Election Fraud in the United States (The End of Democracy)
Bob Urosevich is the President of Deibold. His brother, Todd, is vice president at a competing company, Omaha-based Election Systems & Software (ES &S). These two companies count nearly 80 percent of the electronic votes cast in the United States.
Wally O’Dell until recently the CEO of Diebold, raised 100,000 for Bush’s campaign at a private fundraiser at his mansion and vowed in a GOP fundraising letter to“bring home Ohio’s electoral votes for George Bush”. William and Robert Ahmanson infused the Urosevich’s company which would evolve into ES &S. California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson family’s ties to right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles. In 1996, Chuck Hagel became the first elected Republican Nebraska senator in 24 years when he did surprisingly well in an election where the votes were verified by the company he served as chairman and maintained a financial investment. In both the 1996 and 2002 elections, Hagel’s ES&S counted an estimated 80% of his winning votes. Due to the contracting out of services, confidentiality agreements between the State of Nebraska and the company kept this matter out of the public eye. Hagel’s first election victory was described as a “stunning upset” by one Nebraska newspaper. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
Through HAVA (Help America Vote Act), states are given money that they must use to buy electronic voting machines in order to prevent reoccurrences of the 2000 Florida Presidential problems. So, states have the choice between Diebold, ES & S and Sequoia, which a secretive, intransparent company called ‘Smartmatic’ that’s known to have ties to the Venezuelan government, has just bought! http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=134322 The problem for honest Secretaries of States is that each of these systems has software flaws, each is able to be hacked, each has internal operating systems that are secretive and protected as a trade secret and none of them are required to leave a paper ballot, so that the vote can be recounted. The vote can be flipped without a trace left behind. Diebold machines can be accessed remotely through telephone line.
The State of Nevada has access to all software for slot machines in Las Vegas and it is illegal to use software that is not on file. Software for electronic voting machines is a trade secret. State gaming inspectors show up unannounced at casinos to compare computer chips with those on file and if there’s a discrepancy, the machine is shut down and investigated. There are no such checks required for electronic voting machines and indeed there is no chip available for Election officials. Manufacturers of slot machines are background checked and employees investigated for criminal records. There is no way for citizens to know whether programmers of electronic voting machines have been convicted of fraud. Slot machines are certified by a public agency and the public is invited to ask questions. Electronic voting machine manufacturers pay for-profit companies to test and no public information is available. In the event of dispute, the casino must contact investigators of the Gaming Control Board, who can open the machine and inspect the internals. A voter can call the board of elections. A claim may or may not be lodged. It may or may not be investigated. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.html?referrer=emaillink
A Finnish security expert was able to flip a vote on a Diebold machine, by adding plus and minus votes to the memory card. http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html . CNN/Associated Press - "An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.”
Florida 2004, in Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush. The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush. http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm
Lest we forget, exit polls, which are highly accurate, predicted a 5 million vote victory for Kerry and yet he lost by 3 million. This is far beyond the margin of error. http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/ The chances of the polling data being so wrong is 1 in 959,000. Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
This of course doesn’t even account for the voters who were disenfranchised before they even got to the polls. There were voting machine shortages in Democratic districts. There were fraudulent felony purges of voter rolls. There were barriers to registration. There were unmailed, lost and cavalierly rejected absentee ballots. The exit polls sample only those voters who have already overcome these hurdles.
These examples are a drop in the bucket. Just look and you will find case after case after case. I did a Google search for electronic voting machines problems and got 20,800,000 matches. I did a search for election fraud and got 31,900,000 matches. There is so much information available: it is mind-boggling. It is also heart sickening.
If the vote counters are business partners with the ruling party, and if the ruling party pays states to buy machines that are not at all secure and yet, completely secret from the public, and no paper trail is available to recount; then how in the world can any American believe that the vote is being counted honestly? As Ronald Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” As Josef Stalin said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes, decide everything.”
DO NOT take my word for it. Please reference the following links or find your own and become disturbed. Spread the word. Issues, personalities, polling data, causes, right and wrong, right and left mean nothing if elections can be manipulated in secret. Our voice is heard when we vote. If, we the people, let elections go on in this current state; we have NO voice and you can stick a fork in America, ‘cause we’re done.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/biggerthanwatergate.html
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/11_04.html
http://www.linkcrusader.com/vote_machines.htm over 250 links
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102503C.shtml a brief history of electronic election fraud
http://whatreallyhappened.com/rigvote.html
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm ownership of electronic machines
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/ http://psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com/2005/06/vote-rigging-sofware-fit-for.html Florida vote rigging scandal
http://www.bradblog.com/ up to date voter news
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html the brothers Urosevich
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html
Rune Nordsman
Bob Urosevich is the President of Deibold. His brother, Todd, is vice president at a competing company, Omaha-based Election Systems & Software (ES &S). These two companies count nearly 80 percent of the electronic votes cast in the United States.
