The New FISA Provisions That Need More Attention

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 4:22 PM PDT

2008/06/20 · 16:22

Set aside the telecom immunity dispute for a moment.

What restrictions does the new law impose to protect the privacy of American citizens? Get ready for a depressing ride. Here is a link to the full bill. Under this legislation, the FISA court gets to review only the general procedures that the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence have devised to minimize the risk that a search supposedly targeted at non-citizens abroad will scoop up the private information of American citizens. More on the flip.

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Tuesday November 27, 2007 · 7:16 PM PST

2007/11/27 · 19:16

Glenn Greenwald, kos, Matt Stoller, and I don't know who else have done an admirable job of skewering Joe Klein and the subsequent "correction."

Rush Holt, one of the RESTORE Act's authors, has a piece up at HuffPo:

In his original column, Mr. Klein incorrectly wrote, "Unfortunately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi quashed the House Intelligence Committee's bipartisan effort and supported a Democratic bill that - Limbaugh is salivating - would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court, an institution founded to protect the rights of U.S. citizens only." It contains no such provision.

Paul Douglas Fan

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 5:45 PM PST

2006/11/01 · 17:45

HBO will begin airing an in-depth documentary on electronic voting Thursday night at 9pm.

From HBO.com:

"Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system."

Click here for the programming schedule, click here for more information about the show.

Watch, record, spread the word!

Emergency Paper Ballots for 2006: YOU MUST CALL CONGRESS TODAY

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 5:34 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 05:34

Senators Boxer, Dodd, and Feingold, as well as Rep. Rush Holt, have introduced a bill to provide funding to jurisdictions to print emergency paper ballots for the November election. Any jurisdiction that accepts the money must offer a paper ballot to any voter who requests one on election day.

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Emergency Paper Ballot Bill for 2006 Introduced: ACT NOW

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 4:48 AM PDT

2006/09/27 · 04:48

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Colorado Kossacks: Get on Ken Salazar's case ASAP!

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 9:37 PM PDT

2006/08/08 · 21:37

Forgive some advice from an out-of-stater, albeit one who used to live in Denver.

There are already recommended diaries calling on us to all contact every Democratic Senator. That we should all do, but Salazar is a top priority, and needs to hear from Colorado Democrats RIGHT NOW. Salazar has gone on record supporting an indendent run- see this Rocky Mountain News story.

Kerry and Election Reform: Use That E-mail List, Senator!

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Thursday March 30, 2006 · 5:19 PM PST

2006/03/30 · 17:19

A rigorous, bipartisan bill to address the grave problems with voting machines used in this country has reached a critical point in the House. From the icountcoalition, an umbrella group of election reform organizations pushing for the bill, H.R. 550:

The recent change in leadership of the Committee on House Administration has created a new opportunity for passage of this vital election integrity measure. Previous constituent meetings in June and August of 2005 were a huge success, generating 24 new co-sponsors of the bill from both parties. Please join us in Washington, D.C. on April 6 and 7 to build even greater bipartisan support for this critical bill.

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Election Reform Action: Tell John Kerry To Use His E-mail List!

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Wednesday March 29, 2006 · 1:42 PM PST

2006/03/29 · 13:42

A bill that would seriously address the problems with the voting machines used in this country has reached a critical point in the House of Representatives. From the icountcoalition, an umbrella group of election reform organizations that is pushing for passage of the bill, H.R. 550:

The recent change in leadership of the Committee on House Administration has created a new opportunity for passage of this vital election integrity measure. Previous constituent meetings in June and August of 2005 were a huge success, generating 24 new co-sponsors of the bill from both parties. Please join us in Washington, D.C. on April 6 and 7 to build even greater bipartisan support for this critical bill.

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Newsweek Censure Poll: Watch the Wording

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Thursday March 23, 2006 · 6:48 PM PST

2006/03/23 · 18:48

So last week's Newsweek poll supposedly found that more Americans oppose censure than support it. But compare the wording of the censure question in the Newsweek poll to the wording of the censure question in the ARG poll, which found that a plurality of the country supports censure. Follow the flip. Read More

Diebold: Ion Sancho Needs Your Help!

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Saturday March 11, 2006 · 6:05 PM PST

2006/03/11 · 18:05

Ion Sancho, the Leon County, Florida Supervisor of Elections who authorized the Diebold hack test, last year, is facing a wave of retaliation from the Big Three voting machine vendors, Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia. They refuse to sell him the equipment necessary to make Leon County compliant with the Help America Vote Act. Now the state of Florida may remove Sancho for failure to comply with HAVA.

From Vote Trust USA:

At a Leon County Commission meeting on February 28, 2006, county staff revealed that Chuck Owen, Division Counsel for Diebold Election Systems, met with county staff behind closed doors on February 27. According to staff, Owen stated that "Diebold would sell its touch-screen voting machines to the county if, and only if, the county removed Supervisor Sancho from office."

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Diebold and FL: Going After a Courageous Election Official

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 9:18 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 21:18

You may have read this morning's diary on this subject by Bev Harris. Predictably, it became a debate about Bev Harris. That's too bad, because a truly scary (even by the standards of 2006 America) situation has developed in Leon County, Florida, a situation that could chill efforts all over the counry to expose the grave problems with our corporate-run election system.

Readers of this site may well be familiar with the Florida test-hacks of Diebold op-scan equipment , conducted in Leon County, FL under the authority of the County Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho. The hacks made national news, and California's expert voting panel, taking a close look at part of the source code, concluded that not only was that hack test for real, the system was even more vulnerable than thought, and that conclusion was based on their analysis of only a portion of the software code.

Now Sancho is facing a wave of hardball retaliation and may lose his job.

Your Filibuster Call: You're a Small Donor, They Better Listen

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 7:18 PM PST

2006/01/24 · 19:18

If you're reading this, these two statements probably describe you:

You want the Senate Democrats to filibuster the Alito nomination.
You are a small donor to the Democratic Party and its candidates.

What follows from these two statements is obvious, but I have found only one diary devoted to the idea, posted a couple of weeks ago by Shaking the Tree . When you call your Senator, describe yourself as a small donor, an essential, life-sustaining part of the contemporary Democratic Party.

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