GEORGIA:
A
CITIZEN’S EVIDENCE
THAT PRIVATIZED ELECTIONS
LEAD TO FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS
BASED ON RAW 2004 GA
ELECTION DATA PURCHASED BY CITIZENS
source: www.daveward.net
By:
Executive
Director,
Count
Paper Ballots: Citizens Working to Stop Privatized Elections
May
28, 2005 (latest revision V1.0)
Table
of Contents
THE
FACE OF PRIVATIZED ELECTIONS
HAVA
Spells Election Disaster For States Feverishly Vying For The Golden Pot Of HAVA
Cash
WHY AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD
ELECTRONIC VOTING
How
Privatized Elections Will Enslave Americans Worse Than Before the Voting Rights
Act of 1965
African
American Heroes, Fighting for People of All Color’s Right To Vote
The
Heroes of the Ohio Recount Challenge
The
Democratic Losers in the Ohio Recount Challenge
WHY
PRIVATIZED ELECTIONS WILL ENSLAVE AMERICANS WORSE THAN BEFORE THE VOTING RIGHTS
ACT OF 1965
HOW
CITIZENS ARE WINNING AGAINST DIEBOLD & OTHER DRE VENDORS
Personal
Threats by Bob Urosevich
Programmers
with Felony Convictions
Follow
the Money: How Diebold Pays People to Buy Their Equipment
Wallie
O’Dell’s Stated Support For “Delivering the Ohio Election To Bush”
CHOICEPOINT
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
10
REASONS NOT TO BUY DRE MACHINES
Nashville
Sings the Blues As Election Activists Cry Foul At a National Conference on
Election Reform
PRESIDENT
JIMMY CARTER’S PRIVATE ELECTION REFORM COMMISSION: Or New Ways to Ignore the
Citizens
DNC
REACTION TO ELECTION FRAUD: Or New Ways to Ignore the Citizens
ACLU
REACTION TO GEORGIA’S ELECTION FRAUD: Or New Ways to Ignore the Citizens
BEV
HARRIS: A One Woman Anti-Electronic Voting Machine Show
Georgia is the first state to purchase 100% of
Diebold’s DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) machines, after signing a contract
for $54 Million dollars paid for by taxpayers from the HAVA (Help America Vote
Act) fund.[1] Our former Governor and President Jimmy
Carter along with Gerald Ford were the early backers of the HAVA Act designed
in increase voter turnout, voter education and registrations, all very noble
goals. It’s a sad irony that President
Carter would later have to step down from the Carter Center, his life’s dream,
to fix the problems HAVA has created.
THE FACE OF PRIVATIZED ELECTIONS |
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Cathy Cox on the
inside flap of a Diebold marketing folder along with 3 other elections
officials. Where in her job
description does it say work as a marketing agent for election corporations? |
Enter the villain, Cathy Cox, Georgia’s
democratic Secretary of State and current gubernatorial candidate who single
handedly ushered in the The Diebold Borg to Georgia
by offering Diebold a $54M ‘No Bid’ contract.
This is against Georgia state law not to have a formal RFP
process. This is not the only reason
activists have lovingly named Ms. Cox, Cathy “100% Diebold” Cox. There is
also documented evidence of Cathy Cox walking out of a citizen forum focused
on election reform after calling earnest citizen questions ‘entertainment.’[2] |
Even this press release should
have been a harbinger of privatized times to come to the most carefully discerning
observer.
Georgia is First in the Nation to Acquire Uniform
Electronic Voting System to Improve Accuracy, Convenience and Accessibility
$54 Million Voting Equipment Contract Award is Largest in U. S. History
System Will Debut During November 5th 2002 General Election
First of all, how could the secretary of state’s
office claim electronic voting improves accuracy, convenience and accessibility
when no such voting system had ever been involved in Georgia elections? Or how about the Freudian slip with the word
“System will Debut”, could this be an accidental admission that the voting
systems would Debut the way ACTORS act a role (not stay true to their real
selves) on behalf of Georgia voters? The
list of ‘conflict of interest’ behavior by Ms. Cox includes giving Diebold
permission to put the Georgia state seal on their website. It took citizen activism to change that
behavior. According to Denis Wright,
author of an article
entitled “Meet Cathy Diebold” he believes “There are serious reasons to believe that the 2002
election in Georgia was not a legal election, for several important reasons”.[3]
Tragically, HAVA Help America Vote Act has become
a tool for voting system vendors to twist county election officials into
thinking they have to buy technology to solve age old disability and accuracy
problems. Today, HAVA has become a
dangerous election money drain, a veritable black hole into which the US is
pouring billions in hard earned taxpayer monies to supposedly ‘modernize’
antiquated election systems. This while
95% of the world’s democracies use paper ballots and countries like Ireland
after tying electronic voting, have gone back to paper ballots.[4] Even Miami Dade county’s
election supervisor Lestor Sola said in a memo dated
Friday May 27, 2005 that after spending $24.5M on electronic voting is choosing
to go back to paper ballots.[5] The current Hava
budget is over $3.9 Billion[6]
and yet there appears to be no real analysis of how electronic voting systems
in the past have lost entire precincts worth of data simply because of a
computer problem. What else could we do
with spending, hundreds of millions on paper ballots and using the rest of that
$3Billion on say education, or healthcare upgrades or even helping fix the
problems with social security.
