."
-- Henry David
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