VOTEFRAUD
Election corruption is historic, and rampant, yet little
is done to secure this important action in the
1.
ABCNEWS.COM COUNTING VOTES BEFORE THE ELECTION!
2a. How Media became the official vote
authorities
5. Michael Moore Machine Antics
6. New Vote Procedure It
is time to follow a proven way!
DRUDGE
REPORT
1. ABCNEWS.COM COUNTING VOTES
BEFORE THE ELECTION!
ABC NEWS was hit with the biggest online nightmare of the Internet
Era when complete election results were somehow displayed on its World Wide
Website hours before the first vote was even taken!
A spokesman for ABC NEWS was still not available for comment late
Monday night.
The "results" were pulled off the Internet immediately
after the DRUDGE REPORT issued its first Bulletin Monday evening. However, the
election returns were available on the ABC NEWS website for hours on Monday and
word reached campaign offices throughout the nation.
ABC NEWS had complete results for every governorship, House and
Senate race on its website. And results appeared to give most close contests to
Democrats.
There
were hundreds of race results displayed on the ABCNEWS.COM website.
The
numbers are being mirrored at:
http://www.drudgereport.com/abc1.htm
http://www.drudgereport.com/abc2.htm
http://www.drudgereport.com/abc3.htm
EVEN BEFORE THE
FIRST VOTE HAS BEEN TAKEN!
In what will clearly go down as the one of the biggest Internet
mistakes of all time ABC NEWS has
suddenly started to report Election Day results before Election Day.
A spokesman for ABC NEWS was not immediately available for
comment....
AND can this, perhaps, be the explanation?
"The following is condensed and extracted from the book
"VOTESCAM", by Ken and Jim Collier, just to pique your interest. You
may think that there’s a story in here somewhere, given the strange events in
the current
How did media get the authority to count votes?
by James Collier
The seeds for the rigging of 1996 primaries were planted in 1964 when,
within months of the JFK assassination, a power frenzy
was unleashed in
The networks also own the exit-polling unit, Voter
Research and Survey (VRS). That allows them to announce who won the
presidency at
Arizona - VNS projected Buchanan the winner, but
Super Tuesday -- New Hampshire would be the last time Pat Buchanan would
win. that is. win as far as
media reporting as concerned. Buchanan forces couldn't be everywhere. and Dole's juggernaut rolled across the South and half way
across the
Western Primaries -- We have noticed subtle changes in the way VNS has
been handling its dissemination of information to the public since we have been
doing talk radio shows about vote rigging. Cincinnati investigator Jim Condit
has also appeared on scores of radio stations in the last few months, alerting
the public to the danger of VNS and local election supervisors. Perhaps our
combined efforts are having an effect. We noticed a falling off of reporting on
vote totals after each primary. By the time the political Punch & Judy Show
moved to
These are the beginning steps you can take to determine whether your elections are rigged:
1) Videotape the elections from the time the polls close until the vote is counted.
2) Check when the computer ballot is issued to precinct captains. You will find it is anywhere from 72 hours to two weeks ahead of the election. These ballots often are stored in their homes.
3) Check who prints the ballots and how many were printed. You will probably find that twice as many ballots were printed than were needed. Thus. a duplicate set of ballots may have been issued to these captains.
4) After the ballots leave the precincts, follow them if you can. Wire seals often are broken when they get to a collection point and duplicate ballots substituted for the originals.
5) Then the ballots go downtown. You will not be allowed to follow them
up a back elevator as they purposely disappear from view. Demand to follow
them. The next time you will see them will be in a room where the League of Women Voters is being paid to "orient the
cards for the card reader." We taped the League punching thousands of
holes in the punch-card ballots in both
If you get to step 5, send us the tape.
And even if you don't live in the
2. Electronic voting machines
[as many now do], read, mark, and
inwardly digest. This could be happening to YOUR vote, too!
"The winner of the Presidential election isn't chosen by
[
It provides its five owners with "unofficial” instant tallies
in all Presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections; the official
results don’t come out until weeks later, and are rarely reported.
The
*All state and national votes are recorded in this single national
computer*, and are passed on to the media from this single source.
County clerks would normally take a month plus to verify counts
and issue a total tally; NES's goal is to have a total out in less than
half-an-hour after the polls close.
In the 1968 election, when Nixon defeated Humphrey by a miniscule
number of votes, the NEB computer gave Dick Gregory [who was a candidate] 1
million votes when he'd actually received 18,000, "missed" 53,000
votes for Humphrey cast in Alabama, and put Nixon ahead by 40,000 votes: the
"error" was later blamed on defective software, though the
program had performed flawlessly in 12 hours of testing the previous day.
