In exclusive stunning admissions to The BRAD BLOG some 11 months after the 2004 Presidential Election, a “Diebold Insider” is now finally speaking out for the first time about the alarming security flaws within Diebold, Inc’s electronic voting systems, software and machinery. The source is acknowledging that the company’s “upper management” — as well as “top government officials” — were keenly aware of the “undocumented backdoor” in Diebold’s main “GEM Central Tabulator” software well prior to the 2004 election. A branch of the Federal Government even posted a security warning on the Internet.
Pointing to a little-noticed “Cyber Security Alert” issued by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the source inside Diebold — who “for the time being” is requesting anonymity due to a continuing sensitive relationship with the company — is charging that Diebold’s technicians, including at least one of its lead programmers, knew about the security flaw and that the company instructed them to keep quiet about it.
“Diebold threatened violators with immediate dismissal,” the insider, who we’ll call DIEB-THROAT, explained recently to The BRAD BLOG via email. “In 2005, after one newly hired member of Diebold’s technical staff pointed out the security flaw, he was criticized and isolated.”
In phone interviews, DIEB-THROAT confirmed that the matters were well known within the company, but that a “culture of fear” had been developed to assure that employees, including technicians, vendors and programmers kept those issues to themselves.
The “Cyber Security Alert” from US-CERT was issued in late August of 2004 and is still available online via the US-CERT website. The alert warns that “A vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could [sic: allow] a local or remote authenticated malicious user [sic: to] modify votes.”
The alert, assessed to be of “MEDIUM” risk on the US-CERT security bulletin, goes on to add that there is “No workaround or patch available at time of publishing.”
“Diebold’s upper management was aware of access to the voter file defect before the 2004 election – but did nothing to correct it,” the source explained.
A “MEDIUM” risk vulnerability cyber alert is described on the US-CERT site as: “one that will allow an intruder immediate access to a system with less than privileged access. Such vulnerability will allow the intruder the opportunity to continue the attempt to gain privileged access. An example of medium-risk vulnerability is a server configuration error that allows an intruder to capture the password file.”
DIEB-THROAT claims that, though the Federal Government knew about this documented flaw, originally discovered and reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in August of 2004, they did nothing about it.
“I believe that top Government officials had an understanding with top Diebold officials to look the other way,” the source explained, “because Diebold was their ace in the hole.”…
But even DIEB-THROAT — who says “we were brainwashed” by the company to believe such concerns about security were nonsense — was surprised to learn that an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was well aware of this flaw, and concerned enough about it to issue a public alert prior to the election last year.
“I was aware of the Diebold security flaw and had heard about the Homeland Security Cyber Alert Threat Assessment website, so I went there and ‘bingo,’ there it was in black and white,” the source wrote. “It blew me away because it showed that DHS, headed by a Cabinet level George Bush loyalist, was very aware of the ‘threat’ of someone changing votes in the Diebold Central Tabulator. The question is, why wasn’t something done about it before the election?”
The CEO of North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold, Inc., Walden O’Dell has been oft-quoted for his 2003 Republican fund-raiser promise to help “Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.” O’Dell himself was a high-level contributor to the Bush/Cheney ’04 campaign as well as many other Republican causes.
“A very serious problem…one malicious person can change the outcome of any Diebold election”
The voting company insider, who has also served as a spokesperson for the company in various capacities over recent years, admits that the “real danger” of this security vulnerability could have easily been exploited by a malicious user or an insider through remote access.
“I have seen these systems connected to phone lines dozens of times with users gaining remote access,” said DIEB-THROAT. “What I think we have here is a very serious problem. Remote access using phone lines eliminates any need for a conspiracy of hundreds to alter the outcome of an election. Diebold has held onto this theory [publicly] for years, but Diebold has lied and has put national elections at risk. Remote access using this backdoor means that one malicious person can change the outcome of any Diebold election.”
The ability to connect to the system remotely by phone lines and the apparent lack of interest by Diebold to correct the serious security issue in a timely manner — or at all — would seem to be at odds with at least one of their Press Releases touting their voting hardware and software.
In an October 31, 2003 Press Release as part of a publicity blitz to “sell” the new voting machines to the voters in the state of Maryland, Diebold Election Systems President Thomas W. Swidarski is quoted as follows in a section titled “Security Is Key”:
Attempts by The BRAD BLOG to get comment from Swidarski were passed to one of the Vice-Presidents at Diebold who has not returned our voice mail message.
We did, however, hear back from Diebold Spokesperson David Bear of the PR firm Public Strategies. He was referred to us by several different Diebold offices as “the man to discuss voting machine issues with.”
Bear claimed to have never heard of the Cyber Alert issued by US-CERT and when told of it, refused to acknowledge it as anything more than “an unverified allegation.”
“One of the greatest threats our democracy has ever known”
Our source expressed emphatically that future democratic elections in the United States are at stake and feels that the problem will not be corrected until Congressional action forces the company to do so.
“In my opinion Diebold’s election system is one of the greatest threats our democracy has ever known, and the only way this will be exposed is with a Congressional investigation with subpoenas of not just Diebold officials but Diebold technicians.”
If our experience in discussing the matter with Bear, the man Diebold referred us to for all matters concerning voting machines, is any indication, then DIEB-THROAT may be correct. Even a Cyber Alert Bulletin issued by an official arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security more than a year ago was not enough to phase Diebold. At least not enough to even inform their public spokesperson about the matter, apparently.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Bear claimed when we asked about the Cyber Alert, and he refused to acknowledge there were any security concerns about Diebold’s Voting Machines or its GEMS Central Tabulator software.
Over and over, by rote, he repeated in response to our questions: “The GEMS software has been used in hundreds of elections and there’s never been a security issue.”
Bear says that “Diebold machines have never lost a single vote,” but beyond that could not speak to the vulnerability issue since, he said, “I don’t know what vulnerability they’re referencing.”
We sent the link to the US-CERT Cyber Alert to Bear, but have not yet heard back from about it. He did, however, send us a copy of the well-worn Caltech/Massachusetts Institute of Technology report [PDF] analyzing the 2004 Presidential Election which, Bear pointed out in his Email, “concludes that the most improvement [in vote-counting and integrity over 2000] occurred when counties/states changed to touch screen systems.”
DIEB-THROAT was taken aback, but not wholly surprised, when we shared the comments from Bear denying knowledge of the “backdoor” security vulnerability in the GEMS software and his contention that there was nothing more than “allegations.”
The vulnerability, and the ability to “manipulate votes” occurs because the GEMS software uses the public Microsoft Access database software to store vote totals in a separate data file. And, as DIEB-THROAT explained, Access is “full of holes. There are so many ways to get into it.”
Because GEMS uses the Access database, “you can enter and manipulate the file without even entering into GEMS,” our source said in response ot Bear’s denials.
“GEMS sits on top of this database and it pretty much feeds information down to the database from GEMS. It’s almost like you’re on the first floor of your house and all of your operating equipment is in the basement so that anything that happens on the first floor ends up downstairs. Well, downstairs has a wide open door to it. So we’re dumping all the votes downstairs and that’s wide open to the rest of the computer system.”
“A culture of fear”
In trying to understand why the U.S. Homeland Security Department’s Cyber Alert didn’t force Diebold to make fixes, patches or corrections quickly available for their software prior to — or even since — the ’04 election, DIEB-THROAT repeated over and over that Diebold was simply “not concerned about security”.
“They don’t have security solutions. They don’t want them…They leave security policy issues up to the states. They’ve known about this for some time. They don’t really care,” the source said, comparing the security flaw to “leaving the front door at Fort Knox open.” It’s just “blatant sloppiness and they don’t care.”
The versions of the GEMS Central Tabulation software listed on the US-CERT site are 1.17.7 and 1.18 and DIEB-THROAT says the same versions of the same software are still in use by States around the country and haven’t had any fixes or patches applied to correct the problem.
Diebold spokesman, Bear, was unable to confirm whether or not Diebold had updated its GEMS software in any way since the US-CERT Cyber Alert was released telling us only that “There’s different versions of the software for different needs” and that he didn’t know if patches, fixes or corrections were ever released by the company.
“There’s always an evolution,” Bear said. “Before any software can be used it’s federally qualified and then certified by the states…Where different versions are running, I just don’t know.”
“They’re still at that same version number,” DIEB-THROAT said. “A lot of our customers still have it and there’s not been any patch….They really don’t care about this sort of thing. They really don’t. People may find it hard to believe…in other words [the company says] ‘we’ll give you a machine to vote on and the rest is up to you.”
“This is a very profit motivated company,” the source continued, “they don’t care what happens after the sale. Once they have the contract they’ve got the customer tied up pretty good.”
Initially DIEB-THROAT claims to have been “brainwashed” by the pervasive “company line” at Diebold, that all of the talk about security concerns and the possibility that someone could hack the vote was the talk of “conspiracy theorists”. Apparently that was — and is still is — “the company line.” But after one of Diebold’s head technicians who works out of their McKinney, Texas facility confirmed the gaping security hole in the software to our source, it was understood that these concerns were for real.
“Up until his confirmation, I had heard it through the grapevine, as rumors and such, but he confirmed it for me. The lead technician who worked on the software, who has a Phd in mathematics and so forth, was saying that ‘this problem exists!'”
So why hasn’t that technician, or anyone else from within the company spoken out until now?
“This is a culture of fear. Really. Only because we were good friends did [the head technician] confide in me that these were problems that needed to be fixed,” DIEB-THROAT said.
“They all knew…”
In regards to possible remote access to the GEMS Central Tabulator by modem via phone lines, a way that hackers could easily and simply change the vote total information in the Access database, Diebold’s official spokesman seemed to be similarly in denial even today.
When we asked Bear whether or not the Central Tabulator is still accessible via modem in their machines, he first denied that it’s even possible, telling us “the Central Tabulator isn’t accessable via modem.”
When we pressed about whether or not there are still modem capabilities in the machines and software they sell, Bear admitted, “There is a modem capability, but it’s up to a jurisdiction whether they wish to use it or not…I don’t know of any jurisdiction that does that.”
“Oh, boy. Such lies,” DIEB-THROAT said in response. “There are several jurisdications that use [the modem capabilities] in the machines…Probably one of the most robust users of modems is Prince Georges County in Maryland. They’ve used it in every election. I believe they started in 2000. And Baltimore County used them in the November election in 2004. Fulton County and Dekalb County in Georgia may have used them in 2004 as well.”
While we were unable to hear back in response to messages left with Election Officials at several of those offices prior to the publication of this article, a review of “Lessons Learned” after the November 2004 Election conducted by the Maryland state Board of Elections obtained by The BRAD BLOG, confirms that modems were used to access the GEMS Central Tabulator to send in information from precincts on Election Night.
We are still reviewing the complete document, but amongst the findings in the report is that “the GEMS system froze several times during heavy modem transmitting periods requiring the system to be rebooted, which generated delays and prohibited BOE from receiving polling places’ transmissions.”
As well, the report concludes, “Modem lines testing in polling place still problematic; need better coordination with school system.”
It also says that “7% of voting units deployed failed on Election Day” and that an additional 5% “were suspect based on the number of votes captured.” The BRAD BLOG hopes to have a follow-up article in the coming days which looks in more detail at the full Maryland state Board of Elections report and the alarming rate of failure for Diebold Touch-Screen voting machines.
When we asked our source if they had any evidence to show that the security flaw described by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security was actually exploited in the 2004 election, DIEB-THROAT told us only: “I wouldn’t say I have evidence that it was exploited….only that it was known. To the feds, to state officials and to Diebold. They all knew. In spite of the gap they moved forward as normal…As if it didn’t exist.”
UPDATE 9/18/05: Here’s a quick update with some follow-up, reaction and additional info and links posted to the net since the above article was published a few days ago.
I could see Rove going to a back room somewhere and flipping votes, or even a stooge doing it from somewhere else and Rove watching live as it happens, wouldn’t be too hard the way the set up is put together
Don’t have time to read this all now, but Good Going Brad. This story is the top headline at Raw Sotry right now. Their link brings us here.
I have my reading set up for tonight I see.
I asume this is the major story you alluded to yesterday.
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit – AT LAST there’s a ray of hope.
Okay, so how do we make the VERY BEST use of this information?
The 6 or 7 squad is asking – what now?
We do not have a democracy in this country!
How did they get these machines installed past voter security? It’s obvious that somehow these machines got widespread throughout the United States, and it was done very very quietly.
1. What is the % U.S. votes done on DIEBOLD machines?
2. What is the % of U.S. votes done on electronic voting machines?
3. What is the % of U.S. votes counted on optical scanners?
4. Does Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org know about this?
NOW…can we revisit the exit polls that said Kerry won the election by 5 million popular votes, MSM?
I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the PROMIS software program Michael Rupert talks at length about in Crossing the Rubicon. Seems that is a program that supposedly has the ability to back-door itself into almost any software program.
I admire Brad and all you supporters, but nothing’s going to happen, as usual. It’s not your fault this is happening. It’s the fault of the silent majority who are busy watching WWF, porn, and downing Bud Lights.
HOLY COW, BRAD!! This it! This is the (almost) last straw.
Good job.
It was exploited…. That’s for sure….the writing is all over the walls.
And they’re goiNg to exploit it again…..someone has got to shut Diebold and ES&S down and force them to turn over their source code!!!!
Kkkarl Rove had an open sales system a deal with the devil at Diebold and manipulated totals with the help of some cronies…..Didn’t blackwell also have the same open-door Diebold tabulator in the office?
If they had to adjust all the triad machines….and Diebold was running the main server that would explain the recount anomolies that fixed the count. They simply had to "adjust" to match the Diebold program and then deny everyone access to the logs.
Someone in Ohio/Nebraska needs to file open lawsuit to these bastards to release those source code logs!!!! This is no less than treason!
Doug E.
Brad: It would seem to me that this information and all related to it should be in the hands of Rep. Conyers.Immeadiately)
Are you transcribing your conversations with tape backup(with the approval of the source, and related sources)?
Be interesting to see if the newly awaked MSM is going to throw there considerable influence in on this developing story.
The Clint Curtis story seems to have died a long but quiet death.
Peter in Oregon
And butter my butt to!
I’M WITH YOU, KESTRELBRIGHTEYES. What do we do with this? We’ve e-mailed everyone in the MSM previously and you all know how far we’ve gotten. Is there anyone who was on the fence and might be pushed over with this?
Certainly worth sending to Paul Krugman at the NYT, Jonathan Alter at Newsweek, Seymour Hersh at the New Yorker. Jim Lampley, too, though I have no contact info on him. Possibly Huffington Post. Michael Moore emboldened enough to run it? WHO ELSE? Geraldo? Keith Oldermann? 60 Minutes?
Brad,
Why can’t you ask your source for the source code? We can get real Pros to look at the code. It should not be too difficult to see if the code was written to shift votes from one candicate to another.
Hilarious. I’m an IT guy and receive these USCert bulletins…I remember seeing this particular weekly summary last year. Passed it on to my boss with the Diebold entry highlighted and we wondered about the shitstorm that was sure to follow. It didn’t make news then, and it won’t make news now. Thanks for your hardword on bradblog…I wish we could get these ‘commercially-made-busy’ people of america to wake up and remove themselves from the boob tube for 15 minutes to see what is happening.
i’m sure the regulars that post here have seen this, but to those who will come here from the raw story site, (like me):
see a diebold training video from jan 2004 held in texas:
http://safevoting.org/videos/diebold_med.mov
Bingo! Great work Brad. I’ve always felt that sooner or later a "Dieb Throat" would surface. Will your source testify at trial, Brad? And are they prepared to make these claims ("Everyone knew…") to the general public?
It would be great if your source could round up some employees at Diebold with evidence that proved what top management knew, and even better if someone knew of any collusion with "elected" officials. Might be interesting to subpoena Diebold’s phone records…
What’s been uncovered here is what Bev Harris has been saying for months. What’s important about this story is the fact that its confirmation that Diebold knew how easy it was to manipulate their software & hardware, and purposefully had no intention of "fixing" the glitch. It’s obvious to me that it was left there for a very clear purpose.
Now we just need a whistleblower from the Bush/Cheney camp to come forward to connect the dots.
Keep up the great work Brad. We’re getting closer and closer and sooner or later something’s going to tip the scales that’ll rid us of these criminals once and for all.
Well done Brad, I’m so glad it was you the ‘insider’ contacted. You must have a reputation, thats good!
OK, I need some butter too…
Great Job Brad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just look at all the repercussions this illegal vote has had –
– let’s start with the Supreme Court and the future of the Court for the next few decades!
– The lives lost due to Katrina and the bungled federal response from Bush cronies!
– The entire war in Iraq, if we go back to the same problem in 2000! (And maybe even 9/11, depending upon the way you feel about Bush & Co. complicity in that!)
– How many in the Senate and House fell due to the same modem "fixes"? There’s been some talk of these as well. And now they’re targeting Hillary!!!
The stolen presidency, the entire majority in both houses, the Supreme Court – we have lost control of our government "of the people, by the people and for the people"!
How can this be reversed – what legal ramifications are there, and how do we get our government back?
Thanks Brad for this incredible work – at least SOMEONE’s "vacation" was fruitful! Don’t let up, don’t let this fall through the holes – please let everyone know that needs to know, like Conyers, Bev Harris, and everyone attending that conference – this revelation couldn’t have come out at a better time!
I don’t know… After the Repubs shut down the resolution of inquiry in the House yesterday, it seems there’s nothing short of resistance or revolution left as feasible solutions.
With complete control of the government and the media it’s evry man for him/herself. Stay out of potential disaster areas and large cities, use every means available to save $$$ (keep a good horde of cash), and limit your tax liability.
Stop driving when gas gets over $2.50/gallon. Complain to your bosses and their bosses.
Pay no attention to Hillary and Joe Biden. They’re just grandstanders. Keep fighting but keep your own counsel. Refuse to vote in ’06 and protest loudly. Let the govt. and media know that your contempt for the system is absolute.
Hold on to your hats. It’s going to be a very bumpy ride.
Great job Brad ! …says alot for you that someone with this information is comfortable with you to talk.
I can understand the fear they must have to speak out.
You know, wouldn’t it have been more Republican to agree to a Katrina commission then fix the facts like they always do? I wonder if the machine is slipping a cog. We can always hope. Maybe Rove’s kidney stones are acting up.
I mean it really looks like someone is hiding alot !!!
from bbc news 6 november 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worl...as/3987237.stm
"Drawing up blueprints for Bush victory"
"By the time election night came around, Mr Rove was in the White House, where, unusually for a political adviser, he has an office.
He set up computers in the Old Family Dining Room and started tabulating results. He had set up a massive network of contacts, not just in state capitals, but individual districts and precincts to monitor turnout and support.
Early exit polls quoted by media seemed to give Mr Kerry the edge, but colleagues said Mr Rove indicated right away that they did not tally with his information.
He used his own data to put Ohio and Florida in the Bush column – bringing cheers from the president and his family when he went into the Roosevelt Room and told them. "
That is one heck of a job "Michael Brown". No, haha that’s how they say it in homeland security.
Why did homeland security of all places know so easily about the all-encompassing exploit and do nothing about it? Hmmm?
I don’t think they really believed anyone would find out….that they were stealing elections.
Now, the important thing is protect this source and make sure he comes forward with the source code. Lets get that out in the open and then the guys like Robert Diekkman who actually manipulated the election will come forward…..
The war is far from over….you still have to get the corporate media to care about this, and most importantly….you have to force laws to get passed. The immediate laws that could be passed would be a law that none of these machines can legally be certified since they violate HAVA.
That would get rid of almost all of the diebold machinery in a heartbeat…..and you’d still need a special prosecutor.
One more thing…..Clint Curtis probably hid his code on several Diebold/Sequoia machines so the most important piece is get the source code. Either the raw source code, or several sources who compiled the source code…..
Its time to take everything back from these crooks….Make sure Conyers etc gets on the ball!
LIONS SHARE
#18 Ilene – got to tell you no one likes vacationing in Texas from June to August. Brad was doing what he does best getting the facts out to the rest of us.
This is the most informative blog on the internet.
Hey! ACVR, gonna put this in your report??
I don’t think they’re saying the primary problem is with the Diebold software. It’s that it (Diebold’s GEMS) uses the MicroSoft Access database system and it’s that database system which is open to intruders.
