Voting in the USA

20 Amazing FACTS

Published on December 12, 2004 By dabe In Politics

Is it any wonder that so many people are demanding recounts and questioning the votes? I don't think that the recounts will overturn the election, but it sure does lead one to believe that Bush stole the election. I dunno. At the very least, I'd absolutely want to see some of these issues addressed and fixed prior to 2006.

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Voting in the USA -
20 Amazing Facts
by Angry Girl

Nightweed.com

Did you know....

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 U.S. 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. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with 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 U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. 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 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.

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.

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 here.)

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

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

19. Florida's governor, Jeb is Bush's brother.

20. Major voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and questioned by experts.

The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies were the equivalent of statistical miracles. Was it God? or was it Diebold...?

If you doubt me on any of these, CLICK HERE Link for references.

By the way, there's also word that Hagel is considering running for president in 2008! Imagine that....

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Comments

whoman69

on Dec 13, 2004

After I read this, I knew that it would invoke the quiet sounds of crickets chirping from the right.

latour999

on Dec 13, 2004

Now that we know this information, we must be careful with it, otherwise we will be branded unpatriotic, liberal, terrorist, or the worst of all...Michael Moore!

dabe

on Dec 13, 2004

Whoman, I guess I'm not sure what you're saying......... That no one is going to touch this topic? That the righties don't want to engage in this discussion, cuz they have no way of arguing FACTS? Gee, I dunno.............

Daiwa

on Dec 14, 2004

And Kevin Bacon's third cousin twice removed was seen last week making a bank deposit in a Diebold night deposit device.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Cheers,
Daiwa

T_Bone4Justice

on Dec 16, 2004

dabe, just letting you know that I have moved my blog and if you are still interested in reading my articles, you can find me at:

http://tbone4justice.blogspot.com/

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