1. 80% of all votes
in
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 regulatory authority or oversight of the
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
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, 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. Kenneth Blackwell
co-chaired George Bush’s
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/113004Y.shtml#1
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/894
http://67.15.90.110/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1414219
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. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election results. Reputable analyses could not find and explanation of the discrepancy between exit polls and results of the 2004 presidential election.
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/Unexplained_exit_poll_discrep_v00l.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/europe/23ukraine.html?ex=1102245800&ei=1&en=3a3c24b7e64fe49
(You have to register the first time.)
12. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers. These people helped 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, senior programmer on Diebold’s central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree. Do check this one out! And the Q&A feedback!
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
14. Jeff Dean was 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 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
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html
16.
See the movie here with the chimp:
http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
17. All—not some—but
all the voting machine errors detected and reported in
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
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
18. Serious voting
anomalies in
ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm:
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.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/
Based on a list compiled by Angry Girl http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html
Were American’s votes were deliberately miscounted?
If this was done, it means, quite literally, that we are
no longer living in a democracy.
When I read the list a few days ago, some of the
allegations just seemed too preposterous to believe. Like:
“Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold’s central compiler code...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 2 years.”
I tracked down the author of the list, who graciously
responded with a list of references for each allegation. I checked out this
Jeff Dean thing in particular. It didn’t take long to get to this:
According to the findings of fact in case no. 89-1-04034-1
(Washington State): “...Defendant’s
thefts occurred over a 2 ˝ year period of time, there were multiple incidents, more than the
standard range can account for, the
actual monetary loss was substantially greater than typical for the offense, the crimes and their cover-up
involved a high degree of sophistication
and planning in the use and alteration of records in the computerized accounting system that defendant
maintained for the victim, and the
defendant used his position of trust and fiduciary responsibility as a computer systems and
accounting consultant for the victim to
facilitate the commission of the offenses.”
Another one of the references led to a detailed account of
the double database technique pioneered
by Mr. Dean to enable electronically
tabulated votes give a false total while still presenting accurate details in case of spot audits.
In combination with the constellation of undisputed circumstantial
evidence and open conflicts of interest, these last details are just too
damning to ignore.
A cloud over the validity of the American electoral
process is not acceptable.
Please join me in calling for:
1) A full
investigation of election irregularities
2) Measures to ensure
that ballots cannot easily be miscounted, and can be recounted
Please -
1) Forward this list
to everyone you know
2) Use it as grist
for letters to the editor (in your own words) and requests to newspapers, radio
and TV for election fraud investigation... http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster
3) Write your
congressional representatives calling for an investigation http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Meredith Wheeler <meredith.wheeler@free.fr>