Election Fraud & Voting Machines

July 23, 2004

http://cronus.com/electionfraud/

You can't vote them out if you never voted them in.

Diebold Voting Machine The lack of any exit polling on

November 5, 2002 has been oddly ignored by the media.

Those pesky tracking polls leading up to the elections

have been explained away by a ‘late surge to the

Republicans’ caused by.... hmmmm, how about sun spot

activity? With no exit polls, there was no other

feedback to conflict with the " official " results, this

allowed the Diebold touch screen machines to change

the way election fraud is carried out.

Previously, election cheating was a complex matter of

ballot tampering combined with sample skewing. That is

to say, you screwed up ballots for your opponent with

under or over votes, made sure that people likely to

vote against you wouldn't even get that chance (the

program of voter disenfranchisement in Florida) and

padded your own vote total with such things as

falsified absentee ballots.

In the much more high tech world of Diebold

electronics we are seeing a wonderfully efficient vote

rigging system, the long proposed 'black box'

technology. Imagine a black box in which you cannot

see the workings. The only things you can discern are

an input and an output; in this case votes go in and

collated totals come out. There is no paper record of

each individual vote cast to enable any cross check of

the collated output. The only information you can know

for sure is the total number of votes cast on the

machine. Each vote is stripped of any information as

to who cast that ballot to guarantee anonymity for the

voters. You now have a system in which you have no way

to check vote recording, vote collation and

transmission of the collated totals out of the black

box.

The perfect crime?

Diebold Voting Machine Not quite. Let me suggest an

experiment. We take two ‘markets’ with similar

socioeconomic mixtures and a well established record

of moving in the same political direction. We provide

them with candidates from party X and party Y. We then

expose them to similar news stories, we spill TV and

radio ads over between the markets to make the effects

less ‘local’ and give them identical weather on

election day. The differences between the markets are

1. the candidates and 2. the method of casting and

counting the votes. We then take a series of tracking

polls on the gap between the candidates leading up to

election day.

If we express the tracking poll data as the relative

preference for the candidates (12 point lead by X,

down one point from last week etc.), any substantial

discrepancy between the forecast and actual election

outcomes should arise from major news changes, the

weather effects on turn out or a a social tendency to

misrepresent voting intent. Since both groups get the

same news, the same weather and have the same social

tendencies, any difference between tracking poll and

actual poll data should be in the same direction and

of a similar magnitude.

One wonders how the South Carolina elections had the

Democrats doing much better than the tracking poll

data showed and the Georgia elections, in an area with

the same weather, same news and same social values,

had a massive swing in a single day after the last

tracking poll in the opposite direction. Could it be

the Diebold touch screen machines in use across the

entire state of Georgia but not used at all in SC?

Surely no one would dare to try tamper with elections!

Votescam There's a long " tradition " of it, actually:

http://www.votescam.com/frame.html

Go to the link marked " Chapters " and read all about

it. Watch how few lines pass before the names Bush and

Sununu come up.

You can trim the wheels in mechanical voting machines

but that is easier to spot than a computer program set

up to be date sensitive so it causes only to

‘misfunction’ on November 5. The current problem with

virtual ballot tampering was apparent as long ago as

1989. Jonathan Vankin made this warning in " Metro:

Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, " of Sept. 28, 1989

“A single, Berkeley- based firm manufactures the

software used in the machines that compile more than

two-thirds of the nation's electronically-counted

votes. Analysts describe the software as " spaghetti

code, " tangled strands of instructions indecipherable

to outsiders. The experts say the code could be

manipulated without detection. In fact, that may have

happened already.”

http://www.conspire.com/vote-fraud.html

After systematic punch card fraud was revealed in the

2000 election, touch screens were proposed as a

panacea and have been rapidly adopted against the

warning of experts,

“Critics warn local election officials could be

trading one set of problems for another potentially as

bad, or worse, than last year's election debacle. They

vigorously argue that fully electronic systems pose

data-security problems and lack a paper trail.

" There's no way to independently verify that the

voter's ballot as cast was actually the ballot being

recorded by the machine,'' said Rebecca Mercuri, a

computer scientist and visiting lecturer at Bryn Mawr

College in Pennsylvania.”

http://www.kioskcom.com/article_detail.php?ident=1021

ES & S Voting Machine It would be interesting to impound

a few machines from the heaviest leaning Democratic

areas in Georgia and reset the date in the machine to

November 5, 2002. A hand counted series of inputs

could be made to the machines. Note to James Baker:

hand counting is the gold standard against which we

check machine counting efficiency. An input of 500 or

so ‘dummy’ votes could then be tabulated and the

outcome checked against the inputs. Of course, you

could just check the software code. Except for one

problem; the company refuses to let anyone see their

code on the grounds that is a trade secret.

