Fw: Bush Stole Election Through Rigging Electronic Voting Machines

I was hoping Kerry would make a challenge on this basis. Very disappointing
that he gave up so soon. Peace, Carol Wolman
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From: "Ken Freeland"
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Subject: FW: Bush Stole Election Through Rigging Electronic Voting Machines


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> From: Luz Ogarrio [mailto:ogarrioluz@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:57 AM
> To: Ogarrio
> Subject: Bush Stole Election Through Rigging Electronic Voting Machines
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> Exit polls have not been so off since the 2002 election in Georgia. Huh?
> Now just wait a gaw darn second.
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> TV pundits have already decalred that the discrepancy between the exit
> polls and the official balloting resulted from poor eixt polling. But
> the exit polls relied on modern techniques of scientific sampling that
> make exit polls accurate predictors of electoral outcomes. In fact, the
> only way to check the accuracy of electronic voting is through exit
> polls. So why has the mainstream media accepted the results of single
> source: votes counted by electronic voting machines made by compaines
> with close ties to the Bush campaign?
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> MUST READS!
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> Proving a fix is actually very simple and quick, so here it is
> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&fo
> rum=132&topic_id=1292142&mesg_id=1292142
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> The assertion by pundits/Bushies that exit polling was 'way off', and
> thus, exit polls, which showed an easy Kerry victory in both Ohio and
> Florida, were incorrecty skewed and did not represent the electorate, is
> completely bogus.
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> This is disproved in minutes by simply noting the entire rest of the
> suite of exit polls conducted by AP and distributed to the news media.
> View here:
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> http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/presiden... /
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> Notice, if you will, that states with a narrow or wide Bush margin of
> victory NOT called Ohio or Florida, project perfectly. Missouri leans to
> Bush in exit polls, and leaned to him in the vote. Tennessee likewise
> was favorable to Bush in exit polls, and it showed in the final results
> with a clear Bush margin of victory. Pick a state, any state, there is
> not one single exit poll off by more than a few percentage points in any
> semi-competitive race. Not one.
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> Except 2. Ohio and Florida, the latter of which has already been
> "awarded" to Bush, and the former, which appears to nearly be a lock for
> him as he is up 3 percentage points with 80 percent of the electorate
> tallied. George Bush's win in each of these 2 states is nowhere near
> what exit polls suggest.
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> If this Election is Stolen, Will it be by Enough to Stop a Recount? by
> Lynn Landes November 1, 2004
> http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Landes1101.htm
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> Recounts are triggered by close elections. But, stealing elections and
> avoiding recounts is duck soup for the dishonest among us.
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> Keep in mind that both mechanical and computerized voting machines have
> a long history of vote fraud and irregularities. However, never before
> have so few entities dominated the tabulation of the vote. Today, two
> voting machine companies with strong and well-documented ties to the
> Republican Party will count 80% of all votes in the upcoming election.
> These two companies, ES&S and Diebold, manufacture, sell and service
> both touchscreens and computerized ballot scanners.
>
> So, how can an election be stolen and recounts avoided?
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> First, eliminate paper ballots. Thirty percent of all voters will use
> paperless computerized voting machines that are easy to rig and
> impossible to detect. Republicans in Congress successfully fought off
> legislation sponsored by Democrats in the House and Senate that would
> require voting machines to produce a paper trail. Even with this
> legislation, paper ballots were only to be used in case of a "close"
> election.
>
> Second, make sure the paper ballots that do exist are counted on
> computerized ballot scanners and not by-hand. This includes absentee
> ballots. Ballot scanners are also easy to rig and are owned by the same
> handful of corporations.
>
> Third, and most importantly, steal the election by enough
> electronically-tabulated votes so that a recount will not be triggered.
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> Swing States and Electronic Voting Machines
> Corpwatch
> September 7th, 2004 http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?&id=11517
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> Touch screen voting machines will account for approximately 30% of the
> votes cast in the U.S. elections this November. In 20 swing states,
> where the election is expected to be close, 14 states (representing over
> 200 electoral votes) will be using electronic voting, many for the first
> time.
