-Caveat Lector- !!! DIEBOLD SHUTS DOWN BLACK BOX VOTING SITE !!!
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's what you can do to help: Get the word out far and wide that Diebold has done this thing. More info: http://www.blackboxvoting.com 1. Diebold issued a pull-down demand under DMCA for the BlackBoxVoting.org web site, citing a link posted on a forum in the site, claiming that the link allowed web visitors to visit an unrelated page, containing Diebold internal memos, which they say they own the copyright to. 2. Not only was BlackBoxVoting.org pulled down, but ALL of the documents, databases and programming for approximately 500 pages of material, most of which did not relate to Diebold at all, was confiscated. Dozens of web pages were pulled down which had nothing whatever to do with the disputed information. According to AIT Inc, the parent ISP, their North Carolina attorney, James Baker advised them that they should remove the entire web site and disable access to the FTP so that Bev Harris or Black Box Voting could no longer access their files (even for the purpose of removing them.) After a negotiation this morning with Black Box Voting publisher David Allen, AIT Inc. agreed to reinstate access to the files but still declined to reinstate the pages of the web site which were not named in the complaint. 3. The confiscated pages included personal contact information for 200 activists, and the private strategy sessions for voting machine activists. BlackBoxVoting.org has yet to receive any explanation at all as to what authority they were confiscated under. We demand their immediate return. "The .org site had an active discussion going on among people from all over the US and world about election security and flaws found in Diebold's voting system software. The idea that these discussion boards were confiscated is rather chilling. The discussions were password protected and not open for public view. "In addition to the impact this action will have on the election security debate, it also may represent the first time the DMCA has been used to shut down a discussion. Although I don't know much about the DMCA, I do think it wasn't written with this kind of purpose in mind." -- Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation ------------------------------------- 4. Does Diebold even have a legitimate copyright to the memos which the link led to? Most of the memos in question were written in Canada, and resided on a server in Canada up to and including 2003 after Diebold bought a Canadian company called Global Election Systems. In Canada, company correspondence, even internal memos, is not protected by copyright. To date we have been unable to find evidence, other than a claim in a letter, that Diebold even owns the copyright to these memos. 5. These memos are more properly termed "Evidence," because they contain evidence of a pattern of lawbreaking that dates back at least to 1999. 6. Lexis-Nexis would be a worthwhile exercise now for every one of these search terms pertaining to the origins of Global Election Systems: This firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of North American Professional Technologies, Inc., which was in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of MacroTrends Ventures International, Ltd. Charles Hong Lee is one of the principals with these firms; He has been tied in the press to participation in a scheme to bilk immigrants out of some $47 million; he is also connected with a scandal in which a Mr. Graye was prosecuted, relating to Vinex Wines. Charles Hong Lee was also involved with something called "The Vancouver Maneuver," a stock pump & dump scheme that bilked investors out of millions in connection with an entertainment company and something called Beverly Development. Charles Hong Lee was a principal with Global Election Systems, along with the late Clinton Rickards. Talbot Iredale, currently the V.P. for Research and Development for Diebold Election Systems, began with the company in 1991, right around the time the Vancouver Maneuver was exposed in Barron's magazine. This is the pedigree from whence the Diebold Memos arose. ==================================== Here is a contribution originally from Slashdot, made available for the Black Box Voting book by Donald Way. (Diebold: This is satire and meant for entertainment purposes only. If you would like to spend several more $500 per hour lawyer fees suing us over satire, go right ahead.) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Pending: your vote is now the property of Diebold, Inc. Any attempt on your part to ascertain the disposition of your vote is hereby declared to be in violation of federal law, e.g., the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. You have the right not to vote. Any vote you make can be used against you in a court of law. The judge presiding in such a court of law may be appointed by Diebold, Inc., and need not require a jury, but if a jury is summoned, it need not be a jury of your peers. By acting to vote you consent to our determining whether your vote is valid, and in the event it is judged not to be valid, you consent to our voiding your vote and further voiding your right to vote in the future. You furthermore acknowledge that owing to storage and bandwidth limitations that Diebold, Inc., may experience, your vote may be digitally compressed in a way such that your true intent in casting the vote may be lost. If such an eventuality should occur, your vote may be determined using statistical data derived from any source we deem appropriate or convenient. You have the right to protest if your vote is cancelled, altered, or in any way modified as the result of such action on our part, however, you hereby acknowledge that in such an eventuality, Diebold, Inc. may determine that your right to vote is deleterious to democracy as implement by Diebold, Inc., and therefore may be considered to be an overt act against the national security of these United States. You have 10 seconds to comply. God Bless America ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "President, USA Exile Govt." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:22:37 -0500 (CDT) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Helpful Links on US Rigged Elections Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species. NOTE: Thanks to Soula Culver for these valuable additions. -- kl, pp Subject: "Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button Hi Pondo, here is a list of links related to this story that I just discovered had originally appeared with it on http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/904/opinion/o_10419.htm --Soula ------------------ E-Voting: How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office http://www.commondreams.org/ Common Dreams, Sept. 3, 2003 The Theft of Your Vote is Just a Chip Away http://www.SmirkingChimp.com/article.php?sid=12461 Thom Hartmann, July 31, 2003 How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html Infernal Press, September 2003 Now Your Vote is the Property of a Private Corporation http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=10536 Thom Hartmann, March 11, 2003 The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html USENEX Security Symposium, Aug. 6, 2003 Who Counts the Votes? http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/votingmachines-new.htm Southern Exposure, Winter 2002/2003 Florida Invests $24 Million in Wireless Voting Machines http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/16104.html Wireless News Factor, Jan. 31, 2002 Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Vulnerabilities http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm Scoop, Sept. 12,2002 Voting Machine Controversy as Diebold Chief Backs Bush http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 28, 2003 The Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/082003Landes/082003landes.html Online Journal, Aug. 20, 2003 Hacking Democracy? http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/print.html Salon.com, Feb. 20, 2003 Possible Flaw Triggers Electronic Voting Concerns http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2092678 Houston Chronicle, Sept. 11, 2003 Piecing it Together http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ Black Box Voting, Aug. 25, 2003 Bay of Pigs 2000: The November Surprise http://www.madcowprod.com/welcomechad.htm Madcow Morning News, Dec. 26, 2000 Slavery Under God's Laws http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/slavery.htm The Institute for Christian Economics, Stoning: Integral to Commandment Against Murder http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/stoning2.htm The Institute for Christian Economics, World Conquest: The Obligation of Christian Politics http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm The Changing of the Guard, Dominion Press, An Anthology of Reconstructist Thought http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/cr.htm Christian Reconstructionism, November 2002 Judicial Warfare: Christian Reconstructionism and its Blueprint for Dominion http://www.crownrights.com/reconstruction/ Crown Rights Press, 2003 British Firm Buys Controlling Interest in Sequoia Voting Systems http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2002/05/27/daily30.html?t=printable Eastbay Business Times, May 29, 2003 A High-Tech Ambush http://www.ecotalk.org/Vote-By-Mail.htm Eco Talk, Oct. 29, 2002 Louisiana Election Commissioner Pleads Guilty in Kickback Scandal http://www.oakridger.com/stories/112800/stt_1128000038.html The Oak Ridger, Nov. 28, 2000 Pipeline Partnership Take Under: Madison Dearborn and Carlyle http://www.mcdep.com/MR30424.PDF Meter Reader Energy Stock Analysis, April 24, 2003 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE): Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species. NOTE: Thanks to Rick Davis for this. -- kl, pp September 26, 2003 http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html Vanishing Act: "Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button By CHRIS FLOYD It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buy-outs and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers--and presidential family members--lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly-programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically-partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how America, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States--no matter what the people of the United States might want. The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players--Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia--with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies--all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid--have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nation-wide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled systems--many using "touch-screen" technology that leaves no paper trail at all--are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, John Hopkins and other universities. The technology had a trial run in the 2002 mid-term elections. In Georgia, serviced by new Diebold systems, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both unseated in what the media called "amazing" upsets, with results showing vote swings of up to 16 percent from the last pre-ballot polls. In computerized Minnesota, former vice president Walter Mondale--a replacement for popular incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash days before the vote--was also defeated in a large last-second vote swing. Convenient "glitches" in Florida saw an untold number of votes intended for the Democratic candidate registering instead for Governor Jeb "L'il Brother" Bush. A Florida Democrat who lost a similarly "glitched" local election went to court to have the computers examined--but the case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the innards of America's voting machines are the "trade secrets" of the private companies who make them. Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: the corporate lines--even the bloodlines--of these "competitors" are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold--whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state's votes to Bush next year--the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful. Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the "Christian Reconstructionist" movement, an extremist faction that openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, with the imposition of strict Christian dominion, placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere under Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for non-Christians, stoning of sinners and--we kid you not--slavery, "one of the most beneficent of Biblical laws." As the movement's leader--and Ahmanson's fellow CNP member--R.J. Rushdoony puts it: "The Christian should therefore not fear laws in support of Christian social goals just because they interfere with personal freedom." Ahmanson also holds a major stake in ES&S, where he's joined by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. Before his ascension to high office, Hagel was CEO of an earlier ES&S incarnation. Thus, when he ran for the Senate, his own company counted the votes. Needless to say, his initial victory was reported as "an amazing upset." Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the parent company of ES&S. In Florida, Jeb Bush's first choice for a running mate in his 1998 gubernatorial race was ES&S lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a mint installing the machines that counted Jeb's votes. Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where it was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state officials to jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms. Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving immunized testimony against state officials. The company's corporate parent is the UK communications and printing firm De La Rue, which even as we speak is churning out the colonial currency notes for the new Iraq, courtesy of a hefty Coalition contract. De La Rue, in turn, is owned by the private equity firm Madison Dearborn--a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush I makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and sweetheart deals with government insiders. Investigations by Bev Harris, Thom Hartmann and many others have forced some of these concerns about computer voting into the edge of the mainstream. Maryland, for example, was so worried about its fat new contract with Diebold that it hired another company to vet the software: SAIC. On the surface, this seems a bit like asking Pepsi to certify the taste of Coke, as top SAIC executives have now spun off into the vote-counting game. These include former CEO Admiral Bill Owens--former military aide to Dick Cheney and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci--and ex-CIA director Robert Gates, of Iran-Contra fame. Another SAIC executive, David Kay, has been hired by the Bushists to "find" Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction. SAIC's long history of fraud charges and security lapses in its electronic systems hasn't prevented it from becoming one of the largest contractors for the Pentagon and the CIA--and it will doubtless pose little obstacle to its entrance into election engineering. The mad rush to install unverifiable computer voting is driven by the Help America Vote Act, signed by Bush last year. The chief lobbying group pushing for HAVA was a consortium of arms dealers--those disinterested corporate citizens--including Northop-Grumman and Lockheed-Martin. The bill also mandates that all states adopt the computerized "voter purge" system used by Florida's Jeb Bush to eliminate 91,000 eligible black voters from the rolls in November 2000. This was done by a private firm, the Republican-run ChoicePoint Inc., which delivered a list of supposedly "ineligible" voters--identified by race--to Florida officials. ChoicePoint was supposed to help local officials correct any mistakes, but despite taking several million dollars for this task, they somehow neglected to do it. Now Bush's HAVA requires that all states conduct similar operations--and no points for guessing which Republican-run private firm is gobbling up the lion's share of those contracts. (This gives a whole new meaning to the term "whitewash"). The unelected Bush Regime now controls the government, the military, the judiciary--and the machinery of democracy itself. Absent some unlikely great awakening by the co-opted dullards of the corporate media, next November the last shreds of a genuine American republic will disappear--at the push of a button. ======================================================= Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor to CounterPunch. His CounterPunch piece on Rumsfeld's plan to provoke terrorist attacks came in at Number 4 on Project Censored's final tally of the Most Censored stories of 2002. 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