US Vote Fraud News Roundup 8 October

	US Vote Fraud News Links
	8 October - 25 December 2005

	25/12/04 www.workers.org/ww/2004/ohio1230.php Hearings expose conspiracy in November voting Workers World – USA … In August 2003, Walden O’Dell, CEO of Diebold Inc., stated that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president.” Ohio-based … 24/12/04 bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4857 Wheel of VOTER Challenge IV: $.1K Collective Bellaciao – Paris,France … Challenges 2004 — in which paper-trail voting is unanimously preferred, indisputable machine hackability, and absence of any Democrat Diebold IT personnel … 20/12/04 www.cpilive.net/news_ver2/inside.asp?wherefrom=search&newsitem= 1219200471148AMCOMPUTER+NEWS+ME.htm&channel=COMPUTER+NEWS+ME Riyad Bank signs deal with Diebold to deploy ATMs CPILive.net – United Arab Emirates Diebold has signed a deal with the Riyad Bank in Saudi Arabia (SA) to deploy 100 Diebold Opteva Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) across the bank’s network … yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/18/217209.shtml?tid=126&tid=123&tid=103&tid=17 Diebold to Pay $2.6M Due to Insecure Voting Machines Slashdot – USA sunilk writes “In a short period, Diebold has been at the center of several problems. Now it seeks to settle the lawsuit filed against … yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/18/217209&from=rss Slashdot \| Diebold to Pay $2.6M Due to Insecure Voting Machines … San Diego is using (Diebold Manufactured) optical scanners for voting on a temporary basis. … Diebold should have to pay a lot more than 2.6 million. … 15/12/04 www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file =article&sid=1242&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed ILCA Online – Washington D.C.,USA Among activists and investigators looking into allegations of vote fraud in the 2004 Presidential election, the company always mentioned was Diebold and its … www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ article?AID=/20041215/OPINION02/112150085 Writer questionselection outcome Nashua Telegraph – Nashua,NH,USA … Since the year 2002, in conjunction with the 2000 election fiasco, there was a growing concern about voting problems and the use of Diebold machines and… 13/12/04 Protesters Urge Delay for Ohio Electors http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121404Y.shtml 12/12/04 www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=7&ID=197165&r=0 Suspicions about election are hardly ‘fantasies run wild’ Canton Repository (subscription) – Canton,OH,USA … And considering that the Diebold CEO had announced he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president ….” is it really a … 10/12/04 www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_16087.shtml Diebold response to Baneth piece YubaNet – Nevada City,CA,USA For your information, the chief IT programmer at Diebold Election Systems does NOT have a criminal record in check fraud using computers, as Robin Baneth … www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_3388135,00.html Election proves need for an e-vote paper trail Ventura County Star (subscription) – Ventura county,CA,USA … About three-fourths of those changed precincts used Diebold voting machines — produced by a company whose chairman promised in writing in 2003 to help … www.dailyillini.com/news/2004/12/10/Opinions/Opinion.Column.The.F.Word-827227.shtml Opinion column: The F word Daily Illini – Champaign,IL,USA … Eighty percent of the votes cast in the United States were counted by two companies: Diebold and ES&S. Wally Odell, CEO of Diebold … www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10382707.htm More workers sent election costs up Charlotte Observer (subscription) – Charlotte,NC,USA … The Gaston elections office also paid $15,000 for a technician from Diebold Election Systems who operated vote-counting equipment on Election Day and remained … 9/12/04 baltimorechronicle.com/120904Burns.shtml Counting Votes The Baltimore Chronicle – Baltimore,MD,USA … His brother Bob is now head of Diebold Election Systems, another large election machine company based in Ohio. As pointed out in … www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.election09dec09,0,3131082.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines Silencing the vote Baltimore Sun (subscription) – Baltimore,MD,USA … Bush’s total increased dramatically over four years ago in the 26 Florida counties using the optical scan equipment manufactured by Diebold Elections Systems … 8/12/04 www.coastalpost.com/04/12/02a.htm 20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States Coastal Post – Bolinas,CA,USA … 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. … 9. