20 Nutty Voting Facts

Did you know....

from http://nightweed.com/

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry
.http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htmhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.htmlhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.
"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee
.http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htmhttp://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.htmlhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htmtp://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states
.http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland,indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.htm
lhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother
.http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.htmlhttp://uscountvotes.org/

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If This Doesn't Upset You, Nothing Will

"The United States does NOT torture."

Yeah, Right...

Oh, and God knows a Christian would NEVER hurt anyone.

OOPS! Wrong again!

Who's the Threat to Our Rights?

But, but...They're attacking our "freedom of speech"....

Preparing for More War

Well, it looks like the stage is being set for war in Iran now...

I'm certain that we'll hear more about "democratically elected leaders" and "free elections" in Iran as an impetus to more bloodshed. You know, last time Iran had "democratically elected leader" the US and Britain replaced him with a monarchy. Wasn't that long ago either.

Maybe this guy's story will shed some light on the current state of Iran/US relations. And maybe you can understand why some Iranians might think "bad" things about the US, and the West, for that matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossadegh

You Make A Dead Man Cum

We are being held hostage by "family oriented" audiences.
Go get 'em Keef!



The Rolling Stones were censored at the Super Bowl on Sunday. The line "you make a dead man cum" as well as the word "cock" were censored out of their internationally broadcast performance. According to the network, these words were not suitable for "family-oriented" audiences. Here are the offending lyrics from "Rough Justice" the best tune off the latest Stones record, "A Bigger Bang":

"One time you were my baby chicken,
Now you've grown into a fox,
And once upon a time I was your little rooster,
Am I just one of your cocks?"

Ironically, the next line:

"Put your lips to my hips
and tell me what's on your mind."

was deemed acceptable by "family-oriented audience" censors. The Stones closing number "Satisfaction", a song dealing mainly with sexual frustration and obsession, also was not considered offensive by the "family-oriented audience" guerrillas. Now, either they're too dumb to get it, or they are incredible hypocrites. I say, they're both!

I am enraged! How dare our freedom of speech be held hostage by these "family oriented" types! Are we going to just sit back and let these people dictate to us what we can and can't say or hear? You know, we're not all family oriented. Why must we kow tow to their taboos, and hang-ups? If they don't like these words, that's their problem. I mean don't they have a sense of humor? If Mick says that she makes a dead man cum, well goddammit, that's good enough for me. We live in a free society, don't we? You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, to whomever you want. I don't give a shit if some overly sensitive granny and her little rug rat grandchildren don't like it. It's the fucking Rolling Stones for chrissakes! Is nothing sacred? i mean who are these people anyway? These "family-oriented audiences"? Where are they, hiding in their little caves somewhere. I mean what a bunch of cowards. And we're supposed to just give in and let them pick a few random words that they don't like to steal from us like that? Not on my watch, they don't!

I therefore demand all newspapers in the free world print "you make a dead man cum" and "cock" over and over and over again to prove to these people that freedom of speech will not be compromised! I want to see fucking headlines in every country in the free world. All TV networks should broadcast the Stones playing "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice" in their ENTIRETY again and again until "family oriented audiences" understand that we mean business and will not stand for ANY limitation to our freedom. Any media outlet that does not immediately broadcast, print and/or publish "you make a dead man cum" and "cock" every day well into the next century is a loser, a disgrace and an apologist!!!!

You make dead man cum, cock, you make a dead man cum, cock, you make a dead man cum, cock.

See, I'm a freedom of speech activist now. That's the latest rallying cry isn't it? That's a cool one!

Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland


I'm participating in a conference here in Copenhagen this weekend. Giving a talk on Mother-Tongue development and second-language acquisition. Looks like I'll be going to Finland in March for another conference. May be presenting there as well...

Anyone ever been to Helsinki? Any suggestions on what to see, eat, do?

I listen to this whenever I can...

Maybe that's my problem