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bushtrash
http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/alllietrust.shtml


short version


In 2002 in Comal County in Central Texas 3 Republican candidates each won with exactly 18,181 votes. What do you think the odds are for that? Would you trust a lottery that hit the same numbers 3 weeks in a row? It gets worse. Two more Republicans in nearby states also won with exactly 18,181 votes. All five on the same type of ES&S voting machines.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID12/114.html
Convert the numbers to the alphabet: 18181 18181 18181 ahaha ahaha ahaha - were they laughing at us? The voting machine company Diebold also uses a voting software called GEMS version 1.81.81. More laughter? Since brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich, founded ES&S and then Bob then went to run Diebold, perhaps both companies share a sense of humor. Diebold and ES&S, together, count about 80 percent of the votes in the United States.


You remember Florida in 2000? Remember how Gore conceded for a minute? Did you know that the computerized voting machines in just one Florida county gave Gore a NEGATIVE 16,000 votes and mistakenly added 4,000 votes to Bush's totals thus giving Bush an extra 20,000 fake votes. That was why CBS called the election for Bush and was one of the reasons Gore thought he'd lost. http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/834


Did you know computer security experts tested Diebold voting machines and programs in Maryland and showed they could easily "reprogram the access cards used by voters and vote multiple times," that they could attach a keyboard to a voting terminal and change the vote count on that terminal. They could even use a modem to call in from somewhere else and change the votes. (http://why-war.com/news/2004/01/31/howtohac.html) Despite that Maryland bought Diebold voting machines. (A theory about why later.)

Did you know Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell sent out a fund raising letter for George Bush expressing his commitment "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." Seems to me that O'Dell is in a perfect position to assure that Bush does just that.

Did you know that the people that own and run the voting machine companies include foreigners, felons, ex-CIA officials and Republican Party operatives? (http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html) Did you know the largest voting machine company, ES&S, was established with funding from the extreme right wing Ahamason family and investments from the Rothschilds, that there are Cheney and Bush and CIA links as well. Turns out there are no laws about who can own voting machine companies or program voting machines.
Let me tell you about the people who write the programs for these machines. Most Diebold programming is done in Canada by programmers who are Russians, British and Canadian. Fixing an American election wouldn't even be treason for them because they aren't Americans. The programmers even include felons, like the Diebold programmer in charge of nationwide programming till 2002 who was previously convicted of 23 counts of embezzlement. (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/) Embezzle some money. Fix elections. What's the difference?

Did you know that Johns Hopkins professer Avril Rubin and two graduate students spent the summer of 2003 unraveling Diebold software and discovered it made fixing an election easy? Memos liberated from Diebold discussed how little security voting machine programs have and how to get around even the limited certification requirement.

Let me tell you about Senator Chuck Hagel. As a relative unknown he won a huge upset victory in Nebraska using ES&S voting machines. He was the first Republican to be elected to statewide office in 24 years. Hagel even carried black precincts that had NEVER before voted Republican. Turns out he had been the CEO of ES&S and still owned a big piece of the company and had concealed his ties. ES&S was and is the only company certified to sell voting technology in Nebraska. Hagel won this upset election with ES&S machines programmed while he was still its CEO.

When Hagel won what Business Week described as a "landslide upset," reporters might have written about the strange business of an upstart senator who ran his own voting machine company. They didn't because they didn't know about it: On Hagel's required personal disclosure documents, he omitted AIS. When asked to describe every position he had held, paid or unpaid, he mentioned his work as a banker and even listed his volunteer positions with the Mid-Americachapter of the American Red Cross. What he never disclosed was his salary from or stock holdings in the voting machine company whose machines had counted his votes. http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-3.pdf


In 2002 a Business Records Corporation (BRC) executive, Tom Eschberger, was given immunity from prosecution in return for cooperating in an investigation of former Arkansas secretary of state Bill McCuen. McCuen later pled guilty to taking bribes and kickbacks in a voting-machine scandal which partially involved BRC. In the meantime BRC was merged with the ES&S, the largest voting machine company, and Eschberger was made Vice-President.


Sequoia, the third largest voting machine company, is largely owned by the British firm De La Rue. De La Rue is owned by the corporation Madison Dearborn which is a partner of the Carlyle Group, the investment firm and arms merchant that until recently employed former president George Herbert Walker Bush and has major investments from the Bin Laden family. Sequoia executives Phil Foster and Pasquale Ricci were convicted in 1999 of paying Louisiana commissioner of elections Jerry Fowler an $8 million bribe to buy their voting machines and were involved in a massive election scandal in Louisiana involving connections with organized crime. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/vote-d24.shtml


Have you noticed the huge swings between the polls and the votes in many elections. We even saw that in New Hampshire in 2004. The day before the election Dean and Kerry were neck and neck. Then Kerry won by 14%. How much Kerry won by correlated with how the votes were counted. According to Martin Bento Kerry won by 14.7% in areas with Diebold counting, 7.7% with ES&S counting, and 1.4% with hand counts. http://livejournal.com/users/explodedview Talk about "things that make you go hmmmmm."


Do you trust ANYONE to count the votes in hidden and secret ways?

I don't. If history has taught us anything it is that there is a long history of voter fraud by both parties .

I just don't trust the voting machines and I don't see why I should have to. When you read that a vice president of ES&S was involved in an investigation of brides and kickbacks for electronic voting machines, doesn't that make you suspicious. When I see all the contributions to the Republicans by voting machine company executives, I get suspicious.