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. … rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/vote_rigging_concept_1207.htm Programmers weigh in on vote-rigging idea, some details confirmed Raw Story – Cambridge,MA,USA … Some point to the fact that Diebold already employs hidden buttons in their software as an example of how such a program could work. … 7/12/04 www.augustafreepress.com/stories/storyReader$29309 No need to revote Augusta Free Press – Waynesboro,VA,USA … Poor Chad. He gets picked on far too often. If it’s not Chad, it’s Diebold. If it’s not Diebold, it’s other disputes. But then again … 2/12/04 www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=12/2 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) – USA … It accounted for just 5% of sales last year for Diebold, (DBD) or a little more than $100 million. … But Diebold expects the market will grow. … www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20041202-9999-1n2glitch.html Election surprise actually an error San Diego Union Tribune – San Diego,CA,USA … The machines, supplied by Diebold Election Systems, were decertified for use by the state, forcing the county to use an optical scanning system supplied by … 1/12/04 www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000729691 Jesse Jackson Column Blasting Ohio Vote Count Draws Heat from Sec. … Editor & Publisher (subscription) – New York,NY,USA … Lo Paro challenged Jackson’s assertion that the head of the Diebold Co. … “Ohio does not use Diebold electronic machines,” he said. … 23/11/04 MEASURE R Outcome Unclear, Vote Count Procedure Questioned: By J. … Berkeley Daily Planet – Berkeley,CA,USA … 2 voters requesting paper ballots, and a questionable court settlement with the Diebold Elections Systems, maker of the county’s touchscreen voting machines. … www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-23-04&storyID=20144 22/11/04 SAVING Your Right to Vote truthout – Los Angeles,CA,USA … Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS tabulation software, return to the Windows PC desktop, click on the ‘My Computer’ icon, choose ‘Local Disk C:,’ open the … www.truthout.org/docs_04/112304Z.shtml VOLUSIA recount could help ease nation’s suspicions Daytona Beach News-Journal – Daytona,FL,USA … Those ties are, particularly, strong with Diebold, which makes the Accuvote system used in Volusia County. … Diebold officials call that contention outlandish. … www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN82112204.htm 20/11/04 SO Far, Recount Shows No Problem Wired News – USA … Most of the wards used optical-scan machines made by Diebold Election Systems, which came under scrutiny this year after computer scientists discovered flaws… www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65777,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 THE Perils of Electronic Voting Harvard Independent – Cambridge,MA,USA … Although I can't prove that it's happened already, there was motive, opportunity, and intent made clear in a statement made by Diebold Police Chief Walden O… www.harvardindependent.com/news/2004/11/18/Soapbox/The-Perils.Of.Electronic.Voting-811069.shtml 19/11/04 ON Election 2004: Voting 'glitches' pose threat to democracy Salem News - Salem,MA,USA ... Democrats. Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. (touch screen voting) is openly a Bush activist and big-time fund-raiser. ... http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/s/sstory.pl?fn-slettbc1 18/11/04 RECOUNT New Hampshire The Nation – USA … mostly in precincts using paper ballots that were then input via the optical scanning machines manufactured by the controversial vendor Diebold, of North Canton… www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20041129&s=baker EDITORIAL: Assure national voting accuracy, consistency Littleton Independent – Concord,MA,USA … But Diebold, a major manufacturer of electronic voting machines, needs one of democracy's famous checks and balances. Walden O'Dell… www2.townonline.com/littleton/opinion/view.bg?articleid=127338 FOCUS: Majority of Ohio Provisional Ballots Legitimate www.truthout.org/docs_04/111804V.shtml 17/11/04 DIEBOLD Selected for Two Prestigious Security Awards mysan.de – Germany 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — On behalf of the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA), three independent international judges have selected Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE… www.mysan.de/international/article4792.html DIEBOLD Partners With First Data, ACI and Brixlogic to Demo IFX… mysan.de – Germany LAS VEGAS, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE:DBD), in conjunction with First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC), ACI… www.mysan.de/international/article4772.html SMART Cards, Text-to-Speech, and Alphanumeric States for Diebold… mysan.de – Germany … and testing. ConfigBuilder will support testing of EMV (also known as chip card or Smart Card testing) for Diebold ATMs. In addition… www.mysan.de/international/article4663.html NADER Activists Ask for NH Recount San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA