1. Ohio to recommend buying uncertified Diebold product? Diebold has decided to sell its new TSx touch screen system to Ohio. Problem is, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer: THIS SYSTEM HAS NEVER BEEN CERTIFIED! The counties must buy the machines in four weeks. No worries, Diebold says it hopes it will have certification in 4-5 weeks. (Huh?)
More on this: Gee, is it true then, that the system the Hopkins scientists studied was old and out of date? Well, consider this: One of the folders on the infamous FTP site was -- you guessed it -- labeled "final certification" documents for the TSx system. In these documents is the very interesting statement under "change log" -- they said they did not need to submit a change log because it is based on a previous submission. So...were there changes or weren't there?
In fact, have they ever produced a lick of evidence that they changed a goll-durn thing to remedy the flaws found in the Hopkins report?
2. With the new TSx system, Diebold is switching to WIRELESS transmission of the voting data. Have they answered one single question about whether this can be hacked? (Understand the implications of hacking during transmission of the vote to the county: You can overwrite the ORIGINAL VOTES in the precinct this way, destroying the value of the memory card as a backup system).
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6538203.htm
and
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6538170.htm
Well yes, they did answer a question about being hacked. They basically admitted that it could happen. No worry, says Diebold spokesman in an article by Erika D. Smith in the Akron Beacon News -- hackers wouldn't get the official results, only the unofficial results. It takes several days to make the results official, he says. And to make them official they do what -- look at the memory card (which can be hacked) and/or the GEMS database (which can be hacked). (In fact a hacker could hit both at the same time, during the upload). I feel secure now.
3. Ohio delays decision to pick voting machine vendor, until -- you guessed it -- defense contractor SAIC gives Diebold a clean bill of health. The SAIC has not one, not two, but THREE ties to the electronic voting indusry:
1) Built voting machines for Diversified Dynamics
2) Marketed electronic voter registration system
3) Two former directors of SAIC are now directors of VoteHere, a voting machine company.
4. Yes, and you'll be delighted to know that Georgia not only lost some of its memory cards (containing thousands of votes) in the 2002 election, but now it can't find its certification documents. That's right folks, Georgia doesn't seem to be able to locate the certification letter for the Diebold machines. Wait -- new answer -- they just announced they are not sure what is meant by "certification" documents.
Can these people get any more arrogant?
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5. Where's Bob? Well once there were two brothers named Bob and Todd. They started a company -- voting machine, company, that is. Then Bob went down to Texas, and got in charge of another company -- voting machine, company, that is. Bob and Todd, and Diebold and ES&S;, soon had 80 percent of America voting on their machines.
But now where's Bob? Haven't heard hide nor hair of him. He always comes into news interviews as the President of Diebold Election Systems, but as of the end of July, it seems someone else is using that title. Meet Tom Swidarski, President of Diebold Election Systems. Not a peep anywhere in the news media about where Bob is. Bob? Oh Bobbbb! What happened to Bob Urosevich?
Prior to programming for and taking over Diebold Election Systems, Urosevich programmed for and was CEO of Election Systems & Software (ES&S;), which counts 56 percent of the votes in the United States. When Urosevich left ES&S;, Chuck Hagel took his position. (Hagel then ran for the U.S. Senate, with ES&S; machines counting his own votes, but failed to disclose that he had been both CEO and Chairman of ES&S; on his disclosure documents).
Bob Urosevich, together with his brother Todd, founded ES&S.; Bob then went to run Diebold, while Todd still is a Vice President at ES&S.; Diebold and ES&S;, together, count about 80 percent of the votes in the United States.
(After Note from votefraud.org: while it is not at hand, we believe researchers will find that Star Bank and US Bank were run also by two brothers -- and finally these two banks merged and became US Bank. The Big Newsmedia keeps the American people completely in the dark about these agressive moves towards financial dictatorship by a very few people. Of course, we say "aggressive moves" because such rapid consolidation would not be possible without the backing of the international banksters running the Federal Reserve System -- which grants unlimited credit to their appointed operatives so that one industry after another can be gobbled up by this power-mad Ruling Elite.) Source: Votefraud.org
NOTE:
Bob Urosevich is the CEO of Diebold Election Systems. Urosevich created the original software architecture for Diebold Election Systems, and his original company, called I-Mark Systems, can be found in the source code signatures.
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