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(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 [...]
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It’s The Ballot Count, Stupid! Florida Déjà Vu in Arizona
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”
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