Voter Fraud.
Non-Citizens Caught Voting in 2012 Presidential Election
In February 2013 Ohio Democrat Melowese Richardson candidly admitted to Cincinnati's; Channel 9 that "she voted twice in the 2012 election. “I'll fight it, for Mr. [ep dot yimg dot com/ty/cdn/realityzone/UFnohioNonCitizensVoted2012.html ] Yahoo says there is a temporary problem with this link, Obama and Obama's right to sit as president of the United States,” she www dot foxnews dot com/politics/2013/03/11/cincinnati-poll-worker-charged-with-voting-half-dozen-times-in-november/" another missing link -- proclaimed inthe interview.
In June she was convicted of felony voter fraud.
Now this— Non-citizens in Ohio were caught voting in the 2012 election.
Biden illegally brings 95,000 muslims (including terrorists) to us that WILL vote in the next election.
www dot foxnews dot com/politics/2013/12/18/non-citizens-caught-voting-in-2012-presidential-election-in-key-swing-state -- liberal damning link no longer available -- FOX News reported:
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that his office found 17 non-citizens illegally cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election - and has referred the case for possible prosecution.
The alleged crime would be a notable case of voter fraud in a key [ Oh look <sic> dirt on liberals held by yhoo is now missing. ep dot yimg dot com slash ty/cdn/realityzone/UFnohioNonCitizensVoted2012. ] swing state. By law, only American citizens are allowed the privilege of casting ballots for the national leaders.
Ohio officials say that did not stop some from getting around the system.
“ I have a responsibility to uphold election law, and under both federal and state law you must be a citizen to vote,” said Husted, a Republican who has aggressively tried to investigate voter fraud cases in his state.
Husted also found that 274 non-citizens remain on the voting rolls.
President Obama beat Mitt Romney in Ohio by just 2 percentage points in November 2012.
Woman Votes Multiple Times in Election 2012 but Denies Voter Fraud! [again, yahoo claims there to be a temporary problem with this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX6E2Ucv7S8 ] Video
Complete list of names; GOP leaders, liberal billionaires & sole Dem at #NeverTrump meeting
https://conservativefiringline.com/complete-list-of-names-gop-leaders-liberal-billionaires-sole-dem-at-nevertrump-meeting/
In what may be the most curious presidential race in the history of the United States, Anusha Asif of [ Exact link missing hrtp://www.technewstoday.com/28860-apple-ceo-tim-cook-attends-secret-meeting-to-stop-donald-trump/ ] Tech News Today. reports on Mar. 8, 2016, many of the congressional leadership of the Republican Party have met on March 7 with a who's who of liberal billionaires behind closed doors. As reported, the GOP honchos are brainstorming with liberal über-rich on how to stop the populist GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Despite many a talking head opining that Trump's momentum had peaked following his two squeaker wins in Kentucky and Louisiana last Saturday, the New York City business mogul just gut-punched the GOP establishment with his rather impressive wins in the latest round of voting. David Jackson of USA Today reports on Mar. 9, 2016 that Trump had runaway victories yesterday in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries as well as the Hawaii caucus. The only fly in The Donald's ointment would be opponent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) winning the Idaho primary.
In the meantime, the anti-Trump Gang of 22 met at the beyond opulent www dot seaisland dot com/accommodations/luxury-hotels/ -- missing link -- The Cloister 5-star resort in Sea Island, Georgia. Perhaps proving that politics indeed make for strange bedfellows, the by-name listing of the establishment Republicans meeting with a sole Democrat and a slew of politically liberal techie powerhouses is as follows:
- Tim Cook, billionaire Apple CEO
- Larry Page, billionaire Google co-founder
- Sean Parker, billionaire Napster creator and Facebook investor
- Elon Musk, billionaire Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder
- Arthur Sulzberger, billionaire publisher of The New York Times
- Philip Anschutz, billionaire businessman and GOP donor
- Karl Rove
- Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
- Sen. Tom Cotton 75% (R-Ark.)
- Sen. Cory Gardner 33% (R-colo.)
- Sen. Tim Scott 88% (R-S.C)
- Sen. Rob Portman 50% (R-Ohio)
- Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)
- Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan 56% (R-Wisc.)
