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Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
by Thom Hartmann http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00102.htm
When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004),
the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from
Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher
has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of
who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same
people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb
Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat
to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
"It was practice for a national effort," Fisher told me.
And some believe evidence is accumulating that the national effort happened
on November 2, 2004.
The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record of
votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net denizen
Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a table, available
at http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something
startling.
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce
results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched
the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically
scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable
to hacking - the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.
In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them
Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry
and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the
country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a
mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but
4,433 voted for Bush.
The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where
optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats,
went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25%
for Bush.
Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more
vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered
Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had
earlier reported that county size was a variable - this turns out not to be
the case. Just the use of touch-screens versus optical scanners.)
More visual analysis of the results can be seen at
http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and
http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm. Note the trend line -
the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was the use of optical
scan machines.
One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in Florida
white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as Democrats
for years, but voting Republican since Reagan. Looking at the 2000
statistics, also available on Dopp's site, there are similar anomalies,
although the trends are not as strong as in 2004. But some suggest the 2000
election may have been questionable in Florida, too.
One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be possible
to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory by comparing
Florida's white rural counties to those of Pennsylvania, another swing state
but one that went for Kerry, as the exit polls there predicted.
Interestingly, the Pennsylvania analysis, available at
http://ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the same
kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the possibility of
problems in Florida.
Even more significantly, Dopp had first run the analysis while filtering out
smaller (rural) counties, and still found that the only variable that
accounted for a swing toward Republican voting was the use of optical-scan
machines, whereas counties with touch-screen machines generally didn't
swing - regardless of size.
Others offer similar insights, based on other data. A professor at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, noted that in Florida the vote to
raise the minimum wage was approved by 72%, although Kerry got 48%. "The
correlation between voting for the minimum wage increase and voting for
Kerry isn't likely to be perfect," he noted, "but one would normally expect
that the gap - of 1.5 million votes - to be far smaller than it was."
While all of this may or may not be evidence of vote tampering, it again
brings the nation back to the question of why several states using
electronic voting machines or scanners programmed by private, for-profit
corporations and often connected to modems produced votes inconsistent with
exit poll numbers.
Those exit poll results have been a problem for reporters ever since
Election Day.
Election night, I'd been doing live election coverage for WDEV, one of the
radio stations that carries my syndicated show, and, just after midnight,
during the 12:20 a.m. Associated Press Radio News feed, I was startled to
hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes had earlier sat George W. Bush
down to inform him that he'd lost the election. The exit polls were clear:
Kerry was winning in a landslide. "Bush took the news stoically," noted the
AP report.
But then the computers reported something different. In several pivotal
states.
Conservatives see a conspiracy here: They think the exit polls were rigged.
Dick Morris, the infamous political consultant to the first Clinton campaign
who became a Republican consultant and Fox News regular, wrote an article
for The Hill, the publication read by every political junkie in Washington,
DC, in which he made a couple of brilliant points.
"Exit Polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "They eliminate the two
major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual
voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by
substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative
turnout of different parts of the state."
He added: "So, according to ABC-TVs exit polls, for example, Kerry was
slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa, all
of which Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going to Bush
was West Virginia, which the president won by 10 points."
Yet a few hours after the exit polls were showing a clear Kerry sweep, as
the computerized vote numbers began to come in from the various states the
election was called for Bush.
How could this happen?
On the CNBC TV show "Topic A With Tina Brown," several months ago, Howard
Dean had filled in for Tina Brown as guest host. His guest was Bev Harris,
the Seattle grandmother who started www.blackboxvoting.org from her living
room. Bev pointed out that regardless of how votes were tabulated (other
than hand counts, only done in odd places like small towns in Vermont), the
real "counting" is done by computers. Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines,
which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's hand, or
the scanners that read punch cards, or the machines that simply record a
touch of the screen, in all cases the final tally is sent to a "central
tabulator" machine.
That central tabulator computer is a Windows-based PC.
"In a voting system," Harris explained to Dean on national television, "you
have all the different voting machines at all the different polling places,
sometimes, as in a county like mine, there's a thousand polling places in a
single county. All those machines feed into the one machine so it can add up
all the votes. So, of course, if you were going to do something you
shouldn't to a voting machine, would it be more convenient to do it to each
of the 4000 machines, or just come in here and deal with all of them at
once?"
Dean nodded in rhetorical agreement, and Harris continued. "What surprises
people is that the central tabulator is just a PC, like what you and I use.
It's just a regular computer."
"So," Dean said, "anybody who can hack into a PC can hack into a central
tabulator?"
Harris nodded affirmation, and pointed out how Diebold uses a program called
GEMS, which fills the screen of the PC and effectively turns it into the
central tabulator system. "This is the official program that the County
Supervisor sees," she said, pointing to a PC that was sitting between them
loaded with Diebold's software.
Bev then had Dean open the GEMS program to see the results of a test
election. They went to the screen titled "Election Summary Report" and
waited a moment while the PC "adds up all the votes from all the various
precincts," and then saw that in this faux election Howard Dean had 1000
votes, Lex Luthor had 500, and Tiger Woods had none. Dean was winning.
"Of course, you can't tamper with this software," Harris noted. Diebold
wrote a pretty good program.
But, it's running on a Windows PC.
So Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS software, go back to the normal
Windows PC desktop, click on the "My Computer" icon, choose "Local Disk C:,"
open the folder titled GEMS, and open the sub-folder "LocalDB" which, Harris
noted, "stands for local database, that's where they keep the votes." Harris
then had Dean double-click on a file in that folder titled "Central
Tabulator Votes," which caused the PC to open the vote count in a database
program like Excel.
In the "Sum of the Candidates" row of numbers, she found that in one
precinct Dean had received 800 votes and Lex Luthor had gotten 400.
"Let's just flip those," Harris said, as Dean cut and pasted the numbers
from one cell into the other. "And," she added magnanimously, "let's give
100 votes to Tiger."
