Voting Files Manually Edited - Finding Proof

[jsamuel]

First of all, I don’t claim to have any special knowledge, but I am a Computer Scientist and an Anthropologist, so I know about computers and people.



These are things that could ONLY HAPPEN if the files were MANUALLY changed.

1. New Mexico suddenly changed its votes by 10,000 for Bush around 1:00 am EST as reported by CNN shortly after Bush said he was waiting for the news networks to call New Mexico to make a victory speech. They actually said on air “we don’t understand what happened… the numbers just CHANGED”.

2. 4000 extra votes were given to Bush in one Ohio county. It was as simple as adding a 4 in front of the rest of the votes for Bush. This county only had a little over 600 registered voters.

3. Whoever was changing the votes made some small mistakes along the way leaving a trail of it all over the official web sites.

I took these screen shots myself off the official Ohio election web site the night of the election while votes were being tallied/changed
http://comp.uark.edu/~jsamuel/ohioHSmall.bmp
http://comp.uark.edu/~jsamuel/ohioPSmall.bmp



I guess we know why David Cobb got Kerry's votes at times during election night in Ohio. Whoever was MANUALLY editing the files accidentally gave Cobb the numbers instead of Kerry. That is the only way that could have happened. The program didn't do it. This is as easy as opening a file and changing 400 to 800 and then saving it. Wait… it is opening a file, changing it, then saving it!

4. This leaves a discrepancy between the number of voters in a county and the number of votes if the person who changed the votes only changed one number and didn't change others.

Note:
They did not need to be changed by the election officials or the people who were working on the computer. These computers were most likely hacked into (a very simple feat) and those hackers changed the numbers. Any old hacker could have done this EASY. It could have been a group of 10 hackers in the same room who are Bush fans, one per battleground state.

[nofurylike]

1. excellent info. please keep on it. thanks for the info, jsamuel. n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

2. Good catch -- I'd like to hear their explanation for this

shift which gave Kerry 0 votes.

The foot prints are there I am convinced.

The main proof is that of all the errors -- none favor Kerry -- all break in bush's (or Cobb's in this case) favor.

Perhaps this hacker was in the process of the swap when someone check the vote totals?

[imaginary girl]

3. In the case of the changed file,

Would there have been a trace of the old file remaining? Like would it be apparent somewhere if the hard drive was examined?

[txindy]

21. All of the previous info. is still there, I believe

The equipment needs to be examined and the info. recovered from the machines.

[LibertyorDeath]

4. A big Kick for this

Welcome to DU and thank You!

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[FormerOstrich]

5. I have been wondering about those screen shots...

I have meant to go back and look them up....

Here is what immediately came to my mind when I saw those (btw....this is sort of a geek description but I tried to make it user friendly...and we wonder how code goes wrong..lol). Keep in mind I have no pre-existing knowledge of the db schema so I may be way wrong.

I immediately thought someone was changing transaction level data, specifically the foreign key to a "candidates table". In other words, the transaction record might look like this.

**** Transaction Table ****
Ballot ID.................. 123456
President Selection........ 55

**** Candidate Master ****
Candidate ID............... 55
Candidate Name............. Kerry

Instead of changing just totals you would want to change the transactions. If you don't change the transaction you could just easily delete the total line and re-add the transaction lines.

However, it gets a little tricky when switching ids. For instance, lets say Kerry is 55, Bush is 56 and Nader is 57. Kerry had 2000 transactions, Bush had 1100 and Nader 0. I

f I said change all 55 to 56 then I would have all Kerry's and all of Bush's at 56 and I wouldn't be able to set all of Bush's 56 to 55.

So you have to use a "holding" bucket. Change all 55 to 57. Change all 56 to 55. Change all 57 to 56.

I am thinking they tripped themselves up changing the numbers and had to rebuild them somehow..

Long explanation for nothing but I'd almost bet on that's what you see happening.

[MikeNY]

6. Interesting.. take this into account

Hi, I'm new here. Anyways, I think that what you really need to find out, if possible, is how these websites were hooked up to the official numbers.

Are they using an electronic system to directly give website users the live information and to have it posted to their website immediately, or do they receive the results, then manually put them on the website?

