[Mb-hair] Demand a re-count...Demand an Investigation..It is our right...

[SharmagneS at aol.com]

Here is the definitive summary of Voter Fraud and what we can do 
about it. 

Note: This entire message is posted online at 
 http://www.WantToKnow.info/electionsproblems
 
> Dear friends,
 
> There is no shortage of news about mishaps, cover-ups, and even fraud 
> in the recent elections. Below are quick summaries of a number of 
> excellent articles with links for those who would like to read the 
> entire article. Read also about key members of Congress who have 
> demanded an investigation. And at the end of this message, you will 
> find links to two excellent petitions demanding more responsibility 
> and accountability in our elections. Please take the time to sign 
> these important petitions and pass this information on to your friends 
> and colleagues.
>
>  
>
> MSNBC - The best reporting by far in the mainstream media has been by 
> MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Both on TV and on his blog, Mr. Olbermann is 
> asking serious questions. He is even asking why other major media 
> aren't reporting many of these sensational stories. His most excellent 
> blog gives continual updates of recent developments in the elections 
> scandals. Here are a few key quotes from three of the entries there:
>
>  
>
> Nov. 7, 6:55 p.m. "Officials in Warren County, Ohio, “locked down” its 
> administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote 
> count there....Emergency Services Director Frank Young explained that 
> he had been advised by the federal government to implement the 
> measures for the sake of Homeland Security." "The majority of the 
> media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush 
> Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or huge margins for Bush in 
> Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered 
> Republicans 2-1."
>
>  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240 (scroll down to find this date 
> and time in the blog)
>
>  
>
> Nov. 9, 12:55 a.m. "....the remarkable results out of Cuyahoga County, 
> Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County’s website shows, we had the 
> most unexpected results in years: more votes than voters. I’ll repeat 
> that: more votes than voters. 93,000 more votes than voters." (more on 
> this below)
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240
>
>  
>
> November 10, 12:43 p.m. "The computerized balloting in North Carolina 
> is so thoroughly messed up that all state-wide voting may be thrown 
> out and a second election day scheduled."
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240
>
>  
>
> WOWT/NBC (Nebraska) - "Sarpy County election officials are trying to 
> figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the 
> general election. Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from 
> Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Its employees operated the 
> machines that are now double-checking the ballots. No one is sure 
> exactly what went wrong."
>
> http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html
>
>  
>
> Sun Journal - A North Carolina newspaper reports that "a systems 
> software glitch in Craven County's electronic voting equipment is 
> being blamed for a vote miscount that ... swelled the number of votes 
> for president here by 11,283 more votes than the total number cast." 
>
> http://www.newbernsj.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/
> Details.cfm&StoryID=18297&Section=Local
>
>  
>
> Associated Press/USA Today - "There were also several dozen voters in 
> six states who said the wrong candidates appeared on their 
> touch-screen machine's checkout screen."
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-11-04-e-
> voting-error-nc_x.htm
>
>  
>
> Palm Beach Post (Florida) - "Early Thursday, as Broward County 
> elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, 
> something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes 
> are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had 
> gone . . . down. Officials found the software used in Broward can 
> handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts 
> counting backward."
> http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/
> a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html 
>
>  
>
> New York Times - In mid-August 2003, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief 
> executive of Diebold, wrote a letter inviting 100 wealthy friends to a 
> fund-raiser at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. He wrote, "I am 
> committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president 
> next year." A longtime Republican, he is a member of President Bush's 
> "Rangers and Pioneers,'' an elite group of loyalists who have raised 
> at least $100,000 each for the 2004 race. Through Diebold Election 
> Systems, Mr. O'Dell's company is among the country's biggest suppliers 
