‘Daily Voting News’ For July 31, 2006

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version. “Diebold has made the testing and certification process practically irrelevant,” according to Alan Dechert. “If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS — and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver.” …

  • NAtional: Worst Ever Security Flaw found In Diebold Touchscreen Voting Machine LINK
  • NAtional: Group identifies new flaws in Diebold evoting machines LINK
  • NAtional: Confusion Looms As Factor That Could Bedevil November 7 Election LINK
  • AR: Firm Promises Better Communication Before Next Election (ES&S) LINK
  • AZ: Pima County ““ County Arizona County Officials Mislead Voters (Diebold TSx) LINK
  • AZ: Yuma County – A Touchy Situation: Yuma county to use touchscreen voting in Sept. 12 primary (Diebold TSx) LINK
  • CA: San Diego County ““ Press Release – Election Contest Filed Demanding Accountability, Decertification, Paper Ballot Count of Busby/Bilbray Election in CA-50 LINK
  • CA: San Diego County ““ Election Contest To Be Filed In Busby/Bilbray Race Monday Morning!! LINK
  • CA: San Diego County – Election lawyer to file legal contest in California congressional race LINK
  • CA: San Diego County – Law suit seeks to toss out Bilbray election LINK
  • CA: San Diego County ““ Recount Demanded In 50th District Election LINK
  • CA: The Busby/Bilbray Election Contest Lawsuit… LINK
  • CO: Greely County – High-tech building now open to voters LINK
  • KS: Primaries to demonstrate changes in how Kansans vote LINK
  • OH: Geauga County – Photo ID required to vote in Ohio LINK
  • TN: Shelby County – Election Day looms for those who did not vote early LINK
  • TN: Shelby County – Record Breaking Election Year In Shelby County LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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    1. 1)
      Dredd said on 7/31/2006 @ 9:01pm PT: [Permalink]

      John, a machine wherein:

      “the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner compared to”

      sounds to me like a typical politician …

      So politicians are now being cloned ???

      Gives new meaning to political machine 8).

    2. 3)
      KestrelBrighteyes said on 8/1/2006 @ 6:49am PT: [Permalink]

      Oh but we’ve already been told that it would take a dishonest election worker with nefarious intent (and a screwdriver) to rig an election – and no such person exists!

      (pardon me, is my snark showing?)

    3. 6)
      Dredd said on 8/1/2006 @ 9:14am PT: [Permalink]

      Brian #5

      Having a statue made of the individual[s], and putting it/them up in DC? With an inscription at the base.

      So that school children can read the inscription at the bottom of the statue, 50 years from now, which might say:

      “These brave patriots removed the scurge from the land and returned democracy to the people.”

      It could happen.

    4. 8)
      big dan said on 8/1/2006 @ 2:12pm PT: [Permalink]

      OK, here’s what’s going to happen in the Santorum/Casey race. Right now, the GOP is floating talking points in the mainstream media, of how the Santorum campaign is helping the Green Party candidate, so it will take away votes from Casey. THIS IS FALSE, BUT WILL BE THE COMPLIANT MSM’S REASON FOR SANTORUM SQUEAKING BY CASEY BY 1%…AND THE COMPLICIT MSM WILL ONCE AGAIN IGNORE ELECTRONIC VOTE MACHINE FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!

      THAT’S IT…I FIGURED OUT SANTORUM AND THE GOP’S PLAN, AND I’M SURE OF IT!!! Santorum is a lock to lose, but invent a false story for the MSM to run with while suppressing the e-vote fraud stories…it’s actually a great plan, and it’s their ONLY plan, and I figured it out. That’s it, fab bloggers…that’s the Santorum campaign’s plan.

      The thing is, the Green Party in reality will NOT have enough votes to cause Santorum to win. BUT…the MSM will push that false story as the reason he wins, and once again, ignore e-vote fraud.

      You watch, I nailed it! They’re planting the seeds of this story RIGHT NOW! You hear it everyday in the MSM: “SANTORUM IS HELPING THE GREEN PARTY” “SANTORUM IS HELPIN THE GREEN PARTY” “SANTORUM IS HELPING THE GREEN PARTY”

      You will hear it from now until Nov. 2…and when Santorum steals the election via e-vote machines, it will be on the tip of everyone’s tongues thanks to the complicit MSM:

      “CASEY LOST BECAUSE OF THE GREEN PARTY”…(repeat after me) All the brain-dead idiots will repeat this sentence after it’s pounded and pounded into our brains, and the MSM has started it already!!!

