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Author:  Chus [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:39 am ]
Post subject:  Hacking Democracy
I just watched this documentary on HBO. Everyone needs to see this. It has completely destroyed my faith in our electoral process. The republicans stole Ohio in 2004.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackin ... index.html


I don't know if everything here is true, but some if it definitely is. I got this from another site.

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/04 ... andes.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/04 ... andes.html

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

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/04 ... andes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Mr. "Stay the course" 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/ ... 2436.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/c ... 3_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/03 ... rakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Mr. "Stay the course" family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.p ... cle&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. Mr. "Stay the course"'s vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/05270 ... gel27.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/04 ... andes.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/2987/041020 ... index.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. ndymedia.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/2004/1 ... lexoh.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/ ... 2436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Mr. "Stay the course" or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

http://www.yuricare port.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4new s.net/extravotes .html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?o ... 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 Mr. "Stay the course", is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahas see.com/mld/ tallahassee/ news/local/ 7628725.htm

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

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Mr. "Stay the course" -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricare port.com/ ElectionAftermat h04/ThreeResearc hStudiesBushIsOu t.htm

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

http://www.american freepress. net/html/ tens_of_thousand s.html

http://www.commondr eams.org/ headlines04/ 1106-30.htm

http://www.consorti umnews.com/ 2004/110904. html

http://uscountvotes .org/





yay america!
Author:  bigfan [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:01 pm ]
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I saw it and while they showed what was possible to do, they didn't actually prove anything.

They proved it was easy to manipulate the vote tally, didn't talk about the actualy vote tally.

In the words of Mike North 'They should have fought harder"
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