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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:30 PM
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Two voting companies & two brothers will count 80 percent of U.S. election
http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
Two voting companies & two brothers will count 80 percent of U.S. election using both scanners & touchscreen
By Lynn Landes

April 28, 2004—Voters can run, but they can't hide from these guys. Meet the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Todd. Their respective companies, Diebold and ES&S, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80 percent of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

Both ES&S and Diebold have been caught installing uncertified software in their machines. Although there is no known certification process that will protect against vote rigging or technical failure, it is a requirement of most, if not all, states.

And, according to author Bev Harris in her book, Black Box Voting, " . . . one of the founders of the original ES&S (software) system, Bob Urosevich, also oversaw development of the original software now used by Diebold Election Systems."

...

Once again we are witness to an “eyes closed, hands off” approach to protecting America. The 2004 election rests in the private hands of the Urosevich brothers, who are financed by the far-out right wing and top donors to the Republican Party. The Democrats are either sitting ducks or co-conspirators. I don't know which.

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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-04 12:33 AM
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1. I wonder how exit polls will be handled
They were virtually eliminated in the 2002 elections thanks to the manipulation of a bio warfare defense contractor that dabbles in anthrax.
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AussieInCA Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-04 01:37 AM
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2. if there ever was a reason for open source software
this is about the best I've seen.
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