Aida Touma-Sliman on Palestine and Gaza and Emily Levy and Marilyn Marks on Election Transparency

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This Monday Lisa Dettmer we will look at the security of our election system with our guests Emily Levy and Marilyn Marks who are working to make our election system more transparent and secure. While happily the polls show support for Harris as stronger than Biden’s were and gaining on Trump in swing states there are still ways the Republicans are working hard to manipulate this election. MSNBC has recognized that the Republican’s are planning election manipulation especially in swing states and has been covering problems with concerns about potential certification delays a lot recently, but around the country election systems that are not verifiable and transparent are in jeopardy of being hacked or subverted and this is especially true in In Georgia which is an essential swing state , and where the ‘Biggest Election Breach’ in History Has Gone Uninvestigated. Recently the non profit non partisan paper NOTUS covered this breach writing

“It’s been more than three years since a team of Republican officials engaged in a covert operation to illegally access a rural Georgia county’s electronic elections system and appear to have made off with sensitive computer information — after briefing Donald Trump on aspects of that plan in the White House .Yet no one — not the feds, not state elections officials, not even local law enforcement — has ascertained exactly what happened in Coffee County, Georgia, a rural patch of the politically deep red American South.” And this is only the tip of the ice berg of election fraud possibilities in Georgia and many other states including California that don’t have a way to verify votes or have enough poll workers to make sure the system works fairly”. . So today we talk to two women who are working on voter transparency.

Emily Levy is the Executive Director of Scrutineers.org, a progressive, nonpartisan online community dedicated to fair, transparent, accessible, and secure elections. An activist for over 50 years, Emily has been a leader in the election transparency movement dating to 2004 and specializes in helping members of the public understand election technology and security issues and to become active in the movement

And Marilyn Marks is the Executive Director of Coalition for Good Governance, a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to transparent government and evidence-based elections. Marilyn is the driving force behind the much-watched Curling v. Kemp lawsuit against Georgia’s election officials to rid the state of unverifiable, touch screen electronic equipment.

And You can get more information from Marilyn Marks about her work in Georgia around election transparency at [e-mail] and for the group go to https://coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/ If you want to weigh in with Georgia’s State Election Board to encourage a transparent verifiable election in Georgia, let Marilyn know and she will send you some recommended messages. You can hear the show live at 94.1FM or at www.kpfa.org where the show is streaming and will be available afterward to stream and download at Women’s Magazine’s archives at kpfa.org

And we will talk to Aida Touma-Sliman who is a Feminist Activist, Israeli Palestinian Politician and Palestinian Citizen of Israel

Touma-Sliman is a member of the Israeli Knesset representing Hadash which is the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), and an Arab-Jewish party.

She was first elected in 2015 and served as the first Arab chair of the Knesset statutory Committee for the Status of Women and Gender Equality till 2022.

MK Touma-Sliman was the first woman to serve in the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and is Co-founder of the International Women Commission for Just Palestinian-Israeli Peace. She is also a secretary member of the World Peace Council. Aida was suspended from the Knesset last year for criticizing the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Despite endless attacks by the mainstream Jewish media and right wing politicians in Israel Touma-Sliman recently initiated in the Knesset a special session titled “Recognition of a Palestinian State – Why Now? In order to begin discussion of a two state solution for Palestinians for which she and her supporters were verbally attacked by right wing Knesset members. But still she keeps on fighting for peace for Palestinians.

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