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 |
 |  http://propaganda.lege.net/evoting/
 |
 |
 |  U.S. Voting Fraud, Mass Media Cover-up, etc.
 |
 |  "Corporate America is very close to running this country.
 |  The only thing that is stopping them from taking total
 |  control are the pesky voters. That's why there's such a
 |  drive to control the vote. What we're seeing is the
 |  corporatisation of the last shred of democracy."   [ New
 |  Zealand News - World - US voting system vulnerable to fraud
 |  --
 |  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3529550&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
 |  ]
 |
 |  Who Plans to Steal the 2004 US Elections?   Some people have
 |  it figured out By Egan Orion Monday 29 September 2003, The
 |  Inquirer. [ http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11811 ].  
 |  It's actually Chris Floyd's CounterPunch article Vanishing
 |  Act -- "Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button.
 |  [ http://counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html ].  Only, Egan
 |  Orion adds these comments in the beginning:  ``AFTER THE
 |  VOTING MESS in Florida during the 2000 elections, the US
 |  Congress passed the "Help America Vote Act". They should
 |  have more accurately entitled it the "Help Steal America's
 |  Vote Act" instead.  However, at least one journalist has
 |  cottoned on to what's happening, and it is simply
 |  outrageous. We reprint by permission Chris Floyd's dynamite
 |  article at CounterPunch exposing these sordid facts.''
 |
 |
 |  Mass Media Cover-up
 |
 |  Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
 |  Edited by Kristina Borjesson, Foreword by Gore Vidal
 |
 |  This is a 10-page summary [
 |  http://www.wanttoknow.info/buzzsaw10pg ] of the fascinating
 |  accounts of 18 award-winning journalists from the book Into
 |  the Buzzsaw [ http://intothebuzzsaw.com/ ]. All of these
 |  writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from
 |  reporting major, incredibly revealing news. Some were even
 |  fired or laid off. These journalists have won numerous
 |  awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer Award. Help
 |  us to create a more responsible media and a better world.
 |  Spread this news across the land [
 |  http://www.wanttoknow.info/emailmedia ].
 |
 |
 |  Touch screens worry voter
 |
 |  Posted on Mon, Nov. 10, 2003
 |  ELECTIONS
 |  Touch screens worry voters [
 |  http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7224229.htm ]
 |  South Florida voter opinions reflect increasing national
 |  concern about the security of electronic voting and the
 |  desire for a paper record.
 |  By Erika Bolstad <ebolstad@herald.com>
 |
 |
 |  Touch screen voting systems and rigged elections
 |  [ http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/67789.php ]
 |
 |  by Schuyler Ebbets  * Wednesday September 17, 2003 at 11:03
 |  PM
 |
 |
 |  Attempts to examine the code used by the machines in Florida
 |  were blocked in the courts by the GOP citing,
 |  "proprietary/trade secrecy" protections under a law, which
 |  made it impossible for the DNC to ascertain how the machines
 |  tabulated votes.
 |
 |  The 2004 Election Has Already Been Rigged
 |
 |  By Schuyler Ebbets
 |  Posted September 2, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org
 |
 |  The pollsters have recently been forced to admit that the
 |  majority of Americans are against the re-election of George
 |  Bush. Two wars, thousands of dead human beings, and nine
 |  million lost jobs later and people are beginning to realize
 |  that something is very wrong. In spite of this gradual
 |  awakening most registered voters continue to depend on TV
 |  for their news and they are kept woefully in the dark about
 |  issues like election reform and touch screen voting. The
 |  media has gone to great lengths to foster an illusion of
 |  legitimacy and normalcy surrounding the electoral process.
 |  People have been intentionally lead to believe that their
 |  vote counts and Bush could actually be booted out of office
 |  on Election Day. No way is Bush going to lose, it just can't
 |  happen. The 2004 election has already been rigged. The
 |  corporations and the military industrial complex have bought
 |  them selves a government and they aren't going to let some
 |  silly little presidential election jeopardize their
 |  investment. [
 |  http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/67789.php ]
 |
 |
 |  Sludge Report #154 - Bigger Than Watergate!
