VOTE FRAUD

They tell us that every vote counts, but they don't tell us who counts those votes.
Now they want to move us to electronic voting machines which leave no paper trail to trace for election fraud and irregularities.

And to top it off, even without outright fraud and theft in elections, electronic voting machines limit our choices and restrict democracy by eliminating the write-in candidate.

The time has come to vote for "None of the Above."

Tests of Electronic Balloting System Reveals Major Security Flaws
Electronic voting machines from Diebold Inc. have computer security and physical security problems that might allow corrupt insiders or determined outsiders to disrupt of even steal an election, according to a report presented to Maryland state legislators.

Electronic Voting Firm Hacked
A company developing encryption-based software for secure electronic voting has itself become the victim of a computer break-in, the company's top executive told MSNBC.com. Federal authorities have confirmed that the incident is under investigation.

Worst Technology of 2003: Paperless Voting
Internal documents from Diebold Election Systems, which has sold more than 33,000 AccuVote DRE machines, acknowledge that there have been security flaws, although the company denies that the flaws could allow a hacker to cast multiple votes or alter the votes of others, as critics suggest.

Fears of More U.S. Electoral Chaos After Flaws are Discovered in Ballot Computers
An investigation published in the Independent reveals that tens of thousands of touch screen voting machines may be less reliable than the old punchcards.

New Voting Technology Questioned
The computerized balloting that election officials long have touted as the wave of the future is under attack from scientists and computer experts who worry that computerized voting systems are vunerable to tampering and manipulation that could easily go undetected.

Jolted Over Electronic Voting Report's security warning shakes some states' trust.

More Calls to Vet Electronic Voting Machines A recent report that showed touch-screen voting machines could be vunerable to hackers spurred the National Association of Secretaries of State, a majority of whose members are in charge of their states' elections, to consider whether the standards for the machines should be beefed up to prevent tampering.

Suit Says Machines Missed 60,000 Votes in 2000 Race The votes of as many as 60,000 people in New York City may not have been counted in the 2000 presidential election because of an adjustment made to city voting machines back in 1964.

Voting Systems 'Can't be Trusted' Florida's voting snafus during the 2000 presidential election pale in comparison to the vunerabilities of high-tech voting machines.

Computer Voting is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, according to computer security researchers.

How to Rig an Election in the United States Computer voting machines have not only led to the death of the write-in candidate, but allow progammers to steal your vote for the candidate of their choosing.

Inquiry Call Over Lost Election Records Opposition councillors in Renfrewshire have called for an independent investigation into how election records came to be mislaid amid allegation of vote-rigging.

Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on Foreigners The data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.

Voting Machines Must Provide a Voter-Verifiable Audit Trail "Do not be seduced by the apparent convenience of 'touch-screen voting' machines, or the 'gee whiz' factor that accompanies flashy new technology. Using these machines is tantamount to handing complere control of vote counting to a private company, with no independent checks or audits. These machines represent a serious threat to democracy. Much better alternatives are available for upgrading voting equipment."

If You Want to Win An Election, Just Control the Voting Machines "This is a bigger story than Watergate ever was..."

Group Denounces Voting Accusations

South Dakota Probes Voter Fraud Complaints

Elections in America - Assume Crooks Are In Control

Nightmare Senario is Here - Computer Voting with No Paper Trail

The Impact of Voter Fraud in Close Elections

Tribune Offers Solution to Non-Verifiable Voting System

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