BBV: DU helped start the S***storm - right after the 2002 election.

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Bev Harris picked up the ball and ran with it. She did the footwork, wrote the book and deserves more credit than we can possibly give. The rest, as they say, is history.

Look how far we've come, thanks to Bev and dedicated DUers. The incomparable Paul Krugman (NYT) is writing a series of columns about BBV. The issue is finally in the mainstream. For many months, we wondered if it ever would be.

Diebold has been exposed. They've been convicted by their own memos- in Volusia County, where 16,022 Gore votes disappeared, long enough for the networks to call it for Bush. And also in 2002, where, where last-minute program patches to 22,000 computers turned sure Democratic incumbents from victors to losers.

Johns Hopkin's researchers did their famous voting machine analysis. They determined that the machines could be hacked. Very easily. Just look at what happened in Volusia, Georgia and elsewhere.

Now the states are saying: Wait a minute. Let's take another look. We need a paper trail.

Yes, we are winning the battles. We have made a difference. We will know if we won the war to preserve democracy in Nov. 2004.

So let's review the Jan. 2003 thread of links which may today seem dated and mundane. We have come very far. And there is still a long way to go. Yes, forewarned is forearmed.
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPUTER VOTING FRAUD

Read it. Use it. Be sickened by it. But ACKNOWLEDGE it.

Kick it 18,181 times, so that it's a constant reminder. At the same time, indicate which of your representatives, senators and media you will mail it to. If each of us would send just one, we will begin to see the beginning of the perfect SHITSTORM.

Here's proof that fraud took place in 2000/2002. And there is no question that it will in 2004. Except, it will be much worse when so many states install these Republican - manufactured devices.

There is NO way to prove these machines are NOT fixed. We must institute safeguards to prove that the results can be trusted. Election 2002 resulted in dramatic, STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE DEVIATIONS from the FINAL polls in KEY states. And they were ALL to the detriment of the Democrats.

Something smells. We can't view the code. They won't let us. It's "proprietary". We can't even rely on future EXIT POLLS to verify the votes.

So, we MUST demand fool-proof auditing of the votes. These machines make us look like a high-tech Banana Republic. We are the laughingstock of the civilized world.

Hopefully, by pounding our outrage down the throats of all concerned, we can DO something about it. Otherwise, let's just kiss 2004 and beyond goodbye.

Are the Democratic candidates reading this? It's in YOUR interest as well as that of democracy to address this issue. What's the use of running for the Prize, only to get the booby prize, if you don't extract this cancer from our body politic?

Democracy is surely dead if nothing is done about it.

"The concept is clear, simple, and it works. Computerized voting gives the power of selection, without fear of discovery, to whomever controls the computer," - James & Kenneth Collier, authors of VoteScam (1992)

"There are no documented cases of electronic vote-rigging occurring anywhere in the country, but only because it's nearly impossible to prove."

"Hand counting is the gold standard against which we check machine counting efficiency."

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin

"I think it is safe to say at this point that the election of 2002 lacks any credibility at this point. Too many "mistakes", too many malfunctions, too many missing documents, too many dirty tricks, all combine to destroy the illusion that the results to be announced have any basis other than in wishful thinking by those in control of the vote counting process. Certainly the sudden abandonment of the VNS exit polls suggests that the actual polling results are so far out of alignment with the desired results that the media predictions had to be shut down."

Votescam.
This is as good a place as any to start and this is what initially sparked my interest to really dig into this story and find out more. Go to the link marked "Chapters" and read all about it.
http://www.votescam.com/frame.html

American Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs Actuals
Scoop’s analysis shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects in critical Senate races (Georgia and Minnesota) where it secured it's complete control of Congress.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00078.htm

How to Rig a Touch Screen Voting Machine.
I have been in the computer programming business for over 30 years. I have written code that runs in devices like the Touch Screen voting machines. When I decided to write this piece, I wanted to describe what it would take to rig a Touch Screen and get away with it and make it very, very, very hard to detect.
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/november92002.htm

