Bush Hacked Election
The following articles are a compilation of numerous articles regarding Bush's stealing
of the election by electronic voting machine fraud and the repercussions that have
occurred since then.
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MOST RECENTLY POSTED ARTICLES ARE ON THE TOP OF THIS PAGE
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Proof Diebold Hackable
Susan Pynchon: 'Diebold in Florida: The Harri Hursti Hack and
its importance to our nation'
I cried because it was so clear that Diebold had been lying. I cried because
there was proof, before my very eyes, that these machines were every bit as
bad as we all had feared. I cried because we have been so unjustly attacked
as "conspiracy theorists" and "technophobes" when Diebold knew full well
that its voting system could alter election results. More than that, that Diebold
planned to have a voting system that could alter results. And I cried because
it suddenly hit me, like a Mack truck, that this was proof positive that our
democracy is and has been, as we have all feared, truly at the mercy of unscrupulous
vendors who are producing electronic voting machines that can change election
results without detection.
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The 2004 US Elections:
The Mother of all Vote Frauds
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
March 23, 2004—The 2004 election has already been rigged. The corporations and the military
industrial complex have bought themselves a government and they aren’t going to let some silly little
presidential election jeopardize their investment. [Ballotpaper.org]
April 7, 2004—Machines will produce 99.4 percent of the election results for the upcoming 2004
presidential election. With all the hoopla over voting machine "glitches," porous software,
leaked memos, and the creepy corporations that sell and service these contraptions, and with all
the controversy that surrounds campaign financing, voter registration, redistricting issues, and the
general privatization of the election process, we are missing the boat on the biggest crisis facing our
democracy. Americans aren't really voting. Machines are. Call it faking democracy.
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Election Justice News
The fight for democracy in America continues...
Friends of Democracy,
There's so much going on relating to election issues, it's hard to figure out where to start.
At the top of the news is Diebold, the infamous company that counts more votes in our
country than any other company; the same company with known felons on their staff and
direct ties to the Republican Party. Things are not looking too good for Diebold lately. In
the last week, the President of Diebold resigned amidst an evolving scandal relating to
securities fraud. The CA Secretary of State decided not to recertify their voting machines.
Leon County Florida has decertified the Diebold machines due to lack of security. A
wonderful new book by NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller exposes what really happened
in the last election (and what will happen again if we don't stop them). And a new documentary
film was released on the same subject. WOW! But the news is not all good. In Ohio, the
"powers to be" are ignoring the pleas of the public and instituting efforts to put more Diebold
machines in place, even as the scandal unravels. If Robin were here, he'd surely say,
"HOLY DEMOCRACY, BATMAN!"
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Voting System Testing Labs
by Avi Rubin
The following URL is to a Blog by Avi Ruben. He recently attended, as
A presenter, the California Secretary of State's Summit on voting
Systems testing. What he reveals about the current state of the testing of
proposed voting systems is scandalous. We have repeatedly been told by
local election officials, who have been told by the vendors, that the
voting systems have been thoroughly tested by federal Independent
Testing Laboratories.
The ITAs are not independent and they have no
authority. So Independent Testing Authority is a misnomer.
Thankfully, NIST is going to change the name next year. Here's where
it gets bad. The ITAs are hired by and paid by -- the vendors. That
is, when a vendor has a voting machine that they want certified,
they find an ITA who is willing to certify the voting machine. Any
memos about flaws that are discovered remain confidential. There is
no requirement to disclose any problems that are found with the
machines. In fact, the entire ITA report is considered proprietary
information of the voting machine vendor. After all, they paid for
it. This provides an incentive for ITAs to certify machines, to
satisfy their clients.
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'A conversation with Mark Crispin Miller'
Bob Cesca, The Huffington Post
The 2004 election has receded in our memories under the weight of countless other events of
the past year. But the lessons of what happened in Ohio and elsewhere should always be a point
of debate in this country as they cut directly to our very basic right as citizens: the right to hold
our leaders accountable with our vote.
The highly questionable results of 2004's presidential election felt all too familiar, harking back
to the 2002 midterm and, of course, the 2000 election debacle. The outcome in all three instances
swayed heavily in the favor of Republicans, yet the call for fair and transparent elections shouldn't
be a partisan issue. Speaking for myself, I don't care whether the results favored Republicans or
Democrats or Greens or Libertarians. If there appears to be election theft occurring, be it via
electronic voting machines without paper trails or via back-room deals with Supreme Court
justices, it's a subversion of our rights and our Constitution and the leaders elected via these
illegal processes are illegitimate.
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New tests fuel doubts about vote machines
A top election official and computer experts say computer hackers could easily
change election results, after they found numerous flaws with a state-approved
voting-machine in Tallahassee.