- Rep. Fred Upton 40% (R-Mich.)
- Rep. Kevin Brady 57% (R-Texas)
- Rep. Kevin McCarthy 40% (R-Calif.)
- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)
- Rep. Tom Price 68% (R-Ga.)
- Rep. Jeb Hensarling 71% (R-Texas)
- Rep. Diane Black 67% (R-Tenn.)
- Rep. John Delaney 4% (D-Md.)
Geeze, how screwed up is that, we have to get our news from the Brits.
US election: Broken machines throw Michigan
[[Link Missing]. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/us-election-michigan... ]recount into chaos
The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
If I don't copy articles, they disappear
December 7, 2016, The final result of the US presidential election is still unclear almost a month after polling day and the recount in Michigan has now been thrown into chaos because of broken voting machines. As officials began a full recount in the swing state, it emerged that faulty machines mean half of all votes cast in the city of Detroit may be ineligible for recount. A third of voting precincts in Wayne County, that largest of Michigan's counties, could also be disqualified. The problems were discovered after voting clerks were unable to match the number of votes cast on the machines with the number of people who had been registered at polling stations. Officials said at least 87 of Detroit's decade-old voting machines had failed on Election Day, with many jamming when ballot papers were fed in. In 392 of the city's 662 voting precincts, the number of votes recorded on machines was not the same as the number of voters registered by polling station staff. According to Michigan state law, voting precincts where polling registers do not match with voting machines cannot be included in a recount. In that situation, the original election result will stand. The potential recount ineligibility of so many areas could hinder Hillary Clinton, who significantly outperformed Mr Trump in both Detroit and Wayne County and whose hopes of winning Michigan rest largely on uncounted ballots being found in Wayne County.
A Lot Of Voting Machines Are Broken Across America (But It's Totally Normal)
November 8, 2016, Forbes
Forbes has seen numerous reports of broken machines causing epic queues and peeving voters. One of the more concerning tales came from New Jersey, where one voter complained not only of machines being broken but claimed an official decided to say "maybe Russians did it". If an official did say those words, whether in seriousness or in jest, it'd have been unwise given fears around Russia's hacking of the election, following the breach of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year. Many took to Twitter to complain about broken machines, including those voting in Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, Columbia and San Francisco. Most complaints have come from New York and Detroit. ProPublica also 'Broken LINK' reported issues across Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio. The Tennessean reported issues ... too. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [stated] the department has been offering cybersecurity assistance to state, county and local election agencies, and found vulnerabilities during system scans, though wouldn't disclose their nature or provenance. Voting machines have [blog.cylance.com/cylance-discloses-voting-machine-vulnerability trouble connecting,try pasting into your browser] always been vulnerable, said Matt Bernhard ... an expert on the security of electoral systems. "This year isn't that different, other than I'm expecting higher turnout which may stress the infrastructure more," added Bernhard, who yesterday released a report highlighting how different areas of the U.S. use poorly-protected machines.
10-24-16
James O'Keefe covertly video records people and has a knack for getting them to tell all about their nefarious activities. He recently recorded Brian Foval and other operatives for the Democrat Party bragging that they sent trained agitators to Donald Trump rallies to cause violence and make it appear to have been done by Trump supporters. He also proved that the Clinton campaign had knowledge of these tactics and supported them. Project Veritas 2016 Oct 17
Mainstream media is silent on O'Keefe's covert video despite the fact that it is going viral in social media. O'Keefe says that this is because the media corporations are afraid that, if Hillary is elected, she will instruct her Department of Justice to retaliate against them. So, once again, money and profits win over principle and honor. O'Keefe is asking the public to Tweet his corruption video to the anchors at Fox and other news outlets to embarrass them into ending the blackout. FaithFamilyAmerica 2016 Oct 17
James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has released his second video that connects the DNC, Hillary Clinton, and Obama to vote fraud. Scott Foval, at Americans United for Change, explains how he and his fellow professionals
on the Left rig elections. The details will astound you, but what will really drop your jaw is how widespread this practice has become and how everyone knows about it ‑ except voters. This is one of the most important
stories of the century ‑ but mainstream media has spiked it. Project Veritas 2016 Oct 18
