[Mb-civic] One last word on the voting

Fri Dec 10 11:23:56 PST 2004

> Twenty facts about voting in the United States:
>
> 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
>
>
> 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 senior managers 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, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and 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.  Diebold Senior Vice-President 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://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/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/
>
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