Technicians leak info about vote rigging - Saudi money behind it

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Mads...

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer


November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.

There have been media reports from around the country concerning the locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said this was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren County. George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much larger than his percentage of victory statewide.

<snipped - sorry about that Moderator! My bad> Please check it all out here:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html

Also go here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Could be the smoking gun.

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Sorry about that!

He worked for the Navy until '82 and then ... what? Where's the journalism experience?

It would be nice to think this was true, but it has "lone nut" written all over it.

But it is thorough and detailed - althought what facts it carries that are not already in the public domain are not second-sourced.

Going back for a re-read.

Wayne Madsen WMadsen777@aol.com http://www.iml.dartmouth.edu/ists/madsen.html
Online Journal Contributing Writer -Wayne Madsen -Senior Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center - (EPIC), a non-partisan privacy public advocacy group in Washington, DC. He works with member of Congress and congressional committees on legislation and hearings of common interest. He is also a freelance investigative journalist, and has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter. Mr. Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on international data protection law. Mr. Madsen has some twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. As a U.S. Naval Officer he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation

The "new" stuff at the front is utterly unsupported. This is not sensible, reliable or responsible journalism. It all floats free of specifics, dates, names, times, details, FACTS.

I'm not denying something might have gone on, but it isn't going to be revealed by shoddy, speculative reporting. Breaking something like this is HARD WORK.

a story..

Anyone who roams the net knows that lots of it is opinion and loosely connected facts,,

When the "insiders" talk to , and name names...on 20/20 or the Today show, or CNN the story could take wing, but until then it;s just a "cross your fingers, and hope it pans out" story..much like the 60 minutes memo story.

I hope some of our crack researchers get their teeth into it, as the bar for credibility has to be very high.

(I've become pretty "gun-shy" of something that looks so promising.)

From what I read on the attached threads, though, it certainly walks like a duck.

Technicians leak info about vote rigging - Saudi money behind it
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2751051

Technicians leak info about vote rigging
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=78323
and: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html


Follow-up Research thread: RESEARCHERS -- need some googling QUICK re Vote Fraud
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2750379&mesg_id=2750379&page=


If anyone wants to keep up with the news and breaking developments, a good place to start is here, updated at least daily, and more often if I can swing it:

VOTE FRAUD LINKS - A DU Compendium - Thread #3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=201x4927

VOTE FRAUD Links Compendium - Thread #2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=201x3223

VOTE FRAUD Links - a DU Compendium
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=1984#

This absolutely must be investigated! The story just broke today..hopefully we can forward this to Bev Harris, GAO before it is too late!

but i didn't believe it the first time i read it, and i still don't believe it after the 5th. i think it 's a distraction to keep us from searching for the numbers/fraud/irregularities.

(Marry in haste, repent at leisure)

Hi all,

There has been an active thread going in Election Results and as of this posting, it is over 250 posts long. Here is the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Enjoy! :)

-George

This quote, in particular, seems to smell more like fish than most of it ......

"The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program."

Am I to believe that after spending $29M they're gunna welch on a few bucks to a few "operatives" and risk them leaking ...... uh .... I don't think so.

Also, I cannot think for a moment that there would be this small army of government impersonators out there and they would trust that they had it sufficiently locked down that not one of them would be uncovered or found out and that none of them would talk ... or even let something slip? Kinda hard to imagine, particularly given the stakes, yanno?