CLG launches investigation into discrepancies of 2004 'election'

[Lori Price CLG]

CITIZENS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT (www.legitgov.org) Launches Investigation Into Discrepancies of 2004 'Election'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CITIZENS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT (www.legitgov.org) Launches Investigation Into Discrepancies of 2004 'Election'
Pittsburgh, PA: November 4, 2004
CONTACT: Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. and Lori Price, [e-mail]

CLG Founder and Chair, Michael D. Rectenwald, Ph.D., calls for a thorough investigation into the discrepancies of the 2004 election. At the conclusion of its investigation, CLG may call for specified action(s) against the system that has provided for the theft of the 2000 and 2004 elections. CLG may demand prosecution of those that have laid the groundwork for the 2004 election, if such an investigation points to the conclusion that a second coup d'etat took place on November 2, 2004. <snip>

Lori Price

[genius]

1. Go Lori! At least, somone is taking action.

[Lori Price CLG]

2. Thanks! n/t

[napi21]

3. Is there any way we can help?

[billyoc]

4. They take PayPal, also sell some cool

t-shirts.

http://www.legitgov.org/joinCLG.html

[Lori Price CLG]

5. Yes, and thank you. :)

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
That 'Breaking News' page has the contribution address and T-shirt page links right there.

:) -Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I hope this makes the mainstream media.

[genius]

8. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the best news updates

Everyone should sign up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. If someone takes my advice and we systematically buy

advertisement in the NYT on a monthly basis, there is no way the mainstream press can shut us out.

[graphixtech]

7. Excellent work!

I have been telling others that you would definately be following
through with something about the highly suspicious election results.
Thank you for taking the lead with this issue!

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Current RICO Lawsuit includes
VOTING Machine Companies
DIEBOLD, ESS, SEQUOIA

(This refers to the election fraud in 2000, but the research is
especially relevant. It names NAMES of those involved. The relevant
"defendents" are listed at the end of this post. These include Diebold,
Seqioia, Hagel, ESS . . . along with many more. Bev Harris and BBV
were also referenced in this case)
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RICO lawsuit, filed on October 21st.
(This is a small portion of the lawsuit)
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint10b.htm

E. THE ENTERPRISE HAS ENGAGED IN A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ELECTION FRAUD.

317. The American patriot Tom Paine wrote, “The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery.” Soviet dictator Josef Stalin supposedly said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” In large and increasing part, “those who count the votes” in the United States are corporations owned by far-right Republicans, which corporations are beholden to (mostly) Republican politicians and appointed officeholders, who select the manufacturers of computerized voting machines, and favor them with lucrative contracts.

318. Following the debacle of “hanging” and “pregnant” chads in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, it was thought desirable to “modernize” voting by funding the replacement of old and, in some cases, unreliable equipment with more modern means to record and tabulate votes. However, the Enterprise – as a primary means of advancing its goal of de facto one-party (Republican) rule, while deceiving the broad public into believing that genuine electoral democracy continues to exist in the United States -- has energetically seized upon this movement toward “modernization” to promote the adoption of so-called “black box” voting machines, which may be described, generally, as computerized (in many instances, touch-screen) devices, as have been in use for years in automated teller machines in banks. Such devices can be “hacked” from without, which is to say the results tampered with, e.g., by modem, with such tampering being difficult or impossible to detect.

319. As always, the Enterprise has not let pass any opportunity to promote its criminal agenda at public expense. Accordingly, the 2002 Help America Vote Act (“HAVA”) was pushed through Congress and, as a result, nearly $4 billion in federal funds have been invested to purchase electronic voting machines. It is estimated that, in the 2004 national elections, between 25% and 30% of the overall vote will be recorded using the new machines.
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321. Indeed, one member of the Republican Party’s slender majority in the United States Senate, defendant Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, gained his office in 1996, and was re-elected in a purported landslide in 2002, in elections in which roughly eighty percent of the vote statewide was tabulated by his own company. The company in question, Election Systems & Software, is owned by the McCarthy Group, founded in the 1990s by Michael McCarthy, campaign director to Sen. Hagel during the 1996 and 2002 elections. Hagel, even after his re-election in 2002, owned up to $5 million in the McCarthy Group, as well as shares in AIS Investors, Inc., a group of investors in ES&S itself. Hagel’s election as the first Nebraska Republican to win a senate seat in 24 years was hailed by the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, which happens also to be a large investor in ES&S.
322. Hagel did not disclose owning or selling shares in AIS Investors Inc. to the Senate Ethics Committee, not did he disclose that ES&S is an underlying asset of the McCarthy Group. Following disclosures due to investigation by Black Box Voting author Bev Harris and Alexander Bolton, a reporter from The Hill. Senate Ethics Committee counsel, Victor Baird, resigned after meeting with Hagel’s staff on the subject in January 2002. Baird’s successor, Robert Walker, obligingly provided a looser interpretation regarding what Hagel ought to have disclosed. When Hagel’s defeated opponent in the 2002 Senate race, Charlie Matulka, wrote to Walker in October 2002 to request an investigation into Hagel’s ownership and non-disclosure of his interest in ES&S, Walker peremptorily dismissed Matulka’s complaint as lacking merit.

