My copies en italics like  (c_R030504a_25.pdf) have still to be made !!

 Object    [TheFalloutShelter] Here is a list of links to many articles on Voting machines
 Date:     Sat, 3 May 2003 11:55:57 -0400
 De:     "Mike Hersh" <mikehersh.com@verizon.net>
 Répondre-A: TheFalloutShelter@yahoogroups.com
 Société:    MikeHersh.com
 A:       <Political_Sanity@smartgroups.com>

Note: these links may need editing – the email I received was a mess

Apparently compiled by Lynn Landes / Dem-CA@yahoogroups.com

  Voting machines conceal critical parts of the voting process which must be observable in order to ensure honest elections. Therefore, any and all voting machines should be unconstitutional. The most successful coup is one that few notice. Over the last 100 years Americans have slowly but surely surrendered our public voting process to private corporations and their voting machines... in violation of our constitutional right to fair, open, and observable elections. The price paid has been the legitimacy of our democracy.

 Voting machines can be easily rigged and impossible to monitor. They are sold and serviced by a handful of private companies dominated by active and wealthy members of the Republican Party. The use of voting machines should be unconstitutional, but Congress has failed to act... except to pass laws that give billions for voting machines, while failing to require any mandatory standards. Meanwhile, misguided voting rights groups are suing for the right to use the latest most sophisticated computerized voting equipment... that are the easiest to rig by the fewest number of technicians.

In the last several decades the rich have gotten richer and the poor poorer. This is not a formula for a
conservative groundswell. Yet, both conservative Democrats and Republicans have long enjoyed success at the polls. Have elections in America been rigged to shift power to right wing candidates from both parties, despite the public's support of left-wing causes such as universal health care, quality public education, a clean environment, and a living wage? In the secretive world of voting machines... anything is possible. (See: Nov 12, 2002
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S0 0078.htm (c_R030504a_1.pdf)

American Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs. Actuals by Alastair Thompson of Scoop)
        http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineErrors.htm (c_R030504a_2.pdf)

Bev Harris is the lead investigator on voting machine ownership and errors. She will soon publish a book on the subject - http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ Black Box Voting

The only legal option to voting machines - go back to hand-cast-hand-counted paper ballots. Paper ballots cast early, absentee, or by-mail may still be counted by machine, however they do leave a paper trail and may also be the only way to protest the use of voting machines and "business-as-usual.
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-LegalVoting.htm (c_R030504a_3.pdf) (for more details). Summary of
issues regarding voting machines

Background: Voting machines have been in America since 1889. The use of computers in voting technology began around 1964. Most of Europe still uses paper ballots. In Canada's last national election, paper ballots were hand-counted in 4 hours.
Today, 98% of votes in America are tabulated by voting machines.
     http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-ConstitutionalIssues&FederalLaw.htm  (c_R030504a_4.pdf) Constitutional issues - federal & case law
    http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm (c_R030504a_5.pdf) Ownership - privatizing, monopolizing & politicizing the voting process
    http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-TechnicalIssues&Standards.htm (c_R030504a_6.pdf) Technicalities - vote rigging, audit-ability & voluntary technical standards
http://www.ecotalk.org/VNS.htm (c_R030504a_7.pdf) Voter News Service (VNS). VNS was a top-secret private
consortium owned by ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News that allegedly projected election night winners from 1989-2002.
http://www.ecotalk.org/VNS.htm (c_R030504a_8.pdf) for more details...

1) Apr 14, 03: http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachinesUnconstitutional.htm (c_R030504a_9.pdf) Voting Machines Violate Constitution - Who Will Launch Legal Challenge?

 2) Jan 20, 03: http://www.ecotalk.org/VNSclosingdoors.htm (c_R030504a_10.pdf) Suspicion Surrounds Voter News Service

3) Nov 26, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/FederalObservers.htm (c_R030504a_11.pdf) Mission Impossible - Federal Observers & Voting Machines

4) Nov 8, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/MidtermElections2002.htm (c_R030504a_12.pdf) 2002 Elections: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Poll Results

5) Oct 28, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/Vote-By-Mail.htm  (c_R030504a_13.pdf) It's A High-Tech Ambush - Just Say "No"
To Voting Machines http://www.ecotalk.org/PressRelease.htm  (c_R030504a_14.pdf) PR Newswire press release

6) Sep 23, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/VoterNewsService.htm  (c_R030504a_15.pdf) Election Night Projections - A Cover For Vote Rigging Since 1964?  (Voter News Service)

7) Sep 16, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/AmericanElections.htm   (c_R030504a_16.pdf) Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control

 8) Aug 5, 02: http://www.ecotalk.org/Dr.RebeccaMercuriComputerVoting.htm  (c_R030504a_17.pdf) The Nightmare Scenario Is Here - Computer Voting With No Paper Trail

News!

