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  • E voting Corruption record
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FLORIDA’S 2000 nightmare over punch-card ballots caused America to stampede toward purely electronic voting. But this snowballing trend raises two new concerns: vote-stealing could be easier in digitized elections, and several computer balloting firms have shady pasts.
    Most of America’s e-voting is done on machines purchased from three firms: Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Pacific, and Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Two of the companies are headed by brothers. All are led (…)

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"?
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States," Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
    The two brothers Mrs. Kerry is referencing are, according to voting machine expert (and founder of www.BanVotingMachines.org Lynn (…)

  • The Homeland Security State
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Homeland Security State Nick Turse February 02, 2005 The Military Half
    If you’re in the United States and reading this on the Internet, the Federal Bureau of Information (FBI)may be spying on you at this very moment.
    Under provisions of the USA Patriot (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act, the Department of Justice has been collecting e-mail and IP (Internet protocol, a computer’s unique numeric (…)

  • Microsoft’s plan to take over your computer
    1 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Richard Stallman
    Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing", large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. (Microsoft’s version of this scheme is called "Palladium".) Proprietary programs have included malicious (…)

  • Clear Box Voting System 1.0
    22 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As we all grow weary of the U.S. elections fiascoes over the last four years, courtesy of Ohio and Florida partisan Secretaries of States, I unveil your 2004 Christmas present. It is the brand new Clear Box Voting System, nice and boring (may need some egg nog): 1) Everyone gets a Voter ID number. Your social security card or your drivers license is your Voter ID card. Ok, so you already have your Voter ID card ... let’s vote.
    2) It’s Election Day. You walk into a school auditorium, (…)

  • Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Madsen
    The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
    An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican (…)

  • Wheel of VOTER Challenge II: 2K
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW $2,000 CHALLENGE Due to the popularity of last week’s Wheel of VOTER Challenge 2004 — in which it was paper-trail voting emerged to have an unrivaled mandate — we at WVC headquarters now offer the following $2,000 opportunity for an equally tantalizing issue: We will send a $2,000 cashier’s check to the first election official, politician, statistician, professor, broadcast journalist, blogger, editor, vote machine manufacturer, programmer, Yalees, MITers, anyone who can convince us (…)

  • How to Hack an Election in 90 Seconds
    27 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have have requested the Department of Justice to open up an investigation in Ohio. Ideally, they will start a parallel investigation with GAO into voting irregularities in Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina (http://www.thehill.com/news/11242004/gao.aspx), in addition to these congresspeople: John Conyers (D-MI) Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Robert Wexler (D-FL) Robert Scott (D-GA) Melvin Watt (D-NC) Rush Holt (D-NJ) Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Louise Slaughter (D-NY) George Miller (D-CA) John Olver (…)

  • University researchers challenge Bush win in Florida
    22 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Something went awry with electronic voting in Florida,’ says the lead researcher
    by Dan Verton
    Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said today that they have uncovered statistical irregularities associated with electronic voting machines in three Florida counties that may have given President George W. Bush 130,000 or more excess votes. The researchers are now calling on state and federal authorities to look into the problems.
    The study, "The Effect of Electronic (…)

  • Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least five convicted felons secured management positions at a manufacturer of electronic voting machines, according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software.
    Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a subsidiary of Diebold, one of the country’s largest voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer (…)