Hah! Dennis Kucinich puts the Diebold Memos on his Web site.

[BevHarris]

Working on this with them for four weeks; thanks to the wonderful volunteers on the private "Kucinich Project" forum at http://www.blackboxvoting.org, and to the volunteers at http://www.verifiedvoting.org, because the memos are up!

http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/voting.htm

Among the researchers, step in and take a bow if you are one that I missed: RedEagle, JohnGideon, me, for the private forum. At verifiedvoting.org, Greg Dinger, Gristy, Creativelcro, another verifiedvoting.org volunteer and ... who'd I miss?

Thanks, especially, Greg. We kind of stumbled over each other at first, since he and I were approached by two different staff members and overlapped some work. GregD has been absolutely terrific to work with, a totally class act.

Thanks a lot. Apparently the honorable Rep. Kucinich especially liked the Ken Clark "end run" memos.

I wonder: Will Diebold hit Kucinich with a cease & desist?

Bev Harris
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

Note: When members contribute consistently great reseach, some are invited into private forums, invisible without a password, to work on projects that need to be kept confidential. These have included forums to help investigative reporters gather information, and forums to help public officials gather evidence for projects they are working on. I have now made the private Kucinich research forum public, and you can view it here:

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/blackboxvotingcgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi

[dpbrown]

1. Kick ASS! Talk about "pragmatic action"!!!!!

I love this man more every day.

You go Kooch!

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[Spazito]

2. Awesome!!!

Way to go Dennis!

[el_gato]

3. ha ha! that's awsome!

:toast:

[redqueen]

4. Just more evidence that he's THE MAN!

Go Kooch!

:kick:

[lostnfound]

49. Fifty times the backbone of certain "nameless other Dems"..

Dennis, :yourock:

[rucky]

5. This is a Coup! I hope Diebold tries to file a C&D

The publicitiy should be good for DK's campaign...and for BBV.

GREAT JOB, FOLKS!

[nolabels]

13. Do you live outside of the US?

Or to put it another way, why would anybody support anybody or bother to vote. I keep on looking into all the hanky panky and evil things that have been done behind the publics back. Then think to myself a lot of them crooks are stupid, but not that stupid. If they thought they could get away with this stuff they would.

Even if you couldn't believe they were blatantly doing it, from a marketing stand point of how they sell you goods in the supermarket. They could be collaborating so much data on this stuff, that they could do it legally (at least till it’s found out) by just stringing together data on voting trends and setting thing up in different ways. They produce the product that determines the vote, that shouldn’t be that hard to figure out.

On edit: not an attack on anybody (sorry if seemed that way), it just seems I am missing a feeling that some people don't see the ramifications of this on their lives. Politics are personal and effect people in personal ways, and it's just not really noticed by the people it harms that much. The reason being the people doing it have figured out elaborate ways to get people into mode of thinking it does not.

[GregD]

6. CreativeVelcro and another VV.org volunteer helped too

[BevHarris]

17. Thanks. And glad you were speedy, I edited it in.

Greg did heroic work on this, folks. Go to http://www.verifiedvoting.org for more of his excellent activism.

Bev

[ThirdWheelLegend]

7. excellent!

Notice that these are on his .gov site!

Maybe he is going to bring this to the floor.

Go Dennis!


TWL

[truthspeaker]

8. Nice work!

[arcane1]

9. Go Dennis and BBV!!!

:toast:

:bounce:

:loveya:

[rwork]

10. Bev have you hit up

any of the other candidates to do the same? Thanks for the good work.

[Room101]

11. I love Dennis!

:)In a rational world he would be president.

[BevHarris]

40. I'll work with anyone and like all the candidates (almost)

Clark did mention concerns with voting informally but we need to bring him up to speed. Dean knows about it but has said he'll do something after the primaries, I'd like to see him do something now. Gephardt has also mentioned, informally, concerns with the machines.

I'll work with any of them, and we can do customized projects behind the scenes that can go public later or not. I was told that Rep. Kucinich invested the time to read the book.

