<div dir="ltr"><div><em><font size="4">This quote attributed to Joseph Stalin was not part of the Jill Stein email. Nonetheless, it appears rather relevant to the issues...</font></em></div><div><em><font size="4"></font></em><br></div><div><em><font size="6">"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." </font><span></span></em><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/stalin-it-isnt-the-people-who-vote-that-count-3299175">https://www.thoughtco.com/stalin-it-isnt-the-people-who-vote-that-count-3299175</a><span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span><strong>Update:</strong> <strong>A historical source has been found for one version of this quote.</strong> The source is Boris Bazhanov's <a href="http://www.panrus.com/books/details.php?langID=1&bookID=5905" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em><font color="#0066cc">Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary</font></em></a>, published in 1992 and only available, so far as I know, <a href="http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/BAZHANOW/stalin.txt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><font color="#0066cc">in Russian</font></a>. The pertinent passage, which appears near the end of chapter five, reads as follows (loosely translated with the help of Google):<span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jill Stein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:HQ@jill2016.com">HQ@jill2016.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:50 AM<br>Subject: Fighting for 1st ever exam of critical election software<br>To: Ted Moffett <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u>
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<p>Dear Ted,</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Over a year after the historic
effort to recount the 2016 vote, our legal team is still at work in
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania <strong>fighting for an election system
that is accurate, secure and just - and free from interference by
</strong></span><strong><em>any</em> intruders, whether foreign or
domestic!</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Towards that end, we now have the
exciting opportunity to conduct</span><strong> a groundbreaking
state-wide examination of the voting machine “source code” -
</strong><span style="font-weight:400">a crucial piece of voting
machine software which controls the actual counting and tallying of
the votes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Incredibly, the source code for
voting software has</span> <strong><em>never before been examined for
evidence of tampering or errors that would compromise an
election!</em></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">During the recount, we claimed the
right to examine this software</span> <span style="font-weight:400">under a new, unique Wisconsin law. </span><span style="font-weight:400">This examination, conducted by computer
voting experts, would check for evidence of human error, intentional
interference or tampering by anyone - whether foreign powers, criminal
networks, domestic partisans, or corporations that control the voting
software.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But it will be a tough legal fight
to make this happen. That’s because</span><strong> election law
largely protects the privacy and profits of voting software companies
over our right to an accurate and secure vote. </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Before we can have the software
examined, the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) must put in place
confidentiality rules to protect the software companies’ private
information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Not surprisingly, the vendors of
the voting software used by Wisconsin, Dominion Voting Systems, Inc.
and Election Systems & Software, Inc., have opposed our request
and have sought what we believe is an unfair confidentiality agreement
that would prevent us from communicating with the public about our
findings - even if we agreed not to disclose anything
proprietary.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The WEC has been reviewing our
request and the vendors’ response and we expect a final decision at
their special meeting on January 31st. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">If they do not grant us access to
this crucial source code software, and the ability to share our
findings with the public, we will challenge their decision in court.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The 2016 election was remarkable
for evidence of hacking into multiple voter registration systems,
private voting software companies, and local election officials’
computers. That makes it all the more surprising that no one has
checked to see whether the hacking extended to the voting software
used during the election. </span></p>
<p><strong>Stay tuned for an update from Wisconsin soon.</strong></p>
<p><strong>In Pennsylvania</strong><span style="font-weight:400"> we
had sought a Federal Court order for a statewide recount, including an
examination of voting machine software, which unfortunately was denied
in December 2016. Though that decision derailed the Pennsylvania
recount effort, we came right back with a challenge to the
constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s incredibly complicated recount
procedure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">That procedure requires tens of
thousands of voters to file legal requests for a recount by deadlines
that county and state officials were unable to specify. This quagmire
of bureaucracy effectively denies citizens their right to verify that
their votes are counted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The suit also calls for a forensic
examination of voting equipment in order to verify the accuracy of the
vote. Since Pennsylvania voting equipment is mostly paperless, there
is no other option to verify the vote. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">We expect that the case and its
accompanying appeals are still a long way from over. Stay tuned for
updates as the case progresses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">In addition to the lawsuit,
Pennsylvania has seen an impressive emergence of grassroots action on
election integrity and voting justice issues. Along with many other
organizations, our team and supporters are working to prevent
Pennsylvania from enacting restrictive Voter ID laws, and other
disenfranchisement schemes like the wrongful purging of legitimate
voters through programs like Interstate Crosscheck. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">It’s clear that the struggle for
election integrity and voting justice won’t be easy or quick, but it
is critical for building a real democracy that our future depends on.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Thank you for leading the charge,
and making all of this possible with your initial recount
support!</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">It’s in our
hands,<br></span></em><span style="font-weight:400">Jill
Stein</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:400"><strong>PS.</strong> If you have questions about the recount
effort or ongoing election integrity litigation, please take a look at
our </span><a href="https://www.jill2016.com/recountfaq?e=722e7625441c65e2226aba4718249b84&utm_source=jillstein&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pa_wi_vj_updt&n=2" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">Recount 2016 frequently asked
questions</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. If you don’t see
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to answer it.</span></strong></p><strong> </strong></td>
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