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I don't know how electronic machines are handled and the chain of command so it seems to me that there could be a POSSIBILITY of tampering way before actual voting begins. I don't think there is any doubt now that this election is facing massive fraud but it has been focused on fraudulent ballots but what about the electronic voting machines? Is it possible to pre-load these electronic machines with votes PRIOR to the first votes are cast by voters? I would think that IF this possible, how hard would it be for corrupt officials in key districts and key...

April 30, 2008, 6:00 a.m. Voters Are Far from the Biggest LosersLife after Crawford. By Abigail Thernstrom For one of the most anticipated big decisions of the current Supreme Court term, the Indiana voter-ID ruling Monday is certainly a bit anti-climactic. No big deal, Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the lead opinion, said, in essence. The Indiana law requires citizens, before voting, to show an approved photo identification — a passport or driver’s license, for instance. “There is no question about the legitimacy or importance of the State’s interest in counting only the votes of eligible voters,� Stevens concluded....

THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL - Monday's 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana's voter-identification law has unhinged Democrats and their allies on the political left. Within hours of the ruling, the ACLU was wringing its hands about the judgment of the court that requires someone to produce photo identification in order to vote was not unconstitutional. Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, complained that it was "a body blow to what America stands for — equal access to the polls." But a careful reading of the opinions of the six justices who voted to uphold the Indiana law shows this assertion...

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama. That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district. City election officials this week...

TROY - The Rensselaer County Legislature Republican majority warned the county Board of Elections commissioners Tuesday about the possibility of illegal immigrants registering to vote following implementation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses. The possible loophole cannot affect the coming Nov. 6 elections because the Oct. 12 registration cutoff has passed, and Spitzer's plan would not start issuing licenses until December at the earliest, but skeptics say that it is in time for the upcoming 2008 presidential race, in which New York is expected to play a starring role. The directive issued...

ALBANY - State election officials are worried that Gov. Spitzer's plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses will make it difficult for them to catch people voting illegally. "There has been concern," state Board of Elections spokesman Lee Daghlian told The Post. While it is up to the local boards of election to determine who is eligible to vote, it is rare that election officials check into a person's legal status, particularly if they have identifying information on their voter-registration form like a driver's license or the last four digits of a Social Security number, Daghlian said. In...

Seeking to flip a Republican Senate seat, the Muslim American Society used Boy and Girl Scout troops last year as part of a massive get-out-the-vote campaign targeting Muslim voters in Virginia and elsewhere. National leaders at the Boy and Girl Scouts of America say they've never heard of using Scout troops in such political activity and it violates Scout policy. They promised to look into the MAS program. MAS Executive Director Mahdi Bray isn't keeping the fact that he tapped Scouts to run phone banks a secret. In fact, he's bragging about it. And while he claims the calls were...

SEATTLE (AP) - King County prosecutors filed felony charges Thursday against seven people in what a top official described as the worst case of voter-registration fraud in state history, while the organization they worked for agreed to keep a better eye on its employees and pay $25,000 to defray costs of the investigation. The seven submitted about 1,800 registration cards last fall on behalf of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which had hired them at $8 an hour to sign people up to vote, according to charging documents filed in Superior Court. Secretary of...

The National Council of La Raza, which calls itself the nation's largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, hopes to increase Hispanic political power by persuading more people to vote. That tops the agenda at the group's annual conference Saturday through Tuesday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, where Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are expected to be big draws. "We believe a top priority is for us to integrate Latinos into the political process," said National Council of La Raza spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete. "That begins with getting all those eligible to start the...

KING COUNTY - A fake utility bill and a paw print was all it took for one Federal Way woman to register her dog to vote. Now King County Elections is under fire for what this woman calls a "broken system". It may all sound like a joke, but Jane Balogh says she wanted to prove a serious point. If her dog can get a voter registration ballot, what's stopping others from voting illegally in our elections? "I guess I care too much about my country," she said. Balogh said she never meant to commit a crime; she said she...

(CBS 42) AUSTIN From the beginning of the 80th Legislative Session, State Senator Mario Gallegos' vote has been crucial for Senate Democrats. His is the swing vote needed to block legislation requiring a photo ID to vote. But Gallegos' liver transplant earlier in the session, and a series of medical absences, has left the Democrats vulnerable. Without Gallegos they know the Republican majority can steamroll the legislation to passage. A hospital bed was moved into the Senate Sergeant of Arms office Monday, setting up a temporary infirmary for the ailing Houston lawmaker just outside the Senate chamber. Gallegos is now...

"Ballot-bag problems may slow counting of 8th District votes" ?King County Elections staff said about 100 bags -- containing up to 20,000 absentee ballots that had been dropped off at polling sites on Election Day -- remain uncounted because of an array of problems caused by the bags' being overstuffed. ?Jim Buck, King County's interim elections director, acknowledged that the problems -- including broken zippers and unclosed bag seals -- could potentially have allowed ballots to be cast after voting ended. Not clear yet whether any of the ballots are actually ineligible, and it's unlikely there could be nearly...

