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The Green Party of the United States has announced the winners of the "Let's loGO Contest," in which graphic artists were invited to submit designs for a Green Party logo.
The winning design (pictured above), selected by the Green Party's Coordinating Committee, was submitted by Lisa Luke and Daniel Strickland of San Francisco, Ca. Their design will be used for a line of merchandise to be sold at the National Convention and throughout the remainder of 2004.
A design submitted by Diane Foley, also of California, has been selected as a runner-up, and her design will also be used for similar projects.
"We're grateful that so many creative people volunteered their time to develop a design for the party," said Kara Mullen, the Green Party's national fundraising director.
"We feel that we have two worthy concepts with which we can develop a great line of merchandise. We used a very democratic process to choose the designs and had a lot of fun in the process. While we can't compete with the other partiesâ fat bank rolls, weâre light years ahead when it comes to democracy."
Greens demand ballot audit trails
The Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of the United States has issued a resolution demanding voter-verified paper ballot audit trails for every electronic voting machine used in U.S. elections.
The resolution cites the vulnerability of voting machines to error, equipment malfunction, and tampering.
"The stakes in this election are very high," said Linda Schade, lead plaintiff in Schade v. Maryland Board of Elections. Schade, a Maryland Green, is an organizer of the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland. "People of all political persuasions are coming out of the woodwork on this issue ... Greens are in a unique position because we can keep the focus on the issue and off partisan divisiveness."
Schade is leading a group of Maryland voters in a lawsuit charging that Maryland's new Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines fail to comply with state and federal law. Hundreds of voters who were critical of the Diebold machines and asked for paper ballots on Maryland's primary election day later learned that their ballots were discarded without being counted.
Greens are participating in similar coalitions in California, Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. In California, such efforts have resulted in the passage of a law requiring a paper ballot trail for all voting machines by 2006; Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified Diebold's AcuVote-TSx system, which accounts for a third of the state's voting machines.
"We've been working with Democratic and Republican officeholders for this to move," said Nan Garrett, Georgia Green delegate to the national party. "Fifteen state legislatures have passed legislation requiring paper trails for their electronic voting systems. An estimated 50 million voters in 38 states will be using the new technology in November, and we're racing to protect the integrity of elections."
Admin. officials urged to resign
Green Party leaders called May 10 for the immediate resignation of all senior Bush Administration officials under whose watch abuse of Iraqi prisoners occurred, especially those officials who had been informed that such abuse was taking place.
"The revelations of humiliation, torture, and murder of prisoners destroy any possibility of President Bush's stated desire to win over Iraqi hearts and minds," said Starlene Rankin, Lavender Green Caucus delegate to the national party.
Greens charged that the recent news caps a mountain of deception and abuse of power by President Bush and senior administration officials in the handling of 9/11 and Iraq
On May 7, the International Committee of the Red Cross said that abuse of prisoners was so widespread that it may have been condoned by coalition forces and that senior Bush officials may have known of the abuses.
Greens demanded the resignation of three top officials: CIA director George Tenet, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Iraq occupation administrator Paul Bremer. Tenet has since resigned.
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