18 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Did you know....?
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
onlinejournal.com
wikipedia.org
essvote.com2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
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onlinejournal.com3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
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onlinejournal.com4. 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."
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wishtv.com5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator in a surprise upset, with votes counted by ES&S machines.
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onlinejournal.com6. 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.
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hillnews.com
onlisareinsradar.com7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
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theindependent.com8. Kenneth Blackwell co-chaired George Bush's Ohio election campaign. As Ohio secretary of state, he left no stone unturned to surpress the democratic vote.
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freepress.org
demcracynow.org9. 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.
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itworld.com/10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
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diebold.com11. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election results. Reputable analyses could not find and explanation of the discrepancy between exit polls and results of the 2004 presidential election.
ucdata.berkeley.edu
buzzflash.com
nytimes.com12. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers. These people helped write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
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portland.indymedia.org13. Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
chuckherrin.com
blackboxvoting.org14. Jeff Dean served jail time for planting back doors in his client's accounting software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. [Ed: Emphasis added]
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blackboxvoting.org15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
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enquirer.com16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad.
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msnbc.msn.com17. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
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yuricareport.com
rise4news.net
ilcaonline.org
scoop.co.nz18. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring
Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
yuricareport.comcomputerworld.com
americanfreepress.net
commondreams.org
consortiumnews.com
uscountvotes.org/
Based on a list compiled by Angry Girl http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html
Saturday, March 19, 2005
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