UPDATE: Todays news has a current story of voting harrassment :
Ryan J. Reilly | October 21, 2010,
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...
When Maureen Haver went to the polls in Moody Park -- a historically Hispanic neighborhood in Houston -- she saw three poll watchers. She told TPMMuckraker that she recognized one of the poll watchers as a member of the Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots. There were two others that were talking about the Tea Party, she added.
TPM reports "The two poll watchers hovered behind, and then after the poll worker left to let the woman vote, both of the poll watchers stood behind this woman the entire time while she was voting," Haver explained.
"We think the August 2010 lawbreakers in TN were practicing for November's Midterm elections in an anti-democracy takeover!" Anticipate that "Database wars" will delay the results and in fact halt the counts.
There are No plans from either party to Keep Elections and Voting legal.
Election Integrity is only non-partisan when the thieves are bi-partisan, so far it is only Republicans who have been caught compromising computers.
Privatization of the Election Machinery has given a few Thieves, Liars and Crooks complete control of the elections.
(Duh, Who needs a Chain of Custody of flash drives or computer results?)
Instead, there have often been violations in all jurisdictions.
COMPUTER DISKS LEFT OUT, SEALS BROKEN ON MACHINES, UPLOADS and DOWNLOADS via Internet DURING VOTING.
Why is this evil unnoticed by MainStreamMedia (even MSNBC) as yet.
(listen to the mp3 file)
http://bradblog.com/...
Now the outcome of elections depends entirely on whoever controls the voter lists: who can vote, where, who voted (prove you didn't), and one or two private computer processing companies giving accurate results. "We think the August 2010 lawbreakers in TN were practicing for November's Midterm elections in an anti-democracy takeover!" Anticipate that "Database wars" will delay the results and in fact halt the counts.
There are No plans from either party to Keep Elections and Voting legal.
Why bother with messy democratic elections that don’t turn out “Correctly”?
Why is no one outraged at lawbreaking by partisan owners of Election Machinery, local election officials and judges?
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http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/81227.html?1286731828
Bev Harris
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Best of Black Box?
Votes: 5 (A keeper)
Posted on Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 7:24 pm:
A ten-candidate lawsuit was dismissed today in Memphis. Most of the evidence was never presented at all, nor were any of the key witnesses called to testify in court, save one: Julie Anne Kempf, who delivered powerful testimony about failure to follow the most basic election safeguards.
- A so-called "CPA report" created for the election commission, containing no names of any individuals or company, based on results that according to the Elections Commission's own expert were "nonexistent", cites the inability to reconcile 11 of the precincts examined. They only examined 10 percent of Shelby County's 236 precincts, which would be 23; extrapolating that, nearly half of all precincts examined could not be reconciled.
This was not delved into at trial.
- An informant named John Doe, an employee of the elections division, had come forward with grave concerns about the voter list placed on the electronic pollbooks. He urged investigators to get copies of the compact flash cards - CF cards - that had placed in the pollbooks. Getting those cards would get at the truth, he said.
But after nearly two months of litigating, Shelby County delivered approximately 2.5 terrabytes of information one day before the trial began. 2.5 terrabytes works out to about 833 million pages of text documents, or half a million music files loaded onto your ipod. But in all this 2.5 terrabytes of mostly useless and sometimes inaccessible or corrupted data, Shelby County could not come up with a data dump from one single CF card, despite being ordered by the court to do so.
This was not delved into at trial.
A vendor, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), directly accessed the voter data on Election Day, and had physical custody of the GEMS election databases which ultimately control the votes, but refused to testify or answer any questions. No subpoena would be honored, it was explained, because the vendor was out of state.
This was not delved into at trial.
Not much was delved into at trial. It's not politically expedient for either party to do much delving.
So follow along during the next few months, because at Black Box Voting, we delve. The truth has been suppressed in Memphis. It will be told.
The Blackboxvoting.ORG website discusses the findings in SHelby County, TN, which is Memphis.
They found signed legal documents, (poll tapes) in the garbage, other violations were documented.
A lawsuit filed by 10 candidates was dismissed by a judge who did not hear the evidence.
Bev Harris tells Brad Friedman on the radio show that "we should prepare for " Database Wars" in November. There are many ways of subverting the election.
The August election in Memphis created 3000+ voterless Republican votes and removed people in Democratic districts from the Polling lists by claiming they already voted when they hadn't.
If people knew as much about election security as they know about crime scenes, we would probably realize just how big this contamination of the National Election Crime "SCENE" is happening all over the USA.
Would American citizens really care?
Government's ONE NECESSARY FUNCTION has been sold to the highest bidder.
Monopoly at work:
ONE Company bought up all the others (voting machine makers)
No one can look at the SOFTWARE.
Like Fracking liquids injected into our water supplies, the private company
refuses to reveal their “proprietary” information, in the case of our elections
it is voting software, unsupervised by anyone except partisans.
No one knows if it has errors or deliberate problems.
ONE processing company in Florida runs the results from several states.
This company has one manager who paid fines for securities fraud in the past.
Why has NOTHING been done about the Hacking that has been proven?
Why is our election software still secret?
Why are legal safeguards such as signatures of the voters no longer required?
Why is the machinery owned by ONE monopolistic company?
Why is the internet being accessed illegally during voting and no one cares?
Did this begin with Diebold head who claimed (to a private Republican Audience) he could deliver the anti-Gore election for GWB??Is this still the part of Nixon's original plan to build a "Permanent Majority"?
Is it true that Newt is back because the means is finally at hand to have the majority at the cost of subverting democracy, the dream of Republicans since Nixon?
How long has this takeover been planned?
How long before we realize and fix this fundamental problem of democracy???
Conservative phonies creating Circus SIDESHOWS to fill the NEWS with garbage, covering over ACTUAL Realtime PRIMARY ELECTION MANIPULATION/THEFT.
with the fluff about Acorn, Fake outrage over non-existant voter id problems ( THERE are NO documented cases of someone voting with fake registration info)
Nonsensical (but mean) Hot Babes (pretending to be empty-headed of course, in the fifties the only feminist strategy in male organizations)
Hired for hogging the news, and saying outrageous things, thugs and thieves and slippery lying fakers with ideologies but no practical experience.
But one skill: grabbing the Airwaves and Headlines and the attention of much “smarter” folks who naively and gamely take them seriously.
Several recent stories:
A Professor/hacker from UMich challenged to penetrate Internet voting protections in DC was able to break into the internet voting system.
Another suspicious incident: 10 thousand of these unverifiable voting machines were destroyed in Texas, recently.
Now there might be no voting machines available at all, and chain of custody of flash drive cards, electronic results records, will be impossible to maintain.