BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?

Subject: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 05:58 PM

Some of you may not have seen this yet.

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became
Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's
vice-presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

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

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here.)

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen
voting machines with no paper trail.

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and
reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

19. Florida's governor, Jeb is Bush's brother.

20. Major voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and questioned by experts.

The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies were the equivalent
of statistical miracles. Was it God? or was it Diebold...?
NOTE: Please copy the above and distribute freely! Thank you!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: GUEST,Rhino the Rhinoceros
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:00 PM

Did you know that Kerry lost?

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:03 PM

Maybe Bush lost.

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:13 PM

No matter who won, we all lost.

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: CarolC
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:13 PM

Did you know that Kerry lost?

Define "lost".

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:24 PM

Excellent point, Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:45 PM

Well, what has both me and the Wes Ginny Slide Rule burnin' the midnoight oil is trying to figure out how, after election afetr election after election when exit polls seemed so predictable that in this past election so many voters lied to the pollsters...

Hmmmmmmm, Part 57,936...

No, Bush probably lost just as he lost the 2000 election by like who cares? Right? I said iyt over and over before the election that Kerry would need no lesss thana 5 point advantage to squeak thru...

But what I find so interesting is Bush's obsession with other people's democracies, or lack thereof, when he lets our corrupt democracy-not-even-wanta-be just bumble along... Might of fact, every attempt by anyone in opposition to the King to make our democracy work like a real one are shot down in flames by the King and his servants...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Was it God? Or was it Diebold?
From: Greg F.
Date: 15 Dec 04 - 06:56 PM

The U.S. has the best government money can buy.