 |  [ http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm ]
 |  Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 6:13 pm
 |  Column: C.D. Sludge
 |
 |
 |  In This Edition: Bigger Than Watergate! - How To Rig An
 |  Election In The United States - Fantasy vs Reality - How We
 |  Discovered The Backdoor - Evidence Of Motive - Evidence Of
 |  Opportunity - Evidence Of Method - Evidence Of Prior Conduct
 |  - Consistent Unexplained Circumstantial Evidence
 |
 |  IMPORTANT NOTE: Publication of this story marks a watershed
 |  in American political history. It is offered freely for
 |  publication in full or part on any and all internet forums,
 |  blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged
 |  to utilise material. Readers are encouraged to forward this
 |  to friends and acquaintances in the United States and
 |  elsewhere.
 |
 |
 |  *** NEW *** FOLLOW UP STORY
 |  Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines
 |  and
 |  The Truth About the Rob-Georgia File [
 |  http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00078.htm ]
 |
 |  See Also Companion Article For Detail And Screenshots Of An
 |  Election Hack . . .  Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting
 |  Program   http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
 |
 |
 |  Sludge Report #154
 |
 |  Bigger Than Watergate!
 |
 |  The story you are about to read is in this writer's view the
 |  biggest political scandal in American history, if not global
 |  history. And it is being broken today here in New Zealand.
 |
 |  This story cuts to the bone the machinery of democracy in
 |  America today. Democracy is the only protection we have
 |  against despotic and arbitrary government, and this story is
 |  deeply disturbing.
 |
 |  Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group
 |  that wishes to control forevermore the levers of power.
 |  Imagine further that you know you are likely to implement a
 |  highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be
 |  removed by a ballot driven backlash.
 |
 |  One way to accomplish this outcome would be to adopt the
 |  Mugabe (Zimbabwe) or Hun Sen (Cambodia) approach. You agree
 |  to hold elections, but simultaneously arrest, imprison and
 |  beat your opponents and their supporters. You stuff ballot
 |  boxes, disenfranchise voters who are unlikely to vote for
 |  you, distort electoral boundaries and provide insufficient
 |  polling stations in areas full of opposition supporters.
 |
 |  However as so many despots have discovered, eventually such
 |  techniques always fail - often violently. Hence, if you are
 |  a truly ambitious political dynasty you have to be a bit
 |  more subtle about your methods.
 |
 |  Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the
 |  voting process itself in such a way that you could steal
 |  elections without anybody knowing.
 |
 |  Imagine for example if you could:
 |
 |  - secure control of the companies that make the voting
 |  machines and vote counting software;
 |
 |  - centralise vote counting systems, and politicise their
 |  supervision;
 |
 |  - legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your
 |  domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase
 |  of these systems;
 |
 |  - establish systems of vote counting that effectively
 |  prevent anybody on the ground in the election - at a booth
 |  or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a
 |  micro-level;
 |
 |  - get all the major media to sign up to a single
 |  exit-polling system that you also control - removing the
 |  risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.
 |
 |  And imagine further that you;
 |
 |  - install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote
 |  counting systems you have built that enable you to
 |  manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they
 |  are coming in.
 |
 |  Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the
 |  minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a
 |  majority on election night. On the basis of polling you
 |  could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your tweaking
 |  to a bare minimum.
 |
 |  Such a system would enable you to minimise the risks of
 |  discovery of your activities.
 |
 |  Such a system would enable you to target and remove
 |  individual political opponents who were too successful, too
 |  popular or too inquisitive.
 |
 |  And most importantly of all, such a system would enable you
 |  to accomplish all the above without the public being in the
 |  least aware of what you were doing. When confronted with the
 |  awfulness of your programme they would be forced to concede
 |  that at least it is the result of a democratic process.
 |
 |
 |  How To Rig An Election In The United States
 |
 |  So how would such a system actually work?
 |
 |  Well one way to run such a corrupt electoral system might
 |  look like this.
