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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
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 based on 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. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html


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. Diebold is based in Ohio.

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

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.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

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

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.

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: http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

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

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
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

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. 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/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

2006-06-27 00:23:49 · 5 answers · asked by the_decider 2 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

5 answers

We will,
however
Real elections require a power change in the Captiol to have actaully have hearings and do soemthing about what happened in both elections.

The fact remains that regardless of party affliation, there is a serious problem in the American Election process.

I agree with you that for the last two elections it seems as if political manuvering and, deliberate disenfranchiment were part of winning startegies.

I personally am more concerned with any machine which does not produce a hand countable receit.

Conspiracy is one thing but being practical is something every voter should be able to not only support but demand.
We need physical votes to be counted.

Conspricay or not, the fact remains both in Ohio and Florida there was a conflict of intrest in the person in charge of conting the votes.

Being head of the an election campain in your state should automatically disqualify you from setting policy or influencing the outcome of an election.....simply.

It is ridiculous.

Regardless of Party 22,000 Black voters were disenfranched, still no justice no accountablity.

Only with a change of party in congress will we be able to bring the truth to light.

2006-06-27 00:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 1 0

First of all we could ALL file a absentee ballot. Most States will allow you to do so without really giving a reason. Another way is that WE THE PEOPLE can push to make them REQUIRE a papertrail. Last and only as a last resort, we could actually SUE the U.S. to the Supreme Court under the arguement that without a papertrail we have no way to know that there is a true count.

2006-06-27 08:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hello..First I allow myself to answer to your question,notwithstanding that I live in Europe.I am interested in policy and as we all know the USA is the today's world Power..I behold as an vantage point that I can observe the things,including the American elections outside USA.I highly appreciate your database provided here and your approach toward the topic.I think that the President of the USA affects the policy of the whole world ,so we all must be "on qui vivire" on what's happening there..I've read many books dealing with the problem and especially with the personality and family of your president G.W Bush and his father,the companies they have and supported etc..Keep on..Thank you for your question. Best of luck!!

2006-06-27 07:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by sunflower 7 · 1 0

Votes and the voting citizens were just in the way of their goals and ambitions.

They found out in 2000 that the american people will let them do what they want without kicking up too much of a fuss.

It's over. In conjunction with the Patriot Act the powers that be have usurped america.

2006-06-27 07:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by bogart_that 3 · 1 0

if you think the elections are rigged then i know you think there is a conspiracy in Washington

2006-06-27 07:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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