FOREIGN military company controls Knox elections! 2006 candidates
face election theft from private contractors with Top
Secret source code and ties to CIA and organized crime (is there any
biz that isn't?).

by John Lee
Pirate News TV
March 2006

Metro Pulse reported in 2000, that 25,000 registered
votes "disappeared" in Knox County, Tennessee. The US Dept of
Justice was reportedly "investigating" this theft. Another 20,000
registered voters were not allowed to vote when they showed up at the
polls.

Nationwide, over 2.5-million registered votes disappear
every "election".

A "multinational" military contractor, Danaher, decides who
wins "elections" in Knox County. Danaher's pathalogical lying sales
literature fraudulently alleges its ELECTronic 1242 ® Voting System
is "100% accurate - Incredibly reliable".

George Bush Jr allegedly won the national election by 500 votes in
Florida. And I've got some ocean-view property to sell you in
Tennessee. In the car sales biz, its called "knocking heads off".

In Knoxville, Skull & Bones mayor Victor "Victoria" Ashe allegedly
won "landslide" elections with a total 8,000 votes. Ashe is
romantically linked to a gay convicted drunk-driver and convicted
cokehead George Bush (both?), in Kitty Kelly's book, The Family, which
also named Laura Bush as a drug-dealing lesbian, and in many other
published and broadcast sources. After the 2000 election, GOP delegate
Ashe was promoted to US ambassador to Poland.

Tennessee Supreme Court previously fired Ashe from the state
legislature for election fraud:

Jack COMER v. Victor H. ASHE et al., Supreme Court of Tennessee, Oct.
10, 1974
http://geocities.com/towcrime/victorashunderageelection.html

Ashe was also found guilty of violating the Constitutional and civil
rights of government employees by taking illegal retaliation against
voters, and was also found guilty of contempt of court:

Sharpe, et al v Cureton, et al., 172 F3d 873, CA 6 (Tenn.) 1999
http://geocities.com/towcrime/sharpevcuretonasheelection.html

A Republican KPD police officer with political ties to opponents of
Republican Victor Ashe and his Gang was denied the right to vote by
his polling station. Poll workers alleged he was not registered to
vote. This was a common scam perped in Knox County, as many
registered voters were illegally moved to other precincts, without
mandatory notice. Tennessee Code orders that voters can vote for
state and national candidates in ANY precinct.

This veteran cop threatened pollsters with an injuction from a US
Magistrate, to shut down the entire polling station for fraud, if he
was denied the right to vote. Pollsters gave him a paper ballot and he
cast his votes. After the elction, I asked Knox County Election
commission if his vote was counted, and records proved that his votes
were NOT counted.

This is what happens to Republicans who support Randy Tyree or who
don't support the "correct" Republican candidates. Election databases
count EVERY vote, so that boss hogs can retaliate against "their"
government-employee voting blocks. There's no such thing as "voting
anonymously".

When I was employed as a Census manager, I was ordered by my boss, a
retired THP commander, to fire all of my employees who were not
on "The List". So I got to fire the wife of the Republican mayor of
Vonore. Since no one had bothered to give me "The List", I had hired
people based on competence rather than which political gang they were
members of. Silly me.

For $100, KC Election Commission will sell anyone a computer disk with
the names of all registered voters and results of their votes. This
disk is probably not available to the public until AFTER any statutory
deadline for candidates to appeal a corrupted election result.
http://knoxcounty.org/election/request_disk.php

Democrat Mae Owenby was declared the victor in Blount County, against
indicted hit-and-run killer, alcoholic wife-beater and crack-cocaine
kingpin, Senator Carl Koella. Then Koella was declared the alleged
winner, after mystery votes magically appeared in empty ballot boxes.
Tennessee legislature than named Interstate Highway I-240 for this
convicted hit-and-run killer, resulting in a million-man boycott of
Tennessee.
http://geocities.com/american_motorcycle_assn/koella.html

This Metro Pulse article was reposted on the banned website for
Knoxville Green Party, which was illegally censored by illegal order
of Victor Ashe and his Gang on City Council, as punishment for me
speaking in legislative session to City Council. As official
voluntary webmaster for KGP in November 2000, I posted the transcript
of Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader's speech in
Knoxville. For this common-sense act during election week, KGP board
of hijackers, er, directors ordered the KGP website banned and
censored. At that time, KGP had no website, and had no local
candidates. So I quit the corrupted KGP after a mere 24 hours, and
expanded the "unofficial" KGP website.
http://geocities.com/knoxvillegreenparty
http://geocities.com/towcrime/greenlocal.html
http://geocities.com/towcrime/greenpower.html
http://geocities.com/green_party_dwi_jokes