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Devastating voting machine hack; Leon County dumps Diebold
BREAKING : Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County
(Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho told Black Box Voting that he will never again
use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the
county. He will issue a formal announcement to this effect shortly. This comes on the heels
of the resignation of Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Scott & Scott.
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'IMMACULATE CERTIFICATION'! DIEBOLD
ALLOWED IN NORTH CAROLINA AFTER ALL!
Voting Company Apparently Just Kidding About Pulling Out of State!
Former Diebold Rep, Now on NC Election Advisory Board Certifies
Diebold, Despite Apparent Failure to Comply with State Law Requiring
Source Code EscrowGuest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
and VoteTrustUSA.org Surprise! Diebold got certified in North Carolina
today. In what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling the
"Immaculate Certification" the...
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EXCLUSIVE: SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED
AGAINST DIEBOLD, INC
The suit was filed today in U.S. Federal District Court in Ohio and alleges the company
"artificially inflated" stock prices through misleading public information designed to conceal
the true nature of Diebold's financial and legal situation. The defendants are also alleged to
have attempted to disguise well-known and ongoing problems with Diebold's Voting Machine
equipment and software. Additionally, the suit alleges insider trading by defendants resulting in
proceeds of $2.7 million. Remedies are sought under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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Poll shock in Ohio: Off by 40 points, newspaper's predictions may
be disturbingly accurate'
Posted on Friday, November 25 @ 09:04:55 EST
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders
One of the most wildly inaccurate pre-election polls in memory, which was off by over
40 points on some predictions, may prove to be deadly accurate as an indicator of the problems
we face as a nation with our voting process -- and democracy itself.
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Who Tends to Reject Election Fraud Outright?
Posted by IndyOp on Sun Nov-27-05 07:00 PM
Watching Mark Crispin Miller on C-SPAN today I was struck by the defensiveness
of callers who stated that they had not read his book or his website, and then immediately
dismissed him as 'pathetic', as a 'fraud', as a 'phony'. If someone read his Harpers article
or his book, "Fooled Again" and then decided not to believe that any election fraud occurred
(or) that there was not enough election fraud to warrant a major investigation -- then that would
be reasonable.
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BLACK BOX VOTING INVITED TO HACK DIEBOLD
VOTING MACHINES
Nov 23, 2005: The California Secretary of State has invited Black
Box Voting to hack away at some Diebold voting systems. The testing
is set for Nov. 30, 2005.
Diebold Election Systems has been trying to re-certify its “TSx” touch-
screen machines in California. Diebold has added stronger passwords
and encryption, but even the consultant hired by California to evaluate
the system reported that the voting system remains vulnerable to
alteration of vote results.
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Diebold in CA- Machinations Behind Closed Doors
The Seven Reasons NOT to Certify Diebold
In a surprise about-face, all of the disabled groups represented at
Monday's hearing went on record against certifying the Diebold
equipment, stating that it simply does not meet their specific needs.
Over the past two years many disabled groups have lobbied and
Litigated forcefully for the adoption of Diebold-type voting systems. There has
been much speculation about the motives behind such pro-Diebold
efforts, considering that the Diebold campaigning began AFTER Diebold
made a six-figure contribution to the largest national association of
the blind.
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11/18/2005 @ 2:04 pm
Filed by Miriam Raftery
Recertification hearing draws protest from activists over last-minute
changes in procedures
On Monday, November 21st, California’s Voting System Panel (VSP) was slated to hold
public hearings on whether to recertify Diebold TSX touchscreen machines. The
California Election Protection Network (CEPN) issued a press release inviting concerned
citizens to speak at the 10 a.m. hearing and attend a rally at Secretary of State Bruce
McPherson’s office to encourage state officials to “send Diebold packing before Turkey Day.”
But when CEPN spokesperson Sherry Healy called to verify the hearing date and time, she
received startling news.
“I asked Bruce McDannold in the Secretary of State’s office if the hearing is still on for
Monday,” she told Raw Story. “He said, 'You’re half right. The VSP has been disbanded.'
I asked why. He said, 'I can’t speak for the Secretary of State.’”
According to Healy, McDannold stated that a stenographer and recording device would be
on hand to record any public comments.
CEPN issued a blistering press release criticizing the Republican Secretary of State, for the
last-minute change in procedures. The release questioned the sincerity of those in government
to publicly discuss issues with their constituents. “Is this the new government trend for public
hearings – just give the people a room and a tape recorder?” the release asked.
Activists also contend that McPherson’s office failed to provide the 30-day notice required by
law for a public hearing.
