20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

 

 

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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

 

 

by Angry Girl

Nightweed.com

 

 

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.html

 

 

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 consultants 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 was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems

when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of

23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained

as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming

the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm

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

 

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

 

 

14. Diebold consultant 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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.ht\

m

 

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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.ht\

m

 

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97\

614,00.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/

 

 

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