As Ralph Nader's personal chauffeur, who attended several of his
lectures, and who had personally interviewed him for a graded
journalism project at Pellissippi State Tech Community College, I
could vouch for his enthusism and intelligence, unlike the other
presidential candidates. Even on Libertarian issues such as abolition
of speed limits and abolition of traffic cops, we agreed.
http://geocities.com/ralph_nader_interview
http://geocities.com/towcrime/greenbios.html
http://americanautobahn.com

Nader was the only candidate to complain about medical doctors
genociding 2.5-million Americans every year in Death Camps in USA.
http://lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_01.htm

"A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including
Arabs
and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other
AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe."
—Ralph Nader (Arab-American from Lebannon), Independent Reform Party
presidential candidate in 2004, ex-Green Party presidential candidate
in 2000, Arab-American Business conference, C-SPAN, 2003

Semite.
Etymology: French semite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin,
from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm. Date: 1848. 1 a : a member of any
of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the
Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs. b : a descendant of these
peoples 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language
-Merriam-Webster Dictionary

As I later found out from 4 class actions and filing of felony
criminal charges against Ashe and his gang of car-thieving cop-
killing towtruckers and WTC-bombers, the so-called Green Party is
stage-managed by the "Jewish" Kosher-Nostra Mishpucka Mafiya. No
wonder Nader quit the Greenie Meanies.
http://geocities.com/towcrime
http://geocities.com/parking_ticket_appeal
http://september911surprise.com
http://controlled-demolition.com
http://bfi.com

The FBI has now identified these US tow-truckers as the terrorist
bombers in Iraq. Cars stolen in USA magically appear in Iraq, where
they magically explode and kill US soldiers. Carlyle Group, the
Pentagon contractor owned by Sir George Bush Sr Knight of the British
Empire (CIA), the Bin Ladens (CIA/MI6) and the German Queen of
England (MI6), now owns the world's largest tow-trucking cartel in
US, including Tennessee. It seems they bought out Miller Industries'
RoadOne, which was the previous world leader, with 10,000 tow trucks
and 10,000 garbage trucks. William Miller, its CEO lives in
a "suburb" of West Knoxville.
http://thecarlylegroup.com/eng/portfolio/portfoliol5-3295.html
http://smh.com.au/news/world/cars-stolen-in-us-used-in-suicide-
attacks/2005/10/03/1128191658703.html
http://infowars.com/articles/iraq/americans_arab_dress_captured_settin
g_off_carbomb.htm
http://rense.com/general65/strat2.htm
http://judicial-inc.biz/Basra_IDF.htm
http://democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1330222#transcript

Since my brother is currently running for county judge in 2006, in the
Republican primary, it'll be interesting to see what new scams get
exposed in Knox County.
http://JudgeSwannsDefeat.org
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/piratenewsrss/message/99

TVA, a federal government agency, already "bribed" Judge Swann's main
competitor, by "making him a job offer he couldn't refuse" (at
taxpayer expense). A similar scam was perped by Knox County District
Attorney Randy "I Let CIA Drug-Dealing Hitmen With False Passports
Out Of Prison So They Can Work In My Office" Nichols, when he created
a non-existant job for John Gill, as his "special counsel", oddly at
the same time as ADA Gill was making public speeches to influential
voting groups.
http://piratenews.org/how-to-catch-a-govt-hitman.html



See also:

http://BlackBoxVoting.org

Knox County Election Commission
http://knoxcounty.org/election

Voter Registration Form
http://knoxcounty.org/election/pdfs/registration.pdf

Knox County Primary
Nov. 18 2005 First day to pick up a petition
Feb.1 2006 First day to request absentee ballot
Feb. 16 Noon Qualifying Deadline
Feb. 23 Withdrawal Deadline
April 1 Last day to register to vote. Postmarked 2nd
April 12 First day of Early Voting.
April 27 Last day to request absentee ballot
April 27 Last day of Early Voting
May 2 Election Day - 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

You may request a voter disk and/or list by printing the form below
and filling it out completely. Don't forget to fill out each page
and sign. You may fax or mail in the form, however,
your request will not be processed until you submit a computer set-up
fee to the Election Commission.
http://knoxcounty.org/election/request_disk.php

Candidates' Guide To Elections
http://knoxcounty.org/election/pdfs/candidate_s_guide.pdf

How American Elections Became a Criminal Enterprise
http://hermes-press.com/criminal_vote.htm
http://hermes-press.com/criminal_vote2.htm

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FL Candidate Votes for Self, Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machine Flips
Vote to Opponent!