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A Discussion with Mark Crispin Miller
November 5, 2005
On November 3-4, 2005, Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again, took part
in an online discussion at Democratic Underground, answering questions from members
of our message board. This is a lightly edited transcript of that discussion. The original
discussion thread can be found here. Mark might even return to continue the discussion.
Skinner: Today we are very excited to host an online discussion with Mark Crispin Miller.
Mark is a professor of media ecology at New York University. Some of you may remember
him from our online discussion on Democratic Underground in May of 2002. He is well known
for his writings on all aspects of the media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media
reform. He has written a number of books, including Boxed in: The Culture of TV, The Bush
Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's
New World Order. He writes regularly on his blog, News From Underground.
Mark has a brand new book about the 2004 election, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the
2004 Election, and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them).
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Mark Crispin Miller
Author of "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election,
and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too Unless We Stop Them"
Mark Crispin Miller is the author of "None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the Election, and
America's Servile Press," published in the August 2005 issue of Harper's Magazine. He
has a newly released book, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election, and
Why They'll Steal the Next One Too Unless We Stop Them. In his newly released book
Fooled Again renowned media critic Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't "moral values"
that swung the 2004 presidential race; it was theft.
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NM Election Officials Try to Block Machine Inspections
Voter Action New Mexico Update 11/11/05
In the past week, two New Mexico election officials refused to allow the voter
plaintiffs in the case of Patricia Rosas Lopategui v. Rebecca Vigil-Giron, et al.
to conduct meaningful inspections of their electronic voting machines. This despite
clear indications that there were serious problems in last years presidential election
with these same machines, which do not produce a voter-verifiable and auditable paper record.
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Has American Democracy died an electronic death
in Ohio 2005's referenda defeats?
Posted on Saturday, November 12 @ 09:02:17 EST
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
While debate still rages over Ohio's stolen presidential election of 2004,
the impossible outcomes of key 2005 referendum issues may have put an
electronic nail through American democracy.
Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic
manipulation that calls into question the sanctity of America's right to vote,
and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state.
The controversy has been vastly enhanced due to the simultaneous installation
of new electronic voting machines in nearly half the state's 88 counties, machines
the General Accounting Office has now confirmed could be easily hacked by a
very small number of people.
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Kerry Suspects Election Was Stolen
Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, has told
acquaintances over the past year that he suspects that the election was stolen,
but that he didn’t challenge the official results because he lacked hard proof
and anticipated a firestorm of criticism if he pressed the point.
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What John Kerry definitely said about 2004’s stolen election and
why it's killing American democracy
Date: Thursday, November 10 @ 09:54:45 EST
Topic: Election 2004
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Columbus Free Press
The net is abuzz about what John Kerry may or may not be saying now
about the stolen election of 2004.
But we can definitively report what he has said about New Mexico and electronic
voting machines soon after his abrupt "abandon ship" with 250,000 Ohio votes
still uncounted.
And we must also report that what he's not saying is having a catastrophic effect
on what's left of American democracy, including what has just happened (again) in Ohio 2005.
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Powerful Government Accountability Office report
confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
October 26, 2005
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove
inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the
legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004
was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the
Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream
media coverage.
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GAO report upholds Ohio vote fraud claims
By Joe Baker, Senior Editor Print this page
As if the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby wasn’t
enough to give the White House some heavy concerns, a
report from the Government Accounting Office takes a
big bite out of the Bush clique’s pretense of
legitimacy.
This powerful and probing report takes a hard look at
the election of 2004 and supports the contention that
the election was stolen. The report has received
almost no coverage in the national media.
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20 Facts about Voting
All of these facts were known before the 2004 Election.
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two
companies: Diebold and ES&S.
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Source Code-Personal Rights vs. Corporate Rights
By John Gideon Information Manager, VotersUnite.Org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
05 November 2005
This week a panel of three judges in Sarasota County, Florida found that a breathalyzer
manufacturer, CMI Inc., must turn over its source code to an expert hired by defendants
in drunk driving cases. The expert would only be allowed to inspect the code for bugs and
he would be under court orders not to divulge any of the code to the public. The manufacturer
of the breathalyzer has refused to allow its source code to be reviewed.
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Irrefutable Evidence of Ohio Vote Miscount
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Why Can't the Left Face the Stolen Elections of
2004 & 2008?
If some of its key publications are any indicator, much of the American left
seems unable to face the reality that the election of 2004 was stolen. So in all
likelihood, unless something radical is done, 2008 will be too.
Misguided and misinformed articles in both TomPaine.com and Mother Jones
Magazine indicate a dangerous inability to face the reality that these stolen
elections mean nothing less than the death of what's left of American democracy,
and the permanent enthronement of the Rovian GOP.
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Powerful Government Accounting Office report
confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
October 26, 2005
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their
alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was
stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting
Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.