They closed the database, went back into the official GEMS software "the
legitimate way, you're the county supervisor and you're checking on the
progress of your election."
As the screen displayed the official voter tabulation, Harris said, "And you
can see now that Howard Dean has only 500 votes, Lex Luthor has 900, and
Tiger Woods has 100." Dean, the winner, was now the loser.
Harris sat up a bit straighter, smiled, and said, "We just edited an
election, and it took us 90 seconds."
On live national television. (You can see the clip on www.votergate.tv.) And
they had left no tracks whatsoever, Harris said, noting that it would be
nearly impossible for the election software - or a County election
official - to know that the vote database had been altered.
Which brings us back to Morris and those pesky exit polls that had Karen
Hughes telling George W. Bush that he'd lost the election in a landslide.
Morris's conspiracy theory is that the exit polls "were sabotage" to cause
people in the western states to not bother voting for Bush, since the
networks would call the election based on the exit polls for Kerry. But the
networks didn't do that, and had never intended to.
According to congressional candidate Fisher, it makes far more sense that
the exit polls were right - they weren't done on Diebold PCs - and that the
vote itself was hacked.
And not only for the presidential candidate - Jeff Fisher thinks this hit
him and pretty much every other Democratic candidate for national office in
the most-hacked swing states.
So far, the only national "mainstream" media to come close to this story was
Keith Olbermann on his show Friday night, November 5th, when he noted that
it was curious that all the voting machine irregularities so far uncovered
seem to favor Bush. In the meantime, the Washington Post and other media are
now going through single-bullet-theory-like contortions to explain how the
exit polls had failed.
But I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large part.
Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final paragraph,
"This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as
they were on election night. I suspect foul play."
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THIS IS A NONPARTISAN STATEWIDE CALL TO ACTION. VOTERS AND POLL WORKERS FROM
AROUND THE STATE ARE INVITED TO TESTIFY.
Saturday November 13, 1-4 PM
New Faith Baptist Church
955 Oak Street
Columbus, Ohio 43205
Monday November 15, 6-9 PM,
Auditorium (Meeting Room A)
Courthouse, 373 S. High St.
Columbus, OH
We are calling for anyone who experienced or observed election
irregularities or voter suppression on Election Day to come forward and
give their testimony.
We are calling for any individuals or organizations that have information
about election irregularities or voter suppression that occured before,
during or after the elections to give their testimony.
We are calling for our public officials, community representatives and
the media to come and hear the testimony of the people.
We will document and/or videotape the testimonies for use in a report
and a formal complaint to the Franklin County Board of Elections.
This is a public space to respond to the systemic undermining of our
democratic process and assess how to respond to racial disenfranchisement
and suppression of democratic rights.
Citizens, voting experts, and investigative journalists will be invited
to present testimony for the public record documenting instances of voting
irregularities and systematic voter suppression. The coalition hopes to
expose the systemic undermining of our democratic process that occurred
leading up to and on Nov 2, and assess how to respond to racial
disenfranchisement and suppression of democratic rights.
ENDORSERS:
* Ohio Senator Teresa Fedor
* freelance journalist Lynn Landes
* Professor Robert Fitrakis (Free Press)
* Bill Moss
* Code Pink
* Global Exchange
* People for the American Way (www.pfaw.org)
* IPPN
* Election Protection Coalition
* This Time We're Watching (www.ttww.org)
* Driving Votes (www.drivingvotes.org)
* Truth Force Training Center
* International Labor Communications Association
* No Stolen Elections Coalition (www.nov3.us)
* Liberty Tree
* Black Voices for Peace
We are seeking support from US Congressional Representatives, Ohio State
Representatives, nonpartisan organizations, and community and national
leaders. Experts and investigative reporters are invited to present
testimony as well.
Here are a few articles on the types of voter suppression/disenfranchisement
that we are hoping to call attention to:
Kerry Won. Greg Palast, Tompaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
Did Kerry Concede Too Soon? Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/981
Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair? Institute for Public Accuracy
http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster, William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
None Dare Call it Voter Suppression and Fraud, Bob Fitrakis, Free Press
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
To get involved, sponsor this call, or testify, contact:
Amy Kaplan and Jonathan Meier
Columbus League of Pissed Off Voters
614-405-2160
amy@indyvoter.org
Naina Khanna/ National Field Director
naina@indyvoter.org
"Jas" <jasimpeachdubya@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cmsl3q$cpr$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
| Quote: | Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
by Thom Hartmann http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00102.htm
When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004),
the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from
Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher
has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but
of
who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these
same
people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that
Jeb
Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat
to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
"It was practice for a national effort," Fisher told me.
And some believe evidence is accumulating that the national effort
happened
on November 2, 2004.
The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record of
votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net denizen
Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a table, available
at http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something
startling.
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to
produce
results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched
the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically
scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus
vulnerable
to hacking - the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.
In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them
Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry
and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the
country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and
a
mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but
4,433 voted for Bush.
The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where
optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats,
went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went
77.25%
for Bush.
Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more
vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered
Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had
earlier reported that county size was a variable - this turns out not to
be
the case. Just the use of touch-screens versus optical scanners.)
More visual analysis of the results can be seen at
http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and
http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm. Note the trend line -
the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was the use of
optical
scan machines.
One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in
Florida
white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as
Democrats
for years, but voting Republican since Reagan. Looking at the 2000
statistics, also available on Dopp's site, there are similar anomalies,
although the trends are not as strong as in 2004. But some suggest the
2000
election may have been questionable in Florida, too.
One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be
possible
to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory by comparing
Florida's white rural counties to those of Pennsylvania, another swing
state
but one that went for Kerry, as the exit polls there predicted.
Interestingly, the Pennsylvania analysis, available at
http://ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the same
kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the possibility of
problems in Florida.
Even more significantly, Dopp had first run the analysis while filtering
out
smaller (rural) counties, and still found that the only variable that
accounted for a swing toward Republican voting was the use of optical-scan
machines, whereas counties with touch-screen machines generally didn't
swing - regardless of size.