9) Mar 28, 03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39241-2003Mar27.html  (c_R030504a_18.pdf)
New Voting Systems Assailed, Computer Experts Cite Fraud Potential  by Dan Keating of Wash. Post

10) Mar 6, 03 http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0306-04.htm  (c_R030504a_19.pdf) How Your Vote Is The Property Of A Private Corporation by Thom Hartmann

11) Feb 27, 03 http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzelec0227.story (c_R030504a_20.pdf)
Sold To Group Tied To Saudi Nationals (scrubbed - http://www.ecotalk.org/Election.com.htm  (c_R030504a_21.pdf) Lynn's ) by Mark Harrington of Newsday.com

12) Feb 25, 03 http://www.blackboxvoting.com/votehere-lawsuit-1.html (Plus sur le net au 04/05/03 see my copie .pdf) (c_R030504a_22.pdf) Voting Machine Engineer Sues, Alleges Machine Design Flaws  by Bev Harris

13) Feb 20, 03 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html   (c_R030504a_23a.pdf et 23b et 23c) Hacking Democracy by Farhad Manjoo of Salon.com

14) Feb 12, 03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,893701,00.html  (c_R030504a_24.pdf) Paranoid Party Rights by Matthew Engel of T he Guardian (UK)

15) Feb 5, 03 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00036.htm System Integrity Flaw
Discovered At Diebold Election Systems by Bev Harris   (c_R030504a_25.pdf)

16) Jan 31, 03 http://www.ecotalk.org/ThomHartmann.htm If You Want To Win An Election, Just
Control The Voting Machines by Thom Hartmann ( http://www. mikehersh.com/ (c_R030504a_26.pdf)
MikeHersh.com)

17) Jan 30, 03 http://www.ecotalk.org/BevHarris.htm  (c_R030504a_27.pdf) Sen Chuck Hagel Admits Ownership In Voting Machine Company by Bev Harris

18) Jan 29, 03 http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx  (c_R030504a_28.pdf) Hagel's Ethics Filings Pose Disclosure Issue by Alexander Bolton, http://www.hillnews.com/  (c_R030504a_29.pdf)
 

19) Dec 10, 02 http://www.ecotalk.org/MatulkaRecount.htm (c_R030504a_30.pdf) Charlie Matulka ,Democratic
candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, asks for a vote recount in his race against Republican Senator
Chuck Hagel, who is invested in a company that owns the voting machines used in both of his election.

20) Nov 16, 02 http://www.rense.com/general31/machines.htm (c_R030504a_31.pdf)Voting Machines and the
Bamboozling of America by Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press.net

21) Nov 12, 02 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0211/S00078.htm (c_R030504a_32.pdf)Amercian Coup:
Mid-Term Election Polls vs. Actuals by Alastair Thompson of Scoop

22) Dec 14, 00 http://www.commondreams.org/views/121400-108.htm (c_R030504a_33.pdf) The Real Scandal Is The
Voting Machines Themselves</A> by Jonathan Vankin of New York Press

 23) Nov 2000 http://www.voxpolitics.com/weblog/archives/000 186.html Manufacturers Admit
Voting Machines Unreliable (16-28% of the time) by Christopher Bollyn

24) Nov 1996 http://www.ecotalk.org/Pandora%27sBlackBox.htm Pandora's Black Box  by
Philip M. Halloran of Relevance (good summary to that point in history)

25) Nov 7, 1988 http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/dugger.shtml Annals Of Democracy -
Counting Votes </A> by Ronnie Dugger for The New Yorker

26) July 29, 1985 http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/burnham1.shtml Computerized Systems for
Voting Seen as Vulnerable to Tempering</A> by David Burnham of New York Times

 OUTSIDE LINKS: (Comment - I don't necessarily agree with everything on these websites, but they are good information sources. -- Lynn Landes)

 Bev Harris is the lead investigator on voting machine ownership and errors - http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ Black Box Voting

Dr. Rebecca Mercuri is the nation's leading expert on voting machine security. Her website has lots of
information and links - http://www.notablesoftware.com/NotableSoftware.com  Philip M. Halloran (1996) Good summary to that point in history http://www.ecotalk.org/Pandora%27sBlackBox.htm Pandora's Black Box

The Collier brothers: http://www.votescam.com/  website, book, and video.
These brothers were the first to explore in-depth voting machine fraud, as well as the news networks
secretive and suspect dealings through Voter News Service. In the book, readers must wade through the
adventures of the Colliers, however still lots of important information on election fraud. Comment: The
Colliers description of VNS (Voter News Service) as the entity that "officially" tabulates and announces the vote for major elections is not correct. See http://www.ecotalk.org/VNS.htm Voting Machines, VNS ...for more info

Jim Condit, Jr. http://www.votefraud.org/  : Good stuff, needs to be updated
 
 

Daniel Hopsicker, Follow The Chad (series) The Big Fix 2 000 (video): website and film contain lots of
useful information on voting machine companies, but not particularly well organized. http://www.madcowprod.com/
http://www.madcowprod.com/welcomechad.htm
http://www.madcowprod.com/intro.htm
http://www.madcowprod.com/II.htm
http://www.madcowprod.com/III.htm
http://www.madcowpress.com/videos/ (video)

Greg Palast, http://www.gregpalast.com/columns.cfm?subject_id=1&subject_name=Theft%20of%20Presidency Theft of a Presidency
http://www.gregpalast.com/ GregPalast.com Nov 2002, PBS stations nationwide
broadcast "Counting on Democracy," featuring Palast's investigation of state manipulation of the vote in
Florida during the 2000 presidential election. Comment: Unfortunately, the movie (not Palast) endorses
"state of the art" voting machines.

Christopher Bollyn - http://www.americanfreepress.net/ American Free Press
http://www.votefraud.org/News/2000/11/111400.html votefraud.org News

http://www.securepoll.com/  Keep up to date with the latest eVoting news"
This is an industry website, but still has a lot of information in its news archives.