Reply #42: Update, Conyers' staffers have requested info on the hack [View All]

[bailey77]

Now that it has been documented using real software and in a real location, using the exact setup used in Nov. 2004, and this is a significant development. Corrine Brown's staffers also asked for more info today.

This isn't just about Ohio. And when you think about it, why would it be about just one state? I don't think it's just about swing states either. And it's not just about the presidential race.

Election manipulation has been chugging along, unchecked, enabled through a local network of corruption. Most investigators who have been at this awhile know that we are looking at an electoral system more fundamentally broken than just Ohio, tabulators, swing states, Republicans, touch-screens, or the Bush family.

We've been working up to this problem for 50 years, because no one paid any attention. It ramped up quickly in the 1980s when the CIA required the biggest voting machine companies to provide their software, and BRC went on an acquisition binge, consolidating the mom & pop election industry vendors into a larger conglomerate.

Then in the 90s, ES&S bought BRC, and the SEC stopped the sale based on antitrust grounds (monopoly) but in a bizarre twist, "solved" the problem by having ES&S share the software and hardware with Sequoia Voting Systems.

There are reports back to at least 1992 of Triad coming in and diddling with the punch card tabulators right before elections (see Lexis-Nexis or Factiva, for an elections worker making those allegations while running for office against the supervisor of elections in a Triad county, 1992). Daniel Hopsicker did an expose of Sequoia shortly after the 2000 election that indicated possible mob ties going back well into the 90s -- then it cleaned up with an acquisition by Jefferson Smurfit and then, later, by De La Rue.

The point being: This is not new, not limited to John Kerry, not limited to Ohio, and by now almost every facet of the system has been penetrated.

Little attention has been paid to the DIMS system, purchased by Diebold in 2003 and implemented in Cuyahoga County, OH just weeks before the election. It is another flawed piece of software, which robs people of their voter registration.