Others offer similar insights, based on other data. A professor at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, noted that in Florida the vote to
raise the minimum wage was approved by 72%, although Kerry got 48%. "The
correlation between voting for the minimum wage increase and voting for
Kerry isn't likely to be perfect," he noted, "but one would normally
expect
that the gap - of 1.5 million votes - to be far smaller than it was."
While all of this may or may not be evidence of vote tampering, it again
brings the nation back to the question of why several states using
electronic voting machines or scanners programmed by private, for-profit
corporations and often connected to modems produced votes inconsistent
with
exit poll numbers.
Those exit poll results have been a problem for reporters ever since
Election Day.
Election night, I'd been doing live election coverage for WDEV, one of the
radio stations that carries my syndicated show, and, just after midnight,
during the 12:20 a.m. Associated Press Radio News feed, I was startled to
hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes had earlier sat George W. Bush
down to inform him that he'd lost the election. The exit polls were clear:
Kerry was winning in a landslide. "Bush took the news stoically," noted
the
AP report.
But then the computers reported something different. In several pivotal
states.
Conservatives see a conspiracy here: They think the exit polls were
rigged.
Dick Morris, the infamous political consultant to the first Clinton
campaign
who became a Republican consultant and Fox News regular, wrote an article
for The Hill, the publication read by every political junkie in
Washington,
DC, in which he made a couple of brilliant points.
"Exit Polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "They eliminate the two
major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating
actual
voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by
substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative
turnout of different parts of the state."
He added: "So, according to ABC-TVs exit polls, for example, Kerry was
slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa, all
of which Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going to Bush
was West Virginia, which the president won by 10 points."
Yet a few hours after the exit polls were showing a clear Kerry sweep, as
the computerized vote numbers began to come in from the various states the
election was called for Bush.
How could this happen?
On the CNBC TV show "Topic A With Tina Brown," several months ago, Howard
Dean had filled in for Tina Brown as guest host. His guest was Bev Harris,
the Seattle grandmother who started www.blackboxvoting.org from her living
room. Bev pointed out that regardless of how votes were tabulated (other
than hand counts, only done in odd places like small towns in Vermont),
the
real "counting" is done by computers. Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines,
which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's hand,
or
the scanners that read punch cards, or the machines that simply record a
touch of the screen, in all cases the final tally is sent to a "central
tabulator" machine.
That central tabulator computer is a Windows-based PC.
"In a voting system," Harris explained to Dean on national television,
"you
have all the different voting machines at all the different polling
places,
sometimes, as in a county like mine, there's a thousand polling places in
a
single county. All those machines feed into the one machine so it can add
up
all the votes. So, of course, if you were going to do something you
shouldn't to a voting machine, would it be more convenient to do it to
each
of the 4000 machines, or just come in here and deal with all of them at
once?"
Dean nodded in rhetorical agreement, and Harris continued. "What surprises
people is that the central tabulator is just a PC, like what you and I
use.
It's just a regular computer."
"So," Dean said, "anybody who can hack into a PC can hack into a central
tabulator?"
Harris nodded affirmation, and pointed out how Diebold uses a program
called
GEMS, which fills the screen of the PC and effectively turns it into the
central tabulator system. "This is the official program that the County
Supervisor sees," she said, pointing to a PC that was sitting between them
loaded with Diebold's software.
Bev then had Dean open the GEMS program to see the results of a test
election. They went to the screen titled "Election Summary Report" and
waited a moment while the PC "adds up all the votes from all the various
precincts," and then saw that in this faux election Howard Dean had 1000
votes, Lex Luthor had 500, and Tiger Woods had none. Dean was winning.
"Of course, you can't tamper with this software," Harris noted. Diebold
wrote a pretty good program.
But, it's running on a Windows PC.
So Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS software, go back to the normal
Windows PC desktop, click on the "My Computer" icon, choose "Local Disk
C:,"
open the folder titled GEMS, and open the sub-folder "LocalDB" which,
Harris
noted, "stands for local database, that's where they keep the votes."
Harris
then had Dean double-click on a file in that folder titled "Central
Tabulator Votes," which caused the PC to open the vote count in a database
program like Excel.
In the "Sum of the Candidates" row of numbers, she found that in one
precinct Dean had received 800 votes and Lex Luthor had gotten 400.
"Let's just flip those," Harris said, as Dean cut and pasted the numbers
from one cell into the other. "And," she added magnanimously, "let's give
100 votes to Tiger."
They closed the database, went back into the official GEMS software "the
legitimate way, you're the county supervisor and you're checking on the
progress of your election."
As the screen displayed the official voter tabulation, Harris said, "And
you
can see now that Howard Dean has only 500 votes, Lex Luthor has 900, and
Tiger Woods has 100." Dean, the winner, was now the loser.
Harris sat up a bit straighter, smiled, and said, "We just edited an
election, and it took us 90 seconds."
On live national television. (You can see the clip on www.votergate.tv.)
And
they had left no tracks whatsoever, Harris said, noting that it would be
nearly impossible for the election software - or a County election
official - to know that the vote database had been altered.
Which brings us back to Morris and those pesky exit polls that had Karen
Hughes telling George W. Bush that he'd lost the election in a landslide.
Morris's conspiracy theory is that the exit polls "were sabotage" to cause
people in the western states to not bother voting for Bush, since the
networks would call the election based on the exit polls for Kerry. But
the
networks didn't do that, and had never intended to.
According to congressional candidate Fisher, it makes far more sense that
the exit polls were right - they weren't done on Diebold PCs - and that
the
vote itself was hacked.
And not only for the presidential candidate - Jeff Fisher thinks this hit
him and pretty much every other Democratic candidate for national office
in
the most-hacked swing states.
So far, the only national "mainstream" media to come close to this story
was
Keith Olbermann on his show Friday night, November 5th, when he noted that
it was curious that all the voting machine irregularities so far uncovered
seem to favor Bush. In the meantime, the Washington Post and other media
are
now going through single-bullet-theory-like contortions to explain how the
exit polls had failed.
