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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:09 AM
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Diebold "Secures Founding Documents of America's History"???
Edited on Mon Nov-29-04 02:12 AM by rainbow4321

Do we really need the people who fuck up our election guarding the founding papers? Guess they are there to let Rove and shrub into the room to RE-WRITE them???


Googling "Diebold" can be a scary thing:

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=DBD&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=448975

Diebold News Release - 16-Sep-2003


Diebold Secures the Founding Documents of America's History

NORTH CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD), a leader in providing security systems and solutions for nearly 145 years, is now safeguarding the foundation of America's history, the Charters of Freedom: the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, in three customized high-tech vaults installed at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.

The recently renovated rotunda and re-encasement of the Charter documents will be unveiled during a private ceremony at the National Archives on Constitution Day, Wednesday, Sept. 17. The rotunda will be open to the public on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 10 a.m.

"Diebold's specially designed vaults and doors incorporate the latest technology to protect the most precious documents in American history from theft and assault," said Adrienne Thomas, assistant archivist for Administrative Services at the National Archives. "Diebold's security knowledge and expertise will help the National Archives preserve a fundamental piece of our country's heritage for generations."

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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:10 AM
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1. Can you post that link? n/t
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:12 AM
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2. Just edited right now to add it..sorry. n/t
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:14 AM
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3. No prob
I just wanted to send it along to some friends.

It's just so surreal!
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:16 AM
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4. In a related story, all 3 documents have been lost.
:shrug:
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:35 AM
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10. Guess it explains the movie this past weekend....
"National Treasure"..would have been very cool and timely if they had had a large DIEBOLD sign on the National Archive's security system as Cage's character hacked into it...heh, heh, heh...:evilgrin:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 11:17 AM
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15. They'll be switched and hidden in Cheney's undisclosed bunker
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AlexHamilton Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:17 AM
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5. haha
If that isn't irony! The same company that is simultaneously trouncing the Constitution by not producing a verifiable trail is guarding the document itself. Anyone want to bet there's a "mishap" with the document? Too funny...

Alex Hamilton
Read my latest article here: The Media is Finally Outraged
Impeachment by the People
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:21 AM
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6. and there's more . . .
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lowmanknows Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:21 AM
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7. NOTHING TO DO WITH MADSEN'S THEORY, THIS IS MY OWN TAKE
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/politics/news-article.aspx?storyid=26823

This is odd. Say you wanted to rig an election. How would one do it? What would be the easiest way to do it, without involving too many people? A good old fashioned "crisis." Scare people away from the crime scene so the dirty business can be done. Everyone knows that if Kerry was going to win he would need OHIO or FLORIDA or both. Those are the only two that would need to be messed with to assure victory for either side. In Ohio there was the famous "Warren County Lockdown" because of "terror" threats. What about the less infamous "Bomb Threat" at the State Elections Office in Tallahassee the day before the election. I guess my point is this....... The only two places that needed to "fixed" (Ohio& Florida) both had a scare tactic applied to a government building the day of, or the day before the election. If they both had the same "crisis" on the same day it would look odd even to people who are not avid news watchers.
The State Elections Office in Tallahassee holds what? The main tabulating computers. It would actually be easier to hack in the main tabulating computers before the actual election because you can place "kernels" in place and never have to mess with it again, and you would still get what looks like "actual" results. The Warren County Courthouse holds what? The optical scan equipment that can be hacked into and votes can be messed with from as low as the local level and as far as the state and national level. By doing it this way you would actually have control before and after the election and you run a smaller chance in getting caught because your using to different modes at two different times.
To get this done all you would need is 2 or 3 people in Ohio and Florida to get this done. Not an army of computer hackers. Does anyone else besides me notice that there were means, opprotunity, and motive here? This even explains the exit polls......

Thank you,
Stacy Lowman





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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:28 AM
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8. I agree with your assessment
for those two states. They may have used different methods for other states though.
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lowmanknows Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:42 AM
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12. To be honest with you.....
I think the only other methods that were used were old 'Jim Crow', and pure voter suppression. I think Ohio and Florida were planned in the back of Jeb and roves mind for a while though. One or other or both had to be won for a victory.
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BlueDog2u Donating Member (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:32 AM
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9. Thanks
I have been asking for days, "why Warren?" I never made sense to me that Warren would be shut down just to rig the local county results. Too much risk for too little gain. There has to be something special about what was available about Warren. You just answered my question: "The Warren County Courthouse holds what? The optical scan equipment that can be hacked into and votes can be messed with from as low as the local level and as far as the state and national level." You also just explained how the same conditions existed in Florida. Very good detective work.
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lowmanknows Donating Member (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:39 AM
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11. Thank you ........
I actually came up with this theory the day after the election. All I could think about was why the two most important swing states would cry 'crisis', I figured there had to be a common denominator.
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BlueDog2u Donating Member (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:28 AM
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13. I think you're on to something big.....

Wayne Madsen, are you listening?
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kk897 Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 11:34 AM
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17. Then there was that Palm Beach County Courthouse shut down
due to "mold" from the hurricane. Wonder what their courthouse has?
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 11:16 AM
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14. They're planning to spread lemon juice on the back of the documents
to look for buried treasure.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 11:23 AM
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16. The symbolism of this is too perfect
Think of it: our founding document, the basis of our democracy, in the hands of a private corporation which ALSO has too big a share of its hands on the OTHER basis of democracy itself, the vote. Two of our democracy's major features firmly in the hands and under the control of a corporation.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:15 PM
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18.  Probably another no bid contract....
Or did they have to pick between Halliburton and Diebold?
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