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Math Logic Proof Shows that ESI Analysis of
Ohio and National Exit Poll Data is Bunk
Math Logic Proof Shows that ESI Analysis of Ohio and National Exit
Poll Data is Bunk -- Mitofsky and ESI's Claim to "Rule Out Vote
Fraud" is Proven Incorrect
Summary:
George W. Bush could have won the 2004 presidential election due to
large-scale vote fraud without election data showing the patterns
that the Election Science Institute (ESI) and pollster Warren
Mitofsky claim must exist if vote fraud had occurred. The analysis
that exit pollster Warren Mitofsky presented at the October 14, 2005
American Statistical Association fall conference has been proven
mathematically useless for testing exit poll data for vote fraud.
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The Gun is Smoking: Ohio Exit Poll Data Provides Virtually
Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount
Summary: New analysis of the precinct-level Ohio exit poll data provides
virtually irrefutable evidence of large scale vote miscounts in Ohio during the
2004 presidential election. 6% of Ohio's exit-polled precincts had impossible
vote counts and 57% had significant discrepancies (with less than 5% chance
of occurring in any one precinct). The pattern of Ohio's exit poll results is not
consistent with any exit poll error hypothesis. However, it is consistent with
pro-Bush vote miscounts.
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'Mainstream media to American democracy: Drop dead!'
Date: Friday, November 04 @ 10:10:36 EST
Topic: Media
Brad Friedman, The Huffington Post
It's been a full two weeks now since the non-partisan Government Accountability
Office (GAO came out with their 107-page report [PDF] confirming what so many of
us have been trying to ring the bell about for so long: The Electronic Voting Machines
which are proliferating counties and states across America even as I type, are not secure,
not accountable, not recountable, not transparent, not accurate and not adequately monitored
or certified by anybody.
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CEO of Vote-Counting Company Refused Entry into the U.S.
On October 14, 2005, Antonio Mujica, CEO of Smartmatic, was refused entry
into the United States . His Visa was revoked by the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela .
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None Dare Call It Stolen
Harper's Magazine
Whichever candidate you voted for (or think you voted for), or even if you did not vote (or could not vote), you must admit that last year’s presidential race
was if nothing else pretty interesting. True, the press has dropped the subject,
and the Democrats, with very few exceptions, have moved on. Yet this contest
may have been the most unusual in U.S. history; it was certainly among those
with the strangest outcomes. You may remember being surprised yourself.
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Software is a Problem
As a computer professional, I find myself in a bit of an awkward position arguing against the use of computers in elections. My position is this:
computers are extremely helpful, even necessary, to solving many problems;
but computers are not essential to elections, and the risks are just too great.
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Diebold Magic Anyone? Florida's Amazing Election
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No Paper Trail Left Behind:
The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election
By Dennis Loo, Ph.D.
Cal Poly Pomona
ddloo@csupomona.edu
Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe
impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the
Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast." (Through the Looking Glass)
In order to believe that George Bush won the November 2, 2004
presidential election, you must also believe all of the following extremely
improbable or outright impossible things.
1) A big turnout and a highly energized and motivated electorate
favored the GOP instead of the Democrats for the first time in history.
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Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005. A forum on voting rights
in the 2004 federal elections.
Sources
On July 21, 2005 Harper's Magazine hosted a forum on voter rights as
they related to the 2004 federal election. The forum was held at the U.S.
Capitol, and was moderated by Harper's Publisher Rick MacArthur. The
panelists were John Conyers, Jr., Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Sherrod Brown,
Eleanor Clift, and Mark Crispin Miller. Miller's piece “None Dare Call it Stolen”
appears in the August 2005 issue of Harper's Magazine.
Download the audio from this forum. (32.6 Mb MP3 file)
About the Forum
The forum was held to discuss a fundamental aspect of the people's business—
that of voting rights in the 2004 federal elections and the rather substantial evidence
that these Constitutionally guaranteed rights were extensively violated in the state of
Ohio—indeed, systematically violated and on a grand enough scale that the election
may have been corruptly swung in favor of President Bush and against Senator John Kerry .
Ohio , as things turned out, was the key battleground state. Had Senator Kerry won
Ohio he would have won the electoral college and would now be president of the
United States
. The Secretary of State's office in Ohio initially declared a 118,601 margin of victory for Bush over Kerry; after a county-by-county recount marred
by highly inconsistent and evidently illegal procedures, the official victory margin
for Bush was reduced by 144 votes. For the record, the Green Party lawsuit
challenging the integrity of the recount in federal court has still not been heard—
the Greens claim that state's recount was not conducted using random selection
of precincts in 86 of the 88 counties, as required by state law.
