Wondering about the strange Iowa upsets?

[Eric Smith]

Wondering about the Iowa "upsets"?

Well, let's check the ballots.
Oh, wait; there aren't any....

Well, let's check the machines.
Oh, wait; we're not allowed to....

All but two counties in the Iowa Caucuses used DRE e-vote technology. 
And we'll never be able to verify the results.

http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/CoVoteSystem.pdf

Welcome to election 2004©, brought to you by ES&S, Diebold, Sequioa and the 
Bush/Cheney Pioneers.

It's not too late to stop the takeover of our democracy.

Do you have five minutes to help save America?
 
 
 
Officials you can phone, fax and email right now: 
 

Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

 

State elections boards:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID29/47.html

 

State Attorneys General (party affiliations listed):
http://www.naag.org/ag/full_ag_table.php

 

State Election Officials
http://www.nased.org/

 

Members, Natl. Assoc. of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks:
http://www.nacrc.org/leadership/st_coord.htm

 

Penelope Bonsall, national director of the 
Office of Election Administration
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20463
address@hidden
(202) 694-1095 (phone)
(202) 219-8500 (fax)

 

Online e-petitions EFF and VerifiedVoting.org:
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2821
http://www.verifiedvoting.org

 

Media Contacts:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Television/News/
http://newslink.org
http://www.cantufind.com/american_newspapers.htm
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Radio/Formats/Talk_Radio/Networks/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Radio/Formats/Talk_Radio/Stations/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Networks/Cable/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Networks/
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Broadcasting/Information/

 

Alternative e-voting machines:
http://www.accupoll.com/
http://www.aitechnology.com/avantetech/home.html
http://www.vogueelection.com/



Did You Know:

 

* Diebold "disappeared" over 16,000 Presidential votes in one Florida county 
during the 2000 election?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00275.htm

 

* Diebold's primary business is making ATMs and ticket machines (which DO 
provide paper printouts, unlike their voting machines!), 
has already been infected with worm viruses:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61526,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 

 

* The Diebold "Accuvote" machine has been hacked and an election reversed by 
author Bev Harris:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00198.htm

 

* Diebold's Board of Directors donated over a quarter of a milllion dollars to 
Republican campaigns in the last six years?
http://www.bartcop.com/diebold.htm 

 

* Sequoia machines use different software when being tested than when being 
used in elections?
http://www.exit.com/RiversideVoteTest/RiversideCountyTestObservationBoard..pdf

 

*  Walden O'Dell, Diebold's CEO, is a Bush/Cheney Pioneer, and hosted a 
$600,000 fundraiser for Cheney in 2003?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00084.htm



* O'Dell in an Ohio Republican fundraising letter, promised to "deliver all of 
Ohio's votes to the President in 2004"?
http://www.dscc.org/information/stopvotingmachines_letter/



* Senator Chuck Hagel secretly ran ES&S, the company that counted his votes in 
a "stunning upset victory -- the biggest landslide in the state's history?
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm



* Hagel lied to Congress about about his involvement in the company?
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx



* Hagel has already bought the rights to the "HagelforPresident2008" website 
domain?
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

 

* Hagel's campaign manager, Michael McCarthy, is now a major owner of ES&S?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00084.htm



* Before running ES&S, Hagel was head of the Private Sector Council for George 
H.W. Bush?
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26