323. The second biggest company in the electronic voting machine market is Sequoia. In 1999, the Justice Department filed federal charges against Sequoia, alleging that employees paid out more than $8 million in bribes. In 2001, election officials in Pinella County, Florida, cancelled a $15.5 million contract for voting equipment after discovering that Phil Foster, a Sequoia executive, faced indictment in Louisiana for money-laundering and corruption.

324. Diebold is probably the best known of the three major manufacturers, owing to its unsuccessful attempts to thwart the release of thousands of inter-office memos over the Internet. Those memos showed that Diebold executives were aware of bugs in the company’s software, and warned that the network is poorly protected against hackers. Diebold also garnered negative publicity because of voting irregularities associated with its machines in the 2000 election in Florida. As a consequence of such bad publicity, and following an award of a contract to Diebold to supply machines statewide in Maryland, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, California was hired to review the Diebold Election Systems software. Following the debacle of “hanging” and “pregnant” chads in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, it was thought desirable to “modernize” voting by funding the replacement of old and, in some cases, unreliable equipment with more modern means to record and tabulate votes.

However, the Enterprise – as a primary means of advancing its goal of de facto one-party (Republican) rule, while deceiving the broad public into believing that genuine electoral democracy continues to exist in the United States, has energetically seized upon this movement toward “modernization” to promote the adoption of so-called “black box” voting machines, which may be described, generally, as computerized (in many instances, touch-screen) devices, as have been in use for years in automated teller machines in banks. Such devices can be “hacked” from without, which is to say the results tampered with, e.g., by modem, with such tampering being difficult or impossible to detect.
(more)
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint.htm
Defendents include:

ELECTION SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE,
DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS, INC.,
WALDEN O’DELL,
SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS, INC.
CHUCK HAGEL,
SAXBY CHAMBLISS,
NEW BRIDGE STRATEGIES, LLC
JOE M. ALLBAUGH,
JAMES A. BAKER III,
JOHN SWEENEY,
MATTHEW SCHLAPP,
THOMAS PYLE,
MICHAEL MURPHY,
GARRY MALPHRUS,
CHARLES ROYAL,
KEVIN SMITH,
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint.htm


(Plantiff) William Rodriguez with (Defendent) Mr. Bush in 2002

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[Lori Price CLG]

10. Thanks, and that's great!! (this lawsuit that you cite!!) n/t

[SoCalDemocrat]

11. Exit P olls were right

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1290765

I’ve summarized the exit poll results that I ran through on election night, rounding off to the nearest percent. The time stated is when I crunched the raw CNN Exit Poll data. The second value listed is a +/- value difference between what exit polls showed for Kerry vs. what was actually being reported by the precincts. For example, in Ohio Bush was +3% higher in actual precinct reporting than the exit poll data indicated.

In every case listed below, there is a discrepancy in favor of Bush between the exit polls and actual results. WIth the exception of Illinios, I’d call them outside of expected values.

Time Bush Bias State

08:34PM +3 Ohio
08:34PM +5 Florida
09:29PM +5 Michigan
09:30PM +2 Illinois
09:32PM +6 New Mexico
10:01PM +7 Wisconsin
10:07PM +5 Minnesota

The next three states had exit poll results that were virtually identical to the precinct reported results. This would indicate the exit polls were predicting results very accurately for these three states.

09:39PM +0.1 Nevada
10:36PM +0.1 New Hampshire
11:03PM +0.5 Maine

Nevada and New Hampshire have paper audit trials mandated by state law. Maine does not use any electronic voting machines. It’s possible this is a coincidence, or perhaps the EVoting sytems have something to do with the problem. There is no way to be certain because the software running in those machines has not been inspected. The DNC attempted to do so in Florida, but were blocked by Republicans who said the software was “proprietary” and the DNC had no legal right to inspect it.