From today's St. Petersburg Times...


When Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote
for Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth.

Later in the day, Cook said he had other reports of voting machines
malfunctioning in similar ways.

The flipping machines used in the Pinellas County, FL election were
paperless touch-screens made by Sequoia Voting Systems -- the same
paperless "Edge" touch-screen systems whose purchase and future use in
New Mexico was recently banned in the state in light of a lawsuit
where
many voters complained of the same type of "vote flipping" on the
machines during the 2004 Presidential Election.

Those are also the same machines which lost more than 12,000 votes in
Bernalillo County, NM in 2002.

On the other hand, this is Florida, after all. So, as Pinellas County,
FL Supervisor of Elections communications director, Nancy Whitlock
says, there's nothing to worry about:

No one else complained, so it is unlikely the problem affected many,
if
any, other votes, she said.

We feel much better now. It was just "a glitch."

(Hat tip John Gideon! See today's 'Daily Voting News' from John for
much more, including fresh e-voting disasters in Texas and everywhere
else!)

http://bradblog.com/archives/00002528.htm
http://sptimes.com/2006/03/08/Neighborhoodtimes/Incumbents_return_in_.
sh
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E-Voting System Adds 100,000+ Votes in One Texas County During
Tuesday's Primary Election!

Hart InterCivic Paperless Touch-Screen Systems Flat-Out Fails in
Tarrant County, TX

Officials Ignored Prob on Election Night, Blame 'Program Snafu' the
Next Day

We hope to have much more on this tomorrow...but for now, this from
the Star-Telegram today : An undetected computer glitch in Tarrant
County led to inflated election returns in...

We hope to have much more on this tomorrow...but for now, this from
the Star-Telegram today:

An undetected computer glitch in Tarrant County led to inflated
election returns in Tuesday's primaries but did not alter the outcome
of any local race, elections and county officials said Wednesday.

The error caused Tarrant County to report as many as 100,000 votes in
both primaries that never were cast, dropping the local turnout from a
possible record high of about 158,103 voters to about 58,000.
...
Questions about possible problems were raised by election staff late
Tuesday night, as it became apparent to some that the county would far
exceed the 76,000 votes cast in the 2002 primary elections.

But elections officials did not look into the discrepancies that night
because they were dealing with a new system, new procedures and some
new equipment, said Gayle Hamilton, Tarrant County's interim elections
administrator.

"We didn't think there was a problem," Hamilton said. "We should have
stopped right then.

"But we didn't question it at that time."

The problem stemmed from a programming error by Hart InterCivic, which
manufactured the equipment and wrote the software for the local voting
system.

"The system did what we told it to do," said John Covell, a vice
president with Hart. "We told it incorrectly."

See this previous report for scores of additional e-voting problems
reported yesterday, just after Texas' first Primary Election since
adding loads of new electronic voting machines this year. (Keep an out
for today's 'Daily Voting News' to be posted here shortly...where we
expect there will be many more such reports.)

http://bradblog.com/archives/00002526.htm

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30% of ES&S Voting Machines Fail Recent Test in Ohio

Failure Rate So High on Memory Cards in Summit County Test, They Were
Thrown Out for a New Batch...Which Then Also Failed!

Guest Blogged by John Gideon In preparation for a May 2 primary,
election officials in Summit Co., OH began testing their new ES&S
optical scan voting machines. The Akron Beacon...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon

In preparation for a May 2 primary, election officials in Summit Co.,
OH began testing their new ES&S optical scan voting machines. The
Akron
Beacon Journal announced today that ES&S has isolated the problem to a
memory card made by one of their contractors.

The article also reveals that the county is not doing the testing
themselves.

A consulting company that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell
hired has been in the county since Monday testing all the new voting
equipment before its planned use May 2.

Why would a county that has to conduct elections on their own
equipment
allow a consulting company hired by the Secretary of State, do the
testing?