The cost of a paper ballot is roughly 83 Cents,
the cost of a Diebold machine with printer (New York’s pricing) $8,000 and that
does not include the $93/machine maintenance contract NOT paid for by HAVA and
the $4500 per visit cost of a Diebold technician to step one foot in the door
of a county election office[7]. The cost to run 1 precinct with roughly 1,000
voters on paper is roughly $?????? while it costs
$24,000 to run on Diebold Touchscreens with Printers. With the costs sometimes 6 time
more expensive, what possible logic could be driving DRE machine
purchases? The secret again, keeps
coming back to HAVA.
How HAVA is really impacting states is that the
money in the HAVA fund is ushering a new form of fascist control of our
elections, and the pricetag for this enormous
privatization and ‘dishonest’ rigging of our elections is paid for by
taxpayers. How it works is states have
to apply for the HAVA money in a certain timeframe or lose access to it, for
most states this is millions. In Ohio
over $100M is up for grabs. HAVA money
does not pay for paper ballots, although the HAVA legislation does provide for
paper ballots (click here). Nor does
HAVA pay for maintenance costs in year 3 of the machines purchased. In Georgia
in 2006, counties will have to pay the outrageous $2.6M maintenance bill at
$93/machine. For most counties, this involves floating bonded debt to pay for
the machine. That’s the problem HAVA
ushers in technology that counties cannot afford after the initial funding is
exhausted. But it’s a catch-22 for
conscientious elections officials thinking they are doing good by getting rid
of lever machines and the only money available to them is forcing them to
choose between ES&S and Diebold (both companies with heavy Republican donor
Executives and also brothers, and both owned by parent McCarthy Group, see
Diebold Family Tree later in this document)
However, no one could have predicted President
Jimmy Carter, even after creating the “Carter Center” respected worldwide for
its help in monitoring elections all over the world, would end up being the
grandfather of election fraud in the United States. No one is more surprised than me, a woman who
was taken by the had at age 18 by my father and told not only to register, not
only to vote, not only that voting mattered, but most importantly, that Jimmy
Carter was the greatest President ever elected and to vote proudly as a
democrat as often as possible.
No one was more shocked than myself, when Jimmy
Carter invited James Baker III, President Bush’s legal counsel helping George
W. Bush steal the 2000 election by forcing judges to declare victory before all
the ballots were officially recounted.
In fact, this problem of recounts illegally stopped by partisan judges
happened again in 2004 when Judge Thomas Moyer, an Ohio Supreme Court Judge,
rather than recusing himself, decided that even though his judges race would
have been affected by the recount’s outcome, rather than recuse himself,
decided quite boldly to shut down the recount in Ohio even after the Greens and
Libertarian parties paid $110,000 to have it completed.
Thanks for HAVA Jimmy! Maybe that’s why Jimmy Carter has started a
private election commission to study the problems of the last few elections and
officially stepped down from the Carter Center.
You wouldn’t guess President Carter is one bit remorseful in unleashing
this illegal stealing of elections from citizens who legally own all aspects of
elections (the ballots, the counting, it all belongs to citizens), because he
has appointed as Co-Chair of the commission James A. Baker III, a man who was
Bush’s legal counsel and helped Bush steal the 2000 election by forcing
partisan judges in Florida to stop the recount and force the victory for Bush
even though Al Gore won by over 3 Million popular votes and a final report
showed he won the recount as well.
Reversing 132 Years of Georgia’s Democratic
History
It All Began With A Single “No Bid” Contract with
Diebold, Inc. in 2002
How Georgia’s Former SOS Lewis Massey Became a
Diebold Lobbyist (and other failed endeavors)
How Cathy Cox’s Office has Been Negligent in Their
Investigation of Stolen Diebold Equipment
When I
first starting working on election fraud in Georgia, I kept saying “Oh Why Oh,
Ohio?” It seemed everywhere I turned all the money and focus of fraud was on
one state that clearly had Republican control of the state and judges by the
GOP. Strategically, my gut told me,
Phyllis, stay away from Ohio, it’s a can of worms. In fact, at the Nashville conference, I said
as much to Lowell Finley, the attorney who fought the California Diebold suit
and won. I felt that it was not the
result of poor attorney filings but rather, illegal activities and criminal
republican wrangling that kept Ohio from ever being resolved. But listening in on my conversation was a
woman who begged me not to write Ohio off so quickly. I began corresponding with her and found we
both shared a hatred and a focus on Diebold. I promised her I would attend the Ohio
Teach-In in Columbus on May 7th and it was there that the importance
of Ohio became philosophically and emotionally important to me.
OHIO
is a state of extreme democratic activism. I can say this because of all the other
states I’ve lived in, the folks in Ohio make the other activists look like
armchair warriors. The other
philosophical importance of Ohio is one Mr. John Conyers and one Ms. Stephanie
Tubbs Jones. Yes, there have been other
‘heroes’ but these 2 stand out as the earliest and staunchest voice in support
of labeling and fixing the gross abuses of election rigging that happened in
Ohio. This is significant, not only
because of John Conyer’s role on the House Judiciary
Committee, but also because he and Stephanie were already ardent ‘civil rights’
activists. So when election fraud is
boiled down, it results in ‘enslavement’ of the citizens who have to be
governed by ‘unelected officials.’ This
is a CORE CIVIL RIGHT in the sense that all other civil rights derive from this
root CIVIL RIGHT, that being, one’s right to have ‘representative democracy.’