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Dramatic new charges deepen link between Ohio 's 'Coingate,' Voinovich
mob connections, and the theft of the 2004 election
Date: Friday, July 29 @ 09:04:44 EDT
Topic: Republicans
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Columbus Free Press
COLUMBUS -- New charges filed against Ohio Governor Bob Taft's former top aide
have blazed a new trail between "Coingate" and the GOP theft of the 2004 presidential election.
In April, the Toledo Blade reported that Noe was under federal investigation for making illegal
donations to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. By all accounts, Coingate is still in the early
stages of unraveling, and where it reaches, no one yet knows. But most serious observers of
Ohio
politics believe it will go very high.
The outing of how Noe and his wife may have used their clout to steal votes in Lucas County 's "Votegate" has also just begun.
Election day in Ohio 2004 was defined by partisan chaos, confusion and theft everywhere in the
state. But the Noe's Toledo was uniquely rife with corruption and illegality.
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After attending this panel, and speaking to the congressmen involved in the
preparation of the Conyers report (in particular Sherrod Brown of Ohio , a
former Ohio secretary of state) I'm convinced that Ohio was a far more
brazen and frightening subversion of democracy than Florida .
Here's the thing about Ohio . Until you really look at it, you won't understand
its significance, which is this: the techniques used in this particular theft have
the capacity to alter elections not by dozens or hundreds or even thousands of
votes, but by tens of thousands.
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VIEWING THE DIEBOLD VOTE-TALLYING SCREEN PROHIBITED
Jim March, a member of the Black Box Voting board of directors,
was arrested Tuesday evening for trying to observe the Diebold
central tabulator (vote tallying machine) as the votes were being
counted in San Diego's mayoral election (July 26).
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None dare call it stolen - Ohio, the election, and America's servile press
by Mark Crispin Miller, summarized by Mary Anne Saucier, Columbus, Ohio
July 24, 2005
While commentators, prompted by Republicans, claimed Bush won the 2004 election through the votes
of a silent majority concerned with “family values,” Mark Crispin Miller writes that when voters were asked
to state, “in their own words the most important factor in their vote,”only 14 percent named “moral values.”
He details how the press (except for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC) ignored “the strange details of the
election—except, that is, to ridicule all efforts to discuss them…It was as if they were reporting from inside
a forest fire without acknowledging the fire, except to keep insisting that there was no fire.”
Then he lists the copious evidence pointing to a stolen election, easily available on the web or in paperback,
from Michigan Representative John Conyers’ report, Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio .
More than dirty tricks, it covers “the run-up to the election, the election itself, and the post-election cover-up,”
listing “specific violations of the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of
1968, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act.”
The Conyers report details the disenfranchisement of Democrats through “intentional misconduct and illegal
behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney
campaign in Ohio .”
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Probe focuses on donation to GOP
Election official says he was offered $10,000
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Julie Carr Smyth
Plain Dealer Bureau
Columbus - A member of the Franklin County election board said Friday that prosecutors
are investigating whether a GOP political consultant tried to bribe the board's director to buy
voting equipment made by his client, Diebold Inc.
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OPTICAL SCAN MACHINES HACKED IN FLORIDA
Black Box Voting Update: Latest Consumer Reports (June 1, 2005)
Posted June 4, 2005
This is one of the most important stories in two years.
Tallahassee , FL : "Are we having fun yet?"
This is the message that appeared in the window of a county optical scan
machine, startling Leon County Information Systems Officer Thomas James.
Visibly shaken, he immediately turned the machine off.
Diebold's opti-scan (paper ballot) voting system uses a curious memory
card design, offering penetration by a lone programmer such that
standard canvassing procedures cannot detect election manipulation.
The Diebold optical scan system was used in about 800 jurisdictions in
2004. Among them were several hotbeds of controversy: Volusia County
(FL); King County (WA); and the New Hampshire primary election, where
machine results differed markedly from hand-counted localities.
New regs: Counting paper ballots forbidden
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Re-Framing the Issue of Electronic Voting-Elections
Belong to People
Posted June 1, 2005
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Attack on election board whistleblower and leaked Blackwell
threats re-fire Ohio 's election theft scandal
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
May 23, 2005
The potential firing of Ohio whistleblower Sherole Eaton, Deputy
Director of the Hocking County Board of Elections, has re-fired
bitter controversy over the stolen 2004 presidential election.
And newly released documents confirming a pre-election threat by
Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell against election board
officials has added to the mix, as has the dismissal of Blackwell's
highly publicized sanction attempt against attorneys who challenged
the election outcome.
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By Jim Lampley
Posted May 11, 2005
At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook
odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds
as of that moment on the Presidential election. John Kerry was a
two-to-one favorite. You can look it up.
