More Evidence The Vote Was Rigged

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More Evidence The Vote Was Rigged

From Wayne Nash

11-5-4

 

 

I don't want rain on the parade but I am getting quite a few emails

from various sources citing possible irregularities with the voting

process. So, I did a little research myself on the net to see what I

could find. As a political scientist I could not resist.

 

Regardless of the veracity of any claim to possible irregularities I

suggest that this question of legitimacy of the process needs to be

addressed if everyone casting their vote is to feel that their vote is

being properly counted. No one can feel disenfranchised in a real

democracy. Otherwise, you end up with a dictatorship and not a

democracy at all.

 

Unless BOTH sides feel the system is verifiable then you may end up

with a banana republic 'democracy'. This is not question of who won

the election. It s a matter of much greater importance; the legitimacy

of the democratic process itself.

 

Here are a couple of sites which address the issue:

 

1. http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/

 

2. http://www.electoral-vote.com/

 

On this last web site I found this interesting bit of information:

 

" Various people sent me mail saying that it is awfully fishy that the

exit polls and final results were substantially different in some

places. I hope someone will follow this up and actually do a careful

analysis. Does anyone know of a Website containing all the exit poll

data? If we go to computerized voting without a paper trail and the

machines can be set up to cheat, that is the end of our democracy.

Switching 5 votes per machine is probably all it would take to throw

an election and nobody would ever see it unless someone compares the

computer totals and exit polls. I am still very concerned about the

remark of Walden O'Dell a Republican fund raiser and CEO of Diebold,

which makes voting machines saying he would deliver Ohio for President

Bush. Someone (not me) should look into this carefully. The major

newspapers actually recounted all the votes in Florida last time.

Maybe this year's project should be looking at the exit polls. If

there are descrepancies between the exit polls and the final results

in touch-screen counties but not in paper-ballot counties, that would

be a signal. At the very least it could be a good masters thesis for a

political science student. The Open voting consortium is a group

addressing the subject of verifiable voting. "

 

Could there be a possible problem here? Let's see...

 

* In states where there were paper ballots the results exactly matched

the exit polls.

 

* In states where there were only electronic 'touch-screen' paperless

voting machines Bush showed an inexplicable 5-8 point or more

difference from the polls, contradicting otherwise accurate exit polls.

 

* The software used in these voting machines is so sophisticated that

you can't even check out the programming because it disappears leaving

nothing to verify, no source code, no nothing.

 

Below are 3 articles explaining how these E-voting programs work. The

man who published these articles is apparently an expert on this

E-voting subject and a computer scientist.

 

Article 1

http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/

articles/04.0303.ADeafeningSilence_article.htm

Article 2

http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/

articles/04.0618.SecretAgentPrograms_article.htm

Article 3

http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/

articles/04.0701.EVoting_TheNewCloseUpMagic_article.htm

 

Another site takes the subject seriously...

 

http://www.rense.com/general59/steI.HTM

 

Highlight:

 

* SoCalDem has done a statistical analysis... ...on several swing

states, and EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an

unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls

to actual results.

 

* In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the

exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin

of error.

 

* Analysis of the polling data vs actual data and voting systems

supports the hypothesis that evoting may be to blame in the discrepancies.

 

* The media was a bit taken aback that the results didn't match the

exit polls AT ALL. Most of the commentators were scratching their head

in disbelief at the results. The media has gracefully claimed they

" just got it wrong. "

 

Some examples?

 

WISCONSIN:

 

Kerry leads Female voters by 7%, Bush leads male voters by 7%. Male

vs. Female voter turnout is 47% M, 53% F. That means Kerry

statistically has a 7% edge in exit polling in Wisconsin.

 

Actual results however show Bush ahead by 1%, an unexplained

difference of 8%.

 

NEVADA:

 

Kerry leads in the exit polls by a clear margin, but is still behind

in the reported results. This state is even closer.

 

Actual is just 1% favor of Bush. Exit polls show Kerry with a wider

margin. Women favored Kerry by 8% here out of 52% of total voters. Men

favored Bush by just 6% out of 48% of total voters. Actual reported

results don't match exit polling AT ALL in Nevada.

 

Easy Programming?

 

According to the programmer cited above here is how easy it is to

" make magic " ...

 

We need COUNTERS - (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (V) = Vote; (T) =Tally

 

1. If V = B, add 1 to B

2. If T = 8, add 1 to B; Clear T; Skip 3

3. If V = K, add 1 to K; Add 1 to T

 

This extremely simple bit of programming would shift 12% of the vote

from Kerry to Bush, it would defy exit polls, and it would make it

look like Bush had a huge popular win.

 

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Feel free to pass this on to your Republican and Democratic friends.

If you are American, this should concern you regardless of who won

this election or wins future elections. If your process is flawed your

democracy is flawed and everything you believe in is on the line. I am

sure that people on the ground are acting in good faith and voting

according to their values and beliefs. It is the people at the top

that concern me.