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From: Suma12/14/2004 8:14:17 AM
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Subject: Amazing Election Facts

How are everyone's FEELINGS about the POSSIBILITY of collusion,biased based results, nepotism or just plain not FAIR.

18 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Did you know....?

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
onlinejournal.com
en.wikipedia.org
essvote.com

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
commondreams.org
onlinejournal.com

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
americanfreepress.net
onlinejournal.com

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."
cbsnews.com
wishtv.com

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator in a surprise upset, with votes counted by ES&S machines.
motherjones.com
onlinejournal.com

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.
blackboxvoting.com <http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26>
hillnews.com
onlisareinsradar.com

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
businessweek.com
theindependent.com

8. Kenneth Blackwell co-chaired George Bush's Ohio election campaign. As Ohio secretary of state, he left no stone unturned to surpress the democratic vote.
truthout.org
freepress.org
67.15.90.110

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.
commondreams.org
itworld.com

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines,
all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
commondreams.org
diebold.com

11. Exit polls are usually excellent predictors of election results. Reputable analyses could not find and explanation of the discrepancy between exit polls and results of the 2004 presidential election.
ucdata.berkeley.edu
buzzflash.com
Unexplained_exit_poll_discrep_v00l.pdf
nytimes.com
ex=1102245800&ei=1&en=3a3c24b7e64fe49

12. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers. These people helped write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
wired.com
portland.indymedia.org

13. Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
chuckherrin.com
blackboxvoting.org

14. Jeff Dean was served jail time for planting back doors in his client's accounting software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
chuckherrin.com
blackboxvoting.org

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
globalexchange.org
enquirer.com

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 movieherewiththechimp<http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov>.)
wired.com
msnbc.msn.com

17. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
wired.com
yuricareport.com
ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
rise4news.net
ilcaonline.org
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
scoop.co.nz

18. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
yuricareport.com
ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
computerworld.com
0,10801,97614,00.html
americanfreepress.net
commondreams.org
consortiumnews.com

Based on a list compiled by AngryGirl nightweed.com ______________________________________________ Were American's votes were deliberately miscounted?

If this was done, it means, quite literally, that we are no longer living in a democracy.

Please join me in calling for:

1) a full investigation of election irregularities
2) measures to ensure that ballots cannot easily be miscounted, and can be recounted

Please -

1) forward this list to everyone you know
2) use it as grist for letters to the editor (in your own words) and requests to newspapers, radio and tv for election fraud investigation... democraticunderground.com az=blaster
3) write your congressional representatives calling for an investigation house.gov
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