- While researching my last effort, and knowing that The
Establishment now intends to pull out all stops in its final efforts to
disenfranchise the American people from its government as well as to nullify
our nation's sovereignty, I came upon Dan Rather's efforts exposing the
fiasco of America's electronic voting machines. The Establishment
is making itself known and is following the pattern described
by Adolf Hitler in Germany back in 1926. The enemy
is finally boldly stepping from the shadows and identifying itself, just
as Hitler predicted would be the case. New World Order communism
is now upon US!
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- All across the nation today, police departments at all
levels are digging in with an "us versus them" bunker mentality,
killing innocent Americans, threatening families that are merely traveling
through their jurisdictions while either visiting family or friends or
while on vacation. Police are tasering, torturing, manhandling
law-abiding innocent Americans, and in some cases killing citizens for
the mere crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And
our national criminal government, comprised of the organized gangsters
of our political class, is the instigator and provocateur of this police
paranoia. Paraphrasing Hitler, terrorism must be fought with
terrorism. Cheney and Bush are forcibly ushering in NWO communism
via domestic police state fascism.
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- America and its citizens are on notice by machine-gun-toting
and razor wire-deploying cops that they are not to demonstrate, not to
gather near political convention centers, not to protest, and not to challenge
or shout at presidential candidates during the latter's speeches and "public
meetings." The Establishment cannot tolerate any such unpatriotic
behavior. Violators now know they will be shot, beaten or tasered. Never
during my younger years could anyone ever have convinced me of this scenario
now in place in America today and occurring in my lifetime.
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- As offered in my previous report, Dan Rather, in a video produced by HDTV/HDNet entitled,
"The Trouble With Touch Screens," and produced in August
2007, reveals a shabby, incompetent, amateur, international "manufacturing"
operation in which electronic voting machines are produced in a sweatshop
in Manila, Philippines, for use by American voters. It
shows the reverence the United States Congress has for the American voter
and taxpayer. And considering the growing popularity of grassroots
anti-Establishment candidate Ron Paul, there is no doubt in this writer's
mind that absolutely nothing will be done about this on the federal level.
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- The unified connected effort by the federal government
to negate the collective will of the American people will have to translate
to controllable and tamper-prone electronic voting machines to ensure the
success of the power elite's picks; and as Internet-informed news readers
know, "differences" between Democrats and Republicans are only
for purposes of distracting a dumbed-down American voter.
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- Rather's exposé was launched by the Florida campaign
of one Christine Jennings, a Democrat running for the House of Representatives
in the District 13 election of November, 2006. Jennings was frustrated
in her bid running for Congress, and she and her campaign staff pointed
out a vote count anomaly: approximately 13 percent of the registered voters
weren't represented, or roughly 18,000 votes were unaccounted for. There
could be many explanations for this unusually poor voter turnout, nonetheless
of which could be attributable to either bad weather or even the reality
of voter apathy or outright rejection of Jennings' candidacy. But
neither possible cause is of any relevance.
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- What is relevant is that whether or not an inquiry was
actually justified, one did result. Jennings lost by only
a few hundred votes, and this while missing votes of approximately
18,000. Jennings sued the state of Florida, the manufacturer
of the electronic voting machines, and filed an election challenge with
the House of Representatives. The matter came up in Congress
in the Senate, and California Senator Dianne Feinstein conducted a hearing
and charged the Government Accountability Office [GAO] and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] to look into the matter.
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- The GAO, in earlier investigations in response to electoral
curiosities involving those related to the "hanging chad" fiasco
in Florida during the 2000 presidential elections, as well as the Ohio
curiosity relative to the 2004 along with the publicized guarantee offered
by a Diebold voting machine manufacturing executive to incumbent George
Bush that Ohio will wind up in his column, produced a short laundry list
of actual electronic voting machine vulnerabilities. Additionally,
the GAO confirmed, relative to the Ohio anomaly in 2004, that
a small group of individuals could indeed tamper with the electronic balloting
results to manipulate the outcome of an election. Democratic
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, Chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, initiated hearings looking into Ohio electronic voting
irregularities in December
2004. Checking Congressman Conyers" homepage,
mention of both the inquiry and the results are strangely missing.
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- In spite of the findings of the GAO, the Conyers "investigation"
launched by literally thousands of letters from concerned and outraged
Democratic voters, the outcome and bottom line results are zip: nothing,
nichts, nada! In typical Establishment MSM propaganda-for-the-herd
mentality, elapsed time and the out-of-sight-out-of mind big media approach
has been brought into play once again. Our "elected representatives"
and the MSM, stooges for the shadow government's Establishment, drown out
both representative responsibility and accountability to the American people
and American voters. We are now a disenfranchised citizenry,
enslaved by a totally unrepresentative political class of paid-off stooges,
and controlled by the big money of corporate conglomerate monopolies and
their lobbies.
