to make people aware of the need for audits all over the country in every election.
On July 22, Rhonda Holman, one of the editors of the WICHITA EAGLE, wrote the lead editorial "for the editorial board," titled, "Allow Audit of Voting." She brought up some very interesting points. Beth Clarkson, the statistician who has a law suit in process trying to get Kobach to allow an audit to take place, evidently inspired Holman to write her editorial. She had done some homework. She ended the editorial this way:
"Kobach said in April that he'd like every county in Kansas to have a paper trail like those available in Sedgwick County. But surely the point of keeping a record is its availability for later examination. What better way to help confirm what Kobach is always saying, that on his five-year watch Kansas has made it 'easy to vote but hard to
This issue is something that can't be allowed to die and maybe having a group with this ONE MESSAGE, that is, "Verify the Vote," would be the best way to keep the pot stirred up and boiling.
I'm wondering if Jon Simon, the author of the book I've been reading lately, CODE RED, would be the one to lead and spearhead such a group. He's the "Executive Director of "Election Defense Alliance," which I have among my favorites but seldom look at since there's usually not much positive going on there, not much to stir my interest. If there was a single group that would doing things constantly, writing LTEs, contacting people who might be interested in helping out, contacting individuals who would be interested in joining in the drumbeat. There's a Peace and Justice Center in town that might really like to have this as part of its agenda, especially if it were a national project and movement.
Anyway, just an idea, but maybe you and others by giving it some thought and imagining who you could call or work with could come up with ways of getting such a group going. I might try writing to Simon about it.
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