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Title: Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
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The Free Press
URL Source: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529
Published: Oct 26, 2005
Author: Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
Post Date: 2005-10-26 14:14:46 by Dakmar
Keywords: Government, Accounting, Powerful
Views: 126
Comments: 38
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling. The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage. The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general incorruptibility and its through, in-depth analyses. Its concurrence with assertions widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" adds crucial new weight to the case that Team Bush has no legitimate business being in the White House. Nearly a year ago, senior Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers (D-MI) asked the GAO to investigate electronic voting machines as they were used during the November 2, 2004 presidential election. The request came amidst widespread complaints in Ohio and elsewhere that often shocking irregularities defined their performance. According to CNN, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee received "more than 57,000 complaints" following Bush's alleged re-election. Many such concerns were memorialized under oath in a series of sworn statements and affidavits in public hearings and investigations conducted in Ohio by the Free Press and other election protection organizations. The non-partisan GAO report has now found that, "some of [the] concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes." The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary non-transparent software. Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, has asserted that "public elections must not be conducted on privately-owned machines." The CEO of one of the most crucial suppliers of electronic voting machines, Warren O'Dell of Diebold, pledged before the 2004 campaign to deliver Ohio and thus the presidency to George W. Bush. Bush's official margin of victory in Ohio was just 118,775 votes out of more than 5.6 million cast. Election protection advocates argue that O'Dell's statement still stands as a clear sign of an effort, apparently successful, to steal the White House. Among other things, the GAO confirms that: 1. Some electronic voting machines "did not encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, thus making it possible to alter them without detection." In other words, the GAO now confirms that electronic voting machines provided an open door to flip an entire vote count. More than 800,000 votes were cast in Ohio on electronic voting machines, some seven times Bush's official margin of victory. 2. "It is easy to alter a file defining how a ballot appears, making it possible for someone to vote for one candidate and actually be recorded as voting for an entirely different candidate." Numerous sworn statements and affidavits assert that this did happen in Ohio 2004. 3. "Falsifying election results without leaving any evidence of such an action by using altered memory cards" can easily be done, according to the GAO. 4. The GAO also confirms that "access to the voting network was easily compromised because not all digital recording electronic voting systems (DREs) had supervisory functions password-protected, so access to one machine provided access to the whole network." This critical finding confirms that rigging the 2004 vote did not require a "widespread conspiracy" but rather the cooperation of a very small number of operatives with the power to tap into the networked machines and thus change large numbers of votes at will. With 800,000 votes cast on electronic machines in Ohio, flipping the number needed to give Bush 118,775 could be easily done by just one programmer. 5. Access "to the voting network was also compromised by repeated use of the same user IDs combined with easily guessed passwords," says the GAO. So even relatively amateur hackers could have gained access to and altered the Ohio vote tallies. 6. "The locks protecting access to the system were easily picked and keys were simple to copy," says the GAO, meaning, again, getting into the system was an easy matter. 7. "One DRE model was shown to have been networked in such a rudimentary fashion that a power failure on one machine would cause the entire network to fail," says the GAO, re-emphasizing the fragility of the system on which the Presidency of the United States was decided. 8. "GAO identified further problems with the security protocols and background screening practices for vendor personnel," confirming still more easy access to the system. In essence, the GAO study makes it clear that no bank, grocery store or mom & pop chop shop would dare operate its business on a computer system as flimsy, fragile and easily manipulated as the one on which the 2004 election turned. The GAO findings are particularly damning when set in the context of an election run in Ohio by a Secretary of State simultaneously working as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Far from what election theft skeptics have long asserted, the GAO findings confirm that the electronic network on which 800,000 Ohio votes were cast was vulnerable enough to allow a a tiny handful of operatives -- or less -- to turn the whole vote count using personal computers operating on relatively simple software. The GAO documentation flows alongside other crucial realities surrounding the 2004 vote count. For example: A few weeks prior to the election, an unauthorized former ES&S voting machine company employee, was caught on the ballot-making machine in Auglaize County Election officials in Mahoning County now concede that at least 18 machines visibly transferred votes for Kerry to Bush. Voters who pushed Kerry's name saw Bush's name light up, again and again, all day long. Officials claim the problems was quickly solved, but sworn statements and affidavits say otherwise. They confirm