Unless something is done, the GOP will steal the next election as well. Unless something is done, this series of primaries means absolutely nothing. The fix is undoubtedly in. Unless something is done, the GOP will walk away with another stolen election, another GOP nincompoop will foist upon the nation his personal and vainglorious ambitions of empire. The Military/Industrial complex is licking its chops and theocrats are lining up to play Torquemada.
The following video was produced by Princeton University. It explains precisely how the votes are stolen and will be stolen again.
Princeton tested an AccuVote-TS which it obtained from a private party. The experiements were designed to determine whether the machine could be hacked under "real election practices", realistic scenarios in the real world. Princeton found the machine vulnerable to a number of "extremely serious attacks" that "undermine undermine the accuracy and credibility of the vote counts it produces." In other words, DieBold machines can be hacked and most have been.
Princeton points out that computer specialists are skeptical of Direct Recording Machines (DRE), essentially general purpose machines running specialized election software. The biggest flaw, according to Princeton, is that DREs are dependent upon the "correct and secure operation of complex software programs" In the real word, that simply does not happen. Ominously, DRE failures most likely go undetected.
Main Findings The main findings of our study are:
Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.
Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute. In practice, poll workers and others often have unsupervised access to the machines.
AccuVote-TS machines are susceptible to voting-machine viruses - computer viruses that can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly from machine to machine during normal pre-and post-election activity. We have constructed a demonstration virus that spreads in this way, installing our demonstration vote-stealing program on every machine it infects.
While some of these problems can be eliminated by improving Diebold's software, others cannot be remedied without replacing the machines' hardware. Changes to election procedures would also be required to ensure security.
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Abstract This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities - a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab. Mitigating these threats will require changes to the voting machine's hardware and software and the adoption of more rigorous election procedures.
Exit Polls: Obama Won New HampshireCorporations control America's elections with secrecy and criminal fraud. Your vote means absolutely nothing! American Democracy is dead! It's nothing less than an insidious corporate revolution, an insidious subversion by corporatist vote snatchers. In less tolerant times, such culprits might hang. Perhaps, they should today.
Once again there is an "unexplainable" and a highly improbable descrepancy between exit polling and balloting. According to New Hampshire exit polls, Barack Obama won the New Hampshire primary 39% to 35%. In every other count, the exit polls have been spot on! Once again, questions arise about the credibility of Diebold voting machine, indeed, the credibility of the electorial process itself.
Here are the exit poll results at 8:01 PM when the polls closed and here is a chart with the final tabulation.
With voting over in New Hampshire, the big network exit poll is out and according to Fox News it shows:
Len Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy
I am bowled over by how technology can make our our lives so easy and carefree! It seems that there is no crime with a difficulty level above one that cannot be streamlined with the appropriate technology!
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John Sanchez Jr. (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 1012 comments)
on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8:46:58 AM
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason. Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation. Last link (before Google Books bends to gov't Will and drops the title): http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
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Lorring II (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 86 comments)
on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 10:44:39 AM
"Princeton University Reveals How the GOP Steals Election"
IF they gave us these machines to vote on in Canada we would of been in the streets in a revolution long before they were ever used.
Why do you need a Princeton study understand this issue
paper ballots counted in front of the people is the only way
I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
Those states still using these fraudulent machines are selling the peoples vote to the candidates those politicians that do not come out against the system are as guilty as the guy who installs the malicious software
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dave stanley (5 articles, 1 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 286 comments)
on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 10:13:17 AM
These Republican Election Crooks think they can get away with stealing our Elections; I propose we do something about it. They still need campaign dollars and they canvass, and stump for donations. I think we can setup campaign booths, or Internet Ads, radio soliciting, Television, etc. and ask for money for the Republicans. When the money comes in say for John McCain or whoever we take the money and give it to Ron Paul, or Dennis Kucinich, or Mike Gravel. Who is going to check? They don't do recounts in voting, who is going to monitor where donations really go?
In my opinion it can't be stopped. No one will be able to trust another donation site or location again. Someone could claim an inside Republican mole siphoned off funds and delivered it to the Democatic Party, or any party for that matter, and whether it was true or not, doesn't matter. The point is it raises a serious issue, that donations can be scammed, and that the entire process is a sham, and scam.
The only way to assure donations get to the right people, would be to have Republicans agree to stop the election rigging, and when that happens a level of trust will develop and the election donation scams will stop.
Do you really know where your campaign donations go? Some big Corporations probably mail in their donations, but if the word gets out that even both sides are doing this, say the Republicans are really the reason to why Hillary won in New Hampshire and stumped for her in getting dollars, and instead of giving to her they pocketed the windfall, is a very good way to get people to take another look at where their dollars are really going.
People will begin to hold on to their money, and certainly the Republicans with dried up funds will take another look at their tactics in rigging elections.
This is war ladies and gentlemen as far as the imagination can see. We have no way of stopping election rigging, then let's do something to take away their funds, or get people to question whether giving to their guy is not some scam, so they end up not giving.
Dirty Tricks? Who is dirty? Throw mud, we throw gravel. There is a point where people have to do something to change the process. And if enough people start seeing that elections are scams, then certainly giving donations will bcome a scam in operation as well.
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Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 934 comments)
on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 4:51:47 AM
Corporations control America's elections with secrecy and criminal fraud. Your vote means absolutely nothing! American Democracy is dead! It's nothing less than an insidious corporate revolution, an insidious subversion by corporatist vote snatchers. In less tolerant times, such culprits might hang. Perhaps, they should today.
