News on NCEL (National Clean Elections Lawsuit)

All the states were served, and all of the states responded with motions to dismiss for various reasons. Our lengthy response to these motions has just been filed, which includes our motion for relief. A VERY small snippet of this brief is below:....

This memorandum is in support of Plaintiffs’ proposed Show Cause Order to temporarily and preliminarily enjoin, prohibit and restrict Defendants from conducting any caucus or primary election for President of the United States where the votes are to be counted IN SECRET, by machine or otherwise, and that do not utilize paper ballots with votes that are hand-marked and hand-counted in full public view, with the result of the count announced and posted at each polling station.
Any caucus or primary election for President of the United States where the votes are counted IN SECRET, that does not utilize hand marked paper ballots and does not count the votes cast for President of the United States by hand, in full public view, violates the natural Rights of all Plaintiffs to cast an effective vote for President, and to have all votes accurately counted.
The Presidential caucuses and primaries are scheduled to begin on January 3, 2008. See schedule below. On information and belief, Kansas has decided to conduct a caucus, rather than a primary, on a date uncertain.
JANUARY 2008
January 3: Iowa
January 8: New Hampshire
January 5: Wyoming (R)
January 15: Michigan
January 19: Nevada, South Carolina (R)
January 26: South Carolina (D)
January 29: Florida

FEBRUARY 2008
February 1: Maine (R)
February 5: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
Idaho (D), Illinois, Kansas (D), Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico (D),
New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah
February 9: Louisiana, Kansas (R)
February 10: Maine (D)
February 12: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
February 19: Hawaii (D)1, Washington, Wisconsin

MARCH 2008
March 4: Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont
March 8: Wyoming (D)
March 11: Mississippi

APRIL 2008
April 22: Pennsylvania

MAY 2008
May 6: Indiana, North Carolina
May 13: Nebraska, West Virginia
May 20: Kentucky, Oregon
May 27: Idaho (R)

JUNE 2008
June 3: Montana, New Mexico (R), South Dakota

AUGUST 2008
August 25-28: Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado

SEPTEMBER 2008
September 1-4: Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
Unless this Court acts swiftly to protect the integrity of these upcoming electoral events, Plaintiffs and the People of this nation will needlessly, but certainly, endure -- in violation of their Rights, an election that is by definition constitutionally deficient and which will deprive them of their Right to democratically elect the leaders of their choice....

There is a LOT more, including testamony regarding the way Associated Press and the Big 5 have handled this counting..but this is just a bit to show you what is happening.