similar problems in Franklin County (Columbus). Kerry's margins in both counties were suspiciously low. A voting machine in Mahoning County recorded a negative 25 million votes for Kerry. The problem was allegedly fixed. In Gahanna Ward 1B, at a fundamentalist church, a so-called "electronic transfer glitch" gave Bush nearly 4000 extra votes when only 638 people voted at that polling place. The tally was allegedly corrected, but remains infamous as the "loaves and fishes" vote count. In Franklin County, dozens of voters swore under oath that their vote for Kerry faded away on the DRE without a paper trail. In Miami County, at 1:43am after Election Day, with the county's central tabulator reporting 100% of the vote - 19,000 more votes mysteriously arrived; 13,000 were for Bush at the same percentage as prior to the additional votes, a virtual statistical impossibility. In Cleveland, large, entirely implausible vote totals turned up for obscure third party candidates in traditional Democratic African-American wards. Vote counts in neighboring wards showed virtually no votes for those candidates, with 90% going instead for Kerry. Prior one of Blackwell's illegitimate "show recounts," technicians from Triad voting machine company showed up unannounced at the Hocking County Board of Elections and removed the computer hard drive. In response to official information requests, Shelby and other counties admit to having discarded key records and equipment before any recount could take place. In a conference call with Rev. Jackson, Attorney Cliff Arnebeck, Attorney Bob Fitrakis and others, John Kerry confirmed that he lost every precinct in New Mexico that had a touchscreen voting machine. The losses had no correlation with ethnicity, social class or traditional party affiliation---only with the fact that touchscreen machines were used. In a public letter, Rep. Conyers has stated that "by and large, when it comes to a voting machine, the average voter is getting a lemon - the Ford Pinto of voting technology. We must demand better." But the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes to put George W. Bush back in the White House. Given the growing body of evidence, it appears increasingly clear that's exactly what happened.
The exit polls showed Kerry winning in Ohio, until an unexplained last minute shift gave the election to Bush. Similar definitive shifts also occurred in Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, a virtual statistical impossibility.
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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)
Better late than never.
Now the question is will anyone do anything about it? My going out and kicking the local GOP chairman in the shins will have little effect.
"I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S. Burroughs
Classic. If yours is as corrupt as is ours, much sterner measures are needed. I truly don't know what the heck's to be done with this mess...
Kerry is almost as worthless as Bush, although he's not as personally embarrassing (meaning his IQ probably exceeds his temperature). He should have fought the results of this election and challenged the obvious deceit that was going on. We knew a lot of stuff like this was happening then, this just confirms our suspicions.
Can we declare both parties Guilty as Hell and prohibit them from fielding candidates in any future elections? :)
"I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S. Burroughs
1. Some electronic voting machines "did not encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, thus making it possible to alter them without detection." In other words, the GAO now confirms that electronic voting machines provided an open door to flip an entire vote count. More than 800,000 votes were cast in Ohio on electronic voting machines, some seven times Bush's official margin of victory. How did the MSM miss this? It's the GAO's report!
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
Here's the video
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
That's a good link, and it confirms this report from the General Accounting Office.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
This shows the video, the other was the text.
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
A bucket of swamp water and this article will get you ... a bucket of swamp water ...
You don't believe a report by the General Accounting Office, of our own govt?
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
According to CNN, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee received "more than 57,000 complaints" following [the] ... re-election. ... Bush's official margin of victory in Ohio was just 118,775 votes out of more than 5.6 million cast. Not even close; why the hubbub? 118,775 - 57,000 = vote margin = 61,555 You can't even DOUBLE that 57,000 complaint number and show SKerry to the winner ... Maybe I need that new 'Farrakan math' to compute this.
I've pinged you many times...no responses...WTF?
WTF = Why The ?????? Foliage, Fatwah, Foray ???
1. Some electronic voting machines "did not encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, thus making it possible to alter them without detection." I think all those old folks that end up being election workers need to be doubly and triply supervised; on the basis of competancy, on the basis that they vote overwhelmingly Democrat, on the basis that they wouldn't vote Repubican on the basis that the Repubs would force them to eat lower grades of Alpo or that dried stuff bought in 100 lb sacks (even if it is IAMS). 'course, all this goes against the grain that all that vote tampering went to Republicans ...
Damn Jim, the Kosher Nostra done give you Vocabulary...watcha gonna do with it?
According to CNN, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee received "more than 57,000 complaints" Bzzzzt! Internal onsistancy Alert! Obtsensibly this 'story' is about an unbiased, non-partisan GAO report, yet a statistic from a politically slanted House Commitee is cited ... Internal consistancy Alert!
