
Source: Prison Planet
by Paul Joseph Watson
Major allegations of vote fraud in New Hampshire are circulating after Hillary Clinton reversed a mammoth pre-polling deficit to defeat Barack Obama with the aid of Diebold electronic voting machines, while confirmed votes for Ron Paul in the Sutton district were not even counted.
According to a voter in Sutton, New Hampshire, three of her family members voted for Ron Paul, yet when she checked the voting map on the Politico website, the total votes for Ron Paul were zero.
With 100% of precincts now reporting, the map still says zero votes for Ron Paul as you can see below.
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It’s not as if Sutton had a handful of voters like some other districts – a total of 386 people voted yet we are led to believe that not one voted for Ron Paul? Judging by the Iowa results, around 10% of residents would be expected to vote for the Congressman, returning a total of around 38 votes in this district. Let’s be ultra-conservative and say just 5% support Paul – he’d still get 19 votes – but he got absolutely none whatsoever. Is there something wrong with this picture?
Greenville also tallied 144 votes yet not one for Congressman Paul.
Anyone else in Sutton who voted for Ron Paul needs to go public immediately with the charge of vote fraud and make it known that they were cheated out of their right to vote.
Diebold voting machines also did Congressman Paul no favors last night – compared to hand counted ballots Giuliani gained just short of 0.5% from electronic voting whereas Paul lost over 2%, which was the difference between finishing 4th and 5th, as this graph documents.
Mitt Romney profited the most from the Diebold swing, he received 7% more votes compared to hand counted ballots.
In the Democratic race the Diebold voting machines clearly swung the primary in Hillary Clinton’s favor at the expense of Barack Obama, who had a commanding lead over the New York Senator going into the contest.
Zogby polling numbers had Obama leading Clinton by a whopping 42/29 per cent, yet Clinton eventually took the primary by three per cent.
“If I was Barack Obama, I’d certainly not have conceded this election this quickly,” writes The Brad Blog. “I’m not quite sure what he was thinking. And as far as offering an indication of whether he understands how these systems work, and the necessity of making sure that votes are counted, and counted accurately, it does not offer a great deal of confidence at this hour.”
“While I have no evidence at this time — let me repeat, no evidence at this time — of chicanery, what we do know is that chicanery, with this particular voting system, is not particularly difficult. Particularly when one private company — and a less-than-respectable one at that, as I detailed in the previous post — runs the entire process.”
Clinton would not have beat Obama without the aid of Diebold voting machines. In precincts where electronic voting machines were used, Clinton got a 7% swing over Obama, having gained 5% in comparison to hand-counted ballots and Obama losing 2%.
As we reported yesterday, the contract for programming all of New Hampshire’s Diebold voting machines, which combined counted 81 per cent of the vote yesterday, is owned by LHS Associates, whose owner John Silvestro has gone to great lengths to deflect accusations that the machines can easily be rigged.
After purchasing a Diebold 1.94w machine, the same system used in New Hampshire, a computer repair shop employee picked at random by Black Box Voting was able to zero in on the system’s vulnerable memory card within just ten minutes. Hacking expert Harri Hursti testified in front of the New Hampshire legislature that the machines were wide open to fraud.
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Check this out………something is wrong in paradise. We need answers.
LISTEN UP PEOPLE! I am a computer programmer. I consult for banks.
E-Voting machines (touch screen and optical scan)can easily be compromised to change votes. A voting system requiring a website can easily be compromised to change votes.
The software program controls electronic voting machines, both touch screen and optical scan. Using touch screen as an example, software dictates the text displayed on the screen, keeps a running count for each candidate’s votes, and dictates what is printed for a paper trail (a virus is software too).
The software can display an option for Obama. Voter selects Obama. The software program can give the vote to Clinton’s total count, yet the program can still print out Obama’s name for the paper trail (or even Ron Paul’s name if the programmer coded it that way). The voter looks at the paper receipt unaware his vote was robbed!
To borrow from a past political advisor, “IT’S THE SOFTWARE STUPID”.
In fact, we should all be coining the phrase “SOFTWARE VOTING” instead of e-voting, because this term addresses the vulnerability found in ANY type of software voting system, be it touch screen e-voiting machines, optical scan e-voting machines, or a solution requiring a website to process votes.
Don’t make the mistake of associating the reliability of e-voting machines to ATMs. This is apples and oranges. Does anyone have any idea how much money and security is used to protect software running banks? I do.
Banking software is protected at all times, 24/7, by highly skilled teams of computer techs, not to mention the custom layers of security software installed, authentication and authorization protocols used in the code, encryption, auditing trail etc. to protect all data. In other words, not one second passes that is not monitored and logged for auditing. This does not exist for e-voting machines.
The Help America Vote Act has already been signed into law by President George W. Bush in Oct 2002. It is a federal mandate that forces all states to accept e-voting machines, but it contains no federal mandate for a paper back-up.