We know that margins for error are valid, and that results have
fallen within the error range for every Presidential election for the
past fifty years prior to last fall. NEVER have exit polls varied by
beyond-error margins in a single state, not since 1948 when this
kind of polling began. In this past election it happened in ten states,
all of them swing states, all of them in Bush's favor. Coincidence? Of course not.
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CLINT CURTIS PASSES POLYGRAPH EXAM!
Posted May 9, 2005
Story Broken in Florida 's St. Petersburg Times by Pulitzer Prize Winning
Reporter!
Still Manages to Mangle, Misrepresent and Omit Several Key Elements of the
Story!
After many months and many requests and many challenges from both critics
and Mainstream Media types, The St. Petersburg Times is reporting -- and
The BRAD BLOG can confirm -- that Clint Curtis took a polygraph test on
March 3rd...and passed!
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Computer Experts Allege U.S. Vote Fraud
By Brian Livingston
Posted May 8, 2005
A group of distinguished computer scientists and mathematicians,
including nine Ph.D.s, says it has found statistical evidence that vote
counts of the 2004 U.S.presidential election were tampered with in one or
more states, affecting the outcome.
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Science proves that vote fraud is real!
Posted April 27, 2005
Vote fraud confirmed: US Count Votes has come out with a remarkable paper
authored by a committee of twelve, most of them highly-qualified mathematicians
and statisticians from major universities. This study highlights the serious ramifications
of the exit poll discrepancy while demolishing the "chatty Dem" theory (more properly
known as the "reluctant responder" theory), which remains the official explanation for that incongruity.
The only possibility left is vote alteration.
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Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute,
and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the
Electoral College (Part One of Two)
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
Posted April 27, 2005
The presidential vote for George W. Bush does not compute.
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THE SILENT SCREAM OF NUMBERS
By Robert C. Koehler
Tribune Media Services
Posted April 27, 2005
As they slowly hack democracy to death, we're as alone -
we citizens - as we've ever been, protected only by the
dust-covered cliches of the nation's founding: "Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty."
It's time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.
The media are not on our side. The politicians are not
on our side. It's just us, connecting the dots, fitting the
fragments together, crunching the numbers, wanting to
know why there were so many irregularities in the last
election and why these glitches and dirty tricks and wacko
numbers had not just an anti-Kerry but a racist tinge. This
is not about partisan politics. It's more like: "Oh no, this can't be true."
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Largest Investors in Electronic Voting Companies are Defense
Contractors
Posted April 26, 2005
Democracy Fails: Corporations Win
Democracy in the United States is only a shadow in a corporate media
cave of deceit, lies and incomplete information. We stand ignorant of
what the powerful are doing in our name and how the corporate media
ignores key issues affecting us all.
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The Silence of the Scams: Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud
Posted April 26, 2005
Invisible History
Few Americans know about the historic event that happened on January 6, 2005, the
official date for counting electoral votes. For the first time since 1877, congressmembers
challenged the electoral count. Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio , accompanied
by the lone senator, Barbara Boxer of California , led the challenge of the Ohio vote count.
Although massive fraud was reported around the country, only Ohio was officially cited.
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Amy Goodman Video-Air America-Did Kerry Lose-Computer Fraud
Posted April 10, 2005
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ODDITIES" WHEN COMPARING EXIT POLLS vs FINAL VOTES IN THE 2004 ELECTION
Posted April 9, 2005
This page summarizes a few of the "oddities" that emerged in the voting patterns
in the 2004 Presidential Election. What is most odd about these and most other
"oddities" is that they invariably favored the candidacy of George Bush.
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The sun revolves around the Earth and George W. Bush won the election in Ohio
March 8, 2005
The Bush family and friends stole both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections.
The covert operations long associated with George Herbert Walker Bush, former
President and CIA director, are now overtly practiced in key battleground states.
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Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"?
by Thom Hartmann
"Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States ," Teresa Heinz Kerry
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Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered
Group of University Professors Urges Investigation of 2004 Election
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Observations on Politics and Society by Joseph Cannon
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Science proves that vote fraud is real!
Vote fraud confirmed: US Count Votes has come out with a remarkable paper authored by a committee of twelve, most of them highly-qualified mathematicians
and statisticians from major universities. This study highlights the serious ramifications
of the exit poll discrepancy while demolishing the "chatty Dem" theory (more properly
known as the "reluctant responder" theory), which remains the official explanation for
that incongruity.
The only possibility left is vote alteration.
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Index of Articles
The article titles are either hyperlinks to the Internet article or to the article on another
page of my website. Here are the titles to each of these articles. In addition there is a short summary
of most of these articles below.
