By Angry Girl of Nightweed.com 9-27-6 Did you know.... 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. http://www.onlinejo urnal.com/ evoting/042804La ndes/042804lande s.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.commondr eams.org/ views02/0916- 04.htm http://www.onlinejo urnal.com/ evoting/042804La ndes/042804lande s.html 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. http://www.american freepress. net/html/ private_company. html http://www.onlinejo urnal.com/ evoting/042804La ndes/042804lande s.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/main63243 6.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.motherjo nes.com/commenta ry/columns/ 2004/03/03_ 200.html http://www.onlinejo urnal.com/ evoting/031004Fi trakis/031004fit rakis.ht ml 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.blackbox voting.com/ modules.php? name=News&file= article&sid= 26 http://www.hillnews .com/news/ 012903/hagel. aspx http://www.onlisare insradar. com/archives/ 000896.php 7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice- presidential candidates. http://www.business week.com/ 2000/00_28/ b3689130. htm http://theindepende nt.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.onlinejo urnal.com/ evoting/042804La ndes/042804lande s.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.commondr eams.org/ views04/0225- 05.htm http://www.itworld. com/Tech/ 2987/041020evote states/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.commondr eams.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. ndymedia.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.chuckher rin.com/Hackthev oteFAQ.htm# how http://www.blackbox voting.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.chuckher rin.com/Hackthev oteFAQ.htm# how http://www.blackbox voting.org/ bbv_chapter- 8.pdf 15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. http://www.globalex change.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% 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/main63243 6.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.yuricare port.com/ElectionAf termath04/ ThreeResearchStu diesBushIsOut. htm http://www.rise4new s.net/extravotes .html http://www.ilcaonli ne.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.tallahas see.com/mld/ tallahassee/ news/local/ 7628725.htm http://www.washingt onpost.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.yuricare port.com/ ElectionAftermat h04/ThreeResearc hStudiesBushIsOu t.htm http://www.computer world.com/ governmenttopics /government/ policy/story/ 0,10801,97614, 00.html http://www.american freepress. net/html/ tens_of_thousand s.html http://www.commondr eams.org/ headlines04/ 1106-30.htm http://www.consorti umnews.com/ 2004/110904. html http://uscountvotes .org/ DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS 1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent. That's over 41 Million Americans. You are NOT alone! 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