20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

 

 

 

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> election reform issue needs to be addressed or the

republicans retain control in 2006

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> 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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> http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

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> If this issue of election reform is not addressed the fact is the

republicans retain control of the House of Representatives.

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> Did you know....

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> 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only

> two companies: Diebold and ES & S.

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

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

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> 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory

> authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine

> industry.

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> http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

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

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> 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of

> ES & S are brothers.

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> http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

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

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> 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. "

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> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

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> http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

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> 5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman

> of ES & S. He became Senator based on votes counted by

> ES & S machines.

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> http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

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> http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

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> 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.

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> http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News & file=article & sid=26

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> http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

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> http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

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> 7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George

> W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

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

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

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> 8. ES & S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in

> the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

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

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

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> 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.

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

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

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> 10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and

> ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and

> can generate a paper trail.

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

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> http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

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> 11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

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> http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

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> 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.

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

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> http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

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> 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

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

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> 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.

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

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

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> 15. None of the international election observers were

> allowed in the polls in Ohio.

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

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

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> 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.)

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

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

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> 17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on

> unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no

> paper trail.

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> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

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> 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

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

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http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload & name=News & file=article & sid=950

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> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

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> 19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush,

> is the President's brother.

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> http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm

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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

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> 20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again

> always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically

> demonstrated and experts are recommending further

> investigation.

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

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

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

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

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> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html

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> http://uscountvotes.org/

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> LET THE FACTS BE KNOWN! Thank you!

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