(1000+ posts)
all
the votes cast/counted on Diebold equipment for each candidate and
expressed
it as a percentage of their total votes cast state wide. Counties using
Diebold equipment: Alameda, Plumas, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Lassen,
Marin,
Placer, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Trinity, Tulare.
These
counties are spread fairly evenly across the state and include both
urban
and rural counties.
17.89% of the total votes cast in the California state election were
cast on
Diebold equipment. Alls things being equal each candidate should
receive
about 16-18% of their vote total from the Diebold machines. The two
major
candidates (Schwarzenegger - 16.83% & Bustamonte - 18.78%) fit this
profile.
Many other 3rd party candidates do not: Palmieri (68.3%) of his total
vote
on the Diebold equipment; Kunzman received 91.75% of his total vote on
the
Diebold equipment; Sprague (65.10%); Macaluso (39.36%); Price (47.18%);
Quinn (50.8%); Martorana (28%).
< http://www.opednews.com/miller1003_CA_Voting.htm >
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4. Negative Votes Added for Democrats in 2000 & 2004
Could a voting machine be programmed so sloppily that it would report a
value of 16,022 votes? How about 25,000?
Florida, 2000: Something very strange happened on election night to
Deborah
Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official of Volusia County. At 10 p.m.,
she
called the county elections department and found that Al Gore was
leading
George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000 votes. But when she checked the
county¹s Web site for an update half an hour later, she found a
startling
development: Gore¹s count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure
Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000 - all because of a single
precinct
with only 600 voters.
returned to his total -- but not until after CBS called Florida for
Bush.]
Ohio Stolen (blog entry, gnn.tv) 2004-11-03 16:26:30
"Greg Palast and Randi Rhodes reported today that the state of Ohio was
stolen by the Republicans in election 2004. Ohio was the critical state
that
tipped the balance, giving the presidency to Bush. Turns out one County
in
Ohio, equipped with Diebold electronic voting machines, reported
NEGATIVE
25,000 votes. Wha?!? That¹s what at least one election official in Ohio
said. The votes from that County are lost. Not counted. GONE!"
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5. Discrepancies between exit polls and tabulated votes
Jonathan Simon of Alliance for Democracy analyzed the difference
between
exit polls % for each candidate and tabulated votes. Of the 12 critical
(swing) states analyzed, 11 out of 12 show a ³red shift² the
difference
between exit polls and tabulated votes favors Bush by an average of
2.5%. Of
the 35 non-critical states, 26/35 show a ³red shift² by an average of
1.4%
in favor of Bush. Thus, exit polling appears inexplicably to have been
significantly more accurate in nonbattleground states, than in the
states
that were crucial to a Bush victory.
He further notes, "In the group of 12 critical states selected for
analysis,
exit poll vs. tabulated vote shifts exceeded the polls' margin of error
in 4
cases². The probability that one state would exceed the margin of error
is
less than 5% (p<.05). The probability that four states would exceed the
margin of error is about 0.2% of the time in the absence of significant
mistabulation of votes."
<http://www.opednews.com/lestrange_110604_concede.htm>
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6. Fluctuations in election pool results over time
improbable/impossible
Ohio (2004): State exit polls reported by CNN at 12:21 a.m. show Kerry
leading Bush by 4%. The number of voters polled = 1,963. At 1:41 a.m.
Bush
was reported to be leading Kerry by 2.5%. Problem? Only 2,020 voters
were
included in the 1:41 a.m. poll results an increase of 57 voters.
Fifty-seven voters (2.8% of 2,020 voters) cannot change an exit poll
result
by 6.5%. Further, based on the results reported at 12:21 a.m. 551 women
reported that they had voted for Kerry. Somehow, by 1:41 am that number
had
changed only 535 women had voted for Kerry.
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&f
orum=132&topic_id=1290765&mesg_id=1295180&page>
< http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04025.html >
Florida: State exit polls reported by CNN at 8:40 p.m. show Kerry
running
even with Bush (2,846 voters polled). At 1:01 a.m. Bush was leading
Kerry by
4% (2,862 voters polled). Their survey increased by 16 more voters
between
8:40 and 1:01 am (0.55% of respondents) and this produced a 4% swing
for
Bush. < http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html >
First, Second, Third Election Polls. Even the later (more accurate?)
polls
show Kerry winning Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
< http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=386 >
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7. These numbers simply don¹t add up
Reflections on the 2004 Elections, by Alex Satanovsky
In 2000 Al Gore received 51.00 million votes, in 2004 Kerry only
received
55.7 million. A CNN exit poll showed that out of the minority of 3.87
million people who voted for any third party in 2000, 71% voted for
Kerry
this time around. That equals to about 2.75 million voters. So again,
adding this figure to Gore¹s total of 51.00 million in 2000 shows that
Kerry
would have had 53.5 53.75 million votes in this election regardless
of any
new voter support. Therefore, according to the official results, the
Kerry
campaign was only able to capture no more than 2 million new voters to
get
him to his total of 55.7 million this past election.