The request covers the state's 11 precincts that use Diebold Inc.'s Accuvote optical scanning machines to count paper ballots, and depending on the results… www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/ special_packages/election2004/10196001.htm 14/11/04 MAJOR bugs found in Diebold vote systems Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA 12 (UPI) — The voting machine controversy likely will linger after a look at the systems source code software from Ohio-based Diebold yielded reports of… washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-112037-7263r.htm DIEBOLD Settles Electronic Voting Issue With State of California Government Technology – Folsom,CA,USA Diebold Inc. yesterday announced it has reached a settlement agreement with the state of California in its civil action against Diebold Election Systems Inc.… www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=92115 EDITORIAL: Nader recount is fruitless San Antonio Express (subscription) – San Antonio,TX,USA … the recount request is all about the integrity of the election, citing irregularities in vote tallies from Accuvote optical scanning machines made by Diebold.… www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/stories/ MYSA111304.10B.naderrecount3ed.4e2ea912.html LETTER: Voting 'glitches' could derail democracy North Shore Sunday – Beverly,MA,USA … Democrats. Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., touchscreen voting, is openly a Bush activist and big time fund raiser.… www2.townonline.com/lynnfield/opinion/view.bg?articleid=126111 13/11/04 MAJOR bugs found in Diebold vote systems Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA 12 (UPI) — The voting machine controversy likely will linger after a look at the systems source code software from Ohio-based Diebold yielded reports of… washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-112037-7263r.htm DIEBOLD Settles Electronic Voting Issue With State of California Government Technology – Folsom,CA,USA Diebold Inc. yesterday announced it has reached a settlement agreement with the state of California in its civil action against Diebold Election Systems Inc.… www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=92115 EDITORIAL: Nader recount is fruitless San Antonio Express (subscription) – San Antonio,TX,USA … the recount request is all about the integrity of the election, citing irregularities in vote tallies from Accuvote optical scanning machines made by Diebold.… www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/stories/ MYSA111304.10B.naderrecount3ed.4e2ea912.html LETTER: Voting 'glitches' could derail democracy North Shore Sunday – Beverly,MA,USA … Democrats. Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., touchscreen voting, is openly a Bush activist and big time fund raiser.… www2.townonline.com/lynnfield/opinion/view.bg?articleid=126111 12/11/04 Recount in Ohio? democrats.com On Thursday, the collective efforts of progressive Internet activists reached a critical mass – but in an entirely unexpected way. Green candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik jointly announced their intentions to file a formal demand for a recount of the presidential ballots cast in Ohio – and called upon Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who chaired the Ohio Bush campaign, to recuse himself from the recount process. This announcement is political dynamite. In 2000, Al Gore spent weeks in court trying to get a statewide recount. When the Florida Supreme Court finally ordered one on December 8, rightwing Justice Antonin Scalia immediately stopped it with an infamous injunction claiming it would harm Bush – taking sides in a dispute and violating all principles of injunctive relief. Three days later, 5 partisan Republican Justices declared the election over in their infamous Bush v. Gore decision, thus throwing out 175,000 never-counted votes and making Bush's Presidency a judicial coup d'etat, not an election. But now, as soon as Cobb and Badnarik raise $110,000 (I'll guess 48 hours), John Kerry will get the unexpected and astonishing gift of a recount in Ohio. And because Ohio law is more specific than Florida law, that recount will be orderly and (hopefully) accurate, and the American people will find out who really won the election. This is a huge victory for progressive Internet activists, for American Democracy – and possibly for President John Kerry. Developing… You are subscribed to the Democrats.com Press List. To arrange an interview, click here: elandslide.org/display.cfm?id=74 MSNBC – The best reporting by far in the mainstream media has been by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Both on TV and on his blog, Mr. Olbermann is asking serious questions. He is even asking why other major media aren't reporting many of these sensational stories. His most excellent blog gives continual updates of recent developments in the elections scandals. Here are a few key quotes from three of the entries there: Nov. 7, 6:55 p.m. “Officials in Warren County, Ohio, “locked down‰ its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there…Emergency Services Director Frank Young explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security.” “The majority of the media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2-1. ” www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240 (scroll down to find this date and time in the blog) Nov. 9, 12:55 a.m. “…the remarkable results out of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County‚s website shows, we had the most unexpected results in years: more votes than voters. I‚ll repeat that: more votes than voters. 