Also, many places that were using paper ballots that were optically scanned showed a massive turnout for Bush, even in counties that were something like 80% registered Democrat.

I have heard that in places where Bush won, demcoratic proposals on the ballot were also passed, in places that were largely Democratic counties. This is extremely unusual if true.

It seems really weird and I believe that something quite devious did occur on election night.

The big problem is the secrecy surrounding the procedures used by the media, the private media and election organizations that monitor and report the vote, as well as the things the state governments did on election night.

The scary thing is that I have heard on the news tonight that the exit polls showed Bush had strong lead in Ohio... this is a blatant lie, because anyone watching that night and actually paying attention would know that the reason it was "Too close to call" was the discrepency between exit poll and official results. (I.e. the official results were changing in bizarre ways while exit poll showed Kerry with a strong lead)

Also, check out the reports of Homeland Security locking down the polls in Warren OH and preventing monitors at the polling locations. This is quite gustapo tactic that I never thought would happen in this country.

When you add all of this stuff together, this is not a wild conspiracy theory...

[Lucypher]

18. Good point!

Its not like the web page results are directly connected/fed from the voting machine tallying offices; its just some human editing a web page, and therefore does not count as solid evidence.

[donkeyotay]

25. Hi, Mike NY

"When you add all of this stuff together, this is not a wild conspiracy theory..."

That's right. The wilder theory is that there is nothing wrong with our democracy.

:hi:

[newyawker99]

43. Hi MikeNY!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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[MikeNY]

8. Hmm?

I don't know if you were responding to the original poster or to me. The reason why I bring up the point of finding out whether the data was manually entered onto the website(s) or given from a live feed sent directly to media is because this will give a better idea of whether or not it the discrepency shown was from input error on the webmaster's side or a broader problem from the official results.

I tend to think that in cases such as CNN its highly likely that they had some program rigged up to their website to let them put in the official numbers automatically as they received them, from the AP or whoever.

You know there really is so much collusion and secrecy surrounding the entire process that it is to the point that we can not even get accurate exit poll records, much less official record with a timestamp.

[illuminaughty]

9. Don't worry. Everyone is just getting a little paranoid

Welcome! I am an idiot who's trying to wrap my head around all these figures. But, I understand what you're asking and also what the original message is stating.

What I understood is that all networks were working with the AP. It's a whole other discussion about where we get our results from over the last 40 years, but anyway, if they are all getting their numbers from the same sources ,why was their such a discrepancy in the different networks. I watched this at a theater with multiple screens and that made it even more bizarre. Then when the numbers jumped around all the anchors were nervous.

CNN was the first one to pull back NM and remark about the jump in votes. This link puts an even more dismal face on our election process
http://www.ecotalk.org/VNS.htm

[hippiechick]

30. Yeah Carl your post count's real high, too ...

:eyes: Pot calling the kettle black, maybe ?

Why the he** is everyone around here so farking intolerant ??


:hippie:

[Carl Brennan]

42. OOPS! I am very sorry. I don't know what happened here.

I was trying to post at a couple of topics.

This is a great topic.

[Name removed]

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[rodeodance]

11. I, for one, do not consider it a waste of energy to expose any irregularit

and to make sure that all votes are counted accurately.
Granted, we do need to have evidence and be careful NOT to call fraud until a complete analysis in done.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Thank you for your hard work! We have to do everything we can

to improve this system we have, starting with verifiable voting that can't be hacked and with a process that is transparent.

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FIGHT! Take this country back one town and state at a time!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[BeFree]

12. Not another one!

Another fly-by-night poster who doesn't know squat, coming in here telling us we are losers.

What that tells me is that we are on the right track.

Kerry On!

[txindy]

22. Think there might be an attempt at distraction happening hereabouts?

Hmmm? ;)

Kerry on, indeed! :toast:

[Sparkly]

19. "as long as the people have a voice"

Our vote is our voice. It'll happen again in 2006 unless it's exposed and the security issues resolved.

I don't understand "we didn't lose the House, and we didn't lose the Senate." Republicans are in charge of the House, the Senate, the Executive, and the Supreme Court and YES they will get another pet judge.