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- The Jennings inquiry brought Dan Rather into
the picture. His media vehicle, "Dan Rather Reports"
produced by HDNet, uncovered the corporate arrangement that sends
the clear and unmistakable message that our entire election system and
its electronic and vote counting methods and systems are a total fraud. The
company Jennings sued was ES&S, Election Systems and Software,
headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The machines used
to count the votes in the Florida elections during which Christine
Jennings ran for Congress, are, once again, strongly suspect as triggered
by the missing 18,000 votes. The electronic voting machine used
was a product of ES&S, identified as an "Votronic." More
information on this equipment can be found here.
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- The iVotronic has been used to count votes electronically
in 22 states in the US, and ES&S, a privately held corporation,
claims to be the largest manufacturer of voting machines inAmerica. The
company offers that it has delivered 97,000 machines across the country
which were used to count 67 million votes in the November 2006 elections.
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- After the Jennings campaign and the ensuing
election complaint and lawsuit, Rather's inquiry cited numerous complaints
from voters using the iVotronic. For example, several voters
complained on the video that after having digitally marked their ballots
on the electronic touch-screen, the vote summarization display, when brought
up by the voter, showed no vote at all! Other problems determined
by the vote verification screen display showed that the opposing candidate
or a third party was selected by the voter. These problems,
and many more, served as the material basis for Jennings' complaint
and challenge.
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- Rather's investigation into the matter exposed the disjointed,
discombobulated global corporate cluster that produces these inferior vote
counting machines so vital to the MSM's contention of the importance of
the participation by the American voter in this country's democratic processes. Even
Rather's introductory remarks to the report emphasized the importance of
voting to ensure "democracy." Yet, the big media has
left the Conyers inquiry open-ended and has summarily ignored the iVotronic
controversy completely. This MSM collective spike of the serious
anomaly in the American voting system has been totally ignored by the big
media's gatekeeper, The New York Times, and therefore TV broadcast
and cable [cabal?] "news" as well. This includes NBC's White
House Chief David Gregory and NBC anchor Brian Williams.
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- It may be recalled that "journalist" Brian
Williams whined that he had "worked extremely hard" to achieve
his senior exalted status as NBC's top "reporter." He
offered this complaint: "You're going to be up against people who
have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing
credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy
named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left
the efficiency apartment in two years."
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- NBC "journalist" David Gregory, the so-called
White Chief Correspondent, offered that news interviews at the White House,
and in fact all politically-related interviews, are seen through a prism
by the news consumer. He offers that it is the public that is
biased and polarized, and this has been caused by the evil Internet. Yet
Rush Limbaugh has always offered that the "liberal" media reports
news through a politically biased "template." And
of course, they are both wrong. The failure to report on this
critical electronic voting issue proves the error in both views, and presents
precisely how The Establishment uses MSM personalities to deliberately
distract the public using the worse-than-usless fraud of two opposing political
parties.
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- Returning to the issue of inferior electronic voting
machines forced upon the American voter by The Establishment, Election
Systems and Software Corporation, the primary manufacturer and supplier
of these poorly working and extremely inaccurate voting machines, contracted
for the manufacture of these base electronic recording units, which I will
refer to henceforth as the BRU, with a company called Pivot International,
headquartered in Alexa, Kansas. Pivot, headed by Edwin Ching,
owns the majority interest in a Manila, Philippines factory, TeleTech, a
high pressure sweat shop that was contracted by ES&S to produce the
BRUs.
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- The Ching family, noted for questionable business ethics
relating to business practices, tax evasion, real estate manipulations,
and other shady deals, has consistently been investigated by the government
of the Philippines. No convictions against their operations
resultant from criminal prosecutions has thus far been recorded. But
as Rather offered, the Ching family, bolstered by political connections,
has prospered enormously while their workers at the Manila factory suffered
under sweatshop conditions and were paid coolie wages.
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- In spite of the reliance upon seemingly disinterested
foreign factory workers, Filipinos bucked their own culture and reported
and complained of the inferior components of mylar plastic touch-screens
produced in the USA by The Bergquist Company. Bergquist produced
the plastic screens to be used by the Pivot-produced BRUs which they
sent to the ManilaPivot corporation for the manufacture and incorporation
into the final BRU product. Manila factory workers complained
of quality control failures involving the touch-screens. The
problem was that the plastic touch-screens "floated;" that is,
they were visibly disconnected from the glass containing the electronic
sensors such that "bubbles" and air-filled rolls and waves seperated
the screen from the sensors by a margin causing a quarter inch calibration
distortion that could actually translate to the success of a candidate
with lesser votes.
