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The research and activism arm of BlackBox Voting.com   CONTENTSIntroductionPart 1 - Can the votes be changed?Part 2 - Can the password be bypassed?Part 3 ? Can the audit log be altered? ************* Introduction According to election industry officials, electronic voting systems are absolutely secure, because they are protected by passwords and tamperproof audit logs. But the passwords can easily be bypassed, and in fact the audit logs can be altered. Worse, the votes can be changed without anyone knowing, even the County Election Supervisor who runs the election system. The computer programs that tell electronic voting machines how...

THE REVOLUTION WAS by Garet Garrett1938 There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago...

<p>"President Bush's decision to hold the 2004 Republican convention in New York puts Hillary Rodham Clinton's party on the defensive and means he'll really try to win the state — which would make it impossible for any Democrat to beat him," the New York Post's Deborah Orin writes.</p>

I think we need to Freep this like Yesterday

NewsMax.com   Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002 10:35 a.m. ESTPowell to Stephie: Your Boss, Not Mine, Let North Korea Have Nukes Appearing on ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning, Secretary of State Colin Powell challenged host George Stephanopoulos over the former Clinton aide's contentions that his old boss had managed to keep the North Korean nuclear crisis in check while the Bush administration had bungled the situation. Discussing the standoff over Pyongyang's decision to reopen old nuclear reactors at the rogue state's Yongbyon nuclear facility, the former White House communications director argued that Clinton forced North Korea to back down. The exchange...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Lott and the DachshundsRalph R. ReilandSunday, Dec. 29, 2002 What's dumb about Trent Lott is that he should have known how tricky it is to talk about race in America. Excuse the pun, but the top dog in the Senate should have known that we're at the point where you can't even say that dachshunds aren't so good with kids without being called a racist. Remember when the fur hit the fan a few years back when the American Kennel Club said in its best-selling "The Complete Dog Book" that some breeds were better with young children...

<p>California's mess is a capital political crime that more than just tarnishes the Golden State.</p> <p>The Sacramento gang has created a fiscal mess more than 20 times worse than anything Congress could manufacture.</p> <p>California's budget deficit works out to more than $1,000 per resident and makes New York City look fiscally responsible.</p> <p>California's deficit is 20 percent of state spending and a third of its operating budget. If every state worker were fired, California would still be at least $10 billion in the red.</p>

REASON * October 1999 Big GunsPlaintiffs' lawyers declare themselves the "fourth branch of government" and go after firearms By Walter Olson You don't need to be a big Second Amendment booster to be appalled by the newest round of litigation against gun makers. All you have to do is take a look at some of the coverage that has appeared recently in press outlets that are basically sympathetic to gun control, like Salon, the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and The New Yorker. Perhaps you've heard that big-city mayors had to sue because they've been losing sleep over...

<p>Conditions are now ripe for the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not dealt with gun control issues since 1939 (and then rather cryptically), to resolve whether the Second Amendment confers an individual right to bear arms or a collective right that can be exercised mainly by members of an organized militia.</p>

Oregon Gas laws Debbie Brannigan (Email Author) I spent most of my life in a suburb of Detroit, MI: the Motor City of America. I've been pumping my own gas for 20+ years now. Imagine my surprise when I went to work in Portland, OR and attempted to fill my own gas tank, only to be told by the 'trained fueling operator' that it was against the law for me to fill my own gas tank. I was not "qualified" to handle class1 flammable liquids!! I thought it was a joke but it’s true. There is a fine of...

<p>WASHINGTON - With the 2002 election now put to bed, the various pundits and so-called experts are free to declare, "The people have spoken." And so they have — in a shout that will be heard round the world.</p> <p>Duty has been done, and a fortunate 435 Americans have been sent to the House of Representatives, with an even more fortunate 34 men and women slated to spend the next six years in that extra- exclusive club, the U.S. Senate.</p>

<p>The smart political fortune tellers are betting that Hillary Clinton's sleep these days is being disturbed, not by Bill, but by a real apparition — that of 62- year-old fiery, modern Italian-American grandmother, Nancy Pelosi, now the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives.</p>

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..." Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." Powers himself is an awkward writer with a tin ear, his...

    AGREEMENT BETWEEN SMITH & WESSON AND THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE TREASURY AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATESSUMMARY OF TERMSPreamble: The city, state, county and federal parties agree to dismiss the parties from the pending suits and refrain from filing suits against the manufacturer parties based on an equivalent cause of action. SAFETY AND DESIGNAll handguns must meet the following safety and design standards: Second "hidden" serial number, to prevent criminals from obliterating serial numbers.External locking device sold with all guns within 60 days. Internal locking device on all guns within 24 months.Smart Guns -- Authorized...

Money makes the world go 'round Posted: August 22, 200212:25 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com One of the great mysteries of modern America is why there has not been a taxpayer revolt. So much money is wasted by the federal government that the General Accounting Office cannot even estimate the damage. The litany of wasteful spending has been documented time and time again, but there is one situation that is worth re-stating. Much of America's foreign spending is in the form of bribes to corrupt dictators – bribes the president and Congress are well aware of. Perhaps the biggest thief in the...

<p>I HAVE LONG thought that John Kerry is wrong on Vietnam. I don't mean wrong 30 years ago, when, as a decorated combat veteran, he returned from Vietnam and became a leading antiwar activist. I mean wrong in the years since, when he has been, with John McCain, the Senate's foremost advocate of normalized relations with Vietnam.</p>

The Clinton Mystique - The Corruption of Critical Thinking Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D. We have often attributed a broad range of societal ills to the misguided tyranny of the educational system. I don't believe that to be hyperbolic, but I think that it is easy to overlook the tyranny of the "socialization system" that is governed by other such elite institutions as (American Psychological Association) APA-accredited training programs and their offspring - psychology licensing agencies. An example: People stand in awe of the Clinton mystique, that a man such as Bill Clinton is such a persuasive communicator, when he has...