Posted on 23 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Arizona, Bill Risner, Dr. John Moffat, election rigging, Mickey Duniho, Pima County, Pima County Democratic Party attorney
(Reprise article) For 36-hours, Pima County’s Democratic Party was led on a chase that would have either made The French Connection’s Popeye Doyle proud or retch in disgust.
A computer hard-drive purchased by the party containing court-ordered copies of 1,300 Diebold GEMS election databases dating back to 2002, sat sealed in a the Superior Court basement vault [...]
Posted on 23 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: $2-billion RTA highways measure, 000 counties use machines, 000 early and mail-in ballots scanned in the system, 2003 fund raising letter, 2007 top to bottom review of all voting machines, 3rd rail for state officials, 5, 70 memory cards failed, 8, ability to print complete election summary reports, accuracy, accurately counting 100-million votes, actual election data, actual votes cast, again?, allow anyone to manipulate results, Americans United for Democracy Integrity and Transparen, Anyone can create the result they wish to see, Arizona, Arizona native son John McCain, Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer, as ballots come in, asked questions about broken seals and ballot handling, AUDIT AZ, AZ civil election law, ballot machine audit tapes, between January 2004 and 2006 every election had someon, Bev Harris, Bill Risner, BlackBoxVoting.org, blatant internal manipulation possible, brief expanded to include voting systems, broken election system, Bryan Crane, CA Secretary of State Deborah Bowen, cards store ballots scanned, citizen public information requests, Comedian George Carlin, company known for bank cash machines, computer code, conspiracy theorists, database manipulation, databases, definitive election result, déjà vu, disappear from their website, disputes AUDIT AZ’s claims, downloaded it and with a team of scientists saw how rid, Dr. John Moffat, dumbfounded at the outcome, early voting, Election officials, election officials printed two copies of the Election S, elections stolen without a trace, Elections Unit, elite Bush fund-raiser, Emmy-Award nominated HBO documentary film “Hacking Demo, even worse, every security flaw our group reported was there, every vendor’s machines failed, ex-aerospace engineer, federal government standards ignored, Film producer, findings can only be confirmed by hand re-count of the, Finnish computer scientist, Florida, flummoxed why Attorney General Terry Goddard refuses to, for whom, forensic accounting trail, former CEO Walden O'Dell, fought every scrap of information, found irregularities, gaping back-door data holes, GEMS tabulation system, GEMS’ foundation program for calculating results, General Election, George W. Bush, hacked scanner memory cards, half of US counties use Diebold GEMS tabulation system, hand count audit of the AZ Primary Election, hard election data, Harri Hursti, how many ballots were cast, Hursti manipulated a memory card, if someone of moderate technical ability tried the Hurs, illegal to view, intensely divided, interim reports. official excuse... laziness. purchased, Jim March, John R. Brakey, Katherine Harris, last-minute external pressure strategically placed to s, lawsuits, lax data security, limit ballot challenges, live, mad rush to sell systems, made their own party sue them, manipulate enough memory cards to affect a result, manipulating a crop scanner’s memory card, mansion in Columbus’ Upper Arlington suburb, marathon 18+ hour long day, May 2006, Microsoft Access Programmer’s Manual, mistrustful, MS Access, needed the assurance of security, network cables into room off the main tabulation room., no controls, no sign out procedures, not Democrat vs. Republican, not enough care taken to protect data, Office of Strategic Technology Planning, officially registered Democratic and Libertarian Party, Ohio Republican Party, on-camera experiment, ordered arrested in Tucson, otherwise share this report, O’Dell "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral, partisan, personal invitations fund-raiser, Pima County, Pima County Democratic Party attorney, placed in sealed envelopes, polarised, pored over the data, preliminary totals, prima facie case for looking into possible problems, print, pro vs. anti-development, procedures, produced correct total number of ballots scanned, proprietary and secret, pushed All-In, removed as chairman in 2005, removed from machines, renamed it twice, report is valuable, revelations of improprieties during his tenure, rubber stamp, Russell Michaels, save time, sent to County offices after polls close, showed Counties back-door ‘tricks’ to get around system, software code, spit out a vote count radically different from that of, standards and training barebones at best, state chair Bush-Cheney 2000 and 2004, State Rep. Ted Downing, summer of 2005, Supervisor of Elections, system design, system logs via court order, systems repeatedly failed basic security tests, systems will undergo strain, table creation/manipulation, transparency, unable to sell it, uncovered election fraud, uncovering vote machine/county worker fraud, under increased time pressure, Vendors, was until BlackBoxVoting.org’s Bev Harris found it sitt, what happened, where, wipe it on flaming wood, worry about ballot security, Zogby poll from hell, ‘illusion’ of Ballot Box security, ‘Rangers and Pioneers’, “Hursti hack”
(Reprise article)
(Pictured L to R: Jim March, Bill Risner, John R. Brakey of AUDIT AZ)
Millions will soon begin early voting in the General Election. Nearly half of all US counties will use Diebold GEMS tabulation system. Election officials have the ability to print off complete election summary reports throughout voting as ballots come in. This [...]