93,000 more votes than voters.” (more on this below) www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240 November 10, 12:43 p.m. ”The computerized balloting in North Carolina is so thoroughly messed up that all state-wide voting may be thrown out and a second election day scheduled.” www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240 WOWT/NBC (Nebraska) - “Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Its employees operated the machines that are now double-checking the ballots. No one is sure exactly what went wrong.” www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html *Sun Journal* - A North Carolina newspaper reports that “a systems software glitch in Craven County's electronic voting equipment is being blamed for a vote miscount that … swelled the number of votes for president here by 11,283 more votes than the total number cast.” www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/ GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=18297&Section=Local Associated Press/USA Today – “There were also several dozen voters in six states who said the wrong candidates appeared on their touch-screen machine's checkout screen.” www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-11-04-e-voting-error-nc_x.htm Palm Beach Post (Florida) - ”Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone . . . down. Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward.” www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/ epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html *New York Times* – In mid-August 2003, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold, wrote a letter inviting 100 wealthy friends to a fund-raiser at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. He wrote, “I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.” A longtime Republican, he is a member of President Bush's “Rangers and Pioneers,'' an elite group of loyalists who have raised at least $100,000 each for the 2004 race. Through Diebold Election Systems, Mr. O'Dell's company is among the country's biggest suppliers of paperless, touch-screen voting machines. www.wanttoknow.info/031109nytimes (article became pay for view shortly after elections) Project Censored (Excellent university website exposing media cover-ups): “ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia are the companies primarily involved in implementing the new, often faulty, technology at voting stations throughout the country. All three have strong ties to the Bush Administration along with major defense contractors in the United States. Some of the most generous contributors to Republican campaigns are also some of the largest investors in ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold. Most notable of these are government defense contractors Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems.” www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/6.html USA Today - The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. Federal regulators have virtually no oversight over testing of the technology. Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and electronic voting expert, told lawmakers in Washington, D.C. “I find it grotesque that an organization charged with such a heavy responsibility feels no obligation to explain to anyone what it is doing.” The system for “testing and certifying voting equipment in this country is not only broken, but is virtually nonexistent,” Shamos added. www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-08-23-low-evote-scrutiny_x.htm Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Board of Elections Website – 29 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, reported votes cast above the number of registered voters – 93,136 extra votes total. And the numbers are on the official Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website below. To verify the discrepancies, first look at the number of registered voters for the below precincts, then scroll down to the number of ballots cast for the precinct. In particular, compare the numbers for the precincts listed below. boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm Bay Village – 13,710 registered voters / 18,663 ballots cast