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demodonkey

(3,301 posts)
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:59 PM Dec 2011

Venango County: Disturbing Findings In Forensic Audit of Electronic Voting Machines

According to the Initial Report from a landmark independent forensic audit of the Venango County, PA, touch-screen voting system --- the same system used in dozens of counties across the state and country --- someone used a computer that was not a part of county's election network to remotely access the central election tabulator computer, illegally, "on multiple occasions." Despite the disturbing report, as obtained by The BRAD BLOG and posted in full below, we may never get to learn who did it or why, if Venango's County Commissioners, a local judge, and the nation's largest e-voting company have their way. And that's not all we won't get to find out about.

The battle for election integrity continues in Venango, with the County Commissioners teaming up with e-voting vendor Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) on one side, and the county's renegade interim Republican-majority Board of Elections on the other. The Commissioners and ES&S have been working to spike the independent scientific forensic audit of the county's failed electronic voting machines that was commissioned by the interim Board of Elections. Making matters worse, the Board has now been removed from power by a county judge, a decision they are attempting to appeal as the three-person board and their supporters continue to fight the entrenched establishment for transparency and accountability in the rural Western Pennsylvania county.

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8986

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Venango County: Disturbing Findings In Forensic Audit of Electronic Voting Machines (Original Post) demodonkey Dec 2011 OP
In the minds of some, We the People can't be trusted with voting the right way. Octafish Dec 2011 #1
Shedding Light on Election Fraud smile777 Dec 2011 #2
You can give it a better chance of getting attention from the MSM. I emailed Countdown and truckin Dec 2011 #3
Venango County story spreads to truthout! demodonkey Dec 2011 #4

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
1. In the minds of some, We the People can't be trusted with voting the right way.
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:12 PM
Dec 2011

What Henry "Can You Believe I'm Still a Consultant to the President" Kissinger said:

"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."

Worked in Chile. And it works in the USA for the One-Percenters who don't believe in democracy.

Thanks for the heads-up on BradBlog's report, demodonkey. Perhaps one day people aware of the problem will reach critical mass.

smile777

(8 posts)
2. Shedding Light on Election Fraud
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 01:14 PM
Dec 2011

Great post! I sure hope this info gets the attention it deserves from someone in the MSM. Bradblog has been brilliant in its work exposing the criminal activity connected with e-voting machines. This time I hope some sleuth uncovers the last pieces of the puzzle and finally shows FOX NEWS that it's election fraud that's the problem, not voter fraud. Sooner or later the truth comes out about stolen elections in the USA!

truckin

(576 posts)
3. You can give it a better chance of getting attention from the MSM. I emailed Countdown and
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 03:11 PM
Dec 2011

The Young Turks. If enough contact them about this story maybe they'll cover it.

demodonkey

(3,301 posts)
4. Venango County story spreads to truthout!
Thu Dec 15, 2011, 10:56 AM
Dec 2011

http://www.truth-out.org/forensic-analysis-finds-venango-county/1323877922

Please kick, "like" on facebook, spread to your own facebook page, tweet, and FORWARD WIDELY. We have been working to get this story out for most of 2011.

I have been forwarding to media with comments like this:

PLEASE cover this story! Remote access of voting machines? Log files jumping for no reason? And a judge shuts down the first-ever investigation of its kind into these problems in Pennsylvania, before the exam is even finished? The troubles with electronic voting have not gone away, in fact that are getting worse and worse as these machines get older and older.

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