BBV: PLEASE CONTACT THE ACLU ABOUT THIS - AND YOUR MEDIA

[papau]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/dieboldpostal.html

From the "What Really Happened; the history the government hopes you DON'T learn" website regarding the Republican-owned Diebold voting machine company's attempt to rig the next election -- and get away with it. Their first step was to take down the website "Black Box Voting" that has been preeminent in trying to alert the American people to the coming catastrophe.

PLEASE CONTACT THE ACLU ABOUT THIS - AND YOUR MEDIA AND ELECTED OFFICIALS

*DIEBOLD GOES POSTAL!*
All Black Box Voting files confiscated, including personal info on activists by Diebold.

From: Bev Harris Subject: All Black Box Voting files confiscated, including personal info on activists
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
Here's what you can do to help: Get the word out far and wide that Diebold has done this thing.
1. Diebold issued a pull-down demand under DMCA for the BlackBoxVoting.org web site, citing a link posted on a forum in the site, claiming that the link allowed web visitors to visit an unrelated page which contained items they say they own the copyright to.
2. Not only was BlackBoxVoting.org pulled down, but ALL of the documents, databases and programming for approximately 500 pages of material, most of which did not relate to Diebold at all, was confiscated. Dozens of web pages were pulled down which had nothing whatever to do with the disputed information. AIT Inc. has indicated that it believes it has the right to pull down the entire web site including unrelated pages. It then confiscated all of the material.
3. The confiscated pages included personal contact information for 200 activists, and the private strategy sessions for voting machine activists. BlackBoxVoting.org has yet to receive any explanation at all as to what authority was claimed to confiscate them. We demand their immediate return.
4. Most of the memos in question were written in Canada, and resided on a server in Canada up to and including 2003 after Diebold bought a Canadian company called Global Election Systems. In Canada, company correspondence, even internal memos, is not protected by copyright. To date we have been unable to find evidence, other than a claim in a letter, that Diebold even owns the copyright to these memos.
5. These memos are more properly termed "Evidence," because they contain evidence of a pattern of lawbreaking that dates back at least to 1999.
6. Lexis-Nexis would be a worthwhile exercise now for every one of these search terms pertaining to the origins of Global Election Systems: This firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of North American Professional Technologies, Inc., which was in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of MacroTrends Ventures International, Ltd. Charles Hong Lee is one of the principals with these firms; He has been tied in the press to participation in a scheme to bilk immigrants out of some $47 million; he is also connected with a scandal in which a Mr. Graye was prosecuted, relating to Vinex Wines. Charles Hong Lee was also involved with something called "The Vancouver Maneuver," a stock pump & dump scheme that bilked investors out of millions in connection with an entertainment company and something called Beverly Development. Charles Hong Lee was a principal with Global Election Systems, along with the late Clinton Rickards. Talbot Iredale, currently the V.P. for Research and Development for Diebold Election Systems, began with the company in 1991, right around the time the Vancouver Maneuver was exposed in Barron's magazine. This is the pedigree from whence the Diebold Memos arose.>

Read the rest at: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/dieboldpostal.html



More references to Diebold voting machines
"Report Raises Electronic Vote Security Issues" in The New York Times, at: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/technology/25VOTE.html?ex=1065067200&en=aa7d5fdea73eb5f6&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

"E-Voting Audit Ready for Public" from WiredNews at: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60486,00.html
"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"" from Common Dreams, at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
*Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities* at:http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm
*Plugging Into Voting Insecurities* at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42085-2003Aug10.html
*Global Eye -- Vanishing Act* at:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/09/19/120.html
E-Voting: How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office
http://www.commondreams.org/ Common Dreams, Sept. 3, 2003
The Theft of Your Vote is Just a Chip Away
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=12461 Thom Hartmann, July 31, 2003
How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html Infernal Press, September 2003
Now Your Vote is the Property of a Private Corporation
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=10536 Thom Hartmann, March 11, 2003
The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html USENEX Security Symposium, Aug. 6, 2003
Who Counts the Votes?
http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/votingmachines-new.htmSouthern Exposure, Winter 2002/2003
Florida Invests $24 Million in Wireless Voting Machines
http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/16104.html Wireless News Factor, Jan. 31, 2002
Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Vulnerabilities
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm Scoop, Sept. 12,2002
Voting Machine Controversy as Diebold Chief Backs Bush
http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml Cleveland Plain Dealer, Aug. 28, 2003
The Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/082003Landes/082003landes.html Online Journal, Aug. 20, 2003
Hacking Democracy?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/print.html Salon.com, Feb. 20, 2003
Possible Flaw Triggers Electronic Voting Concerns
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2092678 Houston Chronicle, Sept. 11, 2003
Piecing it Together
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ Black Box Voting, Aug. 25, 2003
Bay of Pigs 2000: The November Surprise
http://www.madcowprod.com/welcomechad.htm


READ about Rush Holt's bill in Congress, -- H.R. 2239 -- that requires touch-screen voting machines to provide a paper trail. -- it's IMPORTANT -- at: http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996
AND, The 24-page John Hopkins report is available online in Adobe Acrobat format at: http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf. -- PRINT it out.
AND, call or write you Congressman today to insist he or she support Rush Holt's bill in Congress -- H.R. 2239

Here is the website to get contact info for House Members: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html

[Pale_Rider]

1. Just did ...

Sent a copy of the above with a personal plea as a ACLU member.

[papau]

2. Thank You - We need the ACLU to take this up immediately.

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