Call to Decision

Subject: Think Your Vote Counts??.... Facts about voting that we all should

know...

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:37:51 -0600

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

by Angry Girl

Nightweed.com

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies:

Diebold and ES&S.

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight

of the U.S. voting machine industry.

www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

www.americanfreepress.net/html/...y.html

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign

organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to

helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

www.cbsnews.com/stories/20...32436.shtml

www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He

became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

www.motherjones.com/commenta..._200.html

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...kis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family,

was

recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics

Committee.

www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php

www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.as

www.onlisareinsradar.com/archi...96.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-

presidential candidates.

www.businessweek.com/2000/00...9130.htm

theindependent.com/stories/...el27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and

counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of

any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data

coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put

in by voters.

www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/...findex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines,

all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

www.diebold.com/aboutus/at...default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and

developers to help write the central compiler computer code that

counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

www.wired.com/news/evote/...1640,00.html

portland.indymedia.org/en/200...9.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems

when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of

23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as

consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the

optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stor.../S00191.htm

www.chuckherrin.com/Hackthev...Q.htm#how

www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back

doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to

evade detection over a period of 2 years.

www.chuckherrin.com/Hackthev...Q.htm#how

www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the

polls in Ohio.

www.globalexchange.org/update...38.html

www.enquirer.com/editions/...lexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because thes ecurity

was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be

hacked,

a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here:

www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)

wired.com/news/evote/0,...,63298,00.html

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch

screen voting machines with no paper trail.

www.cbsnews.com/stories/20...32436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and

reported

in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

www.wired.com/news/evote/...5757,00.html

www.yuricareport.com/Electio...sOut.htm

www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php

www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stor.../S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the

President's brother.

www.tallahassee.com/mld/tall...28725.htm

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring

Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are

recommending further investigation.