The article goes on to explain the memory card problem in more detail:

Tests on Monday and Tuesday showed that about 30 percent of the
computer memory cards -- which should read and store vote
tabulations -- did not work, Elections Board Director Bryan Williams
said. ``We are noticing a high failure rate,'' he said Wednesday.

Election Systems & Software in Omaha, Neb., makes the machines.
Williams said ES&S officials believe they have isolated the problem to
the computer cards produced by one of its subcontractors. ES&S
contracts with several companies to make the memory cards, Williams
said.

"We're looking into the extent to which this affects others,'' said
Ellen Bogard, spokeswoman for ES&S. "It will be remedied if there are
other cards that need to be replaced.''

The first 177 cards tested Monday worked flawlessly, Williams said.
When testing began on the remaining 348 cards, however, the failure
rate was so high that the rest were thrown out. ES&S had a second
batch of cards sent to Akron on Tuesday, but Williams said those cards
experienced a similar failure rate. He said a third batch is expected
to arrive today.

Unanswered questions abound. How many other ES&S customers have these
bad memory cards? How many of these other customers will go into
elections without knowing that their memory cards are bad? How many of
the problems with ES&S machines in Texas on Tuesday are a result of
bad memory cards? Does ES&S have any Quality Control at all?
http://bradblog.com/archives/00002522.htm

http://bradblog.com/archives/00002524.htm

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Metro Pulse
November 16, 2000 * Vol. 10, No. 46

Ear to the Ground
Put Meetings Where the Sun Doesn't Shine

KNOXVILLE, TENN.-The notice said, clearly enough, that the County
Election Commission would meet at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in the County
Courthouse to "review...the voting machine processes from election
night to clarify problems, solutions and preventive measures." Come
Monday afternoon at the courthouse, however, the meeting morphed
rapidly into a pumpkin. No meeting was held; it became a "diagnostics
review," quoth Steve Roth of the election commission.

The phantom meeting was prompted by the fact that, in the wake of
last week's election, a number of the county's voting cartridges were
unreadable, at least at the outset. The snafu points back to the
company that provided Knox County's election-day computer set-up,
Danaher Controls, Inc. And it seems that when Danaher sales account
manager Matthew Lilly saw members of the press eager to attend
Monday's convening, he got flustered and disappeared into a hall to
speak less publicly with commissioners.

The trim, suspendered Roth looked a little nervous, but he
equivocated nicely. "We're not really having a meeting...," he
backpedaled. He went on to assure us that the commission hadn't
expected to deliberate, but gave notice of a meeting anyway "to be
sure and comply with the Sunshine Law." We now await, with bated
breath, the results of the non-meeting when the Election Commission
holds another non-session on Monday, Nov. 20 at the courthouse.

Is It Too Late for a Recount?

The news media have reminded us of several weird tales from the
annals of the electoral college lately, but when the News-Sentinel
offered a list of them on Sunday, we were surprised that they skipped
the peculiar campaign of the guy who's buried practically across the
street from their office. Hugh Lawson White would once have been
happy to see an electoral-college stalemate.

In 1836, the newly formed Whigs despaired of defeating President
Andrew Jackson's heir apparent, Martin Van Buren, in a legitimate
election. So they tried to scotch the Electoral College by running
three candidates popular in three different regions: Daniel Webster,
William Henry Harrison, and Knoxvillian White. By preventing Van
Buren from earning a majority of the electoral votes, they thought,
they could force the election into the House of Representatives where
the Whig-dominated Congress could pick a president of their liking.

It might have been a more memorable tactic if it had worked. White
came in third in the four-man race, with 10 percent of the popular
vote, a figure Ralph Nader would have envied. He would have done
better if so many of his supporters, including White propagandist
Davy Crockett, hadn't just died at the Alamo. White carried only
Georgia and (despite the president's vigorous campaign against him)
Jackson's home state of Tennessee, for 26 electoral votes. White and
his anybody-but-Van Buren cohorts polled almost 50 percent of the
popular vote, and were able to chalk up 124 electoral votes. Van
Buren won handily with 170.

http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2000/1046/t_ear.html

See also:

Danaher Controls (DRE)
Guardian Voting Systems
1675 Delany Road
Gurnee, IL 60031-1282
CONTACT: Matthew Lilly
PHONE: 800/888-9527 or 847/360-5349
FAX: 847/662-6633
EMAIL: mlilly@...
WEBSITE: http://www.controls-online.com/gvs/
(NOTE: Markets ELECTronic 1242 Voting System, formerly known
as "Shouptronic" Voting Machine)

