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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:15 PM
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Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 09:25 PM by shance
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates.

Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?

Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.

You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here: http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0

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I first became acquainted with VoteHere when I met a source, Dan Spillane, who is the wonderful guy that identified the Diebold source code modules for me after I found the Diebold files. He is the person who introduced me, and subsequently everyone else, to the odd role of The Election Center and R. Doug Lewis in the elections industry.

Spillane filled me in on The Livingston Group, VoteHere lobbyists, run by Bob Livingston -- the fellow that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt outed during the Bill Clinton blow job days. Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who could out a Republican congressman for adultery, and out popped peccadillos by Livingston.

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:17 PM
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1. Why don't we just let these knuckledraggers inbreed themsleves
to extinction?
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:21 PM
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2. Thanks for the great info shance
:toast:

Rec!
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 09:28 PM
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3. Your very welcome. So much revolves back to hijacking
our election system.

And they all seem to revolve back to Republicans.
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 08:27 PM
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4. I was going to post this, then I saw you had.
They were the biggest voting lobbyist . this really bothers me.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-11-06 09:01 PM
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5. tried to rec this to get more looks
but couldn't so i kicked instead
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