Is there even a security system with Access? Is it as simple as dialing up via modem and accessing it as easily as one would the same database on your own home pc?
Trying to get MS to fix their database system is probably like asking them to fix their Internet browser or operating systems. It ain’t gonna happen.
I wonder if there is any audit trail kept on modem accesses or other database accesses which could still be in existence. Is there any indication of what changes might’ve occurred and when and by whom? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if such an audit trail suddenly appeared?
This story should be on the front page of every newspaper in America tomorrow morning in very large type. How much would you bet that it won’t?
Dieb-throat, good one!
Great job Brad! Another home run slammed out of the park.
Does Dieb-throat have any like-minded buddies who will join with him/her?
That is one heck of a job "Michael Brown". No, haha that’s how they say it in homeland security.
Why did homeland security of all places know so easily about the all-encompassing exploit and do nothing about it? Hmmm?
I don’t think they really believed anyone would find out….that they were stealing elections.
Now, the important thing is protect this source and make sure he comes forward with the source code. Lets get that out in the open and then the guys like Robert Diekkman who actually manipulated the election will come forward…..
The war is far from over….you still have to get the corporate media to care about this, and most importantly….you have to force laws to get passed. The immediate laws that could be passed would be a law that none of these machines can legally be certified since they violate HAVA.
That would get rid of almost all of the diebold machinery in a heartbeat…..and you’d still need a special prosecutor.
One more thing…..Clint Curtis probably hid his code on several Diebold/Sequoia machines so the most important piece is get the source code. Either the raw source code, or several sources who compiled the source code…..
Its time to take everything back from these crooks….Make sure Conyers etc gets on the ball!
LIONS SHARE
Great work, but the hardest task is to run this story with the so called "liberal media".
Brad,
Once again, great job.
As you know, I sent a copy of your text to KING 5 News and cc’ed you. I would like them to contact you for followup and interview.
Sadly, however, as all of the blogposts you make that I forward to the local Seattle MSM, they all take a perverse pleasure in ignoring us.
DAMMIT!!!
Not to knock BradBlog, but why won’t this guy go to someone like CNN, which is brandishing freshly-sharpened swords at the administration, slicing and dicing on a daily basis? Or one of the big papers? This is great stuff, for sure, but if it’s credible, then everyone needs to know about it.
WOW! [Oh Miss Persistent … wherefore art thou?]
Re: Promis Software
I remember that from last year when researching the voting machine companies but had forgotten about the connection. Here are a few links:
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING AS CONNECTIONS TO DYNCORP, HADRON, PROMIS SOFTWARE AND DISEASE RESEARCH EMERGE
[snip] DynCorp has also been directly linked to the development and use of PROMIS software by its founder Bill Hamilton of Inslaw. DynCorp s former Chairman, current board member and the lead investor in Capricorn Holdings, is Herbert Pug Winokur. Winokur was, until recently, Chairman of the Enron Finance Committee. He claimed ignorance as to the fraudulent financial activities of Enron s board even though he was charged with their oversight. [snip] **more** Lots of familiar names there, eh?
From the Wilderness – Promis Index
http://www.ballotintegrity.org = DC Forum
SOFTWARE TO DIE FOR INSLAW LAWYER ELLIOT RICHARDSON TALKS ABOUT MURDER AND THE CIA — Daniel Casolaro
9/11 and Promis
Overview of America’s Elections –An Inspired Vision Off Course – Correcting Our Course
FYI — Lots of info in these links — Please note: I grabbed these links quickly and haven’t had time to read all of them myself, yet.
Wake the F up, people; we have two parties wed to corporate feedbags and bloggers are just vents on the hothouse.
Unfortunately, Slick Billy is correct.
The powers that be include both parties. The Dems are likely waiting for their turn to rig the elections.
I heard a report on the news the other day that said that the pendulum of control will swing fully to the democrats in 5-9 years from now.
But we need to clean up the elections so neither party can cheat.
High-5 to MrBlueSky. Agreed.
Our Democracy is DEAD. It’s time to fight.
http://members.cox.net/cowicide/
omg, Kira, COMMENT #31
i used to work with Danny Casolaro’s brother — he knew his brother didn’t commit suicide…
boy, you brought back memories!
Mr. John Q Public I can answer that question for you.
The reason he doesn’t go to CNN is the same reason Clinton Curtis won’t.
There’s some moles in the corporate media who could try to have him killed or rubbed out. Don’t need that to happen. The corporate owned media can’t "guarantee" your safety.
Whereas the independant media can, and will make sure things are well researched. That’s how we now know Tom Feeney is a crook and had fraud programs developed is through the independant media.
LIONS SHARE
Gee, I walk away from the computer for a few minutes and suddenly there are 34 comments on this thread – we’re all so excited about this info! This is hopefully the beginning of the end and the epitaph in the previous thread may be coming true even faster than we thought yesterday!
I must respond to #23, Texas Lady. My comment regarding Brad’s "vacation" was a repeat of what Brad himself said the other day. The same way that we keep referencing the "6 or 7" bradblog readers, I was referring to Brad’s "vacation" as he himself called it, tongue in cheek of course!!! I in no way meant anything negative towards Brad in refering to the comment – I thought it was terrific that while he was away Brad was working so much harder than most of us do every day of the week and with such great results. His work at Camp Casey was admirable and gave us all a great sense of what was going on there while helping to further her continuing quest that we’ll be seeing in the days and weeks ahead. I hope this comment didn’t offend you or anyone else.
This is old news. Its sad that it’s considered "breaking news now. Many of us were well aware of all this before, during, and after the election.
colleenmilitarymom
And butter my butt to!
LOL, alot of buttered butts here. 😛
Great job Brad!! Haven’t been here in awhile.
The question is what exactly is the next step? MS Access was never a secure solution.
How do we ensure future elections?
Last I heard there were 25 states requiring a paper trail for all electronic machines. We’re halfway there.
What kind of technology does ES&S use?
I can’t wait to read more about this guy…..Great awesome job!!!!
At least one person(s) do ‘hard work’ on their vacations and know what hard work is don’t they. 🙂
It’s the bloggers like Brad who aren’t afraid to get dirty, while Mr. Bush-sticks himself says he’s doing the work while he lays back on his fishing boat and strums that ol’ banjo!!
Three cheers for truth! 😎
Doug E.
Thanks for nuthin, DIEB-THROAT.
An anonymous ‘whistle-blower’. Oh, whoopie. HOW ABOUT GET SOME DAMNED PATRIOTISM and come out publicly and loudly??!! Aww, afraid to lose your job, huh? Well, the rest of us are losing our democracy.
At least Clint Curtis had the courage to speak publicly.
STEP UP and SPEAK OUT. Quit hiding. It does us no good to have ‘anonymous sources’. Geez.
:angry:
Did anyone go to the US Cert entry for the Diebold security report? Hmm? See that column labeled source? The source of the report is BlackBoxVoting.org. Brad, I have to say that this part of your argument, at least to me, is meaningless in that it is self referential. I don’t see anywhere that an independent certification of the reported software deficiency has occurred. I can’t trust it if its only proof is itself. But the Dieb-Throat stuff is good.
To all else, don’t ever expect any big media network to report on this. Why would they want to derail the gravy train?
I’d be careful to get too excited about this. Sounds like a classic Rove disinformation campaign. Get those ‘crazy liberals’ talking about possible, but unprovable, voter fraud and tkae the focus of Bush’s criminal handling of Katrina.
Not saying this should get flushed down the memory hole, but lets not forget ‘Rathergate’…
Right after the November 2003 elections I saw some stories on voting results compared to exit polls. Exit polls were everywhere reliable, except for three(?) big states where the actual outcome of the elections differed approximately 5% from the exit polls and this was every time favorable for Bush. In all of the three states voting machines without paper trail from Diebold were used.
There hasn’t been any follow up on this story.
Now, I don’t know if it wasn’t a hoax, but it makes one suspicious. Might the back door have been used already?
Brad…you are the DUDE!! This is the best news I have heard in quite some time, but I have always been confident that the truth would come out about the BushCo House o’ Cards!!
In response to #15, by Jeff, and #18, by Ilene, I would like to rehash something I posted on Kos last week, and which got no responses…regarding the importance of whistleblowers in providing evidence we need to take back our democracy. I believe that we have to encourage those on the inside, in the face of a "culture of fear", as Dieb-throat has done, to leak to the press anything they believe might expose BushCo chicanery and manipulations.
Thanks again and we will prevail!!
Styve
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Bring out the Whistleblowers and take down BushCo~ (none / 0)
Hey Kos-crowd,
How can BushCo insiders be enticed into leaking more and more information about BushCo manipulations, threats, deceptions…by publicicizing the degree of criminal culpability they may face for complicity in treason?!?! I know that sounds like a dream, to actually hold BushCo accountable, but if they have committed crimes, as we know they have, and there is a chance that they will be held accountable, perhaps those accomplices might recognize the benefit of getting out early, to minimize their own liability??
I think T-shirts should flood the nation that say something along the lines of "A BushCo Whistleblower is the ultimate PATRIOT, and this ain’t no ACT!!"
Styve
Portland, OR
KOOOOOOOOOL …… good job …..superb……
fabulouass…….felt like a party………thruth is
so refreshing in my daily life of seeing Boosh
pretend to be SUPER prez.
THANKS BRADIO
With this revelation, plus the analysis of the election by statisticians looking at exit polls, combined with the "What Went Wrong in Ohio" report by Rep. Conyers, it seems that we folks who have been highly skeptical of the last election results have the makings for a great case of election fraud. Some subpoenas and legal discovery of documents belonging to Diebold and other election machine companies could probably expose the whole dirty scheme and most of its perpetrators — if only Congress and other already tainted government officials would follow up. There’s the rub. Just how widespread is the government corruption that would have an interest in covering all this up? We shall see.
Great..but will MSM "kill" this too..will the talking heads via Rove (got away with treason..nanner,nanner) squash and spin this story as the tin-foil hat crowd, the crazy leftists conspiracy nuts…? How do we get people to pay attention..who do we get to champion this cause…the "for sale" Democrats..who make money by rolling over for Bush..all the while pretending they are on our side…? Or maybe another tactic..a disgruntled, bitter, former employee of Dieblod..? We need some real proof……and a way to "stick" it in the face of the "non-believers", the peanut gallery that praises Bush, no matter how badly he screws up….
Re: Styve #46
I couldn’t agree more. It’d be great to figure out a way to bring out potential whistleblowers. But you can be sure that coming out is a risky business with these criminals in power. I’m pretty sure that there are folks who read these blogs who themselves have information that could be used to connect the dots on some of Bush & Co’s criminal activities, but look what happened to Ray Lemme! We have to provide a way of keeping these Patriots safe, while encouraging them to share what they know. Perhaps we could start a "Safe Haven Fund" or something to raise donations to be used towards protecting these individuals.
Brad IF you read my post get in touch with Linda at True Vote Maryland.
We have all kinds of reports about Maryland, Prince George’s and Baltimore county.
Check your email please for an email from me. I know you get lots. True Vote has a LOT of info about Maryland.
I met Indira Singhl last year at a 9/11 Conference.
She worked for J.P. Morgan as a risk manager until she got fired.
She found that P-Tech from Quincy, MA. holds the contract for the White House, Air Force One, Senate, House, NORAD, Defense Department, Postal Services, ENRON, Elections, etc. The owner is the top financier of Al-Quaida. She stated they have artificial software that could go into any computer system and change the programming without any knowledge. It can reconfigure anything. Senator Grassey went to FBI Robert Mueller to inquire about P-TECH. He was told by the FBI to let the subject drop that this goes right up to the White House. On 9/11 Dick Cheney was responsible for changing the software to read 22 false positives on the Air Traffic Controllers screens thoughtout the Northeaster Corridor, she reports.
Lapin: The source isn’t blackboxvotingorg that’s just where the report was issued.
Note the fine lines….its the Department of Homeland security labeling it as a "medium level threat" so you can’t just say it was some BBV thing.
Now where is the Diebold insider who’s been exploiting this and knows all about everything….and can reveal the source code?
We need that source to come out now….and tell Diebthrought he needs to reveal his name and bring in the guys who got the source code too.
Doug E.
you are good, real good Brad! Maybe we can get Keith Olberman to report on this. He might be a bit gun shy after his reporting on Black Box Voting last year, but it’s worth sending him this info. I’ll get a link off to Keith and let’s see what he does with it. Again, Brad, you are the best. Your in-depth journalism shines again … thanks for all you do.
We’ve already already known much of this, thanks to Bev Harris and Howard Dean, who broke into the Diebold system on MSNBC last OCTOBER, the month before the election.
All this does is merely verify it. I would like to think that Congress can put the screws to these crooked cocksuckers before the mid-term elections next year but the majority Republicans, obviously, will just throw up red tape like they always do. After all, how can you expect Republicans to benefit from prosecuting or at least persecuting the very same company that illegally put them in power, in the first place (you listening, "Senator" Chambliss?)?
Good work, Brad. Btw, surfed in from Crooks and Liars.com.
Excellent article, also on RAWSTORY is a report of voting machines declared illegal in CT. I wonder what machines they will be forced to buy?
I thought a long time ago that George Soros could more efficiently spend his money by developing a sort of "Safe Haven Fund" to protect whistleblowers brave enough to bring these bastards down!!
Fingers crossed that this is in the morning papers tomorrow!!
Revolution is in the air!!
Styve
this will become some of the amunition local groups will have to use to confront diebolt users. The MSM will ignore it. Of course having a real witness (willing to out himself, so to speak) would be more powerful.
there has been sufficient scientific evidence of voter fraud that any reasonably intelligent person would concur that ’00 and ’04 were stolen. They will try to stifle this as they have stifled the revelations of all other the crimes they have committed.
but good work.
dr rw
clin psy
This makes no sense on so many levels. What would the Dept. of Homeland Security be doing making such a claim? Has anyone heard from the gov’t worker who put that press release out? Also, who is really concerned with an outside 3rd party gaining access to the systems? It most certainly was an inside job. And how much can you really trust Dieb-Throat after he claims that he was brainwashed to the point of not really believing anything was amiss. Are you kidding me, I am 3,000 miles away and knew that their was more fishiness at Diebold than in the White House. Okay, maybe not that much.
Finally, Brad you are one crazy blogger. I surely hope you hired some body guards. Though not sure what they can do for you if you are declared an enemy combatant. Hope you like mojitos.
Someone needs to openly hack some small to medium sized public election, document the entire process, and confess. We know it can be done. We know how to do it. Who wants to go to jail for democracy?
Hate to be a buzzkill, but this has zero credibility outside of the crowd who has already made up their minds.
Brad provides zero evidence that this whistleblower is for real. For all we know, he could have made him up.
And if he is for real, then he is a coward. If he has information which leads him to believe that these machines are a threat to democracy, and he’s still on the Diebold payroll, and he refuses to go on the record to protect his paycheck, he’s a coward.
As one who believes that e-voting IS the biggest threat to democracy we’ve ever known, it pisses me off to see another report which can so easily be dismissed by skeptics.
All of these bogus claims (and yes, it is completely bogus until there is proof) are HURTING the cause.
Not only should this source be on the record, he should provide EVIDENCE to support his claims.
This is not personal against Brad who I strongly suspect is trying to do the right thing here. But he should know better than to post a bunch of unsubstantiated shit and expect anyone other than the tin foil crowd to take it seriously. Wake up people. This is the internet where bullshit runs free.
I desperately want this story to be true. I desperately want a whistleblower to credibly blow this whole e-voting thing wide open and expose it for the risk that it is. Even if someone hasn’t already manipulated an election, which is improbable, the ease at which it can be done almost ensures that it will be done, given the monetary and ideological stakes involved.
But posts like this, with absolutely no confirming evidence, are helping the e-voting industry. They are like crying wolf until no one listens anymore. And anything that helps Deibold et al. is an enemy to democracy. This post, with its unsubstantiated whistleblower is doing the business of Diebold and co. It is Brad that should be on Diebold’s payroll.
Now, if "DIEB-THROAT" turns out to be the smoking gun that shakes the halls of power, I will not have to retract. Because I am not saying that DIEB-THROAT isn’t for real. I am saying that Brad has provided no confirming evidence that he’s for real. And if Brad is for real, and wants to resemble good investigative journalism, he should abstain from posting unverifialbe claims. No matter how sincere.
The biggest challenge we face in getting these machines out of our electoral process is CREDIBLY showing that they are a threat to democracy. This means not meeting the evidentiary and journalistic standards of a major newspaper like the Times. It means exceeding those standards.
Remember, this isn’t about the truth, it is about PROVING the truth. Brad should be working his source quietly, getting him to provide documentation, source code etc. He should take this to a credible journalist or two who can independently verify the source and the source’s claims. Greg Palast would be good. He shyould have waited until this story is rock solid before even posting it. And he should do all of these things before posting again.
Again THESE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS ARE HURTING THE CAUSE. Wanyne Madsen and Bev Harris, have done far more damage than good by making wild claims that they can never prove. Now, as a result, a huge chunk of the blogosphere doesn’t even listen anymore. And as a result, Deibold benefits. This makes them, inadvertantly or not, the enemy.
Don’t be the enemy.
Rick G #19
I need to come to your town to fill up my tank!
$2.99 – $3.09 regular self serve, $3.49 full service, $3.79 for diesel, here in Sacramento.
Jurassic Pork: I’ve also heard from several people South Dakota has abandoned them for paper ballots and Auto-Mark ES&S machines.
That’s a very good sign that they are dumping them, how can we force UTAH to dump them!???
The governor seems to be on a corporate lobbyist streak. He’s got to be stopped!
These ridiculous diebold and iVotronic machines need to be GONE RIGHT NOW!
And of course the neocons in congress don’t want them gone. It was a democrat senator Chris Dodd who BLOCKED the verified paper ballot bill.
Remember that people….they both are cheating. Dodd said it would be ridiculous problem for disabled voters……YET around 20 states and now South Dakota have confirmed AutoMark paper ballots are the perfect solution.
And work for the disabled also….SO WHY DID CHRIS DODD LIE???
Why don’t everyone ask him and get the fires started?
Senator Dodd
Doug E.
Brad,
Get this to Henry Waxman immediately. Also to Barbara Boxer and John Conyers. I think we should also go to Bill Lockyear and have him start an investigation of the Diebold and ES&S owners regarding their machines in California. We can’t go after them in Ohio or Florida as we don’t have standing to sue, but we can in California. Let’s get them.
Harry: Give him time first, JUST like Clint Curtis it takes time to get these whistleblowers protection and verify everything.
People jump on Brad for no names and enough evidence when it isn’t even time for that…..
I mean really the Curtis story wasn’t verified for WEEKS. Give it a rest already. The only time the corporate media started reporting on Curtis is once the lie detector test had been taken and confirmed.
Where can someone get a REAL whistleblower protection fund started? He’s got to have protection…..and may I suggest taking the whistleblowing to Ohio so good old boy Thomas "Fraud" Noe can be sent to prison….a FEDERAL lawsuit and criminal investigation in Ohio would smoke Blackwell out…….
Anyone know some special prosecutors?? Its a good time….
Doug E.
Sorry I had to post a lengthy post but this info is from a case that is both remarkable and highly credible (I’ve researched it for 8 years). Its info talks about how the elections from 2000 on have been rigged or have been won fraudulently.
Please check the case out, this relevation just further proves the crediblity of the case.
CONTACT 367
[Thursday, September 9, 2004]
Contact person: Ptaah
German excerpt: http://www.figu.org/de/figu/bul...enwahl-usa.htm
Overpopulation’s (7.5 billion) dangers for the Earth
Bad leaders in government exploiting the people
World War III (WW3/WWIII) – Meier states that WW3 has been "in full course" for a long time; global military conflicts still possible in 2006, 2010, 2011 & 2012
USA, Israel, Palestine & Sudan
Death of Yasser Arafat in November 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arafat
Terrorism
George W. Bush – a "terrorkrat"; 2nd rise to power in November 2004 (stated by Quetzal 15+ years ago); global military conflicts (WW3) possible in 2006
Republican population of the US led by "the lies and empty promises made by Bush", etc.; not able to think logically
Israel
Palestine & Yasser Arafat
John F. Kerry: http://kerry.senate.gov/
USA Presidential Election 2004 – Bush will win by fraudulently using 400,000 falsified votes manufactured during the 2000 election and stored on voting machines; Florida & Ohio will be complicated
Republicans
Yasser Arafat’s death in November 2004 – Israel (Ariel Sharon) will prevent his body being buried in Jerusalem: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israe...345031,00.html
Ariel Sharon – "a thousandfold murderer and terrorist"
George W. Bush – comparable to Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Husain, Nicolae Ceausescu, Slobodan Milosevic, etc.; strives for US world domination; he isn’t concerned with world terrorism, the "War On Terrorism" is a cover for attacking other countries to establish military bases in them & exploit them; he is "the worst [president] who ever prevailed over the United States of America"
US Senators, etc.
