Electronic Voting
http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/112004Waldman/112004waldman.htmlHow the Grinch stole the White House . . . again
By Alan Waldman
Online Journal Contributing Writer
November 20, 2004—Despite corporate media attempts to kill or ridicule away the story, Talk Radio and the Internet are abuzz with considerable evidence that John Kerry was elected president on November 2, but that Republican election officials made it difficult for millions of Democrats to vote while employees of four secretive, GOP-bankrolling corporations rigged electronic voting machines and then hacked central tabulating computers to steal the election for George W. Bush.
Florida’s 2000 election problems—votes spoiled by chads, overvotes, undervotes, exclusion of minority voters, etc.—were never repaired and both worsened and spread to many other states, exacerbated by new and more devious abuses. The Bush administration’s “fix” of the 2000 debacle (the Help America Vote Act) made crooked elections considerably easier, by foisting paperless electronic voting on states before the bugs had been worked out or meaningful safeguards could be installed. In 2004, employees of the four Republican-connected firms that dominate the business allegedly hacked electronic machines and the op-scan tabulating computers that count votes from paper ballots to steal the election by adding GOP votes and reducing Democratic tallies.
The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that: “Verified Voting, a group formed by a Stanford University professor to assess electronic voting, has collected 31,000 reports of election fraud and other problems.” AP/ABC observes that some of the first 1100 problem machines were taken off-line—but many others were not.
University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Steven Freeman, in his November 2004 paper “The Unexplained Election Poll Discrepancy,” concludes: “The odds of the discrepancies between predicted
results and actual vote counts in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania could have been due to chance or random error are 250 million to 1,” so the unavoidable hypothesis is that they were caused by “systematic fraud or manipulation.”
Here’s a shocking fact. The reason it was so easy to steal this election is that, unlike the situation in Europe, where citizens count the ballots, employees of a highly secretive Republican-leaning company, ES&S, totally managed every aspect of the 2004 U.S. election. That included everything from voter registration, printing of ballots, the programming of the voting machines, tabulation of votes (often with armed guards keeping the media and members of the public who wished to witness the count at bay) and the first reporting of the results—for 60 million voters in 47 states—according to Christopher Bollyn, writing in American Free Press. Most other votes were counted by three other firms that are snugly in bed with the GOP. “Any actual counting of votes by citizens is very rare in the U.S., except for a few counties in Montana and other states, where paper ballots are still hand-counted,” Bollyn explains....
Good overview article on the hack job that was Election 2004. No more machine ballots -- PAPER AND PEN ... OR FIGHT!
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