BALLOT SCAMMING POLLSTERS, MEDIA IMPLICATED IN VOTE FRAUD

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BALLOT SCAMMING POLLSTERS, MEDIA IMPLICATED IN VOTE FRAUD

 

 

 

BALLOT SCAMMING POLLSTERS, MEDIA IMPLICATED IN VOTE FRAUD

 

By Christopher Bollyn

 

While Congress has yet to decide if there will be a formal inquiry

into the U.S. election of 2004, its preliminary investigation is

exposing the most serious flaws in the system. But don't expect to

hear about it in the mainstream media—it's part of the problem.

 

Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, the highest-ranking Democrat on the

House Judiciary Committee, is investigating the possibility of

computer vote fraud being perpetrated through remote access to the

vote tabulators. He is also looking into how the media and pollsters

use exit polling data on Election Day.

 

While the body of evidence that vote fraud occurred during the

election is growing by the day and is easily found on the Internet,

the mainstream media has largely avoided the story.

 

Asked by Tim Grieve of Salon.com if there were Democrats in Congress

who support his investigation, but who won't come forward and say so

publicly, Conyers said: " Well, there are Republicans who support what

I'm doing who haven't been willing to come forward. Look, calling for

fair elections is not the most radical thing in the world. We're not

positing some revolutionary theory here. We're asking that the people

who complained be given a fair hearing. "

 

American Free Press journalists have investigated vote fraud for

decades, but why has the subject of computerized vote fraud been

ignored by the mainstream media? Why has it been left to the smaller

independent media outlets, Internet journalists and bloggers to

investigate?

 

" As the story develops, " Gary Beckwith, an Internet journalist with

The Solar Bus, wrote, " no one has been able to explain why the media

is avoiding it like the plague. "

 

Conyers investigation, however, has revealed why Americans are not

hearing about vote fraud and the problems with exit polling data on

the nightly news: the big news networks are deeply involved.

 

Immediately after the election, American Free Press reported that the

Associated Press had direct access to the mainframe computer that

tallied the votes in Chicago and Cook County—as it tallied the votes

on Election Day. This provides evidence that the mainstream media

consortium that replaced the disgraced Voter News Service (VNS) has

remote access to the machines that count the votes.

 

This direct connection between AP and the vote counting computer

system explains why the Associated Press repeatedly refused to answer

AFP's questions during the summer about how they got their election

results on election night.

 

As AFP reported from Chicago, this was something that the county clerk

was well aware of and actively tried to prevent from being revealed.

However, if it is done in Chicago, it is probably done in a similar

manner across the nation.

 

Remote access to the computers counting the votes—who has it and how

it is being used—is a subject that is finally being addressed by

members of Congress. How far Conyers's investigation goes remains to

be seen.

 

Conyers is interested in seeing the raw data of the exit polls. The

disparity between exit polling data and election results indicate that

something was seriously wrong with either the polling or the counting

of votes in Ohio, Florida, and elsewhere.

 

Conyers has written to Warren Mitofsky, who owns the companies that

provide exit poll data to the mainstream media, asking for the

complete raw polling data.

 

" Mitofsky balked, saying that the TV Networks actually own it and he

was not able to release it without their permission. Conyers then took

his inquiry to the leaders of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox, " Beckwith

wrote, " And they promptly laid an egg. Through a spokesperson who

spoke on behalf of all the media companies together, they said they

are still analyzing the data and don't want to release it until

they're done.

 

" Any objective investigator, or any concerned citizen for that matter,

simply cannot accept their answer to Conyers, " he wrote. " There is

absolutely no precedent or moral ground for withholding this

information from the American public. The bottom line is that raw data

does not need to be analyzed. Conyers and the American people are not

asking for the analysis. We're asking for the data. "

 

Conyers has also written to Triad Governmental Systems, Inc., a small

family-owned company in Xenia, Ohio, asking about their ability to

access the computers that counted the votes in Ohio—remotely. Triad,

founded by Tod Rapp, produces the software that is used to tabulate

the votes in nearly half the counties in the Buckeye State.

 

Conyers' letter of Dec. 23 says: " It appears that officials in Fulton

and Henry counties have confirmed that Triad had remote access to

tabulating computers controlled by the Boards of Elections. "

 

Triad had until Dec. 29 to respond to Conyers' letter. Conyers wants

to know which Ohio counties' vote tabulating computers Triad could

access remotely, which counties it did access, and what changes it

made to the software or ballots.

 

" Did you use your remote access to inquire how machine votes would be

counted in order to instruct the board how to manipulate the three

percent hand count to avoid a county wide hand count? " Conyers asked

Triad president Rapp in writing.

 

AFP interviewed Rapp at Triad's office shortly after the election. At

that time Rapp told AFP that Triad personnel were not present or

involved in any way with the vote tabulation done in the different

counties.

 

Rapp, who is a generous donor to the Republican Party and George W.

Bush, also told AFP that he was no longer part of the company that is

now run by his sons.

 

When I called Triad GSI, however, and asked for Rapp, I was put right

through to him. When I actually visited Triad, he was the only one

available to discuss the company.

 

According to sworn testimony by the Hocking County Board of Elections

deputy director, a technician from Triad illegally tampered with

computers and instructed her on how to create a " cheat sheet " to make

sure the recount matches the official results.

 

If Conyers intends to get to the bottom of computer vote fraud in the

United States, similar letters and inquiries, like those sent to Triad

GSI, will need to be sent to the larger voting machine companies, such

as Election Systems & Software, Sequoia, and the Ohio-based Diebold

Election Systems.

 

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