BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?) Wed Nov 3, 2004 18:38 64.140.159.148 Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?) http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Nov 3 2004 -- Did the voting machines trump exit polls? There’s a way to find out. Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit. America: We have permission to say No to unaudited voting. It is our right. Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems -- optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips. An earlier FOIA is more sensitive, and has not been disclosed here. We will notify you as soon as we can go public with it. Such a request filed in King County, Washington on Sept. 15, following the primary election six weeks ago, uncovered an internal audit log containing a three-hour deletion on election night; “trouble slips” revealing suspicious modem activity; and profound problems with security, including accidental disclosure of critically sensitive remote access information to poll workers, office personnel, and even, in a shocking blunder, to Black Box Voting activists. Black Box Voting is a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer protection group for elections. You may view the first volley of public records requests here: Freedom of Information requests here http://www.blackboxvoting.org/#foia Responses from public officials will be posted in the forum, http://www.blackboxvoting.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi is organized by state and county, so that any news organization or citizens group has access to the information. Black Box Voting will assist in analysis, by providing expertise in evaluating the records. Watch for the records online; Black Box Voting will be posting the results as they come in. And by the way, these are not free. The more donations we get, the more FOIAs we are empowered to do. Time's a'wasting. We look forward to seeing you participate in this process. Join us in evaluating the previously undisclosed inside information about how our voting system works. Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?) http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ ===================================== Independent Film Producer Jimi Petulla ("Reversal") is hosting a daring new type of Reality Show that puts its audience before its advertisers. Jimi's collaborating with maverick Filmmaker Brian Kraft ("The Reality of Doing," "Human Planet") on this flagship series, a weekly show designed to provide the human community with the facts necessary to live consciously. http://www.truthseekertv.com/# ====================== Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse: Mark Twain. = "In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." Justice Black. NYT v. US. 403 US 713 == "The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933 == "I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.": Simon Hoggart == "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.": Edmund Burke === To help support ICH using PayPal click here. http://tinyurl.com/v1l8 Or if you prefer to send a check or money order, Tom, PO Box 365 Imperial Beach, CA 91933. 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PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO SUBSCRIBE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/subscribe.htm To change your email address. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/subscribe.htm === Kerry concedes in nail-biter election where Bush wins popular vote http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=5c7fb969-b11b-4fe6-9d0a-a739b8f5e571 http://snipurl.com/21o5 === Republicans Expand Hold on Congress, Oust Daschle: Democrat Tom Daschle became the first Senate leader in a half century to be voted out of office, according to network projections. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6701795 http://snipurl.com/adcg === Latest Presidential Election Results By State: http://snipurl.com/acjh === The US will now be ruled by the imperial party: The Republican Party has become the party not just of big government, but of global government. If, as seems likely, the President follows the neo-conservative agenda and takes his war of "liberation" beyond Iraq -- Syria and Iran seem to be the next targets -- the transformation of the Republican Party will be complete: === Damn politics, let's dance Fasten your seat belts: it's going to be a bumpy ride. Control of the presidency, Senate, House. A popular mandate. Four more years. Possibly four more wars. http://207.44.245.159/article7211.htm === A Dark Day in America: Bush wins: We deserve the government we elected, we deserve the corruption, fearmongering, and war-waging that will occur in the 2nd term, we deserve every single part. http://207.44.245.159/article7208.htm === Post-mortem Let the disobedience begin : So...it seems the shorter of the two rich straight white male Yale-educated war criminals won, huh? The rancher beat the windsurfer. http://207.44.245.159/article7209.htm === Divide and rule ... for now : George Bush has dismayed half the US public and, I'm sure, much of the world by apparently winning the election. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/markosmoulitsas/story/0,15139,1342263,00.html http://snipurl.com/adcu === Demonic nonsense : Something has dropped into place - principally, an understanding that if you don't pay attention, a man like Bush can get away with murder. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1342113,00.html http://snipurl.com/adcx === No backbone, no dream: It all comes down to the Democrats themselves... http://207.44.245.159/article7207.htm === Foreign monitors 'barred' from US polls: "We were not allowed to enter polling stations," said Soeren Soendergaard, a Danish parliamentary deputy. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=qw1099435860260U213 http://snipurl.com/adcy === How The U.S. Election System Works: WHY does America have such a confusing way of electing its presidents? It's because the racists of the Deep South wanted to hang on to their slaves. http://snipurl.com/add0 === No less than $1.2 billion was spent in the presidential election: The personal-spending champion of 2000 was a Democrat, Goldman Sachs mogul Jon Corzine, who spent $60 million of his own money to buy himself a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0444/harkavy.php === In case you missed it Pilger: Bush Or Kerry? Look Closely And The Danger Is The Same: A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5815.htm === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm === Bus Bomb Kills Nine in Baghdad : At least nine people were killed in Baghdad today when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying airport staff. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3709234 === Car bombing near Baghdad schools kills 6, wounds 20 : When a BMW sedan detonated outside the ministry at 9:30 a.m., killing at least six people, those running fastest to the crater in the middle of the street were parents. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041103/REPOSITORY/411030324/1001/NEWS01 http://snipurl.com/add9 === Militants Behead Three Iraqi National Guards: An Iraqi militant group beheaded three men from the Iraqi National Guard it accused of spying for U.S. troops in Iraq, Al Jazeera television said Wednesday. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=222952 === One U.S. Soldier Killed, One Wounded In IED Attack http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20041102.txt http://snipurl.com/addb === Oil Ministtry Official Killed: A top Iraqi oil ministry official, Hussein Ali al Fattal, was killed this morning as he was leaving his home in the Qadissiya neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, an interior ministry spokesman has said http://www.misna.org/news.asp?lng=1&id=122623 === Militants Say Behead Iraqi Army Officer -Web Site: A militant group said it beheaded a man it said was a senior member of Iraq's armed forces and posted a video of the killing on its Web site on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6699490 http://snipurl.com/addd === Hungary to withdraw its troops from Iraq : Hungary will withdraw all of its 300 troops stationed in Iraq by the end of March 2005, the country's prime minister has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3979349.stm === 2 Iraqis killed in US air raids on Fallujah : Two Iraqis were killed and six others wounded when US warplanes launched overnight air strikes on targets in the restive city of Fallujah, witnesses and the US military said on Wednesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/03/content_2173631.htm === US to Sweep Fallujah, Ramadi Very Soon: Iraqis: “A massive onslaught on Fallujah and Ramadi is expected immediately after the US presidential elections. It was put off so as not to affect the polls http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-11/02/article02.shtml === Iraq's (U.S. installed) president opposes assault on Fallujah: Mr. Yawar's comments, put him directly at odds with Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, who has threatened the city with an all-out assault http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1102/dailyUpdate.html === Marines in Iraq want better gear, exit strategy : U.S. Marines squaring off against Iraqi insurgents say they expect trouble in Iraq for years no matter who wins the White House. What they want is better equipment, more pay and a clear exit strategy. http://www.amarillo.com/stories/110204/usn_501117.shtml === Iraqi govt. bans officials from cooperating with Al-Jazeerah: A memo has been circulated to all the ministries on Sunday banning the officials and employees from having interviews with the channel or giving it any statements. http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=676657 === David H. Hackworth: Four Decades of Imperial Hubris America’s leaders from both major parties and our military and intelligence establishments remain in deep denial and blindly continue to believe that because we’ve got the power, we shall overcome. http://snipurl.com/addv === Commentary: Bin Laden's game plan Bin Laden now knows fact certain countless millions of Muslims, surveyed by the Pew Foundation two years in a row, trust him more than George W. Bush. In Muslim countries with a combined population of 450 million, bin Laden was a clear winner as a "freedom fighter" over the U.S. president. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/upi1.htm === Dia de los Muertos along the border of the Living: It seems only fitting that November 2 ,Dia de los angelitios, the day of the liitle angels (or dead children), is the day registered Latino voters will turn out to vote for the new president. http://207.44.245.159/article7205.htm === UN nuclear report on Iran may weaken US case: A new report on UN nuclear inspections in Iran may be worded in a way that undermines the US case for reporting Tehran to the Security Council this month, diplomats said on Wednesday. http://snipurl.com/addf === Russian kept plutonium in garage: A former Russian nuclear scientist has handed over to police eight containers of plutonium-238 he had stored at home for eight years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974851.stm === Israel: Attorney General blasts 'shameless' political culture : Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday lambasted Israel's political culture in a speech on the fight against corruption at a seminar in Sderot, calling it "more shameless than ever." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/496690.html === Iranian Nobel winner sues the US: Iranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is suing the US government for blocking publication of her memoirs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3974099.stm === Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams Sec. of State: "All votes must be counted by law--certified — blueridge, Fri Nov 5 00:37 America in Retrograde — Steve Jones, Wed Nov 3 20:41
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