According to the compact signed by the six news agencies who performed the exit polling, automated systems should of been triggered on election night when these variances began between exit polls and actual results. They were then obligated to investigate the variances for potential problems.

It appears that rather than investigate and notify the public of a potential problem, they instead chose to modify their exit polling data in the wee hours of the morning so they would conform to the expected election results, which showed a Bush victory.

It is essential that we have faith in our voting process. I for one cannot accept these election results until an investigation has been performed,a full disclosure has been made of what went wrong and why, and it can be proven that our votes were properly registered and counted.

[graphixtech]

13. Thank you SoCalDem

These are excellent resources.

[merh]

12. Thank you for fighting for us!

Let us know what we can do to help!

:yourock:

[leftchick]

14. Even in A Red RED State Like NC they Had 'Problems'...

Thanks For All You Have Done Lori. Check This out...

November 4, 2004 Carteret County, N.C. Computer May Have Lost 4,500 N.C. Votes (According to Unilect President, the votes were lost) Yahoo News

"In Carteret, the county was told by the manufacturer of the voting system that its units could store up to 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes. " WCNC

Carteret voting machines Unilect Direct Record (DREs)
purchased May 96, 45 machines, Programmed by Connecting Points 252-240-2722
Firmware: Unilect Patriot model 2.54, Software: Unilect, model/version Intetilect 2.49
has modem capability
Website for Unilect Corporation: http://www.unilect.com/

November 4, 2004 Craven County, vote totals in nine of the county's 26 precincts were electronically doubled. The outcome of most races isn't expected to be affected. ( How can they tell?) WCNC
Craven County Voting Machines, ES&S Votronic Model 1
Purchased 206 machines from 1997-2003, Firmware model 5.28 installed 2002
Software tabulator ES&S Unity version 2.2, Programmed by ES&S
ess 800-247-8683, has modem, does not use it
November 4, 2004. Mecklenburg County, early voting machines counted some totals twice affecting as many as 4,000 ballots. That problem has not yet been corrected. "There are always glitches," McLean said. http://www.wral.com/news/3891488/detail.html
Mecklenburg County, a discrepancy in unofficial totals posted on election night had officials recounting early voting results Thursday. The county election office said before the election that 102,109 people voted early or returned valid absentee ballots. But unofficial results from election night showed 106,064 people casting early and absentee votes for president. http://www.wcnc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8654KG80.html

Mecklenburg Voting Machines, Microvote 464, Purchased 1,400 in 1995
NASED nr 10301, Firmware version 4.31, Software - MEMS model/version 2.02
Programmed by Board of Elections, No modem capability
service by Microvote, phone [phone]
November 4, 2004. Yadkin County, about 1,000 ballots were accidentally counted twice. The problem was later corrected. How? http://www.wral.com/news/3891488/detail.html

Yadkin County Voting Machines - ES&S Optech 111 - P Eagle, Optical Scanners purchased 13 machines 1996, Firmware Optech III, Software, Data Packs programmed by ES&S

November 4, 2004. Guilford County, early voting machines had capacity problems, which affected anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000 ballots. That problem was also corrected.

(Problem was that the machines quit counting ballots when they reached capacity. Doesn't that mean that the machines ran out of space to hold the data, and that the data was lost, as happened in Carteret County? ) http://www.wral.com/news/3891488/detail.html

Guilford County Voting Machines - ES&S touchscreen voting machines, purchased 1,186 from 1995-2002, Votronic Model 1, Firmware 5.28, installed 2002, Tabulating Software Unity 2.2 installed 2003, programmed by Guilford County, has modem, doesn't use.

November 4, 2004 Onslow County, a software error changed the order of finish in the county commissioners race. The error didn't change who won, just who finished first through fifth. The error occurred when a floppy disk that compiles voting data from the counting machines was programmed incorrectly.. WCNC

Onslow County uses punch-card machines.
They have 28, purchased them in 1985 from
Business Records Corp. (now ES&S) and plan to replace them once federal standards are set.

November 4, 2004. Chowan County. Elections board officials were busy tallying corrections Wednesday to results in Guilford, Yadkin and Chowan counties, Bartlett said http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10094337.htm
Chowan County Voting Machines Not known what kind of machines used in Chowan this election. They did have lever machines. May have been testing other machines.
November 4, 2004. RALEIGH, N.C. -- Election Day has come and gone, but three statewide races still do not have a clear winner.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Will add this link to my site!

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