> of paperless, touch-screen voting machines.
>
> http://www.WantToknow.info/031109nytimes (article became pay for view 
> shortly after elections)
>
>  
>
> Project Censored (Excellent university website exposing media 
> cover-ups): "ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia are the companies primarily 
> involved in implementing the new, often faulty, technology at voting 
> stations throughout the country. All three have strong ties to the 
> Bush Administration along with major defense contractors in the United 
> States. Some of the most generous contributors to Republican campaigns 
> are also some of the largest investors in ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold. 
> Most notable of these are government defense contractors 
> Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems."
>
> http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/6.html
>
>  
>
> USA Today - The three companies that certify the nation's voting 
> technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the 
> machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. Federal 
> regulators have virtually no oversight over testing of the technology. 
> Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and electronic 
> voting expert, told lawmakers in Washington, D.C. "I find it grotesque 
> that an organization charged with such a heavy responsibility feels no 
> obligation to explain to anyone what it is doing." The system for 
> "testing and certifying voting equipment in this country is not only 
> broken, but is virtually nonexistent," Shamos added.
>
>  
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-08-23-low-
> evote-scrutiny_x.htm
>
>  
>
> Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Board of Elections Website - 29 precincts in 
> Cuyahoga County, Ohio, reported votes cast above the number of 
> registered voters - 93,136 extra votes total. And the numbers are on 
> the official Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website below. To 
> verify the discrepancies, first look at the number of registered 
> voters for the below precincts, then scroll down to the number of 
> ballots cast for the precinct. In particular, compare the numbers for 
> the precincts listed below.
>
> http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm
>
> Bay Village - 13,710 registered voters / 18,663 ballots cast
>  Beachwood - 9,943 registered voters / 13,939 ballots cast
>  Bedford - 9,942 registered voters / 14,465 ballots cast
>  Bedford Heights - 8,142 registered voters / 13,512 ballots cast
>  Brooklyn - 8,016 registered voters / 12,303 ballots cast
>  Brooklyn Heights - 1,144 registered voters / 1,869 ballots cast
>  Chagrin Falls Village - 3,557 registered voters / 4,860 ballots cast
>  Cuyahoga Heights - 570 registered voters / 1,382 ballots cast
>  Fairview Park - 13,342 registered voters / 18,472 ballots cast
>  Highland Hills Village - 760 registered voters / 8,822 ballots cast
>  Independence - 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast
> Mayfield Village - 2,764 registered voters / 3,145 ballots cast
> Middleburg Heights - 12,173 registered voters / 14,854 ballots cast
> Moreland Hills Village - 2,990 registered voters / 4,616 ballots cast
> North Olmstead - 25,794 registered voters / 25,887 ballots cast
> Olmstead Falls - 6,538 registered voters / 7,328 ballots cast
> Pepper Pike - 5,131 registered voters / 6,479 ballots cast
> Rocky River - 16,600 registered voters / 20,070 ballots cast
> Solon (WD6) - 2,292 registered voters / 4,300 ballots cast
> South Euclid - 16,902 registered voters / 16,917 ballots cast
> Strongsville (WD3) - 7,806 registered voters / 12,108 ballots cast
> University Heights - 10,072 registered voters / 11,982 ballots cast
> Valley View Village - 1,787 registered voters / 3,409 ballots cast
> Warrensville Heights - 10,562 registered voters / 15,039 ballots cast
> Woodmere Village - 558 registered voters / 8,854 ballots cast
> Bedford (CSD) - 22,777 registered voters / 27,856 ballots cast
> Independence (LSD) - 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast
> Orange (CSD) - 11,640 registered voters / 22,931 ballots cast
> Warrensville (CSD) - 12,218 registered voters / 15,822 ballots cast
>
>  
>
> Michigan City News-Dispatch  - In LaPorte County, Indiana, a 
> Democratic stronghold, electronic voting machines decided that each 
> precinct only had 300 voters. "At about 7 p.m. Tuesday," according to 
> this report, "it was noticed that the first two or three printouts 
> from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of 
> voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters. That 
> means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, 
> although there are more than 79,000 registered voters."
>
> http://www.wanttoknow.info/041104newsdispatch (article became pay for 
> view shortly after elections)
>
>  
>
> Common Dreams (excellent news website) - In Florida's counties using 
> results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central 
> tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - the results seem to 
> contain substantial anomalies. In Baker County, for example, with 
> 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them 
> Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the 
> opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where 
> registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County, with 
> 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% 
> registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 
> 4,433 voted for Bush. The pattern repeats over and over again - but 
> only in the counties where optical scanners were used.
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
>
>  
>
> Popular Mechanics - A team of former National Security Agency (NSA) 
> computer experts conducted a weeklong exercise with six Diebold 
> machines and a server. According to team leader Michael Wertheimer, 
> the group uncovered "considerable security risks." They found that the 
> smart cards used to provide supervisors with access to the machines 
> could be easily hacked; the removable media containing voting 
> information was protected by flimsy locks that the team picked in 
> under a minute using bent paper clips. The paper clips weren't even 
> necessary, since all 32,000 keys supplied by Diebold for the machines 
> are identical, allowing any key to open all of the machines. On the 
> software side, the most glaring weakness was in election headquarters 
> servers: Dell PCs ran the Windows 2000 operating system without 
> Microsoft's security upgrade patches, which left servers susceptible 
> to viruses and worms, enabling a remote attacker to tamper with 
> election systems by phone."
>
> http://popularmechanics.com/science/research/2004/11/hack_the_vote/
> index3.phtml (pg 3 of 4 webpages)
>
>  
>
> Popular Science - In South Carolina, officials bought machines too 
> late for adequate testing. And on many of their onscreen ballots, the 
> presidential contest included names of candidates from local 
> elections. Several Texas counties are thousands of votes short because 
> a bug in the software failed to record Spanish-language ballots. For 
> hundreds of thousands of votes, there will be no paper record at 
> all. In Colorado, a group of hackers is boasting that they stole a box 
> of electronic smartcards used to activate e-voting machines and 
> reprogrammed them to allow multiple votes, just for fun. In virtually 
> every state, officials failed to invite outside technical experts to 
> participate in the process of e-voting machine selection. Because none 
> of the major vendors of e-voting machines release their code for 
> security testing, states and counties are forced to trust vendors’ own 
> assessments of their machines’ reliability.
>
> http://www.popsci.com/popsci/generaltech/article/0,20967,714491
> -1,00.html (3 web pages)
>
>  
>
> House of Representatives Website  - Representatives John Conyers, 
> Jerrold Nadler, and Robert Wexler, members of the House Judiciary 
> Committee, posted a letter on November 5th to David Walker, 
> Comptroller General of the U.S. The letter reads as follows: "We write 
> with an urgent request that the Government Accountability Office 
> immediately undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting 
> machines and new technologies used in the 2004 election, how election 
> officials responded to difficulties they encountered and what we can 
> do in the future to improve our election systems and administration."
>
>  
> http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/
> gaoinvestvote2004ltr11504...pdf
>
>  
>
> What You Can Do. For starters, you can email your support to the above 
> three members of Congress 
> at http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=18055 
> There are also two excellent petitions demanding an investigation 
> which you can sign on the Internet. The first already had 26,000 
> signatures as of 4:00 p.m. November 11th. The second, posted by 
> MoveOn.org doesn't list numbers who have signed, though their 
> membership numbers nearly 3 million.
>
> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/uselect/petition.html 
>
> http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
>
>  
>
> In addition to these petitions, visit websites covering the elections 
> mess. They provide ideas on other actions you can take. Two of the 
> best such websites are:
>
> http://www.blackboxvoting.org
>
> http://www.votescam.com 
>
>  
>
> We also highly recommend the excellent 30-minute documentary available 
> for free viewing at http://www.votergate.tv/ though they are having 
> problems because of the extremely high number of people wanting to 
> watch this incredible documentary. And if you haven't seen our first 
> posting on this topic, take a look at 
> http://www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting  It is well worth reading.
>
>   
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