But I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large part.
Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final paragraph,
"This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board
as
they were on election night. I suspect foul play."
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Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:
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Paranoid sore loser snivelling follows:
Jas wrote:
|| THIS IS A NONPARTISAN STATEWIDE CALL TO ACTION. VOTERS AND POLL
|| WORKERS FROM AROUND THE STATE ARE INVITED TO TESTIFY.
||
||
|| Saturday November 13, 1-4 PM
|| New Faith Baptist Church
|| 955 Oak Street
|| Columbus, Ohio 43205
||
||
|| Monday November 15, 6-9 PM,
|| Auditorium (Meeting Room A)
|| Courthouse, 373 S. High St.
|| Columbus, OH
||
||
|| We are calling for anyone who experienced or observed election
|| irregularities or voter suppression on Election Day to come forward
|| and give their testimony.
||
|| We are calling for any individuals or organizations that have
|| information about election irregularities or voter suppression that
|| occured before, during or after the elections to give their
|| testimony.
||
|| We are calling for our public officials, community representatives
|| and
|| the media to come and hear the testimony of the people.
||
|| We will document and/or videotape the testimonies for use in a report
|| and a formal complaint to the Franklin County Board of Elections.
||
|| This is a public space to respond to the systemic undermining of our
|| democratic process and assess how to respond to racial
|| disenfranchisement and suppression of democratic rights.
||
|| Citizens, voting experts, and investigative journalists will be
|| invited
|| to present testimony for the public record documenting instances of
|| voting irregularities and systematic voter suppression. The
|| coalition hopes to expose the systemic undermining of our democratic
|| process that occurred leading up to and on Nov 2, and assess how to
|| respond to racial disenfranchisement and suppression of democratic
|| rights.
||
||
|| ENDORSERS:
||
||
|| * Ohio Senator Teresa Fedor
|| * freelance journalist Lynn Landes
|| * Professor Robert Fitrakis (Free Press)
|| * Bill Moss
|| * Code Pink
|| * Global Exchange
|| * People for the American Way (www.pfaw.org)
|| * IPPN
|| * Election Protection Coalition
|| * This Time We're Watching (www.ttww.org)
|| * Driving Votes (www.drivingvotes.org)
|| * Truth Force Training Center
|| * International Labor Communications Association
|| * No Stolen Elections Coalition (www.nov3.us)
|| * Liberty Tree
|| * Black Voices for Peace
||
||
|| We are seeking support from US Congressional Representatives, Ohio
|| State Representatives, nonpartisan organizations, and community and
|| national leaders. Experts and investigative reporters are invited to
|| present testimony as well.
||
|| Here are a few articles on the types of voter
|| suppression/disenfranchisement that we are hoping to call attention
|| to:
||
|| Kerry Won. Greg Palast, Tompaine.com
|| http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php
||
|| Did Kerry Concede Too Soon? Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press
|| http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/981
||
|| Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair? Institute for Public Accuracy
|| http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm
||
|| Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster, William Rivers Pitt,
|| Truthout
|| http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
||
|| None Dare Call it Voter Suppression and Fraud, Bob Fitrakis, Free
|| Press http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983
||
|| To get involved, sponsor this call, or testify, contact:
||
|| Amy Kaplan and Jonathan Meier
|| Columbus League of Pissed Off Voters
|| 614-405-2160
|| amy@indyvoter.org
||
||
|| Naina Khanna/ National Field Director
|| naina@indyvoter.org
||
||
||
|| "Jas" <jasimpeachdubya@yahoo.com> wrote in message
|| news:cmsl3q$cpr$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
||| Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
|||
||| by Thom Hartmann
||| http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00102.htm When I spoke
||| with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the
||| Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from
||| Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up.
||| Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election
||| was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year,
||| he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the
||| Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to
||| run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but
||| instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
|||
||| "It was practice for a national effort," Fisher told me.
|||
||| And some believe evidence is accumulating that the national effort
||| happened on November 2, 2004.
|||
||| The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county
||| record of votes cast and people registered to vote by party
||| affiliation. Net denizen Kathy Dopp compiled the official state
||| information into a table, available at
||| http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something
||| startling.
|||
||| While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed
||| to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican
||| ratios largely matched the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties
||| using results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a
||| central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - the results
||| seem to contain substantial anomalies.
|||
||| In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3%
||| of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only
||| 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen
||| everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely
||| voted for Kerry.
|||
||| In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them
||| Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959
||| people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.
|||
||| The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties
||| where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered
||| Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered
||| Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.
|||
||| Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been
||| more vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of
||| registered Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes
||| for Kerry. (I had earlier reported that county size was a variable
||| - this turns out not to be the case. Just the use of touch-screens
||| versus optical scanners.)
|||
||| More visual analysis of the results can be seen at
||| http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and
||| http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm. Note the trend
||| line - the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was
||| the use of optical scan machines.
|||
||| One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that
||| in Florida white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been
||| registered as Democrats for years, but voting Republican since
||| Reagan. Looking at the 2000 statistics, also available on Dopp's
||| site, there are similar anomalies, although the trends are not as
||| strong as in 2004. But some suggest the 2000 election may have been
||| questionable in Florida, too.
|||
||| One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be
||| possible to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory
||| by comparing Florida's white rural counties to those of
||| Pennsylvania, another swing state but one that went for Kerry, as
||| the exit polls there predicted. Interestingly, the Pennsylvania
||| analysis, available at
||| http://ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the
||| same kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the
||| possibility of problems in Florida.
|||
||| Even more significantly, Dopp had first run the analysis while
||| filtering out smaller (rural) counties, and still found that the
||| only variable that accounted for a swing toward Republican voting
||| was the use of optical-scan machines, whereas counties with
||| touch-screen machines generally didn't swing - regardless of size.
