Felons Employed As Government Election Programmers. 9/25/2006 4:01:41 PM
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(Jeffrey Dean, who was kept on when Diebold bought Global Election Systems, on a contract basis)
Email forwarded By Karl W.B.Schwarz Thousands of problems have arisen with the machines in real election conditions: “flipped” votes where you vote for one candidate and the name of the opponent appears; “overvotes” (more votes than registered voters); “undervotes” (fewer votes than registered voters) For example: A NEGATIVE 16,000 votes were recorded for Gore in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, almost causing him to concede the election without cause. When the “error” was found and backed out of the total, he was ahead at that time; machines breaking down and needing recalibration; machine vendors running elections because election officials do not understand how to operate the software; and many, many more. See Bev Harris’s “Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century” (can download chapters from her website, http://www.blackboxvoting.org or Bev’s chapter 2 in “HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America” which has over 100 examples of electronic voting machine “anomalies”.) The programming which allows for undetectable fraud is present in two of the top four electronic vendors’ software (Diebold and Sequoia). It may also be in the other two; their software has not been revealed to the public or any election officials for review. The proposed solutions which involve adding printers to touch screens but only auditing 2% of all the paper “ballots” or “receipts” are dangerously ineffective. Hacking exploits by Harri Hursti, world-class computer programmer from Finland, in both Leon County, Florida last year and in Emery County, Utah this year, indicate high level sophisticated architecture for hacking in election software in both the Diebold touch screens with printers added, and in Diebold optical scan counters used to count paper ballots. (Reports on the Leon County hacks are posted on the BBV website “The Hursti Report”. First one is dated July 4, 2005. The report on the Utah hacks was posted in May 2006.)
Bev Harris posted an article Sept. 6, 2006 about how she and an associate opened the seals on Diebold Optical Scan Counters, removed the “memory cards” (electronic ballot boxes which store all the totals of the paper ballot counts) and replaced them with different cards, replaced the seals, in under four minutes, all without any record of the event that would alert election officials. This proves that the seals, which are supposed to protect the machines against tampering, are totally ineffective.
Election workers in California, and in other precincts across the country, are sent home with election equipment several days before elections (“sleepovers”) allowing unmitigated access for tampering.
Fraud in the Ohio recounts in 2004 proves both audits and recounts to be ineffective solutions.
To repeat an important point: An election can be hacked using optical scan counters, which count paper ballots. (Harri Hursti’s July 4, 2005 report on Leon County Florida hacks) Rush Holt’s bill, HR 550, is viewed as a solution by many who are working on this issue, but this will not solve our problem, as it adds a paper record to the electronic voting system but there is no assurance that the paper record will be accurate, or if it will ever be used in an audit or recount. We must return to hand-counted paper ballots, with totals posted at the precinct level, as a uniform way to hold elections. Computers, and partisan corporations, have no business running elections. Citizens must volunteer to work elections and be available for hand counting paper ballots. For more in depth information about the problem and the solutions as well as a detailed downloadable citizens tool kit of actions you can take to remedy this crisis in America go to: http://www.blackboxvoting.org Black Box Voting is a non-partisan non-profit election protection organization working 24/7 to expose election fraud, educate the public, and incite citizens to action.
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