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Computer Vote Fraud
Bollyn on Fictional Elections
January 3, 2008 On Fictional Elections & Taking Our Republic Back LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES By Christopher Bollyn It is always the interest of a far greater part of the nation to have a thing right than to have it wrong; and therefore, in a country whose government is founded on the system of election and representation, the fate of every party is decided by its principles. WHERE THE ELECTION IS FICTION "Where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also," Thomas Paine wrote in 1803, "Like will always produce like." Born and raised in Chicago and suburban Cook County, and having run for office in my hometown, I know something about fictional elections. Election fraud is a fact of life in Chicago and Illinois. It is the way to power for ambitious men and has been for a very long time. Illinois is a state where elections have long been criminal and fraudulent. "Like will always produce like," as Paine wrote. Sure enough, the politicians in Chicago and Illinois reflect the criminality that brought them to power. It is not at all uncommon in Illinois for the former governors and mayors to be charged and imprisoned on serious crimes -- after they leave office. This is also how it has always been in my hometown of Hoffman Estates. Tonight, the presidential race of 2008 officially begins with the Iowa caucus. We now know that Voxeo, a foreign company connected to the Israeli military, controlled and tallied the Iowa caucus results in 2004. The Iowa caucus results from 2004 were clearly manipulated to benefit John Forbes Kerry, the dark horse Democrat from Massachusetts who went to Iowa lagging far behind in 5th or 6th place, but who, quite unexpectedly, won the caucus. Will Voxeo and the Iowa caucus cheat the American people again in 2008? They will unless they are stopped by the good people of Iowa. The only hope to prevent another Iowa fraud is that the good people participating in the caucus do their own reporting and conduct their own tally of the results. The people of Iowa and the United States don't need or want the Israelis to tally their caucus. The rest of the race is history. The fraudulent caucus results from Iowa created the utterly fake race of 2004. George W. Bush, the pro-war unelected incumbent was challenged by his good buddy from their secret homosexual society at Yale University, Skull & Bones. The Israelis running Voxeo gave the Iowa caucus to Kerry. He ran as a pro-war Democrat whose only argument about the war was how to fight it more effectively. With two perverted Skull & Bones buddies running for office, Kerry was part of a conspiracy to deceive the American people by running a fake race. In this way, the real burning issues of the day, for example America's Middle East policies and involvement in the illegal and disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were effectively removed from the debate. Four years later, our republic is in increasingly dire straits. The second unelected administration of the dictatorial George W. Bush has made plans to continue the illegal wars of occupation in the Middle East until at least 2017. The Israelis must be pleased. Some 4,000 Americans have already died in these costly and unnecessary wars on top of the thousands who were killed in the false flag terror attacks that were used to start them. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been disabled and maimed for life. Many more Iraqis have been killed and wounded. Half the Iraqi population is now homeless, severely distressed, or in exile. What is this war being fought for? Our civil liberties are under attack from every quarter. The economy is in shambles, the infrastructure is crumbling, and millions of illegal immigrants live within our borders. The U.S. dollar is worth only half what it was in 2002, and is worth less than the Canadian dollar. At this rate, it will soon be on par with the Mexican Peso. These, my fellow Americans, are the results of a criminal government, what I call a "crimocracy" – a government of criminals, by criminals, for criminals. This regime of tyrants came to power in the same way that criminals have always come to power in Illinois – through fraudulent elections run by fellow criminals. It is time for this nonsense to come to a screeching halt. The citizens of the United States need to remember that these are our elections and this is our government. There is no place for foreigners in our elections. We need to insist that the Israelis and Venezuelans and their private vote-counting companies and their bogus software will not be tolerated to have any part in our elections. Their criminal conduct has been exposed and their days of stealing our elections are over. Americans need to learn to be real patriots and jealously protect our nation in the same way they would defend their wives and children. We must guard our republic like a protective husband and prevent all enemies, domestic and foreign, from infiltrating and corrupting our elections and our government. This is our sacred obligation as citizens of our democratic republic. If we are unwilling or unable to protect the integrity of our elections, we will lose our republic and our way of life – it's that simple. We must demand that our elections are open and transparent and refuse to accept any electronic voting machine systems run by secretive and foreign companies to steal our elections. This is what ES&S, Diebold, Sequoia, and the others are doing – they are part of a foreign conspiracy to control our elections and government. Nobody will give honest elections to us: we must demand them as our right as citizens in our republic. Forget about the mass media, non-governmental organizations, the courts, or the government fixing this for us. They are the ones who have created this mess and who benefit from it. It is up to us, as citizens, to stand up and demand that our votes be properly and openly counted. We must refuse to accept electronic voting machines and computer generated tallies in any way, shape, or form. If our counties will not return to hand-counted paper ballots, we must challenge them and conduct our own elections. We must stand up and resist the stealing of our elections in the same way that the Mexicans did. We must make noise and demand open and transparent elections. We must demand that the ballot be simple and uncluttered. On Election Day, we should only be voting for president and our representatives at the federal and state level. Cluttering the ballot with county judges, local officials, and other issues and candidates complicates the process and gives the criminals an excuse for using their computer card vote-stealing machines. Elections should be simple, clear, and frequent. In Switzerland, a truly democratic republic, elections are held 4 times a year. Demanding hand-counted paper ballots is the only way to take back our nation peacefully. The ballots must be kept in plain sight at all times and openly counted in each polling station in front of the public immediately after the polls close. This is not difficult or time consuming. Each precinct has only a few hundred voters. This is the way democratic elections are supposed to be. There can be no compromise on this transparency in the vote counting. This is the sine qua non of honest elections. This is what we must demand. In doing so we are only demanding what is rightfully ours as citizens. This is our republic and this is our government. If we all stand up and demand open and honest elections, with hand-counted paper ballots, we can save the republic and our way of life. It is the only way.