Approximately half of Americans are opposed to war & only want direct defenses for America, not attacking other countries
Switzerland – criminals in government, free speech, the press, judicial system
CONTACT 230
[Wednesday, October 11, 1989]
Contact person: Quetzal
German excerpts:
http://www.figu.org/de/download...en_jeremia.pdf
http://www.figu.org/de/figu/bul...i_kontakte.htm
http://www.figu.org/de/figu/bul.../loch-ness.htm
Gulf War 1 ("Desert Storm") – George H.W. Bush will lead a multinational army in 1991 against Iraq but will have to end it due to strong Iraqi resistance & reluctance of coalition partners to continue; he will plot for his son George W. Bush to come to power to finish the effort to incorporate Iraq into the US for its oil; George W. Bush will become governor of Texas in 1995, he will have many people executed under the death penalty (a large number will be innocent); Bush father & son will work with friends to steer Bush Jr. into the presidency in November 2000 by electoral fraud
Loch Ness "monster" of Scotland – explained; 2 parent & 1 young Plesiosaurus; why their existence will be difficult to prove; Meier taken to see them
"Dieb Throat" is to be commended for coming forward. However, he gets one fundamental fact wrong.
Diebold didn’t put elections "at risk." On the contrary, the whole idea was to eliminate the risk, i.e., that John Kerry might win Ohio and with it the election. They sought to ELIMINATE that risk by allowing crooks to access their tabluators.
This dispenses once and for all with the childish notion (still adhered to by the mainstream media) that a "massive conspiracy" was necessary to rig the election. On the contrary, it took only a handful of crooks with access to the tabulators…which most of us on bradlbog have known from the beginning.
Hi Brad
I hope your computers and computer files are very secure. If not Dieb-Throat’s identity will be discovered in the blink of an eye. E-mail is an extremely unsecure method of communication. This is the kind of information that whomever is behind the vote fraud would break the law (if not your neck!) to get.
Take care of yourself and your computer hardware. I hope your ISP is well protected also.
Take care out there!
RLM You speak the truth!
One quick question I have….
Could Diebold be the main culprit, and main component of election fraud?
The reason I wonder is because Diebold is the most agressive and sleazy at putting their machines out everywhere…..
Triad seems like a backdoor company, another GEMS company who is hired by or is an extension of Diebold.
ES&S seems crooked, except not directly involved in electonic fraud situations and also has created the AutoMark system as a result of lawsuits.
Sequoia has been a problem but created the new Sequoia Advantage scanners.
Diebold seems to be the only one of the four who does not ever admit flaws with the system source codes…..and tries to hide all its connections to far-right neocons.
Of the corporate umbrella Diebold seems to be the worst…..is it possible that THEY ARE the people who elected the Bush, Clintons and others in every election?
How long has Diebold Global Election Systems been in business exactly?
Doug E.
Thankyou, Brad. I hope and pray that this is the break we needed. But I still wonder – critical piece question: how many tabulators were hooked up to modems on election day?
Many, many thanks to the source who came forward. At this point, I hope and pray that he or she can come forward and can pursuade others to come forward. I cannot imagine greater courage, but I cannot imagine a time of greater need for courage in this country.
The madness has to stop.
Someone mentioned Clint Curtis. I’ve been thinking about him lately. His allegations are unconnected, I suppose, but they certainly seem to indicate intent. And then you have Chuck Hagel’s miraculous victories on his own ES and S machines.
Are the dots starting to connect a little better?
Harry #64
Agreed!
And hopefully John Conyers could pass this bombshell onto the other JC, Jimmy Carter, co-chair of the COMMISSION ON FEDERAL ELECTION REFORM (Whitewash) for late inclusion in the September 19, 2005 Report.
A pig just flew past my window!
Hi Bradblog. Just have to say:
From my first blog fix (here) following your Ray Lemme/Clint Curtis investigation thru Cindy Sheehan, there have seen sooo many ups and downs. Each new scandal or revelation seemed to be one to reveal that "Emporer has no clothes" moment for Americans.
BUT I think the climate is very different now than it was 2 years ago. Even before Katrina. George’s lame duckedness, the millions of blogs with gazillians of readers, Cindy, the testimony from an actual Diebold employee, the first of many, I’m sure. etc. etc.
Anyhoo Fanfuckingtastic Brad Friedman and all your crew.
Good comments, Toqued.
I haven’t had time to read all of the above — but my two-cents’ worth — the criminals heading up Homeland Security (aren’t they appointed by Bush?) all must be indicted with Bushco. They knew the machines could be hacked and let it go so their "man" could get "elected". These people are not working for America — they are working for themselves against Americans!
This doesn’t mean that any elections have been rigged, but it is a very interesting story. It bears watching.
Paper ballots have been looking better for quite some time now.
Do all the e-tabulators use MS-Access to store the data? What year did that come out? Whose pocket was MicroSoft in that year? Were they under investigation by the Republican congress?
What year did the e-tabulator companies begin?
What year did Chuck Hagel win first?
I think the allegation *might be* that it’s not the Diebold or other tabulators which are flawed, so much as the breakability of MS-Access. If that’s true then it doesn’t take any bad source code from Diebold to reveal what’s going on. One only need hack the database to show, as Bev Harris did, that the systems aren’t secure. Remember how the results were posted at one time in the evening, but that later some results changed? That could reflect hacking.
What is the AutoMark system? That’s a new name I haven’t heard before.
I saw Rep. Curt Weldon this evening on C-SPAN, talking about Able Danger. Is it possible the Dems want to get the Repubs on this 9/11 stuff, but the Dems have this bit of ‘history’ which the Repubs threaten to reveal — a bit of Mutually Assured Destruction insurance? Is there some similar gotcha in the election system which hinders Dems from seeking to reveal how the Repubs ‘won’? What could the Dems have done which they wouldn’t want revealed now?
Which vote databases were open to access via modem on election night? How would one go about finding that out? Even worse, how could one find out if a ‘private line’ had been established (a local network) by some Repub evil-doers and the tabulator machines, so that a modem link to the world wasn’t even necessary? What I mean is that it might’ve been possible the votes were changed by someone with more direct access to the machine(s), either direct hands-on or local area network connections.
The one instance I read of, where an elections official turns on an e-voting machine and on the screen it says "Are we having fun yet?" seems ever more scary. There are more than a few people with the skills to hack the e-voting software and to them MS-Access would probably look like swiss cheese with some very large holes.
Even the selective recounting with paper trails doesn’t seem perfect. Remember how they faked it in Ohio? We need also to make exit poll information valid indicators which would make an automatic investigation required when there are discrepancies.
Yo Brad:
Great reporting. You, one guy, put the MSM to shame. You’re kicking ass, but where are the people? Where’s the outrage? Where’s the REBELLION?
Better getcher international orange jumpsuit on, cause yer lookin’ to me more and more like an Enemy Combatant! Looks like you could catch a free flight on one of those unmarked Merkan Empire Torturejets! Look out Gitmo! Here come Brad and Diebthroat!
If the Democrats don’t jump over this, well then they’re the frickin’ New York Generals from now on, they’re in on the game. . . Yo, Hillary? Got somethin’ to say? Joe Biden? John Kerry?
OT, but important — another point for Cindy Sheehan to take up with America’s "leaders":
Calling U.S. troops `occupation forces,’ Iraqis seek timetable for exit
Lots of good vote fraud articles, all in one spot!
National Research Center on Elections and Voting
GEMS Central Tabulator 1.17.7, 1.18
What version was used predominately in 2004 National Elections?
All you techies. BBV has a lot of it. Bev may be a bitch, but her sight has a lot of tech info.
You’re the greatest Brad!!! If there is anything we can do to help, let us know!!! Right now I’m trying to get the word out to family and friends to help! You rock!!!
It was Triad Systems that stole the vote in Ohio 2004 and corrupted the recount effort, too.
Richard Blum, husband of Republicrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, is heavily invested in Triad Systems according to his own website.
http://www.blumcapital.com/profile/index.html#
(Blum is also invested in the too appropriately named
‘Stealth Computer Corp.’ making portable pc’s for the military along with contractors doing Homeland Security work.
Blum is also invested in the largest global engineering firm doing FEMA work for Homeland Security at Ground Zero and lots more.
http://www.urscorp.com/URS_Divi...php?section=04
Nice conflict of interest for Senator Feinstein, ay?)
But GET THIS:
Existing sophisticated medical software does everything we suspect is happening in electronic voting software!
Diebold may not show us what they are doing but we CAN see the state of the art data capture and remote access in the investments of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, at their own website sales presentations!
Blum is also invested in a cardiac medical software company called ‘eResearch Technology, Inc. (motto: "Enabling the Clinical Advantage") whose software sounds EXACTLY like what you would want in vote hacking software!
The monitoring of electrocardiograms of heart patients digitally and remotely has become very sophisticated and can be looked at as the exact same capabilities for MONITORING THE HEARTBEAT OF THE AMERICAN VOTER!
Here is some sales pitch from eRT’s website. See if this doesn’t sound like how Diebold or Triad or ESS would sell their election stealing services to the GOP or Pentagon:
"eRT’s technology and services enable clients to evolve from traditional paper-based processing to the digital collection, interpretation, and distribution of cardiac safety and clinical data required to accelerate clinical development safely.
The company’s technology ensures that clients meet and exceed regulatory complience and provide a foundation for collaboration that leads to quality of life improvements for all of us."
So if you’ve ever wondered what a sales pitch touting the features of vote-stealing software systems would look like, just look at this:
http://www.ert.com/
" eResearchTechnology, Inc. (eRT) is a provider of technology-based products and services that enable the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, medical device, and contract resource companies to collect, interpret, and distribute cardiac safety and clinical data"
"Clinical Research, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, Electronic Data capture, Electrocardiographic, Digital ECG analysis, ECG monitoring, Cardiac safety data, Clinical data, Clinical data technology, New Jersey, Bridgewater, Philadelphia, Peterborough, UK, ert, eResearchTechnology, Expert eECG, eResearch Network, EDC, eResearch Community, Consulting"
Look at some of their products and services and download the pdf descriptions. You’ll find the nuts and bolts of digitizing data, accessing it remotely, and even changing it with heavy password protection and a papertrail that matches what any given client wants to see!
The medical software is meant for monitoring cardiac patients and allows a central office to
1) watch raw data be input in real time
-EKG heart info or….voting as it happens!
2) see if the data has been accessed
-nurses see it?… or poll officials seen the vote count yet!
3) get alerts at specified data activity
-heart rate changes….or percentage of returns in?
4) heavily password protected
-nuff said.
Can anyone honestly doubt that this is exactly what is happening during American elections using electronic software-based voting machines?
This isn’t the motherload however it’s a very large nugget. Get this story out people. Don’t let the robots in CONGRESS leave their shoes with their shit on bottom at the front door. America has to get the word up and open their eyes to how we run presidential elections in this country. Let all Americans "get it." Especially so called educated people who turned a blind eye or simply dismissed the people speaking out against the blatent fraud in the 4 rigged swing states as wacked conspiracy theorists. By exposing the shit we can start to turn America around and restore our name and be respected in the world. Hold all these losers accountable and put them up against charges for their actions. These greedy uncaring twisted world view muther fckers who use smoke screens and lies to use our military and technological advancement against Americans and the world must be exposed. This nugget comes from the muther load. This can be the most power tool given to real American Patriots. Rock ON! Wee attacked Iraq as a response to 911. Americans also got treated to the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act. Just maybe some people might start to think what if 911 was masterminded by the Bushit administration. Maybe we Americans should reopen that investigation and let someone look at such things as the jet that didn’t hit the Pentagon and how building #7 went down completely imploding for unknown reasons. "Unknown reasons" to FEMA who was given sole investigative authority to investigate 911. There was a small fire on one of the floors however it has never caused a steel building to collapse until 911. While not an investigative organization they did the best they could in their defense considering they weren’t allowed at ground zero and they weren’t allowed to where the Shrub missile crashed into the Pentagon until sometime in October.
Great little crack in the BushCo levee, Brad! Keep chipping away; the dike might just give way and the pressure of an outraged America wash the criminals out to sea. [It’s O.K. to hope, isn’t it?]
Great story Brad. I know that I work at a large place of about 800 people, and 75-80% of everyone I know voted against Bush. But then, those of us in Florida and Ohio knew better. How many counties in our states had more votes, than registered voters? Shouldn’t that have been cause for major inquiries? No? Yikes. This is all so scary.
Face it you guys, were screwed. They’ll just form another committee of our appointed weenies and they’ll just lie. You know the game. Those same machines will be there in 06 and 08. We’ve been kidnapped and jailed in our own homes. Can’t afford to go anywhere or do anything, and eat too. Can’t vote our way out. I think everyone should get out and vote AGAINST anyone in office now. Stay in your own party if you have to, but change the thugs there now! How do they sleep at night….
I KNEW America wasn’t that stupid! That, right there, does give me a small ray of distant hope :o)
Tocque Deville – The news reported here is that 1) Homeland Security issued a warning and 2) An insider is speaking out. Both are verifiable and the evidence is presented in the article. Not sure what else you’re asking for. For now.
Everyone Else – Thanks much for the support. PLEASE send the link around wherever you can! I can only make so much noise on my own!
There will be more to come…And please feel free to DONATE TO BRAD BLOG if you can help support the work. It’s very much needed and appreciated since this takes so much time it’s unbelievable.
Gotta get to sleep so I can wake up to do radio shows at 4am! Hmph!
Huge Mantee:
I don’t see anything regarding Blum being invested in Triad systems there. Do you have links or sources to the proof of this?
Thanks in advance if anyone knows the details on all this.
So what’s to keep some really clever LIBERAL geek from hacking into the system and changing the votes in favor of dems? Are we all so inept only Diebold’s geeks can do this? Just wondering……
RE #52 Arlene, about Indira Singh "She stated they have artificial software that could go into any computer system and change the programming without any knowledge. It can reconfigure anything."
This is worth paying attention to—
personal story of JP Morgan IT professional, Indira Singh, a heroic 9/11 whistleblower who was fired, harrassed, and physically threatened for exposing the Saudi/terrorist-linked origins of one of the government’s most pervasive software systems
snippets from in-depth article linked above—-
Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh has had her professional life ripped away from her because of keeping the promise she made to some 3,000 victim’s who died at Ground Zero on 9/11. She made that promise at Ground Zero on 9/11 as a civilian EMT. Indira was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center that morning, but she was late.
She was working on a program for JP Morgan – the next generation of risk software – whose function was to think about all the information going on throughout the enterprise as bank business was being conducted worldwide. It would detect money laundering and other crimes in real time and then do something about it; perhaps alert an "intelligent" software agent or a person, or shutdown the transaction immediately.
She needed a company to provide a key piece of this enterprise software. "All the industry gurus recommended Ptech." Indira was unsure whether Ptech was right.
With Ptech’s people still in the office, Indira called Roger Burlton, who runs Business Process Renewal in Vancouver. Roger told Indira, "Don’t let them out of your sight and don’t let them leave with anything."
The FBI agent sent her a video produced by Joe Bergantino’ for CBS in Boston, on Care International. "The people in the video that the FBI were looking for right after 9/11 were Ptech employees."
"Your country is not the country you think it is," says Indira.
She took Joe Bergantino’s report down to Virginia and interviewed Ptech employees herself – to get it straight from the horse’s mouth. Having further confirmed her worst nightmares, she demanded the FBI agent who gave her Bergantino’s report re-open an investigation into Ptech. He said he couldn’t. She told him to tell his supervisor. He already had, and was told there was nothing they could do.
—etc. etc. etc.—-
And, then there’s *this*:
Michael Chertoff and the sabotage of the Ptech investigation
and this
Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft’s Top Gremlin
BlackBoxVoting.org notices Dieb-Throat Article
Never mind I found the information about Richard Blum and TRIAD Systems.
http://www.wcrp.org/RforP/trustees_content.html
He was a former Board Director for TRIAD Systems of Minnesota.
The Triad in Ohio is called Triad Governmental Systems and is owned by only three people. So Richard Blum doesn’t have anything to do with that Triad.
Important to note this because there are many companies that use the name "triad" and most of them are unrelated, besides the Triad Governmental Systems who fixed the recount in Ohio.
Kira
I wondered when BBV would pick it up. I kept checking.
Goodnight All
I am thankful that Brad has added this contribution to this issue, and that so many new people are becoming aware that there is a critical threat to our country, not from without, but from within. People who will deliberately allow our voting to be subverted are terrorists.
This ability to alter the database containing the votes has been known since 2003 at least. Several of us testified and supplied written comment on this vulnerability to the California Secretary of State’s Voting Systems and Procedures Panel in the fall of 2003. We were opposing the certification of Diebold’s new TSx touch screen voting system.
This vulnerability was first revealed at Black Box Voting dot org in 2003. This summer Leon County in Florida, with a courageous election official, allowed a security expert to examine an attempt to access and change votes. The full report of that test can be found at Black Box Voting dot org. Click on the Harri Hursti Report. The vulnerabilities are not just with the database, but also through the memory cards. These same vulnerabilities also exist in ES & S and Sequoia.
This is a stealth method of taking over our country without a shot. What better way to seize power than by creating the facade of legitimacy of being actually elected. It happens too often overseas, now it appears it has been happening here.
I hope that more true patriots such a Dieb-Throat will step forward. These machines are being rushed into many more jurisdictions daily, paid for by the American taxpayer.
Our form of government is under direct attack, and the right of the people to choose their representatives has been subverted.
WOW, COULD BE THE STORY OF THE DECADE.
I’M DOING A MASS EMAIL ON THIS ONE.
STRONG WORK! VERY STRONG WORK!
MCMANUS/LOS ANGELES
Wow! John Kerry won Ohio after all!
And thus a majority of the Electoral College!
GWB is going to be very upset!!!!!!!!!
HEY BRAD!!
Wonder if you could get Jon Stewart interested in this?
Hey, I hear more news from HIM than I do from the local alphabet networks!
There is very strong statistical proof that the vote was manipulated. The exit polls WERE NOT WRONG. Unfortunately this isn’t enough. We probably won’t learn the truth for another 50 years, IF EVER.
I’m a hardcore computer nerd and there is no doubt that this system is worthless. We need a secure system with paper trails so that a recount can be performed.
Don’t trust Kerry ,he is involved ,17000 lawyer ,my ass .
Does anybody know the oath for "skull & bones."
Great job Brad but so was Clinton Curtis ,Ray Lemme …
everybody should spread the word of this to let the evildoers know there time is running short ,confess or be tarred with the same brush as the bush/cheney/rove crime family.
P.S. GW is such a moron he probaly thinks he won ,cheney is the one to watch.Keep up the pressure.
So, if as Brad reports, this "backdoor" vulnerability was first reported by blackboxvoting.org, you should probably give them more credit and refer to the attempts they have already made to document, investigate and publicize the story. What is new is the acknowledgement and concern of a Diebold insider and the work done by Brad to interview company and local elections officials who should have known and responded to the original warning.
Here’s hoping this gets the attention it deserves from the public.
This definitely, for certain happened all over Ohio..
GOP refuses to appear for subpoena
Kerry for CERTAIN won, and the GOP subverted the process even after Senator Boxer and all the Congress members stood up to challenge the entire election….
Now that’s not legal, is it?
Note about Triad you may want to have a look at this report:
Triad GSI and Tod Rapp board of trustees
You can see the interlocking relationship between XEGC(Xenia Economic Growth Corporation) and the Boards of Election, whom Tod Rapp also runs and also some very interesting history in Illinois.
Rapp Election Systems is the real name for Triad GSI and his company there, developed the butterfly ballots…..They are well-connected goons of the far-right.
Doug E.
Is the Government Trying to Hide the True Body Count in New Orleans?
