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03 Dec 2005 08:13:18 PM |
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GAO: Bush stole the election |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051201/cm_huffpost/011483;_ylt=AtCPfpQHCNFR.8JQmhvhfM0e6sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4MzQ0N2p2BHNlYwMxNzA0
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http://tinyurl.com/8mgta
I had a chance to talk to my hero, Frank Rich, a few months ago about
election fraud and he claimed he didn't know much about it. Perhaps he has
his plate full unraveling the administration's lies about
Iraq, but with the midterm elections coming up someone has to take this
issue on. I was listening to NPR yesterday and they had some young computer
hackers on bragging about how easy, embarrassingly easy, it is to switch
votes on the Diebold machines.
Bill Clinton once mentioned that India has flawless electronic voting while
ours is mired in unaccountability. I hope Frank and other journalists and
bloggers of his caliber read this article by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman about the GAO report on the 2004 election. Paul Krugman and the
NYTimes editorial board have been good on this issue in the past, but it has
been a while since anyone has raised the subject.
The Government Accountability Office is the only government office we have
left that is ethical, non-partisan and incorruptible. They investigate and
tell it like it is. Thank God for them. This report is very serious and must
get more attention. It has taken years for the mainstream press and Congress
to finally understand what we in the blogisphere have known since 2000. This
administration will distort and cheat about anything and everything to get
its way. If this report got the attention it deserves and broke through the
static of our 500-channel universe, it could be the coup de grace of the
Bush White House.
Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen
election findings by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner
circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of
their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004
was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the
Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream
media coverage.
The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general
incorruptibility and its thorough, in-depth analyses. Its concurrence with
assertions widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" adds crucial new weight
to the case that Team Bush has no legitimate business being in the White
House.
Nearly a year ago, senior Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers (D-MI)
asked the GAO to investigate electronic voting machines as they were used
during the November 2, 2004 presidential election. The request came amidst
widespread complaints in Ohio and elsewhere that often shocking
irregularities defined their performance.
According to CNN, the U.S.
House Judiciary Committee received "more than 57,000 complaints" following
Bush's alleged re-election. Many such concerns were memorialized under oath
in a series of sworn statements and affidavits in public hearings and
investigations conducted in Ohio by the Free Press and other election
protection organizations.
The non-partisan GAO report has now found that, "some of [the] concerns
about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems
with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."
The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan
corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary
non-transparent software. Rev.
Jesse Jackson, among others, has asserted that "public elections must not be
conducted on privately-owned machines." The CEO of one of the most crucial
suppliers of electronic voting machines, Warren O'Dell of Diebold, pledged
before the 2004 campaign to deliver Ohio and thus the presidency to George
W. Bush.
Bush's official margin of victory in Ohio was just 118,775 votes out of more
than 5.6 million cast. Election protection advocates argue that O'Dell's
statement still stands as a clear sign of an effort, apparently successful,
to steal the White House.
Among other things, the GAO confirms that:
1. Some electronic voting machines "did not encrypt cast ballots or system
audit logs, and it was possible to alter both without being detected." In
other words, the GAO now confirms that electronic voting machines provided
an open door to flip an entire vote count. More than 800,000 votes were cast
in Ohio on electronic voting machines, some seven times Bush's official
margin of victory.
2. "It was possible to alter the files that define how a ballot looks and
works so that the votes for one candidate could be recorded for a different
candidate." Numerous sworn statements and affidavits assert that this did
happen in Ohio 2004.
3. "Vendors installed uncertified versions of voting system software at the
local level." 3. Falsifying election results without leaving any evidence of
such an action by using altered memory cards can easily be done, according
to the GAO.
4. The GAO also confirms that access to the voting network was easily
compromised because not all digital recording electronic voting systems
(DREs) had supervisory functions password-protected, so access to one
machine provided access to the whole network. This critical finding confirms
that rigging the 2004 vote did not require a "widespread conspiracy" but
rather the cooperation of a very small number of operatives with the power
to tap into the networked machines and thus change large numbers of votes at
will. With 800,000 votes cast on electronic machines in Ohio, flipping the
number needed to give Bush 118,775 could be easily done by just one
programmer.
5. Access to the voting network was also compromised by repeated use of the
same user IDs combined with easily guessed passwords. So even relatively
amateur hackers could have gained access to and altered the Ohio vote
tallies.
6. The locks protecting access to the system were easily picked and keys
were simple to copy, meaning, again, getting into the system was an easy
matter.
7. One DRE model was shown to have been networked in such a rudimentary
fashion that a power failure on one machine would cause the entire network
to fail, re-emphasizing the fragility of the system on which the Presidency
of the United States was decided.
8. GAO identified further problems with the security protocols and
background screening practices for vendor personnel, confirming still more
easy access to the system.
In essence, the GAO study makes it clear that no bank, grocery store or mom
& pop chop shop would dare operate its business on a computer system as
flimsy, fragile and easily manipulated as the one on which the 2004 election
turned.
