[The Random Factor] Voting machine facts i don't want to believe

[The Random Factor]

In an invitation for a Republican fundraiser at his home, Walden O'Dell,
chief executive of Diebold Inc - the company who's voting machines were used
in the 2004 Ohio elections - wrote in August 2003 that he was "committed to
helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

In the 2004 election for the first time in history there were exit polls
that did not match actual election results. In 2004, also for the first
time, international election observers were barred from entering polling
places, including Ohio, where widely disputed results swung the election.

This is old news.

Yet somehow, 2 years later, on Tuesday November 7th, 2006, 30% MORE people
in the United States will use electronic voting than in 2004. 90% of the
ballots in 2006 will be cast electronically and most election results will
again be unverifiable.

- 80% of the country will use voting machines by two seperate companies
Diebold and ES&S, owned by brothers.

- Diebold’s voting machines have no paper trail, leaving no way to verify
that the results coming out of the machine is the same as what was entered
by voters.

- Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of
which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

- When Sequoia Voting Systems demonstrated its electronic voting system's
new paper-trail live for the first time to Californian officials the print
out of votes cast on the machine did not match the actual votes cast in the
demonstration.

- Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of building "back
doors" or access points to software he developed  using a “high degree of
sophistication” to evade detection for over a period of 2 years.


I am not sure if it is possible for there to be a more important issue in
America... ever. Seems to me if we can't get this right, we have nothing. We
can not purport to carry the torch of freedom and democracy and use a voting
process that is suspicious and unverifiable at best. At worst? Our democracy
is already gone ... temporarily.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=u3Uz9PHB6-M
http://www.guerrillanews.com/blogs/12824/20_Amazing_Facts_About_Voting_In_Th
e_United_States
http://www.legitgov.org/
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64569,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/fyi/main2048647.shtml
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E12FD385D0C7A8CDDA80994DB
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