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The use of government agents and informants to instigate criminal acts to create the pretense for a crackdown is hardly new, and it is not exclusively the province of overtly totalitarian regimes.
On the night of March 21, 1965, 40-year-old Freedom Rider Viola Liuzzo and a 19-year-old Black volunteer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (LeRoy Moton) were driving back to Selma, AL, from assisting some 3,000 civil rights marchers under the leadership of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on their trek from Selma to Montgomery, AL, for a scheduled rally at the state capitol building. A car carrying four men pulled alongside and fired several shots into the car. Two of the rounds struck Liuzzo in the head, killing her. The car crashed. Moton lost consciousness but was covered in blood, so the shooters mistook him for dead. Eventually, four Klansmen were arrested. But there was an interesting twist. One of the Klansmen was an FBI informant. Whi
Citizens Group Highlights Vulnerability of EVMs, Calls for Greater Clarity in Poll Process During the process of drafting the report, we reached out to the ECI several times, but they didnât respond, a member of the group told The Wire.
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Kolkata: The Citizensâ Commission on Elections (CCE), a civil society group of retired judges, former civil servants, university professors, senior journalists and activists, on Saturday, January 30, released a report on the âfallibilityâ or âvulnerabilityâ of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) and said that EVM voting should abide by principles of democracy.
Citizens’ group says VVPAT should be redesigned The Citizens’ Commission on Elections (CCE), a body of eminent persons with domain knowledge to delve into critical aspects related to elections, has recommended that the voting system be subjected to an independent review and the integrity of the election should be subjected to an independent audit with the findings made public.
The CCE was constituted in March 2020 to draw upon expert advice and come up with suggestions to ensure that elections were free and fair.
The CCE comprises former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur as its chairman; retired IAS officer and former CIC and vice-chairman of CCE Wajahat Habibullah; former judge of the Madras High Court Hari Paranthaman; economist Arun Kumar; civil society activist Dr. John Dayal; senior journalist Pamela Philipose; IIT-Delhi professor Dr. Subhashis Banerjee; retired IAS officer Sundar Burra and former IAS officer and coordinator M.G. Devasahayam.
Reconstituting Ben Franklin’s Republic
by Michael Billington
Schiller Institute
Some of the speakers in the January 2, 2020 Town Hall meeting, “Truth in Elections,” co-sponsored by The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute.
Jan. 2 The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute today hosted a powerful virtual Town Hall meeting with representatives of the state legislatures and activists from four of the states in which the presidential election is contested, and others, presenting evidence of the massive vote fraud and irregularities in the election, and discussing the profound impact of this fight for the future of the nation and the world. The forum is part of a mobilization of concerned citizens to create a Citizens’ Commission for Truth in Elections, which will hold a founding conference on January 17.