AMAZING FACTS About Voting in Our Great Democracy

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AMAZING FACTS About Voting in Our Great Democracy

 

 

 

 

AMAZING FACTS About Voting in Our Great Democracy

 

 

1.Eighty percent of all American votes are counted by just two

companies: Diebold and ES & S.

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

 

2. There is no federal agency with 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 in a surprise upset with 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

and on George W. Bush's short list for vice-presidential candidate,

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

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

 

7. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail. In

other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the

machine is the same as what was actually put in by voters.

 

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

 

8. 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

 

9. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election results.

Reputable analyses could find no explanation for the discrepancy

between exit polls and results in the 2004 presidential election.

 

http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/Unexplained_exit_poll_discrep_v00l.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/europe/23ukraine.

 

 

10. A Diebold subsidiary employed five convicted felons as senior

managers and developers. These managers hparticipated in writing 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

 

11. Jeffrey Dean, senior programmer of Diebold's central compiler

code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

He served jail time for planting " back doors " in his client's

accounting software and using a " high degree of sophistication " to

evade detection over a period of two years.

 

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

 

13. No international election observers were allowed inside the

polls in Ohio.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

 

14. California banned the use of Diebold machines because of

flawed security.

 

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

 

15. All -- not some -- but all voting machine errors detected and

reported in Florida were in favor of Bush or other Republican candidates.

 

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

 

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.ht\

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http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

 

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?ophttp://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0\

411/S00227.htm

 

16. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring

Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated, and experts are

recommending further investigation.

 

 

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,0801,976

14,00.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.htmlhttp://uscountvotes.org/

 

 

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. " --

Tom Stoppard Jumpers