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[In Truth We Trust]

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

Nightweed.com

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printable version

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/


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DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS
1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.
That's over 41 Million Americans.
You are NOT alone!

[Stevepol]

1. Thanks for re-posting. Never let it die, InTruth!! K&R!!

You might want to add a couple new ones.

Mark Crispin Miller quotes a Zogby poll (I think from PA but perhaps a nat'l poll) to the effect that 80% of Americans prefer a paper ballot if given a choice.

And I feel sure that your 1 in 5 number is very low now. I'd say it's at least 40% of Americans now who believe the election was stolen.

This was posted recently when a comparison of news sources was used. Over half of those who get their news from MSNBC, CBS, PBS, etc., each of them, believes the last election was fraudulent. But of those who watch Fox (the biggest audience) only .5% believe it was stolen!!!!

Nationally, I believe this poll said that about 44% of Americans think it was stolen.

You might want to google these polls and update the post.

But keep posting it. People have to keep being reminded. And you have new DU-ers coming on all the time, not to mention the usual trolls and freepers trying to spread misinformation who need to have their noses rubbed in the truth now and then.

[In Truth We Trust]

3. Thank you StevePol for the update, advice, and encouragement! Peace!

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. What Steve said, In Truth We Trust!

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. I thought I read it was much higher than 44%,

but can't swear to it.

[Alex35332]

2. New news about Diebold in MD

I wanted to post this into the latest news section but as I don't live-2-post on this website they would not let me...
This is a Press Release I just put out in Maryland...

PRESS RELEASE: TrueVoteMD.org CONTACT: Alex Zeese
June 2, 2006

SBE Responds to Calls for Independent Testing of Diebold Machines By Hiring a Diebold Apologist Rather then a Security Expert to Conduct Tests.
TrueVoteMD Calls Review a "Whitewash in the making"

Montgomery County: Over the past five months, a Finnish security expert Hari Hursti has tested Diebold voting systems used in many states. He found serious security vulnerabilities both in the software, PCMCIA cards that record votes and in the procedures surrounding the voting machines. One of these vulnerabilities was detected by a Maryland security assessment two years ago, but Diebold never fixed the vulnerability. The newest attack is so serious that experts are afraid to talk about its details publicly.


As these security vulnerabilities became known the Governor expressed his view that he no longer trusted the machines. Candidates and citizens called for independent testing of the machines and John Hopkins Computer Expert Avi Rubin challenged the State Board of Elections to find computer scientists who would verify that the system is secure.

In response to this widespread pressure from citizens, voting security experts and political leaders, including TrueVoteMD, The Maryland State Board of Elections recently hired Freeman, Craft and McGregor Group Inc., to do an assessment of Diebold’s voting system security. However the selection of this Florida firm to do the analysis has itself raised questions.

Paul Craft is a partner in Freeman, Craft and McGregor. “We did some research into Paul Craft’s firm and have serious concerns as to their qualifications as security experts. There has been a lot of criticism of Mr. Craft in regards to the weakening of security procedures during the time he was assisting NASED in creating voting system standards in 2005,” said Alex Zeese of TrueVoteMD.org. “ We have some of the best computer experts in the country right here in Maryland who have been very critical of the Diebold machines. The SBE should have had these well-qualified critics test the machines in order to restore confidence of voters and political leaders. The selection of this group is a whitewash in the making. With this firm conducting the test the outcome is predictable."

TrueVoteMD has compiled research into Freeman, Craft and McGregor, which shows a history of favoritism towards the Diebold Corporation and a failure to recognize the seriousness of security flaws. Mr. Craft, in particular, was involved in the revision of the national voting system standards. He consistently advocated relaxing standards in favor of the machine manufacturers. Another partner, Steve Freeman, was hired by the state of California to check for problems on their voting machines, after Maryland released the RABA report. The RABA Report raised concerns about the security of the GEMS Tabulators, that tabulate the results from all the machines in a precinct/county. Despite the risks reported by RABA and CompuWare, Freeman has repeatedly recommended the tabulators.

TrueVoteMD has published a summary of concerns about the group picked on line at: http://truevotemd.org/content/view/474/82/
It is also below
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[In Truth We Trust]

4. With your permission I will post it for you as a new post. welcom to DU

and thank you for ther information.

[Kurovski]

5. Yep, that's what I want.

K&R

[Wilms]

6. K&R n/t

[bleever]

7. By Jove, I think she's got it!

Thank you.

[snot]

8. k & r -- nt