More Evidence The Vote Was Rigged

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http://www.rense.com/general59/rig.htm

More Evidence The Vote Was Rigged
>From Wayne Nash
11-5-4

I don't want rain on the parade but I am getting quite a few emails from 
various sources citing possible irregularities with the voting process. 
So, I did a little research myself on the net to see what I could find. As 
a political scientist I could not resist.

Regardless of the veracity of any claim to possible irregularities I 
suggest that this question of legitimacy of the process needs to be 
addressed if everyone casting their vote is to feel that their vote is 
being properly counted. No one can feel disenfranchised in a real 
democracy. Otherwise, you end up with a dictatorship and not a democracy 
at all.

Unless BOTH sides feel the system is verifiable then you may end up with a 
banana republic 'democracy'. This is not question of who won the election. 
It is a matter of much greater importance; the legitimacy of the 
democratic process itself.

Here are a couple of sites which address the issue:

1. http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/

2. http://www.electoral-vote.com/

On this last web site I found this interesting bit of information:

"Various people sent me mail saying that it is awfully fishy that the exit 
polls and final results were substantially different in some places. I 
hope someone will follow this up and actually do a careful analysis. Does 
anyone know of a Website containing all the exit poll data? If we go to 
computerized voting without a paper trail and the machines can be set up 
to cheat, that is the end of our democracy. Switching 5 votes per machine 
is probably all it would take to throw an election and nobody would ever 
see it unless someone compares the computer totals and exit polls. I am 
still very concerned about the remark of Walden O'Dell a Republican fund 
raiser and CEO of Diebold, which makes voting machines saying he would 
deliver Ohio for President Bush. Someone (not me) should look into this 
carefully. The major newspapers actually recounted all the votes in 
Florida last time. Maybe this year's project should be looking at the exit 
polls. If there are descrepancies between the exit polls and the final 
results in touch-screen counties but not in paper-ballot counties, that 
would be a signal. At the very least it could be a good masters thesis for 
a political science student. The Open voting consortium is a group 
addressing the subject of verifiable voting."

Could there be a possible problem here? Let's see...

* In states where there were paper ballots the results exactly matched the 
exit polls.

* In states where there were only electronic 'touch-screen' paperless 
voting machines Bush showed an inexplicable 5-8 point or more difference 
from the polls, contradicting otherwise accurate exit polls.

* The software used in these voting machines is so sophisticated that you 
can't even check out the programming because it disappears leaving nothing 
to verify, no source code, no nothing.

Below are 3 articles explaining how these E-voting programs work. The man 
who published these articles is apparently an expert on this E-voting 
subject and a computer scientist.

Article 1 http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/ 
articles/04.0303.ADeafeningSilence_article.htm Article 2 
http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/ 
articles/04.0618.SecretAgentPrograms_article.htm Article 3 
http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/ 
articles/04.0701.EVoting_TheNewCloseUpMagic_article.htm

Another site takes the subject seriously...

http://www.rense.com/general59/steI.HTM

Highlight:

* SoCalDem has done a statistical analysis... ...on several swing states, and 
EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage 
for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results.

* In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll 
results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

* Analysis of the polling data vs actual data and voting systems supports the 
hypothesis that evoting may be to blame in the discrepancies.

* The media was a bit taken aback that the results didn't match the exit polls 
AT ALL. Most of the commentators were scratching their head in disbelief at the 
results. The media has gracefully claimed they "just got it wrong."

Some examples?

WISCONSIN:

Kerry leads Female voters by 7%, Bush leads male voters by 7%. Male vs. Female 
voter turnout is 47% M, 53% F. That means Kerry statistically has a 7% edge in 
exit polling in Wisconsin.

Actual results however show Bush ahead by 1%, an unexplained difference of 8%.

NEVADA:

Kerry leads in the exit polls by a clear margin, but is still behind in the 
reported results. This state is even closer.

Actual is just 1% favor of Bush. Exit polls show Kerry with a wider margin. 
Women favored Kerry by 8% here out of 52% of total voters. Men favored Bush by 
just 6% out of 48% of total voters. Actual reported results don't match exit 
polling AT ALL in Nevada.

Easy Programming?

According to the programmer cited above here is how easy it is to "make magic" 
...

We need COUNTERS - (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (V) = Vote; (T) =Tally

1. If V = B, add 1 to B
2. If T = 8, add 1 to B; Clear T; Skip 3
3. If V = K, add 1 to K; Add 1 to T

This extremely simple bit of programming would shift 12% of the vote from Kerry 
to Bush, it would defy exit polls, and it would make it look like Bush had a 
huge popular win.

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Feel free to pass this on to your Republican and Democratic friends. If you are 
American, this should concern you regardless of who won this election or wins 
future elections. If your process is flawed your democracy is flawed and 
everything you believe in is on the line. I am sure that people on the ground 
are acting in good faith and voting according to their values and beliefs. It 
is the people at the top that concern me.