There's nothing silly about concern for democracy. There's no evidence "the count is going tally right" in 2006 right now.

[molly]

13. There is a human being out there that either is very proud

of himself/herself or has a very guilty conscience. I wonder if they were paid?

[althecat]

14. Very good stuff indeed.... Got any more :)

& Have you sent this to Kerry's legal team.. you should

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2654119&mesg_id=2654119

[noamnety]

16. mecklenburg county did hand entries

Questions started arising Wednesday when Republicans pointed out a significant discrepancy in the original unofficial results: more early votes than early voters. Elections officials immediately moved to audit the early vote totals and released new numbers Thursday. In response to Observer questions Friday, Dickerson said some vote totals were typed in by hand election night rather than electronically downloaded because of a computer glitch ...Dickerson said he believes the county's voting machines functioned properly.

...The audited vote totals issued Thursday derailed a Democratic sweep of the three at-large county commissioner seats -- for now, at least. It left the second, third and fourth vote-getters within fewer than 100 votes of each other.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/politics/10113502.htm?1c


How do they end up entering numbers by hand because of a glitch on machines they say functioned properly?

[cthrumatrix]

17. let's hear an explanation for this.... values? NOT....theft...YES

[Woody Box]

20. I can confirm the Cobb/Kerry confusion

I was closely following the election count on the net and noticed too that Cobb and Kerry got the same amount of votes at some point. It didn't last for long.

This was not the only oddity. Another one is that with about 80% of precincts counted in Ohio, Bush was leading with 120000 votes. Cuayhoga County was 50% counted with Kerry leading 100000 votes here, so I thought he would get another 100000+ votes in this county, enough to make it a close race.

But this didn't happen. Bush kept his lead of 120000 (or a bit more) votes. Strange.

Indeed, there was BIG hacking going on during the count. You almost could smell it.

[mzmolly]

33. I remember that. He stayed ahead by almost the exact same amount

:crazy:

[ElementaryPenguin]

23. Busheviks did the exact same thing in Volusia County in 2000!

At the end of the night, they shifted 16,000 votes out of Gore and into Bush - but then (after Fox, etc. declared Bushler the president-elect) - they shifted the votes back out - only they screwed up and put them into 3 obscure candidates (Harris, Brown were two of them) - who had virtually gotten zero up to that point. Washington Post was alerted that night - but didn't write about it for several days - and then buried it on A-22 or A-12.

[Rawls vs Nozick]

24. Who?

Who said on air "we don't know what happened, the numbers just changed"?

And is 10,000 votes enough to swing the state?

-RvN-

[vanboggie]

27. Seems like it was the Wolf Blitzer n/t

[jsamuel]

35. It was the blond woman (older)

She was the one that was on the screen, but not in the room.

[jsamuel]

39. Judy Woodruf I think is her name - The lady that coved the election

[Straight Shooter]

26. TruthIsAll, nodehopper, althecat, Eloriel, please review this thread

:kick:

edit: I'm reposting this in PR&D forum for their attention

[bleever]

28. And also incorporate the great analysis from

Petrodollar Warfare in an earlier thread, which definitely deserves some real scrutiny and elaboration; maybe Eloriel can link to the needed exit poll sample size data?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=36314&mesg_id=36550&page=

[bleever]

34. And to the same group, don't miss this excellent straight-up

statistical analysis of the variance from the exit polls. It really takes makes for a clear picture, above the sound and fury of the massive quantities of data and anecdotal evidence.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=203&topic_id=36855&mesg_id=36855

[nomatrix]

29. Evidence of a Second Bush Coup

by Robert Parry

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110604.html

"Theoretically at least, it is conceivable that sophisticated CIA-style computer hacking – known as “cyber-warfare” – could have let George W. Bush’s campaign transform a three-percentage-point defeat, as measured by exit polls, into an official victory of about the same margin.

Whether such a scheme is feasible, however, is another matter, since it would require penetration of hundreds of local computer systems across the country, presumably from a single remote location. The known CIA successes in cyber-war have come from targeting a specific bank account or from shutting down an adversary’s computer system, not from altering data simultaneously in a large number of computers.