A very troubling development has arisen in the collection of bodies in New Orleans.The company brought in by FEMA and Homeland Security to process the bodies is a company called Kenyon International. Kenyon International is owned by SCI, a major Bush family contributor.
During George W Bush’s tenure as Gevernor of Texas, SCI was involved in "FUNERALGATE" -the biggest corpse mishandling scandal in American history, wherein thousands of corpses were allegedly disenterred and haphazardly dumped to make way for new gravesites. Family members of the deceased were shocked to learn that their grandmothers, fathers, sisters etc. were not in burial plots that had been bought for tens of thousands of dollars each, but dumped en masse and left to rot in swamps and mass burial pits. You may remember this…I do, it was on every major news network at the time.
What is not so publicly known, is that at the time, there were rather serious claims made about the complicity and/or direct involvement of the then Governor George Bush and his chief of Staff and future FEMA director Joe Allbaugh in a coverup of the allegations (Yes, the same Joe Allbaugh that brought his college roomate Joe "Drownie" Brown into FEMA, and the same Joe Allbaugh who’s consulting company has just scored muti-million dollar no-bid Federal contract to assist in the "cleanup" in New Orleans). There is an ongoing debate regarding the veracity and/or details of the claims involving the then Governor Bush, nevertheless, the appearences aren’t kosher. At the end of this article, you’ll find links to several news stories detailing some of the allegations and details of the scandal.
Whatever his involvement, George W Bush is fully aware of the matter, as he and Joe Allbaugh were deposed in a whistleblower lawsuit concerning it. SCI ulimately payed out over 100 million dollars to settle claims of wrongdoing. The question the American people should be asking is, why, when there were numerous Doctors and Coroners from around the country who volunteered to process the bodies for free, would the Administration give a no bid contract TO A COMPANY THAT HAS A HISTORY OF "MISHANDLING" BODIES!!!!!!!
Compounding the issue, are the following very troubling and suspicious actions on the part of the Federal Government:
1. The Federal Government’s attempt to quash the First Amendment by refusing to grant access to reporters during the collection of bodies even after being ordered to do so by a Federal Judge ruling on a lawsuit brought by CNN;
2. Reports by very reputable reporters such as MSNBC’s Brian Williams of law enforecement officials pointing guns at the media on numerous occasions in a blatant attempt to intimidate them AFTER the CNN ruling;
3.The presence of armed mercenaries in New Orleans such as BLACKWATER INTERNATIONAL, who has admittedly recruited war criminals from among Pinochet’s secret police and South Africa’s apartheid era military officers. When pressed on the issue, Homeland Security denied their presence in New Orleans, while BLACKWATER’s website and numerous reports from in the field of the mercenaries being used for "Search and Rescue" teams and "Security" (as readers may remember, these are some of the same types that provided "security’ at Abu Grhaib), say otherwise;
4. Reports from among Ham radio operators that emergency radio signals are being jammed with very sophisticated technology form somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as numerous reports from local municipalities, most notably Jefferson Parish in a report which was publicised on national TV that FEMA was cutting phone lines and emergency communications equipment in NEW ORLEANS;
5. Numerous inconsistencies, documented live on National Television, between the Administration’s version of what went on on the ground in the Gulf Coast, and what actually happened.
One might ask one’s-self, is the same Administration which seemingly lied about Iraq, seemingly lied about the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove scandal, seemingly covered up the Abu Ghraib Scandal, and has already been caught in numerous lies about the Federal response to hurricane Katrina capable of covering it’s tracks in the worst loss of life on US soil due to the Federal Governments negligence in US history by manipulating the numders of dead? Sure seems that way to a lot of folks.
Still unsure if the administration is capable of lying? Watch this video:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/image...condoleeza.wmv
One thing is certain: President Bush has full knowledge of the allegations made against SCI, the parent company of Kenyon International, and against Joe Allbaugh. The American People and History deserve a better company to faithfully and honestly collect the dead on the sacred dying ground of New Orleans. The American people deserve better than to have a company that employs war criminals patrolling the streets of an American city. This is not Columbia, this is not Iraq, and this is not Chile or South Africa. This is the United States fo America, and regardless of whether or not the government is trying to hide bodies, which is up for debate, the presence of companies such as BLACKWATER and SCI taking part in any way in "recovery efforts" on American soil is sickening and should be shock any American who values Freedom and openness in our Government.
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Update: Since this post was first written, the office of the Governor of Louisiana has taken over the contract with Kenyon International. This action was taken due to Kenyon’s threatening to back out of efforts due to foot dragging by FEMA. To be fair, Governor Blanco is most likely not privy to SCI and Kenyon International’s seedy past.
Maybe somebody oughta give her a call and tell her.
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Here are a couple of links for reference, there are hundreds more out there:
FEMA outsourcing Katrina body count
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/0...all_levels.php
http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm
http://portland.indymedia.org/e...9/324559.shtml
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/bt...090505btw.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/e...4/285253.shtml
http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.p...038;topic=iraq
http://www.tvnewslies.org/image...condoleeza.wmv
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Tape of Colin powell and Condoleza Rice clearly stating Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, capability, or will
to threaten the US. The tape was made in Feb 2001
http://www.tvnewslies.org/image...condoleeza.wmv
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And dont forget to join the Impeach Bush Coalition:
http://impeachbushcoalition.blogspot.com
current actions:
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One Final Goodie about Diebold Voting Machines
https://bradblog.com/archives/00001838.htm
Great work Brad!! and quietly immortalized here for those who wish to help pass it on!
This is INCREDIBLE!!!! We need immediate Congressional hearings on this. Just give us the name of the source… What? Oh. You can’t do that? Never mind then.
Why are liberals always putting out unnamed sources to make these types of incredible accusations? The 9/11 Commission missing the intelligence group "Able Danger" is a story that would have gone NO WHERE if 3 people connected with it had not come forward and revealed themselves to the discretion of the American people. Yet you expect us to swallow this swag with not even one public source?
Get the fu=** outa here with this crap.
I write about other bogus unnamed sources here.
Maybe I should make it official (though how I would do that…no clue):
I guess I’m jaded, cynical, pretty damn convinced it’s futile. Their Goliath is big, well-funded, well rehearsed, bought, bribed, whipped into line, deeply entrenched. Am I wrong? I wanna be wrong.
Every time I see a ray of hope…all you guys & all your work, all the articles written, the evidence, the scandals, each new evil deed that’s exposed….
…then comes their Goliath’s gigantic all-encompassing shadow blotting out that feeble light. It’s gotten me down, alright?
And I see myself getting annoyed when someone posts a question like:
"Is the Government Trying to Hide the True Body Count in New Orleans?"
And I see myself thinking "Gee, you think?"
like a whiny pissy kid.
Annoyed when someone asks AGAIN "Where’s the outrage?"
The outrage is ALL OVER THE PLACE, alright? It’s just NOT AUDIBLE when our media are owned is owned? by Goliath.
Ah Christ, what’s the point.
Thanks, Kevin, for proving my point.
Well Kevin, you may or may not realize this but the article is only the first of several. Like similar sources he/she will only come forward once they are comfortable to do so.
I expect there to be an update assuredly providing the identity and other information, after other agreements are taken care of. Did someone say start a whistle blowers protection fund?
I think Sibel Edmonds is already a part of one. Why not use what is already available and make sure the person can give their name and facts?
do the machines keep a modem access log?
Dear Kevin if tell the big truths you DIE ,google Raymond Carillo Lemme.For a start.
Joan ,falter but never give up ,what happened to the original Goliath?
In Canada, we have a revolutionary near fool-proof election result process, the US should consider adopting.
We physically put down an X beside the name of the candidate with a pen on paper. It is placed in a ballot box. Later the paper votes are counted by temporarlily hired citizens, with representatives from all the parties present.
This is done with the exact same standards all across the country. We get our results all counted by the early evening of voting day.
Spoiled ballots are easy to recognise, and if there is a close result in any riding, recount is easily done.
Of course I am being a little cheeky. But it makes you wonder why this push for machines, when people do a better, cheaper, and more efficient job of it.
If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Hmmm, why indeed.
"you panty-waist carping Democrats " Kevin not all here are American nor Democrats .
Gore won the popular vote in 2000 thats a fact .
Do you think that DIEBOLD ATM Machines have the same "backdoor" as their voting machines do ?
Kevin you are totally dumb. Democrats can steal the votes, anyone can steal the votes and voting machines which can’t be audited are a PROBLEM.
They are a big problem, nobody should want them in the process. We don’t need backdoor studded machines you moron we need paper ballots.
Security’s a joke on machines which have backdoors like this. And now we know why.
Doug E.
Hey Kevin, Watergate was an "anonymous source" story. It
rested entirely on the credibility of Woodward and Bernstein.
So either Brad has been duped by supertroll, or he’s completely
lying to get some attention (after a couple of years of sacrifice
to achieve credibility) or……..
Brad has earned the Pulitzer prize. Take a bow, Brad. God
bless your cojones. Stay out of small aircraft. We need you.
What if a foreign government had managed to get access to the tabulating computers?
Shouldn’t the Department of Homeland Security have acted on that possibility?
What if Cuban, Chinese or even Iranian computer engineers or hackers had changed election result to support Kerry instead of * ?
If nothing was done about it by the people who knew it only means that it was left to give an advantage to the eventual winner.
Because if Diebold had feared that the scenario I mention above could take place they would have plugged the hole.
If the elections software has been independently verified, as Bear stated, then get a copy of the reports and certifications.
Clue: they don’t exist in the state of GA.
the machine companies run the certification organization cool ah!
their lucky if they can find the any key ,gorilla’s in a suit type of guys
Kevin, shut the hell up. Your ignorance is painful to read.
It’s not a "liberal’s" loss of rights – it’s not a "democrat’s" loss of rights – it’s an "American’s" loss of rights. You’re obviously not old enough to remember how this country used to be.
Bush’s grandfather and greatgrandfather were Nazi-tied morons. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
http://www.zippyvideos.com/99229271839185.html
"Hostile takeover" comes to mind. Bush forced Bolton up to the UN and Roberts will finish the job here at home.
Someone please think of a way we can fight back, before it’s too late. Or is it too late already?
I agree with Joan and am just about to the point she is at…."Ah Christ, what’s the point." ……but then I see my grandchildren and know I HAVE to fight back for their sake.
Get involved at the local level. Contact your local officiials and voice your outrage. Write letters to the editor. Flood the offices of the Representatives and Senators in your state with voice mail and e mail. Everyone must take responsibility for change.
If we do nothing……then we are doing something, wrong!
(Hartford-WTNH, Sept. 15, 2005 Updated 6:27 PM ) _ Connecticut’s 3,300 voting booths are in for a quick and drastic change. The state is being told to get rid of all lever voting machines by 2006.
"What if Cuban, Chinese or even Iranian computer engineers or hackers had changed election result to support Kerry instead of * ? "
I think the Cubans, Chinese and Iranians are probably happier with Bush making an azz of himself and azzes of us than they would be with Kerry.
#106.. @Kevin D Korenthal
With or without the unnamed source, the GEMS report and the CERT warning and the contradictions that Diebold’s PR guy is spouting… are enough evidence to point to negligence and complacency by Diebold, at the very least.
Deceit over the use of modems, downplaying the CERT warning, etc… it all fucking reeks. (as does the fact that nobodyat Diebold is prepared to speak for themselves.. why such a response… seems they’re scared to let anything slip.)
With or without the unnamed source, everything points to election fraud enabling. Election fraud enabling which was pointed out by CERT and ignored by Diebold. – And ALL those republican financial links, the promise of delivering Ohio from the man in charge of Diebold… are you saying all that had no contribution to the decision to ignore???
And there are two public sources in this article and one unnamed source:
1) CERT
2) Maryland state Board of Elections
3) DIEB-Throat
Enough of your denials, they don’t work against evidence such as that received from publicly identified sources #1 and #2. Another right-wing in-denial-er? No suprise there.
Here in America, Democrats have had this suspicious talent for finding additional marked ballots just in time and in just the right number to overcome a vote deficit. Companies like Diebold have sought to develop technology to make the voting process more secure. If you panty-waist carping Democrats don’t like the machines Diebold and the other companies have brought then develop your own machines. But what can not happen is we can not keep the voting process in The Dark Ages. Neither party benifits when the people no longer trust the process and that is about where we are today. Technology can and will be employed to give more people who qualify to vote the chance to do so, securely and with confidence that their vote will be counted…. once.
For more conservative commentary that also happens to be closer to the truth on a bad day than "BradBlog" gets to on a good day, read my blog at http//:www.SoCalPundit.com
The pantywaist reference is pure trolling, no doubt, but a good point is made here. Dems undoubtedly cheat too. Another good point – it’s interesting that the Dems have apparently chosen not to create their own voting machines, have in essence abandoned the field to the Pubs.
They seem to have a taste for losing, don’t they? Almost as though that’s what they are paid to do.
#38 Ilene no offense taken, its just that anywhere in Texas during the summer is miserable, some get to leave from June – Sept. The rest of us..just keep working hard to feed the kids and buy gas to get to work.
Oh, my oh my, whats that gas prices suddenly dropping ? I wonder why. Could it just be with Bush’s poll numbers in the tank..got to throw a bone to the worker bees to quiet them down?
Brad, I am thinking Keith Olbermann will pick up on this story. He spoke on the latest Cheney give away..two calls to a power company to keep workers working on the pipe line instead of restoring power to hospitals.
I also will e-mail it to him.
Brad do keep safe, truth sayers have a nasty way of disappearing. The Rove/Bush/Cheney group do not play nice.
It’s been along time since the people have spoken. grab your gun while you still have the right to bare arms. its time to raise our voice, and put an end to this crap.
Canuck- I absolutely agree with you. Many county election boards are told by their SOS that HAVA says they have to switch to electronic machines. This is not true.
Why not spend all that money on hiring people to count votes, instead of making Diedold rich?
re: #115
— "Here in America, Democrats have had this suspicious talent for finding additional marked ballots just in time and in just the right number to overcome a vote deficit."
In America, Repubs have had this suspicious talent for claiming terrorist security lockdowns on ballots that the FBI have then contradicted (Blackwell, Ohio).
Repubs have had this suspicious talent for being attributed to phone-campaigns designed to hamper voting campaigns.
Repubs have had this suspicious talent for being linked to disenfranchisement by intentionally holding back voting machines from democratic-strong precincts.
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–"Companies like Diebold have sought to develop technology to make the voting process more secure. If you panty-waist carping Democrats don’t like the machines Diebold and the other companies have brought then develop your own machines."
Companies like Diebold have produced insecure machines with overflow vulnerabilities that mean +~32000 votes causes the count to skip to -~30000.
Companies like Diebold have produced insecure machines which can be hacked by one of it’s own memory cards.
Companies like Diebold have produced insecure systems relying on open MS-Access databases, have released software with hidden menus, have ignored CERT warning, have kept their source closed (while open source projects are more secure.)
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–"But what can not happen is we can not keep the voting process in The Dark Ages. Neither party benifits when the people no longer trust the process and that is about where we are today. Technology can and will be employed to give more people who qualify to vote the chance to do so, securely and with confidence that their vote will be counted…. once."
What we can not do is keep denying voters the right to have a paper receipt of their ballot, displaying both a ballot-ID and their voting choice, which can then be verified later. – Diebold already produce receipts in their other technologies but they’re trying to stifle and downplay the demands for this in voting machines.
What we can not do is keep using technology that has a high failure rate.
What we can not do is keep using technology that has such major anomolies and contradictions to the exit-polls. Especially when hand-count areas were much more closely aligned. When the exit-polling methods used are the same… the discrepancy is in the counting methods used.
The reason we don’t have confidence in voting is because of Diebold. – A schoolkid with a copy of visual basic could make more secure software than that produced by Diebold… at least for the purposes of elections.
With blackboxvoting.org, you’d think people would have learnt all this by now.
Can you make your website more fucking cluttered??!?
250,000,000 to 1 odds AGAINST Chimpy’s winning in PA, OH and FL when measured against exit polls with a track record of exceptional accuracy.
The people did their job – in the general election, Kerry WON by 8 million votes – but the "actual" counts favored The Chimp by 3 million – That’s 11 million votes FLIPPED thru the Repugnantcan Election Fraud Technology.
How many more thousands of bodies need to be stacked up around Chimpy before our nation makes the connection between his phony "win" and the deaths caused by his incompetence, indifference and greed?
#134 you know you have a choice…take or leave it. Aren’t you glad you live in America?
Yes, 134…we have a few problems that are a little more urgent than ‘clutter’.
Besides, Brad has earned the right to be as cluttered as he damn well pleases.
Don’t slam the door on your way out.
Detailed how-to with all the required files is at:
http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html
Mirror it, someone, before it disappears.
Kevin D> Korenthal made a fool of himself when he said:
you liberals are big on headlines but when the American people demand you back up your fantastic claims, suddenly you go silent. Don’t blame Bush, blame the spin-meisters like ths "BradBlog" that make up these rediculous stories and then never follow through with the evidence."
Uh, first time here, Kev? Apprently so.
What "fantastic claims" precisely are not "backed up"? Is it the thousands of pages of evidence about Election Irregularities in 2004 that don’t exist? Or that you haven’t read them? Is it the hundreds and hundreds of pages of actual evidence I’ve made available through my reporting here? Like public records, leaked documents, memo’s, photographs etc. that you’re referring to?
Since you’ve made a "fantastic claim" please feel free to back it up with evidence.
I read your blog. Enjoyed it. But as you do no original reporting on your blog, I can’t speak to your lack of evidence for your reporting, since you don’t do any apparently.
Anyway, I’m in SoCal as well, let’s get together for lunch and I’ll be happy to hand you as many VOLUMES of evidence as you need for any story you request…since apparently posting it online for you doesn’t count in your world of denial, trolling, and misinformation.
Thanks for stopping by!
This is important:
DIEBOLD and ES&S control 80% of the vote counting in the United States. And, the heads of these two companies are brothers. Both companies are GOP donors (real "unbiased", right?). And we all know, the head of DIEBOLD promised Bush a victory "on my machines"…Anyone who goes on this site knows this…
(excerpt)
"WHO RUNS DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS? WHO WROTE THE PROGRAMS?
Bob Urosevich is the CEO of Diebold Election Systems. Urosevich created the original software architecture for Diebold Election Systems, and his original company, called I-Mark Systems, can be found in the source code signatures.
Prior to programming for and taking over Diebold Election Systems, Urosevich programmed for and was CEO of Election Systems & Software (ES&S), which counts 56 percent of the votes in the United States. When Urosevich left ES&S, Chuck Hagel took his position. (Hagel then ran for the U.S. Senate, with ES&S machines counting his own votes, but failed to disclose that he had been both CEO and Chairman of ES&S on his disclosure documents).
Bob Urosevich, together with his brother Todd, founded ES&S. Bob then went to run Diebold, while Todd still is a Vice President at ES&S. Diebold and ES&S, together, count about 80 percent of the votes in the United States. "
Voting Machines Blasted By Scientists
And it’s all part of this big picture: America is one big pyramid scheme, with Corporate America and the 1% rich putting their "guys" in on THEIR voting machines that THEY make, doing THEIR agenda. The agenda, where we gave the 1% rich hundreds of billions of tax cuts, cut social programs for the other 99%, start wars based on lies to grease the palms of the military companies like Halliburton/GE, cut Medicare/Medicade/Welfare/Unemployment while running up the hugest deficits ever, and do not make the public secure (Homeland InSecurity: see Hurricane Katrina)…
Diebold management involved in stealing elections should be hung in the town square, along with Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rummy, and the rest.
The 8 Million Vote Swing: Exit Polls vs. Final Count
So many conspiracy theories and so much subjective talk. Only comment #61 is closer to the truth. Good luck kooks! You’ve been trying and working at this since 2000. Let’s see, before you know it, it will be 2008.
If and when Hillary wins in 2008 using the same machines, you will be thrilled and there will be no talk of hacked Diebold software, especially from the women.
By the way, Diebold makes a pretty dang good ATM machine. I should know, I was responsible for the Pulse/Mpact network and thousands of them in the USA and Canada.
I hope you guys have given to the Red Cross and/or Salvation Army or charity of your choice for the hurricane victims.
I do appreciate the honesty here –
"To help support more reporting along these lines, please consider a DONATION TO THE BRAD BLOG. This is how I make my living these days — or try to — so your generous support means the world and makes it possible for me to continue. Thanks! – BF"
#128 Phil am I missing something ? You come on another blog…to advertise for readers to visit your blog?