_Jim, you're not talking to me...Why?
I ... don't ... know ... .
This is the report from the General Accounting Office, that the article references.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
You hate me too? Just pray your cabin isn't within 25 miles...a couple a days hike...
Among other things, the GAO confirms that: ... 9. The same old tried-and-true means of vote-fudging including ballot box stuffing took place 10. Out and out bribes paid to election workers to fudge vote talleys were also prevalent. Next ...
Hmmmmm. Now I really ... don't ... know ... .
5. Access "to the voting network was also compromised by repeated use of the same user IDs combined with easily guessed passwords," says the GAO. So even relatively amateur hackers could have gained access to and altered the Ohio vote tallies. 6. "The locks protecting access to the system were easily picked and keys were simple to copy," says the GAO, meaning, again, getting into the system was an easy matter. These are the items that can create the most fraud in the shortest amount of time, without a trace.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
Faggoty Fed answer...are you looking for information? If so, ask me....
These are the items that can create the most fraud in the shortest amount of time, without a trace. Several dedicated political operatives, responsibility for counting 'votes' at a precinct, a few minutes alone with the vote 'talley' sheet; these are the ingredients that can create the most fraud in the shortest amount of time, without a trace and have been the mainstay of politcal corruption for decades .. .
That was the last straw; you're history now ...
Those have paper trails, the e-voting machines do not, although they were intended to by the inventor. And, technically there is no reason why they do not have a papertrail.
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld
Stick around, _Jim, you're a piece of work...you sound a little faggy, but your shit is interesting to read...i.e., very "Modern Day GOP."
Paper trails? Pshaw. Ask the late Mayor (Chicago) Daley or the late LBJ about 'paper trails'! Do your remember articles about Kennedy's ninth inning victory thanks to the votes coming out of Chi-town? LBJ - http://www.ejfi. org/Voting/Voting-6.htm Chicago - Chicago Rules Of Election Fraud
If you promise to be civil, I'll take you off my Bozo list ... Your choice, sport.
A bucket of swamp water you will not receive even though you will beg for it.////////////////////////////////
God is always good! "It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone – that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge." H.L. Mencken
Thanks; I missed that one.
I don't think anyone here gives a rats ass what you do
Of course he doesn't. In _Jim's reality everything that makes Bush look bad is simply the result of a vast and dark liberal conspiracy.
Your choice, sport. Why would he want to be off your bozo list?
Thanks; I missed that one. No problemo. And when you are able to recognize your own foolishness, you will have made progress. ;0)
"It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone – that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge." H.L. Mencken
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#3. To: Dakmar (#2)
My going out and kicking the local GOP chairman in the shins will have little effect.
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#6. To: Dakmar, Zipporah, Eoghan, Itisa1mosttoolate, justlurking, Lady X, alpowolf, BTP Holdings (#0)
Among other things, the GAO confirms that:
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“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
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#16. To: _Jim (#14)
“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
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#18. To: _Jim (#17)
“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
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#21. To: _Jim (#19)
“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
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#24. To: _Jim (#22)
4. The GAO also confirms that "access to the voting network was easily compromised because not all digital recording electronic voting systems (DREs) had supervisory functions password-protected, so access to one machine provided access to the whole network." This critical finding confirms that rigging the 2004 vote did not require a "widespread conspiracy" but rather the cooperation of a very small number of operatives with the power to tap into the networked machines and thus change large numbers of votes at will. With 800,000 votes cast on electronic machines in Ohio, flipping the number needed to give Bush 118,775 could be easily done by just one programmer.
#25. To: _Jim (#23)
“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
#26. To: robin (#24)
#27. To: Eoghan (#25)
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#29. To: _Jim (#26)
“kol Yisrael areivim zeh b’zeh"
#30. To: robin (#28)
#31. To: Eoghan (#15)
#32. To: _Jim (#10)
A bucket of swamp water and this article will get you ... a bucket of swamp water ...
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#33. To: _Jim, Eoghan (#14)
WTF = Why The ??????
Foliage, Fatwah, Foray ??? Foolishness !!!
#34. To: BTP Holdings (#33)
#35. To: _Jim (#31)
If you promise to be civil, I'll take you off my Bozo list ...
#36. To: robin (#11)
You don't believe a report by the General Accounting Office, of our own govt?
#37. To: _Jim (#31)
If you promise to be civil, I'll take you off my Bozo list ...
#38. To: _Jim, Eoghan (#34)
Foolishness !!!
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