| Betreff: New Archive of Deep Insider Email and More Elections Info |
| Von: "WantToKnow.info" |
| Datum: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:47:03 -0800 |
| An: "Undisclosed Recipients" |
Salt Lake Tribune - Voters in Utah County had more than a one in five chance that their ballots did not get counted in the initial, unofficial tally from Election Day. A programming glitch in the punch-card counter dropped 33,000 ballots from the totals - all of them straight-party ballots. That was more than 22 percent of the 145,769 ballots cast in the Republican stronghold.
New York Times - When Maryland decided to buy voting
machines, the state commissioned a staged attack in which computer
experts would try to interfere with an election. They were disturbingly
successful. It was an ''easy matter,' to reprogram the access cards and
vote multiple times. By using a modem, they were able to change votes
from a remote location. Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, issued a
self-congratulatory press release with the headline ''Maryland Security
Study Validates Diebold Election Systems Equipment.'' The study's
authors were shocked to see their findings spun so positively.
http://www.WantToKnow.info/040131nytimes
MSNBC
- Click below to watch 16 minutes of the excellent MSNBC news
program broadcast nationally on November 11th covering this
topic. Note that it may take several minutes to download. You must have
installed either QuickTime (QT) or Windows Media. For dial-up
connections, use the 56K option.
http://websrvr20.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdswebsrvr2143/news_video/5.countdown_300k.mov
(QT high speed)
http://websrvr20.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdswebsrvr2143/news_video/5.countdown_56k.mov
(QT 56K)
http://win20ca.audiovideoweb.com/ca20win15004/5.countdown_300k.wmv
(Windows Media high speed)
http://win20ca.audiovideoweb.com/ca20win15004/5.countdown_56k.wmv
(Windows Media 56K)
Associated Press/Los
Angeles Times - “A
hand recount of ballots cast using optical scanning technology gave a
Democrat enough extra votes to bump a Republican from victory in a
county commissioner's race. The erroneous tally was caused when the
Fidlar Election Co. scanning system recorded straight-Democratic Party
votes as votes for Libertarians in southeastern Indiana's Franklin
County.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-election-glitch,1,1846959.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
UPI
– “In Baker County, Fla….there are 12,887
registered voters: 69.3 percent are Democrats, 24.3 percent are
Republicans. Yet 2,180 of county residents voted for Kerry while 7,738
voted for Bush -- the opposite of what some election critics say was
the typically pattern elsewhere in the United States. In Florida's
Dixie County….77.5 percent of the 4,988 registered voters are
Democrats, 15 percent are Republicans. On Election Day, Bush carried
the county with 4,433 votes vs. 1,959 for Kerry. Nationally, few
outlets have pursued the story of what happened in Baker and Dixie.”
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20041112-010916-6128r
Los Angeles Times - “Officials in Franklin County — which
includes state capital Columbus — acknowledged that they may have
improperly counted votes for Bush because of a touch-screen voting
system malfunction. A precinct in the county reported that a 4,000-vote
margin won by Bush appeared to exceed the number of registered voters.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ohio9nov09,1,6521794.story
Wyoming Secretary of
State’s Website –
According to the official website of the Secretary of State, the state
of Wyoming produced a strange miracle by turning out 106% of registered
voters for the 2004 elections! The percentage of registered voters who
turn out to vote has been rising rapidly over the last 10 years. Could
this have anything to do with the increase in electronic voting
machines and the accompanying increased ease of elections fraud?
http://soswy.state.wy.us/election/profile.htm
We invite you to visit websites covering the elections mess. Many of these elections websites provide practical ideas on 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 the download may take over 10 minutes). 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.
Note: Don't
forget to take a look at the excellent compilation of all our previous
emails in our new archive at:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/coveruparchive