U.S. Vote Count Is Not Audited & Is Being Fraudulently Modified
"Those who vote decide noting. Those who count the votes
decide everything." - Josef Stalin, Russia.
See also: 20 Facts Regarding
Voting Fraud; Private Vote Count
Forum on the 2004 Presidential Election, Dec 13, 2001 interview of
Clinton Eugene Curtis, Computer Programmer:
Moderator: “Mr. Curtis are there programs that can be secretly used
to fix elections?”
Mr. Curtis: “Yes”
Moderator: “How do you know that to be the case?”
Mr. Curtis: “Because in October of 2000 I wrote a prototype for present
congressman Tom Feeney at the company I work for in Lobeto Floreda that
did just that.
Moderator: “And when you say it did just that it would rig an election?
Mr. Curtis: “It would flip the vote 51 – 49 to whoever you wanted it to
go to and whichever race you wanted to win.”
Moderator: “And would that program that you designed be something that
elections officials that might be on county boards of elections could
detect?”
Mr. Curtis: “They would never see it.”
 In
the 2000 elections, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission stated that 180,000
ballots were ignored in Florida for alleged multiple votes for multiple
presidential candidates. 54% of these discarded votes were cast by
African Americans who most likely voted for Gore. Florida
Secretary of State, Glenda Hood, claimed the State's voting system
"worked flawlessly".
"2004 Ohio Precinct exit poll data shows virtually irrefutable
evidence of vote miscount." – National Election Data Archive.
"Integrity of 2006 elections cannot be ensured." - Government
Accountability Office
In a GOP fund-raising letter for George W. Bush, Walden O'Dell wrote
"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the
president next year." Walden O'Dell at the time was CEO and Chairman of
Diebold corporation who’s un-audited machines count over 40% of the vote
across the United States. (Reported in many sources such as
CBS). December 2005, O'Dell resigned following reports that
the company was facing securities fraud litigation surrounding charges
of insider trading.
The Senior Vice-President and Senior Programmer at Global Election
Systems (GES) now called Diebold Election Systems, Jeff Dean, was
convicted of 23 counts of felony theft for planting back doors in
software he created for ATM. Court documents indicate Jeff Dean
used a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection. GES
employed other convicted felons in senior positions, including a
fraudulent securities trader and a drug trafficker. (Ref
1,
2)
A joint study by the California and Massachusetts Institutes of
Technology following the 2000 election determined that between 1.5 and 2
million votes were not counted due to confusing paper ballots or faulty
equipment.
The Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and
Technical Director of the Information Security Institute, Avi Rubin,
analyzed source code used in Diebold voting machines and reported the
software contained “stunning flaws” that were "far below even the most
minimal security standards applicable in other contexts.". The research
concluded that vote totals could be altered at the voting machines and
by remote access. (Ref
1,
2)
Johns Hopkins and Rice universities of a popular voting system
manufactured by Diebold in Comal County, Texas, 2002, three Republican
candidates each received exactly the same number of votes, 18,181 votes.
An audit revealed that Diebold installed uncertified software on 17
Counties machines.
In November 2002, Broward County officials admitted that software
glitches had caused a failure to report 100,000 votes from turnout
figures.
A survey by South Florida's Sun-Sentinel determined that touch-screen
voting machines made by ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems failed to record
votes eight times more often than optical scanners.
June 2006, A Pottawattamie County, Iowa election official hand
counted her ballots and was surprised to find a total entirely different
than the results noted on the voting machines. The manufacturer,
Election Systems & Software, admitted that it had programmed the
machines incorrectly.
 Cuyahoga County, Ohio's May 2, 2006 primary:
- Machines were turned off and on many times by overwhelmed poll workers
trying desperately to make them work;
- Memory cards replaced midstream; paper trails that got thrown away
- Voters who were told they were done when the machine was reading
'error';
- After the screen went blank, ballots without all the appropriate
issues appeared in some precincts.
Boone County, Indiana had 19,000 registered voters, however the
voting machines counted 144,000 votes
when in fact only 5,352 votes had been cast.
see the CBS report
Tarrant County, Texas: 58,000 votes cast, 158,103 votes counted
(Mar. 9, 2006; The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram "Vote spike blamed on
program snafu")
Allamakee County, Iowa: 300 votes fed into the machine, 4 million
votes came out (Nov. 2000; According to the Wall Street Journal, Nov.