Remember at the Oscars this past year?
Early polls showed it to be the biggest audience in 5 years.
Well, they were looking a data from large cities.
When the numbers actually came in from all of the rural areas, they had to revise the numbers.
Do you remember the final outcome?
2 million less people saw the show over the previous year.
So, this exit poll vs. final count crap is just crap.
If this story is true, it’s pretty explosive. This should be fowarded to the DNC.
PAUL: You’re an asshole…
Paul – Phil #128 says he has a great website…you might want to visit over there. Very reassuring, so you wouldn’t get scared, "yes, there is a G.W.Bush and he really does care for the middle class."
Just keep sending those checks in every April 15th, but lets not bother with nasty questions on my spending your money.
As a sotware professional for many years, and having programming machines like electronic voting machines, I know that it is a simple matter to plant code in the overall software system that activates on a certain date/time and/or event, then does its dirty work, then erases itself. Also, to use machines for voting and not have these machine independently and rigorously testing by independently testing labs, then put under lock and key until voting day should be illegal; certainly it is diabolical to resist testing your hardware/software system – it indicates you are up to no good. Florida and Ohio voting was a fraud – Kerry won, but the machines were rigged to make Bush win. Easy to do without validation testing.
There is not much new here.
It was always known that once you gain access to the machine GEMS is running on (you have to log into it, remotely via modem/net or locally, using a valid Windows NT user account with high enough priviledge; note the CERT advisory speaks of "Authenticted User") then you can access/change the GEMS database (based on MS ACCESS) directly using a hardcoded user/password combination (this is the "backdoor").
US-CERT doesn’t validate or check the reports they get (they don’t have the resources, staff or all the software/hardware), they just repost them.
So, the vulnerability is there (I followed the audit when it happened), but you have to have a valid login to the box and ONLY THEN (and if it’s connected to the outside at all) you can get to the DB.
{ed note: “Paul” Comment deleted due to violating one of the very few rules we have here: Posting under different names.}
It’s one of the 14 characteristics of fascism–fraudulent elections.
Bush has bagged the other 13, too, of course.
I REALLY HOPE YOU HAVE TAKEN THIS INFORMATION TO SOMEBODY OR A FEW PEOPLE. john conyers might find this interesting, also henry waxman would be another good person to take this to, im assuming you are smarter than to just sit on this info, but just in case.
PAUL –
Since you’re so intimate with the Diebold ATM machines as a support desk guy at a bankrupt company, you’re probably familiar with the fact that Diebold sells ATM’s with Open Source Software. For voting machines, however, they claim that it would be a security breech to release the Source Code. It’s no security prob for ATM’s, but Election Software is somehow a problem. Go figure!
While you hate democracy enough that you don’t care whether your vote is counted, I’m sure you’ll sign an Impeach Hilary petition before she’s elected (as you did for her husband). Never mind the evidence for such a call…the important thing is that you demonstrate what a "kook" really is. As you do regularly with your inane posts here. Nonetheless, I’m sure we can agree that the second to last thing either of us want is Hilary as President.
Finally, though your keen observations of Oscar polls having anything to do with Exit Polling in an American election reveals you as the genius you are, your comment re: "this exit poll vs. final count crap is just crap." — I guess you should be sure to point that out to your President who called the elections in the Ukraine fraudulent based on that exact "crap" when the same polling firm who ran the Exit Polls in the U.S., also ran them in Ukraine.
I’d sell you a clue, but you’ve shown yourself to be too daft to take one for *free* after your many months of posting inane, desperate garbage on this blog. So I won’t even bother.
Good luck, Paul! Remember to pull your head out for air every now and again!
The Key difference about this story… is the timing.
Finally, some of the MSM has started to criticize the president. His numbers are down. His financial backers are starting to get nervous. And people are suddenly feeling a little bit skeptical about the drone of right wing talking points… they have been "roverwhelmed" by the same tired tactics that ring really hollow after the Katrina disaster.
Run with this story. Tell people about it. If nothing else, the US-CERT alert is a significant lead that merits the attention of the public. It requires real investigation… not by the government… but by independent institutions… blogs, traditional media, and grassroots political groups.
The direction of the wind is already changing… and we have gotten strong from running against it for so long. When it blows at our backs… we will be unstoppable.
{ed note: Comment restored — sorry about that, “Not Happy!” Thanks for the head’s up, Paul.}
Interesting but sadly nothing will be done. NeoCons like Phil and Paul will make sure that the system never changes. Oh BTW, there are other companies that make voting machine but surprisingly their bids were not even considered (in some cases no bidding process was even entertained–sound familiar?). To solve the problem, the backdoor needs to be exposed to every hacker in the world. When an election is totally wrecked, then something will change.
Until then, G-Dub, Phil, Paul, and their friends will continue to tell everybody how much they care and are “working hard” at fixing problems. All the while they destroy the lives of Americans without a care in the world. Even as we speak, the listed parties are busy holding the heads of elderly and children under flood waters until they stop kicking.
What a “great” country this has become thanks to neo “compassionate” conservatism.
> Since you’re so intimate with the Diebold ATM machines as a support desk guy at a bankrupt company
I didn’t know EDS was bankrupt!
Sorry, gotta go and hold someone’s head under water.
"they coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha…"
For anyone who missed the complete story:
http://www.projectcensored.org/...ter_fraud.html
We recall reading prior to the Nov. ’04 election an issue of Popular Science who ran an article about the touchscreen voting machines. We were particularly disturbed by a prescient remark which stated that it would be incredibly easy for a well-placed individual in one of these companies making these machines to type in a few lines of code to pre-determine the outcome of the election and then delete itself later on.
Nice. What country are we living in?
This could very well be the "smoking gun" of the fake 2004 "election". Very glad you guys ran a thread on it. I had a bad feeling ever since the first time anyone mentioned those awful paperless touch-screen voting machines years ago. Seems to me like a recipe for vote fraud and it looks like that’s what happened. Also, did anyone else think it was too much to be a coincidence that every time a computerized voting machine had a "computer error" and recorded the wrong vote that it was always in favor of Bush? What are the odds of it always being an error for Bush instead of ever mistakenly putting a Bush vote down for Kerry even once?
I see Kevin of SoCalPundit posted here. I’m familiar with his blogging, and he’s one of a kind (hopefully). See more here and here.
Has anyone else noticed how desperate the talking heads and Bush supporters become when their leaders true colors come out?
if the believers would just not slander quite so much, the lies might be more believable.
Bush supporters you are the ones pushing the fence sitters over to the other side, more than Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore, or all of us who have been saying WAKE UP !
Sadly like the article says this is old news, and it doesn’t apparently matter to most. I’ve written several letters to editors and no one no one seems to care that we haven’t had an honest election… since Hagel won Nebraska with his machines it’s been down hill and now we are below sea level and the levess are set to burst in 2006, but again no one cares….not democratic or independent elected officials that should be counting their days.
Stop the madness impeach bush and scare the remaining elected officials into action!
I miss the good old day of hanging, dangling, pregnant chad’s. When every vote was counted over and over and over. When people were too old or too stupid to correctly punch holes in their vote cards. A time when democrats designed those tricky butterfly ballots. Ah those were the days. Finding a few votes here and a few there and then suing to recount in only those counties that have more of your supporters in them. You know the fare way. A time when we finally fail and are on the brink of anarchy, we are snatched from the jaws civil war by letting the smartest folks on earth decide the election. The Supreme Court. And its getting smarter every day.
It needs to be said (if it hasn’t been already) that this is actually a much more substantial development than basically anything else that has happened up to this point. This guy can and hopefully will go public and the story will light up on the Net. Then it will have to be addressed after the typical three week lag on the mainstream press. Maybe if this hits soon as Katrina is still fresh the MSM will do some real reporting, bringing in other witnesses and voters who were screwed and maybe a mixa Yang and a dash of Eaton and we might have a real life scandal. Maybe we will also get Plamegate and Delaygate and we will rename Washington "Gatevale" and all confidence will be lost and there will be a revolution and Chavez will run for president against Gropinator and the bradblog will cease to exist because there will be nothing more to report.
"It should not be too difficult to see if the code was written to shift votes from one candicate to another."
You don’t need the source code. The systems are written in Access on a modified WinCE platform.
There is no protection against manipulating the data any way you want. The code to do so can be written from scratch in Notepad (or even just from the command prompt) in a minute or two, using nothing more than VBScript, and just manipulating the JET Engine with ADO commands. It’s not even real programming (heck, I write scripts like that every day, just to tabulate stuff I gather off our Intranet with batch files), and all of it is available on any machine that runs Diebold systems.
BTW, another thought; Diebold reportedly uses a hack of Wine to allow it to run on WinCE. WineHQ states that Wine is distributed with Lesser GPL, which, I believe, requires derivative works to be GPLed, too (or at least for free). I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know how to play that out . . .
re: Letting the Supreme Court decide the election
The Supreme Court’s twisted logic in the Bush v. Gore decision
makes obvious its partisan nature.
First they had to declare that Bush was the victor before the
votes had even been counted. That’s because the only way
Bush could show a harm to him was if the legitimacy of his
election was damaged through counting the votes and finding
that in fact Gore got more. (Which he did.)
Then they defied their own principles of deferring to states’
rights, of avoiding involvement in political cases, and of hearing
Equal Protection cases only when the discrimination was
deliberate–even in capital cases.
Finally they lied when they said the clock had run out and there
was no time to count the votes. There was plenty of time. In
1961 electoral votes were accepted from a Hawaiian slate of
electors that wasn’t even appointed until January.
And the ultimate ballot study, the 11/01 one, showed that Gore
did in fact get more votes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/w...2001Nov11.html
I used to live in Houston, Texas for just over 16 years! It gets very hot from June to September! If you live in Texas, grab your bathing suits and get ready to swim!
As for the Diebold and ESS situation, I don’t have hundreds of pages of proof and evidence! I think it’s great that you good folks do!
I’m just hooked on a feeling that John Kerry won Ohio fair and square. I still think that Kerry won the Electoral College while Bush won the popular vote by just over three million votes! I really do believe this! That’s why Bush is so upset!
re: "Easy to check the source code to see if it counts diff for one candidate or another"
Sorry but you don’t get the tech of what’s being stated. The Microsoft Access Data base has a real possibility of being altered, remotely.
That means that the program could do its thing just fine, and then LATER someone could just go into the stored count (at any time) and change the numbers. They could change a count to, say, a thousand extra. Then from that point on, even if voting continues, it is rigged. Or they could do it before the voting even starts or after the voting stops but before the official talley. Or check numbers and alter several times during voting.
It isn’t the software they are talking about it is the Microsoft Access Data Base wherein the NUMBERS are stored.
Good story, really, but there’s no real proof. I have absolutely no doubt that the systems are full of security holes (Bev Harris is thorough and solid and the CERT warning isn’t done on a lark, it is real) but an anonymous source making allegations without ANYTHING to offer to flesh it out as real means it is, literally, heresay and nothing more.
Your bud at Diebold, your Dieb-throat, needs to do more than just chat you (or anyone else) up with stories of corruption, incompetence, or recklessness. I suggest he/she acquire a voice-activated tape recorder, or if he/she can afford it, a solid state version of same. S/he needs to go on record to a proper authority (perhaps a Congressman like Waxman or a Senator like Schumer) and seek their protection. S/he needs to try to get others in the evil society that is Diebold to provide substantiation in some way, shape, or form. Sneak out the the source code and hand it over on the sly to a Waxman or Schumer so that they can secretly have it analyzed, the claim verified, and then pounce all over Diebold after the goods are got. This person has to be prepared to put ethics and their country before their job at Diebold. If they are worth their salt they can get a job at a less corrupt place anyway – and they would be a hero in demand with TV and publishers if they actually came forward. People LIKE heros and courage.
As for you Kira, since you didn’t read all your links before you posted them about PROMIS, I’ll cut you slack on the 9/11 connection link. It is one of those discredited and nasty rumours that Israel was behind the 9/11 attack (via Mossad). Israel has its problems and lapses wrt their treatment of Palestinians, etc, but the crap about them being behind 9/11 is just more of the same old, tired anti-semitism. As I said, I’ll assume you didn’t read it before you posted it.
Thanks, Kevin, for proving my point.
Proving what point? How is Bush responsible for the fact that you liberals are big on headlines but when the American people demand you back up your fantastic claims, suddenly you go silent. Don’t blame Bush, blame the spin-meisters like ths "BradBlog" that make up these rediculous stories and then never follow through with the evidence.
Here in America, Democrats have had this suspicious talent for finding additional marked ballots just in time and in just the right number to overcome a vote deficit. Companies like Diebold have sought to develop technology to make the voting process more secure. If you panty-waist carping Democrats don’t like the machines Diebold and the other companies have brought then develop your own machines. But what can not happen is we can not keep the voting process in The Dark Ages. Neither party benifits when the people no longer trust the process and that is about where we are today. Technology can and will be employed to give more people who qualify to vote the chance to do so, securely and with confidence that their vote will be counted…. once.
For more conservative commentary that also happens to be closer to the truth on a bad day than "BradBlog" gets to on a good day, read my blog at http//:www.SoCalPundit.com
Why weren’t you guys smart enough to change the numbers back before the final votes were counted. No DU opts out there?
Gotta say, Kevin, you must be nuts if you accept a voting machine that can’t be audited – one that makes it impossible to have a recount. Nuts.
Thank you #170 for cutting me a little slack for my haste in posting links.
Would you please provide a link to the article(s) where this has been discredited?
This is one of the reasons an independent investigation on the events surrounding 9/11 was necessary. This government would not allow it. My personal opinion is that we all need to read and digest everything with an open mind.
IMHO, everyone involved in High Levels of Government everywhere is somewhat suspect.
Thanks for your comments and for additional information you may have found.
COMMENT #156 [link]
…Not Happy(192.85.47.2) said on 9/16/2005 @ 8:57am PT…
(ed note: "Paul": Comment deleted due to repeated violation of one of the very few rules we have here: Posting under different names.)
That’s wasn’t me, honest!
Could be a co-worker I guess!
COMMENT #171…hcocdr said:
Why weren’t you guys smart enough to change the numbers back before the final votes were counted. No DU opts out there?
HCOCDR thinks it’s smart to cheat. Well, that’s typical of the "CRAZIES’" philosophy. (By CRAZIES, I’m talking about the group of nuts in the Pentagon and other official DC capacity during the years of bu$h 1 in the ’80s. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc. All of whom are now in bu$h 2’s cabinet.)
Adding more confirmation of electronic theft and a minor correction.
Machines Count Backwards in FL
Bank Fraud Felon Writes Code for Diebold GEM System
Richard Blum on board of different ‘Triad Systems’ (?)
1) AP: Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary
http://www.wired.com/news/evote...,61640,00.html
The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice president of Global Election Systems, or GES. Diebold purchased GES in January 2002.
According to a public court document released before GES hired him, Dean served time in a Washington state correctional facility for stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that "involved a high degree of sophistication and planning."
The former GES is Diebold’s wholly owned subsidiary, Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating system that touch-screen voting terminals use.
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2)Electronic Voting Machines Count Backwards in FL
http://www.news4jax.com/politic...92/detail.html
"November 4, 2004
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — The Broward County Elections Department has egg on its face today after a computer glitch misreported a key amendment race, according to WPLG-TV in Miami.
"The software is not geared to count more than 32,000 votes in a precinct. So what happens when it gets to 32,000 is the software starts counting backward," said Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman.
Lieberman blames ES&S Systems, which manufactures the software in question. She says they’ve known about the problem for at least two years because there was a Broward County mayoral race in which the same thing happened. She said nothing was done about it.
Miami-Dade County also uses ES&S Systems.
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3) Sen. Feinstein’s zillionaire husband Richard Blum was listed here
http://www.wcrp.org/RforP/trustees_content.html
as on the board of a Triad Systems, but maybe not the voting machine Triad according to someone above, a common company name.
"He is a former director of the following public companies: National Education Corporation, Taft Broadcasting Corporation, Advanced Systems, Inc., Triad Systems, Inc., Sumitomo Bank of California, Princeville Development Corporation, and the Shaklee Corporation."
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My illustration in comment #85
https://bradblog.com/archives/00001838.htm#85
of how our worst fears of remote vote hacking is easily being done with technological precision in the medical industry shows the liklihood that our suspicions are well-founded.
The "culture of fear" has Rove’s fingerprints all over it. That is how he keeps in control. Cross him and you’re done. Bush doesn’t have a clue.
Sure it was a co-worker Paul….sure it was….
What a great bunch of right-wingers….You know elections swing both ways, there’s no reason to have open-house fraud machines in place.
Diebold Cathy Cox, a democrat, used them to obviously steal her way into office.
The result hurts us all. We get represenatives in office who despise us or don’t want to be there, and are there just to cut their corporate paycheck. They act like they care or something, and screw everyone over on the side.
See congressman Delay, McDermott or Dianne Feinstein. So that affects all of us, and nobody should want that kind of bullshit. Which is why I propose everyone force the resolution of a verified paper ballot, so there’s no more inconclusive outcomes, and stolen votes.
RF
#170
Is it anti-semitism to arrest Israeli spies?
Praedor Atrebates:
Clint Curtis did "more than just chat", do you agree? So, there goes your theory!
COMMENT #164 …hcocdr said…
I miss the good old day of hanging, dangling, pregnant chad’s. When every vote was counted over and over and over. When people were too old or too stupid to correctly punch holes in their vote cards. A time when democrats designed those tricky butterfly ballots.
Might I remind you that Theresa LePore was a Republican who switched to Democrat just in the nick of time to create that ballot which was an obvious attempt to cause Democrat votes to go for Anti-Semite Buchanan. As soon as that election was over, Theresa LePore (mission accomplished) returned to the fold of the Republican Party.
Ah those were the days. !!
They still are … votes are being stolen in every election – remarkable that they end up swinging Republican after heavy Democrat leads – after a downtime on live posting of returns on the Internet. Always, it seems, by an increasingly suspicious margin of 49% to 51%.
Finding a few votes here and a few there and then suing to recount in only those counties that have more of your supporters in them.
Let’s talk about the hundreds of thousands of votes that can be manipulated in a matter of seconds with the unauditable DREs which have been proven to have internet connections (even though the “law” says they can’t!) Jim March, in his own words.
According to Jim March (Republican) re: San Diego election July of 2005:“We learned one REALLY interesting thing: The GEMS box was connected to the Internet.
Oh, not directly! They had a set of “one way firewalls” allowing data to come out of GEMS onto the county LAN where it was served up on web pages. But get this. They didn’t set up these firewalls themselves. Rather, they paid SAIC to do it for them. For those not following along in extreme detail, SAIC is a software development and computer consulting house that does almost exclusively government contracts; their ties to military contracting are very well known…I’ll let others discuss that connection.”
A time when we finally fail and are on the brink of anarchy, we are snatched from the jaws civil war by letting the smartest folks on earth decide the election. The Supreme Court.
If by “smartest folks on earth” you mean those who CHEAT TO WIN – yup – by god – that’s the conservative Supreme Court for ya!
A lawyer discusses the 2000 debacle
And its getting smarter every day.
So we see.
Also, Praedor Atrebates, do you believe the government’s story about 9/11? It’s a ridiculous story. And, don’t say that anytime there’s proof of Israeli shenanigans, it’s "anti-semitism". That’s a cop out. Did you read about the recent indictments of AIPAC spies in the Pentagon? NOT anti-semitism, just facts. I hate it when people dismiss anything negative about Israel, claiming "anit-semitism". It’s a huge cop out, and it’s an insult to people’s intelligence. It’s not a defense to say "anti-semitism".
Why is the government and the MSM not covering the William Rodriguez story? He and at least 14 other witnesses, heard bombs going off in the WTC before the planes hit. He’s gone through Europe and is now touring the United States giving symposiums about this. His and the others testimony were cut out of the 9/11 Commission’s report.
Our government gave the conspiracy theory. And there’s plenty of proof.
Bev Harris and Howard Dean hacked into a computerized voting machine in front of officials, changed the vote, and got out without a trace.
No proof is good enough, it seems. It’s not a matter of proof. There’s plenty of proof.
NEIL: You should get together with Bev Harris and her crew of computer geeks. I’m serious! She needs guys like you!
