U.S. Election Problems
by kathy@truthisbetter.org Last updated 2004-11-01

• Electronic Voting Machines are permitted to have secret unverified programming instructions and are susceptible to human error and election fraud on a scale never before seen in America in Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, California, Nebraska, Tennessee, Maryland, Kentucky, Colorado, ... Many reputable persons have concerns about electronic voting machine problems. Here is a good discussion on how electronic voting machines can be easily manipulated when their code is permitted to be proprietary rather than open source. Here is a Drudge report on claims of Florida 2002 electronic voting machine fraud.

  Here is an excellent article on electronic voting by the Director of Scientific Computing, University of California Observatories / Lick Observatory and a John Hopkins University Analysis of Voting Machine Programming see page 5

• Too few People Register and Vote.

• Legal Voters have been removed from the Voting Rolls using state electronic voter rolls.

  For example, In the 2000 Presidential election Florida's Republican administration removed thousands of legal voters from the voting rolls in primarily Black Democratic districts.

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", a book by Gregory Palast, opens with an 80-page account of how Katherine Harris rigged Florida's 2000 election by enlisting the help of Database Technologies, a division of Choicepoint, for the price four million dollars. Florida purged 57,000 people from Florida's voter rolls, mostly blacks, overwhelmingly Democrats. Race is listed in Florida voter data. According to Database's court documents, 90% of those voters should have retained the right to vote.

  This strategy changed the results of the election, putting George Bush in the Presidency rather than Al Gore. Bush won Florida by only 500 votes and the election by only 5 electoral votes. Florida had 25 electoral votes.

  Verify the truth of these statements: Election Atlas and Search the 107th Congressional Record Search by "word phrase", type in "Florida election", and be sure to select the "Search for word variants" parameter.

  Florida never resolved to fix this problem until after the 2002 election. So the same people were disenfranchised again in 2002. Read more about lucrative contracts that Choicepoint has received from the GW Bush administration.

• Some Politicians Own the Voting Machines that count votes in their own elections. An example is Chuck Hagel's business ties to ES&S. Another such company with ties to other politicians is Delarue.

• Congress passed the "Help America Vote Act" to give money to states to implement electronic voting machines and centrally computerized voter rolls in each state. Without proper safeguards which are not included in the law, all 50 states may now have fraudulent election results like Florida. Some touch-screen voting machine programming instructions allow behind the scenes tampering with vote tallies.

• The Bush administration is seeking to limit voters' rights to sue over voting rights.

• The Supreme Court of the United States acted as political proponents rather than judges, and stopped the process that the Constitution assigns to the states and Congress of selecting electors for the Presidential campaign.

• The candidate who has the most money for TV advertising most often becomes the most popular and wins the election. Look at PollingReport.com to see what Americans think about President GW Bush.

• Mishandling of write-in ballots can change election results. In Florida in the 2000 Presidential election thousands of applications for write-in ballots were thrown away if they were from Democrats and fixed by hand if they were from Republicans.