[Mb-civic] FW: Election fraud facts - a great website

[Reute]

Big surprise. Ah well.
Love and Light, Reute

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From: Muffi Hiss <muffihiss at terra.com.pe>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:16:53 -0800
To: Salvador del Solar <salvaito at hotmail.com>
Subject: Fw: Election fraud facts - a great website

 

 

Click here: 
http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/articles/voting-facts.pdf
<http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/articles/voting-facts.pdf>


Election Fraud in the U.S.A. 2004
facts every American should know


  Eighty percent of all votes were counted on electronic voting machines
made by one of two companies -
Diebold and ES&S. The president of Diebold and the vice president of ES&S
are brothers and both companies are
contributors to the Republican Party. Walden O'Dell, the owner of Diebold,
said in a 2003 fundraising letter that he
is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president
next year." O'Dell has spent time on
President Bush's ranch in Texas, and is a top level contributor to the Bush
campaign.

  Diebold and ES&S insisted on manufacturing computerized voting machines
that produce no paper ballot
and can not be recounted. They claimed it was not technically possible to
produce paper ballots, although Diebold
also makes bank ATM machines, which do produce paper receipts. The state of
California outlawed Diebold
voting machines because of their lack of security and paper printout. A bill
was introduced into Congress in 2002,
to require a paper ballot printout on all voting machines. Although there
was bipartisan support for the bill, the
leadership of the Republican Party prevented the bills from coming to a
vote. No explanation has been given.

  Several programmers and managers at Diebold have previously been convicted
of computer fraud.

  Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska used to be the presdient of ES&S, who
manufactured the voting machines
that were used in his own election to his Senate seat. Hagel is known to be
considering running for President in
2008.

  Thousands of complaints about electronic voting machines malfunctioning on
election day have been logged.
Nearly every reported problem made a mistake that favored President Bush.

  Exit polls are used internationally to identify problems with elections.
On election day, the exit polls showed
Kerry winning both Ohio and Florida. In Florida, Diebold and ES&S machines
were used to count the votes. In
Ohio, votes were counted by machines produced by Triad, another supporter of
the Republican party. Many
statistical experts have published reports stating that the difference
between our exit polls and the official results is
much larger than it should be, far beyond the margin of error.

  Systematic voter suppression has been documented, particularly in Ohio.
More voting machines were placed
in Republican strongholds and less were placed in Democratic areas. Long
voting lines, up to 10 hours, were only
seen in Democratic, minority, and low income areas, while Republican and
higher-income areas had no lines. In
some areas, the voter registration list from 2000 was used, and anyone who
had registered since then was forced to
use a provisional ballot. People were phoned and sent letters telling them
their voting location had changed when it
had not. A lawsuit has been filed in regards to widespread voter suppression
in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell, the Secretary of State of Ohio, is both the overseer of
elections and the head of the re-elect
Bush campaign in the same state. This is like allowing the coach of a team
to be the referee in an important
game. Blackwell has been sent a letter signed by several Congressmen asking
him specific questions about the
voter suppression and other things that went on in Ohio on election day, and
he was asked to come to Washington
DC to testify about this information. Blackwell ignored the request to
testify and has not answered a single
question asked in the letter.

  Congress is holding hearings on voting irregularities in Ohio. In the
testimony there has been sworn
statements of witnesses who saw unauthorized manipulation of the voting
machines. 

One witness has signed a
sworn affidavit stating that he was paid to write software code that would
swing the election to the Republican
candidate.



YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE AND HAVE IT COUNTED PROPERLY.
documentation and more information:
election.solarbus.org




Click here: 
http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/articles/voting-facts.pdf
<http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/articles/voting-facts.pdf>



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