20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

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20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
      Did you know....
      1.80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
      http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
      2.There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
      http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
      3.The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
      http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
      4.The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
      http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main63 32436.shtml
      http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
      5.Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
      http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/0 03_200.html
      http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031 1004fitrakis.html
      6.Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
      http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News& p;file=article&sid=26
      http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News& p;file=article&s i d=26 http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
      7.Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates. http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html
      8.ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
      http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/04280 04landes.html
      9.Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
      http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfin ndex.html
      10.Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
      http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
      http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
      11.Diebold is based in Ohio. http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
      12.Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted
      50% of the votes in 30 states.
      http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
      http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
      13.Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
      http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
      http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
      14.Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
      http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
      15.None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
      http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html
      16.California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it. (See the movie here blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov .) http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
      17.30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
      http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main63 32436.shtml
      18.All - not some - but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
      http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
      http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&na ame=News&file=article&sid=950
      http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&na ame=News&file=article&sid=950 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
      19.The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
      http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7 7628725.htm
      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-20 004Oct29.html
      20.Serious voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush - have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
      http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/governmen nt/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
      http://www.uscountvotes.org/