http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7111288Oh my.
kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 04:33 PM
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How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win
"In my opinion, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to make a secure touch screen voting system," Spoonamore said. "None. Secure systems are predicated on establishing securely the identity of every user of the system. Voting is predicated on being anonymous. It is impossible to have a system that does both. It is possible to design relatively secure optical scan machines, but even these can be hacked in even the best of cases. In the case of optical scan (systems where hand-marked paper ballots are scanned by computer counters) you have the ability to recount manually the paper ballot itself, and the ability to spot check the machines for errors against a sample of hand recounting."
How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win
By Steven Rosenfeld . Posted September 18, 2008.
An election whistleblower who is a Republican, a nationally known data security and computer architecture expert, and an Ohio resident has filed a sworn affidavit in federal court that describes how Republican Party consultants in 2004 built an electronic vote counting network in Ohio that could have stolen votes to re-elect the president.
The whistleblower, Stephen Spoonamore, who has run or held senior technology positions in six technology companies, and whose clients have included MasterCard, American Express, NBC-GE, and federal agencies including the State Department and the Navy, said Mike Connell, a longtime Republican Party computer networking contractor, "agrees that the electronic voting systems in the US are not secure" and told Spoonamore in 2007 "that he (Connell) is afraid some of the more ruthless partisans of the GOP may have exploited systems he in part worked on for this purpose."
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The affidavit, which goes onto describe how a statewide computer network and vote-counting system in part built by Connell's firms in 2004 could have been used to steal votes to re-elect George W. Bush in 2004's final battleground state. It was filed in a federal voting rights suit brought in 2006 that in part sought to preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election.
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On Election Night in 2004, the Ohio Secretary of State's website posting the official Ohio election results was hosted on Republican-controlled servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which also were home to many other Republican websites. According to Spoonamore this set-up "modified" more typical electronic vote counting networks, where local precincts would record individual votes and then send them to county tabulators, which in turn would send the countywide counts to a statewide tabulator.
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more at:
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/99337
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LaydeeBug (61 posts) Thu Sep-18-08 04:35 PM
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1. even if all of this were not the truth, NINE HOUR VOTING LINES ***IS*** unusual, if not suspect and those rat bastards will do it again and again. You see, we make the mistake of thinking they give a shit about the american people or what they (we) think.
The
kaput primitive, supermole or no, needs to do a little research, right there on Skins's island.
There appeared in November 2004 a prominent vote-fraud activist who was trying to raise money to prove that the Bostonian Billionaire, and not George Bush, won Ohio.
She enjoyed some success, and was only $10 short, when a comics-book publisher got her thrown off from Skins's island.
The comics-book publisher had a grudge against the prominent vote-fraud activist; he had tried to cheat her, and she wouldn't let him cheat her, and so he hated her.
Apparently the comics-book publisher's personal grudge was more important than the presidency of the United States.
She was only $10 short, too.
So every time the primitives moan about the Bostonian Billionaire not being in the White House, probably the primitives should blame one of their own, the comics-book publisher, the malicious cartoon character primitive.
