Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News saturday 10/29/05

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All members welcome and encouraged to participate.




I am just so pleased as punch that this guy is in trouble--






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Got a MAC? CLick and drag a picture into your post.

But what about this guy--

Or this guy?

This is not your fathers Scooter--

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1. Republican Vs. Republican in Republican Primary Election Mess in Arizona!

Republican Vs. Republican in Republican Primary Election Mess in Arizona!
Votes Mysteriously Appear, Investigations Attempted to be Quashed and Inmates – Yes, Inmates -- Admit to Handling, Tampering With Ballots!
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Election Fraud in Florida? Ohio? Chicago? Not this time…How about Maricopa County, Arizona, the fourth most populous county in the United States. Yes, sunny, laid back Arizona seems to be a hotbed of electoral intrigue, dispute and possible malfeasance.

It seems that the results of the September 7, 2004 Republican Primary now has Republicans turning on and challenging fellow Republicans in both the state legislature and in the media. Also emerging are stunning reports that county jail inmates -- some of whom have admitted to ballot tampering! -- were being used to handle ballots in the county in exchange for early release!

In an article in the Phoenix New Times out today -- headlined "Pandora's Box - Is Arizona's Speaker of the House afraid of what might happen if the truth is learned about a local election?" -- reporter John Dougherty tells a tale of apparent election fraud, a quid pro quo offer, new votes that appear like magic, failure by an assistant county attorney to serve a subpoena, political pressure, and one hell of a mess.


http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001955.htm

[FogerRox]

2. Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio's stolen election

Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio's stolen election fires
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
October 28, 2005

As federal probes rack Team Bush in Washington, three huge indictments for money laundering and other pro-Bush election crimes involving Ohio "Coingate" lynchpin Tom Noe have stoked powerful new Watergate-style financial fires under Ohio's stolen 2004 election scandal.

A close associate of key Republicans from George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to Ohio Senator George Voinovich to Ohio Governor Robert Taft and many, many more, Noe has long been known as northwest Ohio's "Mr. Republican."

He has also been at the heart of speculation on how huge numbers of votes in the Toledo area may have wrongly found their way into the Bush column, helping the GOP again take the presidency in 2004.

While media attention focuses on Plamegate and on Noe's financial scams, it overlooks many years as Chair of the Board of Elections in Lucas County. He was deeply involved in controversial procurement deals that brought Diebold opti-scan vote counting machines into inner city Toledo precincts. Many of those machines suspiciously malfunctioned at key times on election day. Sworn testimony in hearings conducted by the Free Press after the election confirm that thousands of inner city voters were disenfranchised due to Noe's decisions.

Rest of story-
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1534

Remember the campaign?

[Wilms]

9. Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x398849

[Wilms]

3. WY: News Release: Wyoming Taps ES&S to Provide Voting Systems...

Wyoming Taps ES&S to Provide Voting Systems in 20 Counties

New Voting Technology Will Serve Nearly 80% of Registered Voters Statewide

OURCE Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S)

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyoming Secretary of State Joseph B.
Meyer announced today that the state has selected Election Systems & Software,
Inc. (ES&S) to implement a new optical scan voting system. Twenty of Wyoming's
23 counties will partner with ES&S to upgrade their current voting systems.

The new system, which will include 420 ES&S Model 100 precinct-level
optical scan ballot counters and 358 ES&S AutoMARK Voter Assist Terminals,
will bring the state into compliance with the requirements of the federal Help
America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). HAVA was enacted to increase access to voting
and modernize voting systems nationwide.

snip

The new system, which will be in place in time for the June 2006 primary,
is easy-to-use for poll workers and voters, alike. It includes the ES&S
AutoMARK, a revolutionary ballot-marking device designed to assist disabled
voters and others with expanded needs. The ES&S AutoMARK is the only product
on the market that allows these voters to vote privately and independently
using an optical scan voting system. ES&S has a long history of innovating new
solutions to encourage and improve election accessibility for individuals with
disabilities, as well as others with expanded needs.