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> Controversy sure to follow flawed US presidential elections
> by Zafar Bangash
> Monday 01 November 2004
> http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10936/
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> A number of computer experts have testified that they "have been able to
> hack into both Diebold's and Sequoia Voting Systems' voting machines"
> that are being used in the presidential race. Abbie Waldman Delozier and
> Vickie Karp, of Black Box Voting and the National Ballot Integrity
> Project Task Force respectively, confirmed this at a National Press Club
> conference in Washington in late September. Bev Harris, executive
> director of Black Box Voting, said: "We are able to use a hidden program
> for vote manipulation, which resides on Diebold's election software.
> This is a hidden feature enabled by a two-digit trigger (not a 'bug' or
> an accidental oversight; it's there on purpose)."
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> Vote or Diebold: Company has right `touch'
> By Brett Arends
> Boston Herald
> November 3, 2004
> http://news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=52322
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> It was prime time for Diebold.
>
> In total, up to 50,000 Diebold touch-screen voting machines as well as
> 20,000 scanners of paper ballots were used in 38 states across the
> country.
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> Voting Machine Controversy
> by Julie Carr Smyth
> Cleveland Plain Dealer
> August 28, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
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> The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told
> Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to
> helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
>
> The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc.
> - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush -
> prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing
> O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.
>
> The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken
> Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold as one of three
> firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio
> counties in time for the 2004 election.
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> ###
>
> All the President's Votes?
> A Quiet Revolution is Taking Place in US Politics. By the Time It's
> Over, the Integrity of Elections Will be in the Unchallenged,
> Unscrutinized Control of a Few Large - and Pro-Republican -
> Corporations.
> by Andrew Gumbel
> Independent
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm
>
> Something very odd happened in the mid-term elections in Georgia last
> November. On the eve of the vote, opinion polls showed Roy Barnes, the
> incumbent Democratic governor, leading by between nine and 11 points. In
> a somewhat closer, keenly watched Senate race, polls indicated that Max
> Cleland, the popular Democrat up for re-election, was ahead by two to
> five points against his Republican challenger, Saxby Chambliss.
>
> ... then the results came in, and all of Georgia appeared to have been
> turned upside down. Barnes lost the governorship to the Republican,
> Sonny Perdue, 46 per cent to 51 per cent, a swing of as much as 16
> percentage points from the last opinion polls. Cleland lost to Chambliss
> 46 per cent to 53, a last-minute swing of 9 to 12 points.
>
> Red-faced opinion pollsters suddenly had a lot of explaining to do and
> launched internal investigations.
>
> Now, weird things like this do occasionally occur in elections, and the
> figures, on their own, are not proof of anything except statistical
> anomalies worthy of further study. But in Georgia there was an extra
> reason to be suspicious. Last November, the state became the first in
> the country to conduct an election entirely with touchscreen voting
> machines...
>
> The machines, however, turned out to be anything but reliable. With
> academic studies showing the Georgia touchscreens to be poorly
> programmed, full of security holes and prone to tampering, and with
> thousands of similar machines from different companies being introduced
> at high speed across the country.
>
> The vote count was not conducted by state elections officials, but by
> the private company that sold Georgia the voting machines in the first
> place, under a strict trade-secrecy contract that made it not only
> difficult but actually illegal - on pain of stiff criminal penalties -
> for the state to touch the equipment or examine the proprietary software
> to ensure the machines worked properly. There was not even a paper trail
> to follow up. The machines were fitted with thermal printing devices
> that could theoretically provide a written record of voters' choices,
> but these were not activated. Consequently, recounts were impossible.
> Had Diebold Inc, the manufacturer, been asked to review the votes, all
> it could have done was program the computers to spit out the same data
> as before, flawed or not.
>
> Astonishingly, these are the terms under which America's top three
> computer voting machine manufacturers - Diebold, Sequoia and Election
> Systems and Software (ES&S) - have sold their products to election
> officials around the country.
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> "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
> -Albert Einstein
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