Did you know....

[Twist_U_Up]

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

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/042804Landes/042804landes.html



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

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html



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/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886



5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html



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.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

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.html



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/042804Landes/042804landes.html




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/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html



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 consultants 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 was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf



14. Diebold consultant 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.html



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://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/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/sunday/main632436.shtml



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/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950

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/news/local/7628725.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html



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/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html

http://uscountvotes.org/

source here:http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html

[Catherine Vincent]

1. How depressing!

I didn't know they were brothers. Is there a single Democrat that is a higher up with these two companies?

[Twist_U_Up]

2. No nt

[Nutmegger]

3. Ugh, this is disgusting.

Thanks for this.

[Twist_U_Up]

4. Thanks....Its printable with link at bottom n/t

[helderheid]

5. Did you know the source of the original post was a former DUer TruthIsAll

?

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[helderheid]

15. big smile going your way!

[Maestro]

6. Nice research

and completely depressing, but the truth hurts sometimes.

[Twist_U_Up]

9. Not mine...........

it is sourced at the bottom. A former DUer did this,TIA he is pretty spot on. Here is another presentation<not mine> that is really good.

http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation/index.html

[Maestro]

10. Thanks for the heads-up.

I am going through the links now. I hadn't made it to the bottom. I was too excited. :)

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Well, the next time someone asks us why the Democrats are angry...

...just refer the pundithead to this list.

[kster]

11. kick..nt

[Katherine Brengle]

12. Yes, on all counts. Anyone who wants to know more about this stuff

should check out Unprecendented (about the 2000 election) and Invisible Ballots.

[AndyA]

13. But, of course, there's nothing fishy going on, right? n/m

[Clara T]

14. Oh My

Does this mean?


Superheroes Never Die

Rec'd

[helderheid]

16. this is one of the most important things everyone should know. This and

the media.

We're being played.

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Amazing information isn't it?

Thanks for putting this great list together. Wasn't there a report recently that said Diebold was "getting out" of electronic voting?

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. K & R - but I almost didn't read this thread because of its non-title

and I wish more people would see it. Maybe with the extra Greatest votes more will take a look like I did.

Very important list of facts, put together, it's so very blatant.

[Twist_U_Up]

21. I had to label it as such

For some reason threads like this,end up in the deep dark hallows of the Election forum. I am very surprised that this made greatest and stayed in GD. Could be a good sign .

[glitch]

19. A classic. Thanks for the reminder. K & R nt

[DemInDistress]

20. great find,,I just sent this out to many in my circle..

BTW what ever happened to TruthIsAll? Someone said,"former DU member"? was he booted? Is he dead? I remember his screen name, but haven't seen it lately..

[Patsy Stone]

22. K&R!

Thanks for compiling all of this info!

[phusion]

23. Thank you...

bookmarking and sending to some people I know!

[happydreams]

24. Thanks for the hard work! K&R

[Just Me]

25. Powerful piece!

Thank you!!!

:kick:

[linazelle]

28. ditto nt

[sellitman]

26. Recommended, bookmarked & kicked...thanks n/t

[1620rock]

27. Yawn...just one more issue the MSM will ignore. n/t

[linazelle]

29. This should be a flyer--print and distribute. nt

[SmokingJacket]

30. For the record, #4 is no longer true...

Wally O'Dell quit.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-14-diebold-odell_x.htm

[FogerRox]

31. & Hagel was boss @ AIS, not Es&S

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Wow, one-stop shopping! Thanks for compiling this colleciton.

Saving a copy to disk.

[Sheri]

33. Awesome list!

Thanks. :)

[intheflow]

34. Great compilation of sources.

K&R :kick:

[mzmolly]

35. Nice work

depressing shit.

Thanks, I think ;)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

36. Yes, I knew all of this. But It Is Something That Needs To Constantly Be

remembered, so thank you for this awesome compilation.

Now THIS is something that should be sent chain mail...

[cdsilv]

37. I have a problem with this statement....

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

a 'compiler' is a program that translates a hi-level computer programming language into what known as 'object code' - that is, code that can be read by a 'linker' or 'assembler' (depending upon the machine architecture and/or microcode) which then translates the object code to lower level code understood by the processor.

So, talking about a 'compiler' that counts votes is stretching it a bit.

I think it would be better phrased as 'consultants and developers to help write the application code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states'.

Unless a hi-level computer programming language was specifically designed to count votes.

I doubt that happened, as developing a new computer programming language takes years, peer review and alot of transparency.

B.S. Information & Computer Science, Ga Tech, 1982.