The Council for National Policy and the VOTE

This is from my Files section at Anti-CNP

Did you know that the Council for National Policy has influence over voting
machines? If a secretive Right-Wing group has connections to our Nation's
voting machines, is that safe for Democracy?

The electronic voting industry is dominated by only a few corporations –
Diebold, Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Sequoia. Diebold and ES&S
combined count an estimated 80% of U.S. black box electronic votes.

In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&S’s originator,
Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from the far-Right
Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to
the Omaha World Herald. After brothers William and Robert Ahmanson infused Data
Mark with new capital, the name was changed to American Information Systems
(AIS). California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson family’s ties to
right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles.

In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, “. . . primarily funded by evangelical
Christians – particularly the wealthy Ahmanson family of Irvine – the
institute’s $1-million annual program has produced 25 books, a
stream of conferences and more than 100 fellowships for doctoral and
postdoctoral research.” The chief philanthropists of the Discovery Institute,
that pushes creationist science and education in California, are Howard and
Roberta Ahmanson.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

According to the CNP Roster
http://geocities.com/ck4829/roster.html
Howard Ahmanson is a member of the CNP.

Lauch Faircloth was recipient of a concerted pattern of campaign donations
on the same day from the board members and senior staff of Diebold.
http://www.bartcop.com/111402faun.htm
Lauch Faircloth is listed as a member of the CNP.
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/brambles/499/CNP/GOP_Leaders/gop_leaders.html

http://www.coastalpost.com/04/04/10.htm

Mysterious Death Benefits Bush
By Bob Fitrakis



<The subject line on yesterday's email read: "Another mysterious accident solves a Bush problem. Athan Gibbs dead, Diebold lives." The attached news story briefly described the untimely Friday, March 12th death of perhaps America's most influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail in the era of touch screen computer voting. Gibbs, an accountant for more than 30 years and the inventor of the TruVote system, died when his vehicle collided with an 18-wheeled truck which rolled his Chevy Blazer several times and forced it over the highway retaining wall where it came to rest on its roof.

Coincidence theorists will simply dismiss the death of Gibbs as a tragic accident - the same conclusion these coincidence theorists came to when anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood died in November 1974 when her car struck a concrete embankment en route to a meeting with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Prominent independent investigators concluded that Silkwood's car was hit from behind and forced off the road. Silkwood was reportedly carrying documents that would expose illegal activities at the Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel plant. The FBI report found that she fell asleep at the wheel after overdosing on Quaaludes and that there never were any such files. A journalist secretly employed by the FBI, and a veteran of the Bureau's COINTELPRO operation against political activists, provided testimony for the FBI report.

Gibbs' death bears heightened scrutiny because of the way he lived his life after the 2000 Florida election debacle. I interviewed Athan Gibbs in January of this year. "I've been an accountant, an auditor, for more than thirty years. Electronic voting machines that don't supply a paper trail go against every principle of accounting and auditing that's being taught in American business schools," he insisted.

"These machines are set up to provide paper trails. No business in America would buy a machine that didn't provide a paper trail to audit and verify its transaction. Now, they want the people to purchase machines that you can't audit? It's absurd." <snip>

Athan Gibbs dead, 2004 election problem solved.

This one made me sick. You may call it the stuff of tinfoil hatters, but it is frightening. http://www.alternet.org/story/21372/