20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:
Diebold
and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of
the
US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
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."
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became
Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush
family,
was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics
Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-
presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts
almost 60% of all US votes.
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.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all
of
which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the
people
who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23
counts
of felony theft in the first degree.
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.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the
polls
in Ohio.
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 at
http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen
voting
machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002
has
as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen
systems with no paper trail.
19. All-not some-but all the voting machine errors detected and reported
went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million
to
1!)-again always favoring Bush-have been mathematically demonstrated by
experts.
Here's just a few sources.
1.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
3.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...e_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
4.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentar...03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...4fitrakis.html
6.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/module...article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/05...w_hagel27.html
8.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
9.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041...s/pfindex.html
10.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
11.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
12.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
13.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
14.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
15.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/200...oc_elexoh.html
16.
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
17.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
18.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.ph...icle&sid= 950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
19.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/talla...al/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Oct29.html
20.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governm...,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/
--
regards, Peter Bjørn Perlsø
http://haxor.dk
http://liberterran.org
http://haxor.dk/fanaticism/