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HIGHLIGHTS:
 

• Jan 12, 2020: Protocol For Honest Elections - America’s Nontransparent Voting System Is ‘De Facto’ Fraud by Lynn Landes
• Jan 11, 2020: How To Restore Trust And Peace In America by Dr. Steven Freeman
• 20/20 ELECTION
• Lynn's 2020 'Election Integrity' video interview by Derek Hunsberger or https://www.youtube
• Lynn's Federal Lawsuits challenging voting machines and absentee ballots voting (2004-2006)
• Lynn's 2007 "Report To Congress"
   

LYNN'S ARTICLES:

Jan 12, 2021: Protocol For Honest Elections - America’s Nontransparent Voting System Is ‘De Facto’ Fraud by Lynn Landes

Jan 27, 2020: OP-ED News: Be A Protectionist & Bridge The Political Divide

Jan 23, 2017: OP-ED News: Open Letter To President Donald Trump - Support Paper Ballots and Hand Counts at Local Polling Precincts and Cover Letter & Open Letter (Docs)

Jun 08, 09: Should I.N.N. and Free Speech TV (FSTV) Get Back Together?

Feb 8, 08: Why doesn't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud?  Is it that DOJ and the FBI have long been involved in it, themselves?  Read: The 1987 Leonard Gates Deposition -- Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, the FBI assisted telephone companies with hacking into mainframe election computers in cities across the country. The first election Gates provided the hack for was in 1979, see http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/ElectionsVoter/results1970s.aspx?Section=517  PLUS... 1985 Background Material from Jim Condit, Jr. and also see: DOJ & FBI complicity

Jan 10, 08: There's a History of Suspected Vote Fraud In NH - Forget 'Official Recounts', Do Citizen Audits

Dec. 22, 07: Lynn's Affidavit for National Clean Elections lawsuit

Mar 12, 07: The “Voter Confidence” Bill. IT’S CONFUSING - Electronic Tallies Can Still Trump Paper Ballots on Election Day

Feb, 07: Florida Gov. Crist's suggestion that ballot scanners are the answer to touchscreen machines is a cynical ploy.  State officials plan to use ES&S ballot markers plus ballot scanners. No hand count.  Both machines are computers and can be easily programmed to rig an election. Florida also has a law on the books that the electronic tally, not a hand count, will be the official election result in the case of a recount.  In addition, counties that used ballot scanners in the 2004 presidential election showed a massive and highly suspicious crossover vote from Democratic voters (and other parties) to Bush.  Bush posted vote totals of 200%, 300%, 400%, and in one county 600% over Republican registration.  See the chart - Florida

Feb 07: Rush Holt's bill HB 811 is very disappointing.  Check out Nancy Tobi's comments.  My full review coming soon. We need Kucinich to re-introduce HB 6200, paper ballots, hand-counts only.

Jan 15, 07: The Landes Report To Congress On Voting - A call for total transparency in voting, Open Voting. Rescind laws that allow voting by machines, absentee, early, and secret ballot.

Nov 14, 06: Dems! Why Elect Majority Leader By 'Secret Ballot'?

Nov 6, 06: RED ALERT - Will Cheney be hunting fowl or orchestrating election results?  Cheney's hunting destination (South Dakota) is next door to Nebraska and Offutt Air Force Base - home of ES&S, the nation's largest counter of our votes. http://www.utulsa.edu/ ES&S CEO Bill Welsh was profiled in the University of Tulsa Magazine, Fall 2001. An interesting excerpt: "Given the fundamental importance and the logistical complexity of elections, Welsh and company leave nothing to chance: they had four business jets and two turboprops on standby; as well as more than 1,000 temporary employees, some drawn from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.ES&S staff were ready to be anywhere at a moment's notice to help iron out unexpected kinks." Comment: Why does ES&S go to an air force base for temporary personnel? 

Nov 2, 06: URGENT! Candidates Advised To 'Citizen Audit' Race Before Conceding

Aug 21, 06: Caught On Tape, The Fix Is In, news release  /  postcard

Apr 4, 06:  Supreme Court refuses to hear Lynn's case, lets stand lower court decision which denied Landes standing & allowed costs against voting rights activist

Jan 30, 06: Landes Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court

Nov 4, 05: Scrap the "Secret" Ballot - Return to Open Voting

Jun 23, 05: Paper Ballots and Hand Counts ONLY (no machines, no audits, no absentees, no early voting)

Mar 29, 05: Lynn files appeal to Third Circuit Court on her lawsuit against voting machines & absentee ballots - 

Mar 20, 05:  READ ABOUT THE FIRST PARALLEL ELECTION! by Ellen Brodsky

Mar 14, 05: Democrats!  Paper “Trails” Aren’t Good Enough.  Count The Damn Ballots! 

Mar 3, 05: Exit Poll Madness - Analyst Steve Freeman & Company Offer False Choice - this article got lots of reaction - See Dave Dodge and Kathy Dopp.