A Project Veritas reporter covertly video recorded Aaron Black, the Deputy Rapid-Response Director for the DNC. He describes plotting how to get male agitators inside a Trump rally, posing as Trump supporters, holding
signs that insult and bully women. The object is to attract media coverage and make Trump and his supporters look bad. Project Veritas 2016 Oct 19
US: Robert Creamer, of Democracy Partners, was secretly recorded explaining how to commit voter fraud through registering Hispanic illegal aliens. Creamer spent five months in federal prison in 2006 for $2.3 million in bank fraud related to his public interest groups. His name showed up on White House visitor logs 340 times beginning in 2009. In 45 of those instances, he was scheduled to meet with Obama himself. ZeroHedge 2016 Oct 19
A Wikileaks email from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook shows that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google's parent company, has worked directly with the Clinton campaign. Google recently has been accused of manipulating
search results in favor of Clinton. The Clinton campaign paid $600,000 to Groundwork, a start-up company that is backed by Schmidt. Google is not alone in this cozy operation. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, worked to arrange meetings between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the Clinton campaign. Breitbart 2016 19
Ecuador admits that it shut down Internet access for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who is sequestered in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as an asylum seeker. The blackout came after he published the text of Hillary's
speeches to Goldman Sachs. Wikileaks says the shutdown was in response to a request by US Secretary of State John Kerry who wants to prevent release of additional Hillary emails. Kerry denies the allegation. USA Today 2016 Oct 18
Hillary Clinton has championed equal pay for women, but there is a huge pay discrepancy between men and women within the Clinton Foundation, and only 3 out of 11 top-paid executives in that organization are women. Additionally, Clinton paid men working for her in the Senate 39% more, on average, than women. [These statistics show the hypocrisy of Hillary's rhetoric.] NY Post 2016 Oct 18
Socialism at its best
The collapse of oil prices in Venezuela has compounded the nation's problems caused by price controls, inflation, putting incompetent political cronies into tax-supported jobs, and other characteristics of collectivism. Infant mortality has risen sharply, and cannibalism has appeared in prisons. As always, the common people are paying dearly for the errors and crimes of their leaders. New American 2016 Oct 18
US: In October of 2008, one month before Obama was selected as president, the Citigroup bank gave Obama a list of its recommendations for cabinet positions in his administration. This list corresponds almost exactly to
the people who later were appointed to those positions. [Any questions?] Global Research 2016 Oct 16
While Hillary Clinton was the US Secretary of State, she approved the sale of $300 billion dollars worth of weapons to other countries. Many of them were totalitarian regimes that had been denounced by the State Department
for violating human rights. The countries that received the weapons are the ones that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. [This is corruption of the highest magnitude but, seemingly, many Americans just do not care.
As Hillary would say, What difference at this point does it make?
RT 2016 Oct 14
James O'Keefe covertly video records people and has a knack for getting them to tell all about their nefarious activities. He recently recorded Brian Foval and other operatives for the Democrat Party bragging that they
sent trained agitators to Donald Trump rallies to cause violence and make it appear to have been done by Trump supporters. He also proved that the Clinton campaign had knowledge of these tactics and supported them. Project Veritas 2016 Oct 17
Former Democratic Congressional Candidate Says Hillary Stole Nevada,
Posted on September 18, 2016 by truthfirst12013.
Dan Rolle: Dems cooked voter files to rig Nevada win for Clinton
The Shocking
Truth About [Exact link no longer available. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37486-the-shocking-truth-about-election-rigging-in-america.htm ] Election Rigging in the United States
Voter Fraud Is Real. Here's The Proof Data suggests millions of voter registrations are fraudulent or invalid. That's enough to tip an election, easily. 
By John Gibbs October 13, 2016
This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn't exist. A recent Salon article argues that voter fraud just isn't a problem in Pennsylvania,
despite evidence to the contrary. Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface. In Colorado, multiple instances were found of dead people attempting to vote. Stunningly, a woman named Sara Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
In Virginia, it was found that nearly 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.
In Texas, authorities are investigating criminals who are using the technique of 'vote harvesting' to illegally procure votes for their candidates. 'Harvesting' is the practice of illegally obtaining the signatures of valid
voters in order to vote in their name without their consent for the candidate(s) the criminal supports.