Remembering
our American history lessons, it’s why the Boston tea party was so significant,
why even that was early citizen activism fighting for ‘representative
government’. It meant the founding
fathers and the early ‘citizen activists’ of 1776, decided wholeheartedly to
reject a monarchy rule that robbed the country’s riches such as Tea back to
England and that citizens would set up their own representative democracy.
So
what’s at stake in Ohio and who have been the most ardent and vocal opponents
of this CORE CIVIL RIGHT being forcibly removed are of paramount philosophical
importance. It’s clear that Jones-Tubbs
and Conyers with their very personal history of civil rights struggle can
understand better than anyone (and perhaps more poignantly) the years of
heartache and suffering the African American population has endured to secure
the right to vote. For this reason
alone, I finally understood the connection of this struggle to a larger civil
rights movement, I understand the absolute power of Stephanie Tubbs Jones and
Rep. John Conyers as the capable and only ‘QUALIFIED’ spokespersons and
realized why Ohio needed to win its struggle against Election Fraud at ‘all
costs’ or else suffer a democracy that parades as ‘representative’ but has
replaced representative government with oligarchical corporate pawns for
leaders and corporations as their masters.
With the military under corporate control as well, we truly have become
a full fledged fascist state.
I felt
similarly humbled when viewing footage of Stephanie Tubbs Jones for the first
time encouraging young African American children to excel in sports, to excel
in school. Her very sacred place as a
role model for Americans of all races, serves as the role model for a movement
that had no other leaders of similar calibre. The deafening silence of John Kerry in not
joining the recount lawsuit for no ‘clear’ reason, and the relatively
misunderstood ‘civil rights’ angle by recount challengers David Cobb and
Michael Badnarik, have provided our nation with
unlikely heroes in 2 Ohio statemen, Conyers and
Tubbs-Jones.
It
does however, give other nations looking in a heart
wrenching and satirical example of the US white man, known his early years of
exploiting African American labor thru slavery, is now all but dependent on a
few African American leaders in Ohio to get his right to vote back as
well. The white man’s slavery will
continue until the white men in power give power and truth to the spokesman who
have fought so long and so hard for all of us.
People
of all colors also, currently depend as if ‘for their life’ on these 2 very
proud African American Civil Rights Liberty Fighters, and I wanted this book to
take sufficient time to expose their role and their subsequent heroism in
standing up so early and so often for the rest of us ‘nameless’ citizens
fighting as well.
That Barbera Boxer stood up on January 6th was
testimony to her ‘mojo’ and her standing up had in large part to do with the
urgings of these 2 very powerful statesmen for the election fraud movement.
I do
not leave out Jesse Jackson, as a slight, I merely point out his organized
demonstration clearly accelerated a movement that was begun by Jones and
Tubbs-Jones, and in this right, Jackson’s worldwide recognition for resolving
matters of Civil Rights abuses, eventually legitimized this struggle, made it a
nationwide ‘Civil Rights / Election Reform Movement’ and as a core civil rights
struggle and one that it would take African American leaders such as Jesse
Jackson (as well as his articulate and very handson
son, Jesse Jackson Jr.) to propel. Jesse
Jackson Jr.’s speech at the PDA Summit in Washington DC in January rests as the
most motivationally powerful speech I’ve ever heard a politician deliver and I
will watch Jackson Jr.’s career like a hawk watches its prey.
I
could list the names alphabetically so as not to imply importance and will do
so below. It’s important to note that each of these people have made huge
sacrifices in fighting for this struggle.
Bob Fritrakis |
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Phil Fry |
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Marj Creech |
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Rady Ananda |
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Susan Truitt |
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Sheila Parks |
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Cliff Arnebeck |
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Jon Boniface |
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Don McTigue |
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David Cobb |
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Michael Badnarik |
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Bev Harris |
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Lynn Landis |
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Barbara Boxer |
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones |
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Cliff Arnebeck |
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Brad Friedman |
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Phyllis Huster |
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Paddy Shaeffer |
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It is enlightening to read the 2004 Diebold annual
report below, as a way to applaud dedicated activist successes in stopping the
spread of Diebold nationwide. From what
I know Bev Harris of Black Box Voting has been a key player in bringing this
success about. But there is also
internal election reform industry controversy over Bev Harris’ use of the work
of many other valuable people such as Roxanne Jekot
and Andy Stephenson without paying them a penny for their work. Many have questioned the ethic of Bev Harris
in her dealings with other activists.
She has also muddied her
The paragraph below explains lower than expected voting equipment
sales due to “challenges in the media”.
The election systems business continued to be a challenge for the
company, as lower revenue and the settlement of the civil action in California
with the state of California and Alameda County had a significant negative
impact on margin and earnings per share. The company continues to face a
variety of challenges and opportunities in responding to customer needs within
the election systems market. A number of individuals and groups have raised
challenges in the media and elsewhere, including legal challenges, about the
reliability and security of the company’s election systems products and
services. The parties making these challenges oppose the use of technology in
the electoral process generally and, specifically, have filed lawsuits and
taken other actions to publicize what they view as significant flaws in the
company’s election management software and firmware. These efforts have
adversely affected some of the company’s customer relations with its election
systems customers. Also, the election systems market continues to evolve.
