Electronic Voting Machines

In the 2002 election, brand new computer voting systems used in Florida LOST over 100,000 votes due to a software error. Errors and irregularities were also reported in New Jersey, Missouri, Georgia, Texas and at least 10 other states. Widespread speculation about politically connected private company suppliers of these machines having sole access to the software programming has been in the news since the 2000 elections.

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20 Damning Facts About Voting In The USA

What does this mean about the 2008 election?

Americans will use voting computers with secret software that has not been sufficiently scrutinized, just as they have in past elections.

They will have to trust computers to record and count their votes correctly – computers that are not advanced enough to ensure the security and accuracy that could justify their trust.

If something odd occurs, manual recounts of the original ballots will be impossible, because the only record of the votes will be in electronic form, which will, of course, match the questionable tally.

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INSIDE A US ELECTION VOTE COUNTING PROGRAM

by Bev Harris - A MUST READ

How the back-door was discovered in the voting machines

How the System Integrity Flaw was discovered at Diebold

Report Raises Electronic Vote Security Issues

Computer Scientists Fear Voter Fraud on Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities

The Greatest Cover-Up Of All: Vote Fraud In America

How ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX conspired to deceive the America Voters and to protect the Computerized Votefraud Syndicate

Pandora's Black Box: Did It Really Count Your Vote?
Annals Of Democracy Counting Votes

Electronic votes touch off doubts

WASHINGTON -- Election officials and computer scientists are increasingly concerned that touch-screen electronic voting machines like the ones used in Georgia may be inaccurate and even susceptible to sabotage.

Voting Machines and the Bamboozling of America

Very good Nov. 16 article from Rense.com

Vote Theft on a Massive Scale

Great article by Online Journal Editor Bev Conover

Did God tell them to steal the votes?

The religious extremists who own voting machine companies

Diebold - Modern Ballot Tampering

Great Bartcop article on Voting Machine Fraud, Execs GOP contributions

Electronic Voting Machines

Financed by right-wing political activists, details on their easy manipulation

Voting Machine Companies

Owned by conservative Republican businessmen, bankers, religious nuts

2002 Elections

Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, & "way-off" Polling Results

Votewatch.com Forum Message

About the International Bankers who financed ES&S Voting Machines

Stolen Election

Many links to election fraud articles, letters, vote-rigging, voting machines, related info

American Coup

Full Coverage Updated November 16 by the Editor, Scoop of New Zealand

Sludge Report #143

The Election Fix Was In!, from Scoop in New Zealand

Mid-Term Election polls

vs. "official results"

The Desert of the Real

by William Rivers Pitt, for www.truthout.com, rigged voting machines, etc.

Comments on FEC Proposed Voting Standards

By Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Excellent overview of real issues

Election Update

Nov. 5 2002 update by Dr. Rebecca Mercuri on how Electronic Votes may be rigged

Opening a Can of Electronic Chad

Good short article by Bill Sterner with Carol Schiffler on CLG

Cryptogram

Good Dec. 15, 2000 article by Bruce Schneier on www.counterpane.com

Democracy Under Stress

Very clear article by Ronnie Dugger in LA Times, details on Electronic Voting

Security Criteria for Electronic Voting

Recommendations by Peter G. Neumann, a leading expert

Computer Related Risks

Excellent overview by Peter G. Newmann of Computer Voting risks



Can We Trust the Vote Count Anywhere?

Details on the Vote Counting by electronic machines & rigging



Vote Fraud in America

Good 1996 article by James J. Condit, Jr.

U.S. Vote Fraud and some solutions

by Evan Ravitz, Nov. 2000 article on www.Vote.org

Vote Fraud: Will Your Vote Be Stolen?

by C. M. Ross in a year 2000 article for Catholic Family News

Los Angeles Report

On the September 2002 Primary Election in Florida, Problems with Electronic Voting

Problems with ES&S iVotronic Machines in Florida

Interesting details, Sept. 12 article

Problems with Georgia Voting Machines

may cause Election challenges, Nov. 5

Florida voters voted for McBride

but saw electronic voting machine mark it as Bush vote, Nov. 5

Broward County

Florida finds 104,000 missing votes, Nov. 6

Adams County

Nebraska, had major problems with electronic voting machines, Nov. 6

Chip glitch

hands victory to the wrong candidate in Abilene, Texas, Nov. 8 Houston Chronicle article

Why US Election Votes Won't Matter

by John Kaminski, Nov. 8

A High Tech Ambush

How Republican Senator Chuck Hegel was an officer for ES&S Voting Machines

Voting Machine Technology

Why they are not secure & are easily rigged to show incorrect results

A Touch Better

Good article on Kioskcom.com on why electronic vote-rigging is hard to detect & prove

Vote of No Confidence

About the ease of hiding electronic vote-rigging, computerized vote fraud

Votescam

Video & Book written in 1992 - Some very good info online on vote fraud, click CHAPTERS

Elections in America

How the ES&S touch screen machines get 'control cards' from a shadowy Russian

The Real Scandal

How the integrity & security of the software can be compromised

Rage Against the Machine

Why oversight of the software does not exist, by Ronnie Dugger

More Florida Machine Fraud

Some Florida voters selected McBride but had machine change vote to Bush

Voting Machines Unreliable

How ES&S machines have modems, allowing hacking to access & alter vote tallies

The Nightmare Scenario

Good explanation by Dr. Rebecca Mercuri on paperless computer voting & fraud

Voting Into the Void

Good November 5 Salon.com article by Dr. Mercuri on computerized voting problems

Voter Fraud Texas Style

Good resource site for fighting Voter Fraud, Voting Systems & Software

Websites

VerifiedVoting.org

About VerifiedVoting.org's Founder-

David L. Dill is a Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1987. He has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979), and an M.S and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1982 and 1987). He is on the California Secretary of State's Ad Hoc Touch Screen Task Force and travels around the Country speaking and educating on the inherent dangers of current DRE and voting machines. More

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The 'Voter Confidence Act'

HR 2239

All US voters please sign this National petition as well.

