4. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
8. Ohio and Florida were crucial to the Bush campaign - if Bush had lost in Ohio and Florida, he would have lost the 2004 election, and John Kerry would have been president.
9. All exit polls in the 2004 election matched the recorded results, except in Ohio and Florida. The exit polls, which are normally very reliable, in Ohio and Florida indicated an easy John Kerry victory.
11. 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."
15. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=259&row=2 http://uscountvotes.org/ How the Bush Stole the Election (part I and part II) (requires Flash) http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/
16. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
17. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
18. Diebold consultant 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.
19. Computer programmer Clinton Curtis testified at the December 13th, 2004 Congressional hearing in Columbus, Ohio, naming Republican Congressman Tom Feeney as the person who hired him to design and build vote-rigging software.
See video here: http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm http://www.rense.com/general67/videoofvoterigging.htm
20. 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:
21. 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.
The essence of democracy is the confidence of the electorate in the accuracy of voting methods and the fairness of voting procedures. In 2000, that confidence suffered terribly, and we fear that such a blow to our democracy may have occurred in 2004. Democratic Reps. John Conyers (Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) and Robert Wexler (Fla.),