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PAPER BALLOT... MAKE SURE THEY
COUNT IT!
The Freedom Fast
My name is John B. Kenney and I have been on a
hunger strike since September 7th to protect our Constitution’s guaranteed
right to vote. I pledge to continue fasting until our vote is ensured.
Until our elected representatives or computer
companies, such as Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S return our Paper Ballots and
make them the primary vote, I will remain on hunger strike.
These devious computer companies, using “proprietary
software”, literally “OWN” our vote!! They refuse to retrofit their
electronic devices with printers. They must restore our inalienable right
to vote.
In the words of one of our founding fathers, Thomas
Paine, “The Right to Vote is the Primary Right… All other Rights are
secured from it. Without this Right, we are reduced to slavery.”
In the words of ALL of our founding fathers and all
true Patriots, “Give me Liberty, or give me Death.”
I love my life. I love my country. But I’ll live a
free man, or perish in an attempt to reclaim our Liberty.
I am taking this drastic action because the
exclusive use of electronic devices in our voting process puts the very
foundation of our democracy at stake. This is a life or death or SLAVERY
issue. When they own your vote…they will own you.
Not only do computer voting machines malfunction and
break down, they are easy to tamper with in order to produce fraudulent
results.
Furthermore, 30% of the electronic voting machines
in this country have no paper ballots or receipts (over 50 MILLION
VOTES!!!) and no way to recount or audit the vote if there are questions
about the results. This is the perfect-storm recipe for voting fraud. The
greatest scam ever foisted on the unaware American Public.
Already there have been MANY irregularities. I’m
afraid that on November 3rd 2004, there will be many, MANY more. But more
importantly, in a Democracy founded on a system of checks and balances,
they have deliberately designed a process that has no safeguards, no
open-source code and no transparency. In short they have the perfect
process to manipulate or even steal our vote!!
More shocking these private companies through
“proprietary software” will soon OWN our electoral process. Not even
ELECTION OFFICIALS can see the software or verify the votes. This means
that your VOTE is in very GRAVE danger!!
Who am I and why am I doing this?
I am not a politician, not a professional activist,
and I have no partisan agenda. I am simply an American citizen who is
frightened and outraged by what is happening to our electoral process.
And I am not alone. Many
grassroots organizations devoted to protecting the sanctity and
integrity of our right to vote have sprung up around the country and are
working furiously to avert a national crisis.
The five basic
elements of voting security are:
- Poll Book (personal sign in)
- Paper ballot
- Ballot box (transparent and locked)
- Hand Count (of all paper ballots in the ballot box)
- Results Posted (prominently displayed at the polling place)
Many of these elements are missing in many of the
polling districts and sites across the United States. YOUR VOTE IS IN
GRAVE DANGER.
Many FOUGHT AND DIED for our right to vote.
Too many lives have been sacrificed to ensure our basic freedoms.
Don't GIVE that right away!
DON’T LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY!!
DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE AND HAVE THAT VOTE COUNT!
HUNGER FOR DEMOCRACY!!
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
As an individual or as a group:
- PRIOR TO THE ELECTION:
- DOCUMENT AND REPORT ALL INCIDENTS, SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR OR
IRREGULARATIES. Call Election Protection Coalition at 1-866 OUR-VOTE
or send a DETAILED REPORT, (Names, ID numbers of both personel and
machines, dates times places, etc.) to https://voteprotect.org/legal/index.php
- Contact (by letter, fax, email, phone) your County Election
Officials and State Registrar of Voters now and demand paper ballots
for Nov. 2, as well as locked ballot boxes. Demand a hand count.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/?command=local
- Contact your U.S. Congressional Representatives in the Senate
and the House of Representatives, and the White House, TODAY, and
insist that Congress immediately sponsor and enact Paper Ballot
Legislation.
Your Senator or Congressman 1 800 839 5276
http://www.congress.gov or http://www.senate.gov/
- CONTACT some of the Watch-dog groups; Please check carefully
and see which type of organization best suits you. And if you can't
volunteer PLEASE Donate.
- Common Cause needs volunteers on election day for either 30
minutes or 5 hours in your county or in a swing state. They will
observe polling place activities and gather data that will be used
to evaluate voting procedures nationwide and improve future
elections. Monitors will also be able to relay immediate problems to
address problems at the polls when and where it is possible.
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=200690
- If you a Technology Professional, it is urgent you sign up
here
http://vevo.verifiedvoting.org/techwatch/
- The Election Protection Commission needs thousands of
volunteers (especially lawyers, clergy, Spanish speakers) to watch
polls and make sure vulnerable citizens can vote
http://www.workingforchange.com/electionprotection/index.cfm?mktcode=WALD008
https://voteprotect.org/legal/index.php
- You can volunteer from home--Bev Harris, the woman who first
found out and publicized the dangers of paperless voting machines--
needs you to help increase security at the central tabulators of
votes, etc. Join her "clean up crew" and find out the four top
things you can do to make voting for everyone more secure
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/1196
- PROTEST AGAINST DIEBOLD the largest manufacturer of these
defective electronic voting machines. Help to clog their phone lines
by calling their headquarters at 1-330-490-4000. Leave a message for
Wally O'Dell, Chairman and CEO, and tell him his company should get
out of the business of threatening democracy. For more about Diebold,
go to
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/.