Funding is being provided by the federal government and utilized by the states;
however, the guidelines and rules governing the election software and hardware
have not yet been fully established. As a result, various states and industry
experts are interpreting the election requirements differently. Recent changes
in the laws under which election-related products must be certified by a number
of states have lengthened the certification process and, in some cases,
required changes to the company’s products. For example, some states are
requiring paper receipt printers, and the state of Ohio has decided to adopt
mostly optical scan rather than touch-screen technology.[8]
They are likely referring to the efforts of Black
Box Voting a citizen group led by the nation’s leading expert in DRE Machine
Voting, Bev Harris.
Following the family tree of Diebold is akin to
watching an episode of “The Sopranos”. I even lived in New Jersey, knew a few
Ritchie’s in my time and find any Mafioso character to be infinitely ‘kinder
and gentler’ than a Diebold family member.
Let’s start with Bob Urosevich. In the next section you’ll hear that his
favorite phrase was about sending out someone to go get you, if you said
something he didn’t like. Andy
Stephenson’s reply in the movie VoterGate was, ‘who
you gonna send Bob, the easter bunny?’
But it gets truly frightening the higher you climb.
Electronic
Voting as a way to rig elections can be traced back as a great way to put Chuck
Hagel in Office in Nebraska. He faced a
tough democratic opponent in 1996 and was lucky to have an investment stake in
ES&S a firm he held thru his ownership in the McCarthy Group, ES&S key
funder. ES&S is also owned in part
by the McCarthy Group and also by Omaha World-Herald Co., Nebraska’s biggest
newspaper. What’s more fishy is that 85%
of the votes were tallied by ES&S a firm that McCarthy held a stake
in. Thom Hartmann pegged this Hagel
connection early in January of 2003 in his Common Dreams Article "If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"
Back
when Hagel first ran there for the U.S. Senate in 1996, his company's
computer-controlled voting machines showed he'd won stunning upsets in both the
primaries and the general election. The Washington Post (1/13/1997) said
Hagel's "Senate victory against an incumbent Democratic governor was the
major Republican upset in the November election." According to Bev Harris
of www.blackboxvoting.org,
Hagel won virtually every demographic group, including many largely Black
communities that had never before voted Republican. Hagel was the first
Republican in 24 years to win a Senate seat in Nebraska. Six years later Hagel
ran again, this time against Democrat Charlie Matulka
in 2002, and won in a landslide. As his hagel.senate.gov
website says, Hagel "was re-elected to his second term in the United
States Senate on November 5, 2002 with 83% of the vote. That represents the
biggest political victory in the history of Nebraska."[9]
The
latest news on Chuck Hagel is even more ironic.
He is quoted as saying at a New Hampshire event where he is likely to
eventually be campaigning as Presidential candidate in 2008 “More seriously,
New Hampshire is important to the nation's political process because we have
become such an electronic nation. We've lost the personal touch."[10]
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According
to an article in “The Hill” , “Hagel had reported a
financial stake worth $1 million to $5 million in the privately held firm.
But he did not report the company’s underlying assets, choosing instead to
cite his holdings as an “excepted investment fund,” and therefore exempt from
detailed disclosure rules In
1996, ES&S operated as American Information Systems Inc. (AIS). The
company became ES&S after merging with Business Records Corp. in 1997.”[11] |
Stealing Identities & Rigging Voter
Registrations For a Living
We’re 100% Innocent, Email from Donna Curling,
Wife of Doug Curling
Atlanta Journal and Constitution Response to Stock
Selling from ChoicePoint Executives
California Voter Registration Database Now 100% ChoicePoint, Courtesy of Arnold’s No-Bid Contract Award
Every movement needs its critical mass, and such
was the case weekend of April 8-10th in Nashville as the first
formal gathering of Election Reform Advocates gained momentum, leadership and a
mainstream media voice. While hundreds
of election reform activists gathered initially at the PDA Summit January 22nd
through January 24th in Washington DC, and numerous cities such as San Diego
have begun teach-ins, this was the first nationwide gathering solely dedicated
to the issue of election reform.
Nashville presented itself a gracious backdrop for such an event, with
the only perfect replica of the “Parthenon” in the world, located minutes from
the event. The Parthenon, a historic reminder as the birthplace of democratic
government and a towering remind of the power of the citizen voice in shaping a
participatory, democratic government aptly symbolized the birth of this
election reform movement.
Cynthia McKinney, a
Democratic congresswoman from Georgia held the audience spellbound with her
Saturday night keynote speech. She
started powerfully with the phrase, ‘we must not forget and we must not let
this issue die, or else I shudder to think what America will become.” She introduced herself further by saying “For
those of you who don’t know who I am, I just happened to ask a little question
about September 11th and that was what did the Bush administration
know and when did it know it about the tragic events of September, and that was
a most responsible question, so I thought, but for those who have something to
hide, they don’t want those questions asked, they certainly don’t want the
American people to have any answers so I suffered mightily for asking that
question. But then, why was it important
for me to come here? Because like you, I
certainly feel victimized by a system that is slipping away from the grips of
the American People. I have seen
electioneering in its worst and most cruel effects, from 1992 when I first ran
for Congress….”
Over 200 people
attended from 30 states representing 15 red states and 15 blue states, and
representatives from 9 political parties met from Friday at 1pm lasting well
into Midnight on the first day of the conference. A local journalist for Nashville’s main
newspaper “The Tenneseean” Laura Luxors
was asked cover the event for an hour.