To achieve that kind of result, cyber-war experts say, a preprogrammed “kernel of brain” would have to be inserted into election computers beforehand or teams of hackers would be needed to penetrate the lightly protected systems, targeting touch-screen systems without a paper backup for verifying the numbers.

Though there's still no proof of such a cyber-attack, suspicions are growing that the U.S. presidential election results were manipulated to some degree. Voting analyses of some precincts in Florida and Ohio have found surprisingly high percentages for Bush. Others have noted that the large turnout among young voters and the obvious enthusiasm of John Kerry’s voters would have suggested a better showing for the Democrat."

[nomatrix]

31. Warren County OH closed door voter tally

because of Homeland Security fears.
Hacking computers as former Cyber warfare Czar Richard Clarke predicted.
Couple that with Bin Laden last video that he would drive the U.S. to bankruptcy as he did the Soviets.
Bush promised to "stay the course" and "spend all the political capital" as we see our U.S. currency hit a new low.

How is tin foil is that?
I'm not making that up, those are facts.

Now let's talk.

[imaginary girl]

36. But wasn't there a single feed location

Set up and maintained by the AP? Here's an article related to that ...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000670974

<snip>

This time, the news organizations contracted with two veteran polling companies -- Mitofsky International and Edison Media Research -- to conduct exit polls. They agreed that the AP -- which has been tallying votes in elections since 1848 -- would be their sole source for vote counts, and the news cooperative has significantly beefed up its system in response.

<snip>

[imaginary girl]

37. Oops, better clarify

Meaning that they wouldn't need to hack computers all over as the article suggests.

Also, I ran into this piece from Oct 22 -- really worth a look if you don't remember it (or haven't seen it):

<snip>

The Associated Press (AP) will be the sole source of raw vote totals for the major news broadcasters on Election Night. However, AP spokesmen Jack Stokes and John Jones refused to explain to this journalist how the AP will receive that information. They refused to confirm or deny that the AP will receive direct feed from voting machines and central vote tabulating computers across the country. But, circumstantial evidence suggests that is exactly what will happen.

And what can be downloaded can also be uploaded. Computer experts say that signals can travel both to and from computerized voting machines through wireless technology, modems, and even simple electricity. Computer scientists have long warned that computer voting is an invitation to vote fraud and system failure. An examination of Diebold election software by several computer scientists, including Dr. Avi Rubin and his staff, proved that secret backdoors can be built into computer programs that allow votes to be easily manipulated without detection.

ES&S, the nation's largest voting machine company that will reportedly count 50% of all votes, describe on their webpage how "accessible" their results are, "At ES&S, we know election administrators and the public want fast and accurate election results. That is why we have developed several election management system software solutions to make the reporting process easier, more reliable, and more accessible." Diebold, the second largest voting machine company, advertises a similar service. Both ES&S and Diebold have close ties to the Republican Party.

But, can't the AP be trusted? Isn't it an objective non-partisan news organization? Some say no. The AP is batting for a Bush presidency.

<snip>

http://www.ecotalk.org/AP.htm

[nomatrix]

38. Thanks for picking up on it

My point is think this through. We have been down this road before.

Gore had LEGAL grounds to take this to court. I used to have the list, more than 100 court cases fought in Florida alone. Who won? As any lawyer will tell you, whoever the judge favors.
The day the media recount was due out was September 11, 2001.

All these battles were watched, Seminole (GOP operative filling in absentee ballots) punch ballot produced different qualities for Dem/GOP counties, felon vote purge by Katherine Harris, etc. Screaming unconstitution/illegal. Proof, hard proof. Nothing, nadda, zip.

Think this through.....you find the numbers, really, that prove a hack.....where do you go with it? How do you prove who was involved, and WHAT GOP branch of the gov't will do anything about it? See why they are laughing.

Unless.....

Could this have been a cyber attack? I don't know. I am just going by what the government has told us. Especially with Warren County/ homeland security closed door vote count. Seems like the only way to get news to cover anything ........

[mzmolly]

32. Send this to Olbermann and Kerry's senate office.

:toast:

[Spazito]

40. Kick!

:kick:

[mumon]

41. kick