 |
 |  - Each voting precinct (or booth) could be fitted with
 |  electronic voting systems, optical scanning systems, punch
 |  card voting systems or the more modern touchscreen
 |  electronic voting machines;
 |
 |  - At the close of play each day the booth/precinct
 |  supervisor could be under instructions to compile an
 |  electronic record of the votes cast in their booth;
 |
 |  - They might print out a report that contains only the
 |  details of the total votes count for that precinct/booth,
 |  and then file via modem the full electronic record of votes
 |  through to the County supervisor;
 |
 |  - The County Supervisor could be equipped with a special
 |  piece of software and a bank of modems that enables all
 |  these results to be received and tabulated in the internals
 |  of the computer;
 |
 |  - The County Supervisors themselves could be assured that
 |  their system was bullet proof, certified and contained
 |  tamper-protection mechanisms par excellence;
 |
 |  - The Country Supervisor could be given a range of tools for
 |  looking at the data within this software, but nothing to
 |  enable them to directly manipulate the results;
 |
 |  - But unbeknownst to the County Supervisor the software
 |  could actually create three separate records of the voting
 |  data;
 |
 |  - Meanwhile - also unbeknownst to the County Supervisor -
 |  these three tables of voting data could be in fact
 |  completely insecure and accessible simply through a common
 |  database programme, say Microsoft Access;
 |
 |  - Having the three tables would enable you to keep the real
 |  data in place - so the system could pass spot tests on
 |  individual precincts and booth results (should a precinct
 |  supervisor be particularly astute) -while simultaneously
 |  enabling you to manipulate the bottom line result;
 |
 |  - Finally you might also enhance the election hacker's
 |  powers by including within the software a utility to enable
 |  them to cover their tracks by changing the date and time
 |  stamps on files and remove evidence of your tampering.
 |
 |
 |  Fantasy Becomes Reality
 |
 |  The above description of a corrupt voting system is not the
 |  result of an overactive imagination. Rather it is the result
 |  of a extensive research by computer programmers and
 |  journalists working around the globe. Principally it is the
 |  work of investigative Journalist Bev Harris, author of the
 |  soon to be published book " Black Box Voting: Ballot
 |  Tampering In The 21st Century "
 |
 |  And most important of all it is the result of research
 |  focussed on investigating the actual software distributed by
 |  one of the largest voting systems companies operating in the
 |  recent U.S. Elections.
 |
 |  CAVEAT: It is important to note that the research into this
 |  subject has not established that the files we have been
 |  working on were in fact in situ in County Election
 |  Supervisors offices at the last election - nor have we proof
 |  that the back door we have discovered - which might enable
 |  the rigging of elections - was actually used in any recent
 |  election. However it is the considered opinion of all those
 |  involved in this investigation that it is not up to us as
 |  journalists or programmers to prove that elections were
 |  rigged, rather it is a responsibility of the electoral
 |  system itself to prove its integrity.
 |
 |  What you read here amounts to revelation of evidence of
 |  motive, opportunity, method, prior conduct , and a variety
 |  of items of, consistent unexplained circumstantial evidence
 |  . Significantly we do not believe we have sufficient
 |  resources to complete this investigation to its conclusion
 |  and are therefore making available our findings to the
 |  media, community organisations, political parties, computer
 |  scientists and geeks in the anticipation that they will pick
 |  up the torch and take extend this inquiry into every county
 |  in the United States.
 |
 |
 |  How We Discovered The Backdoor
 |
 |  The story of how this story emerged is a great tale in
 |  itself, most of which has already been told in this report
 |  by Bev Harris:
 |
 |  SYSTEM INTEGRITY FLAW DISCOVERED AT DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS
 |  -- http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00052.htm
 |
 |  The short version of the story is relatively simple.
 |
 |  In the course of investigating the issue of the integrity of
 |  new electronic voting machines Bev Harris learned that
 |  people around the world had been downloading from an open
 |  FTP site belonging to Diebold Election Systems one of the
 |  leading manufactures of voting systems.
 |
 |  This website contained several gigabytes of files including
 |  manuals, source codes and installation versions of numerous
 |  parts of the Diebold voting system, and of its vote counting
 |  programme GEMS.
 |
 |  Realising we had stumbled across what might be the
 |  equivalent of the Pentagon Papers for elections, the full
 |  contents of this website have been secured around the world
 |  at several locations. The original website was itself taken
 |  down on January 29th 2003.
 |
 |  We can now reveal for the first time the location of a
 |  complete online copy of the original data set. As we
 |  anticipate attempts to prevent the distribution of this
 |  information we encourage supporters of democracy to make
 |  copies of these files and to make them available on websites
 |  and file sharing networks.