She came Friday afternoon, stayed 11 hours and came back on
Saturday. Such was the kind of personal
revelation many conference attendees experienced as they saw the scope of their
personal view on fraud expand to a national scale and an even broader
scope. Her article “Election reform speaker: Electronic
voting out of hand”
was given full billing in Monday’s
Nashville’s Main Newspaper “The Tenneseean” (article
here) marking yet another election reform movement victory, mainstream
media honestly covering an event that alleges election fraud.
The conference
theme centered on the citizen’s right to vote, democracy’s great Achilles
heel. The historic timing includes a 2004
election that has never been fully completed, with many Ohio counties left
uncounted due to complicated and legally challenged discontinuation of
recounts. Representatives from New
Mexico, Florida, CA, OH, Georgia and other states came with their spreadsheets
and their notebooks full of open records data, some captured by digital camera,
some purchased and still others hand counted by volunteers in hours of onsite
collection. Their findings include
phantom votes (more machine votes than humans at the polls), turnout rates
higher than 100%, statistically impossible precincts with the exact same total
across 5 precincts, etc. The pivot point
of this movement is the volume of lone citizens across many states, taking back
their government with heroic personal sacrifices and efforts. Any cry of conspiracy theorists was
immediately dispelled by the volume and quality of the attendees, with
professionals such as Judy, a college professor or David a physicist, or statisticians
such as Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips. This
pedantic and professional crowd was not only defending the citizen’s right to
vote but the equally important right of citizens to be ‘enfranchised’ without
long lines when going to vote such as what happened in Franklin County Ohio
(see video www.oneblockover.net).
Additional themes
such as ‘hand counted paper ballots,” “in full citizen view:, “nonpartisan
election officials”, “voter’s bill of rights”, “federal right to vote”,
“disenfranchisement prevention measures, “be the media, “election day holiday”
and other mantras resonated in many speaker’s presentations. The conference
itself was held in a Baptist Church called “Freedom Mission
?? ?? and
this stately cathedral gave both presence and importance to the words being
said.
The most stunning accumulation of professions
and an almost random gathering of ‘unlikely’ heroes came from lawyers such as
Cliff Arnebeck, and independent media blogsters such as Bob Fritrakis
of Freepress.org and Brad Friedman of bradblog.com. Arnebeck, a
normally sedate lawyer enlivened the audience with the words “Kerry Took a
walk” and elevated his speech to the ranks of a great ‘all seeing’ leader such
an odd movement has come to respect.
These leaders are now household names, added to an already growing
movement led by grandmothers and computer experts such as Bev Harris
(blackboxvoting.com), Roxanne (countthevote.org) and others. Taking only 5 months to form a wealth of
conclusions from the independent yet somehow oddly orchestrated citizen
activities, this movement has already produced action such as getting Barber
Boxer to speak out on January 6th and shifted the debate from paper
trails to paper ballots as the ballot of record. The one unifying theme of all participants is
a desire to preserve the citizen’s fundamental right to vote and to know that
their vote is counted accurately. These
attendees bore the marks of personal sacrifice, for example, one activist from
Georgia, Sarah, a student at Georgia Tech, giving up valuable exam weekend
study time to pursue a cause greater than her need to get good grades.
It was the kind of conference that the
attendees did not want to leave, because even as the final workshops finished
Sunday afternoon, a crowd of at least 30 activists were seen eating at Harper’s
restaurant, nearby the Church where the conference took place, huddled into 4
disparate groups, continuing to passionately discuss election issues. In a symbolic form of serendipity, the
conference organizer, Bernie ??? was seen speaking
with a local Nashville elected represented, a woman dressed in powder blue
Sunday school best including a hat of dignified old south elegance, one could
see that she was precisely the kind of everyday constituent such a conference
was meant to address. 3 days were
nowhere near enough time to satiate a starving group of people who have given
time, money, careers and personal passion to demonstrating to the outside world
that indeed there was something most peculiar about the November 2nd
2004 election.
The conferenece
credibility was certified by the participation of such notable organizations as
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Velvet Revolution, Case Ohio, Common
Cause, Libertarian Party, Greens Party, Alliance for
Democracy, Case Ohio, FreePress.Org, and many other citizen groups representing
every continuum of a nonpartisan movement, representing every wing of both a
liberal and conservative political spectrum.
This is what made the conference so historic, never before has such a
diverse coalition of people come to so much consensus on election reform. There was less hashing out policy then there
was defining strategy and action plans.
The event was covered by anywhere from 3-7 professional grade video cameras, including a professional crew from Earnhardt & Co., whose production company offered to capture live footage for what was considered historic citizen testimony on election fraud. In fact if there was any trademark conference it was the recognition of this particular movement that they must ‘be the media’ and the volume of amateur and professional documentarians there to capture the event. A simple discussion of the Baker-Carter commission by some Georgians ended up in cameras filming live the conversations and the usual handout of the ‘release form’ to allow usage of the footage in future productions. This kind of sincerity of importance of the event is what made it self-defining. That is, the footage of the event becomes the media of the event that is shared worldwide. The power of the Internet merely facilitates the kind of instantaneous live participation in the event that others who could not attend, representatives for instance from over 70 Organizations on election reform could with the typing of a URL visit and participate as if being there in person.