Nixon, meanwhile, remained the "winner".
53% of all votes cast in the
Bush had lost the Iowa Republican Caucus, the first round of the
1988 presidential primaries, to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. As Bush
entered the N.H. primary, pollsters placed him behind Dole in that state too.
These were "days
when things just got darker", Bush said in his acceptance of the
Republican presidential nomination six months later. His campaign was
fizzling. Despite his apparent deficit
in public opinion, Bush won a decisive nine point victory in the N.H. primary,
reanimated his campaign, and more or less coasted to the nomination and
presidency. The press attributed this remarkable turnaround to the contrary
nature of N.H. voters and Dole's allegedly "mean" public image... Sununu
was later rewarded with an appointment as Bush's chief of staff,
often considered the second most powerful job in the country. He is a *computer
engineer*...."All John Sununu had to do...was get access to the on-air
script of [the networks'] election unit to script in George Bush as the
"projected winner" based on exit polls;
step two, commandeer
the mainframe computer [NES]...so that
the final official totals in county and
state computers can be manipulated over
a sixty day period to reflect the early
projections of a Bush victory.
*It is the prescription for the covert stealing of
N.H. uses "Shouptronic" voting machines; it’s
essentially an automatic teller machine for voters. All votes are recorded by
button pressing. The Shouptronic leaves
no physical record of votes and its programming is top secret.
Shouptronic is named for its company's
owner, Ransom Shoup.
In 1979, Mr. Shoup was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of
justice relating to a
3 year prison sentence.
Another computer voting
company, Votomatic, maker of Computer Election Services [now Business Records
Corporation Election Services] emerged unscathed from a Justice Dept.antitrust
investigation in 1981. The president of the company quipped, "We had to
get Reagan elected to kill this thing".
The remark was supposed to be a joke. 40% of Americans vote on CES
machines. CES machines have been
described as relying on "a heap of spaghetti code that is so messy and so
complex that it might easily contain hidden mechanisms for being quietly reprogrammed
on "on the fly" ".
A computer consultant...described the way a CES computer runs its
programme as "a
shell game".
[from
"VOTESCAM", by Ken and Jim Collier]"
______________________________________________________________________________
August 23, 2000 08:18 AM
Subject: Onward Tacoma
*****CLEAN Report*****
For immediate release
August 23, 2000
Auditor to take witness stand to testify about secret remarking
operation from 1996 General Election
Olympia, WA - The trial drags on, six days of testimony and still the
trial is scheduled to go on for two more days. The trial is moving at
a snail's pace because there are so many issues to argue outside of
the jury that escorting the jurors in and out is very time consuming.
The prosecution has rested their case with their final witness being
the rent-a-cop James Loeffelholz who was on the witness stand for the
entire day on Monday. He was impeached on the stand as he gave his
testimony about breaking up the assault between Susan Coffey and
Billy Joe Arends. Finally, after carefully examining the photographs
of Coffey being attacked, the officer was asked if he believed that
Coffey was assaulted. He said no. The gasp from the jury gallery was
nearly audible.
At 10:00 AM on Wednesday Cathy Pearsall-Stipek will be taking the
stand to answer questions about the illegal ballot operation she had
going during the 1996 General Election where 28,000 ballots were
remarked. The auditor will finally be held accountable for what went
on that day and she will have to say it under oath - which coming
from the auditor who has lied under oath before, who knows what she
will say.
The trial on defamation is expected to go the the jury today, perhaps
on Thursday. A decision is expected shortly thereafter. The judge is
making the decision on the election law violations and will be making
that ruling shortly after the conclusion of the testimony by
witnesses CLEAN provides.
Brian Sonntag is scheduled to testify for CLEAN before
the judge
about the processing of ballots. He should be testifying sometime in
the next day or two.
The issues left for trial at
this point:
1) Whether Loeffelholz was defamed when CLEAN published a report in
their newsletter about the assault
2) Whether the defendants defamed Loeffelholz when they made an
alleged internal affairs complaint
3) Whether Pierce County Auditor Cathy Pearsall-Stipek violated the
Open Public Meetings Law while conducting remarking at the secret
warehouse
Brass Check - http://www.brasscheck.com
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PUNCHCARD Voting
November 22, 2000
A piece from one of that rarest of species:
an intelligent, honest journalist who
writes about things that matter.