These are just some instances of voter fraud we know about. It would be silly to assume cases that have been discovered are the only cases of fraud. Indeed according to a Pew Charitable Trust report from February 2012, one in eight voter registrations are ‘significantly inaccurate or no longer valid.’ Since there are 146 million Americans registered to vote, this translates to a stunning 18 million invalid voter registrations on the books. Further, More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.
Numbers of this scale obviously provide ripe opportunity for fraud.
Don't Let Data Contradict My Narrative
Yet in spite of all this, a report by the Brennan Center at New York University claims voter fraud is a myth. It argues that North Carolina, which passed comprehensive measures to prevent voter fraud, failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.
However, this faulty reasoning does not point to the lack of in-person voter fraud, but rather to lack of enforcement mechanisms to identify and prosecute in-person voter fraud.
The science of criminal justice tells us that many crimes go unreported, and the more victimless
the crime, the more this happens. The fact is, a person attempting to commit voter fraud is very unlikely to be caught, which increases the incentive to commit the crime.
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a sophisticated, comprehensive effort to catalog the number and types of crimes not reported to law enforcement authorities.
However, it tends to deal mostly in violent crimes. As complex as the NCVS is, gathering accurate data for unreported victimless crimes such as voter fraud is even harder, since 1) outside of the criminal, no one may know a crime has taken place, and 2) there is no direct victim to report the crime in the first place. Yet we are expected to believe that, unlike violent crime, voter fraud is limited only to the cases that are actually reported and prosecuted? This is a senseless position.
Further, the Brennan Center report argues that because prosecutor Kris Kobach's review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states found only 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution (which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate), voter fraud is so statistically small that it's a non-issue. Let's follow this logic. Does the fact that 109 people were cited for jaywalking in Seattle in 2009 mean that only 109 people jaywalked in Seattle that year? Does the fact that 103,733 people were cited for driving without a seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015 mean that only that many people were driving without seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015?
Absolutely not. This can be proven easily because in 2014, the previous year, only 29,470 people were cited. The disparity is largely due to increased enforcement efforts in 2015. In other words, increasing enforcement of the crime revealed a much larger number of people committing the crime.
The exact same is true for voter fraud. We have no reason to believe that the low number of prosecutions means only that exact amount of voter fraud is happening. Rather, it could mean a lack of enforcement is failing to reveal the bulk of the violations that are occurring. Thus, as with many types of crimes, especially victimless crimes, the real number of cases is likely significantly higher than the number reported.
How to Effectively Target Voter Fraud
So now that we know voter fraud is a serious issue, what are some solutions to this problem? States like Michigan have Poll Challenger programs, where observers from both parties may be present at voter check-in tables at precincts. They check each voter's ID against a
database of registered voters for that precinct to ensure the person attempting to vote is actually legally qualified to vote in that precinct. If there's a discrepancy, the poll challenger may officially challenge the ballot. Other states should implement similar programs.
States should sponsor initiatives to remove dead voters and correct the registrations of people registered in multiple states (make them choose just one state). Since many local jurisdictions are reluctant to clean their voter rolls, federal or state oversight with teeth may be necessary.
Further, voter ID laws, such as the one implemented by North Carolina, but (wrongly) struck down by three liberal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit – one appointed by Bill Clinton and the other two appointed by President Obama–are needed to ensure there's no
cheating with votes. States should continue to press the issue regardless of recent setbacks by liberal activist judges.
Finally, some have claimed that strong voter ID laws are racist, because they disproportionately impact minorities and would prevent minorities from voting. As a black person, I'm naturally interested in this claim. Thankfully, it turns out to be false. The Heritage Foundation has shown that black voter turnout actually increased after North Carolina passed its voter ID law.
Not only was the claimed negative outcome false, but the reasoning was faulty as well. The fact that the law disproportionately impacts minorities does not mean that it is discriminatory. It means, unfortunately, that fewer minorities are in compliance with common-sense safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections (i.e., having a driver's license or photo ID).
To mitigate this concern, states can offer a service that will take people without valid ID to their local government office to apply for proper ID, free of charge. Users could schedule the pickup with their smartphone or a phone call. That way there will be as few barriers as possible to those who want to vote and are capable of obtaining a valid ID, but cannot due to transportation concerns (a reason often given by those who claim voter ID laws hurt minorities).