|||
||| Others offer similar insights, based on other data. A professor at
||| the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, noted that in Florida the
||| vote to raise the minimum wage was approved by 72%, although Kerry
||| got 48%. "The correlation between voting for the minimum wage
||| increase and voting for Kerry isn't likely to be perfect," he
||| noted, "but one would normally expect that the gap - of 1.5 million
||| votes - to be far smaller than it was."
|||
||| While all of this may or may not be evidence of vote tampering, it
||| again brings the nation back to the question of why several states
||| using electronic voting machines or scanners programmed by private,
||| for-profit corporations and often connected to modems produced
||| votes inconsistent with exit poll numbers.
|||
||| Those exit poll results have been a problem for reporters ever since
||| Election Day.
|||
||| Election night, I'd been doing live election coverage for WDEV, one
||| of the radio stations that carries my syndicated show, and, just
||| after midnight, during the 12:20 a.m. Associated Press Radio News
||| feed, I was startled to hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes
||| had earlier sat George W. Bush down to inform him that he'd lost
||| the election. The exit polls were clear: Kerry was winning in a
||| landslide. "Bush took the news stoically," noted the AP report.
|||
||| But then the computers reported something different. In several
||| pivotal states.
|||
||| Conservatives see a conspiracy here: They think the exit polls were
||| rigged.
|||
||| Dick Morris, the infamous political consultant to the first Clinton
||| campaign who became a Republican consultant and Fox News regular,
||| wrote an article for The Hill, the publication read by every
||| political junkie in Washington, DC, in which he made a couple of
||| brilliant points.
|||
||| "Exit Polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "They eliminate
||| the two major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly
||| separating actual voters from those who pretend they will cast
||| ballots but never do and by substituting actual observation for
||| guesswork in judging the relative turnout of different parts of the
||| state."
|||
||| He added: "So, according to ABC-TVs exit polls, for example, Kerry
||| was slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada,
||| and Iowa, all of which Bush carried. The only swing state the
||| network had going to Bush was West Virginia, which the president
||| won by 10 points."
|||
||| Yet a few hours after the exit polls were showing a clear Kerry
||| sweep, as the computerized vote numbers began to come in from the
||| various states the election was called for Bush.
|||
||| How could this happen?
|||
||| On the CNBC TV show "Topic A With Tina Brown," several months ago,
||| Howard Dean had filled in for Tina Brown as guest host. His guest
||| was Bev Harris, the Seattle grandmother who started
||| www.blackboxvoting.org from her living room. Bev pointed out that
||| regardless of how votes were tabulated (other than hand counts,
||| only done in odd places like small towns in Vermont), the real
||| "counting" is done by computers. Be they Diebold Opti-Scan
||| machines, which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in
||| the voter's hand, or the scanners that read punch cards, or the
||| machines that simply record a touch of the screen, in all cases the
||| final tally is sent to a "central tabulator" machine.
|||
||| That central tabulator computer is a Windows-based PC.
|||
||| "In a voting system," Harris explained to Dean on national
||| television, "you have all the different voting machines at all the
||| different polling places, sometimes, as in a county like mine,
||| there's a thousand polling places in a single county. All those
||| machines feed into the one machine so it can add up all the votes.
||| So, of course, if you were going to do something you shouldn't to a
||| voting machine, would it be more convenient to do it to each of the
||| 4000 machines, or just come in here and deal with all of them at
||| once?"
|||
||| Dean nodded in rhetorical agreement, and Harris continued. "What
||| surprises people is that the central tabulator is just a PC, like
||| what you and I use. It's just a regular computer."
|||
||| "So," Dean said, "anybody who can hack into a PC can hack into a
||| central tabulator?"
|||
||| Harris nodded affirmation, and pointed out how Diebold uses a
||| program called GEMS, which fills the screen of the PC and
||| effectively turns it into the central tabulator system. "This is
||| the official program that the County Supervisor sees," she said,
||| pointing to a PC that was sitting between them loaded with
||| Diebold's software.
|||
||| Bev then had Dean open the GEMS program to see the results of a test
||| election. They went to the screen titled "Election Summary Report"
||| and waited a moment while the PC "adds up all the votes from all
||| the various precincts," and then saw that in this faux election
||| Howard Dean had 1000 votes, Lex Luthor had 500, and Tiger Woods had
||| none. Dean was winning.
|||
||| "Of course, you can't tamper with this software," Harris noted.
||| Diebold wrote a pretty good program.
|||
||| But, it's running on a Windows PC.
|||
||| So Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS software, go back to the
||| normal Windows PC desktop, click on the "My Computer" icon, choose
||| "Local Disk C:," open the folder titled GEMS, and open the
||| sub-folder "LocalDB" which, Harris noted, "stands for local
||| database, that's where they keep the votes." Harris then had Dean
||| double-click on a file in that folder titled "Central Tabulator
||| Votes," which caused the PC to open the vote count in a database
||| program like Excel.
|||
||| In the "Sum of the Candidates" row of numbers, she found that in one
||| precinct Dean had received 800 votes and Lex Luthor had gotten 400.
|||
||| "Let's just flip those," Harris said, as Dean cut and pasted the
||| numbers from one cell into the other. "And," she added
||| magnanimously, "let's give 100 votes to Tiger."
|||
||| They closed the database, went back into the official GEMS software
||| "the legitimate way, you're the county supervisor and you're
||| checking on the progress of your election."
|||
||| As the screen displayed the official voter tabulation, Harris said,
||| "And you can see now that Howard Dean has only 500 votes, Lex
||| Luthor has 900, and Tiger Woods has 100." Dean, the winner, was now
||| the loser.
|||
||| Harris sat up a bit straighter, smiled, and said, "We just edited an
||| election, and it took us 90 seconds."
|||
||| On live national television. (You can see the clip on
||| www.votergate.tv.) And they had left no tracks whatsoever, Harris
||| said, noting that it would be nearly impossible for the election
||| software - or a County election official - to know that the vote
||| database had been altered.
