It’s happened! Cleland Speaks about Election Fruad in GA 2002!!!

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(I've prayed for just ONE prominent national Democrat to speak out on election fraud. Thank you God. )
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St.Louis Post Dispatch StLouis.Com
http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/news-politicalfix/2006/03/demo-days-cleland-calls-bush-a-disaster/
Demo Days: Cleland calls Bush a “disaster”

By Jo Mannies
03/05/2006 12:45 am

Cleland added that he also was concerned about the integrity of the new voting systems, and questioned the accuracy of the Diebold systems in use in Georgia and Ohio. In Ohio in 2004, he asserted “there was a lot of funny business'’ with the voting systems, such putting too few machines in Democratic precincts.

“It’s insane for us to install democracy in Iraq when we don’t even have it in our own country.'’

There were reasons to question the election

The 2002 Georgia races for governor and U.S. Senate are highly instructive. Both Barnes and Max Cleland enjoyed significant leads in pre-election polls right up to Election Day. Cleland lead 5 to 6% and ended up losing the recorded vote by -- a stunning 9 to 12% reversal from the poll just days before the election. Barnes had a similar experience with a swing from leading to losing of 16%.* Prior to this election, Georgia made a heavy commitment to electronic voting and was also organized for Republican victories by Ralph Reed, former protégé of Pat Robertson and a fierce competitor. Questions were raised due to the disparity in polling and election results. These were never formally investigated, even though a Diebold consultant came forward and admitted that he installed a “software patch” on all of the Diebold machines used in the election at the company’s request but without telling the state of the change. He denied any awareness of what the “patch” did for the self-contained voting machines (DRE’s). Diebold refused to allow post-election review of these and the matter was never taken up by board or state officials, U.S. Department of Justice, or FBI.

(*Data from: All the Presidents Votes? The Independent. A. Gumbel. 10/14/2003 Reprinted in it’s entirety at http://www.whoseflorida.com/misc_pages/all_the_presidents_votes.htm)

And guess who was involved…

Comment: A Diebold contractor reported that prior to the 2002 election in Georgia, Diebold sent him to apply a patch to the Diebold machines used all over the state. The contractor did not know what the patch was. Diebold wouldn’t say. The contractor lost his job but spoke out because he thought something was wrong.

Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election? From VoteScam.Com
By Kim Zetter
Oct. 13, 2003

http://www.votescam.com/Patchelections.php

Now a former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company
installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial
election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or
cleared with Georgia election officials.

If the charges are true, Diebold could be in violation of federal and state
election-certification rules. The charges also raise questions about the
integrity of the Georgia election results and any other election that uses
patched Diebold systems that have not been re-certified.

<snip>

Behler said 25 to 30 percent of the machines in one shipment to the
warehouse either crashed upon booting or had problems with their real-time
clocks, causing the systems to register the date inaccurately then boot
improperly or freeze up altogether.

"They did not meet what I would deem standard operation," he said.
Behler said Diebold provided warehouse workers with at least three patches
to apply to the systems before state officials began logic and accuracy
testing on them. Behler said one patch was applied to machines when he came
to the warehouse in June, a second patch was applied in July and a third in
August after he left the warehouse.

There were reasons to question the election

The 2002 Georgia races for governor and U.S. Senate are highly instructive. Both Barnes and Max Cleland enjoyed significant leads in pre-election polls right up to Election Day. Cleland lead 5 to 6% and ended up losing the recorded vote by -- a stunning 9 to 12% reversal from the poll just days before the election. Barnes had a similar experience with a swing from leading to losing of 16%.* Prior to this election, Georgia made a heavy commitment to electronic voting and was also organized for Republican victories by Ralph Reed, former protégé of Pat Robertson and a fierce competitor. Questions were raised due to the disparity in polling and election results. These were never formally investigated, even though a Diebold consultant came forward and admitted that he installed a “software patch” on all of the Diebold machines used in the election at the company’s request but without telling the state of the change. He denied any awareness of what the “patch” did for the self-contained voting machines (DRE’s). Diebold refused to allow post-election review of these and the matter was never taken up by board or state officials, U.S. Department of Justice, or FBI.
*Data from: All the Presidents Votes? The Independent. A. Gumbel. 10/14/2003 Reprinted in it’s entirety at http://www.whoseflorida.com/misc_pages/all_the_presidents_votes.htm