Voting Machines - Diebold Equipment with no paper trail
In the eight years when Peter Jennings of ABC News and I had been rather
close (until his death from cancer), there was only a single time when
he did not trust my comments. In October 2004, I wanted him to try
to get ABC News to obtain about six Diebold Voting Machines, after the
November 2004 elections. I wanted ABC News to be able to insert test
voting patterns in those machines, to make sure they got the correct
totals for each test candidate. I had learned that the Chairman of the Board of the
Diebold Corporation had made a public guarantee that he was going to
ensure that Bush would win the Ohio election, and that the (new) voting
machines did not follow the example of Diebold's bank ATM machines, which
DO provide a paper receipt for every customer. The Diebold Voting machines
intentionally did NOT provide a paper receipt or any proof of any sort
to confirm that a person had voted for specific candidates or that the votes
were properly registered. In fact, a number of Reporters had discovered
that Diebold insisted that the software of their Voting Machines remain
absolutely secret, but that Diebold Technicians could quickly alter the
behavior of their individual voting machines. Reporters had seen that
Democratic votes would sometimes get counted for Republican candidates,
or that some Democratic votes got counted as negative numbers, reducing
the Democratic totals. Since there were no paper ballots or receipts,
no voter could ever question the totals, and since only Diebold knew
how the software worked, there were also no other methods to confirm
voting totals. Peter laughed and said that he did not think I was
a Conspiracy Theorist! But there were many suspicious people who voted
and felt that there was something wrong, and, of course, Bush won the
election. The Diebold company no longer exists, but amazingly,
immense numbers of those Diebold Voting Machines are still being used,
especially in some States like Virginia. Reporters are again reminding
everyone about how dangerous it is to have elections where no one has
any way of knowing the results, except for the owner of the Voting
Machine software (who HAD made that absolute guarantee in 2004 that
Bush would win!) How could there be such incompetence that the SAME
machines which were known to be manipulated in 2004 are still being
used in an extremely important election in 2012? How could Obama
possibly win Virginia, and possibly also Ohio and Florida where other
Diebold voting machines are again going to be used? Whatever people
vote, it seems like the final total is already known by Diebold,
months before the Election!
(Uploaded September 2012. An earlier web-page of mine on Diebold
was uploaded in April 2007, at
2004 Presidential Election, A Very Peculiar Subject)
Please see the extensive and factual web-page which is based on many
Reporters' efforts in 2003 and 2004 and which I uploaded in April 2007,
regarding Diebold and the Diebold Voting Machines.
Quoting a News Report of 2004,"Most memorably, [Diebold CEO and
Chairman of the Board, Wally ] O'Dell last fall [2003]
penned a letter pledging his commitment "to helping
Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President."
There was much more that the many Reporters had discovered.
This presentation was first placed on the Internet in April 2012.
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C Johnson, Theoretical Physicist, Physics Degree from Univ of Chicago