20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

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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/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/042804La ...

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are
brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.h...
http://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=1647886

5. 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.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.ht...

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

13. 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#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. 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#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....

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://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/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/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.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermat ...
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modloa ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. 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...
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org /


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