Can we trust the vote count anywhere? In any race? In any election?
It involves going back to a simpler era. It is just this. Hand counting all ballots at the precinct level by the election workers under the watchful eyes of the community, and the posting of the results at each precinct station, plus the saving of the individual ballots so that they may be reviewed or re-counted at any time.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Penn111402/penn111402.html

Diebold - The Face Of Modern Ballot Tampering
The lack of any exit polling on November 5 has been oddly ignored by the media. Those pesky tracking polls leading up to the elections have been explained away by a ‘late surge to the Republicans’ caused by.... hmmmm, how about sun spot activity? With no exit polls, there was no other feedback to conflict with the "official" results, this allowed the Diebold touch screen machines to change the way election fraud is carried out.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00081.htm


Voting Machines - A High Tech Ambush
Personally, I'll never vote on a machine again if I can help it. For the next election, I'll vote "absentee" (i.e., through the mail). In fact, Oregon has wisely rejected voting machines altogether and handles its entire election through the mail. The state of Washington offers that option, and Colorado is considering mandatory mail-in voting. Maybe those states see an ambush when they see one.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Landes_Ambush.htm


Dissident Voice
Vote of No Confidence.
Everything you need to know about stealing elections

http://www.conspire.com/vote-fraud.html


For all its apparent benefits, touch-screen voting is not a panacea, according to several nationally recognized computer experts. There are no documented cases of electronic vote-rigging occurring anywhere in the country, but only because it's nearly impossible to prove.

http://www.kioskcom.com/article_detail.php?ident=1021


The elephant in the room is vote theft on a massive scale
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Editor_sDesk/editor_sdesk.html

It is now effectively illegal for citizens in 49 states to count their own votes on election day.
http://www.votefraud.org/Intro/index.html

The Greatest Cover-Up Of All: Vote Fraud In America
http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/greatest.htm

CalTech and MIT Computer Experts -- Hacking the Machines
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsoldiervoicefrm4.showMessage?topicID=24.topic

Why One Tech Maven Fears Computer Voting
http://www.notablesoftware.com/Press/WSJ.html


Rebecca Mercuri loves computers.
But when it comes to counting votes in an election, she favors plain old paper. Computers, she says, just can't be trusted with our democracy.

http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB985032601926471110.htm


Voting Machine Technology - It's Not Secure.
Have elections in America been rigged to slowly, but surely shift power to the right? In the secretive world of voting machines, anything is possible.
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm\


Right-wing, radical political activists financed USA's largest voting machine company.
http://www.talion.com/election-systems-software.html


Who is Diebold?
The corporate officers are as thick as thieves with the Republican hard right religious nut division.
http://www.diebold.com/


When it comes to elections in America...assume crooks are in control...and then act accordingly.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm


Thirty-one city newspapers have documented voting errors that only add to the ballot-stuffing, dead-people-voting, hide-the-ballots-in-your-trunk, absentee-faking problems of the past.
http://www.talion.com/election-mistakes.html#reports


Computer Vote Counts are Unverifiable
http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/unverifiable.htm


TESTIMONY OF A COMPUTER EXPERT
The Judge stated in his ruling that "There is no adequate and proper safeguard to prevent the computers from being programmed to distort the election results."
http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/expert.htm


Why we need to know who owns voting machine companies
http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html#Nebraska


Diebold Magic?
http://www.bartcop.com/111102fraud.htm


Republican Controlled Voting Machines Hand Surprise Victories to... Guess which party?
http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000051.htm


Voter News Service sitting on Election Day data
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1902810p-1886603c.html

"Congress could force these companies to submit current source code as a pre-condition, if they wanted to. Congress could keep it secret, so the copyright and trade secret laws would not be infringed. The Senators or whatever would have to sign non-disclosure agreements... there's no valid reason this code is not checked for accurary. Which leaves only invalid reasons for not checking the code - and that would be that they do have ways to monkey with the votes."