Time's a wastin. Call your candidates and propose that they do something tangible, even if it is just to formalize their statements.

[redqueen]

41. YES!

Please do this, everyone!

The more exposure this gets the better!

[JohnKleeb]

12. Keep it up DK

:)
I was feeling getting dischanted today, but you know this makes me feel good that I support him. Thank you so much Bev and Dennis.

[tom_paine]

14. Nicely done, Bev...kudos to DK, too...

[Dr Satan]

15. I can't understand

why anyone would not vote for this man.

[lysergik]

19. Personally, He's a bigger asset in the HofR as proven by this move n/t

[JohnKleeb]

22. Its called leadership

but hey if hes not the primary pick, I would be delighted to see him on a ticket, or :evilgrin: are people just gonna play the electablity game even for the VP, personally also he would be a good cabinet member, Kucinich is one of our best.

[redqueen]

31. Hate to muck up this thread...

but seeing as how he's stifled in the House by Republican leadership on every committee, which is where his bills are sent to die, wouldn't it make more sense to elevate him to where he can actually implement some of his wonderful ideas?

[tinanator]

53. excellent question

yes it does make a lot more sense. This trains a rolling!

[jpgray]

16. Way to go Dennis! (nt)

[theoceansnerves]

18. that's awesome.

now if only someone would bring this up in a debate, or on the campaign trail, he could say "just go to my website, www.kucinich.us"!! no more scouring the internet!

[xJlM]

20. DK is on top of it once again

Wouldn't a Kucinich presidency be fantastic? The one man ready to stand tall for the American people.

[bpilgrim]

21. I only saw just a few references with links to berkeley.edu

ie. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eping/diebold/lists/support.w3archive/200110/msg00118.html

i was all excited and i planned to point my search engine - http://GlobalFreePress.net/search.cgi - there - house.gov - to search the memos since the .gov tld has a lot of clout.

oh, well at least he is talking about them in public on his site :bounce:

btw: Bev, are you linking to the search engine? let me know the URL please. Thank you.

peace

[BevHarris]

27. Front and center

The link is on the top blog and also in the main set of links on the right side. Great job, as usual, bpilgrim.

[HootieMcBoob]

23. Sweet

:toast:

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. WTG Dennis!

If anyone would have the chutzpah to do this, Dennis would. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. One more step toward getting paper ballots. :bounce:

[neuvocat]

25. Alright!

[Zorra]

26. Ya gotta love this guy!!!

Let's elect him. We can't do any better.

Mr. Kucinich,

:yourock:
Big Time!
:dem:Save America. Save the Earth. Vote Kucinich!

[JohnKleeb]

30. Let's do it

I am ready.

[althecat]

28. Liebold & Whackamole will be drafting their letter to the HOR webmaster...

What will they say?

[Myra]

29. Thank you Dennis Kucinich and Bev and Greg

et al.
That's fantastic!

Kucinich is an uncommonly excellent (understatement)
elected official.

[htuttle]

32. I think this will break the back of the DMCA threat

I honestly don't see the House webmaster being cowed by Diebold's empty threats.

As I understand copyright-type laws, if they DON'T contest the distribution of a 'proprietary' piece of information, it stops being proprietary. Is that right? (I know that's how it works with trademarks, etc...).

[Junkdrawer]

33. That cinches it. He just got my vote.

I've been leaning towards Dennis since the start. The only candidate whose opposition to the war has been unequivocal since day-one.

Love it.

[JohnKleeb]

35. Cool welcome aboard

I hope others do the same. He shows great leadership by standing up.

[BevHarris]

47. In a way it's sad that we're so hungry for character

and we're amazed when we find it.

[JohnKleeb]

48. I've had my candiate since summer

I want someone whos willing to stand up on a variety of issues, plus someone who makes you think and wonder, and hes a good guy too, I love his life tale.

