20 AMAZING FACTS About Voting In The U.S.

[Segami]

Did you know....


1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

<http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html>

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold>



2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html



3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html



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."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886



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

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html



6. 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.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php



7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html



8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html



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.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html



10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm



11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm



12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml



13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf



14. Diebold consultant 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.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf



15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html



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:

http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190



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

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml



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

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm



19. The ex-governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html



20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html

http://uscountvotes.org/


NOTE: Some of the data are outdated but much of it is still true. But don't take my word for it.

Do your own research and discover the truth for yourselves. You may freely copy and distribute this copy as long as credit is noted.


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[RavensChick]

1. Wow!

This is very fascinating! Just like the saying goes, "you learn something new every day". Thanks so much for posting this and I'll be glad to spread the word!

[burythehatchet]

2. #21 - Congressional Democratic leadership could care less

[Inuca]

3. Well...

I know some of the facts are correct, some are not (or are outdated, as you say), and hve no time to check out the rest. All I can say is that Hagel is not "long-connected with the Bush family" and that I voted in the primary on a Diebold machine WITH a paper trail.

[Lugnut]

4. K&R n/t

[Stevepol]

5. Some of this is a little out of date, but the gist of it is even more important now.

Wally O'Dell is out at Diebold, which is now Premier, etc., but these corporations are criminal organizations, that much hasn't changed. They will definitely manipulate the election but we need to keep these posts coming, to shine the brightest possible light on the illegal doings of these organizations.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. So easy, even a republican could understand it! Well done! n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Bookmarked! emailing to all my relatives ...

who DON'T want to hear about Republicans Behaving Badly.

[Runcible Spoon]

8. bookmarked for all the "Hagel for VP" fucknuts on DU!

thanks!

[IDemo]

9. Diebold 'safeguards' the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights

Believe it.....or not! :wtf:

http://www.diebold.com/charters.htm

[GreenTea]

10. Fact is republicans own & control the software of the easily hackable machines our taxes paid for.

Why should these self proclaimed republicans (Bob & Todd Urosevich) own, service and manipulate our voting machines? Why should their corporations or ANY corporation own and have secret proprietary software on machines our taxes paid for?

The American people should own all of our bought and paid for voting apparatus'....Certainly NOT corporations, all who have agendas!

[exothermic]

11. Urosevich

;-)

[GreenTea]

12. !

Thanks, shit happens, last 3 letters in name got cut off in the copy & paste process.

[Fleshdancer]

13. This info can be used for the latest DU activist action

I certainly want to add this to my letter to Howard Dean. Thank you so much for posting this.