BARBWIRE BY ANDREW BARBANO
EXPANDED FROM THE 11-19-2000 Sparks (Nev.) Tribune
ELECTION THEFT Y2K: 1988 WARNINGS IGNORED
Swatting gnats and swallowing
camels
"There is probably a Chernobyl
or Three Mile Island waiting to
happen in some election, just as a Richter 8 earthquake is waiting to
happen in California." - Willis Ware, Rand Corporation computer expert,
The
New Yorker, Nov. 7, 1988 *
---
Longtime subscribers to the Tribune can ask for their money back for this
edition on grounds that this column is a re-run of a recount of a tragedy.
In November and December of 1988, I printed a series called "The
Sting." I
have been quoting myself ever since.
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal thought enough of the
material that he personally brought it to his editors, who printed part of
it.
Over the years, some credible voices joined my lonely howl. When he chaired
Common Cause Nevada, my late Sparks Tribune colleague in columny, Orland T.
Outland, took the issue to the Nevada Legislature. When he presented his
concerns to one committee, the scope of the hearing was immediately
narrowed. An interim study resulted, but not much changed.
Punchcard voting remains prone to error, manipulation and outright fraud.
My experience with the punchcard system began in a worst case scenario.
More than two decades ago, a couple of candidates and local officials
wanted me to investigate the Washoe County (Reno-Sparks) Nev., computer
count system because a lot of things didn't add up.
One candidate had his election recounted. A few chads fell out, but the
close election stood.
However, the computer consultants I hired sensitized me to everything you
see happening in south Florida right now.
I became so frustrated after that election, I took
Dear Abby's advice and
began to put my feelings in writing. More than 500 pages later, I finished
the book and moved on, leaving the second draft for some future time.
For more than two decades, I have collected horror stories and watched
easily avoidable errors repeat themselves.
Fortunately, most counties in Nevada and nationwide have moved away from
punchcards, a technology which has its roots in the earliest days of
computers and actually goes back to cloth-weaving looms!
Joseph P. Harris conceived of punchcard voting back in the 1920s as a cure
for the legendary fixed elections of Chicago and New York City. **
The cure may finally have proven worse than the disease.
Registrars of voters are understandably defensive about the security of
their systems, especially with an inquisitor like me.
During that long-ago punchcard recount, one of my consultants found my
behavior quite amusing.
"You've been swatting at gnats and swallowing camels," he chuckled.
Later,
he proceeded to show me many of the system's vulnerabilities to intrusion.
But could a handcount have caught vote-switching done by software intrusion?
Yes. However, in Washoe County's case, the actual election ballots were
stored in a poorly secured area in a room with plenty of blank, leftover
punchcards. Anyone could have entered the storage room by forcing the lock
with a credit card. Two guys with a thermos of coffee and some push pins
could have changed enough ballots over a weekend to conform the cards with
the election night computer count. There would have been plenty of time.
Legally, a recount couldn't take place until several weeks after the
election.
Back then, a lot of wiseguys made big macho bets on elections. One Gomorrah
South character told me that a deal had actually been shopped on the street
in Las Vegas: up to 8,000 votes for just $3,000. Untraceable, changed on
the computer count.
In this column of Nov. 25, 1988, I published a checklist of
computer-counted elections which had gone wrong resulting in huge numbers
of voters becoming "electronically disenfranchised."
For instance, in Orange County, Calif., in 1980, computers moved about
15,000 primary votes intended for either Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter to
Lyndon LaRouche or Jerry Brown.
In Missoula, Mont., in 1968, voters who thought they were voting for Hubert
Humphrey voted for Richard Nixon, and vice-versa. Sound familiar?
How hard is computer count fraud to trace? In 1988, the New Yorker magazine
reported on a study done by experts at Notre Dame University.
They "calculated that the number of possible programming pathways for a
program (to change the count) executed through a standard punchcard ballot
would be two to the nine-hundred-and-sixtieth power - a one followed by 228
zeros."
One Illinois election official estimated that testing all possible ballot
punch configurations would occupy 20 staff members full time for 477 years,
I noted in my 1988 series. ***
I have always believed that a computer punchcard election was stolen right
here in River City more than 20 years ago. Backchannels even identified the
name of the good soul who wrote the program.
He had been asked by his bosses to solve a challenging theoretical problem
and never knew to what nefarious use it would be put.
Because of the lack of security for the physical punchcards, all evidence
could have been destroyed weeks before the recount.
Do I think there's been criminality in Florida?
No.
But there exists such a damning case against punchcard voting that
handcounting original ballots is the only fair thing
to do with the
presidency on the line.
"Election officials and lawmakers need to take a long, hard look at
computerized election procedures and the laws governing them," I wrote a
dozen years ago.
The Barbwire Sting Files will never be closed as long as camels can still
get through the eye of this particular needle.
Take it from me, camels leave an awful aftertaste
which never really goes away.
Be well. Raise hell.
