"Ian St. John" wrote in message
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Bob wrote:
"claudel" wrote in message
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Actually, it is long overdue. Perhaps they're waiting till after
the pending election victory.
Victory????
In a manner of speaking. Depends on whether you expect elections to be
fair
and accurate or just a means of 'legiimizing' a dictatorship.
First, you force everyone to adopt bad technology under deadlines to make
sure it comes in before the election..
http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
Note: Make sure that it is developed by loyal republican companies and
that
the election oversight commitees have NO rights to view ( proprietary )
code
that they then 'certify'. And make sure that local 'audits' at the polling
station will not show up a discrepancy.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/07/268819.shtml
And
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20052/
"Danciu sued for access to the Sequoia source code to see if it was
flawed.
He was told that the source code was considered a trade secret under
Florida
law, and that even LePore and her staff ( the election officials) were
*not
authorised to examine it*, on pain of criminal prosecution. "
Make sure that no state can institute a paper trail to ensure a post
election check..
couldn't find my reference to this but it is true
And make sure that you cannot have an avalance of paper 'advance votes' by
people that know damn well that the button they push may not actually
register a vote for the candidate they choose.
http://www.independent-media.tv/item...ory_desc=Under
%20Reported
Then you can rig the election to give yourself a victory.
http://www.alternet.org/story/16474
The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away
Rigging elections, by the way, is hardly even a 'conspiracy theory' in the
U.S. where it has a LONG tradition.
See http://wheresthepaper.org/ below for a nice illustration of the new
RepubliCON election strategy.. but you may have to wait till late at night
because either the Republicons are blocking it or it is way overloaded
with
people discovering for themselves how easy it is to rig an election that
is
entirely electronic and with no backup record to ensure against tampering.
However, the alternet reference should also illustrate the issue.
also
http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00156.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/access-diebold.htm#votes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...entId=A42085-2
003Aug10¬Found=true
About 30% of the voters will be using video terminals and have no
record of who they really voted for. I mean Diebolt manufactures ATM
machines and how hard is it to get a receipt from your atm??? And Bush
pushed the "Help America Vote Act" which *mandates" video voting by 2008
and
pays for the machines ( made by their republican buddies). He wasn't going
to chance obvious vote tampering. High tech vote tampering is the way to
go.. Then they went back and mandated video voting by 2004 elections!
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.2239: Sec 5a..
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/6791541.htm
Only California has really confronted the issue.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dr...rs/decert1.pdf
Voter tampering doesn't even have to be by corrupt officials!
http://cryptome.org/hack-vote.htm "They were disturbingly successful. It
was
an "easy matter," they reported, to reprogram the access cards used by
voters and vote multiple times. They were able to attach a keyboard to a
voting terminal and change its vote count. And by exploiting a software
flaw
and using a modem, they were able to change votes from a remote location."
And note that most video terminals are now equipped with modems because of
'errors' in election officials unable to bring in the electronic recording
chip that didn't require online access. The fraud is easier to detect if
you
need to attach a keyboard to the machine itself.
Note that the effort to make the vote 'uncountable' by the republicans is
another clue. It ensures that the output of the code *proprietary to and
only examined by the three republican companies that make the voting
machines* will be the 'last word' not matter how egregious the tampering.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...te%3DcontentMo
dules/printstory.jsp
and hand in hand with this legislation, the voting machine manufacturers (
all republican owned) plan to harass any state that tries to provide a
paper
trail.
http://www.coastalpost.com/04/01/01a.htm
And how this affects the voting can be easily demonstrated..
http://wheresthepaper.org/
Can you elect John Doe?
And other games can be played such as offering alternative 'paper ballots'
and then invalidating the votes by claiming error..
http://news.bostonherald.com/nationa...rticleid=28812
But the most telling point will be that, rather than eliminating fraud and
vote tampering, the video voting terminals will undoubtably increase both
the conflicts and the inabilty to resolve them.
"1/13/04 Sun Sentinel, FL: the consequences of no paper audit trail -
"Bogdanoff's closest competitor, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Mayor Oliver
Parker,
told Broward elections officials that the results of the election wouldn't
be legal until they counted all the undervotes by hand. And since machine
ballots can't be counted by hand, Parker said the voting machines in South
Florida are illegal. Broward County Canvassing Board Attorney Ed Dion
dismissed the claim, saying the voting machines had been approved by state
officials. A letter Monday from the office of state Secretary Glenda Hood,
Florida's top election official, left the decision of how to perform the
manual recount up to the local officials. The letter said state law was
unclear on how to resolve the Broward dilemma, adding that state recount
rules were currently being revised. Parker conceded after Broward's
canvassing board chose to manually recount only the five invalid paper
ballots cast by absentee -- and not revisit machine-cast ballots."
Well, we all know Teamp Chimpy never "won" the 2000 election
other than the 5-4 vote on the Supreme Court, which brings up
another question - why does anyone call Bush "President Bush"?
He's not the frickin' president! He never won the election!
The majority of voters voted for Gore. Yeah, I know how
the electorial college works, but that did not come into play
any more than the popular vote. The chimp was appointed.
And now it looks like they're gonna cheat him in there again.
Sheeks, what a perverse tragedy and failure of democracy.
If there were only some other planet to go to to get away
from fascist liars and cheaters, I'd be in heaven.
KABONG!~!~!~
"If fascism came to America it would be on a
program of Americanism."
~Huey P. Long
Bob