1. Stolen Elections-Corporate Control of Your Vote
Using a variety of criminal methods that they have perfected over the
past four years, the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney-Karl Rove syndicate
stole another election, and extended their illegal occupation of the
White House. Experienced, informed and unblinking observers were not
fooled by any aspect of this utterly predictable goose-step towards full
dictatorship.
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2. Analysis of Electronic Voting System- Professor Rubin
Conclusion: This voting system is unsuitable for this general election.
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3. Thugs, Racketeers Counting America's Votes One of America 's two major election companies, Sequoia Pacific, has a
felony 'rap sheet' an arm-long. In the endless news coverage of the
recent Presidential Election, this news has somehow failed to surface,
perhaps because if it had, people might start pouring into the streets
here, too.
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4. Two Brothers-Diebold and ES&S
Voters can run, but they can't hide from these guys. Meet the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Todd. Their respective companies, Diebold and ES&S, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80 percent of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. Machines Never Tested for Penetrability-Bev Harris
Your local elections officials trusted a group called NASED – the National Association of State Election Directors -- to certify that your voting system is safe. This trust was breached. NASED certified the systems based on the recommendation of an "Independent Testing Authority" (ITA). "Whuuut?"What no one told local officials was that the ITA did not test for security (and NASED didn't seem to mind). ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. Votergate: More details emerge By Wayne Madsen
Five Star Trust, the entity that, according to
well-placed business and U.S. intelligence sources, is tied to the
financing of a scheme to pay individuals posing as U.S. law enforcement
and electronic voting machine technicians to rig the vote in favor of
George W. Bush in at least four key states–Florida, Texas, Ohio, and
California—represents a Byzantine network of offshore shell
corporations and individuals tied to various Bush and Saudi-connected
business enterprises.
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7. Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines-Bev Harris
According to election industry officials, electronic voting systems are absolutely secure, because they are protected by passwords and tamperproof audit logs. But the passwords can easily be bypassed, and in fact the audit logs can be altered. Worse, the votes can be changed without anyone knowing, even the County Election Supervisor who runs the election system. The computer programs that tell electronic voting machines how to record and tally votes are allowed to be held as "trade secrets." Can citizen's groups examine them? No. _______________________________________________________________________________ 8. Clint Curtis Stuns Judiciary Committee
At the time of the alleged October 2000 meeting at YEI when Curtis
claims that US Congressman Feeney (Florida)asked him to create a "vote-rigging software prototype", Feeney was a member of the Florida Legislature, a corporate attorney for YEI, as well as being a registered lobbyist for
the company. ________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Voting System Integrity Flaw- Bev Harris-Feb., 2003
Diebold Election Systems, which builds the AccuVote machines,
both optical scan and touch-screen, was parking files on an unprotected
public Internet location.
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10. Electronic Voting Systems by Barbara Simons
For starters, software for electronic voting machines is proprietary, the certification testing process is both secret and incomplete, and the test results are secret. _________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Diebold-Serious Security Problems One of the more shocking revelations made in that paper is that Diebold uses a single DES key to encrypt all of the data on a storage device. Consequently, an attacker with access to the source code would have the ability to modify voting and auditing records. _________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Hacking into Democracy
The computer scientists found that Diebold's programmers left the "key"
to decrypt the votes written into the code, which is a bit like locking your door
and placing the key on the welcome mat. The Hopkins and Rice scientists also
said that they saw no adequate mechanism to prevent voters from casting multiple
ballots, viewing partial election results or terminating an election early.
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13. E-voting Critics Report New Flaw
The reported vulnerabilities occur in Diebold's Global Election Management System (GEMS), which is Microsoft Windows software that tabulates votes reported by election precincts. GEMS stores precinct totals in a standard database format that can be altered without a password simply by opening the files in Microsoft Access. __________________________________________________________________________________ 14. How to Rig an Election in the U.S.
Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to control
forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you are likely
to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not wish to be removed
by a ballot driven backlash.
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such
a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
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15. What Constitutes Actionable Fraud? So to all those who are screaming "where is the indisputable facts or truth, because
I haven't heard any yet," I say to them, "that at this point in the proceedings, indisputable
proof is not required whatsoever."
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16. Another Election Held and Another Election Stolen by Clint Curtis
This is not speculation. It is not a rant designed to make the losers feel better. I speak from first hand information and unless people stand up and act, democracy in this country is ended. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Did Dubbya rig the election?
The great mystery of the US presidential election was that the exit polls,
which had been reliable guides in all previous elections, did not tally
with the final results.
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18. Eulogy for America - 11/08/2004
Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to mourn
the passing of the United States of America, a nation that
once stood as a beacon light of hope for the world.
