Helpful Links on US Rigged Elections

!!! DIEBOLD SHUTS DOWN BLACK BOX VOTING SITE !!!

From BlackBoxVoting@aol.com

Here's what you can do to help: Get the word out far and wide that
Diebold
has done this thing.
More info: http://www.blackboxvoting.com

1. Diebold issued a pull-down demand under DMCA for the
BlackBoxVoting.org
web site, citing a link posted on a forum in the site, claiming
that the link allowed web visitors to visit an unrelated page,
containing Diebold internal memos, which they say they own the
copyright to.

2. Not only was BlackBoxVoting.org pulled down, but ALL of the
documents, databases and programming for approximately 500 pages
of material, most of which did not relate to Diebold at all, was
confiscated. Dozens of web pages were pulled down which had nothing
whatever to do with the disputed information. According to AIT
Inc, the parent ISP, their North Carolina attorney, James Baker
advised them that they should remove the entire web site and disable
access to the FTP so that Bev Harris or Black Box Voting could no
longer access their files (even for the purpose of removing them.)

After a negotiation this morning with Black Box Voting publisher
David Allen, AIT Inc. agreed to reinstate access to the files but
still declined to reinstate the pages of the web site which were
not named in the complaint.

3. The confiscated pages included personal contact information for
200 activists, and the private strategy sessions for voting machine
activists. BlackBoxVoting.org has yet to receive any explanation
at all as to what authority they were confiscated under. We demand
their immediate return.

"The .org site had an active discussion going on among people
from
all over the US and world about election security and flaws found
in Diebold's voting system software. The idea that these discussion
boards were confiscated is rather chilling. The discussions were
password protected and not open for public view.

"In addition to the impact this action will have on the election
security debate, it also may represent the first time the DMCA has
been used to shut down a discussion. Although I don't know much
about the DMCA, I do think it wasn't written with this kind of
purpose in mind." -- Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation

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4. Does Diebold even have a legitimate copyright to the memos which
the link led to? Most of the memos in question were written in
Canada, and resided on a server in Canada up to and including 2003
after Diebold bought a Canadian company called Global Election
Systems. In Canada, company correspondence, even internal memos,
is not protected by copyright. To date we have been unable to find
evidence, other than a claim in a letter, that Diebold even owns
the copyright to these memos.

5. These memos are more properly termed "Evidence," because
they
contain evidence of a pattern of lawbreaking that dates back at
least to 1999.

6. Lexis-Nexis would be a worthwhile exercise now for every one of
these search terms pertaining to the origins of Global Election
Systems: This firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of North American
Professional Technologies, Inc., which was in turn a wholly owned
subsidiary of MacroTrends Ventures International, Ltd. Charles Hong
Lee is one of the principals with these firms; He has been tied in
the press to participation in a scheme to bilk immigrants out of
some $47 million; he is also connected with a scandal in which a
Mr. Graye was prosecuted, relating to Vinex Wines. Charles Hong Lee
was also involved with something called "The Vancouver
Maneuver,"
a stock pump & dump scheme that bilked investors out of millions
in connection with an entertainment company and something called
Beverly Development. Charles Hong Lee was a principal with Global
Election Systems, along with the late Clinton Rickards. Talbot
Iredale, currently the V.P. for Research and Development for Diebold
Election Systems, began with the company in 1991, right around the
time the Vancouver Maneuver was exposed in Barron's magazine. This
is the pedigree from whence the Diebold Memos arose.

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Here is a contribution originally from Slashdot, made available for
the Black Box Voting book by Donald Way. (Diebold: This is satire
and meant for entertainment purposes only. If you would like to
spend several more $500 per hour lawyer fees suing us over satire,
go right ahead.)

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Pending: your vote is now the property of Diebold, Inc. Any attempt
on your part to ascertain the disposition of your vote is hereby
declared to be in violation of federal law, e.g., the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act.

You have the right not to vote. Any vote you make can be used against
you in a court of law. The judge presiding in such a court of law
may be appointed by Diebold, Inc., and need not require a jury, but
if a jury is summoned, it need not be a jury of your peers.

By acting to vote you consent to our determining whether your vote
is valid, and in the event it is judged not to be valid, you consent
to our voiding your vote and further voiding your right to vote in
the future.

You furthermore acknowledge that owing to storage and bandwidth
limitations that Diebold, Inc., may experience, your vote may be
digitally compressed in a way such that your true intent in casting
the vote may be lost. If such an eventuality should occur, your
vote may be determined using statistical data derived from any
source we deem appropriate or convenient.