snip/more

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-28-2005/0004199453&EDATE=

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6. ES&S US customers

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11. ES&S Automark

Videos-

AutoMARK news story, KPHO 5 in Phoenix, October 28, 200
Featured on Horizon by PBS affiliate KAET 8 in Phoenix October 28, 2004
ES&S AutoMARK Demo Video
Voice of the Nation's Blind: AutoMARK VAT Demonstration Video

found here-

http://www.automarkts.com/automark_has_been_busy.htm

The Automark ballot marker-

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4. Compilation -- Court blocks Ga. photo ID requirement

Voter ID Law Is Overturned
Washington Post, United States - Oct 27, 2005
By Darryl Fears. In a case that some have called a showdown over voting rights, a US appeals court yesterday upheld an injunction ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/27/AR2005102702171.html
Court Blocks Ga. Photo ID Requirement
CBS News - Oct 27, 2005
(AP) A federal appeals court refused Thursday to let Georgia demand photo identification from all voters at the polls. Last week ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/27/ap/politics/mainD8DGJUJ08.shtml
Court blocks Ga. photo ID requirement
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct 27, 2005
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court Thursday refused to let the state enforce a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Voter_ID.html
Court: Georgia voters don't need ID
AZ Central.com, AZ - 18 hours ago
WASHINGTON - In a case that some have called a showdown over voting rights, a US Appeals Court on Thursday upheld an injunction barring the state of Georgia ...
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1028voting28.html
Court blocks Georgia from using ID law in Nov. elections
Gwinnett Daily Post, GA - Oct 27, 2005
By Dick Pettys. ATLANTA — A federal appeals court declined Thursday to let the state of Georgia use a controversial new law for ...
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=32&url_article_id=7969&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2

[Wilms]

5. FL: (DRE) Voting Machines Causing Concern

Voting Machines Causing Concern

10/27/2005

By Hannah Langford/WCJB TV20 News

Its supposed to be a better way to vote. But, a new voting machine for people who have impaired vision is drawing criticism.

Alachua County spent $300,000 on the touchscreen voting system. Now, some folks worry because there is no immediate paper record of a person's vote, like there is with the paper ballot machines everybody else uses. With an estimated 4,000 visually impaired people in Alachua County, that could be a lot of votes that go uncounted if there's a glitch in the system.

"Votes do count and all you need to do is ask the politician who lost by a handful of votes and he can tell you chapter and verse why it is so important for everybody to turn out and vote," says concerned Gainesville resident Russ Roy.

Alachua County Elections Supervisor, Pam Carpenter, says although there have been problems with touch screen machines in the past, the seventy in Alachua County are updated with the latest security features that make it almost impossible to fail. The machines will get their first real test in the High Springs municipal election on November 7th.

snip/that's all

http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=13371

[Wilms]

7. CA: Voters in Nine Counties Urged to "Get It On Paper"

Friday, October 28, 2005

MAIL BALLOT REQUEST DEADLINE IS TUESDAY, NOV. 1

Voters in Nine Counties Urged to "Get It On Paper"

Davis, CA -- With the deadline for requesting an absentee ballot fast approaching, the California Voter Foundation is urging voters in nine electronic voting counties to "Get it on paper."

That's because these nine counties - Alameda, Merced, Napa, Orange, Plumas, Riverside, Santa Clara, Shasta, and Tehama -- will be using paperless, electronic voting machines in polling places on November 8.

"Studies continue to find that electronic voting machines are prone to error," said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation (CVF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization advancing paper backups and public auditing of computerized vote counts. A recently published U.S. Government Accountability Office report found numerous security problems with electronic voting systems, and recommended the use of voter-verified paper audit trails, as did the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform.

Citing security concerns and an inability to conduct meaningful audits of election results on the paperless systems, Alexander said voters in the nine e-voting counties should immediately request an absentee ballot from their county elections office.

snip/more

http://www.calvoter.org/news/releases/102805release.html

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8. A Brief Illustrated History of Voting

ES&S 150 Central Count Scanner-

The ballot scanner shown here, made by Election Systems and Software is typical of central-count optical mark sense systems. The model 150 and 550 differ in speed; the 150 is slower, suitable for small counties and for processing absentee ballots that have been folded for mailing, while the 550 is much faster, more appropriate for large counties but not as good at processing folded ballots.

