Stealing the Election in 2004: Steve Moore

[teryang]

Worth a look as an overview of the multi-pronged options to do away with democracy in November (or the remnants anyway). Bev Harris mentioned. Also freaky Georgia election outcomes in 2002.

E-Democracy: Stealing the Election in 2004
by Steve Moore
Global Outlook, No. 8, Summer 2004
www.globalresearch.ca 11 July 2004
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html


<Avi Rubin, a computer-security expert at John Hopkins University claims the new voting machines are far below the minimal security standards. John Dill, a Stanford computer scientist says: "I think the risk of (a stolen election) is extremely high."(5) Writing for the Baltimore Sun, Avi Rubin comments:

"I still believe that the Diebold machine, and ones like them from the vendors, represent a major threat to our democracy. We have put our trust in the outcome of our elections in the hands of a few companies (Ohio-based Diebold Election systems, Sequoia Voting Systems, which is based in California and Election Systems & Software in Omaha, Neb.). They are in a position to control the outcomes of our elections, and there’s no way anyone can know if they, or someone working for them did something underhanded. And meaningful recounts are impossible with these machines." (6)

According to the April, 2004 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, 1600 independent computer science experts, including "200 Ph.D. computer scientists" agree that black box computers are insecure, subject to internal and external hacking and place democratic elections at risk. The total number of independent computer scientists who consider Diebold machines safe, secure and verifiable is "zero."(7)>

[Skittles]

1. *kick*

nothing the Democratic party does will matter if the repugs steal the election yet again.

[teryang]

2. This well done article covers a lot of bases

Operation steal the election is on the move across the nation. There is a muted reaction to it, but the legal efforts to stop it seem to be an inadequate patchwork, perhaps undertaken too late in some places and not at all elsewhere. If John Kerry needs to spend all of his campaign money by a date certain, he should be using some of the millions to start and maintain lawsuits to get injunctions to shut down evoting now in strategic states.

The part of the article I quoted has been known by the industry for years but seems like a dirty little secret that no one in the mainstream wants to discuss.

All other issues are meaningless without legitimate elections.

[Skittles]

3. I think it's what keeps Dubya so freaking arrogant

he knows the election is his no matter what.