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To: WWWWWWWWWW who wrote (3927)	12/28/2004 4:09:02 AM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362752

20 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 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 based on 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 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. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. essvote.com onlinejournal.com 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. Diebold is based in Ohio. diebold.com 12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states. wired.com portland.indymedia.org 13. Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and 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. Diebold Senior Vice-President 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. 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 movie here.) wired.com msnbc.msn.com 17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. cbsnews.com 18. 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 rise4news.net ilcaonline.org scoop.co.nz 19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother. tallahassee.com washingtonpost.com 20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush - have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation. yuricareport.com computerworld.com americanfreepress.net commondreams.org consortiumnews.com uscountvotes.org truthout.org