Beachwood – 9,943 registered voters / 13,939 ballots cast Bedford – 9,942 registered voters / 14,465 ballots cast Bedford Heights – 8,142 registered voters / 13,512 ballots cast Brooklyn – 8,016 registered voters / 12,303 ballots cast Brooklyn Heights – 1,144 registered voters / 1,869 ballots cast Chagrin Falls Village – 3,557 registered voters / 4,860 ballots cast Cuyahoga Heights – 570 registered voters / 1,382 ballots cast Fairview Park – 13,342 registered voters / 18,472 ballots cast Highland Hills Village – 760 registered voters / 8,822 ballots cast Independence – 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast Mayfield Village – 2,764 registered voters / 3,145 ballots cast Middleburg Heights – 12,173 registered voters / 14,854 ballots cast Moreland Hills Village – 2,990 registered voters / 4,616 ballots cast North Olmstead – 25,794 registered voters / 25,887 ballots cast Olmstead Falls – 6,538 registered voters / 7,328 ballots cast Pepper Pike – 5,131 registered voters / 6,479 ballots cast Rocky River – 16,600 registered voters / 20,070 ballots cast Solon (WD6) – 2,292 registered voters / 4,300 ballots cast South Euclid – 16,902 registered voters / 16,917 ballots cast Strongsville (WD3) – 7,806 registered voters / 12,108 ballots cast University Heights – 10,072 registered voters / 11,982 ballots cast Valley View Village – 1,787 registered voters / 3,409 ballots cast Warrensville Heights – 10,562 registered voters / 15,039 ballots cast Woodmere Village – 558 registered voters / 8,854 ballots cast Bedford (CSD) – 22,777 registered voters / 27,856 ballots cast Independence (LSD) – 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast Orange (CSD) – 11,640 registered voters / 22,931 ballots cast Warrensville (CSD) – 12,218 registered voters / 15,822 ballots cast Michigan City News-Dispatch – In LaPorte County, Indiana, a Democratic stronghold, electronic voting machines decided that each precinct only had 300 voters. “At about 7 p.m. Tuesday,” according to this report, “it was noticed that the first two or three printouts from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are more than 79,000 registered voters.” www.wanttoknow.info/041104newsdispatch (article became pay for view shortly after elections) Common Dreams (excellent news website) - In Florida's counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots – fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking – the results seem to contain substantial anomalies. In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush. The pattern repeats over and over again – but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm *Popular Mechanics* - A team of former National Security Agency (NSA) computer experts conducted a weeklong exercise with six Diebold machines and a server. According to team leader Michael Wertheimer, the group uncovered “considerable security risks.” They found that the smart cards used to provide supervisors with access to the machines could be easily hacked; the removable media containing voting information was protected by flimsy locks that the team picked in under a minute using bent paper clips. The paper clips weren't even necessary, since all 32,000 keys supplied by Diebold for the machines are identical, allowing any key to open all of the machines. On the software side, the most glaring weakness was in election headquarters servers: Dell PCs ran the Windows 2000 operating system without Microsoft's security upgrade patches, which left servers susceptible to viruses and worms, enabling a remote attacker to tamper with election systems by phone.” popularmechanics.com/science/research/2004/11/hack_the_vote/index3.phtml (pg 3 of 4 webpages) *Popular Science* – In South Carolina, officials bought machines too late for adequate testing. And on many of their onscreen ballots, the presidential contest included names of candidates from local elections. Several Texas counties are thousands of votes short because a bug in the software failed to record Spanish-language ballots. For hundreds of thousands of votes, there will be no paper record at all. In Colorado, a group of hackers is boasting that they stole a box of electronic smartcards used to activate e-voting machines and reprogrammed them to allow multiple votes, just for fun. In virtually every state, officials failed to invite outside technical experts to participate in the process of e-voting machine selection. Because none of the major vendors of e-voting machines release their code for security testing, states and counties are forced to trust vendors‚ own assessments of their machines‚ reliability. www.popsci.com/popsci/generaltech/article/0,20967,714491-1,00.html (3 web pages) House of Representatives Website - Representatives John Conyers, Jerrold Nadler, and Robert Wexler, members of the House Judiciary Committee, posted a letter on November 5th to David Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S. The letter reads