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Sheila Parks, Tikkun - Hand Counted Paper Ballots in 2008 Ten reasons why the Bush vote does not compute Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. Marjorie Cohn - Litigating the Election Thom Hartmann - Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy Bigger Than Watergate! by C.D. Sludge. The biggest political scandal in American history, if not global history? You decide. If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines by Thom Hartmann, an article we printed in our paper a while back. Black Box Voting, an interesting site with lots more info.
Our Elections in Peril?
Smoking Gun Testimony on Vote Rigging
Computer programmer Clinton Curtis testified at the December 13th, 2004 Congressional hearing in Columbus, Ohio that he designed and built a “vote rigging” software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida’s 24th Congressional District. Clint Curtis, 46, claims that he built the software for Feeney in 2000 while working at a sofware design and engineering company in Oviedo, Florida (Feeney’s home district). Curtis, in his affidavit, says that as technical advisor and programmer at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) he was present at company meetings where Feeney was present “on at least a dozen occasions.” Feeney, who had run in 1994 as Jeb Bush’s running-mate in his initial unsuccessful bid for Florida Governor, was serving as both corporate counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI during the period that Curtis worked at the company. Feeney was also concurrently serving as a Florida state congressman while performing those services for YEI. Feeney would eventually become Speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He is now a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Curtis, “a life-long Republican” at the time, claims that it was his initial belief that Feeney’s interest was in trying to stop Democrats from using “such a program to steal an election.” Curtis had assumed that Feeney, “wanted to be able to detect and prevent that if it occurred.” In other meetings with Feeny prior to the 2000 elections, it became clear to Curtis that Feeney had plans to suppress the vote in strong Democratic precincts. In the affidavit, Curtis claims that in those meetings Feeney had “bragged that he had already implemented ‘exclusion lists’ to reduce the ‘black vote.’” Feeney also mentioned that “proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25%.” A video of the stunning testimony can be viewed at www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm.
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. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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, including planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
11. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
12. 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.
13. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
14. All - not some - but ALL the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
15. Serious voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush - have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
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