|||
||| Which brings us back to Morris and those pesky exit polls that had
||| Karen Hughes telling George W. Bush that he'd lost the election in
||| a landslide.
|||
||| Morris's conspiracy theory is that the exit polls "were sabotage"
||| to cause people in the western states to not bother voting for
||| Bush, since the networks would call the election based on the exit
||| polls for Kerry. But the networks didn't do that, and had never
||| intended to.
|||
||| According to congressional candidate Fisher, it makes far more
||| sense that the exit polls were right - they weren't done on Diebold
||| PCs - and that the vote itself was hacked.
|||
||| And not only for the presidential candidate - Jeff Fisher thinks
||| this hit him and pretty much every other Democratic candidate for
||| national office in the most-hacked swing states.
|||
||| So far, the only national "mainstream" media to come close to this
||| story was Keith Olbermann on his show Friday night, November 5th,
||| when he noted that it was curious that all the voting machine
||| irregularities so far uncovered seem to favor Bush. In the
||| meantime, the Washington Post and other media are now going through
||| single-bullet-theory-like contortions to explain how the exit polls
||| had failed.
|||
||| But I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large
||| part. Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final
||| paragraph, "This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong
||| across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul
||| play."
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Eric Dreher
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| Posted:
Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:
Re: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:13:43 GMT, "ofthedeep" <ofhtdeep@aquarium.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Paranoid sore loser snivelling follows:
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joe~V~3838
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| Posted:
Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:
Re: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked |
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|
well, I remember watching Lou Dobbs several months ago and he was
talking about the electrionic voting machines without papertrails.
He said that the guy behind all the machines (Diebold) stated pubicly
that he would do anything he can to get Bush re-elected. Lou Dobbs
couldn't believe the guy said it and a few days later Diebold came out
and said he was sorry and wasn't going to go pubic..
Talk about shady ... makes you wonder if all the electronic machines
were hacked into just enough to give bush the edge and victory......
And you know Lou Dobbs is a conservitive republician but a good honest
fair one...
"Jas" <jasimpeachdubya@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:cmsl3q$cpr$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
| Quote: | Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
by Thom Hartmann http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00102.htm
When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004),
the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from
Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher
has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of
who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same
people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb
Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat
to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.
"It was practice for a national effort," Fisher told me.
And some believe evidence is accumulating that the national effort happened
on November 2, 2004.
The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record of
votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net denizen
Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a table, available
at http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something
startling.
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce
results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched
the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically
scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable
to hacking - the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.
In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them
Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry
and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the
country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a
mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but
4,433 voted for Bush.
The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the counties where
optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats,
went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25%
for Bush.
Yet in the touch-screen counties, where investigators may have been more
vigorously looking for such anomalies, high percentages of registered
Democrats generally equaled high percentages of votes for Kerry. (I had
earlier reported that county size was a variable - this turns out not to be
the case. Just the use of touch-screens versus optical scanners.)
More visual analysis of the results can be seen at
http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and
http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm. Note the trend line -
the only variable that determines a swing toward Bush was the use of optical
scan machines.
One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in Florida
white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as Democrats
for years, but voting Republican since Reagan. Looking at the 2000
statistics, also available on Dopp's site, there are similar anomalies,
although the trends are not as strong as in 2004. But some suggest the 2000
election may have been questionable in Florida, too.
One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be possible
to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory by comparing
Florida's white rural counties to those of Pennsylvania, another swing state
but one that went for Kerry, as the exit polls there predicted.
Interestingly, the Pennsylvania analysis, available at
http://ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the same
kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the possibility of
problems in Florida.
Even more significantly, Dopp had first run the analysis while filtering out
smaller (rural) counties, and still found that the only variable that
accounted for a swing toward Republican voting was the use of optical-scan
machines, whereas counties with touch-screen machines generally didn't
swing - regardless of size.
Others offer similar insights, based on other data. A professor at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, noted that in Florida the vote to
raise the minimum wage was approved by 72%, although Kerry got 48%. "The
correlation between voting for the minimum wage increase and voting for
Kerry isn't likely to be perfect," he noted, "but one would normally expect
that the gap - of 1.5 million votes - to be far smaller than it was."
While all of this may or may not be evidence of vote tampering, it again
brings the nation back to the question of why several states using
electronic voting machines or scanners programmed by private, for-profit
corporations and often connected to modems produced votes inconsistent with
exit poll numbers.
Those exit poll results have been a problem for reporters ever since
Election Day.
Election night, I'd been doing live election coverage for WDEV, one of the
radio stations that carries my syndicated show, and, just after midnight,
during the 12:20 a.m. Associated Press Radio News feed, I was startled to
hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes had earlier sat George W. Bush
down to inform him that he'd lost the election. The exit polls were clear:
Kerry was winning in a landslide. "Bush took the news stoically," noted the
AP report.
But then the computers reported something different. In several pivotal
states.
Conservatives see a conspiracy here: They think the exit polls were rigged.
Dick Morris, the infamous political consultant to the first Clinton campaign
who became a Republican consultant and Fox News regular, wrote an article
for The Hill, the publication read by every political junkie in Washington,
DC, in which he made a couple of brilliant points.
"Exit Polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "They eliminate the two
major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual
voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by
substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative
turnout of different parts of the state."
He added: "So, according to ABC-TVs exit polls, for example, Kerry was
slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa, all
of which Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going to Bush
was West Virginia, which the president won by 10 points."
Yet a few hours after the exit polls were showing a clear Kerry sweep, as
the computerized vote numbers began to come in from the various states the
election was called for Bush.
How could this happen?
On the CNBC TV show "Topic A With Tina Brown," several months ago, Howard
Dean had filled in for Tina Brown as guest host. His guest was Bev Harris,
the Seattle grandmother who started www.blackboxvoting.org from her living
room. Bev pointed out that regardless of how votes were tabulated (other
than hand counts, only done in odd places like small towns in Vermont), the
real "counting" is done by computers. Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines,
which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's hand, or
the scanners that read punch cards, or the machines that simply record a
touch of the screen, in all cases the final tally is sent to a "central
tabulator" machine.