Praedor Atrebates:Clinton Curtis PASSED a polygraph ,would Tom Feeney ?
Praedor Atrebates:You use Linux and Perl etc. you know code… and your footnote to the posting (below)is telling…"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
–Hermann Goering
and then there’s your…
Sorry to be a stickler, but there is absolutely no “evolution vs creationism controversy”…at least amongst scientists. It is an absolutely settled issue. Evolution IS. It is merely the details of HOW that is being worked out.Or perhaps you meant the political controversy about evolution vs creationism/ID? That exists because there have always been people who do not and will not understand the hows and ways of science. There will always be people who choose not to think critically, preferring to be TOLD what to think by religious authorities. It makes things so much easier and cleaner if you can take a universe that is nothing but infinite shades of color and infinite shades of gray and convert it all into low bit black-and-white. It takes up so much less space in the mind if it is black-and-white.
Posted by Praedor Atrebates · August 30th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Like you say and I quote "It takes up so much less space in the mind if it is black-and-white."
Question:Do you feel E-voting is vulnerable to hacking/tampering?
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing!
The people who count the votes decide everything!"
Is it anti-semitism to arrest Israeli spies?
Israeli Spying:The Mother of all Scandals
Brad-
You are a true patriot. A great read!!!!
I am sick of republicans, they are so ignorant to fact. A bunch of fucking coporate whores, that have no inclination to make anything better in this country just the wealthy wealthier.
Look at every scandal still facing this administrationm and all the failed legislation that has done nothing to adress any of the pressing issues in this country. You cant start with no child left behind and work your way forward.
Where is the good in this generation. Right now we will be remembered by American History and World History, second only to the regime of Adolf Hitler. Perhaps we are just sitting on the sidelines, waiting and hoping for someone else to start the fight, then jump in.
"If you are not willing to die for anything, than you never really live" MKLJ
When will the good in our generation be ready to die? What will it take for such sacrifice?
Charlie New Orleans
Hello, Charlie from New Orleans.
I’ve been reading this BLOG by Andrea who used to live in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans until martial law took effect and now the National Guard has blocked people from going into their homes – even though they are now on dry land.
Read this blog … & thanks to Joan for pointing it out on another thread.
This is fascist/corporate/military takeover of peoples’ property. What are we going to do about it? Can we do something?
PROOF THAT VOTING IS FIXED……our "elected" officials do not represent the "general welfare" or "best interests" of the citizens of this country.
Illegal wars, looting from the US Treasury, rampart cronyism, massive illegal immigration, attacks on the peoples liberties, non-stop lying, passage of both NAFTA then CAFTA, excessive taxation of the working people and minimal or no taxes on the elite. The list of proofs is so extensive I must refrain from ranting.
If voting was not fraudelent we would never have this evil, tyrannical type of government.
Well Charlie in N.O. why don’t YOU start. What will it take to get you to commit to such sacriface? What a load of hot air. :crazy:
fOR WHAT IT’S WORTH (NOT MUCH) I PRINTED THIS STORY OUT AND FAXED IT TO JOHN KERRY’S OFFICE IN DC.
WHO KNOWS, MAYBE NOW THAT KERRY SEES BUSH’S NUMBERS, HE’LL GROW A SET.
A BOY CAN DREAM, CAN’T HE?
What is the best possible outcome from all this information and findings?
A new election once determined that the US vote was compromised and the man in White House cheated to attain his position.
All the actions of the Bushit administration get looked at so we can put these lying murdering war mongers in jail where they belong.
Reenact the Roadless Rule law protecting 58 million acres of wildlands. A corridor of wildlands needs to be created to connect a Yellowstone Grizzly population suffering from in breeding to the other remaining populations in the lower 48. This is for the benefit of all wild animals. The Bushit administration is building roads and raping the wildlands. In addition to this, they reversed an injunction barring offroad vehicles which is severly destroying their (our) habitat. We can’t let these fcking nazis who use fear tactics and murder to silence the real American Patriots who speak the truth about what’s happening around us. You cannot stop the word on the street. America can once again become a place where different ideas and opinions can be exchanged for the better of our country and the world. I am proud to be American and will fight to expose these corrupt loser robber barons who have taken us in the completely wrong direction. We must dismantle and burry all nuclear weapons into the ground for good. Brad -Your integrity and actions are making you a respected hombre and a first class journalist. Keep building victories.
So many good ideas to improve the world…
so few good politicians to get the job done.
Don’t count on Kerry or any Dem to "grow a set".
It’s almost as unlikely as there really being a
"compassionate Conservative".
I just watched the movie Bulworth this evening. Warren Beatty was a hoot and Halle Berry was wonderful, as usual. Their dance scene was as cool as Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
I recommend Bulworth to all 6 or 7 of you.
#59 — your comment about not being brainwashed yourself makes me think about the great divide in our country. The bushies are brainwashed and some democrats are brainwashed and then, there’s us.
I know the power of propaganda. Don’t we all, who gather here regularly? Look what it did to Germany in the late 1930s. So it’s GREAT when somebody wakes up out of their deep sleep! HOORAY – another one!
So – when someone admits they were brainwashed … they have awakened. That’s a really good sign. I hope more people will continue to wake up. Let us pray.
Electronic voting results are by their nature unverifiable and the reason is not technical but theoretical.
Votes must be anonymous, so nobody can verify if each of them is what its (unknown) voter actualy casted. Thus the only way to have certainity about electoral result is to collect votes using secure and verifiable procedures.
Paper elections held under proper public monitoring can guarantee fair and square elections. This is possible because humans can verify operations dealing with ballot papers which are visible and tangible objects. What’s wrong with ballot paper?
Computer procedures are not verifiable by humans since we are not equipped for verifying operations which occur in the microscopic scale within nanosecond timeframes. Thus, for people who didn’t program them, computers act just like black boxes and their operations can truly be verified only by knowing the input and comparing the expected output with the actual output. Unfortunatly, because of vote secrecy, elections have no known input nor any expected output with which to compare electoral results, thus electronic electoral results can’t be verified by humans!
Hence electronic voting is not a simple technical evolution of classic paper voting
Electronic electoral result cannot be verified by humans and the people need to have an absolute faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software, hardware and networks).
Requiring reliance on such faith is clearly not compatible with Democracy.
E-voting’s limitations are theoretical and thus cannot be overcome: electronic results are unverifiable whichever technical solution may be used to implement elections.
Please have a look at
http://www.electronic-vote.org
http://www.electronic-voting.org
Brad Blog! You are THE man! I hope blackbox.com or blackboxvoting.com has received your info since they’ve been very much involved in investingating election fraud since, I believe, the 2000 presidential election snafus in Volusia County, Florida and elsewhere in this, my home state which, if the USA was an animal, Florida would make male. Ha,ha.
Seriously, as with so many others who’ve praised you previously, thank Diebthroat for her and you for your patriotic heroism.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Dr. King said. The fraud perpetrated here has had direct repercussions wherever we’ve tried to promote democratic elections, in my opinion. Of course, with no/few choices the majority resemble easily manipulatable sheep rather than the more metaphorically accurate "cool cats" or "loyal dogs" we venusians and martians, respectively are.
Again, "keep on truckin’, Baby!"
We need a system that provides a paper trail for each and every vote. A paper trail would support the confidence in our electoral system. My suspicious nature peaks when politicians can’t/don’t support such a measure. What are they hiding? It would be good for all parties, all citizens. Check out Holt’s HR 550, I believe.
Old GOP Vet Wants Bush Out
Thanks Brad and all here forall you are doing to fight election fraud. I have just opened some new EZBoard forums at http://p105.ezboard.com/bwethepeoplecoalition and have a special forum for vote fraud news. Please feel free to post there. We The People Coalition is also looking for Associate members to join with us in fighting for election related reforms and returning our government to it’s Constitutional boundaries. We are a coalition of third parties and Independents.
We have a Yahoo discussion list of ove 950 activists and party leaders at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/W...eopleCoalition and again our website is at http://www.WeThepeopleCoalition.org. I am proud to announce that we were awarded the Political Site Of The Day trophy today, September 16 -18. I’ve book marked your site and will be back again soon to look it over more. Keep up the good work!
If computer hackers can break into DOD and hundreds of other extremely secure sites why doesn’t some liberal hacker "adjust" the result to favor the liberals, or make such a mess as to make it apparent that the voting system is not reliable?
Just for you big. I will not vote for George Bush in the next election for President. How’s that.
If the Voteing machines are used in the next election and the dems win some races, we will jump on your band wagon. Keep it up you guys are being set up.
COMMENT #202 [link]
…big dan said on 9/17/2005 @ 3:54am PT…
Old GOP Vet Wants Bush Out
Yep! Taking the bate hook line and sinker.
The power of an insider can be substantial. Wish there were more say among the former GOP ranks that would step forward and tell us about the dirty tricks and other Rove/Cheney/Bush tactics now that they saw the light and could no longer look themselves in the mirror. Anybody?
Brad,
I wanted to congratulate you on your interview with Tom Hartman on Sept 16th. Your ability to clearly and concisely vocalize ( in just the few minutes you were given) the ramfications of the Diebold security flaw, made us proud. You Rock.
Is there a link up to it already? Correct me if I am wrong but I believe White Rose Society webcasts Toms daily shows.
If you been watcing German election, they’re voting on paper ballots,
not electronic machines. Notice that Germany is a third world power, not a third world country. Can we boycott electronic machines and demand paper ballots?
GEORGE WALKER BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!
That name sure does have a nice ring to it!!!!
#205…
If we got our way… the machines would have paper ballot receipts that could be re-confirmed after voting…
So even if we did win… you still wouldn’t need to jump on anybody’s bandwagon… there’d be a paper trail to back you up already.
Remember… we’re fighting for the paper trail, Diebold are fighting against.
…hcocdr #164
"Those were the days my friend!"
Permit me to finish the chorus for you, "I thought they’d never end."
They have, did, will, and are… those days are shall be forever ended!
The Bush Era is over!!!! Take that! You are living in the past! Done, kaput, gonzo!
Now smirk off to your little room!
HCOCDR: I don’t get your point. I’m not a huge Democrat fan, just because I hate these GOP liars and crooks. I just want the people’s vote to count. If they legitimately vote Republican, so be it.
I think both parties are bought and sold by Corporate America and the 1% elite rich. Both parties are too similar for me, and we need a 3rd party, and a 3rd party is being shut out by these 2 parties.
Don’t confuse me being a huge Democrat, just because I’m pointing out these GOP crooks.
That guy in that article I put up, "Old GOP Vet", same goes for him. He’s against these dangerous crooks. I have more in common with this old GOP vet than any Democrat, that’s for sure!
I want all the crooks and liars out of there. It’s just that there’s mostly Republicans in there right now. I want honest politicians, who have 99% of Americans’ interest…and it’s really sad that there are very, very few from either party.
Corporate America is in charge of the Presidential Debates, now, and 3rd parties are shut out, because they would fry both the GOP & Dem candidates, who agree beforehand on what they’re going to talk about.
I’ll name one politician from each party, that I believe to be honest: GOP Ron Paul, and Dem John Conyers. I’m having a hard time finding a 3rd!!!
Kucinich
Brad:
Great work!! I’ve posted a Dkos diary about this.
I wish, however, that your source would come out into the open. Otherwise, this won’t get much play. Everyone is so skeptical of anonymous sources these days.
Please "RECOMMEND" this diary
BTW, I suggest that people here hit the "recommend" button at my Dkos diary, so that this gets more exposure.
Dkos has a HUGE audience.
Hey, maybe its time we ALL join the Crocodile Conference!
We can plan numerous strategies and allied opposition forces to run these crooks out of government.
I won’t vote for any democrat ever again who’s affiliated with DLC, and neither will I vote for any republican who’s in the ranks of the neocons.
Its time to vote progressives only. Getting a fair and OPEN VERIFIABLE process, means we don’t have to settle for fakes like Hillary. If we get rid of the vote fraud, we open up true democracy.
We can elect those who ACTUALLY represent us, not those who pretend to represent us. Notice how everyone in congress is useless sacks of crap besides a number of democrats like John Conyers or republicans like Walter Jones?
They are the only ones who give a crap about the common american. This is because many of them were elected by vote fraud, and this is what has to be dismantled.
If we have honest elections, we GET honest represenatives….If we have proportional representation, we GET people who actually do their jobs.
If we don’t, we get scum like Arnold Schwartzanagger and Dianne Feinstein.
Who here wants that bullshit!??? I THOUGHT NOT!!!
So lets fight tooth and nail…..LETS FORCE VERIFIED PAPER BALLOTS!!!
Doug E.
Maybe ‘Diebthroat’ should take his story to a MSM outlet? Or has he already tried that and been rebuffed?
Maybe ‘Diebthroat’ should get a "suicide password".
New Zealand voted today…
Streaming LIVE New Zealand Results .
Amusing ,paper ballot ,only two races,On a Saturday,hand count at the polling station …
It 1955 here you know 8.55 pm (not the year thou sum would argue ).
click on VOTE 05 at 7.00pm
oops 7.55
Totally agree with Big Dan and Doug – it is not a liberal or conservative thing. We just want charity to begin at home, the United States.
Bring in a purple party. You get x amount of signatures you get on the ballot. Each candidate gets goverment dollars, yours and mine, a set amount, can spend no more. Government can afford paying other countries we can afford to put some into this country.
Candidates, stop the pressing of the flesh, and cream chicken dinners to raise money. Each candidate get x dollars, goes only to television debates no traveling around the country. Citizens judge by the debates and track records.
One person, one vote, no more smoozing for the electoral college vote. Electoral college is outdated and we need change in this country to bring back a semblence of honesty. Because both parties are so tainted it stinks to high heaven.
As for electronic screen voting..hey whats wrong with using either paper or electronic – your choice not the states. Counters of vote one from each candidate’s party. Also, voting should be a week long…time for people working two jobs, or students to get to a polling place..no more long lines, don’t have to buy more machines, or pencils.
Jerry # 204
Our efforts are only effective if they are integrity based. Alleging that we should attempt to hack into a system just to prove it is hackable is not constructive IMHO.
We need to keep shining the light on this company and its officers. If we keep the pressure on for a congressional investigation the public will eventually come to realize there is something to this story and their curiosity will be piqued.
If I discovered , at a later date, that something I had given to someone in good faith (my vote for instance) was used in a base and senslesss act of aggression, (the war on iraq, outing plame, to many others to mention) that act of betrayal would become the catalyst of their undoing.
We need to focus on removing corruption. I know the frustration of watching these criminals get away with murder and mayhem sometime inspires thoughts of " Lets string ’em up!’ But quite honestly, unless we can re-establish the
standards of integrity, and have them apply to all americans whether they are in political office or sequestered in detainee camps, then our position as free americans may become merely a footnote in history.
Keep your eyes on 2006. Get involved at your local level. Continue to e mail your elected officials
alerting them to the outrage that we are witnesses to. Fight tooth and nail to prevent these devices from being implemented in your district.
BLACKWELL TO APPEAR IN COURT: JUST BREAKING
"Federal Judge Sets Expedited Schedule for Lawsuit Challenging Disenfranchisement in Ohio (September 15, 2005)
At a scheduling conference held August 30, 2005, Chief U.S. District Judge David Carr granted the plaintiffs’ request for an expedited discovery process and trial date in League of Women Voters of Ohio v. Blackwell, a lawsuit in which we are seeking fundamental reform of Ohio’s dysfunctional election process. Under the schedule established by Judge Carr, pre-trial discovery will proceed immediately, and will not be stayed to await a decision on the state defendants’ pending motion to dismiss the complaint. Judge Carr set a trial date of June 13, 2006, with the aim of having a decision in advance of the 2006 elections. Depositions of the plaintiffs are to be completed by October 31, 2005, depositions of defendant and third party witnesses by December 15, 2005, and expert discovery is to be completed by February 15, 2006.
Filed in federal court in Toledo, the complaint chronicles deficiencies in Ohio elections going back more than three decades, including widespread problems with the voter registration system, the absentee and provisional ballot processes, the training of poll workers, the organization of polling places and precincts, and the allocation of voting machines. The lawsuit seeks to compel the state to uphold its constitutional obligation to provide for its citizens’ right to register and vote. It also alleges Ohio has failed to meet its obligations under the Help America Vote Act. NVRI is partnering with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Proskauer Rose LLP, Arnold & Porter LLP, People for the American Way Foundation, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and Connelly, Jackson & Collier LLP, to provide representation to the plaintiffs in this case. For more information, see here"
NRVI Lawsuit against Blackwell gets trial date, depositions and discovery process extended.
OHIO is starting to blow apart….Kerry-Edwards team is still joined in the federal fight, and seeks to overturn permits and impound the machines for a discovery process. Formal trial date set for August 26.
For those who said John Kerry wasn’t in the fight, I guess you all better keep on the news more agressively!
W-tenacious
(off subject) Once in a while I check out Alex Jones Prisonplanet & Infowars sites, and I can’t get on them. I wonder if it’s temporary.
btw, I’m FOR a free-for-all hacking into the voting machines for the 2006 elections (not just the GOP, as is what’s been happening). This would cause these machines to get dumped immediately. Nothing else is working! This would work.
It would be best if a Dem or 3rd party did it. Like, if some bizarre Socialist or Communist party won 100% to 0%. They’d take the machines right out immediately.
Do you think that if one party, and the one that happens to control all branches of government, is benefitting from these machines, that they will ever be pulled? YOU’RE DREAMIN’!!!!!!
If Bev Harris & Howard Dean, hacking into them live, in front of officials, changing the vote without a trace, and getting out, isn’t enough to have these machines pulled, then they’re not getting pulled without something drastic happening.
What more proof can there be? The people in power see the proof, and they’re not going to do anything because that’s why they’re in power!
Big Dan #223 — I’m waiting for Homer Simpson to win the prize. That would do it.
re: #221 World Tenacious
Thanks for the info and link about the update re: lawsuit against Blackwell. That’s good news. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Big Dan – very well said in #213. All of it. Excellent post, true and to the point.
Tenacious – it’s a ray of hope! Thanks for the news.
TexasLady #219
Love your ideas for campaign reform! These are crucial to changing the system.
You might want to reconsider this part:
"As for electronic screen voting..hey whats wrong with using either paper or electronic – your choice not the states. "
If even ONE DRE is used at a polling place (e.g. for disabled voters) it can be used to manipulate the entire election. That’s right, the entire election–not just the votes from that machine. And "adjustments" to just one or two votes from each polling place can be enough to swing an entire election.
Ditto for if a central counting computer is used to combine the votes from various polling places (as is the case if any DREs are used)–all it takes is one to be able to control the whole election.
Giving voters an option of voting on paper would not prevent someone from manipulating an election. ALL the votes need to be on paper, and they must ALL be counted by hand in every election.
#225 Kira: Don’t forget about Gary Coleman!
The Crocodile rocks!!! One more thing I learned about in my youth. Do not celebrate a victory until the game is over. Yes, we have more amunition than when the Bushitmeister recrowned himself king, however, as you all know these despicable lying war mongering loser eletists hell bent on destroying the last US wildlands and the world for their own personal gain are in control of all 3 branches of government and the media. Until these fckers are convicted and going to jail in other words sentenced by a US court of law, do not celebrate. There’s a reason why snakes are hard to catch. Heed my warning and it’s also bad luck.
World Tenacious thanks for the link ,so much info so little time.
Big Dan – the free for all may be what it takes. The powers that be have no incentive to change anything.
COMMENT #224 [link]
…big dan said on 9/17/2005 @ 3:20pm PT…
If Bev Harris & Howard Dean, hacking into them live, in front of officials, changing the vote without a trace, and getting out, isn’t enough to have these machines pulled, then they’re not getting pulled without something drastic happening.
What more proof can there be? The people in power see the proof, and they’re not going to do anything because that’s why they’re in power!
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And the wonderful irony is that people will accept, and the Media will accept (because the Media will accept) the notion that individual voter fraud is a widespread and crucial problem necessitating a national id card, without much or any proof at all that such fraud exists and is widespread enough to affect elections.
Let’s recap… Theoretically, votes can be changed via a modem into the voting machine. Therefore, a phone call would have to be made. Why can’t the phone company get a list made of all phone calls to that number(s) during the election. If nothing unusual shows up, drop the issue. If calls are made during the election from a Diebold employee or a republican, prosecute to the fullest extent of the law… and I’m a neocon!