ELRON - VOXEO: The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus
By Christopher Bollyn The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus? The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process. VOXEO In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results. The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history. See Bollyn article on Yang below.) The calls from the nearly 2,000 caucus centers in Iowa went to a Voxeo call center in Atlanta, Georgia. On January 31, 2005, I wrote to Michelle Bauer, Iowa's Secretary of State with some questions about the use of Voxeo, a foreign company located in Florida, to tally the results of the Iowa caucus: Dear Sirs, When I visited the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Des Moines last summer, I learned that the tally of the Iowa caucus had been "out-sourced" to a company in Atlanta, Georgia. What this means is that the tallying of the Iowa caucus results was done over the telephone, using the touch-tone buttons, to enter the results from each caucus location… I am interested in how this was done, and why. Why did the Democratic Party allow the crucial tally of the caucus results to be done by a company in Atlanta? Don't they trust their own math skills? Can any of you provide any information about this matter? Kind regards, Christopher Bollyn A person named Mike Milligan wrote back on behalf of Secretary of State Bauer: Dear Christopher: The Secretary of State forwarded me the email you sent to then on Monday, January 31, 2004 [sic] regarding the Iowa Caucuses. Unfortunately you either received some incorrect information in your travels or are confused. The Iowa Democratic Party completed all of the caucus night tabulations in Iowa, in the Des Moines/Polk County Convention Center, which was the Caucus night HQ. In fact, our tech staff wrote the software that tabulated the results. To answer your second to last question, we feel we have a comfortable grasp of mathematics. Sincerely, MWM Mike Milligan, Executive Director I wrote this note back to Mr. Milligan: I am responding to you about how the caucus results for the Iowa Democratic Party were tallied on the night of the nation's first caucus. After checking my sources, I can assure you that it is correct that an out-of-state telephone/computer system tallied the Iowa precinct results. The system used was provided by Voxeo Corporation based in Orlando, Florida. The calls went from Iowa to a call center in Atlanta, Georgia. This information was first provided to me last August by John McCormally, Communications Director for the Iowa Democratic Party in Des Moines, Iowa. Today I called Voxeo (800) 305-5771 in Orlando and although I didn't go into detail, the receptionist confirmed that Voxeo had conducted the telephone tally of the Iowa Democratic Caucus results. How is it that you don't know that? McCormally told me that chairmen were selected in all 1,993 precincts and these chairmen called in on touch-tone phones and after giving their PIN number, were able to enter the results from their precinct using the touch-tone number pad. I'm not going to go into great detail at this point, but this procedure of using an out-of-state computer company to tally the precinct results for the Iowa Democratic Caucus lacks the transparency and openness that one might expect in this exercise in grass-roots poll. Clearly, if someone wanted to adjust the results, it would be the easiest thing to do to do it through this computer system in Orlando, Florida. The Democrats in Iowa would never be aware of it, regardless of their math skills, unless the paper results were carefully audited in an open and honest manner. Christopher Bollyn THE ISRAELIS & VOXEO Now, who really is Voxeo, and why are the Iowa caucus results tallied by them? I don't know if the 2008 Iowa results will be tallied in the same way, but I wouldn't doubt it. Voxeo is headed by Jonathan Taylor, who is the company's President and CEO. This is what his Voxeo webpage says about him: From 1995 to 1997, Jonathan was the founder and President of InterResearch and Development Group (IRdg), Inc. IRdg created and licensed iPost - the first internet powered OEM unified messaging solution - to leading telecommunications providers including Ericsson, Motorola and Unisys. IRdg was acquired by Elron Electronic Industries (Nasdq: ELRN) subsidiary MediaGate in 1997. There you have it. Jonathan Taylor's company, which he founded, was taken over by Elron Electronic Industries, the Israeli defense high tech company: Source: http://www.elron.net/default.asp?PageID=203 This is important information that Americans need to know and which they will not find in the Zionist-controlled media in the United States. It needs to be understood that the entire election process in the United States is a fraud. More than that, it is a fraud that is being perpetrated by the Israeli defense establishment on the naïve and gullible American public. The sine qua non of an honest and transparent election process is the open counting of the votes by the voters themselves in each polling station in front of the open eyes of other citizens and members of the media. Any compromise in this most fundamental and essential process which acts to remove the citizenry from the vote-counting process simply cannot be accepted. This is what Americans MUST get back to, in every polling station in the nation: paper ballots that are hand counted in front of the public. Nothing else will do to protect their democratic franchise in the United States - NOTHING. See also: Chicago Ballot Chaos