The Real Scandal Is the Voting Machines Themselves
Computerized vote-counting is a terrible system. This is only news to those who haven’t been paying attention.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/121400-108.htm


Rage Against the Machine
Machines don't have political beliefs. But computer programmers do.
http://www.tnr.com/120400/dugger120400.html


Voting Machine Companies
Owned by conservative Republican businessmen, bankers, religious nuts
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm

Repository for Voter Complaints
http://www.votewatch.us/


Republicans dominate the voting machine business: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Polling Results
http://www.ecotalk.org/MidtermElections2002.htm


Voting Machines - High Tech Ambush
http://www.ecotalk.org/Vote-By-Mail.htm


Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control
http://www.ecotalk.org/AmericanElections.htm


The Nightmare Scenario Is Here - Computer Voting With No Paper Trail
http://www.ecotalk.org/Dr.RebeccaMercuriComputerVoting.htm

"The code behind exit poll tabulation is astoundingly simple to write. And the more simple it is, the less error prone. Why, with two years and millions (billions?) of dollars could they not get it right? When I took Oracle 8i, we were taught DB querying on the first day, and produced percentage based results the first week. This story is hole-ier than a hula-hoop."


Florida 2002: Sluggish Systems, Vanishing Votes
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html#149


Alert: Ghost Precincts, Vigilance Needed
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsoldiervoicefrm4.showMessage?topicID=25.topic


Broward vote total off in reporting glitch
The missing 104,000 votes raised questions about the county's $17.2 million electronic voting system http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4460196.htm


Fraud and manipulation endemic......
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20021106&Category=APN&ArtNo=211060605&Ref=R



Arkansas
Republicans went to court to keep votes uncounted
http://www.kark.com/karktv/news/story_tmp.asp?cmd=view&Storyid=4948

Alabama
A statewide recount in the gubernatorial election demanded by Democratic Governor Siegelman gave victory to his Republican challenger:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/11/07/politics1919EST0782.DTL


Texas
Problems with touch screen voting machinery http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=51022&SecID=2


Kansas
Provisional ballots caused problems
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/1771656/detail.html


South Carolina
Voting equipment creates difficulties
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/4459621.htm
"The likely truth is that the "invalid numbers" were showing the opposite of the intended result. Better to just throw the whole notion of "asking voters who they voted for" out the window with a cheesy and unbelievable excuse, and rely on known methods such as stolen ballot boxes and outright fraudulent punch machines and the like. THOSE methods have been working for millenia, and that is why the VNS fell back on them, as opposed to
exposing the FACT the fraud starts and ends at the tippity-top. '

Nebraska
Election fiasco
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/110602/new_electionglitches06.shtml

New Jersey
Tally delayed by computer problems
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--votingglitches1106nov06,0,808514.story?coll=ny-ap-regionalwire

Florida
Massive Polling Fraud
http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000043.htm

Michigan
Ballot shortages and polling problems
http://www.tv7-4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1002309&nav=1vrjCEZ7


San Francisco
Ballot shortages
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1002487&nav=5D7lCElH

Proprietary software makes inspection of electronic voting systems impossible
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110602_elections.html

Republican Manufactured Voting Machines
Involved in Election Fraud
http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000048.htm

ON SCRAPPING THE EXIT POLLS
"I'm astounded that no one finds this to be of any interest. If you're going to fix an election one thing you need to worry about is an outside party monitoring that election and using well-established and accepted methods of predicting its outcome. Suppose the consortium had McBride beating Bush by 5% and yet Bush was declared the winner. Two possibilities: either the exit polling methodology was flawed or the election was stolen. Are we to believe that a consortium of the nation's most prominent news organizations is so incompetent as to have this happen to them?"

www.whatreallyhappened.com


Massive voter fraud was being planned for months. The fix was in. Be warned. This exclusive interview with Greg Palast will boil your blood.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2002/11/04_Palast.html

FLORIDA VOTE FRAUD:
High-tech voting system working fine "Go back to sleep, citizen. Nothing to see here!"

