Visibility for E-Voting Issues = Good... But I don't like the looks of this Smartmatic news

[bj2110]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_go_ot/voting_machines_probe

Way too convenient this close to an election that is polling Democratic. And to link this to lefty Chavez in such a blatant, outlandish, over-the-top MSM way? This smells real bad to me.

I'm getting real concerned about what might happen on 11/7 and after. There are just too many ways to spin this, and our executive branch has weaseled way too much power.

I'm fearing for our country right now.

That said, however, bottom line is, and will always be this:

VOTE! Work to protect this right. Exercise this right. It is the foundation of these United States.

[applegrove]

1. Chin up and GOTV

:woohoo:

[bullimiami]

2. so typical of our bullshit MSM to blow the possibility of a pimple all out

of proportion after repeatedly ignoring the gangrene on the other side.

[NotGivingUp]

3. they are pushing this big time on all the networks. they know

the dems are gonna do a sweep so they will say elections were stolen and refuse to accept the counts.

[bj2110]

4. And that's pretty damn frightening to me, considering the recent

escalation of presidential authority here on domestic soil....

[bigluckyfeet]

6. What a Joke

As long as a company is repuke owed and giving the election to repukes,there is no problem.

[peanutbrittle]

5. Here is a couple of things that may help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1785195#1785310

&

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0816-07.htm

I'm sure 10m out of 14m voters in Venezuela turned out to support the oligarchy and throw Chavez out...LOL

[Peace Patriot]

7. It's just a smokescreen. They're VERY WORRIED about the voter revolt

against the machines (huge Absentee Ballot voting), possibly about imminent disclosures in Robert Kennedy Jr's lawsuit against Diebold/ES&S, other exposures, and all the crap they've pulled with this electronic voting coup. People are getting onto it. And it may be limiting what they think they can get away with this time.

The irony is that what Sequoia created for Venezuela was an OPEN SOURCE CODE system--vote tabulation programming that anyone may review--unlike the TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code in our rigged system.

[bj2110]

9. And somehow, this ultimately important point will get left out of the discussion

Open-source, non-proprietary....

It will be left as "Chavez helped the Dems win, we don't accept the results, full investigation to be launched" And it will be initiated by the Rep. majority controlled House/Senate.

God, I hope I'm wrong.

[stillcool]

8. how timely they are....

June 7, 2000
Honolulu Star Bulletin
FIRM ADMITS ERRORS IN COUNTING VOTES FOR HAWAII, VENEZUELA

ES&S has felt the most fallout from its problems in Venezuela, where that nation's highest court suspended the May 28 elections because of technical glitches in the cards used to tabulate votes.

Dozens of protesters have chanted "Gringos get out!" at ES&S technicians working in Venezuela's election offices. The U.S. Embassy in Caracas has protested the treatment by secret police of ES&S personnel, including alleged verbal and physical abuse and threats.

Venezuela sent an air force jet to Omaha to fetch computers and experts in a last-ditch effort to fix the problem before the delay was ordered.

Venezuela's president and the head of the nation's election board accused ES&S of trying to destabilize the country's electoral process. ES&S denied that, saying 11,200 changes by election officials in posting thousands of candidates for 6,200 offices were hindering the firm's work.

2/3/1999
Honolulu Star Bulletin


Senate President Norman Mizuguchi was expected to announce details today of a Senate investigation into last year's election and the malfunction of ballot-counting machines in seven precincts.

"This is what the United States is all about, and the people's right to vote and having this particular process free from any kind of irregularities is very important," Mizuguchi said.

Sen. Colleen Hanabusa (D, Waianae), who is expected to be a leader of the investigation, said she wants answers about how decisions were made about the election process.

"How did they manage to turn off the safeguards?" she asked...Late yesterday afternoon, Hanabusa met with officials from Election Systems & Software, which supplied the election machines and computers.

Other states have had problems with equipment from the company Election Systems & Software:

In Dallas, which uses the same precinct ballot-counting machine as Hawaii, 41,015 votes were initially missed.

Several counties in Maryland that had used the company's machines for previous elections had problems with ballots that were improperly printed.

awesome link....
http://newsmine.org/archive/cabal-elite/election-fraud/electronic/voting-disputes/31-mistakes.txt