Action Alert - The suit Pima County Dems voted to support at the County organizing meeting last month, to demand records the county is denying access to, around the early reports pulled from early ballot data, may be filed this Wednesday. Hang on to your hats! John and Bill Reisner will be speaking at the County Board of Supervisors Wed, 1/31. Around 2:30 PM. Two supervisors, Dem Richard Elias (D) and Ray Carroll (R) are working with EIC, and they should be thanked. The others must be lobbied.
Flash - Brad Friedman form Bradsblog (http://www.bradblog.com/ ), a leader in reporting on election integrity issues nationally, will be in Phoenix to do two radio shows on AA PHXon Thursday and Friday, and may be in Tucson on Wednesday. Save Wednesday evening just in case, and if you can attend the County supes this week, please do so.
John reports that the practice of pulling early reports of vote by mail (VBM) ballots, probably to indicate where to fight and put extra funds and where to save money, has been going on at least as far back as Tom Volge’s support for clean elections. Tom never won an election after that, John believes he was was targeted for his support.
Four hours after pulling that report in the 2006 election, the R’s put out that voter robocall that the Democratic Party was pulling its support for Ted Downing, working hard to take him out over election integrity. Luckily, it takes more than a lost election to stop Ted! John does not know yet whether John Kyle pulled money he had planned to spend in Pima County when he discovered the balloting was going his way.
Just in...Finally, David Waid and Donna Branch Gilby are carrying a friendly amendment authored by AUDITAZ and others, putting extra power into the DNV election integrity resolution, when they go to DC later this week for the DNC quarterly meeting.
Thanks to everyone for their work.
Showing posts with label John Brakey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Brakey. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2007
John Braky: Clean elections fuel party expansion - don't have to fund local candidates
Thanks to Clean Elections, the AZ Democratic Party is no longer only a candidate-based party led by special interests. Clean Elections has empowered grassroots activists. Previously, anyone wishing to have a serious run for office had to be anointed by the Party Machine or grab the label and ran; then, become obligated to big business to get funding to run. Now activists can recruit candidates from within their ranks. Any activist can run for office because they don't need the blessing or approval of the Party to do so.
Before Clean Elections, Democrats only came together around election season and our goals were always short-sighted. Now, we have become a year-round Party that helps develop activists and recruit candidates. The shift to year-round party activism has allowed us to expand the scope of our work. In particular, we have been able to establish an Elections Integrity Committee that conducts examinations and audits of election processes, uncovering sloppiness and breakdowns in security, voting records chains-of-custody, and actual breaches of the law. Clean Elections has allowed us to engage in much-needed everlasting watchfulness to ensure that every voter can vote and every vote is counted.
What we all are doing in the Arizona Democratic Party needs to be better understood from within, analyzed, further developed, defined, bottled and exported to other states. "Arizona Clean Elections" and "Election Integrity" are connected at the hip in our party.
We are now a party that knows the real value that "Clean Elections" brought to our table and now, how Election Integrity is connected to "Clean Elections". Our state party Elections Integrity Committee, (EIC) also must be expanded to include our 6,000 Democratic poll workers state wide. Our party job is to oversee the total elections process and be that vigilance.
We even could appoint all of our poll workers and etc, etc, etc.
Best regards to all and THANK YOU!!
John R Brakey, Special Task Force Leader of Arizona Democratic Party
Election Integrity Committee and Co founder; Americans United for Democracy
Integrity and Transparency in Elections - AUDIT-AZ
Before Clean Elections, Democrats only came together around election season and our goals were always short-sighted. Now, we have become a year-round Party that helps develop activists and recruit candidates. The shift to year-round party activism has allowed us to expand the scope of our work. In particular, we have been able to establish an Elections Integrity Committee that conducts examinations and audits of election processes, uncovering sloppiness and breakdowns in security, voting records chains-of-custody, and actual breaches of the law. Clean Elections has allowed us to engage in much-needed everlasting watchfulness to ensure that every voter can vote and every vote is counted.
What we all are doing in the Arizona Democratic Party needs to be better understood from within, analyzed, further developed, defined, bottled and exported to other states. "Arizona Clean Elections" and "Election Integrity" are connected at the hip in our party.
We are now a party that knows the real value that "Clean Elections" brought to our table and now, how Election Integrity is connected to "Clean Elections". Our state party Elections Integrity Committee, (EIC) also must be expanded to include our 6,000 Democratic poll workers state wide. Our party job is to oversee the total elections process and be that vigilance.
We even could appoint all of our poll workers and etc, etc, etc.
Best regards to all and THANK YOU!!
John R Brakey, Special Task Force Leader of Arizona Democratic Party
Election Integrity Committee and Co founder; Americans United for Democracy
Integrity and Transparency in Elections - AUDIT-AZ
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