The following are sample video/audio from the
conference:
VIDEO/AUDIO:
www.countpaperballots.com/VIDEO/NashvilleVideo.htm
ONLINE
PRESENTATIONS:
www.freepress.org
EVIDENCE SITES:
www.northnet.org/minstrel, the Web site of Dr. Richard Hays Phillips,
www.uscountvotes.org Kathy Dopp’s organization who recently released the Exit Poll Study alleging the impossibility of the shift to Bush
ELECTION FRAUD DEFINED:
Preventing “Access to the Ballot” and Preventing
Counting of Ballots By Breaking Chain of Custody
Framing the Fraud (Intentional Vs. Unintentional
Vs. Acceptable Level of Irregularities)
10 REASONS: 10 Reasons Not To Buy DRE Machines
CATHY “DIEBOLD” COX: The Source of All Georgia’s
Election Problems in 2002 / 2004 Why Democrats are not always our friends
regarding Election Fraud
Video / Audio Election Fraud Evidence
Citizen Efforts to Investigate Election Fraud
Illegally STOPPED
Why Corporations Cannot Honestly Tabulate our
Votes
Why DRE Machines HAVE & WILL NEVER Accurately Count Election Votes
10
REASONS: 10 Reasons Not To Buy DRE Machines
Examples of Big Problems in Georgia with DRE
Machines
Why Even Open Source Computers Owned By Nice
Democrats Won’t Accurately Count Our Votes
High Level Georgia Presidential General Election
Analysis 2000 vs. 2002
Full Georgia Audit of 15 Full Counties
Charts of Races Affected Per Count Paper Ballots
Restatement of Votes Cast
History of 2002 Max Cleland / Roy Barnes Exit Poll
Discrepancies and Final Tallies
Proof that DRE Machines Don’t Work Across the US
Proof that DRE Machines Don’t Work Across the
World
SOLUTION: 100% Hand Counted Paper Ballots, In Full
Citizen View, and With the Chain of Custody Unbroken InTransit
but Citizen Secured at all Times
A Better Ballot and a Better Ballot Box to
Eliminate Under/Over Votes and Prevent Corrupt Sheriff Ballot Box Stuffing
My Pink Slip Firing of the ACLU after 6 months of NO ACTION toward
helping a very simple Open Records Violation is below. The reason they could not help me after
saying in April that my case passed legal committee?
“At this point, my understanding is that we are the only ACLU
looking at this issue ( I polled all ACLUs to
see if others were involved in accessing the records). We have a legislator who
talked to Cathy Cox this week about the issue. Playing
phone tag. We are not finding any lawyers interested in litigating the
issue yet, but continue our search. Our process, especially when no lawyers
volunteer, can be slow.”
Gary:
What you wanted to do has been done..Florida hired a
computer geek who created a trojan horse and it
succeeded,
I will happily put you in touch with these folks..... (see below how a computer expert put a trojan horse very easily in a Diebold machine)
You can show Cathy Cox this all day long, you'll soon find out that her rhetoric and her lies are all about
saving her reputation which by now she realizes is tarnished by Diebold. She does not
give one IOTA to what the citizens have been showing her for over 2 years. She will soon find out what the word felony means.
I also found an attorney that has won a GA supreme court first amendment case. I am also starting lawsuits with well funded
attorneys in Ohio around election fraud in 2 Diebold counties.
I also heard that the ACLU while giving me lip service that my case is important, has no attorneys because
they are fighting the VOTER ID legal battle, something that came many months after my open records problem.
I feel not only lied to, but I feel that the ACLU is clueless about the primacy of this Diebold CD open records struggle.
The latest word from Bev Harris, the industry expert who won legally against Diebold, is that the PCMCIA cards
DO HOLD THE VOTE RIGGING software we all suspected. Getting a copy of that CD is tantamount to
finding BONAFIDE PROOF of election fraud, and even if it isn't it's the principle that all elections materials
in whatever form belong to the people.
That the ACLU would rather waste resources on VOTER ID which disenfranchises 30% of Georgians versus
Electronic voting which disenfranchises 100% of Georgians.
It's a sad day when politics wins even at a citizen Civil Rights organization.
I've been offered a chance to write a book. I will include in there how the ACLU was the most ineffectual organization
when it came to the MOST FUNDAMENTAL CITIZEN RIGHT, the right to vote, a right that ensures representative democracy,
a right that is the ROOT of all other civil rights in that it helps shape the government that puts judges and legislators
and governors and Presidents into office, a right that ACLU in the end 'could not find an attorney for'.
I want you to now know, that figuratively, the ACLU's house is on fire, in that the US is in very big trouble, with Civil
Rights abuses growing exponential to all the unelected officials getting RIGGED into office, and you guys are busy
planting nice flowers at the mailbox..... turn around for heaven's sake and put the fire out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....
Phyllis
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Let me start by showing you an email from Monica Marvin, a cog in the wheel of the DNC investigation of “election reform” (quotes are their words).
Hi Phyllis,
I remember our conversation. You will recall, the DNC investigation covers the Ohio 2004 election. I agree that it would be ideal to have a national study similar to the investigation that is being completed for Ohio. You have invested a great deal of time and capital in your research. I personally want to thank you for your efforts towards election reform. While you may not agree with the scope of the DNC investigation or the identity of people who were interviewed, please do not jump to conclusions before you have read the final report. I am passing your message on to several members of our team. Thank you for taking the time to express your concerns.
Sincerely,
Monica Marvin
Wow.
