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20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States
By Bob Rowe
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
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.”
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush’s vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
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.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold’s Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
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.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
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 at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush’s Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
19. All — not some — but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!) — again always favoring Bush — have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? or was it Diebold…?










Also amazing (to me) — I didn’t know at least eight of the 20!
Good stuff. Do you have a link to the original article and does Bob offer references for these Facts?
Yah i knew some of that, but some i didn’t know at all, good blog.
Wow. It would be helpful to cite your source so we could all send this in to local papers and representatives. Good revolutionary stuff!
Check this link and scroll down for a list of references.
It looks like the original is here
Hmmm… The Coastal Post in Marin. Some of the items may be outdated, I understand that certain states (California?) are requiring paper trails and are in the process of suing Diebold and ES&S for lying about their code. Some places will be entirely write-in this election to deal with the time constraints of changing over. I don’t have time to research this now, and having said that it’s not as dire as painted, I am not at all confident of an honest election in November. Important issue to keep before us.
Yes Coastal Post is the
original publisher.
Very nice eep. Some don’t play out though. #19’s sources don’t support the statement. Still, more do than don’t. Thanks.
Ha, “Help America Vote Act.” Brought to you by minitrue, right after the “PATRIOT Act.” Doubleplusgood.
Vote counting irregularities is how elections have been rigged in past centuries back to the Medicis. Clearly, there is good reason to believe the electronic age has only improved on this most obvious method. The amount of money channeled illegally by the CIA through Mexico for Nixon’s reelection and other companies since then provide complimentary demonstrations of the amorality of the election processes.
Enough calls for rats’ testimony, tapes and links. Just demand vote casting and vote counting systems that cannot be tampered with.
“Just demand vote casting and vote counting systems that cannot be tampered with.”
No can do Lot08. That would mean that you could vote in just any old boy off the street. You just cant trust the meandering herd to cast their vote for the right candidate at the right time so vote tampering is almost mandatory to our Democracy.
As old Henry said of the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile
“The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.”
The current form of Democracy could never survive the “will of the people” at the ballot box. Its much better to leave these things in the hands of “experts” who know exactly which sort of President is needed for a particular time.
Move along.
Nothing to see here.
Now get back to work.
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.”
— Josef Stalin
source
thanks for this…see if you can update your facts/sources, and maybe expand into a short article…
wonder what kind of trick he’ll have for us in 2008?
Haha shit, this prooves the representative system doesnt works at all.
Anyways, nice entry, but I have a complaint against this one:
Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
Most computer and security companies hire convicted hackers and crackers, because they can develop code that is hack-proof.
But at the same time they can add back doors nobody can see…
I think a lot of these facts are really out of date. Hagel no longer has a piece of company, for one.
as long as people demand leadership and representatives they will remain slaves.
Hagel no longer has a piece of company, for one.
Just like Cheney no longer has a piece of Haliburton?
You people are pathetic. Take a series of loosely documented tidbits of information (NOT necessarily facts, but what do facts have to do with anything), and contrive a conspiracy theory. Do you know anyone can twist facts and statistics to support any cause, or do they teach that anywhere any more? Worse yet, all the rest of you are nodding and grunting like a bunch of lemmings. Such gullibility. Stay on the bandwagon, though, guys and gals. Your lack of ability to think for yourselves and get all sides of a story, including ALL the facts, already shows your obsolescence in today and tomorrow. Valid research is difficult, good journalism is even harder, not just plucking items you find to support your belief. Just because a lot of people believe something doesn’t make it true. Just because you’re accused doesn’t make you guilty. If you get your news off sites like this then you really are stuck on stupid. Get smart!
Aloha.
HarleyDog
Yes, there are a few facts in there I bet, although I doubt the sources…but even those are taken and applied to imply support for the obvious agenda of the writer. And a series of unrelated or loosely related facts don’t make a conviction, or even a valid argument. Several, nay most, are just other information about those involved, unrelated to the issue at hand, but supposedly supporting the argument (numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10…oh, I’m going to stop listing them). Or are partial truths, such as the verifiable nature of the software in the voting machines (remember, we’re talking about the voting machines, not the other 23 counts…again, faulty logic, trying to apply that fact to this circumstance, and hoping the reader draws a conclusion, albeit the wrong one). And the emotional final statement, “Was it God, or was it Diebold?” implies there are no other explanations. I just pray you guys aren’t a jurist for me if I ever had to be tried for anything.
Scary
HarleyDog
Gosh, HarleyDog must be really smart. I’ll bet if I could be even more sceptical about an even bigger pile of evidence I could be smarter, though.
“Worse yet, all the rest of you are nodding and grunting like a bunch of lemmings. “
Welcome to crackerjack land, HarleyDawg, you are catching on. These looney leftists are not critical thinkers when one of their own posts twaddle and lies, but if you dare to suggest that 911 was not a Bush lead attack, or that Islamist terrorists are evil, well, look out, you are a dumbass, fuckstick etc.
The orginal list was written by me, Angry Girl, of Nightweed. It is way out of date at this point in time but the original is here:
http://www.nightweed.com/20AmazingVotingFacts.html(and Bob Rowe, thief that you are, I hope you rot in hell!)
this list is one of the mos highly visited pages on GNN.
Just saw American Blackout, unbelievable how it works there with stuff like the crossover votes(?????), only 5 comps for over a thousand people, the fact some can’t even vote….GEEZ
What a difference it is here. I’m really stunned.
Diebold has cashmachines here, I noticed long ago when I needed some cash.
For the rest I wanted to tell the GNN team I really enjoyed this doc, I thought it was very nice edited and the music is cool too. Okay I did d/l it so i owe you guys!
:)
whered you find it?
this one
BTW: Many of these ‘facts’ are out of date, or just plain wrong.