- Did you know....
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- 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
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- http://en.wikipedia
org/wiki/Diebold
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- 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
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- http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
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- 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of
ES&S are brothers.
- http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
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- http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
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- 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
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- http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
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- 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
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- http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html
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- 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
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- http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
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- http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
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- 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
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- http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html
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- 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
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- http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
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- 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.
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- http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
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- http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html
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- 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
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- http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
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- 11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
- http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
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- 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
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- http://portland. ndymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
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- 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
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- http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
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- 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
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- http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
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- 15. None of the international election observers were
allowed in the polls in Ohio.
- http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
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- http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html
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- 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
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- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
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- 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
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- 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
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- http://www.yuricare port.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
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- http://www.rise4new
s.net/extravotes .html
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- http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&
file=article& sid=950
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- http://www.scoop. co.nz/mason/ stories/HL0411/ S00227.htm
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- 19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is
the President's brother.
- http://www.tallahas see.com/mld/ tallahassee/ news/local/ 7628725.htm
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- http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/ A10544-2004Oct29
.html
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- 20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always
favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are
recommending further investigation.
- http://www.yuricare port.com/ ElectionAftermat h04/ThreeResearc
hStudiesBushIsOu t.htm
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- http://www.computer world.com/ governmenttopics /government/ policy/story/
0,10801,97614, 00.html
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- http://www.american freepress. net/html/ tens_of_thousand s.html
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- http://www.commondr eams.org/ headlines04/ 1106-30.htm
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- http://www.consorti umnews.com/ 2004/110904. html
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- http://uscountvotes
.org/
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- DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS
- 1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.
- That's over 41 Million Americans.
- You are NOT alone!
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