Biblical Reconstructionists own voting co's. Chavez ownership

[happydreams]

is attempt to deflect criticism.





http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm

In 1999, American Information Systems (AIS), purchased Business Records Corp (BRC) to become ES&S
American Information Systems (AIS):
AIS (1980) was formerly Data Mark (1979), both founded by brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich. Bob is currently president of Diebold (see below). Todd Urosevich is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales of ES&S.
AIS was primarily funded with money from Ahmanson brothers, William and Robert, of H.F. Ahmanson Co. (Howard ?), holding company for the nation's largest savings and loan association and a group of Omaha-based insurance companies, at the time. http://www.essvote.com/index.php?section=exec&rightnav=...
Howard Ahmanson belongs to Council for National Policy (hard right wing organization) http://www.ifas.org/cnp/name98.html . Howard Ahmanson also helps finance The Chalcedon



Institute: "Established in 1965, Chalcedon (kal-SEE-dun) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) and Christian educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and promoting Christian reconstruction in all areas of life... Our emphasis on the Cultural or Dominion Mandate (Genesis 1:28) and the necessity of a return to Biblical Law has been a a crucial factor in the challenge to Humanism by Christians in this country and elsewhere... A world that is increasingly pessimistic and disillusioned with the failure of secular Humanism is now feeling the impact of Christians who are exercising dominion and reclaiming lost spheres of authority for Christ the King." http://www.chalcedon.edu / / critical profile: the organization's purpose is to establish Old Testament Biblical law as the standard for society. Chalcedon promotes Christian Reconstructionism -- which mandates Christ's dominion over all the world. http://www.ifas.org/fw/9501/chalcedon.html

Members of Council for National Policy (hard right wing organization) http://www.ifas.org/cnp/name98.html and The Chalcedon Institute:
Nelson Bunker Hunt
Rev. R. J. Rushdoony of The Chalcedon Institute
Howard Ahmanson


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1108892&mesg_id=1126162



Here is something on Blackwell's link to the KKK and Rushddoony.


But this is not the first time Blackwell has lined up with extreme right-wing backers boasting racist and anti-semitic roots. Earlier this year Blackwell posted on his website a picture of himself addressing the Council for National Policy. The CNP has deep "neo-fascist" and Ku Klux Klan ties according to Chip Berlet of the Boston-based Political Research Associates. In addition to right wing extremists such as Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson, the CNP embraces a broad spectrum of powerful, reactionary bigots.

Among them are members of the Ahmanson family, major funders of extremist publications and electronic voting machines. The Ahmanson's financial and political ties are thoroughly intertwined with both ES&S and Diebold, mainstays of the electronic hardware used to steal the Ohio vote. Among their associates are Bob and Todd Urosevich, whose executive and programming work has helped shape the two voting machine companies.

Others associated with the CNP include: Richard Shoff, a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Indiana. John McGoff, an ardent supporter of the former apartheid South African regime.

R.J. Rushdoony, the theological leader of America's "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which advocates that Christian fundamentalists take "dominion" over America by abolishing democracy and instituting Old Testament Law. Rushdoony's Reconstructionalists believe that "homosexuals . . . adulterers , blasphemers, astrologers and others will be executed," along with disobedient children.


http://www.bobforohio.com/newsclips/2006/oct/news2006-10-10.php

[aquart]

1. Yes, but the Republicans don't mind crazy Christians controlling the vote.

Oh, I hope they are bitter and vengeful this year.

[nebenaube]

2. so why doesn't the secret service prosecute these guys?

for violation of the Smith Act!

[Peace Patriot]

3. Happy Dreams, your subject line is misleading because of where it cuts off.

It implies Chavez ownership in something to do with Biblical reconstructionists. Please change it.

Chavez has no ownership in ANY e-voting company. The Venezuelan government made a loan to a small subsidiary of the third major e-voting company, Sequoia, and one of their mandates under Venezuela law was to create OPEN SOURCE code for their election system--unlike the TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code used here by all three corporations, including the biggest two, the ones with the strongest Bushite and rightwing connections, Diebold and ES&S.

And, yes, I totally agree. This nonsense about Chavez and Sequoia is entirely a smokescreen for the role that Diebold and ES&S played in the theft of the 2004 election, the theft of several elections in 2002 where e-voting systems had already been deployed (notably Max Cleland, Georgia), and for whatever they have planned for next week and future elections. I'm thinking now that Diebold had a role in making Schwarzenegger governor in the weird Recall election in Calif in '03 (with 125 candidates on the ballot--easy enough to distribute opposition votes among so many candidates; and this may explain the "swift-boating" of Kevin Shelley, CA Sec of State who had sued Diebold and demanded to see their source code, prior to the 2004 election, and more recent efforts to punish and discredit him for his vigilance over the integrity of our CA voting process).

Oddly, these events may actually bode well. The Bushites are clearly VERY WORRIED about Diebold/ES&S disclosures--possibly freaked by Robert Kennedy Jr.'s pending lawsuit against these corporations, and the exposure of their secret control of our election results, which voters are catching onto. (Huge Absentee Ballot vote this election--big increase paralleling the cancerous spread of these election theft machines. People DON'T TRUST these machines, and maybe we can get rid of them, if nobody will vote on them!) (BOYCOTT the machines!) (You have through Tuesday Oct. 31 to request an Absentee Ballot in California.)

What will they do next week? Hard to predict. If they're smart, they'll let the Dems win a modest majority in the House, but one that is hampered enough with Bushite Democrats (like the ones who voted for torture and the suspension of habeas corpus the other week), so that serious investigation, impeachment and any serious curtailment of Bush Junta or Corporate Ruler power are not possible. Then they can used this pyrrhic victory of the Dems to dampen the election reform movement. ('what's your beef--the Democrats won, didn't they?'). The long term usefulness of this new election theft capability in the hands of wingers may be more important to them, than whomping the Dems with it this election cycle. Careful, selective vote stealing--that's my prediction, depending on who's in charge of the country right now, and I'm not real sure about that. Cheney/Rove would b inclined to just outright steal the whole thing, and declare martial law. Others--especially business interests, maybe in alliance with some in the military/intel communities--may not want that.

It's so difficult, isn't it? We have to put out all this effort, time, energy, resources, fundraising, on the ground work, enthusiasm, to get Democrats into the position they're in now--with a predicted rout of the Bushites in Congress--yet the bad guys are fully capable of a fraudulent reversal, or a dampening of our win. Well, whatever happens, clearly what we have to do next is to get rid of these election theft machines, however we can do it--which I think is most feasible at the local/state level.