Because I’m from Georgia the one state that has 100% Diebold, and they
are investigating only Ohio, they have no reason to speak with me. Wow…. This is totally incredible the level of
arrogance and myopia these folks have.
What’s worse is that my email to her mentioned several times I’m
investigating election fraud and she changed the wording to say she was pleased
with my efforts toward election reform.
This rewording of the problem by the very Democratic party who loses the
most by fraud is part of the biggest problem facing us now, no leadership
whatsoever in fighting what has been the most silent coup d’etat
in the history of governments all over the world.
Another Monica quote as heard from by someone in a
Democratic Underground (DU) post.
"I am very proud of the diligence, tenacity and professionalism with which our team has sought, procured and analyzed information for this worthy project."
Wow, this sounds pretty self-aggrandizing. But when I first spoke with Monica I asked
“wasn’t it wrong to put all your eggs in the same basket, by spending 500K in
Ohio and not a single penny anywhere else?”
She agreed it was risky but that this was their decision. Even in the email above she blindly supports
a losing strategy. This is like putting
all your money on buying Enron stock, and not diversifying one iota. What’s more sad is that she gave me the name
of the guy who was the head of the DRE Committee, Vincent Fry. Emails to him went unanswered and lately have
bounced. It could be they just don’t get
what DRE Machines mean in terms of vote stealing, that 1/3 of the vote is being
rigged and they don’t see the raw numbers because they’re busy looking for a
needle in a very ‘muddied’ Ohio haystack.
With the Tom Noe ‘CoinGate’
scandal blowing up in the DNC’s face, Ohio will be a hard place to conclude any
litigation that isn’t focused and higher priority than $10M in lost coins.
Otherwise the FBI will tie up records requests in a mire of blocked access as
has already happened in the recount.
I remember when my friend Clay who went to work
for Dean in Vermont for his presidential campaign said Howard Dean refused to
meet with corporations. So clear was
Dean that corporations had to be weeded out from the fray of
PhD Computer Professional Testimony Against DRE Machines
Dr. Britt Williams / KSU
Dr. Charles Steward of MIT
A study of Georgia’s deployment of electronic voting and its impact on the 2002 election, released last month by Dr. Charles Stewart of MIT, one of the nation’s foremost experts on voting system accuracy, noted,
“Following the 2000 presidential election, the state of Georgia instituted the most comprehensive overhaul of voting technology in the country…Although the Nation’s eyes were on Florida, a case could be made that it was Georgia that deserved the scrutiny. Georgia’s “residual vote rate,” a measure of “lost votes” that has come to be used widely to measure voting technology reliability, was 3.5% -- the second worst in the country, behind only Illinois…This paper shows that the implementation of the Diebold system produced a significant reduction in the residual vote rate throughout the state of Georgia. Just as important, the implementation of the new machines removed gaping disparities in voting machine reliability that could have raised serious questions about the fairness of Georgia’s electoral system. DREs are more reliable, their performance varies less across the state, and the least advantaged areas of the state have experienced the greatest gain in reliability.”
FRAMING THE FRAUD
I'd like to start framing the terms we use in the Diebold world to explain the data we've collected from our open records request..
Let's frame that Diebold creates 2 kinds of fraud:
INTENTIONAL
and
UNINTENTIONAL
These fall into these kinds of categories:
INTENTIONAL:
1. Vote rigging by changing the software Setup files to default to certain candidates (This causes the vote to change to Bush even when voters choose a straight Democratic ticket- documented well in their Georgia EIRS system)
2. Diebold software changing the intent of the voter from touchscreen enroute to PCMCIA card
3. Changes in data 'after' PCMCIA cards dumped to CD
4. Shaving of votes (percentage creep by literally placing the voter data in the wrong database fields)
5. Modification of election totals enroute (or at the SOS office, or at KSU center for elections)
6. Same person certifying multiple precincts or other 'fishy' activities
7. denying provisionals or absentee voters to have their votes count for minor technical reasons versus substantive ones (i.e. showed up at wrong precinct, etc.)
8. Using stolen Diebold equipment or hacking into the servers where Diebold data is stored using networking protocols of Diebold to modify/manipulate the totals and outcomes.
UNINTENTIONAL:
1. A Diebold technician or worse yet, a technical consultant, makes a mistake like forgets to reset the database to 0 before an election (such as Cobb County where they had to 'recertify' their election because of this very problem.... what's so hard to believe is that this database tweaking is all we have left of our votes.. how do we know their fix of the mistake did not also create MORE mistakes? Where is the citizen counting in all of this?
http://www.cobbelections.org/results/pdf/nov05-02/nov05-02Explanation.pdf
2. User Fills out wrong #'s from DRE screens to Ballot Recap sheets (DRE, Absentee or provisional)
3. Accidental 'resetting' of the system counter by a novice user
4. Mistyping the total registered voters (we have evidence of this in Clinch county), making it unclear which is correct # of registered voters
5. Corruption of database files from viruses or other network problems
6. Error in computer (Faulty memory, etc.)
7. Persistent problems with Cards being cast with no results (making those votes in 'limbo' with no idea if they are partial votes , representing a voter's intent or just a computer glitch )
8. No Votes/Undervotes not properly characterized by the computer (this is a whole new theory I have that what Diebold calls a novote or undervote is not same as what SOS calls one), and how these get created, etc.
*** the list goes on....
When talking about DRE results.. let's talk about the 3 forms of data.
