[Mb-civic] 18 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Wed Mar 2 22:30:21 PST 2005

18 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Did you know....?

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two 
companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.
html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or 
oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.
html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are 
brothers.
>http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http: 
/www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush 
campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was 
"committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the 
president next year."
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.s
html
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of 
ES&S. He became Senator in a surprise upset, with votes 
counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200
.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.
html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the 
Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of 
ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=arti
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. 
Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. Kenneth Blackwell co-chaired George Bush's Ohio election 
campaign. As Ohio secretary of state, he left no stone unturned 
to surpress the democratic vote.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/113004Y.shtml#1
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/894
http://67.15.90.110/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1414219

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper 
trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that 
the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was 
legitimately put in by voters.
http://www.c mmondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket 
machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a 
paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election 
results. Reputable analyses could not find and explanation of 
the discrepancy between exit polls and results of the 2004 
presidential election.
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/Unexplained_exit_poll_discre
p_v00l.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/europe/23ukraine.
html?ex=1102245800&ei=1&en=3a3c24b7e64fe49

12. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as 
senior managers and developers. These people helped write 
the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the 
votes in 30 states. 
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central 
compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in 
the first degree.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Jeff Dean was served jail time for planting back doors in 
his client's accounting software and using a "high degree of 
sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed 
in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because 
the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the 
audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do 
it! 
(See the movie here with the 
chimp<http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov>.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected 
and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican 
candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchSt
udiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&f
ile=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

18. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always 
favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and 
experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath 
4/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/polic
y/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.htmlhttp://uscountvot
es.org/

Based on a list compiled by Angry Girl 
http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html
______________________________________________
Were American's votes were deliberately miscounted?

If this was done, it means, quite literally, that we are no longer 
living in a democracy.

When I read the list a few days ago, some of the allegations just 
seemed too preposterous to believe. Like:

"Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler 
code...served jail time for planting back doors in his client's 
accounting software and using a 'high degree of 
sophistication' to evade detection over a period of 2 years."

I tracked down the author of the list, who graciously responded with 
a list of references for each allegation. I checked out this Jeff Dean 
thing in particular. It didn't take long to get to this:

According to the findings of fact in case no. 89-1-04034-1 
(Washington State):
"...Defendant's thefts occurred over a 2 1/2 year period of time, 
there were multiple incidents, more than the standard range can 
account for, the actual monetary loss was substantially greater than 
typical for the offense, the crimes and their cover-up involved a high 
degree of sophistication and planning in the use and alteration of 
records in the computerized accounting system that defendant 
maintained for the victim, and the defendant used his position of 
trust and fiduciary responsibility as a computer systems and 
accounting consultant for the victim to facilitate the commission of 
the offenses."

Another one of the references led to a detailed account of the 
double database technique pioneered by Mr. Dean to enable 
electronically tabulated votestogive a false total while still 
presenting accurate details in case of spot audits.

In combination with the constellation of undisputed circumstantial 
evidence and open conflicts of interest, these last details are just 
too damning to ignore.

A cloud over the validity of the American electoral process is not 
acceptable.

Please join me in calling for:

1) a full investigation of election irregularities
2) measures to ensure that ballots cannot easily be miscounted, 
and can be recounted

Please -

1) forward this list to everyone you know
2) use it as grist for letters to the editor (in your own words) and 
requests to newspapers, radio and tv for election fraud 
investigation... 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster
3) write your congressional representatives calling for an 
investigation http://www.house.gov/writerep/

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