The GAO findings are particularly damning when set in the context of an
election run in Ohio by a Secretary of State simultaneously working as
co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Far from what election theft skeptics
have long asserted, the GAO findings confirm that the electronic network on
which 800,000 Ohio votes were cast was vulnerable enough to allow a a tiny
handful of operatives -- or less -- to turn the whole vote count using
personal computers operating on relatively simple software.
The GAO documentation flows alongside other crucial realities surrounding
the 2004 vote count. For example:
The exit polls showed Kerry winning in Ohio, until an unexplained last
minute shift gave the election to Bush. Similar definitive shifts also
occurred in Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, a virtual statistical
impossibility.
A few weeks prior to the election, an unauthorized former ES&S voting
machine company employee, was caught on the ballot-making machine in
Auglaize County
Election officials in Mahoning County now concede that at least 18 machines
visibly transferred votes for Kerry to Bush. Voters who pushed Kerry's name
saw Bush's name light up, again and again, all day long. Officials claim the
problems were quickly solved, but sworn statements and affidavits say
otherwise. They confirm similar problems inFranklin County (Columbus).
Kerry's margins in both counties were suspiciously low.
A voting machine in Mahoning County recorded a negative 25 million votes for
Kerry. The problem was allegedly fixed.
In Gahanna Ward 1B, at a fundamentalist church, a so-called "electronic
transfer glitch" gave Bush nearly 4000 extra votes when only 638 people
voted at that polling place. The tally was allegedly corrected, but remains
infamous as the "loaves and fishes" vote count.
In Franklin County, dozens of voters swore under oath that their vote for
Kerry faded away on the DRE without a paper trail.
In Miami County, at 1:43am after Election Day, with the county's central
tabulator reporting 100% of the vote - 19,000 more votes mysteriously
arrived; 13,000 were for Bush at the same percentage as prior to the
additional votes, a virtual statistical impossibility.
In Cleveland, large, entirely implausible vote totals turned up for obscure
third party candidates in traditional Democratic African-American wards.
Vote counts in neighboring wards showed virtually no votes for those
candidates, with 90% going instead for Kerry.
Prior to one of Blackwell's illegitimate "show recounts," technicians from
Triad voting machine company showed up unannounced at the Hocking County
Board of Elections and removed the computer hard drive.
In response to official information requests, Shelby and other counties
admit to having discarded key records and equipment before any recount could
take place.
In a conference call with Rev. Jackson, Attorney Cliff Arnebeck, Attorney
Bob Fitrakis and others,
John Kerry confirmed that he lost every precinct in New Mexico that had a
touchscreen voting machine. The losses had no correlation with ethnicity,
social class or traditional party affiliation---only with the fact that
touchscreen machines were used.
In a public letter, Rep. Conyers has stated that "by and large, when it
comes to a voting machine, the average voter is getting a lemon - the Ford
Pinto of voting technology. We must demand better."
But the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed
in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of
partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes
to put George W. Bush back in the White House.
Given the growing body of evidence, it appears increasingly clear
that's exactly what happened.
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: Bush stole the election |
04 Dec 2005 09:38:13 AM |
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"towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0OydnfjebLxSzQ_eRVn-uA@centurytel.net...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051201/cm_huffpost/011483;_ylt=AtCPfpQHCNFR.8JQmhvhfM0e6sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4MzQ0N2p2BHNlYwMxNzA0
or
http://tinyurl.com/8mgta
I had a chance to talk to my hero, Frank Rich, a few months ago about
election fraud and he claimed he didn't know much about it. Perhaps he has
his plate full unraveling the administration's lies about
Iraq, but with the midterm elections coming up someone has to take this
issue on. I was listening to NPR yesterday and they had some young
computer hackers on bragging about how easy, embarrassingly easy, it is to
switch votes on the Diebold machines.
Bill Clinton once mentioned that India has flawless electronic voting
while ours is mired in unaccountability. I hope Frank and other
journalists and bloggers of his caliber read this article by Bob Fitrakis
and Harvey Wasserman about the GAO report on the 2004 election. Paul
Krugman and the NYTimes editorial board have been good on this issue in
the past, but it has been a while since anyone has raised the subject.
The Government Accountability Office is the only government office we have
left that is ethical, non-partisan and incorruptible. They investigate and
tell it like it is. Thank God for them.
Then who changed its name from the Government Accounting Office? And just
because they say something, what happens if corrupt bought politicians can't
do anything constructive?
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: GAO: Bush stole the election |
05 Dec 2005 11:58:16 AM |
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On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 20:13:18 -0600, "towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
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Stole the last two. Blindingly obvious.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "DaveJr" |
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| Title: Re: GAO: Bush stole the election |
05 Dec 2005 12:54:24 PM |
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Stole the last two. Blindingly obvious.
Those were not elections, they were 'selections'.
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| User: "stoney" |
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06 Dec 2005 03:12:53 PM |
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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:54:24 -0700, "DaveJr" <davesbrain@qwest.net>
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Stole the last two. Blindingly obvious.
Those were not elections, they were 'selections'.
Old Soviet StyleŽ
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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