Category Archives: Verified Voting

Iowa’s Voting Machines: Making Sausage and Counting Votes

Posted on February 2, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Iowa's Voting Machines: Making Sausage and Counting Votes This just in from the Great Northwest – Iowa, that is.  Lots of wind, not too many people.  However, there is one fine fellow over here, Jerry Depew of Laurens, who has … Continue reading →

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Is Iowa Making Any Headway in Regaining Voters’ Right To Vote?

Posted on November 18, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Is Iowa Making Any Headway in Regaining Voters' Right To Vote? by Tom Poe, Charles City, Iowa As everyone knows by now, voters across the country and here in Iowa have literally lost their right to vote.  Today, with proprietary … Continue reading →

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FEC Investigates Diddy But Completely Ignores Scathing GAO Report on the State of U.S. Elections

Posted on November 18, 2005 by bfialindathieman

FEC Investigates Diddy But Completely Ignores Scathing GAO Report on the State of U.S. Elections


Yes, my friends, it's true.  The Federal Elections Commission is turning its attention towards rapper and impresario Sean “Puff Daddy” “Puffy” “P Diddy” “Diddy” Combs.  His crime?  Some conservative “lack of ethics” attack dog group has targeted him for his “Vote or Die” campaign during the election of 2004.  Well, of course.  We wouldn't want non-conservatives to vote, now, would we?

In a related story, the FEC has completely ignored the recent (non-partisan) GAO report that cited factual evidence that electronic voting machines are error prone, ineffective and highly riggable.  Oh, and then there was that whole Ken Blackwell thing in Ohio.  Nope, gonna ignore that, too.

Well, I guess one must set one's priorities.  Poor Diddy.

(Click on “more” below for the complete details.)
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Important Election Day Hotline

Posted on November 8, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Important Election Day Hotline Voters in many states will be deciding important issues by voting today, November 8, 2005. No matter where you stand on any of the issues or candidates, all eligible voters should have the chance to cast … Continue reading →

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GAO Report Finds Flaws In Electronic Voting

Posted on October 22, 2005 by bfiacarolinevernon

GAO Report Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting t r u t h o u t | Report Thank God! The truth comes out! I knew they cheated in the last election… was there ever really any doubt? GWB was never … Continue reading →

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Iowa State Association of County Auditors Aligns With the Iowa House to Prevent the Passage of Paper Audit Trails

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Trish Nelson

  Iowa State Association of County Auditors  Aligns With the Iowa House to Prevent the Passage of Paper Audit Trails by Tom Slockett, Johnson County Auditor and Elections Commissioner The Senate passed verified audit trails unanimously last session.  This was … Continue reading →

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Vote Fraud: Diebold Dumpster Dive Yields Financial Documents

Posted on July 21, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Vote Fraud: Diebold Dumpster Dive Yields Financial Documents

BlackBoxVoting.org

JULY 20, 2005: One late night in Texas, 51-year-old Kathleen Wynne did something she never thought she would consider: She jumped into a dumpster.

An ordinary citizen who had become concerned about the integrity of Diebold voting machines, Wynne was amazed to find hundreds of pages of documents in the trash. Among them: internal notes and memos, planning information, problems with equipment and customers, price bid worksheets, staff bonuses, and financial statements from Diebold Election Systems. It was early July, just after second quarter financials, and the Diebold elections division seemed to be cleaning house.

Wynne was a citizen volunteer then – she is nowa full-time investigator for Black Box Voting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) consumer protection group for elections.

Diebold, a company that boasts of its security, had made no attempt to shred the documents, or protect them in any way. Instead, the company was in the habit of discarding its internal records in various publicly available locations — an apparent violation of the management requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The first batch of documents is posted here.

(We'll come back to the document stash in a minute.)

DIEBOLD DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN GALLINA MONEY

In May, Black Box Voting broke the story of ACG Group, LLC, which has been funneling money from Diebold into the pockets of . . . someone.

The 'G' in ACG stands for Gallina – Pasquale “Pat” Gallina. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Gallina was caught giving $10,000 to the Franklin County Republican Party, handed off through the Franklin County Director of Elections. The Dispatch also contains a report of a $50,000 donation by Gallina to Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell's political interests.

Diebold, according to the Akron Beacon Journal, denies any involvement in the donations by Gallina, pointing to “Celebrezze & Associates” and vowing to fire that organization (set up by Anthony Celebrezze, now deceased) if it is proved to have “provided the check in the name of Diebold.”

Excerpts from the above news articles can be found here
(scroll down).

Let us now dissect the spin:

1. The money was flowing through ACG Group LLC. A few dollars may also have wandered into Gallina's pocket through “Celebrezze & Associates,” but the large, UNDISCLOSED cash was flowing through ACG Group LLC, an entity Diebold has not uttered a word about.
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The Death of Democracy: End-game Ohio

Posted on May 25, 2005 by bfiacarolinevernon

The Death of Democracy: End-game Ohio by Caroline Vernon US Democracy would appear to be a fiction, not only because of the war, but because of the mounting evidence of the election theft in Ohio, and other parts of the … Continue reading →

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Iowa and the Death of Democracy

Posted on May 11, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Iowa and the Death of Democracy Culver Asks Iowa Legislature to Pass Elections Bill (DES MOINES, IA)  Secretary of State Chet Culver [Monday] released data submitted by county officials showing that nearly half of Iowa’s counties will purchase touch-screen voting … Continue reading →

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Action Alert: Contact Your County Auditor ASAP for VVPAT

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Trish Nelson

  ACTION ALERT:  Contact Your County Auditor ASAP for VVPAT in Iowa **PLEASE PASS THIS ON*** VVPAT can still be saved before the legislature adjourns.  We need the county auditors to get behind it.  We are asking everyone to contact … Continue reading →

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