Are you concerned that www.ElectionLine.org
is publishing biased information when the organization represents itself as: "...the nation’s only non-partisan, non-advocacy website providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election reform...."? If not, you should be.
In fact, ElectionLine is acting as an advocate for electronic voting vendors rather than as an impartial resource for information on elections. Read the articles linked below for background information, then write or call the Pew Charitable Trusts, who fund ElectionLine.
Sample message (courtesy of Joyce McCloy, NC Coalition for Verified Voting):
Pew Charitable Trusts
Kent Mitchell
202-552-2142
kmitchell@pewtrusts.org
Dear Mr. Mitchell
I am writing to you about ElectionLine.org, an organization sponsored by Pew Cheritable Trusts. Pew gave Electionline $2,260,000.00 on Sept 2004 to fund them for over 30 mos.
Please review and investigate the following:
Electionline is acting as an advocate for electronic voting rather than an impartial and informative reporter of the events occurring across the country.
Ethics are further eroded by ties of at least one advisor to ElectionLine. Electionline lists Doug Lewis (of the Election Center) as an advisor. The Election Center, under the directorship of Mr. Lewis, receives funding from voting machine companies.
Further, Mr. Lewis has no credentials except for selling computers out of his basement and going bankrupt.
Why isn't Electionline consulting with real computer scientists who have no financial ties to voting machine companies? Just one of many that come to mind are Dr. David L Dill, of Stanford University and founder of Verified Voting. Or how about consulting any of the learned experts at the organization called "ACCURATE", "A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections" at the website http://accurate-voting.org/.
Here are some articles focusing on Electionline's bias:
Is Electionline's 2006 Report Biased In Favor of DREs?
Electionline Assists In Covering Up Election Meltdown In Texas
Photographs of The Election Center, whose director, R. Doug Lewis, as stated above, is an advisor to Electionline and to Elections Officials across the country
Photographs courtesy of VoteTrustUSA
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