[E-voting] The Myth of Verified Voting: How GOP strategists & J. Abramoff transformed America's elections and the reform movement itself

[Catherine Ansbro]

http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5668


    The Myth of Verified Voting: How GOP strategists & J. Abramoff
    transformed America's elections and the reform movement itself

*BY Nancy Tobi*

*/For the published version of this article and more about elections in 
21st century America, read the newly released_ Loser Take All 
<http://www.amazon.com/Loser-Take-All-Subversion-Democracy/dp/0978843142/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207915264&sr=1-1>_, 
edited by Mark Crispin Miller./*

*The Myth of Verified Voting: How GOP strategists and Jack Abramoff 
transformed America’s elections and the election reform movement itself*

*K Street Lobbyists and Election Reform*

In 1995, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Republican strategist 
Grover Norquist launched the “K Street Project.” (i) Named for the 
Capital Hill street housing many lobbying firms, the Project gave 
lobbyists direct access to Washington lawmakers through weekly policy 
and strategy meetings. The most infamous K Street lobbyist was Jack 
Abramoff, who worked for the firm Greenberg Traurig. Abramoff, now in 
prison, took money from his American Indian tribe clients, and laundered 
it to Congressional Representatives in return for legislative and policy 
favors aligned with the Project’s political agenda.

But this was not just any money laundering enterprise. Abramoff’s dry 
cleaner was converting money to election fraud.

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[Please read *the entire article*. It is eye-opening and of importance 
to how we understand Irish election systems. In fact the 
chain-of-custody issue is the one area that, to my knowledge, has never 
been adequately addressed in relation to our elections here in Ireland.

More information about the New Hampshire recounts is at 
blackboxvoting.org --Catherine]