    5. 9)
      big dan said on 8/1/2006 @ 2:13pm PT: [Permalink]

      Just like the now known-to-be false MSM stories: “more blacks voting for Bush in 2004” and “the youth get-out-the-vote didn’t work” both proven false, the MSM is “preparing” us for a Santorum victory, like they did with Bush well ahead of time. I know I’m right on this one…

    6. 10)
      big dan said on 8/1/2006 @ 3:00pm PT: [Permalink]

      Guess what I heard on the Hannity show on the way home? You guessed it! The Green Party taking enough votes in Pa. to swing the election for Santorum! The MSM “preparing” us for a Santorum theft has begun!!! Let’s start crunching some numbers to prove that the Green Party cannot garner enough votes to give Santorum a victory. It’s impossible. And I’m not against the Green Party, I was even thinking of switching to the Green Party. I’m just saying, that like all of the pre-2004 MSM “false flag” articles to prepare us for a Bush theft, they are now doing it with Santorum.

      Brad, you should add to your repetoire of articles, MSM stories that are planted just to “prepare” us for thefts.

      Like in 2004:

      “more blacks will vote for Bush”

      “more latinos will vote for Bush”

      “the youth get-out-the-vote was a flop”

      They are easy to detect, like the “Green Party took enough votes off Casey to allow Santorum to win”.

      This is like the false story that Ralph Nader caused Bush’s 2000 victory, which was just flat-out stolen. Also, expect MSM stories of how Ross Perot caused Bush I to lose. Just watch for them. I’ll point them out when I see them. I caught the “Santorum/Green Party” echo very quickly…it’s just started, but it’s full force, I’ve heard it everywhere I go, including Raw Story.

      Get “the reason” out ahead of time, that they can then say, “we’ve been saying this for 2 months”, instead of talking about e-vote fraud.

      And, we’ve all talked about this, if you KNOW e-vote is happening, it can happen in a Dem primary, and it can happen by adding votes to a Green Party candidate. The Green Party will be used as a “patsy” or “scapegoat”, and I’m sure they wouldn’t like that. The Green Party has done more to publicize e-vote fraud than the Dems have, and it’s genius to use the Green Party as a scapegoat…kill 2 birds with 1 stone…do you put it past the Rovians???

    7. 11)
      big dan said on 8/1/2006 @ 3:05pm PT: [Permalink]

      Here’s some others in the MSM:

      “the hurricanes helped Bush” (remember that one?)

      Here’s a brand new one I heard today:

      “the Israeli’s attacking Lebanon is helping the Republicans”…that I heard on the Sean Hannity show with his guest.

      I think we ALL have gone through this before in past brad posts, and we’re dropping the ball on pointing out the MSM stories “preparing” us for what’s going to happen…just like 2004. We were good at pointing it out AFTER the fact…let’s point it out BEFORE Nov.2, didn’t we learn this???

    8. 13)
      Arry said on 8/1/2006 @ 8:59pm PT: [Permalink]

      Big Dan — I think you’ve hit it. The first thing that strikes me about the MSM “coverage” is how very strange.

      I can see the Republicans may look into the matter (and probably find the tactic wouldn’t be worth much trouble), but to be a widespread story on the MSM? Strange, to say the least.

    9. 14)
      Arry said on 8/1/2006 @ 9:11pm PT: [Permalink]

      Big Dan — I don’t think I was clear. I mean the Republicans might look into how much they will gain from a Green candidate running – which would be negligable – but for the story to be widely broadcast, especially by Republican shills , etc. appears so strange as to be indicative of something else – and you probably hit on it.

    10. 15)
      big dan said on 8/2/2006 @ 4:43am PT: [Permalink]

      Arry: Yes, but they have “their reason” to float in the complicit MSM for when they hack Santorum to victory, I’m sure of it. Santorum is dead in the water. He’s consistenly 10% behind in the polls. Here’s how it went: They said, “If we hack this one, it will be to obvious. Let’s fabricate a ‘reason’ for Santorum winning when we hack it.” We need to crunch numbers and see how many votes 10% would be, based on previous Pa. elections, and then project if it’s possible the Green Party candidate could get that many, and I think it’s impossible.

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