New Computer Vote Machines Malfunction, Unverifiable By Christopher Bollyn The more complicated methods of voting, such as the unverifiable computerized voting systems widely used across the United States, lack the most essential element of democratic elections—transparency. The $50 million touch-screen and optical-scan voting system provided by Sequoia Voting Systems failed across Chicago and suburban Cook County during the March 21 Illinois primary. However, the leading corporate-controlled newspapers merely lamented the failures of the system without addressing its fundamental flaws or even reporting that the company running the election is foreign-owned. The “high-tech” computerized voting system was “cumbersome” and “slow,” one mainstream Chicago newspaper reported. The machines failed across the county causing “plenty of frustration and confusion for voters,” the paper reported. The ballots and votes from more than 400 precincts were still uncounted two days after the election due to machine malfunctions and lost memory cartridges which contain the results. Reports from other dailies noted that as of noon Wednesday, Chicago was missing memory cartridges from 252 polling stations while Cook County officials “couldn’t find” the results from 162 suburban precincts. Election officials tried to assure the public that although nobody knew where all the ballots and computerized memory cartridges were, they were “most assuredly not lost.” “I don’t trust that,” U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said. “This is Chicago. This is Cook County. We created vote fraud, vote scandal and stealing votes. We created that mechanism. It became an art form.” “Ballot chaos” is how another large Chicago newspaper described the situation in which the votes from hundreds of precincts could not be found or counted on Election Night. “We have accounted for the votes,” Langdon Neal, city election chairman told the publication. “What we haven’t been able to do is count them.” In one precinct on the Near South Side, for example, the Sequoia optical scanner failed to register anything but Republican ballots. Although “election officials” tried to repair the machine four times, by the end of the day it had failed to register a single Democratic ballot in a precinct in which some 86 percent of the voters are Democrats. When this reporter went to vote, the touch-screen machine went completely dead as the voter in front of me pressed the button to print. When the poll workers were asked if other voters had had similar problems with the equipment they said it had happened all day and showed me an unplugged machine that had broken down earlier. When the polls closed at 7 p.m., I was at the Cook County Clerk’s office to see how the votes were tallied. Citizens in Chicago, as in most American cities, are, however, forbidden from viewing or participating in the any aspect of the vote-counting process. The so-called counting of the votes is managed by some two dozen employees of Sequoia Voting Systems, a privately held foreign company. These employees, many of whom are not even U.S. citizens, have “full access” to the “back room area,” a sealed-off section of the 5th floor of the county clerk’s office which is called the “tally area.” In Chicago, the person in charge of the tallying of the votes was a British employee of Sequoia named David Allen from London. Allen, who ran the “Sequoia War Room” in an office next to that of Cook County Clerk David Orr, oversaw the “tally room” team, which included a dozen Venezuelan employees, who operated the hidden computer equipment that counts the votes. As I have reported before, there are wire services such as the Associated Press, who could be seen having direct connections leading from their computers to the hidden mainframe computer of the Sequoia tallying system located behind the wall on the 5th floor of the clerk’s office. Senior executives from Sequoia Voting Systems and from its partner company, Smartmatic, such as company president Jack A. Blaine and Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez, vice president of special operations, also had “full access” to the tally area. Sequoia, which was previously held by the British-based firm De La Rue PLC, a company, which produces bank notes, travelers checks and cash handling equipment, was merged or combined with Smartmatic in March 2005. Smartmatic, which has a U.S.