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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-hmm, what does this tell US? we can't vote our way out of this mess so we all have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so may as well band and stand together in bottom-up solidarity and in a people's movement together developing into a critical mass, we can move this mountain of debilitating destructive festering garbage out of our way and get down to the real work of real positive change so there may be future generations and enough fertility and biodiversity to sustain life indefinitely.This is no reason to lose hope where we should never have had it, put it, in the first place. Let's bridge the digital divide. Print off articles serving all us people's issues, on the backside of paper we recycle (be on message), or even arrange one page fact sheets with references people can go to for further research. This can serve a dual purpose if we use them for outreach, for bringing people together as well as for education purposes. Cuz virtual 'space is marginalized from the mainstream where the view is cultivated that the internet is fool's paradise of lies. But this is where real investigative journalism has been relegated to. Let's go forth and make use of the "mysteriously" ignored golden opportunities their extreme negativity presents (e.g. the unemployed and impoverished, alienated, would need little facilitation in forming community, however loose, to commence grassroots commerce, develop a base for 'fair trade', implement the obvious sane sustainable alternatives, set the good example, doin' the right thing. that's just one example):-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral
votes to the president [Bush] next year"
-- Walden O'Dell, CEO of Diebold
August 2003
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http://www.rense.com/general52/bros.htm
Two Voting Companies & Two Brothers Will Count 80% Of The U.S. Election
- - Using BOTH Scanners & Touchscreens
By Lynn Landes
4-27-4
Voters can run, but they can't hide from these guys. Meet the Urosevich
brothers, Bob and Todd. Their respective companies, Diebold and ES&S, will
count (using BOTH computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines)
about 80% of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Both ES&S and Diebold have been caught installing uncertified software in
their machines. Although there is no known certification process that will
protect against vote rigging or technical failure, it is a requirement of
most, if not all, states.
And, according to author Bev Harris in her book, Black Box Voting, "...one
of the founders of the original ES&S (software) system, Bob Urosevich,
also oversaw development of the original software now used by Diebold
Election Systems."
Talk about putting all our eggs in one very bogus, but brotherly basket.
Even if states or counties hire their own technicians to re-program
Diebold or ES&S software (or software from other companies), experts say
that permanently installed software, called firmware, still resides inside
of both electronic scanners and touchscreen machines and is capable of
manipulating votes. For those who are unfamiliar with the term 'firmware',
here's a definition by BandwidthMarket.com: "Software that is embedded in
a hardware device that allows reading and executing the software, but does
not allow modification, e.g., writing or deleting data by an end user."
The ability to rig an election is well within easy reach of voting machine
companies. And it does not matter if the machines are scanners or
touchscreens, or are networked or hooked up to modems.
So, for those states and counties who think they're dodging the bullet by
not buying (or not using) the highly insecure and error-prone touchscreen
voting machines (which will process 28.9% of all votes this year), a huge
threat still remains - computerized ballot scanners. They will count 57.6%
of all votes cast, including absentee ballots.
And don't count on recounts to save the day. In most states, recounts of
paper ballots only occur if election results are close. The message to
those who want to rig elections is, "rig them by a lot." In some states,
like California, spot checks are conducted. But, that will not be an
effective way to discover or deter vote fraud or technical failure,
particularly in a national election where one vote per machine will
probably be enough to swing a race.
Although touchscreens have been getting the bulk of negative publicity
lately, electronic ballot scanners have a long and sordid past, as well.
Electronic scanners were first introduced into U.S. elections in 1964, and
ever since then a steady stream of reports of technical irregularities
have caught the attention of scientists, journalists, and activists, most
notably the 1988 report, Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized
Vote-Tallying, by Roy G. Saltman, and the 1992 book, Votescam: The
Stealing of America, by Jim and Ken Collier.
Even though there are several foreign and domestic corporations involved
in the U.S. vote counting business, ES&S and Diebold clearly dominate the
field. ES&S claims that they have tabulated "56% of the U.S. national vote
for the past four presidential elections", while a Diebold spokesperson
told this writer that the company processed about 35% of U.S. electronic
vote count in 2002.
But, is there any real difference between Diebold and ES&S? Perhaps not.
Bob Urosevich is currently president of Diebold. Todd is vice president of
ES&S. In 1999, American Information Systems (AIS), purchased Business
Records Corporation (BRC) to become ES&S. AIS (1980) was formerly Data
Mark (1979). Both AIS and Data Mark were founded by the brothers
Urosevich. In 2002 Diebold acquired Global Election Systems. Global was
founded 1991, which itself acquired the AccuVote system the same year. Bob
Urosevich is a past president of Global.
Of course, most interested observers don't believe that the Urosevich
brothers are the real brains behind their respective operations. For
information on their financial backers, check out Chapter 8 of Bev's book
- - blackboxvoting.com, and my webpage -
ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm.
Diebold and ES&S have been involved in countless election irregularities
over the years, involving both ballot scanners and touchscreens. But, it
seems that they've always managed to finesse a happy ending for
themselves. Now, it appears that at least Diebold might be in real
trouble.
On April 22, 2004, Jim Wasserman of the Associated Press (AP) reported,
"By an 8-0 vote, the state's (California) Voting Systems and Procedures
Panel recommended that (Secretary of State) Shelley cease the use of the
machines, saying that Texas-based Diebold has performed poorly in
California and its machines malfunctioned in the state's March 2 primary
election, turning away many voters in San Diego County...In addition to
the ban, panel members recommended that a secretary of state's office
report released Wednesday, detailing alleged failings of Diebold in
California, be forwarded to the state attorney general's office to
consider civil and criminal charges against the company."
Interestingly, no one in the U.S. federal government seems to be paying
attention...as usual. There is no federal agency that has regulatory
authority or oversight of the voting machine industry - not the Federal
Election Commission (FEC), not the Department of Justice (DOJ), and not
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The FEC doesn't even have a
complete list of all the companies that count votes in U.S. elections.
Once again we are witness to an 'eyes closed, hands off' approach to
protecting America. The 2004 election rests in the private hands of the
Urosevich brothers, who are financed by the far-out right wing and top
donors to the Republican Party. The Democrats are either sitting ducks or
co-conspirators. I don't know which.
My mantra remains - Vote Paper Ballots, Ditch the Machines.
Lynn Landes is one of the nation's leading journalists on voting
technology and democracy issues. Readers can find her articles at
<http://www.ecotalk.org/>EcoTalk.org. Lynn is a former news reporter for
<http://www.dutv.org/>DUTV and commentator for the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC). Contact info:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] / (215) 629-3553
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