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I wonder if this
scares you as much as is scares me!
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted
by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with
regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the
president of ES&S are brothers.
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."
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be
chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S
machines.
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.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list
of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine
manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
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.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout
scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can
generate a paper trail
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
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.
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.
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.
15. None of the international election
observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
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://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov ).
17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on
unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting
machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or
Republican candidates.
19. The governor of the state of Florida,
Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida --
again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and
experts are recommending further investigation.
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