Hope it isn't a dupe, but maybe this is similar to something a few DUers have been working on? Please excuse my ignorance! Seems to be aimed at those with little awareness of a problem, and I received it from some folks not heavily involved in politics. Great reference links; didn't know that Chuck Hegel was "involved".
It seems like a good thing if this is making the rounds - please correct me if I'm wrong...
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20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:
Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Lan...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight
of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htmhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804La...3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are
brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.htmlhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Lan...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/sun...http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=16478865. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S.
He became a senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/colum...http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitr...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.p...http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspxhttp://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htmhttp://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html8. 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.htmlhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Land...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.htmhttp://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evote...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.htmhttp://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers 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.htmlhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml13. Jeff Dean, Diebold's senior vice president and senior
programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of
23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#howhttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf14. Diebold senior vice president 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#howhttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the
polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.htmlhttp://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html16. 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://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov> .)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.htmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/487419017. 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/sund...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.htmlhttp://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermat...http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.htmlhttp://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modloa...http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's
brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/ne...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articl...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/ThreeR...http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/governm....http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.htmlhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htmhttp://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.htmlhttp://uscountvotes.org/
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