PRIMARY data (REAL and Computerized) (is the vote as registered on the touchscreens) as primary. The REAL version is the vote as shown on the touchscreen before hitting cast ballot. Nowhere is this data, the actual screen contents captured. The Computerized version is a capture of the fields entered, and a "ballot image" is stored on the PCMCIA cards, but this is not guaranteed to accurately capture the voter's intent. This computerized version is never released to the public and requests to access this data have been denied.
SECONDARY Data (this is the DRE Tape and all associated 'Election Summary' , SOVC Statement of Votes Cast, etc.) this is the database data (the fields voters chose on the touchscreen) reformulated by a software program into a 2nd form of the data. This requires you trust the software program to tabulate the data accurately. Incidentally, in the Diebold system, there are about 10 forms of Secondary Data...
1. GEMS REPORT -Election Summary (Totals)
2. GEMS REPORT - Election Summary (precincy by precinct)
3. GEMS REPORT - SOVC Statement of Votes Cast
4. DRE Tapes - Election Summary
5. DRE Tapes - Accumulation Totals
6. Write-In Report - (one includes only Valid Write-Ins, and the other includes Valid and Invalid write-ins)
7. County Website - Election Summary as listed on the website (this may be different than #1 depending on when you asked for a certain report and how intelligent they were in giving you the proper certified report)
8. SOS Website - This is yet another tally of the software (in 2 basic forms, for each race a statewide total, and for each county a race by race total)
9. BALLOT RECAP Sheets - (For DRE , Absentee and Provisional)
10. Voter Registration Databases (which may or may not match the registered voter totals entered into the DRE systems)
If I forgot something, please holler.....
My challenge is to create a master AUDIT spreadsheet cross checking numbers all across the spectrum, highlighting the forms of FRAUD it indicates.... wish me luck, ideas welcome!
DRE Direct Recording Electronic, refers to an electronic voting machine.
DRE Tape A Direct Recording Electronic
Printed Document that often comes out in tape form similar to cash register
thin long tapes and printed on similar rolls inside the Touchscreen.
SOVC Statement of Votes Cast, a
report Diebold GEMS Servers provide that details all early/absentee/provisional
and election day results for entire county BY
PRECINCT.
Election Total Report (Also called DRE Tape) The Election summary is a
report printed either from the AccuVote Touchscreens
or the Diebold GEMS Server. It provides
the final tallies by county for all races.
EXAMPLE ELECTION TOTAL REPORT
Accumulated Total Report The Accumulation total report is another Diebold GEMS Server Report that provides the final tallies by county for all races.
EXAMPLE ELECTION TOTAL REPORT
DRE Tape The
cash register sized long thin sheet of paper that is printed on
election day after polls close to capture the voting tallies
summarized by race for all races. 2 Types, Election Summary and Accumulation
Total, the accumulations totals will give race summaries by precinct.
HAVA The
Help America Vote Act is a Bill sponsored by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford aimed
at helping solve common problems such as low voter turnout, low voter
registration, etc. In the years since
they created this Act, HAVA has been used by Voting Machine vendors as a way to
force states to purchase equipment. Many
vendors bend the truth about HAVA requirements for example, by saying states
must have a computer to help disabled voters vote. Many states too lazy to look up the actual
language believe these marketing lies, but more importantly, HAVA money only
covers the purchase of computerized voting systems, thereby biasing elections
officials against using paper ballots, something for which HAVA funding is NOT
AVAILABLE. To see the actual HAVA
language supporting paper ballots click Here><??>
HAVA
Statement On Paper
Ballots:
HAVA
SPECIFICALLY APPROVES THE USE OF PAPER BALLOTS.
HAVA specifically approves the use of a
paper ballot voting system by Sec. 301(a)(1)(B) specifiying that,:
"A
state or jurisdiction that uses a paper ballot voting system, may
meet the requirements of subparagraph (A)(iii) by
(1) establishing a voter education program specific to
that voting system that notifies each voter of the effect of casting
multiple votes for an office; and
(ii) providing
that voter with instructions on how to correct the ballot, before it is cast
and counted (including instructions on how to correct the error through
the issuance of a replacement ballot if the voter was otherwise unable to
change the ballot or correct any error).
HAVA
also authorizes paper ballot voting systems as follows, word for word
"Sec.
301(c)(2) PROTECTION OF PAPER BALLOT SYSTEMS--For purposes
of subsection (a)(1)(A)(i), the term "verify" may not be defined in a
manner that makes it impossible for a paper ballot voting system to meet
the requirements of such subsection or to be modified to meet such
requirements."
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/hava/HAVA_2002.html
Audit For
purposes of this discussion, a citizen based count of all the Diebold data that
comprises our Georgia election with goal of determining accuracy.
Fraud For purposes of this discussion
intention to defraud others.
Cathy Cox Georgia’s
Secretary of State
[1] Source: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/pressrel/050302.htm
[2] Source: http://www.countpaperballots.com/VIDEO/NashvilleVideo.htm
[3] http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/06/p/11_diebold.html
[4] Source: www.ecotalk.org
[5] source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050528/ap_on_el_ge/florida_voting
[6] http://www.house.gov/cha/minority/floor_stmts-040325_budget.htm
[7] Source: www.countpaperballots.com/realcost.htm
[8] http://www6.diebold.com/financial/2004ar/site/19%5Fmda.htm
[9] http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
[10] http://www.unionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=54283