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/830822.asp


"I'll tell you right now, this election is fixed!"
http://www.drudgereport.com/vote1.htm

"Flyers were being left on cars in black neighborhoods warning that voters with outstanding tickets or warrants might be arrested when they show their ID to vote. Early voters were met by poll watchers from the Republican Party of Arkansas who demanded identification and challenged voter ballots."

http://www.pbcommercial.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/October/22-2390-NEWS1.TXT


Background Stories about ES&S Voting Machines
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsoldiervoicefrm4.showMessage?topicID=12.topic

Chip Glitch hands victory to wrong party. Guess which party?
http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000050.htm

Voting Machine Fraud, Execs GOP contributions
http://www.bartcop.com/110702otter.htm

Fraudulent automated phone messages in Florida Bush said he was unaware of the phone call effort - even though the call says it was ``paid for by Jeb Bush for Governor Campaign'' http://election2002.tbo.com/election2002/MGARSR0D58D.html

Vote Fraud, Texas style
http://www.jshull.org/

There's only one reason the exit poll has been scrapped.
How could they explain away a (potential) lead by the democrats and then suddenly have the GOP controlling congress. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20021105/ap_on_el_ge/eln_voter_news_service


Orlando
Voting Problems
"These folks are so crooked they have to screw their socks on in the morning"

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGACF5AHY5D.html


Voting Machines' Maker Blamed.
How Florida bought easily-rigged ES&S Voting Machines

http://www.tampatrib.com/MGASSAS976D.html


Manufacturers Admit Voting Machines Unreliable
How ES&S machines have modems, allowing hacking to access & alter vote tallies
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=5172

The Nightmare Scenario
Dr. Rebecca Mercuri on paperless computer voting & fraud http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0805-07.htm

Voting into the void
Touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, experts say they can't be trusted.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/

How VNS helped to rig the Nov. 5 Election for the GOP
http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsoldiervoicefrm61.showMessage?topicID=2.topic

Why did VNS bow out the morning of the election?
Did somebody get a horse's head in their bed? http://www.bartcop.com/vns2002.htm


Voter News Service Meltdown - Washington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10472-2002Nov5.html

"Voter News Service (VNS) is a top-secret private consortium owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News. It's current headquarters is in Brooklyn, New York. It's been around (under different names) since 1964. It's the only company whose exit poll results are used by the news media to announce the
"projected" winners in races for the president, U.S. House and Senate, state governors, and select races. With the use of computerized vote counters and the news networks exclusive control over polling data in major elections, the gates to election fraud were wide open. Computerized voting machines have now made election fraud as easy as stealing candy from a baby... If VNS is helping to rig elections, why are they doing it? Generally speaking... I believe that the same people who can't rake in enough money, also can't get enough power. The news networks are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the richest corporations and individuals in the world. They certainly have an agenda. Their arrogance and disregard for the little guy is clear. They may think that we're not smart enough to pick the 'right' kind of leaders... right for them, that is. So they might try to do it for us. Voter News Service warrants an investigation. Its operations should be shut down regardless. It's in a perfect position to sabotage the election process. Let the counties count the vote and report it to the states. If it takes a day or two for the states to report the results... so be it. Democracy takes time."
Why did VNS bow out the morning of the election?

VNS got into a lot of trouble for correctly calling Florida for Gore after exit polls showed him winning by a comfortable margin. After that 'debacle' they were forced to completely re-design their computer hardware and software. They were my client, and ran on a large IBM mainframe with legacy software. They were forced to get off the mainframe and on to a completely different hardware and software platform. Everything had to be built from scratch. Supposedly, they didn't have time to fully test the new environment thoroughly far enough ahead of this election cycle. Therefore, they chose to use this election to test the new environment, but not publicly release the results.

Why does VNS think their "Gore wins" Florida 2000 projection was wrong? Bush guaranteed he would win Florida, even after VNS said he lost it. Why is nobody else suspicious?

http://www.bartcop.com/111102bonus.htm


More Magic: 18,181 winning vote totals uncanny.
County Judge Danny Scheel received 18,181 votes. Republican Carter Casteel got exactly 18,181votes. Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth also got 18,181 votes.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/specials/elections/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=860675


VNS-CIA link?
VNS, the guys who are deep sixing their exit poll data, used an outside company to develop their computer programs. It turns out that the company is..... Battelle Memorial Institute, an Ohio-based technology company that also works as a defense contractor to help build the new VNS system. A Battelle spokeswoman declined comment on Tuesday's performance. " From:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021106/ap_wo_en_po/us_election_vns_6