as follows: “We write with an urgent request that the Government Accountability Office immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to difficulties they encountered and what we can do in the future to improve our election systems and administration.” www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/gaoinvestvote2004ltr11504.pdf What You Can Do. For starters, you can email your support to the above three members of Congress at www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=18055 There are also two excellent petitions demanding an investigation which you can sign on the Internet. The first already had 26,000 signatures as of 4:00 p.m. November 11th. The second, posted by MoveOn.org doesn't list numbers who have signed, though their membership numbers nearly 3 million. www.PetitionOnline.com/uselect/petition.html www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/ In addition to these petitions, visit websites covering the elections mess. They provide ideas on other actions you can take. Two of the best such websites are: www.blackboxvoting.org www.votescam.com/ We also highly recommend the excellent 30-minute documentary available for free viewing at www.votergate.tv/ though they are having problems because of the extremely high number of people wanting to watch this incredible documentary. And if you haven't seen our first posting on this topic, take a look at www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting It is well worth reading. CALIF. settles with Diebold FCW.com – USA Diebold officials reached the settlement agreement on behalf of its subsidiary, Diebold Election Systems. Bill Lockyer, California's… www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2004/1108/web-diebold-11-11-04.asp CALIF. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M San Diego Daily Transcript – San Diego,CA,USA By RACHEL KONRAD, rkfon. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Diebold Inc. agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California alleging… www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20041111cc DIEBOLD, Calif. reach settlement Crain's Cleveland Business – Cleveland,OH,USA Diebold Inc. has reached … voting equipment. Diebold said terms of the settlement consist of a $2.6 million payment to the state.… crainscleveland.com/news.cms?newsId=2706 10/11/04 'BUSH' spam does not stop ZDNet.com – USA … They were really nice, especially Diebold who gave me $600,000 for my campaign.”. While few would regard spam as a credible source… news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5446647.html WILL'S Web Watch: Net tightens on Bush victory Silicon.com – UK … Diebold – the company concerned – isn't helped in defending its position by its chairman and CEO having strong links to the Republican Party through his… management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39125822,00.htm 9/11/04 OUR Readers' Views The Columbian – Vancouver,WA,USA … Eighty percent of electronic voting machines are made by either Diebold or Election Systems and Software, both of which have strong connections with the… www.columbian.com/11092004/clark_co/209929.html ANOTHER Stolen Election: By JAMES K. SAYRE Berkeley Daily Planet – Berkeley,CA,USA … How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. … www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=11-09-04&storyID=20055 ENTER city or US Zip Plumas County Newspapers – Plumas county,CA,USA … “We had no problems,” she said. “The Diebold machines operated smoothly.”. Indeed on election night, with a representative of Diebold… www.plumasnews.com/news_story.edi?sid=2553 KERRY Left Volunteers in the Lurch Common Dreams – USA … I heard that the votes in Florida's cities, cast on easy-to-hack Diebold machines, were not reported until after it was clear just how big a margin Bush would… www.commondreams.org/views04/1107-24.htm 8/11/04 E-VOTING goes (mostly) smoothly, but suspicions, critics remain FCW.com – USA … Rubin co-authored a 2003 report detailing security vulnerabilities in one version of Diebold Inc.'s Diebold Election Systems' voting machine software.… www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1108/news-evote-11-08-04.asp EVIDENCE Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked ILCA Online – Washington D.C.,USA … Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines, which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's hand, or the scanners that read punch cards, or the… www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name= News&file=article&sid=943&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 THE Last Battle Media Monitors Network – USA … tribs of Bev Harris and Andy Stephenson (BlackBoxVoting.org) over the past four years as they engaged in bloody battles with Ohio's Diebold Election Systems… usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/11077/ DIEBOLD shares up post-election Columbus Dispatch (subscription) – Columbus,OH,United States Shares of Diebold Inc., whose electronic-voting machines were criticized as vulnerable to hacking and breakdowns, rose yesterday after computerized ballots… www.columbusdispatch.com/business-story.php? story=dispatch/2004/11/04/20041104-E2-08.html DIEBOLD offers check-imaging solution Kiosk marketplace.com – Louisville,KY,United States NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union is marking its first month of operation with Diebold's ImageWay ATM Solution.