"Proven accurate and secure in over 150,000 elections, the ELECTronic
1242 ® Voting System is designed to meet election needs into the new
millennium. It delivers the highest levels of security, efficiency,
and election integrity. As a full service election division of
Danaher Corporation, we can be counted on to deliver total solutions
and world class support -- today and tomorrow. In setup and ballot
preparation, a single Windows 9x/NT database produces all of your
election materials, programs machines and prints ballots. In
tabulating and reporting, vote tallies are completed with the speed
and convenience of a PC. 100% accurate - Incredibly reliable."
http://www.controls-online.com/gvs/

"Danaher is a leading U.S.-based manufacturer with a worldwide
workforce of approximately 37,000. The company generated revenues
totaling 6.8 billion (US) in the 2004 fiscal year, almost half of
which was generated outside the U.S.A. The Industrial Technologies
segment encompasses strategic platforms in Aerospace and Defense. Was
the company previously known as Diversified Mortgage Investors (DMG,
Inc.)? Yes, DMG was the name of the holding company under which
Danaher was initially organized."
http://www.danaher.com

http://VerifiedVoting.org, our partners, and voters across the
country have successfully persuaded state governments to pass or
propose legislation / regulations to require voter-verified paper
ballots. Help us complete the legislative landslide toward reliable,
secure, and transparent elections!

Votergate is the investigative documentary feature film uncovering
the truth about new computer voting systems which allow a few
powerful corporations to record our votes in secret. Voter rights
pioneering advocate Bev Harris exposes the failures of Diebold
Election Systems. Find out how the lack of verifiability in
electronic voting can lead to the stealing of an election. This 30
minute Presidential Election Special Edition of VOTERGATE was created
by VoterGate.tv as a free educational service to get out critical
information to the public.
http://www.votergate.tv
http://www.votermarch.org

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Saudis, Enron Money Helped Pay for US Rigged Election

by Wayne Madsen
Online Journal
November 25, 2004

According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush
campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives
around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were
posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually
technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and
Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked
the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from
technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their
work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the
technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program."

http://onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.htm
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Diebold Vote Fraud Gives Bush Cheney Extra Votes

This is another bitch slap to US voters from Diebold and AP

by JOHN MCCARTHY
Conspiracy Planet

AP(Asociated Propaganda) - An error with an electronic voting system
gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections
officials said. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush
receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a
precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in
that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to
unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday
after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in
Ohio would not change the result.

Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change
the election's outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in
Ohio's electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.

Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Controls Inc.

Danaher did not immediately return a message for comment.

Sean Greene, research director with the nonpartisan Election Reform
Information Project, said that while the glitch appeared minor "that
could change if more of these stories start coming out."

In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost in this
election because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored
ballots electronically could hold more data than it did.

And in San Francisco, a malfunction with custom voting software could
delay efforts to declare the winners of four races for county
supervisor.

In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are recorded to eight
memory locations, including a removable cartridge, according to
Verified Voting Foundation, an e-voting watchdog group. After voting
ends, the cartridge is either transported to a tabulation facility or
its data sent via modem.

Kimball Brace, president of the consulting firm Election Data
Services, said it's possible the fault lies with the software that
tallies the votes from individual cartridges rather than the machines
or the cartridges themselves.

Either way, he said, such tallying software ought to have a way to
ensure that the totals don't exceed the number of voters.

County officials did not return calls seeking details.

Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of
Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch that on one of the three
machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred when its cartridge
was plugged into a reader and generated a faulty number. He could not
explain how the malfunction occurred.

Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election
board's Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would
have been discovered when the official count for the election is
performed later this month, he said.

The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race on
the machine.

Other electronic machines used in Ohio do not use the type of
computer cartridge involved in the error, state officials say.

But in Perry County, a punch-card system reported about 75 more votes
than there are voters in one precinct. Workers tried to cancel the
count when the tabulator broke down midway through, but the machine
instead double-counted an unknown number in the first batch. The
mistake will be corrected, officials say.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed
by Election Systems & Software Inc. for the city's new "ranked-choice
voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal
offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes
outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then
distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first
round.