Feb 26, 05: Oakland, CA - Lynn gives speech at teach-in organized by http://www.democraticre

Feb 14, 05: The biggest problem with VIVA 2005 election reform bill by Ensign that is being pushed by Ballot Integrity is that is calls for audits rather than our constitutional right to have every vote counted. 

Jan 18, 05: Plan B: Organize Parallel Elections & Signed Ballots

Jan 5, 05: Did Networks Fake Exit Polls, While AP 'Accessed' 2,995 Mainframe Computers?

Oct 22, 04: Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election?

May 10, 04: Federal Commission Nixes Talk of Paper-Only Elections - Stacks Panel With Proponents of Paperless Touchscreens

Apr 27, 04: Two Voting Companies & Two Brothers Will Count 80% of U.S. Election

Apr 13, 04: Republicans Walk Out Of Federal Hearing On Voting Machines - While Some Civil Rights Groups Support 'Paperless' Elections

Apr 6, 04: Faking Democracy - Americans Don't Vote, Machines Do, & Ballot Printers Can't Fix That

Mar 10, 04: Philadelphia Hearing on Electronic Voting

Feb 10, 04: Questions Mount Over New Hampshire's Primary

Jan 12, 04: Democrats Send Mixed Signals in Voting Technology Debate - approved the use of Internet voting in 2000 Arizona primary and 2004 Michigan primary.

Dec 15, 03: NIST Ignores Scientific Method for Voting Technology
Oct 2, 03: Republicans and Brits Will Count California's Recall Votes / California recall election: Voting systems - by county

Oct 2, 03: Lynn submits comments to U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit for Susan Marie Weber case. 

Sep 17, 03: Lynn Landes submits comments to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on ACLU Foundation of Southern California case

Sept 7, 03: Philadelphia Forum on 'Voting Technology & Democracy' Landes speech / press release

Aug 27, 03: Internet Voting - The End of Democracy?

Aug 18, 03: Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold...Scam To Vet Voting Software?

Aug 1, 03: Computer Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference

Jul 16, 03: Offshore Company Captures Online Military Vote

Apr 14, 03: Voting Machines Violate Constitution - Who Will Launch Legal Challenge?

Jan 20, 03: Suspicion Surrounds Voter News Service

Nov 26, 02: Mission Impossible - Federal Observers & Voting Machines

Nov 8, 02: 2002 Elections: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Poll Results

Oct 28, 02: It's A High-Tech Ambush - Just Say "No" To Voting Machines / PR Newswire press release

Sep 23, 02: Election Night Projections - A Cover For Vote Rigging Since 1964? 

Sep 16, 02: Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control

Aug 5, 02: The Nightmare Scenario Is Here - Computer Voting With No Paper Trail  

Democracy Demands Transparency, Not Trust

Voting is the bedrock of democracy. And democracy demands transparency, not trust. Yet, there is no real transparency to the way Americans vote today. State and federal governments have codified and legalized election fraud by allowing, if not mandating secret, non-transparent voting systems that prohibit direct access to a paper ballot and meaningful public oversight of the voting process. For the sake of 'convenience', we have destroyed the 'integrity' of our elections. It began over 160 years ago. (read full SUMMARY below)

• ABSENTEE VOTING (1860’s)

• SECRET BALLOT (1880’s)

• VOTING MACHINES (1890’s) 

PROTOCOL FOR HONEST ELECTIONS

ADDENDUM:

• All election days (including primary elections) should be holidays and/or time off to vote.

• Municipalities should provide free transportation to the polls for the disabled.

• For those who cannot make it to the polls on Election Day due to disability, designated teams of poll workers together with poll watchers can visit places such as nursing homes on Election Day in order to conduct onsite voting and deliver the ballots to the local polling station to be counted on that same day, thereby maintaining transparency and chain-of-custody requirements.  Similarly, polls could be set up at embassies, consulates, and military bases for citizens living overseas.

• And for those who don’t believe we can get enough people to count ballots, election officials have every right to draft citizens into service, as is done with jury duty. 

• Registration Offices should post special Saturday hours once a month at the Voter Registration Office, plus provide IDs-On-Wheels for those who cannot make it to the Registration Office due to their disability or job.

• Registration should be closed one month before an election in order to verify that the registrations are legitimate and the records up-to-date.

• Develop a formula of registered voters per poll divided by the number of poll workers needed to get ballots counted on election day; the length of ballot also needs to be factored in.

PROTOCOLS FOR POLITICAL REPRESENTATION:

• Ban "AT LARGE" town council candidates as it results in over-representation by the majority party.

• Ban gerrymandering by using a static grid.

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

VOTERS - GO TO THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY! DON'T VOTE EARLY, MAIL, ABSENTEE, OR PROVISIONAL BALLOT. Also, confirm your voter registration at least one month before any election and bring proof of registration (copy or card) and state or driver's license ID.

CONGRESS & STATE LEGISLATURES - PASS the "Protocol for Honest Elections", see below. Although it would be difficult to convince the public that the "secret ballot" is a very bad idea, everything else on the list will get wide public support.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - STOP the unconstitutional use of nontransparent voting systems (computers, mail-in, drop box, etc.).

STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL & CANDIDATES - SUE in court to stop the use of nontransparent voting systems, as there is no effective way to observe the voting process.

CITIZEN - RUN "CITIZEN AUDITS" at polls as a check against official results

CANDIDATES - NEVER CONCEDE!  No candidate should ever concede an election, under the circumstances of nontransparent elections.

SUMMARY
 

There is no transparency to our current voting system. Under the U.S. Constitution and case law, qualified citizens have two constitutional rights: 1) to vote, and 2) to have their votes counted properly.  For that right to be enforced by federal and state authorities, the voting process must be observable. 

U.S. elections are not transparent or observable. When Congress and state governments opened the door to increased voting rights, 'convenient' access, and secret ballots, they closed the door to effective transparency and meaningful oversight of the voting process. Now we have computer voting, early and mail-in voting, drop boxes, and electronic voting for the military...taken together they have destroyed any semblance of election integrity or legitimacy. Things weren't always this way. 

BEFORE the Civil War, voting was a completely transparent process.  It was only during the Civil War, as the right to vote expanded to African Americans, that the voting process itself began to recede from public view and meaningful oversight.  It started with absentee voting for soldiers only in the 1860’s, secret ballots in the 1880’s, and voting machines in the 1890’s.  Today in America, more than 50% of all voting is by absentee, mail, or early, 95% of all votes are machine-processed, and 100% of all ballots are secret and anonymous. For the sake of convenience and 'alleged' voter protection, Congress has destroyed the transparency, verifiability, and integrity of America’s voting process. 

The 'secret ballot' is a 'blank check' for vote fraud. It has had the biggest negative impact on our ability to truly verify election results. While our politicians are required to vote publicly and openly, we citizens are held to a different standard - a lower standard.  We vote remotely, privately and anonymously by machine, absentee, early, and secret ballot. It's an invitation to massive and undetectable vote fraud.  That is why, there should be only one standard of voting for both our political representatives and voters. All voting should be open and public - no machines, no absentee, no early voting, and no secret ballots. Secret ballots are really anonymous ballots that corrupt election officials can count any way they want. Why one standard of voting for politicians and another for the public?  Under current circumstances, the only thing candidates and voters can do  to find out how citizens really voted is to conduct their own CITIZEN AUDITS.  

Making matters worse, our public voting system has been privatized and outsourced to a handful of domestic, foreign, and multi-national corporations. For the most part, our elections are counted by 3 major companies (ES&S, Dominion, and Hart Intercivic) whose owner(s) and/or technical staff could easily rig voting machines manually or wirelessly (either touchscreens or ballot readers); these companies and/or their subcontractors could also rig elections while inputting the candidates’ names for each new election, or simply write the software to tabulate more votes for one party over the other. See 2005 video: Danaher VP admits that they can rig an election

Can't we detect vote fraud through exit polls?  The major news networks refuse to report on vote fraud and have been implicated in it. Exit polling is conducted by one organization, currently called the National Election Pool (NEP), that is hired by the major news networks and the Associated Press. Since they first started "projecting" election night winners in 1964, at the same time computerized ballot scanners came into use, the major news networks have never provided any 'hard' evidence that they actually conducted any exit polls, at all.  In other words, the major news corporations broadcast their own pre-election surveys based on anonymous sources, collect vote totals on Election Day in a manner they refuse to disclose, and back-up those results with their own exit polls based on more anonymous sources.  The late authors of the book, VoteScam: The Stealing of America, James M. Collier and Kenneth E. Collier, concluded that some of the major news networks, including the polling organization that they hire for election night reporting, have been complicit in vote fraud.

In America, less than 1% of votes are hand-counted-paper-ballots at the polls on Election Day. Neither government-controlled audits nor official recounts (both can occur days or even weeks after the election) provide sufficient transparency to detect widespread election fraud by voting machines companies and/or election officials.  Moreover, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), under the 38-year reign of Craig C. Donsanto, refuses to seriously  investigate or prosecute electronic vote fraud. 

“If you did it right, no one would ever know,” said Craig C. Donsanto, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section (from 1970-2010) in a July 4,1989 Los Angeles Times article about electronic voting machines and vote fraud. (See DOJ & FBI complicity))At the highest levels, both political parties, the U.S. government, Big Tech, and major news media are well aware of this situation because they are complicit in it. (See Exit Polls) At the very least, election counting should be local and consist of only paper ballots and hand counts at the local polling precincts on election day - no machines, no computers, no absentee, no mail-in, and no emails. See Paper Ballots

For those who cannot make it to the polls on Election Day, designated teams of poll workers together with poll watchers should visit places such as nursing homes in order to conduct onsite elections and deliver those ballots to the local polling station to be counted on that day, Election Day, maintaining transparency and chain-of-custody requirements.  Similarly, polls could be set up at embassies, consulates, and military bases for citizens living overseas. And for those who don’t believe we can get enough people to count ballots, election officials have every right to draft citizens into service, as is done with jury duty. Hand counting isn’t rocket science. Other countries around the world do it for their elections.