On the other hand, President Bush received only 50.45 million votes in
2000,
but now the official results show him having 59.3 million votes.
That¹s
nearly 9 million new voters that turned out for him. Very impressive
isn¹t
it? Remember listening to all the pundits talking about how both sides
are
planning to register new voters? Remember the hundreds of thousands of
new
registrations in urban areas in swing states that were overwhelmingly
concentrated in Democratic strongholds. This was a well-documented
issue
and a cause for concern for the Republicans who consequently insisted
on
challenging voters in urban minority districts. The exit polls didn¹t
exactly show a Kerry landslide among new voters, but they did show him
with
a comfortable 54-45 majority among those who did not vote in 2000.
< http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~asatanov/fraud/ >
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8. Cases in which the number of votes does not equal the number of
voters:
Florida, 2004: According to the official election results posted on the
Palm
Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a
presidential
candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election
(including
absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the
presidential candidates.
If you go to the Florida Dept of State Website
<http://enight.dos.state.fl.us> and add up the numbers for yourself, it
looks very strange. Total Number of Voters including Absentees:
7350900.
Total Number of Votes for President: 7588422. Where did they get
237,522
extra votes? It wasn't from the provisionals. There are 9,559
provisional
ballots, and 7,362 have been counted so far.
The 13 counties in Florida that report more votes than voters delivered
39.4% of the votes cast in Florida.
<http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/>
Pennsylvania (2004): Lark cited statistics collected by a poll worker
at the
Farrell municipal building poll, which showed the voting machine
recorded
that 289 people cast ballots. The machine, however, recorded a total of
48
votes for U.S. Sen. John Kerry and three votes for George W. Bush in
the
presidential race. Lark said he finds it difficult to believe that only
51
people out of the 289 who voted actually cast a ballot in the
presidential
race. The end of the ballot contained a municipal consolidation issue,
and
the machine showed that 240 people cast a ballot on that item, he said.
Even
the county's Web site appeared to show a similar conflict, reporting
that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the
presidential race, including 61 write-ins. It would appear that about
4,000
votes could be unaccounted for.
< http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/288078640794824.php >
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9. Discrepancies between voting pattern for president & other
races/issues
The Kerry-Salazar Divide (2004) - In Colorado, Democrat Salazar has
1,023,803 votes while Republican Pete Coors received 944,520. Bush
supposedly got 1,058,040 while Kerry received 944,052 votes.
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&ad
dress=104x2630748>
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10. Discrepancies between voter registration and voting pattern - look
further than the "Dixiecrat explanation" -- why do Dixiecrats voting on
Optical Scans show a bias toward Bush, when Dixiecrats voting on
E-Voting
machines don't?
In Florida, small counties with Optiscan voted overwhelming for Bush
completely at odds with registration. In Baker County, for example,
with
12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them
Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the
opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where
registered
Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County, with 4,988
registered
voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as
Republicans,
only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush. The
pattern
repeats over and over again - but only in the smaller counties.
The first graphs:
http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm
Several additional graphs:
http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm
Statistically significant interaction between type of machine & votes
cast
for Kerry/Bush: http://blog.democrats.com/florida
Scatterplots & more statistical analyses:
http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm
http://stolenelection2004.com/Florida.htm
NOT CONSIDERED BY ABC-NEWS article:
In Duval Co. Fl 219,251 votes for Bush, only 190,111 registered
Republicans
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&addres
s=201x1709>
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11. Flawed Machines Glitches or Fraud?
Ohio, 2004: Franklin County (Gahanna) gave Bush 3,893 extra votes.
Records
indicated that only 638 voters cast ballots in the precinct and that
Bush's
total should have been recorded as 365.
Ohio, 2004: Miami County, with 100% of the precincts reporting at 9am
Bush
had 65.80% of the votes and Kerry had 33.92%. Inexplicably, nearly
19,000
new ballots were added after all precincts reported, boosting Bush¹s
vote to
33,039 (65.77%) to Kerry¹s 17,039 (33.92%).
< http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983 >
North Carolina 2004: In Craven County the rush to make right a
miscalculation swelled the number of votes for president here by 11,283
more
votes than the total number cast.
North Carolina 2004: Election difficulties also were reported in a
number of
other North Carolina counties, including nearby Carteret, where 4,530
early
votes were irretrievably lost.
Nebraska 2004: In Sarpy County Johnny Boykin lost his bid to be on the
Papillion City Council. The difference between victory and defeat in
the
race was 127 votes. Boykin says, "When I went in to work the next day
and
saw that 3,342 people had shown up to vote in our ward, I thought
something's not right." He's right. There are not even 3,000 people
registered to vote in his ward.
< http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html >
Indiana, 2004: In LaPorte the first 2-3 printouts from individual
precinct
reports all listed exactly 300 voters. It is odd that they numbers were
identical. Even more this means that the total number of voters would
be
22,200 although there were 79,000 registered voters and turn out was
good.
< http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt >
Indiana, 2004:
counties
are programmed improperly and may yield incorrect vote totals in county
council races today, the secretary of state's office said.