When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run
Wednesday, some of the votes didn't get counted. The problem was
attributed to a programming glitch that limited how much data could
be accepted, a threshold that did not account for high voter turnout.

http://conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=31&contentid=1642

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Election panel promises to improve process

November 17, 2000
By Nellann Young, News-Sentinel staff writer

KNOXVILLE, TENN.-Knox County election commissioners promised to work
to improve the election process Thursday as voters and poll workers
voiced more concerns about Election Day snafus.

Among the top concerns of voters and workers were busy phone lines,
broken voting machines, registration forms that appeared to have
never been processed and confusion on where to vote.

"We're all vested in the right to vote," Knox County Election
Commission Chairman Mark Brown told a crowd of about 75 citizens and
state and local lawmakers gathered at the City County Building.

"We need you as a community, you as legislators, you as voters to
come work with the process," Brown said.

State Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, who called the meeting, said he
was disappointed to hear so many complaints. "I'm going to make sure
they fix it," Burchett said, adding he would stand over election
commissioners to make sure they did just that.

But he added that many of the Motor-Voter problems occurred because
some driving center officials neglected to tell voters to fill out a
registration form when they got their license -- not just check a box
indicating they wanted to register.

Brown said the commission will designate some of its 16 phone lines
next Election Day to technicians and poll workers after several
complained they couldn't reach the commission to verify information.

He added many citizens who thought they could vote were made inactive
earlier this year when the commission received back 20,000 address
verification forms because the addressee no longer lived where the
form was sent.

"We feel that a lot of people fell through the cracks because of that
process," Brown said.

Eric Beaty, president of the University of Tennessee's Student
Government Association, complained voters weren't allowed to get into
campus poll lines two hours before the polls closed.

Meanwhile, absentee ballot counter Eric Meek, 21, reported about 150
ballots were misplaced after they were tallied the night of the
election, making it tough to match ballots with tallies if necessary.
He added that he reported problems to a supervisor.

In addition, he said, ballot counters sometimes marked votes for the
incorrect candidate, only to be corrected later, while votes
straggled in all night.

Brown said Meek's report was the first he had heard of the incident
and that he would check with election officers to see what happened
during the count.

Meek added, "It was getting really late, and I guess allowances were
being made."

* The Knox County Election Commission will certify election results
and allow public comment at its meeting at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20,
in Room 212 of the Knox County Courthouse, 300 Main St.

Nellann Young may be reached at 865-342-6306 or youngn@....

http://www.knoxnews.com/archives/browserecent/11172000/archives/18537.
shtml

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Machine error gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio

By John McCarthy, Associated Press
USA Today
11/6/2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An error with an electronic voting system gave
President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections
officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes
to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records
show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total
should have been recorded as 365.

Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to
unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday
after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in
Ohio would not change the result.

Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change
the election's outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in
Ohio's electronic machines, said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.

Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Controls's ELECTronic
1242, an older-style touchscreen voting system. Danaher did not
immediately return a message for comment.

Sean Greene, research director with the nonpartisan Election Reform
Information Project, said that while the glitch appeared minor "that
could change if more of these stories start coming out."

In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost in this
election because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored
ballots electronically could hold more data than it did.

And in San Francisco, a malfunction with custom voting software could
delay efforts to declare the winners of four races for county
supervisor.

Multiple copies of each ballot are recorded: two on the machine and
three to a removable cartridge, said Matthew Damschroder, director of
the Franklin County Board of Elections. When voting ends, each
cartridge is taken to one of five zones in the county, where the
results are loaded into a laptop. Those results are transferred by
secure data lines to the county.

Kimball Brace, president of the consulting firm Election Data
Services, said it's possible the fault lies with the software that
tallies the votes from individual cartridges rather than the machines
or the cartridges themselves.

Either way, he said, such tallying software ought to have a way to
ensure that the totals don't exceed the number of voters.

Damschroder said the malfunction occurred when one machine's
cartridge was plugged into a laptop computer and generated faulty
numbers in several races. He could not explain how the malfunction
occurred, but he would not rule out a problem with the laptop's
software. An investigation was continuing, he said.

The county has about 3,000 of the machines, which first were used in
the 1992 election and will be replaced by 2006 to comply with federal
law. Damschroder has ruled out a problem with software at the central
vote collection office, as well as tampering.

"We tested if there was some possibility of human intervention and it
was not possible," Damschroder said.

Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election
board's Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would
have been discovered when the official count for the election is
performed later this month, he said.

The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race on
the machine.

Other electronic machines used in Ohio do not use the type of
computer cartridge involved in the error, state officials say.