You have the right to protest if your vote is cancelled, altered,
or in any way modified as the result of such action on our part,
however, you hereby acknowledge that in such an eventuality, Diebold,
Inc. may determine that your right to vote is deleterious to democracy
as implement by Diebold, Inc., and therefore may be considered to
be an overt act against the national security of these United States.

You have 10 seconds to comply.

God Bless America

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----- Original Message -----
From: "President, USA Exile Govt."
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:22:37 -0500 (CDT)
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Helpful Links on US Rigged Elections

Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE):
Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species.
NOTE: Thanks to Soula Culver for these valuable additions. -- kl,
pp

Subject: "Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button

Hi Pondo, here is a list of links related to this story that I just
discovered had originally appeared with it on
http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/904/opinion/o_10419.htm
--Soula
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E-Voting: How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office
http://www.commondreams.org/
Common Dreams, Sept. 3, 2003

The Theft of Your Vote is Just a Chip Away
http://www.SmirkingChimp.com/article.php?sid=12461
Thom Hartmann, July 31, 2003

How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html
Infernal Press, September 2003

Now Your Vote is the Property of a Private Corporation
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=10536
Thom Hartmann, March 11, 2003

The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html
USENEX Security Symposium, Aug. 6, 2003

Who Counts the Votes?
http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/votingmachines-new.htm
Southern Exposure, Winter 2002/2003

Florida Invests $24 Million in Wireless Voting Machines
http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/16104.html
Wireless News Factor, Jan. 31, 2002

Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Vulnerabilities
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm
Scoop, Sept. 12,2002

Voting Machine Controversy as Diebold Chief Backs Bush

http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 28, 2003

The Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/082003Landes/082003landes.html
Online Journal, Aug. 20, 2003

Hacking Democracy?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/print.html
Salon.com, Feb. 20, 2003

Possible Flaw Triggers Electronic Voting Concerns
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2092678
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 11, 2003

Piecing it Together
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/
Black Box Voting, Aug. 25, 2003

Bay of Pigs 2000: The November Surprise
http://www.madcowprod.com/welcomechad.htm
Madcow Morning News, Dec. 26, 2000

Slavery Under God's Laws
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/slavery.htm
The Institute for Christian Economics,

Stoning: Integral to Commandment Against Murder
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/stoning2.htm
The Institute for Christian Economics,

World Conquest: The Obligation of Christian Politics
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/worldcnq.htm
The Changing of the Guard, Dominion Press,

An Anthology of Reconstructist Thought
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/cr.htm
Christian Reconstructionism, November 2002

Judicial Warfare: Christian Reconstructionism and its Blueprint for
Dominion
http://www.crownrights.com/reconstruction/
Crown Rights Press, 2003

British Firm Buys Controlling Interest in Sequoia Voting Systems

http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2002/05/27/daily30.html?t=pri
ntable
Eastbay Business Times, May 29, 2003

A High-Tech Ambush
http://www.ecotalk.org/Vote-By-Mail.htm
Eco Talk, Oct. 29, 2002

Louisiana Election Commissioner Pleads Guilty in Kickback Scandal
http://www.oakridger.com/stories/112800/stt_1128000038.html
The Oak Ridger, Nov. 28, 2000

Pipeline Partnership Take Under: Madison Dearborn and Carlyle
http://www.mcdep.com/MR30424.PDF
Meter Reader Energy Stock Analysis, April 24, 2003

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Forwarded with Compliments of Government of the USA in Exile (GUSAE):
Free Americans Resisting the Fourth Reich on Behalf of All Species.
NOTE: Thanks to Rick Davis for this. -- kl, pp

September 26, 2003 http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html

Vanishing Act:

"Disappearing" the Republic at the Push of a Button

By CHRIS FLOYD

It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching
in a
blur of buy-outs and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up
operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA
shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers--and presidential family
members--lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with
pork-funded, half-finished, secretly-programmed computer systems
installed
without basic security standards by politically-partisan private firms,
and
protected by law from public scrutiny.

It's how America, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And
it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of
the
United States--no matter what the people of the United States might
want.

The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate
players--Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia--with a fourth, Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies--all
of
them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid--have been given
billions
of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of
voting machines nation-wide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled
systems--many using "touch-screen" technology that leaves no paper trail
at
all--are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate
whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, John Hopkins and
other
universities.

