20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing Facts About

Voting in the USA

 

by Angry Girl of

Nightweed.com

 

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold

and ES & S.

 

_http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html_

(http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html)

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold)

 

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the

U.S. voting machine industry.

_http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm_

(http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm)

_http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html_

(http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html)

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES & S are brothers.

_http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html_

(http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html)

_http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html_

(http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html)

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. "

_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml_

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml)

_http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886_

(http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886)

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES & S. He became

Senator based on votes counted by ES & S machines.

_http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html_

(http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html)

_http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html_

(http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html)

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.

_http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News & file=article & sid=26_

(http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News & file=article & sid=26)

_http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx_

(http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx)

_http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php_

(http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php)

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's

vice-presidential candidates.

_http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm_

(http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm)

_http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html_

(http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html)

8. ES & S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts

almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

_http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html_

(http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html)

_http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html_

(http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html)

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.

_http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm_

(http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm)

_http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html_

(http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html)

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of

which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

_http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm_

(http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm)

_http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm_

(http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm)

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

_http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm_

(http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm)

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.

 

 

 

_http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html_

(http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html)

_http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml_

(http://portland,indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml)

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global 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.

_http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm_

(http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm)

_http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how_

(http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how)

_http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf_

(http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf)

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.

_http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how_

(http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how)

_http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf_

(http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf)

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls

in Ohio.

_http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html_

(http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html)

_http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html_

(http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html)

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:

http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov_

(http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov) .)

_http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html_

(http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html)

_http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190_ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190)

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen

voting machines with no paper trail.

_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml_

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml)

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and

reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

_http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html_

(http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html)

_http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut

..htm_

(http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.h\

tm)

_http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html_

(http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html)

_http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload & name=News & file=article & sid=9

50_

(http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload & name=News & file=article & sid=950\

)

_http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm_

(http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm)

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's

brother.

_http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm_

(http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm)

_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html_

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html)

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush --

have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further

investigation.

_http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut

..htm_

(http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.h\

tm)

_http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801

,97614,00.html_

(http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,9\

7614,00.html)

_http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html_

(http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html)

_http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm_

(http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm)

_http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html_

(http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html)

_http://uscountvotes.org/_ (http://uscountvotes.org/)

Please call and email your Senators and Representatives today. We still

have a chance of getting paper ballots for Nov. 7th. Even if your state has

paper, all states must have voter verified paper ballots if we want elections

where the voters determine the outcome. More states now have voter verified

paper ballots than when the above was written in 2004, but many are still

voting

with no paper record.

Easy action for Senate " CONFIDENCE IN VOTING ACT OF 2006 " at:

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fvotes_

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es)

Easy action for HR 6187 for paper ballots on Nov. 7th at:

_http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9057086 & queueid=[capwiz:que

ue_id_

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Election Protection: House Bill Needs Action Also! Now Holt's HOUSE

Paper Ballot Bill Needs Support! _

Take Action!_

(http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/utr/1/CPNVGIVJDU/DIZDGIVJPN/898061496) Please

Urge Your Rep to Co-Sponsor for HR 6187!

Things are happening fast!

Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) has now introduced HR 6187, The " Confidence in

Voting Act of 2006, " a companion to the measure introduced by Senators

Boxer, Dodd and Feingold in the Senate. It would allow all States that do not

already use optical scan or other paper ballot-based voting systems to opt in

to

a program for this November's election whereby they would be reimbursed for

giving voters the right to cast their votes on paper ballots at their

request.

 

 

The House and Senate Emergency Paper Ballot Bills Needs Support!

The " Confidence in Voting Act " of 2006

 

__

 

Please Urge Your Representative and Senator to co-sponsor these bills!

Support Holt, Boxer, Dodd Paper Ballot Bill!

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September 27th, 2006

The House and Senate Emergency Paper Ballot Bill Needs Support!

Please Urge Your Representative and Senator to co-sponsor these bills; and

support Holt, Boxer, Dodd Paper Ballot Bills!

Things are happening fast! Just last week we proposed legislation for

emergency paper ballots for the upcoming election in order to protect voters

from

being disenfranchised. Thanks all of you for encouraging Representative Rush

Holt and Senators Barbara Boxer and Christopher Dodd because yesterday they

introduced the " CONFIDENCE IN VOTING ACT OF 2006. " These bills will protect

the votes of citizens who currently depend on all-electronic voting machines -

not only to COUNT their votes but to CAST them. The " CONFIDENCE IN VOTING

ACT OF 2006 " provides funding for states to supply " contingency " paper ballots

as an option for voters who choose them and in cases where machines

malfunction. Call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask for

your

Representative and Senator. Or write a short_ e-mail note in your own words_

(http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/) supporting the " Confidence in

Voting

Act of 2006 " which is so new it doesn't have a number. YOU ARE ASKING FOR

PAPER BACK-UP BALLOTS TO AVOID DISENFRANCHISEMENT BY MACHINE!

 

Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) has now introduced HR 6187, The " Confidence in

Voting Act of 2006, " a companion to the measure introduced by Senators Boxer,

Dodd and Feingold in the Senate. It would allow all States that do not

already use optical scan or other paper ballot-based voting systems to opt in

to

a program for this November's election whereby they would be reimbursed for

giving voters the right to cast their votes on paper ballots at their

request.

The " Confidence in Voting Act of 2006 " would:

 

* Reimburse States at the rate of 75 cents per printed ballot for offering

voters, upon their request, the right to cast a vote by means of a contingency

paper ballots, regardless of the voting equipment otherwise in use at the

precinct;

* Mandate that the voter's right to cast his or her vote by means of such a

contingency paper ballot be conspicuously posted at polling places;

* Mandate that jurisdictions treat contingency paper ballots as regular

ballots, and count them accordingly and not as provisional ballots (unless a

voter is otherwise required to vote provisionally);

* Authorize such sums as are necessary to reimburse the States under the

program.

Please TAKE ACTION and urge your representative to sign on to this vitally

important legislation!

 

Please spread the word. It's your democracy. Use it or lose it!

NOTE: Please copy the above list and distribute freely!

LET THE FACTS BE KNOWN! Thank you!

Want a cheap, fair, reliable, and efficient alternative? It exists!

Check out the Swiss Voting System

at _http://www.swissvs.org_ (http://www.swissvs.org/)

 

DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS

1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.

That's over 41 Million Americans.

You are NOT alone!