[VolSimFirst] 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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I have seen it estimated by a university study that the odds of ALL,

not some, but literally all the voting machine errors falling in the

same direction, as was experienced in the 2004 vote, is 250 million

to one...

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20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT VOTING IN THE USA

By Alicia

Nightweed.com

 

http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

http://miamedia.com/votergate/20facts.html

 

 

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.ht

ml

 

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 senior managers 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, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer

on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of

felony theft in the first degree.

 

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

 

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.

 

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://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/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/ThreeResearchStudiesB

ushIsOut.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/ThreeResearchStudiesB

ushIsOut.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/