But in Perry County, a punch-card system reported about 75 more votes
than there are voters in one precinct. Workers tried to cancel the
count when the tabulator broke down midway through, but the machine
instead double-counted an unknown number in the first batch. The
mistake will be corrected, officials say.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed
by Election Systems & Software Inc. for the city's new "ranked-choice
voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal
offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes
outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then
distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first
round. (Related story: 'Ranked-choice voting' experiment hits tech
snag)

When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run
Wednesday, some of the votes didn't get counted. The problem was
attributed to a programming glitch that limited how much data could
be accepted, a threshold that did not account for high voter turnout.

http://usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-11-06-ohio-
evote-trouble_x.htm

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OH MY OHIO: Third Election Official Indicted on Charges of Gaming
2004 Presidential Recount!

All Three Still Allowed to Work at Cuyahoga County Board Even While
Under Indictment...

In case you don't know, the ballots from the 2004 Presidential
Election in Ohio have never actually been counted. Or even recounted.
The "official" recount, called for by the...

In case you don't know, the ballots from the 2004 Presidential
Election in Ohio have never actually been counted. Or even recounted.

The "official" recount, called for by the Green and Libertarian
Parties in the state, was gamed and carried out completely against
state law by Ohio's Sec. of State (and Bush/Cheney's Re-Election
Committee Co-Chair) J. Kenneth Blackwell.

The Green and Libertarian Parties are still challenging that recount
in Federal Court. As well, two Cuyahoga County Election Officials
were indicted last August for gaming that (non)recount.

And today, AP informs us, a third one has just been nabbed as well...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The third highest ranking employee at the Cuyahoga
County Board of Elections has been indicted on charges of mishandling
ballots during the 2004 presidential election recount.

Jacqueline Maiden is the third board worker charged with six counts
alleging that Ohio laws were not followed in the selection and review
of ballots for the recount.
...
Maiden, now the board's elections coordinator, was the director of
the elections division during the recount in December 2004.

Two other board workers, Rosie Grier and Kathleen Dreamer, were
indicted in August and scheduled for trial May 8. Dreamer was the
manager of the board's ballot department and Grier was an assistant
manager.

Amazingly enough -- or perhaps not, since this is Ohio, after all,
where the rule of law no longer actually applies -- the story also
reports that "All three [indicted] employees continue to work at the
board."

"We're in the process of converting to the electronic voting, and we
need our best people," board chairman Bob Bennett said. "We've moved
them from any responsibility of recount or responsibility of ballots."

Sure you have, Bob. We all feel much better. We guess by "best
people" he means the ones who are most indicted.

(Perhaps he should consider hiring the affable Jack Abramoff to
answer the phones for them during this busy season?!)

http://bradblog.com/archives/00002531.htm

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We should cease to talk about vague…and unreal objectives such as
human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization.
The day is not far off when we will have to deal with straight power
concepts. The less we are hampered with idealistic slogans, the
better…. The final answer might be an unpleasant one, but…we should
not hesitate before police repression by the local government. This
is not shameful…. It is better to have a strong regime in power than
a liberal government if it is indulgent and relaxed."
—George Kennan, U.S. State Department

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator."
—President-Select King George Bush III, adulterous member of British
royal House of Windsor, Satanic cultmember performing human
sacrifices at Bohemian Grove, Nazi worshiper at Yale's Skull & Bones
secret society, 3-strikes you're out jail-bird war deserter, on CNN
News, Aired December 18, 2000 - 12:00 p.m. ET
http://cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html

"There ought to be limits to freedom."
–George W Bush, May 21, 1999

"A president of the United States has just assumed what amounts to
dictatorial power."
—William Safire, New York Times, "Seizing dictatorial power",
November 15, 2001



JOKE OF THE DAY:

Can you imagine working at the following company? It has a little
over 500 employees with the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have bankrupted at least two businesses
3 have been arrested for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are current defendants in lawsuits
In 1998 alone:
217 traffic violations
Over 100 were stopped for drunk driving
3,000 unpaid parking tickets were issued


Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? Scroll down for
the answer...





























It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group
that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws
designed to keep the rest of us in line. By claiming "Constitutional
immunity" our political overseers avoid criminal prosecution for all
traffic crimes. These are only statistics for Washington DC, Virginia
and Maryland police files, and do not reflect traffic crimes
committed in other jurisdictions. [court records]

PS: This is not a joke.

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