… www.kioskmarketplace.com/research.htm?article_id=21213&pavilion=52&step=story DIEBOLD voting machines benchmarked The Inquirer – England,UK What I am going to try to do is benchmark Diebold's voting machines. Assuming that Diebold voting machines have a random dispersion… www.theinquirer.net/?article=19418 VOTE or Diebold: Company has right `touch' Boston Herald – Boston,MA,United States … In total, up to 50,000 Diebold touch-screen voting machines as well as 20,000 scanners of paper ballots were used in 38 states across the country.… news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=52322 DIEBOLD'S ImageWay(TM) Provides Check-Imaging Solution for… Yahoo News (press release) – USA … Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union is marking its first month of operation with Diebold's ImageWay(TM) ATM Solution, Xpedited by Alogent(TM). … biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041104/clth058_1.html JURY'S still out on e-voting CNN – Atlanta,GA,USA … One voting machine company, Diebold Election Systems Inc., said its devices did well under pressure. “The machines performed extremely… www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/evoting.evaluation/ ELECTRONIC Voting Systems Pass Their Big Test — Maybe ComputerWorld – USA NOVEMBER 08, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) – Electronic voting systems avoided the virtual meltdown that some people had predicted during last Tuesday's election.… www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,97303,00.html ELECTRONIC voting machine in Ohio magically produces 3,893 extra… News Target – Taichung,Taiwan Is anybody surprised at this? Isn't it amazing how all the electronic voting machine errors found so far have been in Bush's favor? What are the odds of that?… www.newstarget.com/002140.html ELECTRONIC Voting: The Stolen Election of 2004 Infoshop News – USA … the Bush regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines that … Unless electronic vote tabulation is history, and these companies are driven out… www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/11/06/6434971 AVI Rubin and More on Electronic Voting Slashdot – USA … judge on his website. It's an interesting read and exposes some potential security problems with electronic voting. At one point he… politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/11/06/1857203.shtml?tid=103&tid=226&tid=172&tid=126 ELECTRONIC Voting Machines NPR (audio) – Washington,D.C.,United States Description: We check in on the performance of the much-maligned electronic voting machines. … Next up, a report on electronic voting machines. … npr.streamsage.com/google/programlist/feature.php?wfid=4152443 OFFICIALS: Nevada's electronic voting system passes major test San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco,CA,USA Nevada's electronic voting system proved itself up to the test of heavy Election Day turnout, officials said, though some questions still linger about the… www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/04/politics1958EST0134.DTL DID electronic voting pass the test? The Register – London,England,UK … had accepted defeat and phoned President Bush to congratulate him, stories were circulating on the Internet claiming that the electronic voting machines in… www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/05/us_election_electronic_voting/ ELECTION Reform Succeeds Nationally with Help from Electronic… Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA … voters across 17 states and the District of Columbia were given an opportunity to cast their votes on one of 52,000 electronic voting machines manufactured by… home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndm ViewId=news_view&newsId=20041105005540&newsLang=en ELECTRONIC voting: Don't invest in failure Pasadena Star-News – Pasadena,CA,USA NO voting system will ever be perfect, but we need to look at the reliability of electronic voting systems, the cost of installing a system in which the public… www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~11851~2516397,00.html EXPERTS Say Electronic Voting Machines Unreliable National Geographic – USA For months now, computer experts have criticized the electronic voting machines, saying they are not much more reliable than home computers. … news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1101_041101_election_voting.html

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