Battelle
Also under investigation during the search for the anthrax killer.
http://www.columbusalive.com/2002/20020530/053002/05300203.html


The Rothschilds
Part owners of voting machines.
They were also behind the whole Enron debacle. Now they will be in charge of the software that runs the voting machines. The other owners have simular NWO backgrounds as well.
http://www.rense.com/general31/roth.htm

Florida Touch Screen Voting System DEMONSTRATION
"Your vote certainly counts. On the other hand, your vote may not be counted"
http://www.jeb02.com/touchscreenvotingdemo.html


Origins of American Vote Fraud
Ever since Mayor Daley of Chicago "found" tens of thousands of dead people to "vote" for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, many Americans have suspected the Democratic party’s urban political machines to be awash in voter fraud. As notorious as the Democrat political machines are, the origins of vote fraud in America lie in the Party of Lincoln. The massive vote fraud that took place during the War between the States and for the ensuing twelve years of "Reconstruction" provides an abject lesson in tyranny that has ominous implications.
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?record=554&month=26


Computerized Fraud
First of all, whether a citizen can prove vote fraud is not the question. The question is whether the Board of Elections officials can prove that they are running a verifiable election. After all, these administrators are supposed to be servants of the people but most of them act as elections are their rightful monopoly. In fact, any attempt by any American citizen to monitor elections will most likely land the person in jail.

http://www.hoffman-info.com/votefraud.html


A 'modern' democracy that can't count votes
LA Times: December 11, 2000. Special Report: What happened in Florida is the rule and not the exception. A coast-to-coast study by The Times finds a shoddy system that can only be trusted when the election isn't close.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/11/latimes.votecount/



An electorate's worst technology nightmare came true
but what's amazing is that it didn't happen sooner. How we set ourselves up for the mayhem of the 2000 presidential election.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.21.00/cover/election-0051.html


Miami Herald's 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning series on vote fraud
Detailing the pervasive voter fraud that subsequently overturned the mayoral election

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1999/investigative-reporting/works/



VOTE FRAUD AND THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES
Since 1964, right after John F. Kennedy was assasinated, vote tabulation for national elections has been handled not by the government, but by a private company lacking any official oversight at all. This company, which changes its name on a regular basis, is currently called "Voters News Service" and is located in New York City. This company is owned by a consortium of TV networks and wire services, which are in turn controlled by the CIA through its Operation MOCKINGBIRD. The TV networks will make a great show of being "first with the election results", but in reality all of them rely on the numbers sent to them by VNS, while seldom aknowledging its existance during the election coverage.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE3/



Opening a Can of Electronic Chad
It is astonishing that, after the Election 2000 debacle of November 7th, the Hillsborough County Election Supervisor, Pam Iorio, is seeking to replace the old punch card voting machines with touch screen devices that have no paper trail. http://www.legitgov.org/electronic_chad.html


U.S. Voters Have Been Hoodwinked
"These machines are going to be a godsend for us," said Robert Lee, head of voter registration and a member of the committee that proposed their purchase. Lee called the machines "probably the most safe and accurate devices on the market." But some outside computer experts, whose concerns are discounted by city officials, say Philadelphia may be making a mistake. http://www.notablesoftware.com/Press/Gelles.html


July 2001 Report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
"Voting - What Is, What Could Be" (Mostly PDF documents) http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html


ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, AND SECURITY IN COMPUTERIZED VOTE-TALLYING
Recommendations to promote accuracy, integrity, and security in computerized vote-tallying, and to respond to identified problems in software, hardware, operational procedures, and institutional changes.
http://www.itl.nist.gov/lab/specpubs/500-158.htm

Tennessee
Vote Fraud in Tennessee: Worse than Florida?
Black voters were told to get behind the white voters. They were told to remove NAACP stickers from their cars, or leave the polling place without voting. It all sounds like a promo for "Mississippi Burning," or maybe a documentary about egregious civil rights violations in some Deep South backwater fifty years ago. But it happened in November 2000.
http://www.counterpunch.org/tnfraud.html


VOTE FRAUD USA?
The Tennessee Voter Empowerment Team met to discuss information they have received.
http://www.nashvilleinsanity.com/evidenceinTN.html