 |
 |  http://users.actrix.co.nz/dolly/
 |
 |  As many of the files are zip password protected you may need
 |  some assistance in opening them, we have found that the
 |  utility available at the following URL works well:
 |
 |  http://www.lostpassword.com
 |
 |  Finally some of the zip files are partially damaged, but
 |  these too can be read by using the utility at:
 |
 |  http://www.zip-repair.com/
 |
 |  At this stage in this inquiry we do not believe that we have
 |  come even remotely close to investigating all aspects of
 |  this data. I.E. There is no reason to believe that the
 |  security flaws discovered so far are the only ones.
 |
 |  Therefore we expect many more discoveries to be made. We
 |  want the assistance of the online computing community in
 |  this enterprise and we encourage you to file your findings
 |  at the forum HERE [
 |  http://liberalisnotadirtyword.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi
 |  ]
 |
 |  Finally, for obvious reasons it is important that this
 |  information is distributed as widely as possible as quickly
 |  as possible. We encourage all web bloggers, web publishers
 |  and web media to re-publish and link to this article and to
 |  its companion article by Bev Harris which contains detailed
 |  descriptions of how to use the GEMS software to rig an
 |  election:
 |
 |  Companion Article For Detail And Screenshots Of An Election
 |  Hack . . .  Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program  
 |  http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
 |
 |  To conclude this overview article I will make a few more
 |  comments on the evidence we have thus far that the U.S.
 |  election system has been compromised. As stated earlier we
 |  do not at this stage have proof that it has in fact been
 |  been compromised through this method, just a great deal of
 |  circumstantial evidence that it could have been.
 |
 |  If this was Watergate, we are effectively at the point of
 |  discovering evidence of a break-in and have received the
 |  call from deep-throat telling us that should dig much
 |  deeper.
 |
 |  Proof will follow in time we expect, but only if the work we
 |  have begun is completed and this inquiry is taken into every
 |  corner of the U.S. electoral system.
 |
 |
 |  Evidence Of Motive
 |
 |  This is probably the easiest part of this puzzle to get your
 |  head around. The motivation of the Republican Party in
 |  general and the current administration in particular to gain
 |  ever greater amounts of power - by whatever means possible
 |  and damn the consequences - is evidenced most recently in
 |  the Supreme Court's partisan appointment of George Bush Jr.
 |  as President, the attempt to recall California Governor Gray
 |  Davis, and the Ken Starr investigation and attempted
 |  impeachment of President Clinton.
 |
 |
 |  Evidence Of Opportunity
 |
 |  Republican connected control over the major election systems
 |  companies in the United States has been thoroughly
 |  researched.
 |
 |  Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election Systems is also the
 |  founder of ES&S, a competing voting machine company.
 |  Together these two companies are responsible for tallying
 |  around 80% of votes cast in the United States. Also
 |  significant, from what we can determine about the
 |  architecture of the software, is that its basic structure
 |  was specifically a creation of Mr Urosevich's company
 |  I-Mark.
 |
 |  For more background on Diebold Systems connections to the
 |  Republican Party see:
 |
 |  Diebold - The Face Of Modern Ballot Tampering
 |  http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00081.htm
 |
 |  Meanwhile Presidential wannabee and Republican Party United
 |  States Senator Chuck Hagel has been directly connected to
 |  ES&S via his campaign finance director, Michael
 |  McCarthy, who has admitted that Senator Hagel still owns a
 |  beneficial interest in the ES&S parent company, the
 |  McCarthy Group. 
 |
 |  [Diebold has in common with ES&S not only significant
 |  connections with the Republican party. (Wally O'Dell, its
 |  corporate chief. is a major contributor to the GOP) but
 |  actual blood relationships. Bob Urosevich, brother of Todd
 |  Urosevich (Vice President at ES&S), is in charge of
 |  Diebold's election division. Both brothers' entry into the
 |  vote counting business was funded by Howard Ahmanson, a
 |  Savings and Loan heir who served for over twenty years on
 |  the board of the Chalecedon Foundation, a Christian
 |  Reconstructionist organization that advocates, among other
 |  things, slavery and the death penalty for homosexuality and
 |  "blasphemy." [ http://liberalslant.com/pt102103.htm ]]
 |
 |
 |  Senate Ethics Director Resigns; Senator Hagel Admits Owning
 |  Voting Machine Company [
 |  http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm ]
 |
 |
 |  Evidence Of Method
 |
 |  The evidence of method has been detailed in a companion
 |  article by Bev Harris, author of the soon to be published
 |  block-buster Black Box Voting.