-based office in Boca Raton, Fla., is headed by three young Venezuelans along with Blaine, a former vice president with Unisys. A dozen Venezuelans could be seen managing the most sensitive aspects of the recent election in Chicago. Smartmatic, the parent company of Sequoia Voting Systems, obtained the company for a “ridiculously low amount of money,” Charles D. Brady, an analyst with Hibernia Southcoast Capital Inc., said at the time of the merger. While De La Rue purchased 85 percent of Sequoia in 2002 for $35 million, it reportedly sold the growing global company for only $16 million in 2005. Tracey Graham, then president of Sequoia, said more than 30 organizations had expressed interest in buying her company, yet no names of other bidders were given citing “confidentiality agreements.” The chief officers of Sequoia-Smartmatic are two 32-year old Venezuelans from Caracas, Antonio Mugica and Alfredo Anzola. Anzola also works as a Venezuela-based lawyer brokering international oil deals with the Cleveland law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. “With the combination of Sequoia and Smartmatic, both proven innovators with accomplished track records in either the U.S. or abroad, we are creating the first truly global leader in providing voter-verified electronic voting systems,” Blaine said in March 2005 when the merger was announced. There is, however, nothing verifiable about the Sequoia voting system used in Cook County. The voter has no way of knowing if his vote has been counted or how it was counted. The absolute lack of transparency in U.S. voting systems yields unverifiable election results, which can only be accepted on faith. In Chicago voters are asked to trust the results produced by malfunctioning machines operated by a privately owned foreign company. Asked about the nature of the foreign company that runs elections in Cook County, Scott Burnham, spokesman for Cook County Clerk Orr simply said, “Ask Sequoia” and hung up the phone. Asked about the ownership of the privately held company, Allen, who supervised the tally, refused to answer and handed the phone to Michelle Shafer, the company’s vice president and spokesperson. Pressed about Allen’s citizenship, Shafer finally admitted that the Sequoia employee who oversaw the tally was, indeed, a British citizen who had been assisted by a team of Venezuelans. Dimas Ulacio, one of the Venezuelan technicians who worked in the tally area spoke with me. “Who really owns Sequoia?” I aksed Ulacio. “Is Sequoia-Smartmatic truly a Venezuelan company or is it a British-owned company masquerading as a Venezuelan company?” Ulacio laughed but refused to answer. While a high percentage of the precinct results—about 90 percent—are usually reported within one hour of the polls closing, the Sequoia system failed to produce any results for nearly two hours. Only 44 percent of the precinct results had been reported four hours after the polls closed. The widespread failures of the Sequoia voting system in the Cook County election, Shafer said, made for a “very typical Election Day in a jurisdiction where they are changing voting technology.” Rather than blame the machines, Shafer blamed human error. See also: Florida Election Stolen
Computer Programmer Reveals Scheme to Steal 2000 Vote TITUSVILLE, Florida. While the mainstream media has focused on a sensational murder trial in California and the political crisis that followed the flawed elections in Ukraine, it has ignored a huge domestic story about the computer programmer who has come forward and explained how he had written computer code to steal elections in Florida. An affidavit signed by the programmer, Clinton Curtis, in Prince George’s County, Md., on Dec. 6, 2004, names the individuals involved in a computer vote fraud scheme that he worked with in “the early fall of 2000” as “lead programmer” for a company called Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), based in Oviedo, Fla. The 4-page Curtis document contains 15 points that he swears are both true and correct. “I declare under penalty of perjury,” Curtis signed on the affidavit, “that the above is true and correct.” By the fall of 2000 Curtis had worked as a programmer for two years with YEI, a listed “small, minority, woman-owned business” that does extensive business with NASA and Florida. The CEO of YEI is a Chinese immigrant named Mrs. Li Woan Yang. On its web site, YEI says it has 250 employees working at its Oviedo headquarters, the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Patrick Air Force Base and Tallahassee, Fla. According to published company documents, the contact person for YEI is Mike Cohen, Yang’s “executive secretary.” Cohen, named by Curtis as being one of the three key persons at YEI involved in creating the program in 2000, has not answered telephone calls. To read the whole article, click here: See also: Death of Democracy Or May the Best Hacker Win
by Christopher Bollyn What is particularly troubling about these machines is the fact that they contain an internal two-way modem, which enables anyone with a modem-equipped computer, from hackers and vendors to telephone company personnel and politicians, to potentially access and alter the computer’s tally of the votes. --- they are all designed and operated by Elections Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) - and they each contain a two-way modem, allowing them to communicate - and be communicated with - while they are in operation. What is particularly troubling about these machines is the fact that they contain an internal modem, which enables anyone with a modem-equipped computer, from hackers and vendors to telephone company personnel and politicians, to potentially access and alter the computer’s tally of the votes. Source: See also: |