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19. "We the People Do Not Concede"- Election Stolen by Network of Fraud
Across the nation, at least 400,000 people used voter hotlines to report the
difficulties noticed on election day. Among those complaints, a full 50,000
instances were outright malfunctioning voting machinery. And in each of
these 50,000 instances the vote went to Bush.
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20. Stolen or Lost? By Steven F. Freeman, AlterNet
Freeman, a polling expert, disputes journalist Russ Baker's critique of
his work analyzing the exit poll discrepancy.
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21. The Strange Death of American Democracy:Endgame in Ohio by Michael Keefer
So who ever thought the 2004 U.S. presidential election had the
remotest chance of being honest and democratic?
Not, one might guess, the electronic voting security experts like
Ken Thompson, Roy Saltman, Rebecca Mercuri, Bruce Schneier,
Doug Jones, Victoria Collier, Aviel Rubin, Lynn Landes, and Bev Harris,
who have for years been warning that the new voting technology coming
into use in the United States offers unprecedented opportunities for electoral
fraud.
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22. White House-Linked Clandestine Operation Paid for "Vote Switching" Software
by Wayne Madsen
The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election
and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to
an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady
espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
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23. Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election by Wayne Madsen
According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign
spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig
the election for Bush.
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24. Shut-Up-They Explain
Those of us who suspect that the election was stolen (a.k.a. “conspiracy nuts”),
have presented an impressive array of evidence – statistical, anecdotal and
circumstantial – to support our claims. In response to this we have been provided
scant rebuttal evidence.
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25. ES&S AND TRIAD IMPLICATED IN KERRY/CONNALLY DISCREPANCY
Ellen Connally, an African-American supreme court candidate running an underfunded
race won a greater percentage of votes in her race than John Kerry did in his in
many Ohio (non-urban) counties.
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26. TRIAD MACHINES PRODUCE MORE BUSH VOTES THAN EXPECTED
Together Triad Governmental Systems, Inc. and Election Systems & Software
(ES&S) count the votes in 80 out of the 88 counties in Ohio.
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27. Feeney implicated in vote fraud
Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a
computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year's
contested presidential vote in Florida , to write software that
could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the
programmer said.
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28.
Footprints of Electoral FraudOne of the clear indicators of massive electoral fraud
was the wide divergence, both nationally and in swing
states, between exit poll results and the reported
vote tallies.
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29. Exit Polls Leave Little Doubt that in a Free and Fair Election John Kerry
Would Have Won both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote
By Ron Baiman
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30. Keeping our democracy alive
Did voters really count in U.S. election?
In three national elections over the past 13 months, the official
count was sharply at odds with an independent national exit poll.
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31. Never say Die-bold: So you don’t think the Bush
campaign stole this election? Think again
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32. A Corrupted Election
Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
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33. Stolen or Lost?
By Steven F. Freeman, AlterNet
Posted on January 20, 2005, Printed on January 24, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/21036/
Russ Baker's critique of my work analyzing the exit poll discrepancy ("Election 2004: Stolen or Lost") – and, by implication, of the courageous
stand taken by John Conyers and a small number of his Congressional
colleagues – is flawed from the first line. No one has said, "Exit poll results
were more accurate than actual ballots." The question is whether the official
count is an accurate reflection of ballots cast.
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34. The Strange Death of American Democracy:
Endgame in Ohio
by Michael Keefer
So who ever thought the 2004 U.S. presidential election had the
remotest chance of being honest and democratic?
Not, one might guess, the electronic voting security experts like
Ken Thompson, Roy Saltman, Rebecca Mercuri, Bruce Schneier,
Doug Jones, Victoria Collier, Aviel Rubin, Lynn Landes, and Bev Harris,
who have for years been warning that the new voting technology coming
into use in the United States offers unprecedented opportunities for electoral fraud.[1]
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35. Whistle blower alleges that U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney might
have rigged the election in South Florida
2/13/2005
newtimesbpb.com
By Trevor Aaronson
Curtis created a simple software program intended for
electronic voting machines. The program could manipulate
true results and ensure that a losing candidate would win 51
percent to 49 percent.
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36."If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"
by Thom Hartmann
Maybe Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel honestly won two US Senate elections.
Maybe it's true that the citizens of Georgia simply decided that incumbent Democratic
Senator Max Cleland, a wildly popular war veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam , was,
as his successful Republican challenger suggested in his campaign ads, too unpatriotic to
remain in the Senate. Perhaps, after a half-century of fine-tuning exit polling to such a science
that it's now sometimes used to verify how clean elections are in Third World countries, it
really did suddenly become inaccurate in the United States in the past six years and just
won't work here anymore.
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37. Triad Mechanic Permitted to Disassemble Vote Tabulator Day Prior
to Recount in Mercer County , Ohio
Report from Mercer County , Ohio , recount observer
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