Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked

[annabanana]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_061117_clear_evidence_2006_.htm

A major undercount of Democratic votes and an overcount of Republican votes in U.S. House and Senate races across the country is indicated by an analysis of national exit polling data, by the Election Defense Alliance (EDA), a national election integrity organization.

These findings have led EDA to issue an urgent call for further investigation into the 2006 election results and a moratorium on deployment of all electronic election equipment.

"We see evidence of pervasive fraud, but apparently calibrated to political conditions existing before recent developments shifted the political landscape," said attorney Jonathan Simon, co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, "so 'the fix' turned out not to be sufficient for the actual circumstances." Explained Simon, "When you set out to rig an election, you want to do just enough to win. The greater the shift from expectations, (from exit polling, pre-election polling, demographics) the greater the risk of exposure--of provoking investigation. What was plenty to win on October 1 fell short on November 7.

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"The voting equpment seems to be designed to support two types of vote count manipulation--techniques accessible to those with hands-on access to the machines in a county or jurisdiction, and wholesale vulnerabilities in the underlying behavior of the systems which are most readily available to the vendors themseleves. Malicious insiders at any of the vendors would be in a position to alter the behavior of literally thousands of machines by infecting or corrupting the master copy of the software that's cloned out to the machines in the field. And the groundwork could be laid well in advance. For this election, it appears that such changes would have to have been done by early October at the latest," O'Dell explained.

[Webster Green]

1. Thats why the chimp and the big dick were so confident..

And why they, and all their thug buddies were so ashen-faced and glum on Nov. 8th.

Bwahahahahaha!!

Democracy worked!.... in spite of all the fascist assholes!

Paper Ballots Now!

[Febble]

2. Well, it's the same study as is the subject of

this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=459190&mesg_id=459190

You might like to check out the comments there.


(Edited subject for clarity)

[bleever]

3. "so 'the fix' turned out not to be sufficient for the actual circumstances."

Next time we my not be so lucky if we don't establish true transparency in our elections.

[Land Shark]

4. could just be an effective supermajority requirement, relatively steady over time

[Spiffarino]

5. Let the shredding begin!

They couldn't steal the election this time and the big e-voting companies must be scared shitless.

It's time for payback. Both houses of Congress must be hammered to look deep into what's happening to our votes. Look for Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, etc., to start shredding documents and paying off insiders to keep quiet. Subpoena power will be a very nice thing to have. I just hope it's enough.

[philb]

6. While there appears to have been a lot of manipulations in 2006 similar to 2004, there likely was no

systematic hacking of compilers in most races. the nature of the manipulations were more likely to be like the widespread 2004 manipulations that were not of a single uniform nature but rather thousands of mostly small things that add up to a big total.
In Florida and Ohio there were systematic malfeasance and illegal dirty tricks to confuse minority voters about their proper precinct in conjunction with a new promulgation by the SOS that those who vote in the wrong precint don't have their votes counted. There were systematic purges of legal Dem voters(again mostly minority voters) and registration and absentee ballot manipulations that affected hundreds of thousands of voters. There were many other types of manipulation and fraud committed as documented by the Ohio recount and the extensive EIRS and Common Cause hotline monitoring system where there were a couple of hundred thousand reports of irregularities, some affecting large numbers of voters.
Additionally there were widespread switching and glitches and undervotes in touch screen counties.

It appears from analyses performed in Ohio and Flordia that the manipulations all together were very large and enough to swing the election and affect the winner. See Dr. Phillips Ohio thread and
www.flcv.com/ohiosum.html
www.flcv.com/fla04EAS.html
www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html touch screens

Similar types of manipulations were documented in most states, with the largest numbers in swing states.
However the fact that the EIRS and CC hotlines concentrated on swing states could be a factor in this.

www.flcv.com/summary.html
www.votersunite.org

[MindMatter]

7. I don't understand why we've not heard a peep

from the Democratic leadership on this. Do they honestly not understand what is going on? Or is it a case where they figure this is an issue that sounds too much like sour grapes if it is aired in public? I hope it is the latter case and they have a plan to deal with this shortly after the new year. It really is not complicated. Every vote must be backed by a verifiable paper record, period.

[yowzayowzayowza]

8. Unfortunately, exit polling really is that complicated.

Historically voters misrepresent their past selections and choose to participate unevenly. The Dem leadership is prolly listening to professionals with specific training in these types of "complications."

Every vote must be backed by a verifiable paper record, period.

On top of gains in statehouses nationwide, control of Congress and mounds of direct evidence, what does the Dem leadership require of the exit poll analysis to achieve this goal?

[MindMatter]

10. That's my point

It is not complicated. It doesn't have anything to do with exit polls. The exit polls are a red herring.

It is really as simple as "require the Diebold election machines to be at least as secure as Diebold ATMs." No banker would ever think of having an ATM that didn't provide a verifiable paper trail.

Why are they afraid to push for this? Is there any American who is against reliable elections? (Other than Karl Rove and friends, of course.)

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. You'd think that with everyone watching and focusing on possible voting-machine fraud,

that they might have thought, "Oh, I guess we'd better lay low and not try something funny this time out, now that people's attention is fixed on us."

But no, stupider heads prevailed...