That central tabulator computer is a Windows-based PC.
"In a voting system," Harris explained to Dean on national television, "you
have all the different voting machines at all the different polling places,
sometimes, as in a county like mine, there's a thousand polling places in a
single county. All those machines feed into the one machine so it can add up
all the votes. So, of course, if you were going to do something you
shouldn't to a voting machine, would it be more convenient to do it to each
of the 4000 machines, or just come in here and deal with all of them at
once?"
Dean nodded in rhetorical agreement, and Harris continued. "What surprises
people is that the central tabulator is just a PC, like what you and I use.
It's just a regular computer."
"So," Dean said, "anybody who can hack into a PC can hack into a central
tabulator?"
Harris nodded affirmation, and pointed out how Diebold uses a program called
GEMS, which fills the screen of the PC and effectively turns it into the
central tabulator system. "This is the official program that the County
Supervisor sees," she said, pointing to a PC that was sitting between them
loaded with Diebold's software.
Bev then had Dean open the GEMS program to see the results of a test
election. They went to the screen titled "Election Summary Report" and
waited a moment while the PC "adds up all the votes from all the various
precincts," and then saw that in this faux election Howard Dean had 1000
votes, Lex Luthor had 500, and Tiger Woods had none. Dean was winning.
"Of course, you can't tamper with this software," Harris noted. Diebold
wrote a pretty good program.
But, it's running on a Windows PC.
So Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS software, go back to the normal
Windows PC desktop, click on the "My Computer" icon, choose "Local Disk C:,"
open the folder titled GEMS, and open the sub-folder "LocalDB" which, Harris
noted, "stands for local database, that's where they keep the votes." Harris
then had Dean double-click on a file in that folder titled "Central
Tabulator Votes," which caused the PC to open the vote count in a database
program like Excel.
In the "Sum of the Candidates" row of numbers, she found that in one
precinct Dean had received 800 votes and Lex Luthor had gotten 400.
"Let's just flip those," Harris said, as Dean cut and pasted the numbers
from one cell into the other. "And," she added magnanimously, "let's give
100 votes to Tiger."
They closed the database, went back into the official GEMS software "the
legitimate way, you're the county supervisor and you're checking on the
progress of your election."
As the screen displayed the official voter tabulation, Harris said, "And you
can see now that Howard Dean has only 500 votes, Lex Luthor has 900, and
Tiger Woods has 100." Dean, the winner, was now the loser.
Harris sat up a bit straighter, smiled, and said, "We just edited an
election, and it took us 90 seconds."
On live national television. (You can see the clip on www.votergate.tv.) And
they had left no tracks whatsoever, Harris said, noting that it would be
nearly impossible for the election software - or a County election
official - to know that the vote database had been altered.
Which brings us back to Morris and those pesky exit polls that had Karen
Hughes telling George W. Bush that he'd lost the election in a landslide.
Morris's conspiracy theory is that the exit polls "were sabotage" to cause
people in the western states to not bother voting for Bush, since the
networks would call the election based on the exit polls for Kerry. But the
networks didn't do that, and had never intended to.
According to congressional candidate Fisher, it makes far more sense that
the exit polls were right - they weren't done on Diebold PCs - and that the
vote itself was hacked.
And not only for the presidential candidate - Jeff Fisher thinks this hit
him and pretty much every other Democratic candidate for national office in
the most-hacked swing states.
So far, the only national "mainstream" media to come close to this story was
Keith Olbermann on his show Friday night, November 5th, when he noted that
it was curious that all the voting machine irregularities so far uncovered
seem to favor Bush. In the meantime, the Washington Post and other media are
now going through single-bullet-theory-like contortions to explain how the
exit polls had failed.
But I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large part.
Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final paragraph,
"This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as
they were on election night. I suspect foul play."
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| Posted:
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:
Re: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked |
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In article <b574p0pec63dvq4qib7h8fem72r88b40a9@4ax.com>,
Eric Dreher <ericd@cox.n?t> wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:13:43 GMT, "ofthedeep" <ofhtdeep@aquarium.com
wrote:
Paranoid sore loser snivelling follows:
He's a troll. Don't feed him, and he'll go away.
------------------------------------------------
The DNC - Building a bridge to the 20th Century.
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It's the invasion of the ballot snatchers!!
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rocky
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| Posted:
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked |
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In article <diel-4CF21A.08595610112004@apollo-ge0.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
<diel@nospam.com> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <b574p0pec63dvq4qib7h8fem72r88b40a9@4ax.com>,
Eric Dreher <ericd@cox.n?t> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:13:43 GMT, "ofthedeep" <ofhtdeep@aquarium.com
wrote:
Paranoid sore loser snivelling follows:
He's a troll. Don't feed him, and he'll go away.
------------------------------------------------
The DNC - Building a bridge to the 20th Century.
It's the invasion of the ballot snatchers!!
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election," seconded Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, the campaign
manager for Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "George Bush got more votes this
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| Posted:
Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject:
Re: Bogus Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked |
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Get real. I there was even the remotest evidence that scanned
ballots were fudged, the DNC would have been all over this and
have asked for a state wide recount available under Florida
election law. Bus won in Florida for one reason, a large number
of black and Jewish voters that normally vote democrat voted for
the President, period
mike hunt
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Jas
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| Posted:
Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:
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<MajorDomo@mailcity.com> wrote in message
news:419236F5.91119F9A@mailcity.com...
| Quote: | Get real. I there was even the remotest evidence that scanned
ballots were fudged, the DNC would have been all over this and
have asked for a state wide recount available under Florida
election law. Bus won in Florida for one reason, a large number
of black and Jewish voters that normally vote democrat voted for
the President, period
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Reposted from "rocky" well, I remember watching Lou Dobbs several months ago
and he was
talking about the electrionic voting machines without papertrails.