Switching gears now, eh?
Not at all, just because democrats have been stealing elections for decades doesn’t mean we should stupe that low.
You are a crackpot and a loser with nothing better to do than try to be heard. Nothing you say is relavent and you should die soon of prostrate cancer and choke on your own vomite. Goat sex is all you crave and nothing more, thank god because idiots like you should not procreat!!!!!!!!!!!!
I started listening to this peice about 6 months ago on this site.
It’s hard to believe that bradblog owns this story exclusively.
Glad I dont rely on television media for news.
Thanks.
"You are a crackpot and a loser with nothing better to do than try to be heard. Nothing you say is relavent and you should die soon of prostrate cancer and choke on your own vomite. Goat sex is all you crave and nothing more, thank god because idiots like you should not procreat!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And you wonder why people don’t take liberals seriously?
Nuclear is correct. Its time to audit the phone call logs.
By the way, look at this:
What in the WORLD happened exactly, the ultimate coverup???
Mohammed Atta was allowed to initiate 9/11 attacks, neo-con cells in the pentagon covered up the information and deleted records.
Hello hello…..the lid is blowing off!!!
W-tenacious
Also interesting to note…..Karl Rove is sputtering around like an idiot, he claims Cindy Sheehan and the Anti-War movement are "clowns" and that they have not one serious congressman backing them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Would this sad fatass be saying such things, from the comfy luxury of prison? And all those lies, all that spinning…it must be tough on the kidney stones to be a known traitor!!!!
Go Fk yourself is the worst I’ve ever seen come here. When will these right-wing loons or just plain callous loons stop the brandi about hate-lemonade?
W-tenacious
Sorry Nukem — (my #237) I didn’t realize I had another window open … I thought I was still on the thread where we were talking about Joseph Wilson.
I don’t have time tonight, but I can point you to some information regarding the phone logs & modem activity. You could browse the threads at http://www.blackboxvoting.org
NUCLEARCHEMIST sorry for the jerk (he’s not a regular poster here)
All I wanted to say was ,in this day and age surely the ONLY point is honest elections for all voters (in all countries lucky enough to have elections).
I’m not American but we are deeply influenced by your countries actions throughout the world and I would prefer that a President that truly represents the American people decide those actions.
We find our selves at a time in history where fossil fuels are starting to run out and demand is increasing like no other time in history, this situation will lead to unimagined pain on the body of humanity.
We need, no, must have leaders of great skill and intelligence to facilitate this transition from an Oil based energy dependence to what ever we can contrive to replace it.
But first the problem must be acknowledged…
Then there’s environmental concern as never before…
Anyway we all are going to be making sacrifice in the near future and I hope we can muster enough great minds to mitigate the suffering of this coming upheaval.
We owe our children that much.
I try to measure people by their best efforts and know your country has accomplished much to instill pride in its people because of these world-changing achievements.
With a willingness to invade a sovereign country under the banner of “Bringing Democracy” would require the “Invader” to have a guaranteed true democracy at home surely?
Are you a “neocon “ or a “republican”.
Media is failing us badly on matters so important. Might I suggest that we all be e-mailing this story to any and all media asking that they cover this story.
Some good prosecutors should be brought in on this. Election fraud is crime and some at Diebold should be charged.
If a safe place or protection fund may be set up for those blowing the whistle do let us know.
Brad, spoke w/ U on the Tony Show. My deepest respect for your ongoing efforts to save a country in such danger.
A good friend sent to me your blogs on voting.
Been filing away other voting web pages for over a year.
Hope to get involved locally.
Your blog and bloggers clearly are stimulated by the comments, and rightly so.
Congratulations for using the First Amendment to our Federal Constitution.
From a member of our local ACLU.
I believe that many here might like to visit blog: radioinsidescoop.com Perhaps you could help to spread some of the very credible views provided here. It’s a progressive blog w/ a couple of hacker agents assigned to it. (1,001 new uses of our Patriot Act).
It is sad reading the partisan (Democrat versus Republican) spin on the insecurity of electronic voting equipment.
Yes, it appears to be the case that, if insecurities in the current equipment were exploited, they were exploited more often and more effectively by Republicans by Democrats. But that’s a temporary advantage.
Software insecurity owes no duty of loyalty to any party or any politician. The group in power, at any level of government, has significant power to disburse funds and to change laws and regulations in ways that benefit or harm other companies or individuals. Those individuals in turn have a strong vested interest in the outcomes of our elections.
Whether the group you mistrust most is Haliburton, Al Qaeda, the government of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the drug dealers in South America, the triads, or the Bill Clinton Fan Club, if the group has enough money, voting equipment insecurities give them an opportunity to rig our elections for their benefit.
Voting equipment insecurity poses deep risks to our democracy and to the power and independence of government officials, be they Republican or Democrat.
Spinning the issues of insecurity as partisan political makes it less likely that they will be taken seriously and more likely that they will go uncorrected.
The United States Election Assistance Commission is accepting comments on its Proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. There will be a public EAC meeting in Washington on September 27.
The EAC draft is based on input that the National Institute of Science & Technology received from the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. The Guidelines adopted by the EAC will play a fundamental role in determining what is bought and how elections are conducted. The current draft, in my view, is deeply flawed.
I am a member of the IEEE P1583 standards committee, whose charter is "to develop an evaluation standard for election voting equipment. The standard will provide technical specifications for electronic, mechanical, and human factors that can be used by manufacturers of voting machines or by those purchasing such machines. The tests and criteria developed will assure equipment:
· Accessibility
· Accuracy
· Confidentiality
· Reliability
· Security
· Usability"
I am also a senior member of the IEEE, a Professor of Software Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology, Director of Florida Tech’s Center for Software Testing Education & Research. I have written three books on software testing and software quality. I am also an attorney whose focus is computer-related law.
The IEEE committee is led primarily by the voting equipment vendors and vendors to them. The meetings have been adversarial were run in a way that I consider unprofessional. For example, meeting agendas were often not posted until just before the meeting. Meeting minutes were kept uninformative–a minute might state the start and end times, the attendees, and report that the committee approved the last meeting’s minutes. Other agreements or discussion from the meeting were kept off the record. There were frequent disputes over what changes the committee and its leadership had agreed to make, and who was to make them. There were inconsistencies in application of the membership and voting rules that (in my perception) always favored the agenda of the committee leadership (i.e. the voting equipment vendors) and some election administration officials whose comments in one meeting sounded to me like open contempt for voters.
The IEEE draft standard has not been voted on or approved by the IEEE. A previous draft was voted down. The current draft is highly controversial–but it was sent to government officials (see this for example)and EAC as the work in progress by IEEE, and the EAC draft looks much like it. Now that the draft was submitted to EAC, the IEEE committee has stopped meeting. One could interpret this as reflecting an underlying objective — create a document that expresses the vendor’s proposal but market it with the gloss of an independent professional society. That objective, if that is the objective, has been achieved. If that were the objective, then continued, critical formal review by the professional society would probably detract from the result achieved so far.
You don’t have any input to the IEEE, but you can send comments to the EAC.
Here are some suggestions for comments:
(1) It is insufficient to limt testing of voting equipment so that it is only done by its vendor, by a vendor-paid "independent" test agency, and in a limited way by state or county election officials. There have been endless reports of functional and security errors getting past these levels of testing.
Voting equipment must be made available for purchase or lease for testing by universities and other researchers. These researchers must be allowed to publish their findings without restriction.
2. Election officials and candidates need to know the risks of the equipment they use. The proprietary interest of vendors in the secrecy of testing methods and discovered problems with their equipment must be balanced against the public interest in honest elections.
(a) Known defects, reported design weaknesses, and other known risks in voting equipment must be disclosed by the equipment vendors and the independent test labs with whom the vendors contract, to all potentially affected federal, state and county election officials within a short time after they have been discovered.
(b) Advisories of known defects, reported design weaknesses and other risks must be made available in a timely manner to all candidates ihn elections in which the relevant equipment is being used.
(c) The elections officials must have, and timely advise affected candidates of, plans in place to mitigate risks associated with the defect/weakness/risk advisories.
3. There have been repeated demonstrations of errors and insecurities with equipment by experts in the field. Rather than dismissing these or treating them as political statements, we must keep in mind that all new technologies yield products that gradually improve, but that present many flaws in design and implementation. It would be foolhardy to treat the marketing claims of reliability in voting equipment as any more credible than the marketing claims that routinely overstate the trustworthiness of other new technology.
Until the affected communities, including the research communities in computer science and computer-related security, reach consensus that the state of the art and practice in electronic voting has become trustworthy, electronic voting equipment should be treated as a fallible user interface to a voting process:
(a) Until a reliable alternative is developed and proved trustworthy, all electronic voting equipment must generate an independently verifiable paper ballot. This might be an optically scanned ballot created by the voter or a machine-printed ballot created in response to data entered into an electronic voting machine by the voter.
(b) In the event of a recount, the paper ballots will be counted and this count will be treated as authoritative.
(c) If the initial ballot count was by machine (as with optically scanned ballots), the recount will be by hand or by a different class of machine.
(d) Significant differences between electronically reported counts and recounts must be investigated.
(e) In the event of discovery of several significant differences between electronically reported counts from one type of voting equipment and the recount results, that pattern of difference provides grounds for recounting other results from the same type of equipment.
This is far from an exhaustive list, but implementation of these proposals would make a significant difference in the trustworthiness of our elections.
Hack I emailed this post to several hunderd newspapers and news agencies yesterday.Here is a great link to use:
http://capwiz.com/townhall/dbq/media/
I will email this now to Senator Boxer and my representative in the House. Hopefully it should work. Senator Boxer was the only one who stood with the representatives when they brought up voting irregularities. She should see this.
The most important thing is a paper trail with each vote. The Holt bill HR 550 does that. I have sent an e-mail to my rep and others, even those outside my state to support this.
#247 I agree with much of what you’ve posted.
I would, however, note that the partisan spin results because the party in power consistently tries to turn the vote fraud issue into voter fraud issue. Secure, transparent voting systems should be an obvious non-partisan issue, but few republicans are vocally calling for this, and ACVR, a republican front, actively seeks to discredit anti-blackbox considerations in order to focus on voter id, registration fraud (only by democrats), and other less worthy vote issues.
That the IEEE has allowed itself to be used in such a manner by the EAC is lamentable. It would be useful if IEEE leadership, perhaps with your urging, would disavow the final results, something might happen. As it is, many would see IEEE’s affirmation as conclusive evidence that all is well, since that’s how most Americans want to see things these days. Thanks for the info and the ideas.
OT but related to insider info .
18 Sep 2005
By Greg Szymanski
FBI Harasses Informant of Former Agent John O’Neill
FBI agents two weeks ago made an unexpected visit to a close friend and former informant of deceased bureau agent John O’Neill after a Seattle woman recently went public on numerous radio stations and news outlets, saying O’Neill told her government bigwigs thwarted his Al Qaeda undercover manhunt just months prior to 9/11.
O’Neill was killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center (WTC), some say in a suspicious manner, after being forced out of the FBI and taking a cushy top security position at the WTC, starting his $350,000 a year job on Sept. 10, only a day before the towers collapsed.
OT but related to insider info .
The centerpiece of the book goes on to tell how Lt. Col. Marvin aborted the mission after Johnson refused to admit to the enemy safe havens and then how the CIA orchestrated an attack his entire unit in retaliation for abandoning the assassination attempt in mid stream.
"When we were attacked by our own forces, South Vietnamese lt. Gen. Quang Van Dang came to our rescue and I have been deeply indebted to him for saving my life," said Lt. Col. Marvin. "This is why our government turned on him and why I sent the handwritten note to President Bush, finally getting Van Dang into North America.
Besides the Prince Sihanouk hit and enemy safe haven debacle, the book documents how he was involved in diabolical plots to take-out Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and U.S. Navy Lt. Com. William B. Pitzer, an officer who had photos of President Kennedy’s autopsy and who wanted to go forward with the truth behind the presidential assassination in Dallas.
The book also describes in a vivid manner how the American government operates essentially like the Mafia, using the exact same tactics as the crime families use to get what they want, including mafia-like oaths of secrecy to protect those higher-ups in the chain of command.
Former Green Beret Comes Clean About Mafia-Like Hit On Military Officer Who Knew Too Much About Kennedy Assassination
CEM KANER (or BRAD or anybody!):
How did these machines, which obviously do not pass vote security standards and were not rigorously tested, get installed around the country?
How did this happen so quietly?
When exactly did it happen?
Are there any graphs or charts showing when they were installed?
Who OK’d machines that don’t pass vote security?
And, is there any study done, on the relationship between these machines going live and the GOP controlling all parts of government?
Is it true, I’ve read that DIEBOLD & ES&S count 80% of the votes in the United States?
Why is it so hard to find out the answeres to all these questions? Either no one cares, or it’s being carefully hidden. I think we’d all like to see some kind of wrap-up answers to all of these questions, all in one report. Does it exist?
Felons can not vote but can own and run voting machine companies that count 80% of the vote , hello…
The dead-enders, Bush apologist, neocon types are not interested in electoral reform or voting fraud. It simply doesn’t factor into their world view. But those who are at least sympathetic to the cause are doing a disservice by listening to, digesting, and regurgitating the propaganda set forth by Diebold and their ilk. The kind of mentality typified by TocqueDeville is the real enemy here. He is one who would reap the harvest before sowing the seeds. We’ve seen this argument everywhere for over a year, from apathetic Republicans and self-defeating and appeasing Democrats. "You can’t prove anything they say, ignoring the mounds of evidence that warrant a thorough investigation, we’ll get them in the next election." Sometimes I think their brains are in hibernation, waking up for a few months in even-numbered years, then lulled back to sleep.
Great job Brad like always.
Huge props for trying to get the story and truth out.
Peace 😀
We love Dieb-throat!
NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DO, WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? Someone with that much power can´t be touched. There are only two ways to get rid of someone with that much power, impeachment, or _______________. You fill in the blank. With half the world obviously pissed at this idiot, what can be done? A monkey on acid could do a better job, no matter what his political party.
How far in debt does the nation have to sink before someone cries out PORK ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!
"than a year ago was not enough to phase Diebold"
It’s FAZE and not PHASE.
The only salvation from the Fourth Reich is to regain power over the integrity of the ballot box. There are electronic voting schemes which protect both the secrecy of the ballot and maintain validity as well as the capability to verify one’s ballot(See Popular Science).
Pray it is not too late! Or take out a few repugnicans 🙂
Who owns Diebold? Could the owners of Diebold have political affiliates? What are the interests of Diebold? Usually complanies are bought out by other companies and i would not be surprised if GE-NBC or some other monopoly holder had his hand in this.
Warning: liberal use of metaphor.
Hello my name is America…
please scratch my belly…
mmmm… beer… football… boobies…
BBBUUUURRRRPPPPP!!!!!
C’mon, who cares about voter fraud…
I support the troops…
Gee, I really hope the Saints win tonight… that should SURELY lift the spirits of those who’ve lost their families, homes, jobs, pets, etc…
mmm…. let me get a couple more hours of sleepytime before the BIG GAME KICKS OFF!!!!
Wake up and smell the coffee. WE DO NOT LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY!
We live in a Republic, Democracy by another name would be MOB RULES. Look at most, if not all of the nations in Africa- if you have the power, you make everyone either support you or fear you. The fortunate part of this equation is the fact that you don’t have to vote at all, the Electoral College will choose who they want irregardless of these stupid fucking voting machines, DUH. You close-minded leftists are so much like sheep, you actually think you have some kind of power to make a difference in the outcome of elections. Love your country, support the Troops, but whatever you do DO NOT TRUST IN OR RELY ON ANY GOVERNMENT TO HELP YOU! Get your life together, rise above whatever situation you are in, you live in one of the greatest countries in the world. You can do whatever you want, seek wisdom, not intellectual idealism. You will go far if you apply some common sense to life, for some of you GOOD LUCK!
Just a quick comment for both those who are calling to open up the Diebold source code and those who claim that this insider’s statements don’t have real "proof"
Nothing more needs to happen to "prove" the problem than to confirm one thing he said that can be independently confirmed – does the software indeed run over Microsoft Access? If it does, then it is completely unacceptable from any kind of technical standpoint. I develop programs with various tools, including MS Access. We do NOT use Access for anything that requires any kind of security. It is simply too easy to hack. I’m not talking about the kind of security holes we hear about in MS Windows from time to time, many of which are fairly difficult to exploit. MS Access simply is not secure.
So, it doesn’t matter how much credibility this guy has or doesn’t have. All it takes is one of the thousands of places around the country that have the software to be willing to show a copy to someone halfway technical and they can evaluate whether it uses MS Access behind the scenes.
– EGP
C’mon people, you’re taking this election hanky-panky in Ohio far too seriously!
Just do what I do; suck a lemon and drink beer! I love to suck lemons and drink beer! I better quick drinking so much beer as I now weigh 990 pounds! My doctor says I’m a candidate for a coronary if I don’t cut it out!
But I can’t help it! I love beer and I love to watch football all the time! I love Oakland Raiders football! I’m a major-league mess!
That’s the only reason why I hate America all the time! I’m too busy drinking beer and not the least bit interested in the important issues of the day!
Somebody save me from my beer! I’m a luney-tuney!
It has struck me as curious that on Election Day 2004, GWB travelled from flew in AF1 from Crawfordsville to D.C. — via Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, though, is the home of O’Dell, CEO of Diebold who promised to deliver the votes to Bush.
Does anybody recall that the only states where the exit polls didn’t match the results were in those with electronic voting?
Rove would steal the diamond ring off his dead mothers hand at her funeral if he could get his grubby hands inside the casket.
Yeah, he would steal an election if he could.
I found out about this during the RNC held in New York from an IndyMedia website that referred me over to the Blackbox Voting website – where what I read horrified me. I then decided because of official inaction or ineffectiveness that I would give all my energy to getting people to vote absentee. After the 2004 election, it was made clear that absentee votes just don’t count because they aren’t counted or are not counted in a timely manner that would make any difference to an election. Absentee ballots give a paper trail and is a system that the counties are already set up to do. However, the absentee votes must be counted and a voter cannot be sure that the absentee votes will be counted.
None of the electronic voting machines are secure. They must not be used in any county in this country or we will get another stolen election.
FEMA money has been spent to secure the corruption of elections and pay off corrupt cronyism instead of saving human lives. You will find FEMA as a big source of the problem in fixing the electronic voting machine problem. Please refer to the OpEdNew article on FEMA and about where FEMA money goes and the fact that they are not a real governmental office. Put efforts into fixing this FEMA problem and you will help fix the election system in the United States.
"It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care of the counting."
The flashing police light image at the top of the article gave me such nausea that I couldn’t read the article.
Well, I’ll be dipped – as a journalist for Pravda, I reveiled much, if not more, of this information before the last elections. I even included the money trail between the pundits and whose finger were in whose pockets.
No one believed me when I said that the election had already been won months before the election was even held. I got hate mail from just about everyone and not a single retraction when I was proven right. Even Ann Coultier must have throught me a sick bastard, commie traitor to suggest that the election was rigged – even though her party won and not much to her surprise (err, tabulation errors, software switches for vote flipping, etc.)
America’s leadership is decided in the board rooms and not the election booth – simply put. So now the question becomes one of tyranny, the tyrant is a system that is no longer accountable to the people.
What can we do now? We will do the same as before and that is nothing. We’re too apathetic, our leaders too unaccountable, and the practice too widespread.
And sadly enough, we bought, hook, line, and sinker, this "It’s time for a regime change" but in the wrong country.
You might like to check out:
http://www.softimp.com.au/index.php?id=evacs
http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html
http://evacs.samba.org/
The Aussies got it right. Why can’t the US?
Or is that self-evident?
To MMIXXI have no problem whatsoever with arresting Israeli spies or their helpers in the US government. I am hardly an Israeli apologist by any stretch. I’m all for their right to exist as a nation but it is not a greater right than that held by the Palestinians. I am for supporting Israel when they are in the right but am equally for punishing them when they are in the wrong (illegal settlements, claiming lands appropriated in what started as a war of survival but has since morphed retroactively into a war of conquest).