Oddly enough, Diebold aren’t the only Republican

partisans who “helped” select our candidates for

office yesterday:

“According to his press office, in 1995 Chuck Hagel

resigned as CEO of American Information Systems (AIS),

the voting machine company that counted the votes in

his first Senatorial election in 1996. In January 1996

Hagel resigned as president of McCarthy & Company,

part of the McCarthy Group that are one of the current

owners of Election Systems and Software (ES & S), which

itself resulted from the merger of AIS and Business

Records Corporation. According to publicist/writer Bev

Harris, Hagel is still an investor in the McCarthy

Group. ES & S is now the largest voting machine company

in America. One of its largest owners is the

ultra-conservative Omaha World-Herald Company.”

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Landes_Ambush.htm

For more background reading on who gets to play with

your ballot, see:

http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html

Who are Diebold?

Diebold LogoThe corporate officers are as thick as

thieves with the Republican hard right religious nut

division. For those who have been lucky enough to

forget, Senator Faircloth was the protege of Jesse

Helms in NC. It looks like the board and the directors

were all putting up money for a Faircloth victory when

Edwards took that senate seat. I wonder if they

conspired to put things right.....?

Don't just scan over the following list of Diebold's

board and officers - look for patterns. Why were they

all so set on Faircloth, Voinowhasit and DeWine? This

looks too bizarre for words. Did they have some litmus

test that required donations to these ultra right wing

loonies?

http://www.diebold.com/

Board of Directors

Louis V. Bockius III (2,4,5)

6/28/00 $15,000.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE -

RNC

11/3/00 $10,000.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE -

RNC

10/9/97 $1,000.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

Christopher M. Connor Chairman and Chief Executive

Officer, The Sherwin-Williams Company

5/22/00 $1,000.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

3/30/00 $1,000.00 — DEWINE FOR US SENATE

Gale S. Fitzgerald (2, 6)

President and Chief Executive Officer , QP Group, Inc.

7/12/00 $500.00 — NEW YORK REPUBLICAN FEDERAL CAMPAIGN

COMM.

10/12/98 $200.00 — FRIENDS OF JOHN LAFALCE

10/18/99 $1,000.00 — BUSH FOR PRESIDENT INC

Donald R. Gant (1,3,5) Senior Director, The Goldman

Sachs Group, L.P.

L. Lindsey Halstead (2,3,6) Retired Chairman of the

Board, Ford of Europe

12/22/98 $500.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

1/23/97 $500.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - RNC

5/27/97 $200.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - RNC

10/31/97 $500.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - RNC

12/28/99 $500.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - RNC

3/7/01 $300.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

6/12/01 $200.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

11/27/01 $200.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

1/24/02 $500.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Phillip B. Lassiter (1,3,6) Chairman of the Board and

Chief Executive Officer, Ambac Financial Group, Inc.

4/16/98 $250.00 — NAT'L REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMM.

9/21/98 $250.00 — NAT'L REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMM.

John N. Lauer (1,4,5) Chairman of the Board and Chief

Executive Officer, Oglebay Norton Co.

10/10/00 $1,000.00 — DEWINE FOR US SENATE

8/23/00 $250.00 — REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - RNC

3/17/97 $1,000.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

Walden W. O'Dell Chairman of the Board, President and

Chief Executive Officer, Diebold

2/14/01 $2,015.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

12/17/97 $1,000.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

1/30/01 $3,950.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

8/16/01 $500.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

12/17/97 $1,000.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

6/30/00 $1,000.00 — DEWINE FOR US SENATE

Eric J. RoordaFormer Chairman, Procomp Amazonia

Industria Eletronica, S.A.

W.R. Timken Jr. (2,3,4) Chairman , The Timken Company

6/23/00 $50,000.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

6/8/01 $100,000.00 — 2001 PRESIDENT'S DINNER -

NON-FEDERAL TRUST

3/14/01 $10,000.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

8/19/99 $15,000.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

11/3/00 $15,000.00 — RNC REPUBLICAN NAT'L STATE

ELECTIONS COMM.

2/22/02 $1,000.00 — RELY ON YOUR BELIEFS FUND

6/12/02 $1,000.00 — OHIO'S REPUBLICAN SALUTE

Corporate Officers

Walden W. O'DellChairman of the Board, President and

Chief Executive Officer, Diebold

Wesley B. Vance Chief Operating Officer

8/16/01 $500.00 — VOINOVICH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE

Michael J. HillockPresident, Diebold International

11/18/97 $500.00 — FAIRCLOTH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE 1998

David Bucci Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions

Group

11/18/97 $500.00 — FAIRCLOTH FOR SENATE COMMITTEE 1998

James L.M. Chen Vice President and Managing Director,

Asia-Pacific

Warren W. Dettinger Vice President, General Counsel

and Assistant Secretary