ALL CONCERNED VOTERS NEED TO GOOGLE TO READ, Papering Over OptiScam Problems, by Rady Anada, which was posted on the internet Jan 6 2008. It is a detailed response to the New York Times Sunday Magazine Jan 6 2008 article, Can You Count on These Machines? She states during the May 2006 primary in Cuyahoga County Ohio, 28 voting machines went “missing” and 200 memory cards went “missing”.
Google to read article, Florida Report Spurs Growing Distrust of E-Voting Machines, from TechNewsWorld, posted Aug 1 2007, by Erika Morphy. Regarding Florida and CA studies of e-voting machines, notice a technical expert states, “we have to continue to do what we can to make these systems as secure as possible…But in the end they will never be completely secure”. Also, law experts recommend a count of paper ballots to verify e-voting machines — optical scan or otherwise.
Google to read article, Princeton Researchers Hack Diebold E-Voting Machine, by Michael Hoffman, Sept 14 2006, about UNDETECTABLE TAMPERING OF VOTE COUNTS using a computer virus. A more recent article concerning undetectable vote tampering is titled, Voting machine flaw found, by Mark Caputo of the Miami Herald, posted Aug 1 2007.
A website solution, such as the one posted by New York Times Op-Ed Contributor William Poundstone, published Jan 7 2008, titled “A Paper Trail for Voting Machines”, is still creating a connection between ELECTION RESULTS and SOFTWARE.
I’m certainly puzzled how Poundstone’s solution would be LESS confusing for voters than using a punch card ballot. Excuse me but, wasn’t the drive towards electronic voting machines propelled by confused voters in Florida with the use of punch card ballots (hanging, dimpled pregnant chads)? Wasn’t part of the drive that took the election to the courts due to disenfranchised voters who could not understand ballot instuctions? If voting officials in Florida came to a consensus that instructions to use a punch card ballot were too challenging, how will written instructions for the website implementation in “A Paper Trail for Voting Machines” be accomplished?
Furthermore, there is not enough time to complete the web program, test it for accuracy, set up internet security protocols (who will be footing the bill for real time 24/7 computer specialists to monitor the website for attacks by either the opposing political party, or another country?), approve it with studies by overseeing organizations, approve it in the courts, before the Nov election, let alone the primaries.
Finally, Poundstone’s solution would just be begging for law suits in every state by activists and voters who will feel their vote was not counted. DON’T OPEN A WAY TO LEAVE IT UP TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE VOTE AND THE PRESIDENT AGAIN.
The possibility of paper ballot fraud doesn’t even compare in scope and magnitude to the ease with which tens of thousands of votes can be changed in just seconds by any of these options that involve software (not a complete list):
1) using a computer virus to change votes on voting machines, and potentially leave no trace
2) delibrately writing the software program running a voting machine to favor certain candidates
3) delibrately writing a web program used in processing voting results to favor certain candidates
4) missing or substituted memory cards from the voting machines (as happened in Ohio)
5) it doesn’t matter that the evoting machines do not have wireless and are not connected to each other(networked together). Poll workers take the memory modules that contain the votes to a computer (like digital cameras). The computer reads the data to count the votes. Bing0 – ELECTION RESULTS in contact with SOFTWARE! There could be any kind of software program on those computers counting the votes. Who would know?
6) hacking a website that is being used to determine election results, if this type of voting system is used
7) even a simple MAGNET CAN ALTER VOTES. “But in tests, researchers in Ohio and Colorado found that electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or with Treos and other similar handheld devices.” Taken froom “Electronic Voting is Questioned” by George Merritt, posted on washingtonpost.com Dec 31 2007. In that article, who is defending software voting systems? The vendors of the voting machines of course!
Indeed, the whole outcome of an election can be rigged in a few seconds of CPU time, and go undetected. You do not need a complex consipiracy to accomplish software voting fraud.
The person we elect for President will have major repercussions for our country and the world. We should not be entertaining any system of voting that has any capability of altering tens of thousands of votes, in seconds, and not leave a trace.
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO TAKE “SOFTWARE” OUT OF THE VOTING PROCESS !!!!!
WE MUST USE PAPER BALLOTS, HAND COUNTED, TO PRESERVE OUR VOTES !!!!
Common sense please. How much time would it really take to get paper ballots printed, even for these crucial primaries? How much training time is needed to teach a poll worker how to count paper ballots?
TO RON PAUL VOTERS. Ron Paul’s chances will be slim if nothing is done to stop the use of SOFTWARE VOTING (touch screen, optical scan, or use of a website) before upcomming primaries !!!!
TO DEMOCRATS. Are you really going to trust a SOFTWARE VOTING SYSTEM and potentially leave open an opportunity for another dubious election result? Or worse yet, lost the presidency again in the Supreme Court?
DON’T LET SOFTWARE CONTROL THE VOTES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is a problem that has been around since 2000 and not one Democrat has raised any real opposition to it. I’m just glad New York hasn’t brought these damn machines.
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will something be done about this? or is there something already being done about it??