The mission of the Oregon Voter Rights Coalition is to restore public ownership and oversight of elections, and to ensure the fundamental right of every American citizen to vote and to have each vote counted as intended in a secure, transparent, impartial, and independently verified election process.
Oregon VRC Presentations
Submitted by Beth on Sun, 07/16/2006 - 4:45am
Here's why Oregon VRC developed this presentation:
Description of the presentation:
The Illusion of Democracy
Help us educate the public about Oregon's Vote-by-Mail system and the alarming state of our national election system. Bring our PowerPoint Presentation, The Illusion of Democracy: An Urgent Call to Action for National Election Reform, to your neighborhood or group meeting. Speakers from the Oregon Voter Rights Coalition (Oregon VRC) are available to give the presentation to interested groups. People who have seen it have expressed shock and astonishment when learning the otherwise unpublicized realities of our current election system.
To schedule a presentation, contact ginnypdx @ comcast dot net or leave a message on our information line at 503-292-7674.
Order a CD of the Presentation
Interested in getting a copy of the presentation for yourself? The CD contains a PowerPoint show version for those with the PowerPoint software program and an .htm version for those who do not. The presentation is set up so that anyone can view it on their own computer or even give the presentation to others. We're asking a $5 donation for the CD to help defray costs.
To order the CD, contact us at info at oregonvrc dot org. Be sure to include your name, address, and how many copies you'd like.
To view the whole slide show, CLICK HERE.
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View some slides from the presentation below
To send this page to others for viewing, send this link: http://www.oregonvrc.org/speakers
NOTE: The information in this presentation is relevant nationwide as well as in Oregon.
Here's why Oregon VRC developed this presentation:
The mid-term elections of 2006 were fast approaching and election integrity activists across the country continued to be extremely worried over the alarming state of our election system. While other states have much more serious problems than we do here in Oregon, our paper ballots are counted on electronic tabulators manufactured and maintained by for-profit, highly partisan companies using secret software to determine the election results. Contrary to popular belief, various tests and studies have demonstrated that these systems are highly vulnerable. Oregon VRC developed this presentation for wide distribution in order to raise awareness of this serious problem.
Description of the presentation:
In a democratic republican form of government such as ours, where people place the political power in the hands of their representatives, voting is the only legitimate way to transfer power from the people to the government.
In recent years, our public, transparent election system has been under heavy attack nationwide to place private, for-profit electronic election system companies with secret software between the voter and election outcomes. These electronic systems include electronic tabulators that count the votes, such as for Oregon's optical scan voting system.
The Oregon VRC's presentation takes an objective, straightforward approach to document how our election system has degenerated into a situation threatening our very democracy. Corrupt and heavily partisan election system companies, local, state and national-level political tactics such as massive-scale voter disenfranchisement, media silence, and public apathy have all contributed to a situation where, at the very least, people cannot have confidence in the reported results, or, at the most, election fraud determines the outcomes.
There are ways for We the People to save our democracy. Find out what is being done by grassroots activists, and how everyone can help, to return integrity and transparency to our election system. Find out how this all relates to Oregon and its popular vote-by-mail election system.
VIDEO: “Protecting Your Vote”