So let us not believe false claims that voter fraud doesn't exist. It's real, and we must work to stop it, while making sure those who are eligible to vote but without proper ID are accommodated fairly.
San Francisco Will Allow Non-Citizens to Vote in Education Elections
July 17, 2018 Daily Caller
US: Mass Immigration Imported 15 Million New Voters
July 23, 2018 Breitbart
NY Governor Cuomo Granted Conditional Pardons to 26,000 Parolees, Including 77 Dangerous Sex Offenders, to Get Their Votes
July 26, 2018 Daily Wire
Majority of Liberals and Democrats Say Illegal Aliens Should Be Given the Right to Vote
August 3, 2018 Breitbart
Voter Fraud: Tiny Precinct in Georgia Has 276 Registered Voters, But 670 Ballots Were Cast!
August 7, 2018 Gateway Pundit
Voting Records Show That At Least 8,600 People Should Be Prosecuted For Double Voting
July 26, 2017 Breitbart
Alabama: Court Allows the Destruction of Digital Voting Records - ?Outrageous!
December 16, 2017 Gateway Pundit
Hackers at Cybersecurity Conference Changed Output of 30 Voting Machines within 2 Hours
August 3, 2017 Business Insider
Scottish Government Greenlights Plan to Allow All Refugees and Asylum Seekers to Vote
May 29, 2018 Breitbart
August 2018,
Vote Fraud: 250 U.S. Counties Have More Voters Registered Than are Eligible to Vote
100,000 Non-Citizens Registered to Vote in Pennsylvania
March 1, 2018 Washington Times
New California Law Automatically Registers People to Vote, Even Illegal Aliens
January 26, 2018
Out-of-State Voter Fraud May Have Given Hillary the Win in New Hampshire
September 19, 2017 Washington Times
3.5 MILLION More People Registered to Vote than there Are American Citizens
August 17, 2017 Liberty Writers
More than Half of US States Refuse to Give Trump Commission Voter Registration Data for Voter Fraud Investigation
July 3, 2017 Fox News/ Gateway Pundit
Virginia Removed 5,556 Illegal Alien Voters Who Were Only Exposed by Accident
June 1, 2017 Tucker Carlson, Fox News
President Trump Signed an Executive Order to Investigate Voter Fraud
May 11, 2017 Carter, Gateway Pundit
Facts The Left seems to conveniently forget.
Lobbying, often an integral part of voter fraud.
Voting Machine Fraud
The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
2-21-18
The New York Times. The top voting machine maker in the country, ES&S, distributes modems or modeming capability with many of its DRE and optical-scan machines. (Some states, including California and New York)
The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
07-2018
Voting machine maker sold states systems with remote-access tools
Voting machine maker sold states systems with remote-access tools. ... Those machines count all of a county's ballots and in some cases are used to program all voting machines in a county.
full article
Voting Machine Maker Suddenly Remembers It Did Connect Its Machines to the Internet
Rhett Jones, 7/17/18
Voting machine manufacturer ES&S has denied that its systems were ever equipped with remote-access software when confronted by reporters. But after receiving questions from a U.S. senator on the matter, the company has admitted it did do that dumb thing, but it did it a long time ago, and it doesn’t do it anymore. full article
Hackers at Cybersecurity Conference Changed Output of 30 Voting Machines within 2 Hours
August 3, 2017
Hackers at a cybersecurity conference breached 30 voting machines in less than two hours.
The episode demonstrates the US' continued vulnerability to electoral tampering by state actors.
Some believe that going back to paper ballots is the only way to guard against future cyberattacks from Russia or other foreign powers.
Professional hackers were invited to break into dozens of voting machines and election software at this year's annual DEFCON cybersecurity conference. And they successfully hacked every single one of the 30 machines acquired by the conference.
The challenge was held at DEF CON's “Voting Village,” where hackers took turns breaching ten sample voting machines and voter registration systems, Politico reported.
Carten Schurman, a professor of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, was able to break into one voting machine in minutes.
“I could have done this in 2004, or 2008, or 2012,” Schurman told Politico. With access to the voting machine, Schurman had the the power not only to see all the votes cast on the machine, but also to manipulate the results.