< http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/191246-7751-P.html >
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12. The National Election Pool Unlike any exit poll I ever imagined
The Voter News Service (VNS) has provided accurate election poll
results for
state and national races for decades. (It even correctly called Florida
for
Gore in 2000). It was disbanded after the 2002 election. Its functions
were
assumed by the National Election Pool (NEP) comprised of the AP and
Edison/Mitofsky.
According to one source: Edison Media Research has a direct connection
to
county election results across the country via computer modems. Exit
poll
results were combined with (and thus contaminated by) vote tabulations.
Edison/Mitofsky will conduct exit polls in all 50 states and the
District of
Columbia. In addition, it will collect the vote count in sample
precincts.
From the exit polls it will provide analytical tabulations of vote. It
will
make projections, where possible, from the exit polls, from the vote
returns
and from the county vote tabulations for President, Senate, Governor
and
selected state referenda and initiatives.
< http://www.exit-poll.net/faq.html >
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13. Explaining the Discrepancy between election poll results &
tabulated
votes
THOSE FAULTY EXIT POLLS WERE SABOTAGE - According to Dick Morris
(Republican
Strategist) "Exit polls are almost never wrong... So reliable are the
surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that
they
are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World
countries... But this Tuesday, the networks did get the exit polls
wrong.
Not just some of them. They got all of the Bush states wrong. So,
according
to ABC-TV¹s exit polls, for example, Kerry was slated to carry Florida,
Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa, all of which Bush carried.
The
only swing state the network had going to Bush was West Virginia, which
the
president won by 10 points. To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To
miss
six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters
could be
that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error
was at
play here. ...the possibility of biased exit polling, deliberately
manipulated to try to chill the Bush turnout, must be seriously
considered.
This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the
board as
they were on election night. I suspect foul play.
< http://www.thehill.com/morris/110404.aspx >
THE POLLING: REPORT SAYS SAMPLING LED TO SKEWED DATA. The new $10
million
polling system used by many news organizations to predict the outcome
of the
presidential race had a number of problems that led to the early
erroneous
impression that John Kerry was heading for victory, according to a
report
prepared by the system's architects. Since Tuesday, the networks have
played
down errors caused by the system. "The last wave of national exit polls
we
received, along with many other subscribers, showed Kerry winning the
popular vote by 51 percent to 48 percent, if true, surely enough to
carry
the Electoral College,'' Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington
Post,
wrote in an online chat with readers Wednesday.
< http://nytimes.com/2004/11/05/politics/campaign/05poll.... >
EVIDENCE OF A SECOND BUSH COUP? The author, Robert Parry, broke many of
the
Iran-Contra stories in1980s for AP and Newsweek. But the most
perplexing
fact is that exit polls into the evening of Nov. 2 showed Kerry rolling
to a
clear victory nationally and carrying most of the battleground states,
including Florida and Ohio, whose totals would have ensured Kerry¹s
victory
in the Electoral College. *Significantly, polls also showed Republicans
carrying the bulk of the tight Senate races. However, when the official
results were tallied, the presidential exit polls proved wrong while
the
Senate polls proved right.* Again - The author, Robert Parry, broke
many of
the Iran-Contra stories in1980s for AP and Newsweek.
< http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110604.html >
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14. Election by embezzlement voter suppression + vote hacking = ?
Will provide info on voter suppression here. In the meantime, Check
Democracy South.
³Twelve Ways Bush is now Stealing the Ohio Vote²
(http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/810)
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15. HOW to hack the vote
For those of you who do not know - data (ie votes) from the Diebold and
ES&S
touchscreen E-Voting machines and Optiscan machines are sent via modem
to
a "central tabulation machine" - an ordinary PC. The precinct
supervisor
sees the results displayed on a normal computer monitor screen -- but
behind this "pretty picture" lies the program that makes it work: a
simple
conventional Microsoft Access Database program which can easily be
entered
via the "Start" button (then "Programs" ....etc...) in person or
"remotely".
These machines were used in 80% of the US. A few clicks and you are
into
Access and can pull up the votes tabulated database and then by
cutting/pasting you can change votes from one candidate to the other.
Click
below to watch a demonstration with Howard Dean that appeared on
nationally
syndicated TV show "Voter Gate - The Movie."
Votergate: The Movie is at http://www.votergate.org
Diebold GEMS Central Tabulator Contains Stunning Security Hole
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-30.htm
The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away
http://www.alternet.org/story/16474
Hacking the Presidency
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=100&mod
Evoting News & Analysis from the Experts
http://www.evoting-experts.com/
November Surprise
http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/2004/NovSurprise.htm
The Case of the Diebold FTP Site
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldftp.html
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16. Please DO Something TODAY!
E-Voting News & Analysis at http://www.evoting-experts.com/
Contact Black Box Voting at http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
Contact Mark Crispin Miller at NYU.
Help Black Box Voting 5 Things you can do immediately
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&ad
dress=104x2636130>
Contact the Kerry campaign and Democratic National Committee - urge
them to
count/recount votes!
Good links at < http://www.bloomington.in.us/~pfc/elections04.html >
