20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing

Facts

About

Voting in the USA





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by



Angry Girl



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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://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.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.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.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.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.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx







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://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.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.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.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm





11. Diebold is based in Ohio.





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://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.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how





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





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





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.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm





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





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





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.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.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html





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





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





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





http://uscountvotes.org/



NOTE: Some

of the data are outdated but much of it is still true. But don't take my

word for it.

Do your own research and discover the truth for yourselves. You may

freely copy and distribute this copy as long as credit is noted.

 
i dont mean to be an asshole but
"19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother."
has nothing to do with voting
 
Ohhh i see what you're saying. And it's worth repeating, so everyone listen up. The state of Ohio can NOT be trusted.
 
your not an asshole, it's just the truth, i found many of those facts also not relating to the American voting system
 
I'm sorry but... i really dont see the purpose in this... maybe in like 2003 this would have been relevant, but this info isn't gonna really change the fact that he was in office for two terms.

But its not news that politicians are all pricks, and corrupt.

 
the first fact is cited by wikipedia....ha

most of those dont have a lot to do with voting, but some are kinda interesting
 
What do you mean you don't see the purpose in it? It's just as relevant now as it was in the 2000 and 2004 elections. The point is that the voting system is too easily tampered with and it needs to be vastly improved.

For the person who asked how Jeb Bush has anything to do with voting.... think back to the past two elections and remember that one state that had so many problems with hanging chads and not counting certain votes, etc....
 
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