BBV: Bev and I just returned from a brilliant trip to New York

[Andy_Stephenson]

We have several media contacts and some surprises coming up later this month. I want to thank Stephanie for letting me crash on her sofa Stephanie ROCKS! Thanks to nostamj for the wonderful Question W revue...If you missed it you missed a great show. I laughed I cried and laughed some more. Thanks nost...and as always it was great seeing you.

I will do a full report tomorrow...tonight I am just checking on to say Hi :hi:

oh and

:hi: Agent Mike.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Good you guys got home safe

and THANKS

[Zan_of_Texas]

2. Hi Andy! Glad you're home safe.

:hi:

Hope Agent Mike had a nice sofa to stay on somewhere too.

[Andy_Stephenson]

7. Thanks!

and thanks for having me on your show! I hope I did ok...I sometimes wander.

[Melodybe]

4. I love you guys and even though there is only one e-voting county in

MS, if you ever need a couch you can have mine.

[Dover]

3. Article from WIRED: E-Vote Recount Rule In Dispute

Florida officials will not require any recounts of votes cast on touch-screen voting machines during Tuesday's state primary, despite a ruling by an administrative judge that counties using electronic voting are not exempt from laws requiring the re-tabulation of votes in close elections.

The judge, Susan Kirkland, issued a ruling Friday in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups. In it, she points out that the Florida legislature decided earlier this year not to amend state law to bar recounts of electronic votes.

"The whole reason that touch-screen machines were put into place and that some of the counties chose to use them was to avoid the problems they encountered in 2000," said Jenny Nash, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State. "This is a step backward to that time."

President Bush won the state's electoral votes by just 537 votes after 36 days of recount and contest.

Florida law requires a manual recount of the votes in any election in which the winner's margin of victory is a quarter of a percent or less of the total vote. But Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood issued an administrative rule earlier this year that officials in 15 counties using touch-screen ballots would not need to recount those votes because the results would be no different.

Kirkland's order throws out that rule.

"If the legislature had intended that no manual recounts be done in counties using voting systems which did not use paper ballots, it could easily have done so; it did not," Kirkland wrote in her final order.

State officials have 30 days from Friday to appeal the ruling.

more

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64783,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7

[aquart]

5. Meeting you made my week.

You completely eclipsed Medea Benjamin.

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. And it was great meeting you as well.

I feel like I have known you for years. Thanks for hanging out after the show. :hugs:

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. You're back!

I guess you didn't call you-know-who....of course, she was out protesting.

[nostamj]

9. we *might* still do more performances

in fact, we're trying to set up an "Election Eve Farewell Performance" for Monday 11/1...

was great to see you and Bev and I was SO happy you got to see the revue... (watching Bev during the BBV.org number was PRICELESS!)

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. It was GREAT!

I loved the show.

A farewell Performance would be great!

BTW Termite is in love with Sue...

Andy

[nostamj]

11. great CD, isn't it?

www.suematsuki.com

[goclark]

12. You were awesome on Air America!