It only takes $26 to hack a Voting Machine
Reasearches demonstrate three different types of attacks
04-29-16
Major Media Articles Reveal Major Electronic Voting Machine Problems
MSNBC – A 2011 article titled "It only takes $26 to hack a voting machine" states, "Researchers from the Argonne national Laboratory in Illinois have developed a hack that, for about $26 and an 8th–grade science education, can remotely manipulate the electronic voting machines used by millions of voters all across the U.S. The electronic hacking tool consists of a $1.29 microprocessor and a circuit board that costs about $8. Together with the $15 remote control, which enabled the researchers to modify votes from up to a half-mile away, the whole hack runs about $26."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/…/…/technology_and_science-security - 9/28/2011
Christian Science Monitor – A 2015 article states, "Computer security experts have warned for years that some voting machines are vulnerable to attack. In Virginia, the state Board of Elections decided to impose an immediate ban on touchscreen voting machines used in 20 percent of the state's precincts. When state auditors investigated [they found that] while using their smartphones, they were able to connect to the voting machines' wireless network, which is used to tally votes. Other state investigators easily guessed the system's passwords – in one case, it was 'abcde' – and were then able to change the vote counts remotely without detection."
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/…/04/16/399986331... - 4/16/2015
Washington Post – An article titled "A Single Person Could Swing an Election" describes the test of a team of cybersecurity experts. The article states, "The experts ... concluded in a report issued yesterday that it would take only one person, with a sophisticated technical knowledge and timely access to the software that runs the voting machines, to change the outcome."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/content/article/2006/06/27/…... - 6/28/2006
Christian Science Monitor – An 2012 article is titled "Could e-voting machines in Election 2012 be hacked? Yes." It shows how easy it continues to be for voting machines to be manipulated. The article states, "Rapid advances in the development of cyberweapons and malicious software mean that electronic-voting machines used in the 2012 election could be hacked, potentially tipping the presidential election or a number of other races. For a savvy hacker, the time and access needed to infect a machine is so small that it could be done while in a voting booth."
http://www.csmonitor.com/…/Electio…/2012/1026/Could-e-voting... - 10/26/2012
Miami Herald – An article titled "CIA expert: Electronic voting not secure" presents the troubling results of CIA cybersecurity expert Steve Stigall. "Computerized electoral systems can be manipulated at five stages, from altering voter registration lists to posting results. Stigall said voting equipment connected to the Internet could be hacked, and machines that weren't connected could be compromised wirelessly. The [Election Assistance] Commission has been criticized for giving states more than $1 billion to buy electronic equipment without first setting performance standards. Numerous computer-security experts have concluded that U.S. systems can be hacked."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/966214.html - 3/25/2009
Note: The Herald strangely removed this article from their website, but it is still available here.
MSNBC – A 2009 MSNBC article describes five county officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers, who were accused of blatant election corruption. "These alleged criminal actions affected the outcome of federal, local, and state primary and general elections in 2002, 2004, and 2006. Clay County Circuit Court Judge Russell Cletus Maricle, 65, and school superintendent Douglas C. Adams, 57... caused election officers to commit acts of extortion, mail fraud, and bribery. Clay County Clerk, Freddy Thompson, 45, allegedly ... instructed officers how to change votes at the voting machine."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29778909 - 3/21/2009
Note: MSNBC strangely removed this article from their website, but you can read how the defendants were all found guilty and convicted in a federal jury trial on the FBI website at this link.
For a treasure trove of media articles revealing elections corruptions on a grand scale, click here. link missing
Powerful Documentary on Electronic Voting Machine Problems
The above media articles reveal only a few of the many problems with electronic voting machines and elections corruption. How many millions of votes may have been changed or disappeared that we don't know about? We may never know. And why isn't this getting wide media coverage? For a likely answer, &##91; Link no longer available www dot wanttoknow dot info/mediacorruption/ ] .
For additional powerful information on this, the excellent documentary Votergate takes viewers on a fact-finding mission across the US revealing stunning evidence of defects and outright fraud in electronic voting. Engaging interviews with whistleblowers and courageous Americans, including members of Congress and top elections officials, reveal critical information which the mass media has given very little coverage. Watch this powerful 30-minute documentary available at this link. A second highly revealing HBO documentary titled "Hacking Democracy" is available here.