Posted on 14 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 50-hours of time, 500 words, a joy, alive and well in Tucson, Arizona, AUDIT AZ, bigger than Wasilla, broke the “So Sambo beat the bitch” story that ran worl, challenges facing us, Charley James, Charley much recently maligned former Business Week pro, Citizen Mickey and his small band to thank, committed citizens can change the world Indeed it is th, correctly counted vs. some computer hacking thief, Dani was Mayor, decided by your vote, Dorret Groot Wassink, EF Hutton telly commercials, election rigging, ensure this election is a test between two candidates, FOX News uses the slogan “Fair and Balanced” like a bir, good old-fashioned leg work, I was the ever grateful student, journalism has been reduced to 2 opposing quotes front, Laurel MD, Margaret Mead, Michael Duniho, Mickey, more faith in her on any ticket, National Security Agency, no such agency, NSA, passionate local activism, pattern of racism and cronyism, people listen, Pima County, real news instead of the noise passing for news, Reporters are lazy, Sarah Palin, thoughtful writers, Tucson, UK and most of the US, when EF Hutton talks, without a shred of truth
As a journalist the story intrigued, as a citizen it outraged.
For seven years Michael Duniho, a quiet, determined and dignified man had been sending quarterly or so e-mails, quietly seething about the conduct of elections in his new home of Tucson (Pima County), Arizona. Though I never have, Michael, (we all call him Mickey) has [...]
Posted on 08 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s, 57 contests, acceptance speech, Arizona, battle scarred and tested candidate, Carly Fiorina, Chicago, Democratic Party brain trust, desperate to chink away at Obama’s armour, Eddie Murphy, foreign trip, former hp CEO, gaffes, Gallup, game on, global audience of millions, handled with kid gloves, hitting solid line drives up the middle, in red states, John Kerry, John McCain, July leaders have lost six of the last nine contests, Karl Rove double standard attack politics, Libertarian/conservative Bob Barr, looks tougher, maintaining his lead. VP selection, Meet Dave, moves forward, moving to the centre, never takes his eye off the prize, obama, old every day, one-sided, outdoor 75, Pepsi Centre, public finance system, punchline too late, Ralph who?, Republican attack bullets, respond a second or so behind, robot, Ross Perot’s 10% in ’92, running mate, scoring runs, senior citizen, siphons from McCain, sloppy national reporting, smile too forced, solid Obama leads, stays the course, Straight Talk Express, stronger, Swift Boat Friends, team of tiny robot operators, the media, the world will clamour to greet him, tired, toe-to-toe with Billary, younger, Zogby, ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
It has been a silly-season weekend where Senator McCain and poor, sloppy national reporting made a non flip-flop from Barack Obama the weekend lead attack and pushed Senator McCain’s own acceptance of $69,100 in funds from the same Swift Boat group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 and which he denounced disappear from the headlines. [...]
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