 |
 |  Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program 
 |  http://scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
 |
 |  In this article - which contains screenshots from the
 |  software and detailed instructions on how one might rig an
 |  election - Bev Harris explains security flaws thus:
 |
 |
 |  The GEMS election file contains more than one "set of
 |  books." They are hidden from the person running the GEMS
 |  program, but you can see them if you go into Microsoft
 |  Access.
 |
 |  You might look at it like this: Suppose you have votes on
 |  paper ballots, and you pile all the paper ballots in room
 |  one. Then, you make a copy of all the ballots and put the
 |  stack of copies in room 2.
 |
 |  You then leave the door open to room 2, so that people can
 |  come in and out, replacing some of the votes in the stack
 |  with their own.
 |
 |  You could have some sort of security device that would tell
 |  you if any of the copies of votes in room 2 have been
 |  changed, but you opt not to.
 |
 |  Now, suppose you want to count the votes. Should you count
 |  them from room 1 (original votes)? Or should you count them
 |  from room 2, where they may or may not be the same as room
 |  1? What Diebold chose to do in the files we examined was to
 |  count the votes from "room2."
 |
 |  Evidence Of Prior Conduct
 |
 |  It is a recorded fact that every system of balloting
 |  established in America has been gamed and rigged. I.E.
 |  America's political practitioners have a very long history
 |  of ballot rigging and vote tampering. This is nothing new
 |  and evidence of the sort we have uncovered has been long
 |  predicted by computer scientists such as Dr Rebecca Mercuri.
 |
 |  In more recent history investigative Journalist Greg Palast
 |  has documented in detail Katherine Harris's use of
 |  electronic data matching technologies to disenfranchise
 |  thousands of Florida voters in advance of the 2000
 |  Presidential election.
 |
 |  We highly recommend readers purchase a copy of "The Best
 |  Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast to read much more
 |  about this.
 |
 |  A compendium of links on Palast's investigations can be
 |  found via a Google search on:  "greg palast florida
 |  katherine harris"
 |
 |
 |  Consistent Unexplained Circumstantial Evidence
 |
 |  During the 2002 Mid-term there were numerous reports of
 |  unusual happenings in counties throughout the United States.
 |
 |  Among the phenomena reported were voting numbers suddenly
 |  fluctuating in the middle of the counting process, something
 |  you might expect to see if the backdoor identified above
 |  were used clumsily.
 |
 |  An organisation called Votewatch was set up during the 2002
 |  elections to record unusual happenings and its archives can
 |  be viewed here:
 |
 |  http://pub103.ezboard.com/bsoldiervoice
 |
 |  It will suffice here to cite a couple of specific examples -
 |  these are excerpts from the soon to be published "Black Box
 |  Voting: Ballot Tampering In The 21st Century". These
 |  examples of actual events are consistent with the existence
 |  and use of an electronic vote counting hack described above.
 |
 |  November 1990, Seattle, Washington - Worse than the
 |  butterfly ballot, some Democratic candidates watched votes
 |  alight, then flutter away. Democrat Al Williams saw 90 votes
 |  wander off his tally between election night and the
 |  following day, though no new counting had been done. At the
 |  same time, his opponent, Republican Tom Tangen, gained 32
 |  votes. At one point several hundred ballots added to returns
 |  didn't result in any increase in the number of votes. But
 |  elsewhere, the number of votes added exceeded the number of
 |  additional ballots counted. A Republican candidate achieved
 |  an amazing surge in his absentee percentage for no apparent
 |  reason. And no one seemed to notice (until a determined
 |  Democratic candidate started demanding an answer) that the
 |  machines simply forgot to count 14,000 votes.
 |
 |  November 1996, Bergen County, New Jersey - Democrats told
 |  Bergen County Clerk Kathleen Donovan to come up with a
 |  better explanation for mysterious swings in vote totals.
 |  Donovan blamed voting computers for conflicting tallies that
 |  rose and fell by 8,000 or 9,000 votes. The swings perplexed
 |  candidates of both parties. For example, the Republican
 |  incumbent, Anthony Cassano, had won by about 7,000 votes as
 |  of the day after the election but his lead evaporated later.
 |  One candidate actually lost 1,600 votes during the counting.
 |  ``How could something like that possibly happen?'' asked
 |  Michael Guarino, Cassano's Democratic challenger.
 |  ``Something is screwed up here.''
