How do you guys feel about these voting facts? Probably just a coincidence, right?

Question

20 Amazing Facts About
Voting in the USA

by Angry Girl

of Nightweed.com

Did you know....
1. 80 percent 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 percent 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 50f 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://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30 percent 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/

LMAO@ sleepybuckets. Conspiracy theory? THESE ARE FACTS, LINKS SUPPORTING THE FACTS ARE PROVIDED. I guess you and Bill O'Reilly have a lot in common, "I'm not concerned with the facts." ******* sheep, YOU are what's wrong with this country. We need to make a small state for all you 33%ers out there. You can sing hymns and **** on each other all day long!

@I don't know. "Stupid is a liberal does"
Wow, you seem like a smart guy yourself. Did you mess up your little saying? If you read just a little, maybe stop watching the Fox News Channel for just a second, your opinion might matter. You my friend, are a moron.
WELCOME TO 'MERICA, WUR GUNNA FREE 'DA **** OUTTA 'YA!

Answer 1

It proves that this administration and its friends are the most corrupt in my memory of US politics.They have stolen the government thru practices such as the examples shown above.I am sickened and ashamed of the corrupt ,lying,self serving,people that have contributed to this deception and bastardizations of our country's democracy and voting system,I'm sure our founding fathers are turning over in their graves at this unAmerican activity based on greed.
Why is it when supporters of this group of traders use statistics they are always facts and when an opposing group give you facts they are always said to be faked.....typical traits of people caught with their pants down and their intelligence hanging out

Answer 2

If you believe everything you read on the Internet you'd be a flying saucer pilot who is married to an wiccan/angel/mermaid CIA agent.

Fake data is Fake data.

Stupid is a Liberal does.

Why isn't every newspaper in America shouting these facts they are all liberal papers, why don't you tell them instead of a bunch of 12 year old yahoo! answers weenies? Because the papers won't publish that garbage despite being liberal because there is just no REAL proof or fact involved!

Answer 3

The dumbing down of America is paying big dividends for some. "OK lemmings, follow me. It's not a cliff. It's just a conspiracy theory."

Answer 4

HEY! Those are some really neat voting facts!

My, how thought provoking.

I just wonder what the world has managed to keep spinning around on its axis without knowing such hard hitting facts.

When you go back to school you can write an essay titled "On My Summer Vacation I Became A Conspiracy Theory Nutcase"

Answer 5

Looks like hard work pays off to me. Now if the lazy leftists just had the gumption to go do something maybe you all would be able mess up the world situation once again.

Answer 6

Whoa! Brandon! Where do you get all this information from? It is so convincing of a set up.

Answer 7

It scares me. We need a real leader. and fast.

Answer 8

Kinda makes you nauseous, doesn't it?

Answer 9

AND EVERY AMERICAN HAD TO HANDLE IT. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON CORRUPTION.