Wally O’Dell until recently the CEO of Diebold, raised 100,000 for Bush’s campaign at a private fundraiser at his mansion and vowed in a GOP fundraising letter to“bring home Ohio’s electoral votes for George Bush”. William and Robert Ahmanson infused the Urosevich’s company which would evolve into ES &S. California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson family’s ties to right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles. In 1996, Chuck Hagel became the first elected Republican Nebraska senator in 24 years when he did surprisingly well in an election where the votes were verified by the company he served as chairman and maintained a financial investment. In both the 1996 and 2002 elections, Hagel’s ES&S counted an estimated 80% of his winning votes. Due to the contracting out of services, confidentiality agreements between the State of Nebraska and the company kept this matter out of the public eye. Hagel’s first election victory was described as a “stunning upset” by one Nebraska newspaper. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
Through HAVA (Help America Vote Act), states are given money that they must use to buy electronic voting machines in order to prevent reoccurrences of the 2000 Florida Presidential problems. So, states have the choice between Diebold, ES & S and Sequoia, which a secretive, intransparent company called ‘Smartmatic’ that’s known to have ties to the Venezuelan government, has just bought! http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=134322 The problem for honest Secretaries of States is that each of these systems has software flaws, each is able to be hacked, each has internal operating systems that are secretive and protected as a trade secret and none of them are required to leave a paper ballot, so that the vote can be recounted. The vote can be flipped without a trace left behind. Diebold machines can be accessed remotely through telephone line.
The State of Nevada has access to all software for slot machines in Las Vegas and it is illegal to use software that is not on file. Software for electronic voting machines is a trade secret. State gaming inspectors show up unannounced at casinos to compare computer chips with those on file and if there’s a discrepancy, the machine is shut down and investigated. There are no such checks required for electronic voting machines and indeed there is no chip available for Election officials. Manufacturers of slot machines are background checked and employees investigated for criminal records. There is no way for citizens to know whether programmers of electronic voting machines have been convicted of fraud. Slot machines are certified by a public agency and the public is invited to ask questions. Electronic voting machine manufacturers pay for-profit companies to test and no public information is available. In the event of dispute, the casino must contact investigators of the Gaming Control Board, who can open the machine and inspect the internals. A voter can call the board of elections. A claim may or may not be lodged. It may or may not be investigated. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.html?referrer=emaillink
A Finnish security expert was able to flip a vote on a Diebold machine, by adding plus and minus votes to the memory card. http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html . CNN/Associated Press - "An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.”
Florida 2004, in Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush. The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush. http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm
Lest we forget, exit polls, which are highly accurate, predicted a 5 million vote victory for Kerry and yet he lost by 3 million. This is far beyond the margin of error. http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/ The chances of the polling data being so wrong is 1 in 959,000. Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
This of course doesn’t even account for the voters who were disenfranchised before they even got to the polls. There were voting machine shortages in Democratic districts. There were fraudulent felony purges of voter rolls. There were barriers to registration. There were unmailed, lost and cavalierly rejected absentee ballots. The exit polls sample only those voters who have already overcome these hurdles.
These examples are a drop in the bucket. Just look and you will find case after case after case. I did a Google search for electronic voting machines problems and got 20,800,000 matches. I did a search for election fraud and got 31,900,000 matches. There is so much information available: it is mind-boggling. It is also heart sickening.
If the vote counters are business partners with the ruling party, and if the ruling party pays states to buy machines that are not at all secure and yet, completely secret from the public, and no paper trail is available to recount; then how in the world can any American believe that the vote is being counted honestly? As Ronald Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” As Josef Stalin said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes, decide everything.”
DO NOT take my word for it. Please reference the following links or find your own and become disturbed. Spread the word. Issues, personalities, polling data, causes, right and wrong, right and left mean nothing if elections can be manipulated in secret. Our voice is heard when we vote. If, we the people, let elections go on in this current state; we have NO voice and you can stick a fork in America, ‘cause we’re done.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/biggerthanwatergate.html
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/11_04.html
http://www.linkcrusader.com/vote_machines.htm over 250 links
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102503C.shtml a brief history of electronic election fraud
http://whatreallyhappened.com/rigvote.html
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm ownership of electronic machines
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1970/ http://psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com/2005/06/vote-rigging-sofware-fit-for.html Florida vote rigging scandal
http://www.bradblog.com/ up to date voter news
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html the brothers Urosevich
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html
Rune Nordsman
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