 |
 |  November 1999, Onondaga County, New York - Computers gave
 |  the election to the wrong candidate, then gave it back. Bob
 |  Faulkner, a political newcomer, went to bed on Election
 |  Night confident he had helped complete a Republican sweep of
 |  three open council seats. But after Onondaga County Board of
 |  Elections staffers rechecked the totals, Faulkner had lost
 |  to Democratic incumbent Elaine Lytel.
 |
 |  April 2002, Johnson County, Kansas - Johnson County's new
 |  Diebold touch screen machines, proclaimed a success on
 |  election night, did not work as well as originally believed.
 |  Incorrect vote totals were discovered in six races, three of
 |  them contested, leaving county election officials scrambling
 |  to make sure the unofficial results were accurate. Johnson
 |  County Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt checked the
 |  machines and found that the computers had under- and
 |  over-reported hundreds of votes. ``The machines performed
 |  terrifically,'' said Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election
 |  Systems. ``The anomaly showed up on the reporting part.''
 |
 |  The problem, however, was so perplexing that Schmidt asked
 |  the Board of Canvassers to order a hand re-count to make
 |  sure the results were accurate. Unfortunately, the touch
 |  screen machines did away with the ballots, so the only way
 |  to do a hand recount is to have the machine print its
 |  internal data page by page. Diebold tried to re-create the
 |  error in hopes of correcting it. ``I wish I had an answer,''
 |  Urosevich said. In some cases, vote totals changed
 |  dramatically.
 |
 |  November 2002, Comal County, Texas - A Texas-sized lack of
 |  curiosity about discrepancies: The uncanny coincidence of
 |  three winning Republican candidates in a row tallying up
 |  exactly 18,181 votes each was called weird, but apparently
 |  no one thought it was weird enough to audit. Conversion to
 |  alphabet: 18181 18181 18181 ahaha ahaha ahaha
 |
 |  November 2002, Baldwin County, Alabama - No one at the
 |  voting machine company can explain the mystery votes that
 |  changed after polling places had closed, flipping the
 |  election from the Democratic winner to a Republican in the
 |  Alabama governor's race. ``Something happened. I don't have
 |  enough intelligence to say exactly what,'' said Mark Kelley
 |  of ES&S. Baldwin County results showed that Democrat Don
 |  Siegelman earned enough votes to win the state of Alabama.
 |  All the observers went home. The next morning, however,
 |  6,300 of Siegelman's votes inexplicably had disappeared, and
 |  the election was handed to Republican Bob Riley. A recount
 |  was requested, but denied.
 |
 |  November 2002, New York - Voting machine tallies impounded
 |  in New York: Software programming errors hampered and
 |  confused the vote tally on election night and most of the
 |  next day, causing elections officials to pull the plug on
 |  the vote-reporting Web site. Commissioners ordered that the
 |  voting machine tallies be impounded, and they were guarded
 |  overnight by a Monroe County deputy sheriff.
 |
 |  November 2002, Georgia - Election officials lost their
 |  memory: Fulton County election officials said that memory
 |  cards from 67 electronic voting machines had been misplaced,
 |  so ballots cast on those machines were left out of
 |  previously announced vote totals. No hand count can shine
 |  any light on this; the entire state of Georgia went to
 |  touch-screen machines with no physical record of the vote.
 |  Fifty-six cards, containing 2,180 ballots, were located, but
 |  11 memory cards still were missing two days after the
 |  election: Bibb County and Glynn County each had one card
 |  missing after the initial vote count. When DeKalb County
 |  election officials went home early Wednesday morning, they
 |  were missing 10 cards.
 |
 |  **** ENDS ****
 |
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 |  [ http://lightscion.com/voting_fraud.htm ]
 |
 |  In the U.S.A., where the notion of common interest is young,
 |  democracy is generally still very weak (Dick Cheney admitted
 |  he never cared to vote). When a coalition of conservative
 |  forces seized power in the 2000 U.S 'election', democracy
 |  got very ill. Rightist ideology expands its wings over the
 |  world, backed by an uncontrolled military machine and
 |  intelligence apparatus, financed by countless of billions of
 |  dollars. The underlying dynamics are oil imperialism, space
 |  weapons, and subliminal racism. Items no party would ever
 |  get democratically elected for, and so they had to be
 |  enforced - enter 9/11. The 2000 administration has been put
 |  in place by nation-wide fraud in the election process. Now,
 |  with 9/11 as a pretext, innocent human beings are being
 |  imprisoned (2 [ http://www.broward.com/mld/miami/2929045.htm
 |  ]) and tortured (3 [
 |  http://swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=1459443
 |  ]), and governments that don't bend can find themselves
 |  terrorized, by both visible (4 [
 |  http://wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/anth-j23.shtml ]) and
 |  unvisible violence (5 [
 |  http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/hawa2.htm ]). To keep the
 |  general public ignorant, concocted stories of Islamic
 |  terrorism are fed to the media - who have no choice than to
 |  abide (6 [ http://lightscion.com/corporate_media_CIA.htm ]).
