20 Incredible Facts About
Voting in the USA

by Mad Girl

of Nightweed.com

Did you know….
1. 80 percent 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 power 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-head of Diebold and the head 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 head next year.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/tales/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/tale.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 small list of George W. Bush’s vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/tales/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts nearly 60 percent 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 place 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/defaulting.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/defaulting.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50f 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-Head of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even even if he had been convicted of 23 counts of criminal act theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was fundamentally responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/tales/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 by 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 terrible. Despite Diebold’s claims that the audit logs may possibly 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 percent of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

http://www.cbsnews.com/tales/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/tales/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the Head’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/tale/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/

LMAO@ sleepybuckets. Conspiracy theory? THESE ARE FACTS, LINKS SUPPORTING THE FACTS ARE PROVIDED. I guess you and Bill O’Reilly have a lot in common, “I’m not concerned with the facts.” Fucking sheep, YOU are what’s incorrect with this country. We need to make a small state for all you 33%ers out there. You can sing hymns and shit on each other all day long!
@I don’t know. “Stupid is a liberal does”
Wow, you seem like a smart guy yourself. Did you mess up your small saying? If you read just a small, possibly stop surveillance the Fox News Channel for just a second, your opinion force matter. You my friend, are a moron.
WELCOME TO ‘MERICA, WUR GUNNA FREE ‘DA SHIT OUTTA ‘YA!

Best answer:

Answer by ANGELS RAISING HELL
AND EVERY AMERICAN HAD TO HANDLE IT. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON CORRUPTION.

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