[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Thu Dec 9 23:13:22 PST 2004

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>20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
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>by Angry Girl
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>http://www.nightweed.com/angrygirl.html
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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 senior
>managers 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, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and
>senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code,
>was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first
>degree.
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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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>14. Diebold Senior Vice-President 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.
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>http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
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>http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
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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.htm
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>http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
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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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