In use, ballots to be counted are loaded on the tray to the right (shown with a few ballots in place) and then they are automatically fed through the reader mechanism and ejected into the output tray on the left. The scanner includes, within its body, a complete computer system, and it sits on a wheeled cart that also holds a printer and supplies.



more-

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/

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10. HOW A PRIVATE COMPANY COUNTS OUR VOTES ON ELECTION NIGHT

This man provided the seed money that started AIS which became ES&S






This is the ES&S Votetronic-





When the polls closed in Chicago, American Free Press was at the Cook County clerk’s office to see how the secretive private company that operates the voting machines in America’s third largest city actually controls the counting of the votes.

CHICAGO, Illinois – The morning after Election Day, the Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised the nation that the Democrats would "make sure that every vote counts, and that every vote is counted."

Later in the day, as the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, conceded defeat to George W. Bush, his 9th cousin and fellow “Bonesman” from Yale’s elite secret society, The Order of the Skull & Bones, he said: “In America, it is vital that every vote count.”

Kerry and Edwards, however, conceded defeat before some 170,000 to 250,000 provisional ballots from the state of Ohio, which could have changed the outcome of the election, had been counted.

More-

http://www.votefraud.org/how_a_private_company_counts_our_votes.htm

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12. FLorida--Feeney: Restore voter confidence

Democracy requires that the citizens of a Republic acknowledge individually and collectively the legitimacy of the election process. On any given issue minorities will acquiesce to the majority when they believe that the vote is fair. By this standard, the world's most successful democracy may be in trouble.

Voter fraud continues to plague our nation's federal elections, diluting and canceling out Americans' lawful votes. For example, this month the Orlando Sentinel reported that more than 68,000 people were registered to vote both in Florida and either Georgia or North Carolina, and 1,650 cases in which voters cast ballots in Florida and also in another state in the 2000 and 2002 elections.


In August 2004, it was discovered that some 46,000 people were illegally registered to vote in both Florida and New York, and between 400 and 1,000 voters actually voted twice in at least one election. A December report found that Florida


more-

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-myword27b05oct27,0,4932581.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

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13. Is Arizona's Speaker of the House afraid of what might happen if the truth

State Republican Senator Jack Harper's enraging a powerful legislator with his determined effort to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive vote-counting scandal at the Maricopa County Elections Department.
The second-term senator from Surprise plans to hold legislative hearings early next year into the controversial September 7, 2004, District 20 recount, where the inexplicable appearance of nearly 500 new votes between the primary and the recount challenge the accuracy and integrity of elections in the nation's fourth-largest county.

Harper's plan to hold the hearings before the Senate Government Accountability and Reform Committee, which he chairs, is upsetting some key Republican legislators, including Arizona Speaker of the House Jim Weiers.

More-

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2005-10-27/news/dougherty.html

[Ladyhawk]

14. Okay, I just found out my county uses ES&S voting machines.

I would never have thought so in a million years, but it makes sense. I'm in a rural California county that is mostly red: a perfect place to gain a foothold.

So, what do the Dems in my county do about it and how can I find out more? I'm in Tuolumne County, California.

[MelissaB]

15. Four More Years -- Courtesy of Judy Miller

Four More Years -- Courtesy of Judy Miller

Among the many facts that we learned from Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference, one of the most dramatic came in response to a question about whether it was "worth keeping Judy Miller in jail for 85 days?": "I would have wished nothing better," Fitzgerald replied, "than, when the subpoenas were issued in August 2004, witnesses testified then.

We would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005. No one would have to jail."

Hmmm, October 2004. That was right before November 2004.

Does anyone doubt that if Patrick Fitzgerald had held a press conference announcing five indictments against a key member of the Bush administration just before the last election it would have affected the outcome? Would the two men whose lies Libby was ultimately lying to cover up have been re-elected?

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/four-more-years-courte_b_9732.html

Discussion here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5218281