St. Louis has been much in the spotlight of late with the World Series victory of the Cardinals turning attention to the Gateway City. Unfortunately the City has also gotten some less flattering attention; it has been declared the most dangerous place in America, and a massive voter registration fraud has been uncovered. St. Louis has been controlled by Democrats for decades, and is a model of the success of liberal Democratic policies. They have worked well to keep the City under the control of the Democrats, and make it a rich source of “votes” for close statewide races in...

CLEVELAND -- After watching the 5 On Your Side investigation on dead voters, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason said he will prosecute anyone who knowingly cast a vote in the place of a dead person. In his report, NewsChannel5 chief investigator Duane Pohlman uncovered dozens of votes being cast from the grave, and Mason said the trouble is just beginning for whomever is responsible for casting votes in the name of the dead. "This really is an attack on the entire system, and it's of paramount importance that we find out how this is happening and we stop it so...

Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she opened her mail Wednesday morning. Inside, she discovered three computer discs. With them was an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland's new electronic voting machines. "My understanding is that with these disks a malicious person could skew the outcome of an election," Kagan said. Diebold, the company that makes the voting machines, told ABC News, "These discs do not alter the security of the Diebold touch-screen system in any way," because election...

The Democrats are on fire this election season. They smell victory -- or perhaps that smell is Senator Harry Reid's land deals. Or could it be the smell of voter fraud? In their effort to gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, they are doing anything and everything including their old standbys: registering the dead, minors and illegal aliens. In St. Louis, Missouri, Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards -- including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old -- among the thousands pouring in before today's voter...

ATLANTA - Comparing Georgia's new voting law to a poll tax, a federal judge has blocked the state from requiring voters to show photo identification to participate in elections. In a 123-page ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Murphy in Rome said the law is an undue burden on voting rights and is not tailored narrowly enough to serve its stated purpose of preventing voter fraud. Requiring voters "to purchase a photo ID card effectively places a cost on the right to vote," he said, adding that it is the equivalent of a poll tax and is unconstitutional. The...

Franklin County’s list of registered voters, pushed to a number oddly higher than the population of eligible voters during last year’s presidential election, is coming back down to size. Nearly 114,000 people who moved away or haven’t voted since the 1990s have been erased from the rolls by the Franklin County Board of Elections. It’s a process ordered every two years under state and federal law. The purge leaves 733,023 registered voters in Franklin County, where the U.S. Census Bureau estimates 800,657 residents are 18 or older. Ohio’s place as a key 2004 battleground for President Bush and Democrat John...

With the 2004 election just behind us, many people around the country are worried about the integrity of our election systems. Are they fair? Did the process work? Depends on who you ask. Whether you're talking about ten-hour waits to vote in Ohio, or dead people voting in Washington state, we can all agree on one thing: IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Me and a few others are going to try and start a grassroots movement to get voting laws changed in this country. We need your help. We want to know what YOU think would make voting better. And we...

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's parliament on Saturday declared invalid the disputed presidential election that triggered a week of growing street protests and legal maneuvers, a move that was not legally binding but clearly demonstrated rising dissatisfaction with the announced outcome. The Nov. 21 presidential election was won by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, according to the Central Elections Commission, but opponent Viktor Yushchenko's supporters have streamed into the streets, claiming he was cheated out of victory. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Yushchenko's supporters on Monday, and Yanukovych will not be inaugurated before that appeal is decided. Regional courts...

WASHINGTON - Little noticed in this month's election was that the nation's third biggest vote getter, behind only President Bush (news - web sites) and John Kerry (news - web sites), was Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), a fiery California Democrat who proudly wears her liberalism on her sleeve. AP Photo Latest Headlines: · Boxer Becomes Third Biggest Vote Getter AP - Fri Nov 19, 7:16 AM ET · Kerry to Give Dems Leftover Campaign Cash AP - Thu Nov 18,11:52 PM ET · Unofficial Iowa Totals Show Bush Win AP - Thu Nov 18, 4:02 PM ET...

ATTENTION VOTERS who have recently registered: Accurate identification data may not have been properly relayed to the Election Commission office for registration. Therefore, it would be advisable for you to be prepared to re-register with identification on election day. (The warning is in red, which I don't know how to duplicate)

Friends... I am saddened by the fact that this article had to be written. This is not how we want to run our country. A Single Factor may decide this Election… Sadly, the DNC is so desperate to win this election that they have decided to remove all obstacles and play by their own set of rules, which is no rules at all. The DNC has lost its soul, and Party reform must be considered. JB Williams Political Columnist www.JB-Williams.com JBW@JB-Williams.com A Single Factor may decide this Election… Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-27 Is it “the economy stupid”? The war...

More than 1,000 voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests may be fraudulent in Lake and Summit counties, where investigations of irregularities are broadening. Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said Thursday that he will investigate an attempt to register a dead person and other possibly fraudulent documents that were submitted to the Lake County Board of Elections. Advertisement Dunlap also said he has notified the FBI and the Ohio secretary of state. "We want to make sure the election here in Lake County is the best possible," Dunlap said. "I don't know if this was a concerted effort or if...

