[Sosfbay-discuss] Facts about Voting in the US

Mon Aug 14 22:05:17 PDT 2006

        20 Amazing Facts About 
Voting in the USA  by Angry Girl
  of Nightweed.com

  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

  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 based on 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.  ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.  http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
  http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

  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.  Diebold is based in Ohio.   http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

  12.  Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help 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 was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold.  Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.  http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
  http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

  14.  Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his 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://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)   http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

  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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
  http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/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.html
  http://uscountvotes.org/

  NOTE:  Some of the data are outdated but much of it is still true.  But don't take my word for it.
Do your own research and discover the truth for yourselves.  You may freely copy and distribute this copy as long as credit is noted.

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