- From: Eric A. Smith <snowdog@juno.ocn.ne.jp>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 04:52:22 +0900
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I'm writing today to ask for your help because I'm very, very frightenedYou've no doubt heard how unsafe evoting is: Software switched between testing and elections: http://www.exit.com/RiversideVoteTest/RiversideCountyTestObservationBoard.pdf Multiple victories by EXACTLY 18,811 votes -- in the same election, in the same state, at the same time: http://www.votewatch2002.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108&goto=nextnewest Felons secretly installing "updates" at the last minute before elections: http://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv/1216documents.pdf Microsoft Access (!) used as the database -- often with an ingenious password like (wait for it) "password"(!): http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm#password E-vote CEOs campaigning on a MASSIVE scale for candidates: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00084.htm http://www.dscc.org/information/stopvotingmachines_letter/ Politicians secretly owning companies counting THEIR OWN votes -- and lying about it: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx E-vote CEOs donating huge amounts of money to candidates: http://www.bartcop.com/diebold.htm Diebold machines infected with worms: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34175.html http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,88028,00.html ATM manufacturers switching to making e-vote machines -- but leaving OUT paper receipts: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031204.html Companies secretly "updating" voting machines with uncertified software on the eve of CA's recall election: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61637,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 If you find these stories the least bit alarming, you can personally do something about it today. We are organizing a group of programmers to help provide an open-source system for e-voting machines; you are hereby invited to offer your skills and take part in changing history. Stand up and fight for the vote. Your country needs you. sincerely, Eric A. Smith 81-03-3959-5371 snowdog@ocn.ne.jp Additional 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 vss@fec.gov (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 2,000 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
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