A Colorado congressman is praising a bill recently introduced in the House that would curb voter fraud by requiring voters to actually prove their citizenship. It is called the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2004 (H.R. 4530). Introduced by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, it is designed to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the "Motor Voter Bill." That Clinton-era legislation has been criticized because it provides no safeguards from illegal aliens being able to register to vote. That is why one of the stated purposes of Hyde's legislation is to prevent fraud in federal elections....

How to Hack an Election Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, starting with voter-verified paper trails. When Maryland decided to buy 16,000 AccuVote-TS voting machines, there was considerable opposition. Critics charged that the new touch-screen machines, which...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Johns Hopkins University computer scientist who co-wrote an influential report alleging flaws in touch-screen voting software used by a leading manufacturer has resigned from the technical advisory board of a provider of competing software. The researcher, Avi Rubin, resigned this week because "he didn't want any perception of conflict of interest," Jim Adler, chief executive of VoteHere Inc., said Tuesday. Rubin, technical director of Johns Hopkins' Information Security Institute, said he was returning stock options, resigning from the VoteHere board of advisors, and asking Hopkins to review his outside consulting work. "I believe it was careless...

October 05, 2003 Diebold Machines and Your Vote: Part II Diebold Machines and Your Vote: Part II Timeline of the Diebold Case Susceptibility to Election Tampering Revealed; Legal Battles Ensue by creativelcro and quietBill On September 28, 2003 the Agonist published an exclusive, ?a href="http://www.agonist.org/archives/009016.html#009016">Diebold Machines and Your Vote?outlining the susceptibility of electronic voting machines to tampering and election fraud. Here in Part 2, for the first time in print, the Agonist discloses in extensive detail the Diebold case timeline, and the legal battles that ensued. The phases of this timeline are as follows: A) Diebold system becomes available to...

September 28, 2003 Diebold Machines Agonist Exclusive Diebold Machines and Your Vote by creativelcro and quietBill With the emergence of paperless billing and online banking, many of us save considerable effort, time and money every month. The transition to digital information has gone well beyond paying bills or taxes, and booking airline flights. Virtually all aspects of our lives are affected. Not surprisingly, the same technological shift has been occurring in the field of voting machines, accelerated by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) passed by Congress at the end of 2002. No paper trail. While differing in implementation, these...

Three computer researchers from the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, with help from a computer scientist at Rice University, say they've uncovered vulnerabilities in the software purportedly used by Diebold Election Systems. As a result, one person can cast multiple votes, elections can be delayed, the anonymity of voters can be breached, and cast votes can be modified or even deleted, the researchers say. However, the code analyzed by the researchers could be up to a year old. The code included modifications through 2002, the researchers said in a statement. The code they analyzed was discovered on a...

The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday. "We found some stunning, stunning flaws," said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, who led a team that examined the software from Diebold Election Systems, which has about 33,000 voting machines operating in the United States." -------- Since we can't copy a whole article from there I've only used the first paragraphs.

WASHINGTON - Florida's election fiasco in 2000 did not shock some U.S. political activists; they don't see it as a threat to U.S. democracy but as a promise of things to come. It may be both. Even before polls open for Tuesday's mid-term congressional election, the Democrats are preparing legal challenges to overturn results they dislike. So the winners might not be known for days or weeks after voting ends, just as it took Al Gore five weeks -- until Dec. 13 -- to concede defeat two years ago. Republicans and Democrats are again running neck and neck. Republicans need...

dead people registered, bingo games, Indian reservations, etc.

Help Stop Voting Fraud in California It is becoming more and more apparent that voting laws of California are not being enforced. News articles have reported illegal aliens voting, one article in the SF Chronicle reported that ballot boxes were found floating in the San Francisco Bay. There have been reports of voting booths having suggested ways to vote posted in voting booths in heavily Black and Hispanic areas, and statistical analysis has shown that there is an extreme abuse of absentee ballets. Yet no one has ever been arrested for these digressions. I can find no record of anyone...

Help Stop Voting Fraud in California It is becoming more and more apparent that voting laws of California are not being enforced. News articles have reported illegal aliens voting, one article in the SF Chronicle reported that ballot boxes were found floating in the San Francisco Bay. There have been reports of voting booths having suggested ways to vote posted in voting booths in heavily Black and Hispanic areas, and statistical analysis has shown that there is an extreme abuse of absentee ballets. Yet no one has ever been arrested for these digressions. I can find no record of...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — House and Senate negotiators said today that efforts to pass a bill that would clean up the nation's voting procedures were falling apart as partisan disagreements grew with the approach of the fall elections. Large bipartisan majorities of the House and the Senate voted for different versions of the legislation, intended to prevent ballot disputes like those that bedeviled the 2000 presidential election. Among other things, the bills would provide money to help states buy new voting machines. Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, an architect of the Senate measure, said the outlook for enactment...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- The brother of a well-known political activist has been indicted on voter fraud charges. Ronald Callaway, 46, of Atlantic City, who also goes by the name Jihad Abdullah, is accused of casting more than one ballot in several municipal elections dating back two years. Link to Newsday Story