Reply #195: KoKo01, I'm late posting this so it may be superfluous

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but even though Harris has been out front publicly on the issue there are many other activists who have been working on the issue who are also out front and v. credible. David Dill and Avi Rubin are two. Send your Republican friends that you've been working on to http://www.verifiedvoting.com. It's a great site. Have them check out all the IT professionals and others who have signed the "Resolution on Electronic Voting" at that site. Under "Technologists" there are now 2003 (as of now) endorsers including engineers, computer science professors, IT security professionals etc etc from universities across the country including Cornell, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and businesses like Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

There are activists all across the country who have been working hard on the blackbox voting issue for years now. Here in Georgia we have one activist who has been featured on Nightline, Air America radio, and quoted in numerous articles in high profile publications, although this person likes to stay in the background. She has dedicated her life to the issue in an incredibly altruistic way. So have many more people.

Take heart! We've come far with getting the issue into the public light that problems with one activist will not derail the movement. Certainly in the early days it was a concern, but not any more. We are right about paperless/privitized voting systems being a threat to democracy and in the end we will win out.

As far as the Votergate.tv film, The producers are fine men who also have been dedicated to the issue. Harris is highlighted in the short film as a thematic device, but that doesn't diminish the truth of the concerns that the film addresses.