The technology had a trial run in the 2002 mid-term elections. In
Georgia,
serviced by new Diebold systems, a popular Democratic governor and
senator
were both unseated in what the media called "amazing" upsets, with
results
showing vote swings of up to 16 percent from the last pre-ballot polls.
In
computerized Minnesota, former vice president Walter Mondale--a
replacement
for popular incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash days
before
the vote--was also defeated in a large last-second vote swing.
Convenient
"glitches" in Florida saw an untold number of votes intended for the
Democratic candidate registering instead for Governor Jeb "L'il Brother"
Bush. A Florida Democrat who lost a similarly "glitched" local election
went
to court to have the computers examined--but the case was thrown out by
a
judge who ruled that the innards of America's voting machines are the
"trade
secrets" of the private companies who make them.

Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: the corporate
lines--even the bloodlines--of these "competitors" are so intricately
mixed.
For example, at Diebold--whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush
fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home
state's
votes to Bush next year--the election division is run by Bob Urosevich.
Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S. The brothers
were
originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a
member of
the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked
with
Bushist faithful.

Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the "Christian
Reconstructionist"
movement, an extremist faction that openly advocates a theocratic
takeover
of American democracy, with the imposition of strict Christian dominion,
placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics,
and
every other sphere under Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the
death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for
non-Christians,
stoning of sinners and--we kid you not--slavery, "one of the most
beneficent
of Biblical laws." As the movement's leader--and Ahmanson's fellow CNP
member--R.J. Rushdoony puts it: "The Christian should therefore not fear
laws in support of Christian social goals just because they interfere
with
personal freedom."

Ahmanson also holds a major stake in ES&S, where he's joined by
Republican
Senator Chuck Hagel. Before his ascension to high office, Hagel was CEO
of
an earlier ES&S incarnation. Thus, when he ran for the Senate, his own
company counted the votes. Needless to say, his initial victory was
reported
as "an amazing upset." Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the
parent
company of ES&S. In Florida, Jeb Bush's first choice for a running mate
in
his 1998 gubernatorial race was ES&S lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a
mint installing the machines that counted Jeb's votes.

Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where
it
was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state
officials to
jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms.
Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving
immunized testimony against state officials. The company's corporate
parent
is the UK communications and printing firm De La Rue, which even as we
speak
is churning out the colonial currency notes for the new Iraq, courtesy
of a
hefty Coalition contract. De La Rue, in turn, is owned by the private
equity
firm Madison Dearborn--a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush
I
makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and
sweetheart deals with government insiders.

Investigations by Bev Harris, Thom Hartmann and many others have forced
some
of these concerns about computer voting into the edge of the mainstream.
Maryland, for example, was so worried about its fat new contract with
Diebold that it hired another company to vet the software: SAIC. On the
surface, this seems a bit like asking Pepsi to certify the taste of
Coke, as
top SAIC executives have now spun off into the vote-counting game. These
include former CEO Admiral Bill Owens--former military aide to Dick
Cheney
and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci--and ex-CIA director Robert Gates, of
Iran-Contra fame. Another SAIC executive, David Kay, has been hired by
the
Bushists to "find" Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction. SAIC's
long
history of fraud charges and security lapses in its electronic systems
hasn't prevented it from becoming one of the largest contractors for the
Pentagon and the CIA--and it will doubtless pose little obstacle to its
entrance into election engineering.

The mad rush to install unverifiable computer voting is driven by the
Help
America Vote Act, signed by Bush last year. The chief lobbying group
pushing
for HAVA was a consortium of arms dealers--those disinterested corporate
citizens--including Northop-Grumman and Lockheed-Martin. The bill also
mandates that all states adopt the computerized "voter purge" system
used by
Florida's Jeb Bush to eliminate 91,000 eligible black voters from the
rolls
in November 2000. This was done by a private firm, the Republican-run
ChoicePoint Inc., which delivered a list of supposedly "ineligible"
voters--identified by race--to Florida officials. ChoicePoint was
supposed
to help local officials correct any mistakes, but despite taking several
million dollars for this task, they somehow neglected to do it. Now
Bush's
HAVA requires that all states conduct similar operations--and no points
for
guessing which Republican-run private firm is gobbling up the lion's
share
of those contracts. (This gives a whole new meaning to the term
"whitewash").

The unelected Bush Regime now controls the government, the military, the
judiciary--and the machinery of democracy itself. Absent some unlikely
great
awakening by the co-opted dullards of the corporate media, next November
the
last shreds of a genuine American republic will disappear--at the push
of a
button.
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Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular
contributor to
CounterPunch. His CounterPunch piece on Rumsfeld's plan to provoke
terrorist
attacks came in at Number 4 on Project Censored's final tally of the
Most
Censored stories of 2002. He can be reached at: cfloyd72@hotmail.com

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