Even Deeper. Below are excerpts from a riveting article which goes to the very core of the problem. The author's father and uncle uncovered serious elections fraud years ago and suffered severely for trying to reveal the truth. In 1992, they published the book Votescam which exposed major elections fraud, only to have it effectively banned. They both died young in the 1990s. Please pass on this powerful information which is so vital to the future of democracy. Invite all of your friends and colleagues to forward this message, and to join together in calling for election reform.
A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America
By Victoria Collier
Squadrons of shiny new touch screen Trojan horses are being rolled into precincts across America. Not, as we are told, to make voting easier or more accurate. The realreason America is being flooded with billions of dollars worth of paperless computerized voting machines is so thatno one will be able to prove vote fraud. These machines are not just unverifiable, they are secretly programmed. Their software is not open to scrutiny by election officials or computer experts. They are also equipped with modems accessible by computer, telephone, and satellite.
We the People are responsible for taking back the controlof our democratic process. No one else will do it for us. We cannot afford to be naive, or uneducated at this time in history. In order to fully understand the extent of the corruption we are dealing with, and to avoid making dangerous mistakes based on ignorance, we must understand the history, and the power structure, behind vote fraud in America.
I grew up with two men who spent twenty-five years investigating vote fraud in America: James and Kenneth Collier, my father and uncle. Their book, Votescam: The Stealing of America was published in 1992 and immediately banned by the major book chains, which listed the book as "out of print" and actively worked to prevent its sale. Votescam chronicles the Collier brother's groundbreaking investigation into America's multi-billion dollar election rigging industry, and the corporate government and media officials who control it. [First six chapters available free online]
The Votescam investigation began in 1970, in -- surprise! -- Dade County, Florida, where Ken ran for Congress (with Jim as his campaign manager). Ken was rigged out of the election through a vote scam, which the Colliers later discovered was used throughout the country for decades. It went like this: The local newscaster would announce during the broadcast of election returns that the election "computer has broken down." Instead of giving official returns from the county courthouse, the networks would be running vote "projections" for the rest of the night.
Jim and Ken, who had garnered 30 percent of the vote, noticed that when the vote totals came back on the screen after the announcement, they had mysteriously lost 15 percentage points. They didn't get another vote for the rest of the night. When they examined the "official" election results from for the September primary, October run-off and November final election in Dade County, the record listed a total of 141,000 votes cast for the governors race in each election. The exact same number of total votes were cast for three elections with a different number of candidates running each time. The same identical figures were listed for the Senate race in the primary, run-off and final election. This, of course, is a statistical impossibility.
When they compared the "official" vote results with a print-out of the vote "projections" broadcast by the TV networks on the final election night, they found that channel 4 had "projected" with near perfect accuracy the results of 40 races with 250 candidates only 4 minutes after the polls closed. Channel 7 came even closer; at 9:31 pm, they "projected" the final vote total for a race at 96,499 votes. When the Colliers checked the "official" number . . . it was also 96,499.
The networks then made the astonishing claim that the results from a single voting machine somewhere in Dade County were run through a computer program in order to get these vote projections. Elton Davis was the computer programmer responsible for the magic formula that could convert one machine's vote results into near perfect projected vote totals for 40 races and 250 candidates. When Jim and Ken confronted Davis in his office at the University of Miami, he responded: "You'll never prove it, now get out."
Finally the networks claimed that members of the League of Women Voters were out in the field on election night, calling in vote totals to channels 4 and 7. When the Colliers confronted the head of the League, Joyce Deiffenderfer, she admitted that there were no LWV members out in the field that night. She broke down crying, saying "I don't want to get caught up in this thing."
When the TV networks claimed that the courthouse computer had broken down, and they would no longer be reporting actual vote totals, they were lying. They had never been reporting actual vote totals. The final shoe dropped months later when an official press release appeared from Dade data processing chief, Leonard White, which stated emphatically: The county computer at the courthouse was never down, and it was never slow.
