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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (496)1/30/2005 10:12:04 AM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 1729
 
* Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

soulflakes.net

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.

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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 consultants 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 was Senior Vice-President of General 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.

scoop.co.nz
chuckherrin.com

blackboxvoting.org

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.

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



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (496)1/30/2005 1:01:56 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein  Respond to of 1729
 
RD, thank you for informing us that Osama bin Laden
did not think that Presidential election in USA can be Democratic. This guy is real expert on the election and democracy



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (496)2/1/2005 7:04:35 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 1729
 
~OT~...Some folks may appreciate this joke...
_____________________________________

Question: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?