December 03, 2004
20 facts you should know about voting in America
>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.shtml
> 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=article&sid=26
> 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.commondreams.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_discrep_v00l.pdf
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/europe/23ukraine.html?ex=110
>2245800&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
> http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
>
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> 17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch
>screen voting machines with no paper trail.
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
>
>
>18. 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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOu
>t.htm
> http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
>
>http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=
>950
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
>
>
>19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the
>President's brother.
>
> http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html
>
>
>20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring
>Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are
>recommending further investigation.
>
>http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOu
>t.htm
>
>http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,1080
>1,97614,00.html
> http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
> http://uscountvotes.org/
>
>Based on a list compiled by Angry Girl
>http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html
Posted by Chuck at December 3, 2004 11:36 PM