Monday, February 04, 2008

20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States



20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States
By Angry Girl and Bob Rowe
February 9, 2006

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight
of the US voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of
ES&S are brothers.

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.
"

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel,
who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the
Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S
by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice- presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the
US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.

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.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines,
all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people
who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23
counts of felony theft in the first degree.

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.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the
polls in Ohio.

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 at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)

17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen
voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act
of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic
touch screen systems with no paper trail.

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and
reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the
President's brother.

20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of
250 million to 1!) -- again always favoring Bush --
have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.

Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were.
Was it God? Or was it Diebold...?

Here's just a few sources:

1.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html

3.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...e_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html

4.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentar...03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...4fitrakis.html

6.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/module...article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/05...w_hagel27.html

8.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html

9.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041...s/pfindex.html

10.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/200...oc_elexoh.html

16.
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml

18.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.ph...icle&sid= 950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/talla...al/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Oct29.html

20.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governm...,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

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