17, 2000 "Fuzzy Numbers")
On Aug. 8, 2004,
Black Box Voting
founder Bev Harris taught former presidential candidate Howard Dean how
to hack the "mother ship" that tallies all incoming votes from
precincts.
Computer programmer Jeremiah Akin has demonstrated how to hack the
Sequoia "WinEds" election management system to flip Spanish language
votes to the wrong candidate.
Computerized election management systems assign a number to each
candidate. By editing the file to flip the candidate number, Bev Harris
has demonstrated that the Diebold GEMS central tabulator can swap votes
between candidates. Harris has also demonstrated this manipulation
targeting only the absentee votes.
According to the Diebold sales literature provided to the state of
Georgia, "no human" can alter the audit log. Black Box Voting engaged
the services of Baxter the Chimpanzee, a former TV chimp in Europe.
Baxter was taught to alter the audit log in less than an hour. Here is a
video:
Chimp Video
Central tabulators that use Microsoft-based programs can usually be
hacked using a trojan horse-like script. This is simply a set of text
commands typed into "notepad" or other devices; at the right time, the
program can alter the votes undetectably. This was demonstrated using a
real voting system in Leon County, Florida by Black Box Voting with Dr.
Herbert Thompson.
The electronic ballot boxes, now stored on removable
credit-card-sized disks called memory cards, can be stuffed and hacked
as well. This was demonstrated in another Black Box Voting project, by
computer expert Harri Hursti -- again using real voting systems in Leon
County Florida.
In Emery County, Utah, in a Black Box
Voting project, researcher Harri Hursti and an expert from Security Innovation learned that simply by knowing the name of
the voter file on the Diebold TSx system, the file can be replaced with
fraudulent vote counts through a variety of interfaces including: memory cards,
wireless devices or cable attached to the
motherboard. Many of the voting machines can be opened up with a screwdriver
and controlled from ports on the motherboard. The Diebold TS-R6 contains an iRda
port allowing unmonitored wireless device access to the system without
even opening the system. THe Diebold TSx machine has a slot to fit an SD
wireless card on the motherboard. It was also demonstrated in
Emery County that the foundation of the voting systems itself can be altered, leaving a
contaminated system that cannot be cleaned, giving total control to the
hacker.
Evidence
illustrates that the
Reagan and Bush administration supported computer manipulation in both
Noriega’s rise to power in Panama and in Marcos’ attempt to retain power
in the Philippines. Former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell wrote
that one of the favorite tactics of the CIA during the Reagan-Bush
administration in the 1980s was to control countries by manipulating
their election process.
"The politicians don't own this country... we do. I propose going to
the polls on Election Day and voting against every single incumbent on
the ballot. Think about it. How much worse could it be to have a whole
new group of people in Washington who haven't learned how to steal and
lie yet?" - Jack Cafferty, CNN Commentator: 10/17/2006
DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS
1 in 5 Americans believe the elections were fraudulent.
That's over 41 Million Americans.
You are NOT alone!
See Democracy or Republic -
Voting By Billboard & Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Hacking Democracy DVD
The documentary by Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels and Robert
Carrillo Cohen. Order online at
www.hackingdemocracy.com
The documentary, broadcast on HBO throughout November & December
2006, exposes the dangers of voting machines used during America's mid
term and presidential elections. Electronic voting machines count
approximately 90% of America's votes in county, state and federal
elections. The technology is also increasingly being used across the
world, including in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin
America. Filmed over three years this exposé follows the investigations
of a team of citizen activists and hackers as they take on the
electronic voting industry, targeting the Diebold corporation.
"Hacking Democracy" uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans
of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the
trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential
recount.
Ultimately proving our votes can be stolen without a trace "Hacking
Democracy" culminates in the famous 'Hursti Hack'; a duel between the
Diebold voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland - with
America's democracy at stake.
"Hacking Democracy" was Executive Produced by Sarah Teale & Sian
Edwards of Teale-Edwards Productions LLC
from the Hacking Democracy Site:
The two Ohio election staff who
feature in "Hacking Democracy" were sentenced on March 13th 2007 for
rigging the 2004 presidential recount. Incriminating footage from the
documentary was used in their court case as evidence.
