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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2539
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 06:22 pm: | 
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/electronicvoting
Some excerpts
New York Times - An article titled "Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud," presents the troubling results of a detailed study by Johns Hopkins University. "We found some stunning, stunning flaws. The systems....could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipment. Ballots could be altered by anyone with access to a machine, so that a voter might think he is casting a ballot for one candidate while the vote is recorded for an opponent."
New York Times, 7/24/2003 (article became pay for view just after 2004 election, free copy available at link)
Fox News/Associated Press - "Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates. Several dozen voters in six states said the wrong candidates appeared on their touch-screen machine's checkout screen.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137489,00.html - 11/3/2004
Washington Post - "In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost because officials misjudged the amount of data that could be stored electronically by a computer."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29190-2004Nov5.html - 11/6/2004
Miami Herald - An article titled "Defective Software Lost Votes" states, "Attorneys scrutinizing the close vote on Amendment Four noticed that vote totals changed in an unexpected way after 13,000 final ballots were counted. Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software. Because no precinct has more than 32,000 voters, the software caps the total votes at that number. From there, it begins to count backward." "The glitch was discovered two years ago, and should have been corrected by software manufacturer ES&S."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10099198.htm - 11/4/2004
CNN/Associated Press - "An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. "
CNN, 11/5/2004 (this article appears to have been removed from the CNN website not long after the election. At this link, we provide a copy we downloaded before its removal)
USA Today - "Nearly one in three voters, including about half of those in Florida, were expected to cast ballots using ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticized for their potential for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning." "Most of the machines, including all of Florida's, lack paper records that could be used to verify the electronic results in a recount". "Over 20 percent of the machines tested by observers around the country failed to record votes properly."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-11-03-evote-trouble_x.htm - 11/3/2004
These are only a few of the many problems that we know about. How many more votes were changed or disappeared that we don't know about? We will never know. For more powerful information on this, the excellent documentary Votergate takes us on a fact-finding mission across the US revealing stunning evidence of defects and outright fraud in electronic voting. Engaging interviews with whistleblowers and courageous Americans, including members of Congress and top elections officials, reveal critical information which the mass media has given very little coverage. Watch this powerful 30-minute documentary available free on Google Video.
The Problem Goes Deeper. Below are excerpts from a riveting article which goes to the very core of the problem. The author's father and uncle uncovered serious elections fraud years ago and suffered severely for trying to reveal the truth. In 1992, they published the book Votescam which exposed major elections fraud, only to have it effectively banned. They both died young in the 1990s. Please pass on this powerful information which is so vital to the future of democracy. Invite all of your friends and colleagues to forward this message, and to join together in calling for election reform.
For the full original article, see http://www.truthout.com/docs_03/102503C.shtml
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1312
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 07:52 pm: |
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Chris - I agree that there are problems with our system of casting ballots. But after you lost is not the appropriate time to bring it up. Ms. McKinney has been in elected office for quite some time, and if she thought this was a problem, she should have worked to correct it while she was in the position to do so. And not stand there with snot hanging from her nose proclaiming the machines did it. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 5827
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 07:40 am: |
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Mzuri,
I agree. I'm SURE there are MYRIAD problems with electronic balloting. But we KNOW had McKinney won she would NOT have been concerned about that. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1322
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 10:54 am: |
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ABM - What irks me most about Ms. McKinney is that she won't even TRY TO ACT like she has some class. She really does make Black people look inferior. You lose the election, regardless of the fact that it broke your heart, ego, spirit, bank account and everything else, just congratulate your opponent and move the fuck on to your next project. What's so complicated about that. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 5834
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 11:27 am: |
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Mzuri,
I agree that McKinney should have graciously acknowledged her loss and congratulated her opponent. Not because he'd earned or were worthy of such (He appears to be an effete puppet who's got GOP/Zionist puppetmasters.). But so as not to provide more cheap/easy fodder for her polemics.
And, hey, the next congressional election is ONLY 2 years away. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2541
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 01:41 pm: |
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Mzuri:
Why do you hate black people so much? |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 02:59 pm: |
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Chris - Cut the shit with your stupid remarks towards me.
Cynthia McKinney has no class and she reflects badly upon Black people. That's my opinion. If you think otherwise, that's fine too. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2546
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 04:48 pm: |
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I heard when you step out you look just like you're getting ready to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in 1967. Beehive hairdo and all.
Man, I am killing myself here! |
Enchanted
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Enchanted
Post Number: 127
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 04:51 pm: |
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Chris Hayden I've been thoroughly enjoying your very insightful and intelligent posts. Your thread about the British bomb plot was priceless and very witty. Please keep us informed, because between Kola's color rants and Mzuri's fixation of Ms. GOOF, this board is getting stale.
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