Me? I like real hard evidence. I have simply not seen evidence that Mossad had squat to do with 9/11. As a matter of fact, the original source of those rumors came from anti-semitic sites so I rule them out without hesitation barring 3rd party objective evidence to the contrary. The whole idea is polluted, however, by anti-semites which discredits it and does tremendous damage to any credibility that it could possibly have. If you want a theory or hypothesis to be taken seriously, then one’s bunkmates do matter. As soon as anti-semitic sites take up the cause, the theory is virtually DOA.
Simply because Israeli spies or sympathizers in government passed along secrets to the Israelis in no way automatically makes it true of somehow more likely that a totally unrelated activity (9/11) can also be passed off on Israelis or Israeli sympathizers. Totally separate things with no necessary connection in any way whatsoever.
Parallel elections, as in San diego.
Does anybody realize that if we got our votes with a system-generated ID number (and we get to keep a legally binding copy, and we thumbprint both of them) that we could:
Have them posted at the precinct listed by the ID under ballot choices and initiatives,
Check them OURSELVES, and check the totals so we can make sure the precinct turns out in a way that isn’t hokey,
Go back and get our vote FIXED if it’s wrong (using our copy, our voter ID and our thumbprint.
AND,
if voting more people than there are registered voters caused a recount/revote where they checked for duplicate thumbprints (twins, triplets, etc., exempt),
We probably couldn’t get screwed this majorly EVER AGAIN?
I didn’t read all the comments, so please forgive possible redundancy. In the early days of our republic the fastest communication was by horseback. Ballots were carried to state capitols, thence to the national capitol. Then news of the results were sent back the same way. It took weeks at best for people to know who had won the election. Now, due to pressure from network news outfits we MUST have the results instantly. Bullshit! Let’s go back to paper ballots and take an extra day or two for our results. I’d much prefer a little bit of suspense than four years of wondering, plus a large number of my fellow citizens feeling cheated.
As even some murkans must be aware, the Germans just had a major election. They used pencils and paper ballots (as the US stipulated during the Marshall Plan), the results were tallied in a very timely manner, the citizenry is satisfied that the count was unimpeachable, and the tally matched the exit polls! The Canadians are in on the same secret to fair elections. Why do the Americans have such an opaque system that elections can be (and are) stolen? It reminds me of the classic reply of some notorious bank robber who was asked why he always took on banks: "Because that’s where the money is, duh!" There are very few topics that stir up so many right wingnut trolls, and for good reason!
I totally agree Czaragorn. The wingnuts, in their hearts, know they’re really LOSERS – AND they’re really in the MINORITY.
We’ll get ’em soon, I hope. Pray for more rats jumping ship and more bu$hco stupidity!!
It is probably too late to matter, Brad. The die may be cast. No one had the courage to come forward in the wake of the 9/11 Commission’s whitewash and I see no one much caring that phony liberals like Biden will send the a smirksmiling neocon to the most powerul seat in any court on earth. Until this whistleblower goes public…assuming he can find a credible venue that will not dismiss this as nonsense…nothing will change. This I lament and this I believe.
Praedor Atrebates not all the reports are from what you might call anti-semitic sites ,notice even FOX .
You seen tohave leaders with multitasking oaths ,to secret clubs ,political party (other countries no less) and dual passports .How do we know whats the truth when Bush co. limits enquiries and blocks the release of the findings.
How many UN ruling has Israel ignored ,how many has Iraq ignored , your President invaded Iraq when is it Israels turn.
Five Men Including Mossad Agents Documented the WTC Attack
Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 …
Israeli Spying in U.S. Exposé
BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on the approximately 60 Israelis who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorism investigation. Carl Cameron reported that U.S. investigators suspect that some of these Israelis were spying on Arabs in this country, and may have turned up information on the planned terrorist attacks back in September that was not passed on.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information."
Chertoff EXPOSED as Aiding a 911 Terrorist!
Senator: At Least One Foreign Country Assisted the 9/11 Terrorists
KIRA thats a no brainer , "more bu$hco stupidity!!".
He sucks in air ,runs it thru his clockwork brain ,well go you know the rest…
Czaragorn we (NZ) just held our elections ,pen & ballot ,close contest ,hand counted ,two major parties only seperated by couple of % ,no need to re-count ,waiting for special votes to certify final results.Safe ,less than a minute to wait but mainly re-countable.
What you can’t see ,doesn’t exist (vote wise).
COMMENT #268 [link]
…jim said on 9/19/2005 @ 2:19pm PT…
Does anybody recall that the only states where the exit polls didn’t match the results were in those with electronic voting?
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Did anyone jump on this one yet?
COMMENT #274 [link]
…MJ Berglin said on 9/20/2005 @ 8:04am PT…
Well, I’ll be dipped – as a journalist for Pravda, I reveiled much, if not more, of this information before the last elections. I even included the money trail between the pundits and whose finger were in whose pockets.
No one believed me when I said that the election had already been won months before the election was even held. I got hate mail from just about everyone and not a single retraction when I was proven right. Even Ann Coultier must have throught me a sick bastard, commie traitor to suggest that the election was rigged – even though her party won and not much to her surprise (err, tabulation errors, software switches for vote flipping, etc.)
America’s leadership is decided in the board rooms and not the election booth – simply put. So now the question becomes one of tyranny, the tyrant is a system that is no longer accountable to the people.
What can we do now? We will do the same as before and that is nothing. We’re too apathetic, our leaders too unaccountable, and the practice too widespread.
And sadly enough, we bought, hook, line, and sinker, this "It’s time for a regime change" but in the wrong country.
I love this post…
We knew we couldn’t trust these bastards…we need 100% transparency in the vote now.
I am not hopeful this will come to pass however, as Republicrats of all stripes will do whatever is necessary to maintain financial dominance over the bulk of the populace.
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Western civilization needs to make more babies fast, regardless of ANY of this bickering. Do the numbers folks, our non-reproducing ways doom us in the long run!
Long run!? Aren’t most of us just trying to "make it through the night" with the expectation we’ll not lose more personal integrity too rapidly too soon.
Anglophiles lead lives of "quiet desperation," right?
Really, we’re all experienced enough to know the truth in Don Henley’s line: "there are no hearses with luggage racks."
I’m just glad Brad and the folks at thenation.com, et al, but he most especially, provides opportunities for expression which, logotherapeutically, lend meaning to our lives.
Vive Brad y The Nation y la Raza!!
LAWMAN
I am normaly limited to the radioinsidescoop.com blog. I hafe fed hackers assigned to me and they also post on that same blog. All neocon fundamendalist, gay hating goons. I got to make a post here last week right after talking to Brad on the Tony Trupiano Show. I spelled my personal proofs involving the voting machines and election fraud. I also spoke of how much GOP leadership in congress fights all efforts to make these machines honest so a recount would be possible. If any of you had a chance to read that post you will now note that it is no longer there. That is our fed hackers doing their thing. They travel with me and I don’t want to contaminate this good blog.
Visit us on radioinsidescoop.com 😥
Sorry about the typos. Will be curious to see how long the above post lasts.
I see that post # 248 above was a reply to my post that was removed by my hackers. I recall now that I had suggested that we should be prevailing on main-stream media to get on the story of the Diebold whistle blower. Also that we contact members of Congress to push for Hon. Rush Holt’s bill to make the machines varifieble. Ph # 877 sobusob.
My Patriot Act tropopers did not approve of such a post so they removed it. I believe post # 248 by …to is proof that it was there, however. I also believe it is good for many to come to understand the invasive antics of these fed goons.
My sympathy to you, Hacked909. Coincidentally, I attended an politico/art forum in Gainesville, Florida, concerning the FBI’s surveillance and harrassment of Arnold Mesches from post-WWII to the mid ’70’s. So, keep the faith, friend!!
LAWMAN
Brad, Thanks for your hard work. You should be in history books! Class action lawsuit time? Maybe that’s why the stocks are going south. #46 kos has taken diebold money. That’s why you got no discussion on whistleblowers. I know they edit and discourage election fraud discussion. I’m banned from the site and proud of it. If they just didn’t pass themselves off as progressive, I wouldn’t give them a thought.
What Brad has come up with is pretty clear proof that the slime balls that we have in our White House are their by fraud. (The whistle blower and Clint Curtis). It does appear that the same folks that stole our White House also stole our free press. I am hearing nothing of this. Is anyone else? Is any media covering this?
"When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, and nothing, o’ nothing is going right.
Take a hand and think of me, and soon I will be there, to brighten up even your darkest night…
Ya just call out my name and you know, wherever I am, I’ll come runnin’ to see you again.
Don’tcha know ’bout Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall… (yea now) all ya got to do is call, and I’ll be there, yes I will…You’ve got a friend.
Yea, ain’t it good to know, you’ve got a friend?
Carol King & Geffon
Wow. Is/was it Bob Geffon who teamed with Carole King to, apparently, so effectively induce folks into blissful somnolence/quietude?
Hey! Wake up! The peace marchers stepped up! We’re closer to an exit strategy now, IMO.
Arbeit macht frei, my friends! Really! Just without the murderously treacherous sarcasm.
Go forth and prosper! Today, and all this week!
I stand 2 b corrected IF I’m wrong. Thomas Jefferson oncesaid: "You can fool most people most of the time." "You can fool some people some of the time." "BUT you CANNOT fool ALL the people ALL the time."
The "Beltway bombers" and Mr. George W. Bush, the Commandeered-in-Cheat who resides at the 1600 PennsylvaniLIE Ave., does not learn a bit of it.
Especially as a Lincoln impersonator, I must say our 16th President is credited with the sage witicism: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time."
Anyone got an answer to the songwriting question at my posting #294? I sure do like the numbering system and hope the bloggers here at Brad’s site have not been forced away by "spooks" of any stripe.
Have a great evening/day, my fellow technically savvy blogger American liberal friends.
I recall from Randy Rhodes learning just after the November 04 election about some small prescents having only 250 registered voters, mostly Democratic. That same site might deliver 5 to 6 thousand votes for GWB. The problem; no recount possible as these machines maintain no records. We can know that the Cons do not want to let go of their power. Rigged elections is their way of life.
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A side thought:
We have a discussion group here comprised largely of progressives. We have been exploring the sincerity of the neo-con’s professing of Christianity. It was the opinion of most that the overwhelming majority of fundamentalist (average people) do, indeed bind to their faith without question. They have been told that because of their expressed convictions they will be "saved". It is as simple as that.
We found ourselves questioning those who seek to control masses through fraud and deception. So much that comes forth from them is planned deceit, diversions, smoke and mirror ploys. It is thought that some of these folks only see religion as the Opiate of the masses and messages that they can use to to keep their troops in line. We are speaking of the PNAC crew. Those who would implement their "New World Order" through a variety of frauds and deceptions. We question the sincerity of their religious utterances because everything else that they put forth is a lie. That being so, how might their professed faith be real.
One or two in our group provided yet another insight. It was that even the top cons can make it all fit; that because they are chosen and saved, they deserve everything. In their belief deeds are irrelevant. One only needs to profess to being a Born Again, Evangelical Christian. One is then free to steal everything, create wars, topple buildings, smear opponents and rig elections. All things become fair game once sworn to their faith. They can sometimes cause themselves to believe they are doing the "will of God" and that they remain "saved" because of their commitment of faith. If they somehow bring about Armageddon, they will be imediatly transferred to a special place in their heaven
Something to ponder. Anyone have any clearer thoughts on this?
Election Process…Purity v/s "Speed"
1. The problem(s) of any automated voting system can be caused by fraud or by failures (hardware
and/or software).
2. These problems can best be put in check by
having hard paper/card generated by each voter at
every polling place, Have the hard copy put into a
bollot box.
3. When the polls are closed the election officials
can release the un-official electronic tabulations.
But the official tabulation should released after the
hard copies are manually counted.
4. Purity is the core objective of all election process.
Thanks,
Frank Henry
Cottonwood, AZ
fmhenry2@cs.com
Yes, Frank. Transparent, unalloyed, pure mathematic-like Truth, where one person gets one vote, is THE goal.
Unfortunately, history is replete with those self-deluding and self-aggrandizing folk our blog-mate hacked909 is, well, hacked off about. I guess we on this side of the fence all are. The solace of being a "Beautiful Loser" (Bob Seger) only lasts so long.
By the way, I’ve not contributed monetarily to this, Brad Friedman’s very nice and numbered site, due to my being an unemployed worker AND full-time student. His and your contributions are very much appreciated, though, and, when able Brad, I do intend to provide more tangible support.
Also, I attend Stetson Kennedy’s 89th birthday party in Gainesville last week. Author and long-time activist, he put Woody Guthrie up at his home in St. John’s county before WWII and he’d infiltrated the KKK in the late 40’s in the Atlanta area only to learn the FBI office he reported to had been themselves corrupted with racist fascists who phoned the Grand Dragon to report a "spy" in their robed midst. Stetson Kennedy received almost as many death threats as his current incarnation, Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, has received, methinks.
I say all this because, at 50, like a guy I met at Stetson’s party, Nick Price, I’m beginning to think I’m more "radical" than "liberal." This is using the old English usage, methinks. Wasn’t Dickens one of the first self-proclaimed radicals, or did he merely write such beautifully powerful literature that he towered above the field of politics?
Still curious.
LAWMAN
The Us-CERT cyber alert tells us that it is possible to change votes at the voting machines by telephone. It does not prove, that it has happened. What really would help for the proof, is the list of callers to the voting machines. Some calls to the machine had a function, but there should be a call that can not be accounted for in the normal procedures. It is well possible that it is not a local call.
If someone organised fraud, he problably use just a few complices in a state to keep it secret. Theoretical this could be traced.
The following three documents are on the Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell’s website.
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...aspx?section=4
The first document is dated Nov 21, 2003
The second document is dated Aug 4, 2004
The third document is dated Jan 26, 2005
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...ware112103.pdf
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...sses081804.pdf
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...sAdd012605.pdf
The documents appear to be Ohio Election System reviews conducted by Compuware Corporation for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.
The documents show that the GEMS / MS Access issue was known by Kenneth Blackwell as far back as Nov 2003.
In this Nov 2003 document, it mentions:
"GEMS uses the MS Access database to store ballot definition data and election results. There is a risk that an unauthorized person with access to the GEMS server can access the database and change
ballot definition files and election results."
For this issue, Risk Likelihood = High, Impact Rating = High, Risk Level = High.
The documents recommended that the Secretary of State take action to correct the problems.
Only beginning in the Jan 26, 2005 document, do they mention using "Digital Guardian" software as a fix for the problem.
The following three documents are on the Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell’s website.
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...aspx?section=4
The first document is dated Nov 21, 2003
The second document is dated Aug 4, 2004
The third document is dated Jan 26, 2005
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...ware112103.pdf
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...sses081804.pdf
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/...sAdd012605.pdf
The documents appear to be Ohio Election System reviews conducted by Compuware Corporation for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.
The documents show that the GEMS / MS Access issue was known by Kenneth Blackwell as far back as Nov 2003.
In this Nov 2003 document, it mentions:
"GEMS uses the MS Access database to store ballot definition data and election results. There is a risk that an unauthorized person with access to the GEMS server can access the database and change
ballot definition files and election results."
For this issue, Risk Likelihood = High, Impact Rating = High, Risk Level = High.
The documents recommended that the Secretary of State take action to correct the problems.
Only beginning in the Jan 26, 2005 document, do they mention using "Digital Guardian" software as a fix for the problem.
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What’s so LOL funny Herbert?
Will wonders never cease? I guess Bush stole the election again ha? Give me a break! Get a life people. I suppose you wanted cry baby Kerry to win ha? What’s next? Bush was behind the USS Cole bombing? The first World Trade Center bombing? The Madrid bombing? The Bali bombing?
All I want is one thing…… The Truth!
Let’s see now. It seems I once heard something about how "The Truth Shall Set Us Free."
George Walker Bush has made a really big deal about what he has so solemnly referred to as "Freedom and Democracy." So let’s go on ahead and find out the truth (I mean the whole truth) about Diebold and the 2004 national election……. via a bi-partisan congressional investigation!
And then, given the results of such a bi-partisan investigation, let’s find out if George Walker Bush (the fine Christian he claims to be) is willing to live with the findings of such a democratically supported search for truth.
As my mom once told me when I was just a child: Honesty is the best policy." After 60 years, I still believe my mom was right!
Personally, I don’t give a good damn what happens to our country, because if the survival of the United States of America (as we now know it) is contingent upon dishonesty and duplicity by those in power, by those who run our country……. then to hell with it all! If we have to, then let’s start over. Break the damn system if we have to. All I want, as a citizen of this country, is to be able to say (and, in fact, believe it in my heart) that I live in a country that I respect: one that values the truth, strives for peace and justice, and will do what is best for humanity.
And you can take that to the bank!
Is it time for the revolution? I’ve rallied, screamed and hollered, gotten pissed off, lost a few friends trying to discuss these issues. It’s mind boggling. It’s hard to sleep at night. I’m ready. You in?
What good’s another election if it doesn’t get counted? I’d rather dip my finger in purple ink – seems safer, but I’m hearing the Iraqi’s are having trouble too.
Damn it!! Damn it all!
http://GROUPS.YAHOO.COM/GROUP/ELECTIONFRAUD2004/
No one believed me when I said that the election had already been won months before the election was even held. I got hate mail from just about everyone and not a single retraction when I was proven right. Even Ann Coultier must have throught me a sick bastard, commie traitor to suggest that the election was rigged – even though her party won and not much to her surprise (err, tabulation errors, software switches for vote flipping, etc.)
Unfortunately, history is replete with those self-deluding and self-aggrandizing folk our blog-mate hacked909 is, well, hacked off about. I guess we on this side of the fence all are. The solace of being a "Beautiful Loser" (Bob Seger) only lasts so long.
By the way, I’ve not contributed monetarily to this, Brad Friedman’s very nice and numbered site, due to my being an unemployed worker AND full-time student. His and your contributions are very much appreciated, though, and, when able Brad, I do intend to provide more tangible support.
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Also, Praedor Atrebates, do you believe the government’s story about 9/11? It’s a ridiculous story. And, don’t say that anytime there’s proof of Israeli shenanigans, it’s "anti-semitism". That’s a cop out. Did you read about the recent indictments of AIPAC spies in the Pentagon? NOT anti-semitism, just facts. I hate it when people dismiss anything negative about Israel, claiming "anit-semitism". It’s a huge cop out, and it’s an insult to people’s intelligence. It’s not a defense to say "anti-semitism".
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Why weren’t you guys smart enough to change the numbers back before the final votes were counted. No DU opts out there?
HCOCDR thinks it’s smart to cheat. Well, that’s typical of the "CRAZIES’" philosophy. (By CRAZIES, I’m talking about the group of nuts in the Pentagon and other official DC capacity during the years of bu$h 1 in the ’80s. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc. All of whom are now in bu$h 2’s cabinet.)
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Praedor Atrebates not all the reports are from what you might call anti-semitic sites ,notice even FOX .
You seen tohave leaders with multitasking oaths ,to secret clubs ,political party (other countries no less) and dual passports .How do we know whats the truth when Bush co. limits enquiries and blocks the release of the findings.
How many UN ruling has Israel ignored ,how many has Iraq ignored , your President invaded Iraq when is it Israels turn.
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Good story, really, but there’s no real proof. I have absolutely no doubt that the systems are full of security holes (Bev Harris is thorough and solid and the CERT warning isn’t done on a lark, it is real) but an anonymous source making allegations without ANYTHING to offer to flesh it out as real means it is, literally, heresay and nothing more.
Your bud at Diebold, your Dieb-throat, needs to do more than just chat you (or anyone else) up with stories of corruption, incompetence, or recklessness. I suggest he/she acquire a voice-activated tape recorder, or if he/she can afford it, a solid state version of same. S/he needs to go on record to a proper authority (perhaps a Congressman like Waxman or a Senator like Schumer) and seek their protection. S/he needs to try to get others in the evil society that is Diebold to provide substantiation in some way, shape, or form. Sneak out the the source code and hand it over on the sly to a Waxman or Schumer so that they can secretly have it analyzed, the claim verified, and then pounce all over Diebold after the goods are got. This person has to be prepared to put ethics and their country before their job at Diebold. If they are worth their salt they can get a job at a less corrupt place anyway – and they would be a hero in demand with TV and publishers if they actually came forward. People LIKE heros and courage.
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"GEMS uses the MS Access database to store ballot definition data and election results. There is a risk that an unauthorized person with access to the GEMS server can access the database and change the data" This is outrageous