20 Damning Facts About Voting In The USA
Original posting, October 2006 Note added: 3rd February 2008
- Premier Election Solutions, Inc. is currently run by David Byrd[5]. Previously, DESI was run by Bob Urosevich, who worked in the election systems industry since 1976. In 1979, Mr. Urosevich founded American Information Systems. He served as the President of AIS now known as Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) from 1979 through 1992. Bob's brother, Todd Urosevich, is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales with ES&S, DESI's chief competitor. In 1995, Bob Urosevich started I-Mark Systems, whose product was a touch screen voting system utilizing a smart card and biometric encryption authorization technology. Global Election Systems, Inc. (GES) acquired I-Mark in 1997, and on July 31, 2000 Mr. Urosevich was promoted from Vice President of Sales and Marketing and New Business Development to President and Chief Operating Officer. On January 22, 2002, Diebold announced the acquisition of GES, then a manufacturer and supplier of electronic voting terminals and solutions. The total purchase price, in stock and cash, was $24.7 million. Global Election Systems subsequently changed its name to Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
- In 2006 Diebold decided to remove its name from the front of the voting machines for strategic reasons. CEO Thomas Swidarski announced he would decide in the beginning of 2007 if Diebold stays in the election business.[6] In August 2007 the company changed its name to "Premier Election Solutions".
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. Black Box Voting Diebold ES & S
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. Black Box Voting Elections In America
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. Black Box Voting American Free Press
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." CBS News Wish TV
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines. Black Box Voting MotherJones
6. 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. The Hill On Lisa Rein's Radar
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates. BusinessWeek TheIndependent.com
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. Black Box Voting ES & S
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. Electronic Voting IT World
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. Electronic Voting Diebold
11. Diebold is based in Ohio. Diebold
12. 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. Wired News
13. 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. Black Box Voting Chapter 8 (pdf) Scoop
14. 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. Black Box Voting Chapter 8 (pdf)
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. Global Exchange The Enquirer
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! MSNBC Wired News
17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. CBS News
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. Wired News Yurica Report Scoop
19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother. Washington Post
20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation. Yurica Report Computerworld American Free Press Vote Hacking Bush's Vote Tallies Election Archive
DECEMBER 2004 GALLUP POLLS: 1 in 5 Americans (20%) believe the elections were fraudulent. That's over 41 million Americans.
posted by Louis Brothnias @ 2:05 am
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