THE VOTER CONFIDENCE AND INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY ACT OF 2003 would require all voting machines to produce an actual paper record by 2004 that voters can view to check the accuracy of their votes and that election officials can use to verify votes in the event of a computer malfunction, hacking or other irregularity and requires mandatory surprise recounts in a portion of both domestic and overseas jurisdictions.

"A recount requires that there be a reliable record to check," said Rep. Rush Holt. "We can and should do this in time for the 2004 federal election."

Black Box Voting
Bev Harris' book has been

released, prior to print publication, as a downloadable file.

www.BlackBoxVoting.com

Some Facts

Computer experts say today’s voting machines are prone to errors and vulnerable to fraud.
Even thorough testing can’t reveal malicious programs that could subvert an election.
Courts have ruled that secret software can be used to record and count our votes.
Manual recounts will be impossible in districts that don’t allow voters to inspect a paper record of their votes.

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Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox (D), said voting was heavy in suburban Republican strongholds around Atlanta, but was also high in the Democratic bastion of DeKalb County, providing no obvious explanation for the GOP's success in the state, where Republicans were the upset winners of a Senate seat and the governorship." (from a November 8 Washington Post article by Edward Walsh)

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****Poll by Atlanta Journal Constitution/WSB-TV of 800 likely voters on Nov. 1 For Georgia Governor
Roy Barnes (D) 51%
Sonny Perdue (R) 40%

** "Official Results" from the 'Diebold Electronic Voting Machines' on Nov. 5
Roy Barnes (D) 46%
Sonny Perdue (R) 51%

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****Poll by Atlanta Journal Constitution Nov. 1 for Georgia Senate
Max Cleland (D) 49%
Saxby Chambliss (R) 44%

**"Official Results" from the 'Diebold Electronic Voting Machines'
Max Cleland (D) 46%
Saxby Chambliss 53%

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****Poll by MSNBC/Zogby on Nov. 3 for Colorado Senate
Tom Strickland (D) 53%
Wayne Allard (R) 44%

** "Official Results"
Tom Strickland (D) 46%
Wayne Allard (R) 51%

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****Minneapolis Star-Tribune Poll on Nov. 3 for Minnesota Senate
Walter Mondale (D) 46%
Norm Coleman (R) 41%

** "Official Results"
Norm Coleman (R) 50%
Walter Mondale (D) 47%

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****Poll by Concord, NH Monitor on Nov. 3 for New Hampshire Senate
Jeanne Shaheen (D) 47%
John E. Sununu (R) 46%

**"Official Results"
Jeanne Shaheen (D) 47%
John E. Sununu (R) 51%

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Online voting schemes should be tested much more thoroughly before being rolled out for UK-wide elections, says a new report from an influential think tank.

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Lets Talk About VNS

From commentary by Lynn Landes at www.ecotalk.org

Then how can we tell if the "fix was in?" An examination of exit polling and pre-election polling versus election
results could raise a few red flags.

We can't use Voter News Service (VNS) this year. VNS is a top-secret private consortium owned by ABC News,
The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News that has "projected" election night winners
since 1964. VNS collapsed camp on election day due to technical problems... they said. Or was it the glare of
publicity since the 2000 presidential election that brought the charade to an end? Questions have been raised
since its inception, that VNS was a cover for election day vote rigging or other shenanigans. And it was strange
that when VNS management made its announcement on Tuesday, they didn't make a big deal over how the
shutdown affected the 64,000 temporary employees they claim they hired for this election.

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Voter News Service (VNS) is a top-secret private consortium owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News,
CNN, Fox News, and NBC News. It's current headquarters is in Brooklyn, New York. It's been around (under different
names) since 1964. It's the only company whose exit poll results are used by the news media to announce the
"projected" winners in races for the president, U.S. House and Senate, state governors, and select races.

By 1964, computers were used to predict election outcomes, as well as to count votes on "punch cards." With the
use of computerized vote counters and the news networks exclusive control over polling data in major elections,
the gates to election fraud were wide open. Computerized voting machines have now made election fraud as easy
as stealing candy from a baby. . . . . . . .

If VNS is helping to rig elections, why are they doing it? Generally speaking... I believe that the same people who
can't rake in enough money, also can't get enough power. The news networks are owned lock, stock, and barrel by
the richest corporations and individuals in the world. They certainly have an agenda. Their arrogance and disregard
for the little guy is clear. They may think that we're not smart enough to pick the 'right' kind of leaders... right for
them, that is. So they might try to do it for us.

Voter News Service warrants an investigation. Its operations should be shut down regardless. It's in a perfect
position to sabotage the election process. Let the counties count the vote and report it to the states. If it takes a
day or two for the states to report the results... so be it. Democracy takes time.

Meanwhile, we should bring back hand-counted paper ballots and use computerized voting machines for
confirmation purposes only. If we don't take these precautions, we may continue to have our corporate-owned
media, corrupt government officials, and crooked voting machine companies electing our leaders for us.