This was the beginning. The Collier brothers had slammed their boat into the tip of a giant iceberg. As they continued to investigate, they were horrified to discover vote fraud collusion among key individuals in every branch and on every level of the American political system. Those who were not benefiting from the fraud were too afraid to fight it. Their search for justice led to dead–ends. Their lives were threatened. They were vilified as conspiracy theorists by the mainstream press and yet they persevered.
The next quarter century was spent compiling a wealth of FBI documented evidence proving that elections in the United States have come under the tight control of a handful of powerful and corrupt people. Jim and Ken both died young during the 90's, as heroes to many thousands who heard them speak on the radio and at political meetings across the country. They helped to guide individuals and groups working for clean elections in their communities. The Collier's last hope was that Votescam would be used as evidence in a serious Congressional investigation into election fraud.
Many people still in power have yet to be held accountable for their role in aiding and abetting vote fraud. I'll give you two important examples. Famous Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin brought the original Votescam evidence to the Florida assistant State Attorney at the time, Janet Reno. The evidence included the shaved wheels of lever voting machines, forged canvass sheets, and pre-printed vote tally sheets. Reno refused to prosecute, claiming falsely that the statue of limitations had run out on the crime. Years later, Rubin would tell my father that behind closed doors Reno had stated that she could not prosecute. Why? Because she would bring down many of the most powerful people in the state.
Another notable Votescam criminal can now be found sitting on the bench of the highest court in the nation. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, while still a Federal Appeals Judge, single handedly destroyed what would have been an historic lawsuit filed against Justice Department lawyer Craig Donsanto, who had refused to prosecute the extensive vote fraud evidence brought to him by the Colliers. The evidence included videotape of the League of Women voters tampering with ballots in a close door vote "counting" session. The women were illegally punching holes in already cast ballots.
I'd like to offer a brief list of important lessons learned from twenty–five years of fighting vote fraud in the trenches.
Secret vote counting is illegal. Counting faster is not a justification for counting secretly.
Lever machines were the first to appear, and they were riggable in a number of ways. One could rig the lever machine itself, or the electronic scanning machines that counted the ballots.
Computerized voting machines are the easiest to rig. Their software is not open to public scrutiny, or the scrutiny of Election Supervisors. There are nearly infinite ways to program the machines to count votes fraudulently. Since they are accessible by modem, they can be controlled from a remote, centralized location.
Voting machine companies operate with no federal oversight, certification process, standards or restrictions.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties have been complicit in vote rigging for decades, to their mutual benefit. Vote rigging is NOT a partisan issue.
The corporate major media networks play a vital role in perpetrating and covering up vote fraud.
Election Day media polls are untrustworthy at best.
The gravest error of judgment these days comes from those vote reformers who honestly believe that the answer to the butterfly ballot and hanging chad problems in the 2000 election is to embrace the ballot–less computerized voting machine. With the ballot–less computer, there is no way to recount, no way to prove any discrepancy, inaccuracy or fraud. Just the fact that companies like ES&S and Diebold would even make a ballot–less machine should be cause for a Congressional investigation.
A most grave error of judgment also comes from those who think that returning to a hand–counted paper ballot system is somehow impossible. An MIT/Cal Tech study done in 2001 shows that manually counted paper ballots are the most accurate system out of the 5 systems used in the last 4 presidential elections. They are totally verifiable, and first–world nations across the globe still use them, including Canada which counted their last presidential election in four hours.
The bottom line is that a computerized vote count is a secret vote count, and that's illegal. Technology cannot supercede the constitutional and mandatory provisions of election law, which require open and verifiable elections. There is no way to do a public vote count with computers. The count must be done by hand, in public, video–taped, aired live on television, and the results posted on the precinct wall – just like they used to be. Ballots should be counted on the same day as the voting takes place, making it much more difficult to alter ballots. Hand counted paper ballots and eternal vigilance are the only hope left for us.
About the author: A long time writer and political activist, Victoria Collier continues to educate the public on the subject of vote fraud in place of her father and uncle.
Final Note
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https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/electronic-voting-machine-problems - 9/28/2011
It only takes $26 to hack a voting machine
It is interesting to note that today a search of the internet for voter fraud reveals almost pristine voting in the us, barely a hint of voter fraud. also not a word about the videos (e.g. 200 Mules) of ballot box stuffing or purposely mis-aligned video cameras of ballot boxes.