He said that the guy behind all the machines (Diebold) stated pubicly
that he would do anything he can to get Bush re-elected. Lou Dobbs
couldn't believe the guy said it and a few days later Diebold came out
and said he was sorry and wasn't going to go pubic..
Talk about shady ... makes you wonder if all the electronic machines
were hacked into just enough to give bush the edge and victory......
And you know Lou Dobbs is a conservitive republician but a good honest
fair one...
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Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
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The man he was referring too no longer has any connection to the
company that builds the machines and hasn't for may years. The
President won get over it the DNC has, why not you?
mike hunt
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MajorDomo@mailcity.com> wrote in message
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Get real. I there was even the remotest evidence that scanned
ballots were fudged, the DNC would have been all over this and
have asked for a state wide recount available under Florida
election law. Bus won in Florida for one reason, a large number
of black and Jewish voters that normally vote democrat voted for
the President, period
Reposted from "rocky" well, I remember watching Lou Dobbs several months ago
and he was
talking about the electrionic voting machines without papertrails.
He said that the guy behind all the machines (Diebold) stated pubicly
that he would do anything he can to get Bush re-elected. Lou Dobbs
couldn't believe the guy said it and a few days later Diebold came out
and said he was sorry and wasn't going to go pubic..
Talk about shady ... makes you wonder if all the electronic machines
were hacked into just enough to give bush the edge and victory......
And you know Lou Dobbs is a conservitive republician but a good honest
fair one...
mike hunt
Jas wrote:
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
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Jas
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:56 am Post subject:
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<BenDover@mailcity.com> wrote in message
news:419274D7.62ECDA7E@mailcity.com...
| Quote: | The man he was referring too no longer has any connection to the
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Diebold? evidence?
The
| Quote: | President won get over it the DNC has, why not you?
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It seems like there is the beginning of a groundswell in this direction. It
is not just me. I am personally not sure what to believe, but believe that
there is enough evidence that an investigation should happen on these
grounds>
"...There was ample warning from computer experts, investigative journalists
and leaked documents that showed how paperless voting is an invitation to
vote fraud. The head of the Diebold corporation, the most famous "touch
screen" manufacturer, had pledged to ensure that the state of Ohio would go
for Bush -- and paperless machines were used in some of their counties.
In 2002, the Georgia Governor and Senate races were predicted to favor the
incumbent Democrats, yet the touch screen ballot machines determined that
they lost (the first election in that state with this technology). Bev
Harris, author of "Black Box Voting," found numerous problems that strongly
suggest these outcomes were rigged. Despite this evidence, on October 25,
National Public Radio ran a story on touch screen machines quoting a Georgia
elections official who claimed there were no problems in their initial use.
In the last Congressional session, a few brave leaders introduced a bill to
require paper trails for all voting systems, but it was ignored by the
Democratic leadership. Why did the Democratic Party allow the Republicans to
install insecure computer ballots in key states -- the Republicans wouldn't
allow the Democrats to do this.
There have been numerous stories of voters using touch screen machines who
pushed Kerry but the machine tallied Bush. Some of these voters were able to
get the machine to acknowledge their choice, others were not. There is no
way to verify that the final totals reflect the voters' choices (no recounts
are possible). Diebold makes automated teller machines (ATMs) for banks --
if their ATMs confused withdrawals for deposits, no bank would dare purchase
their products. How can Diebold accurately count our financial transactions,
yet is unable to accurately count votes for Democrats?
Your vote may have been ignored, but your dollars are counted. If everyone
votes with their money to support media institutions that investigate
scandals, not those that parrot propaganda, democracy could have a chance.
Many states had voter intimidation problems, some subtle, others blatant.
Some of these tactics are intentional incompetence, such as absentee ballots
mailed out too late to be received. In some Democratic strongholds in Ohio,
potential voters had to wait all day in the rain to be able to vote, yet
nearby Republican districts had short lines since they had enough voting
machines. Republicans tried to disenfranchise African American voters in
Kansas City through fake change of address cards sent to the Elections
department. A precinct in Ohio was caught having more votes for Bush than
voters. Similar "more votes than voters" problems were also found in other
states. A gambling referendum "passed" in a Florida county when a bunch of
votes magically appeared at the last minute. A friend in Boulder, Colorado
told me about a church in a Democratic area that pretended to be a polling
station the day before the Election -- voters who believed their claims of
"early voting" were not counted.
These manipulations, coupled with the fact that Kerry ran such a lousy
campaign that many Bush-haters agonized about voting for him, ensured that
the results could be fixed in advance. If Kerry's campaign had been better,
it would have been harder to change the results...."
http://www.oilempire.us/stolenelection2004.html
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mike hunt
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MajorDomo@mailcity.com> wrote in message
news:419236F5.91119F9A@mailcity.com...
Get real. I there was even the remotest evidence that scanned
ballots were fudged, the DNC would have been all over this and
have asked for a state wide recount available under Florida
election law. Bus won in Florida for one reason, a large number
of black and Jewish voters that normally vote democrat voted for
the President, period
Reposted from "rocky" well, I remember watching Lou Dobbs several months
ago
and he was
talking about the electrionic voting machines without papertrails.
He said that the guy behind all the machines (Diebold) stated pubicly
that he would do anything he can to get Bush re-elected. Lou Dobbs
couldn't believe the guy said it and a few days later Diebold came out
and said he was sorry and wasn't going to go pubic..
Talk about shady ... makes you wonder if all the electronic machines
were hacked into just enough to give bush the edge and victory......
And you know Lou Dobbs is a conservitive republician but a good honest
fair one...
mike hunt
Jas wrote:
Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
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HarryS
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:
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SNIP
Fucking Dumbass!!
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rocky
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Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:57 am Post subject:
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In article <cmtvam$fok$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>,
"Jas" <jasimpeachdubya@yahoo.com> wrote:
"There was no overwhelming reason to cast doubt on the outcome of this
election," seconded Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, the campaign
manager for Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "George Bush got more votes this
time." |
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