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I have no idea if this is a ruse or is true, passing along for others to determine. If true, this could be huge.
received by email from a trusted source
www.agorafinancial.com
has just sent out the following alert. you will not find it on their web site - probably because it was sent out privately to their paid customers. but i just received it from a trusted friend.
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The Emerging Capital Report
December 14, 2005
**Flash Sell Alert**
Voting Machine Scam Offers Windfall Profit Opportunity
Back in 2000, the presidential election was decided based on interpretation
of handwritten ballots. Pundits decreed that never again should we depend
on a system that allowed "hanging chads," "dimples" and other such
flaws.
Instead, we were to use electronic voting machines. The rush was on to
adopt these across the country.
It now turns out that America traded the frying pan for the fire.
Diebold Inc. (DBD: NYSE) is ready for sale. We don't own it, but it's so
vulnerable that a short-sale is warranted.
While I generally don't recommend short-selling (borrowing shares and
then selling them), I can't resist doing this with Diebold.
IMPORTANT: Read and thoroughly understand the "Action to take"
instructions below. Short-selling is not for the uninformed.
This is a Special Situation, to be done only with extra money, not in lieu
of a regularly scheduled Transformational Technology Portfolio purchase.
(You'll have to keep money in your account to cover the risk of losses if
Diebold should rise. That money could instead be used to buy
Transformational Technology stocks.)
Why am I making my first-ever short sale in the history of The Emerging
Capital Report?
Diebold is a company that's benefited from its political connections to
become the largest supplier of voting machines in America. It's got a
market capitalization of $2.7 billion. All that could melt away.
The company's leading voting machines have now been proven glaringly
vulnerable to "hacks." Hacks, as you may know, are deliberate
interferences with software by a person (aka a "hacker"). Usually, it's not
malicious. When it is, it can be costly.
How about a hack that steals an election? This horrifying scenario strikes
at the heart of the American system, and it's been proven possible.
Election commissioners are starting to recognize this and drop Diebold.
This has all been pretty technical. The explanations of how to hack these
machines have been hard for the average person to grasp, even when
simple to do. (In one case, a monkey was trained to change election results
remotely. Visit www.blackboxvoting.org for details.)
A few counties have dropped Diebold already, but there was no "trigger
event" to cause mass defections. Until now.
Anyone will understand that a bombshell that has just been dropped. A
security expert has shown that Diebold lied to the State Department when
it said that votes could not be changed on its memory card.
This is crucial, because the memory card comes loaded with these
machines and is available for simple tampering by any election worker.
No password is needed. It's a one-step process that could easily go
undetected.
In a test election in Leon County, Fla., on Dec. 13, eight ballots were
actually cast. The correct total would have been two "Yes" and six "No"
votes.
However, in the test, a memory card preloaded with plus and minus votes
was used. This is supposed to be impossible: Diebold claims that such a
card would be rejected by the system. (Indeed, its "zero report" at the start
of the election showed that zero votes had been cast, despite votes being
already loaded into the tally on the card.)
Sure enough, at the end of the mock election, the vote totals were not
those actually cast, but rather the pre-engineered total: seven "Yes" and
one "No."
These numbers may seem trivial. But it's an enormous percentage
difference, one that would ensure the swinging of a landslide from
Republicrats to Democans, or vice versa.
It also establishes beyond a doubt that elections in America could already
have been engineered to give "pre-loaded" results. There is, quite simply,
nothing more dangerous to a democratic system.
Upon completion of the above test, Leon County Supervisor of Elections
Ion Sancho told www.BlackBoxVoting.org that he would never again use
Diebold machines. He has asked the county for funds to replace the
abandoned machines. You can be sure the county will ask Diebold for a
refund and, if necessary, sue to get it. Others will follow suit (literally and
figuratively).
He'll issue a formal announcement soon. That will be picked up in the
mainstream media, in all likelihood provoking a firestorm of controversy
and a plunging stock price. I learned about it early because of my contacts
inside Black Box Voting.
This devastating discovery comes on the heels of research at the
universities of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Rice, which concluded they
are "a threat to democracy." Such research had shown the machines could
be hacked and elections rigged, so election supervisors are already
nervous.
The new test -- right in front of an election supervisor's eyes under real-
world conditions -- provides them with a solid reason to drop Diebold. It is
likely to result in the decertification of Diebold machines across America,
as well as criminal prosecutions of its management.
Adding fuel to the fire, a class-action stockholder suit was filed by the law
offices of Scott & Scott. While such suits are routinely filed when
management fails to meet its projections, and in most such cases the
damages to shareholders are not huge, in this case, they could well exceed
the value of the whole company.
Every investor who bought stock relying on Diebold's deceitful promises
about the reliability of its technology will be able to claim all losses as
damages. There is no defense that I can foresee. Rarely is a class action so
timely or cut and dry.
It may lead to the bankruptcy of Diebold. (Should that happen, you'll
never have to buy back the stock you sold and you'll make the maximum
100% return on your investment.)
Action to take: Sell Diebold (DBD: NYSE) at $34 a share or better.
Immediately upon confirmation of sale, place an "open" order to buy back
your shares at the sale price plus 25%. (Example: You sell a stock at $60
per share. You would place the buyback order at $75 per share. This limits
your losses if the stock rises, rather than falls.) Hold this position until I
tell you to buy it back, Diebold goes bankrupt or your open buy order is
triggered. (Again, if you do not understand everything I have said, do not
make this investment. Your broker can explain short-selling to you.)
Short-selling is risky, even with an open stop loss order. Your risk of loss
is unlimited if the stop loss order gets canceled and, unlike
Transformational Technology investing, this particular trade depends on
public realization that a particular technology is really a Trojan horse.
Still, be aware that sometimes the Trojans win.
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