Posted on 01/04/2005 2:38:37 PM PST by stockpirate
18 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Did you know....?
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. link 1 link 2 link 3
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. link 1 link 2
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. link 1 link 2
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." link 1 link 2
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator in a surprise upset, with votes counted by ES&S machines. link 1 link 2
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. link 1 link 2 link 3
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates. link 1 link 2
8. Kenneth Blackwell co-chaired George Bush's Ohio election campaign. As Ohio secretary of state, he left no stone unturned to surpress the democratic vote. link 1 link 2 link 3
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. link 1 link 2
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. link 1 link 2
11. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election results. Reputable analyses could not find and explanation of the discrepancy between exit polls and results of the 2004 presidential election. link 1 link 2 link 3
12. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers. These people helped write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states. link 1 link 2
13. Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree. link 1 link 2
14. Jeff Dean was served jail time for planting back doors in his client's accounting software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. link 1 link 2
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. link 1 link 2
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 with the chimp link 1 link 2 link 3
17. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. link 1 link 2 link 3 link 5
18. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation. link 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link 5
Based on a list compiled by Angry Girl link 1 ______________________________________________ Were American's votes were deliberately miscounted?
Please -
1) forward this list to everyone you know 2) use it as grist for letters to the editor (in your own words) and requests to newspapers, radio and tv for election fraud investigation... link to DU 3) write your congressional representatives calling for an investigation http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Evalyn F. Segal, PhD Professor Emerita, San Diego State University Residing at Philadelphia PA USA
Is there a point to all of lyour posts of cats and such, or just taking up bandwidth.
You should make this your tagline. LOL
DU is full of such "fact lists." Some guy will CREATE data via some wild extrapolation of 2000 voting data, that supposed PROVES fraud, and a hundred of those poor fools will line up to congratulate him and yell and cheer and curse and start preparing for the Kerry inauguration.
MM
They just can't believe that they lost is the problem.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
"Has losing gracefully become a lost art?"
Yes. Particularly if the loser is a democrat.
Yes, thanks. She decided not to go on the trip they wanted her to take if that is what you are referring to. I left it up to her, (and God).
To the Rats that makes him an Uncle Tom.
Beloved JFKennedy appointed his BROTHER to be Attorney General
First thing that came to my mind too.
Yeah
They are pitiful--BTW if you want to join in on the suicide watch on the 6th and then on the inauguration, set up your account now. Most as like they will shut the site down to all but registered users. Grab some popcorn, watch em rant, it'll be a full night.
LOL! Great answer!
That will be a hoot, I'll give it a try.
Whenever the headline says "AMAZING FACTS," you can be certain the content is pure crapola.
I'm glad the Lord is watching over you guys.
If any of this were true we'd have a 66 seat majority in the senate
LMAO........Now that is funny.
The one thing I am worried about is the fact that many of the machines have no papaer trail to back up the data.
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