This is an open letter for you to sign and send to your favorite news outlet to see if they can tell the full story behind blackboxvoting and pick up the trail that CBS left hanging in their recent article.
Blog mainstream media until someone picks up the story.
And keep blogging and blogging and blogging until everyone hears about it.
Hello,
This is an Internal memo excerpt from Diebold:
In response to a question about a presentation in El Paso County, Colorado:
“For a demonstration I suggest you fake it. Progam them both so they look the same, and then just do the upload fro
the AV. That is what we did in the last AT/AV demo.” http://chroot.net/s/lists/support.w3archive/199903/msg00098.html>
Recently CBS News printed a story about electronic voting, basically going into the details about the discussions going on within the web about these machines.
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/11/politics/main583042.shtml>
The author went on to say that it was a "conspiracy theory" that these machines were faulty and prone to be misused. This gave the impression to the reader that it was more fiction and paranoia within the net, rather than the anything that was based on factual research.
The author did not mention anything about the leaked internal memos from Diabold, that were hacked by an anonymous person and then distributed throughout the net, which were from the executives of Diabold stating that they were aware of serious problems that allowed corruption and hacking of the electronic voting machines, which they advertise as not being possible.
The memos are here <http://www.why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html#excerpts>
This valued research was done by people such as Bev Harris at <http://www.blackboxvoting.org>, which helped expose the flaws within the machines and the fact that at Diebold, the head CEO is a major fundraising partner for Bush and the republicans.
This is a conflict of interest as far as I am concerned and I believe the serious dangers regarding electronic voting are 100% FACT and not a product of fiction or paranoia. Just impeccable investigative research, which has not broken through to mainstream media, which poses a great danger to democracy in the USA.
Senator Rush Holt (D-NJ) is concerned about this issue and has introduced Legislation HR 2239, <http://holt.house.gov/display2.cfm?id=1071&type=Home> which seeks to fix this problem with creating a paper trail for these machines.
I encourage your news agency to support this effort and to help activate this great public service by printing the whole story which CBS did not tell and help make America aware of these serious problems and conflicts of interest.
Is your news agency able to pick up the trail and explain to America how our votes have the potential to be hacked, taken apart, manipulated, and deleted altogether at the touch of a button?
Sincerely,
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