_________________
* Ronnie Dugger, "Annals of Democracy -- Counting Votes" The New
Yorker,
** Ibid. at 45.
*** Ibid. at 100, 102.
__________________
Andrew Barbano is a 31-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com
http://www.nevadalabor.com
where the past five years of columns may be accessed.
Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the
© 1988, 2000 Andrew Barbano
The Machine Raged On Me
Dear friends,
I just put a dollar bill in the soda pop machine.
The machine rejected my dollar bill!
Does that mean my dollar bill can no longer be counted as a dollar? After
all, the pop machine refused to accept it as a legal tender. But it IS a
dollar, regardless of what this machine says, right? If I go down to my local
bank, and demand that my dollar be counted as a valid American dollar, will
they say, "Sorry, but this dollar bill was rejected by a soft drink
machine
whose patent and machinery has been approved by various state and federal
agencies. It is your fault you did not insert your dollar properly. We cannot
deposit your dollar bill into your account!"
Huh. All because of a wrinkle in my dollar bill. Michael Moore
Proposed Model Legislation For
Every County In The US
By Jim Condit, Jr. <jconditjr@unidial.com
11-26-00
http://www.votefraud.org/home.html
As the Ruling Elite and their disgusting Big Media is attempting to close the
trap door on the American public regarding rigged elections. Here are the
elements of Model Legislation for voting procedures in each county and each
state. These will be posted in the Action Index on the votefraud.org website.
PLEASE NOTE: If any one can offer another provision to this 'model
legislation'...please do so by letter or email.
Here are elements of the model legislation:
1. Paper ballots, printed in English, easily read, to be marked in indelible
ink by the voter.
2. Ballots kept in a clear plastic box all day in full public view in a section
of the room where only the voter depositing his ballot can go, one time, to
deposit his ballot, under the observation at a distance by designated poll
watchers, whose job it is in part to observe that each voter deposits only one
ballot.
3. Ballot box opened and counted at closing time in the presence of all
competing factions who wish to observe, and in the presence of the 8 or so
citizens who have been chosen to do the counting.
4. Since there are about 200 to 250 ballots in the average precinct, we would
need 8 workers per precinct a team of two designated counters to handle 50 to
65 ballots each. Papers and pencils (as opposed to indelible markers which are
not to be allowed in the counting area) for tabulating the votes would be
provided by Board of Elections. The tally sheets to be used by the official
counters would be printed along with the ballots by the Board of Elections so
that the tally sheets match the ballots, as the tally sheets will be the
official evidence, and the official paper trail, signed by each of the official
counters who use them.
5. Ballot Counters for each precinct would be chosen from eligible voters in
the precinct a week in advance. After the Board of Elections had mailed a post
card to all eligible voters 30 days before the election date, which would
announce the time and place where the official counters for their precinct
would be chosen (probably exactly one week before election day at the same
place as where the precinct polling place will be on election day) -- all who
wanted to be eligible to be an official counter would show up or submit their
name in affidavit form at the designated time and place, to be put in a hat or
otherwise drawn by lot. Two citizens would be chosen for every 50 or so ballots
anticipated at that precinct. One of the eight official counter positions could
be reserved for High School Seniors or College students who are registered to
vote, and a separate drawing by lot could be conducted for that position. This
would be to prepare the next generation for how votes should be counted, so we
never get into this mess again.
6. The vote counters should each be paid $50 per hour for their work, so that
every regular citizen would want to be chosen; this would insure that normal
citizens, not government workers, would be counting the votes on election day as a rule. Alternative counters would also
be chosen in case one of more of the counters was sick or unexpectedly detained
on election night.
7. At closing time, when the ballots are counted, any citizens would be able to
observe with video cameras, but a deputy sheriff or national guardsman would be
there for the sole purpose of maintaining order and, in general, quiet during
the counting. (To the objection that this is too much like a military state,
the sheriff who provided the deputies would be up for election soon, and the
national guardsmen are regular citizens, not professional soldiers.
8. The tally sheets would be signed by the two official counters who did the
counting with that tally sheet. Then all the tally sheets would be added up a
by the precinct leaders designated by the Board of elections AND in the
presence of all those who counted the ballots at that precincts. Then the
precinct captains AND the 8 or so counters would all sign the master tally
sheet, which would have the complete results for the entire precinct Copies of
that tally sheet should be given to the two precinct captains AND all eight or
so counters.
9. Since all the counters and the election night precinct captains would sign
the results as true and valid for their section of the counting process; this
would give a legal basis and paper trail upon which the Board of Elections
director would sign the election results for that precinct -- as true.