- ON ELECTION DAY:
- VOTE!!!
- DOCUMENT AND REPORT ALL INCIDENTS, SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR OR
IRREGULARATIES. Call Election Protection Coalition at 1-866 OUR-VOTE
or send a DETAILED REPORT, (Names, ID numbers of both personel and
machines, dates times places, etc.) to https://voteprotect.org/legal/index.php
- (SEE 1d above); CONTACT some of the Watch-dog groups, and/or
VOLUNTEER to help monitor the elections.
- To combat secrecy, machine malfunctions, and poor security on
Election Day:
- Go to the polls prepared to document. If possible, bring video
camera or digital camera (the law does not allow you to photograph
inside, but you may want to document something outside.) Bring a
notebook and a cell phone. Bring phone numbers for local media.
- INSIDE THE POLLING PLACE Use a notebook to record observations.
If you see something seriously amiss, you may need your cell phone to
report it: 1-866-OUR-VOTE.
- If a machine misbehaves, get the machine ID number and the time.
- Get the names of any technicians present,
-Be observant for any suspicious people, particularly if they are not
election officials, near any of the hardware or software used to
tabulate the vote.
-Ask for the Name and Number of all such persons and report them
immediately to 1(866) OUR-VOTE.
- AFTER THE ELECTION:
- PROTEST THE OUTRAGE OF ELECTRONIC VOTING
As individuals and in groups. Don’t give up the
fight. The morning after and the week of canvassing is the most
critical phase of this entire drive. Raise up your voices and protest
the private theft of our ballots and the voting process. Write
letters, faxes and e-mails, call your Senator and Congressman, join
sit-ins, marches and rallies. Make sure we are heard.
- Keep in touch with us and our effort to protect our vote. Pass
on the info, e-mail and web-site to your friends.
- STAGE YOUR OWN FREEDOM FAST
Please consider going on your own FREEDOM FAST for 1 day on September
22 (or 2 or 3 if you so desire), and consider donating the money you
would have spent on food to help support this urgent cause.
SUPPORT US
Your donation will be used to ensure paper ballots for Election 2004.
I will continue my Hunger Strike until I can be
sure that no matter whom you choose to vote for this November, your vote
will be accurately counted.
LET US RETURN TO GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE
PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE…PAPER BALLOT, MAKE SURE THEY COUNT IT!!!
If you experience or witness difficulties voting,
call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR VOTE (1-866-687-8683).
--John B. Kenney
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Hear John's Sept 7, 2004 Interview with Air America
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John
B. Kenney - Day 51 - Oct 28, 2004
Weight: 159 lbs.
John
B. Kenney - Day 36 - Oct 12, 2004
Weight: 173 lbs.
John
B. Kenney - Day 15 - Sept 21, 2004
Weight: 192 lbs.
John
B. Kenney - Day 8 - Sept 14, 2004
Weight: 196.5 lbs.
John
B. Kenney - Day 1 - Sept 7, 2004
Weight: 212 lbs.
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ABOUT JOHN B. KENNEY
Born February 21, 1960 in Misquota, Illinois,
John has spent the past 14 years in Japan and Australia as a Principle
of an English school and founder of a cultural exchange program
between Australian and Japanese High Schools. He is a registered voter
of Chautaqua County and on a 3 year work visa in Kyoto, Japan, where
he has left his home and work and business in order to ensure that
there will be a fair and secured election. Prior to Japan, John went
to college at SUNY Fredonia, and graduated from Harvard University
Extension School in 1986 and worked in real estate for 7 years. He is
a registered voter of Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York and has
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HISTORY OF HUNGER STRIKES FOR FREEDOM
 Hunger
strikes have a long history in Western Civilization as a means of
non-violent protest, going back as far as the Biblical ages. They were
revisited by groups fighting for equality, in Modern era, such as the
Scottish women at the turn of the century looking for women's right to
vote.
Marion Wallace Dunlop of Scotland began a hunger
strike in 1909 when she was imprisoned for her role in the suffragette
movement. Later in America, from1915-1917 various members of the
woman's right to vote movement in the United States, employed hunger
strikes as a method to bring attention to their plight. The
authorities at the time often used draconian measures such as
force-feeding in order to break the will of the women. But ultimately
such cruel treatment backfired and women won the right to vote in the
United States in 1920 and in England in 1928. |
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