18 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT VOTING IN AMERICA
 
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
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
 
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 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 Ohio election campaign.
As Ohio secretary of state, he left no stone unturned to surpress the democratic vote.
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://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.html?ex=112245800&ei=1&en=3a3c24b7e64fe49
 
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.
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 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 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 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.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 Florida -- again always favoring Bush
-- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
 http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04
ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,0801,97614,00.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
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  Were American's votes deliberately miscounted?
If this was done, it means, quite literally, that we are no longer living in a democracy.
 
Click on the links above...some of the allegations  seem 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 1/2 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.
There is no question about it - the validity of the American electoral process canot be trusted.
 
Please join 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/