10. All results would be posted at the precinct, before the ballots leave the
precinct. There would be a mandate to keep those results posted for 24 hours so
that any who wished to send representatives around to check the next day to
check all polling places, could do so. (With only 50 to 65 ballots to count per
counting team, the counting should be easily done in 2 1/2 hours, meaning the
unofficial count could be done by about
11. And then the ballots could be sent down town
accompanied by two of the neighborhood people, also chosen at the selection
process held a week or so before; those citizens who bring the box downtown,
would be paid $50 each for that service.
12. The ballots would be preserved for 1 year after the voting.
13. The postcards that were mailed out to each eligible voter 30 days in
advance would also double as the proof that the person WAS a legitimate
registered voter who actually lived in the precinct where they intended to
vote. If the postcard came back for any individual voter as undeliverable then
that person would be removed from the voting rolls. This means every voter
would have to be registered at least 30 days in advance, -- just like the old
days. This would effectively outlaw non-citizens and provisional ballots or
walk up voters who appear out of thin air on election day.
If a person doesn t care enough to register to vote 30
days in advance, they don't deserve to vote. If some one is caught in between
moves, that should statistically even out with everyone else caught between
moves on that election day.
14. All mail in and absentee ballots would be outlawed.
15. All computerized voting machines would be outlawed,
and especially computerized machines with modems in them; all mechanical voting
machines would be outlawed.
16. Any candidate could have a designated witness at the county board of
elections to see the county tabulate all the precincts. (This is very
important. With witnesses at many or even all the county precincts, and a
witness at county Board of Elections, it will make it impossible for the
results to be skewed at the county Board of Elections, in the way Voter News
Service skewed the results of Dubuque County during the GOP Iowa Straw poll in
1996.
The following legislative items would need to be implemented above the county level:
17. The military would have its own provisions for the enlisted men and women
to vote. Each military unit should constitute its own precinct, and count the
votes the same way as a normal precinct would in the neighborhoods.
18. Also, Tuesday, the election day, should be made a
national holiday, and maybe the Monday before -- so that everyone would have a
little time to get informed and lobby their neighbors.
19. The Secretary of State in each state would be designated to tabulate
thevote as called in or faxed in from each county for the state wide races. Any
three (or more) candidates in the state can ban together and designate a
witness to be at state headquarters to make sure the results aren t skewed at
that level. (It s important that any three candidates can ban together to do
this, so that these witness positions cannot be controlled by major party
designated hacks and yes men.
20. The US Senate would be charged with tabulating all
the vote for the US House races, the US Senate races, and the Presidential
race, when applicable.
Any federal candidate or candidates could elect to send a designated witness to
An afterthought: No wonder the Board of Elections cry
about not being able to find workers for election day. They workers are paid
minimum wage OR WORSE.
This for citizens doing the most important job in the American Republic -- who
are being asked to work 12 hours a day -- and more! When
thinking of compensating election workers and official counters at each
precinct this is no time to be in a penny pinching mood. You may just as
well say that we re going to give the Defense Department Civil War era weaponry
just to save taxpayers money.
The whole election day system as currently
constituted, as I see it, has been set up for no other reason that to make sure
that a small clique can have the greatest possible opportunity to steal and fix
the elections. The process is set up to keep the everyday citizen OUT of the
process and caught up in every day hustle and bustle.
The above prescriptions would change all that and make it very risky and
difficult to warp elections at all, and impossible to rig an election form a
central location in a county, a state, or in the nation as a whole.
Final note: Anyone convicted of election fraud at any level would suffer loss
of citizenship, and 10 years of jail for an offense in a state or county race,
and 20 years in jail for an offense in a federal election.
This is how serious a matter it should be to insure that we have
honest elections.
Jim Condit Jr., Director, Citizens for a Fair Vote Count
Note; This
is how Canada Votes! It does not take long and is accurate,
you have the stubs to recount if necessary.
Eggy
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Vote Fraud Links
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There is a whole site of vote fraud here! Bruce
Brass Check –
http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium/fraud.html
Mexican
Election just happens to turn US millionaires into billionaires????
http://www.fair.org/extra/9411/mexican-election.html
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/oct96herman.htm
Moscow
Times report http://www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/90.html
Vote
Fraud.org Lot’s of info here
Voting
Integrity Project
http://www.voting-integrity.org/
Bob
Dole’s Fraudulent election machine
http://www.perkel.com/politics/dole/cheat2.htm
Voter
Fraud LOT’s of links here
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/t1000202.htm
Lotsa
Linx, many countries listed here
http://www.find11.com/politics/election_fraud.shtml
Vote
Fraud in
http://www.hoffman-info.com/votefraud.html