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- This was the assessment of Gene Hinspeter, an Elections
Operations Specialist employed by Lee County, Florida. Hinspeter
stated that 1,800 of the iVotronic units were returned to ES&S
due to confirmed inaccuracies in the BRU tabulations. Hinspeter
stated in the Dan Rather interview that the iVotronic machines
were totally unreliable.
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- Additionally, a lawsuit initiated by Hartford Insurance
Co. against Bergquist, contesting the indemnified revenue loss
claims by Bergquist due to the lost revenue from the inferior
quality of the touch-screens they supplied to Pivot, would have created
devastatingly bad press for the company. And since America has
a very bad press to begin with, this vital information needed by the American
voting public, was once again spiked and suppressed by the MSM and its
gatekeeper, The New York Times.
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- The irony in all this is that these electronic touch-screen
voting machines were to replace the inaccurate and "obsolete"
paper ballot machines made famous during the vote counts in Florida in
the 2000 presidential election. But Rather's investigation exposed
the fact that exceedingly poor quality paper ballot card stock was used
by Sequoia Voting Systems of Exeter, California. In
order to reduce costs, or so it would seem, the management of Sequoia ignored
warnings and official chain-of-command quality control safeguards that
were attempted by employees and used inferior paper in spite of vehement
employee objections. Sequoia management knowingly used
inferior paper that quality control at their factory proved well before
the fact would not punch cleanly thereby creating major problems. And
these revelations were made to Sequoia management in the late
1990s and long before the 2000 election.
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- The paper ballot system was exrtremely accurate
it failed because inferior quality tab card paper was substituted. And
to remedy the problem, the paper ballot machines were replaced by the electronic
BRUs and their touch-screen systems manufactured by ES&S. And
now that the ES&S electronic voting systems have been proven to be
unbelievably unreliable, these too are being replaced by yet better machines. The
better machines? Optical electronic scanners will now replace
the touch-screen technology. The manufacturer? You guessed
it: Election Systems & Software Corporation!
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- In an article by the Associated Press published
Monday, December 31st, and entitled "Vote machine flaws force scramble,"
the report opens: "With the presidential race in full swing, some
U.S. states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their
electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to
the paper ballots they abandoned after the 2000 Florida debacle." But
the AP totally ignores the fact that "officials" have
had more than seven years to both look into the problem and to determine
its root cause: the use of inferior tab paper.
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- The article goes on: "In December alone, top election
officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that widely used voting equipment
is unfit for elections. 'Every system that is out there, one
state or another has found that they are no good,' said John Gideon of
the advocacy group Voters Unite. 'Everybody is starting to look
at this now and starting to realize that there is something wrong.'"
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- I had warned readers of this coming "surprise"
as far back as August 2007, at about the time Dan Rather broadcast his
exposé. Isn't it amazing that "everybody is starting
to look at this now?" And just look at what the AP offers
at this time: "Florida's unclearly marked ballots in the disputed
2000 race between Al Gore and George W. Bush exposed the imperfection of
paper ballot counting and helped lead to a $3 billion government initiative
to bring voting to the digital age. The Help America Vote Act
of 2002 required that states have electronic equipment in place by 2008." But
the real problem was only in the inferior paper used, not the machine or
the system.
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- This is what happens when a cause and effect analysis
is not undertaken to get to the real root cause of a problem; not only
does it not get solved, but government mandates by bubbleheaded government
buffoons makes the problem worse while needlessly squandering our tax dollars
to boot! Yet further, "researchers in Ohio and Colorado
found that electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or
with Treos and other similar handheld devices. In Colorado,
two kinds of Sequoia Voting Systems electronic voting machines used in
Denver and three other counties were decertified because of security weaknesses,
including lack of password protection. Equipment made by Election
Systems and Software had programming errors. And optical scanning
machines, made by Hart InterCivic, had an error rate of one out of every
100 votes during tests by the state." But the error factor
due to Bergquist-manufactured screens was at 50 percent or more!
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- It is clear that no one and no agency in American government
gives a damn about the accuracy of voting in America. The Establishment's
propaganda arm, the MSM, gives only lip service to the importance of voting. It
is only important to them in terms of the huge revenues and advertising
profits they accumulate from the American election farce and vote fraud. These
problems have existed for more than seven years, yet only now the MSM and
The Establishment shills in government are looking into the matter. These
revelations are not news; they are the MSM's prepatory conditioning for
the American voter to get ready for yet another round of shaky voting results. So
don't be too surprised if Ron Paul only gets three votes in the upcoming
GOP primaries!
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- © THEODORE E. LANG 1/03/08 All rights
reserved
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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