Mail-voting
Fraud is not only possible, it's happening.
NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that absentee ballot fraud is tipping elections in Dallas. One city council election was invalidated and two big civic projects squeaked through, thanks to a longstanding practice in the city's minority neighborhoods. Brokers know when absentee ballots are delivered and scoop them out of mailboxes at houses and nursing homes. Prosecutors and legislators says it's fraud that must be stopped.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~alkolwicz/vote_fraud.htm


Preventing Vote Fraud
Vote fraud is a cancer that can destroy a free country and leave little or no trace of its spread. If we were counting money, would it be done with secret count? Never; all who touch money must sign for it. There are checks and cross checks, an audit is done and an outside auditor is called in as a check against inside corruption. Do you think for a moment that all this expensive auditing is done to find honest mistakes? No, it is done to detect and catch white collar thieves and embezzlers! Undetected, they can easily drive a company bankrupt, so it is imperative to catch this type of thief. Even so, almost daily an embezzler is uncovered; how many escape detection?
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/cc32frad.html


Vote fraud is as American as apple pie
The good voters of Ivory Coast rose up to throw out a former president who rigged his reelection. So did the voters of Serbia. Is America going the other way?
http://www.quivis.com/fraud.html


The Butterfly Queen Gets in the Act
"Outside experts don't need to examine Palm Beach County's new touch-screen voting machines" says Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore. "I don't like this machine," Naulty said. "I think it should be dumped. It doesn't meet my needs and it violates my rights." http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1583/emailtg1/msg00058.html


Voting into the void
New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/

How Florida's Voting Machine Failed (Again)
The first fiasco in the Florida vote was over paper. The second was electronic. How hard is it to get votes right? Hanging chads are nothing compared to how untested technology can ruin an election day. http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,612657,00.asp


Voting Machines And The Bamboozling Of America
The fundamental problems presented by the growing use of insecure voting machines have been ignored by the U.S. mainstream media, which minimized the widespread failures of defective voting equipment during the recent election as having been caused by "glitches" and "gremlins."
http://www.rense.com/general31/machines.htm


Voter Fraud: Miami Pulp Story
The great Miami mayoral election voter fraud of 1997 not only buoyed Democratic attorney Kendall Coffey's fortunes, but netted the Miami Herald a Pulitzer Prize for a seven-part investigative series that reads like a pulp version of the casually corrupt South Florida in a Carl Hiassen or an Elmore Leonard novel.
http://www.thegully.com/essays/america/001113miami_vote_fraud.html


More on voting machines that can't do math
In 1988, Roy Saltman authored the document "Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying" at the National Bureau of Standards. He painstakingly described the numerous flaws existing in punch-card systems, many of which were only revealed to the general public for the first time during the recent election crisis. Most people were shocked to hear these facts, including many members of the press, that "all votes do not count," was now finally being admitted as fact by some of the election officials and vendors involved. Roy's book also addressed serious fundamental flaws with computer precinct voting and off-site balloting. http://www.bartcopnation.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/18044.html


A Vote for Less Tech at the Polls
In the national debate over upgrading election infrastructure, Peter Neumann is an unlikely defender of the low-tech approach. As principle scientist at Stanford Research Institute's Computer Science Laboratory Neumann has spent the last 20 years studying how intrusion detection systems, cryptography and advanced software engineering can improve the reliability and security of computer systems. But get him talking about how to run an election, and Neumann becomes an outspoken advocate of the paper ballot. He's also a sharp critic of computerized touch-screen voting machines. "Some of them have lovely human interfaces, but if there's no assurance your vote goes through, it's irrelevant,"
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56370,00.html

More links to vote fraud articles
http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Secret Group Manipulates Vote Machines
http://www.rense.com/general32/secert.htm

Can engineers save the electorate?
http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20021107S0057

[burrowowl]

1. Great Post!

I bookmarked it!

[Cleita]

2. Thanks for all the work you put into these posts.

I have copied it to my hard disk. This is very important. I hope we can uncover what happened in the recall election here in California. Arnold was acting too much like it was a done deal that he was going to be governor even before he barely got into the race.

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