(Fox 8, Cleveland)
A grand jury indicted three Cuyahoga county elections workers, and
earlier this year, a jury convicted two of them - Jacqueline Maiden and
Kathy Dreamer.
Watch the video
(newsnet5.com & Associated Press)
Two election workers in Ohio's most populous county were sentenced
Tuesday to 18 months in prison for rigging the 2004 presidential
election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the
votes.
Details & video.
(Fox 8, Cleveland)
Concern surrounding security breaches at the Board of Elections during
last November's Election has led Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason
to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.
Watch the video
Two days before HBO's premier broadcast of "Hacking Democracy", Diebold
issued an outraged letter to the channel's Chairman, demanding that HBO
"pull the documentary" from the schedule.
While Diebold had not even seen "Hacking Democracy"
their error filled letter also contained this
extraordinary statement about the film:
"Harri Hursti is shown attacking a Diebold machine in Florida. But
his attack proved later to be a complete sham."
Download
the letter from Diebold President, David Byrd.
The 'Hursti Hack' forms the climax of the film and
proved for the first time that votes stored on Diebold's memory cards
can be changed undetectably. In fact our ground breaking hack was
scientifically proven to be completely true. California's Secretary of
State commissioned a special report by scientists at UC Berkeley to
investigate the Hursti Hack. Page 2 of their report states:
"Harri Hursti's attack does work: Mr. Hursti's attack on the AV-OS
is definitely real. He was indeed able to change the election results by
doing nothing more than modifying the contents of a memory card. He
needed no passwords, no cryptographic keys, and no access to any other
part of the voting system, including the GEMS election management
server."
Download
the report from the University of California, Berkeley
HR 811 Government Vote Fraud
Turning the vote theft issue on its head By Bev Conover Online
Journal Editor & Publisher
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1781.shtml
Feb 22, 2007, 00:59
The issue isn't voter fraud; it's politicians and election officials
who opt for the convenience of computerized vote counting -- whether
it's optical scanners or touch screens containing memory cards.
The name of the game is blame the voters. Make them jump through
hoops to cast their votes. Make ballots as confusing as possible. Pass
laws that severely restrict or totally ban hand recounts of optically
scanned ballots. Add to the mix an insufficient number of machines that
cause unconscionably long waits in districts where you want to suppress
voter turnout, in case intimidation and dirty tricks aren't enough to
keep the number down.
Yes, optically scanned ballots create a paper trail. But what good
are they if the machine count is manipulated enough not to trigger the
percentage the law requires for a hand recount or if the law prohibits
hand recounting?
Touch screens or direct electronic recording (DRE) machines leave no
paper trail. Even if the courts reversed themselves to allow election
officials, independent computer experts and the public to look at the
proprietary computer code, votes can be flipped with no electronic
trace.
Yet, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) would have people believe that his bill,
HR 811, to require voter verified printouts would solve the problem. As
Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, has pointed out, among other
flaws in Holt's bill, that it would cost $7,000 per machine for 185,000
polling places for the text conversion technology to produce printouts.
Apparently Holt, like most politicians, favors expensive, complicated
and impractical devices that accomplish nothing, while conning people
into believing the contrary, over inexpensive simple solutions. Can you
say Rube Goldberg contraptions?
The simple solution is hand-counted paper ballots. Paper and pencils
are way less expensive, require no company technicians to set them up
and maintain them, and have no need of costly storage facilities.
Moreover, local printers would benefit from printing ballots.
Limit each voting district to 500 voters to reduce waiting time for
both voters and the time it takes to count the votes. Open the doors so
the public, in an orderly fashion, can witness the counting.
Provide each registered voter with a registration card, which is all
that is required to cast a ballot, rather than the ridiculous number of
documents some states are now mandating as proof of identity --
something which The New York Times reported is keeping people away from
the polls.
Since voting on Sundays, as many countries do, or even on Saturdays
would get some religious folks' knickers in a twist, make the Tuesday
primary and general election days holidays for national and state
elections.
See also
http://www.peaceteam.net/hr811.php
See also: 20 Facts Regarding
Voting Fraud; Private Vote Count
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