[cryofan]

34. Dennis will ALWAYS "Fight The Power"!

THat is why he is my candidate. He is the one who will fight against the establishment. No other candidate, Republican or Democrat, will do it. Now you have the evidence of it. I call on Dean, Kerry and Clark supporters to submerge your egos and give your support to the only candidate who will FIGHT THE POWER!

[AP]

36. Cool. I do like Kucinich.

[Gin]

37. Thanks Bev and all who helped......and Dennis.for posting this info..

lets see what diebold does about it.

gin

[BevHarris]

38. A kick for Kucinich courage

and strategy, actually.

Bev

[Zomby Woof]

39. you go Dennis!

:thumbsup:

Thanks Bev!

[goodhue]

42. thank you

Dennis for being common sense.

[frank frankly]

43. great news

marvelous!

:kick:

[ComerPerro]

44. I really like that Guy

That was a nice move

[ibegurpard]

45. Outstanding!

Let's see a cease and desist order for a congressional website...LOL.

[Junkdrawer]

46. Kick

:kick:

[theorist]

50. I love this guy!

I haven't begun backing a candidate, yet. (I.e. I don't watch television.)

I feel that if Americans gave up their TV addictions, Kucinich would be our president in January 2005!!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

51. KUCINICH IN 04!!!...kuncinich is an awesome man!

[ramapo]

52. Wow

Fantastic, gutsy move by Dennis. Trying to think of something comparable by a Member of Congress

[JohnKleeb]

59. bill to repeal to patriot act, called the ben franklin true patriot act

Kucinich's handiwork and the progressive cancus amongst others.

[dusty64]

54. Cool.

This is great that the candidates are beginning to pay attention to this VERY important issue.

[BevHarris]

55. Here are Rep. Kucinich's web page Diebold Memo picks

"From conversations between employees at Diebold, including upper management, it is evident that they knew of insecure programs and made insecure changes to programs. Among these activities, employees:"

-Permitted easy access to vote audit logs. Without requiring so much as a password, anyone could access the tabulation of votes and change the contents. (Memo from Nel Finberg to Ken Clark, and Ken Clark response)

-Sold uncertified software (that was used in elections, while knowing that numerous problems existed with the software. (Memo from Ken Clark)

-Changed voting software by sending uncertified patches and upgrades to customers, along with possible bugs (memo Ken Clark, re: GEMS versions, 6/5/2000)

-Contracted to “provide products and services which do not exist and then attempting to build these items on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress and functionality to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations.” (according to an employee upon resignation)

[RedEagle]

57. Lots of hits to the Kucinich site

Kick!

[leesa]

56. Kucinich is such a brave man!! I admire his courage so much.

Both he and Waxman have been true heroes throughout this entire nightmare of the Bush Crime Family reign.

[JohnKleeb]

58. A modern profile in courage isnt he

Even if he doesnt get the nominee I will be happy, why you may ask, because I had the oppertunity to support on one of the bravest and most couragous congressmen.

[BeyondLeftist]

60. Bev & Dennis:"A working class hero is something to be..."

I made up my mind for Dennis after he proposed the Ben Franklin TRUE PATRIOT ACT bill that opposes the Patriot Act before Congress. He is the ONLY man who has stood up to the monsters that be and works fruitfully to defend us and our country. A vegan and a Libra to boot. If Dennis weren't a vegan, I would be more leery of his past pro-life status, but Dennis IS pro-life in regards to the most important issue of our day and that is to STOP the massacre and invasion of people of the Middle East.

Libra men are awesome when irked, think Oscar Wilde and Gore Vidal and Dennis Kucinich,not to mention my soul cousin John Lennon! You are too cool Dennis I hope to meet you in Culver City on Sunday. I met Ralph Nader in 2000, my other living hero, he and I share the same birthday.

Unless the American people can be assured of an un-rigged giveaway of the Presidency and the accompanying government no one should vote. Everyone must hammer on their local government chumps for validated voting with paper back up.

[Isome]

61. Leaders lead...

They don't spend time looking behind them to see who will follow.