 |
 |   * Hacking Democracy
 |     [ http://salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html?x ]
 |
 |   * Suppression of minorities
 |     [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5346-2002Nov4?language=printer ]
 |
 |   * Fraud in Arkansas
 |     [ http://www.pbcommercial.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/October/22-2390-NEWS1.TXT ]
 |
 |   * Three Republicans win their states with exactly the same
 |     number of votes
 |     [ http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/110802_sn_number.html ]
 |
 |   * 104000 Florida votes missing
 |     [ http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/4465458.htm ]
 |
 |   * Machines in Florida automatically switch votes to
 |     Republican candidate
 |     [ http://www.drudgereport.com/vote1.htm ]
 |
 |   * The vote counting machines are in the hands of a small
 |     number of private corporations
 |     [ http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html ]
 |
 |   * The software for the machines is written in proprietary
 |     code - undecipherable for external controllers
 |     [ http://nypress.com/13/50/news&columns/feature.cfm ]
 |
 |   * If you want to win the elections, control the voting
 |     machines
 |     [ http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm ]
 |
 |
 |  (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this
 |  material is distributed without profit to those who have
 |  expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
 |  information for research and educational purposes.)
 |
 |
 |  Rebecca Mercuri's Statement on Electronic Voting
 |  [ http://notablesoftware.com/RMstatement.html ]
 |  Copyright © 2001 by Rebecca Mercuri   All Rights Reserved.
 |
 |  ``I am adamantly opposed to the use of any fully electronic
 |  or Internet-based systems for use in anonymous balloting and
 |  vote tabulation applications. The reasons for my opposition
 |  are manyfold, and are expressed in my writings as well as
 |  those of other well-respected computer security experts. To
 |  briefly summarize my opinion (based on a decade of research)
 |  on this matter I state the following... ... It is therefore
 |  incumbent upon all concerned with elections to REFRAIN from
 |  procuring ANY system that does not provide an indisputable
 |  paper ballot which can be checked by the voter visually
 |  before deposit and used by the election board in the case of
 |  recount.'' [ http://notablesoftware.com/RMstatement.html ]
 |
 |  ____________________________________________________________
 |
 |
 |  Additional reading:
 |
 |  Targeting Diebold with Electronic Civil Disobedience
 |  http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html
 |
 |  Mirror of Targeting Diebold with Electronic Civil
 |  Disobedience (Doesn't contain "Campaign Update)
 |  http://members.optusnet.com.au/whywardotcom/
 |
 |  A coalition of concerned students from across the world.
 |  http://wiki.volitant.net/diebold-cd/
 |
 |  The above links contain among other things an archive with
 |  about 15,000 internal Diebold e-mail messages.   Some
 |  referred to software patches installed on Diebold machines
 |  days before elections.   Others indicated that the Microsoft
 |  Access database used in Diebold's tabulation servers was not
 |  protected by passwords.   Diebold, which says passwords are
 |  now installed on machines, is threatening legal action
 |  against anyone who posts the files or links to them,
 |  contending that the e-mail is copyrighted.
 |
 |  Resources
 |  http://propaganda.lege.net/resources/
 |
 |  Media censorship and 175,000 uncounted Florida ballots
 |  http://votermarch.org/FilmFl.htm
 |
 |  673 Law Professors Say:  By Stopping the Vote Count in
 |  Florida, The U.S. Supreme Court Used Its Power To Act as
 |  Political Partisans, Not Judges of a Court of Law
 |  http://the-rule-of-law.com/archive/supreme/statement.html
 |
 |
 |  Copyleft © 2003 Leif Erlingsson or author.
 |  Updated  5 December 2003
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