ES & S...very interesting...we are screwed!

Vote For Me

just an excerpt from here

Senator Chuck Hagel, former ES&S Chairman, (AIS at the time- just prior to the 1997 buyout), was running the company in 1995 that would count his votes in his amazing surprise victory in 1996—the first Republican Senate winner in Nebraska in 24 years! Local papers called it a “stunning upset.” It was his first race for the Senate; he had been living out of state for 20 years, and was running against Nebraska’s popular former Governor, Ben Nelson. Nelson was leading in the polls by 65% to 18%, yet Hagel came from behind and won at 56%...

MORE....

Today, the McCarthy Group is run by Michael McCarthy, who happens to be Chuck Hagel's treasurer. Hagel's financials still list the McCarthy Group as an asset, with his investment valued at $1-$5 million. Campaign finance reports show that Michael McCarthy also served as treasurer for Hagel until December of 2002.

ES&S also has a connection to the Bush family. Jeb Bush's first choice as running mate in 1998 was Sandra Mortham who was a paid lobbyist for ES&S and received a commission for every county that bought its touch-screen machines. from here

...one more

A day after West Virginia secretary of state Betty Ireland held a press conference to address vote-switching problems with touchscreen voting machines made by Election Systems & Software, she presented an award of merit to an ES&S vice president, who had abruptly and mysteriously left the company in May after 11 years of service, according to the Charleston Gazette.

Gary Greenhalgh, as ES&S's vice president of sales, helped the company win a $17-million contract to supply machines to West Virginia in 2005 and was the company's point person for dealing with election officials until he left ES&S.
read more here

Missoula Elections

I assumed here in Missoula our voting was safe since we had paper ballots....after I recieved an email, I decidec to check on this....turns out our votes are counted by a system that has a very bad reputation and is tied to the worst voted fraud in our nations history.

here is the email I recieved...
Our elections in Montana are not hand-ballot, they are COUNTED by machine, according to our own Vickie Zeier. While I was voting absentee today, She admitted to me after a bit of prodding that the company that gives Montana the scanners to count votes (at least in Missoula County) is the company listed below. I'll be gone until next week, so if someone else wants to research and investigate it's up to you.


Dear Matt:

Election Systems & Software

11208 John Galt Blvd

Omaha, NE 68137

Sincerely, Vickie Zeier

Vickie M. Zeier
Missoula County Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer
vzeier@co.missoula, mt.us
(406) 258-3234


ES & S History....

WHO RUNS DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS? WHO WROTE THE PROGRAMS?

Bob Urosevich is the CEO of Diebold Election Systems. Urosevich created the original software architecture for Diebold Election Systems, and his original company, called I-Mark Systems, can be found in the source code signatures.

Prior to programming for and taking over Diebold Election Systems, Urosevich programmed for and was CEO of Election Systems & Software (ES&S), which counts 56 percent of the votes in the United States. When Urosevich left ES&S, Chuck Hagel took his position. (Hagel then ran for the U.S. Senate, with ES&S machines counting his own votes, but failed to disclose that he had been both CEO and Chairman of ES&S on his disclosure documents).

Bob Urosevich, together with his brother Todd, founded ES&S. Bob then went to run Diebold, while Todd still is a Vice President at ES&S. Diebold and ES&S, together, count about 80 percent of the votes in the United States.

IN Missoula We USE.............

ES&S Model 650, Model 100 and its problems.....some of them...

... Broward County, Florida. November 2004. ES&S DRE System
Vote tabulation software loses 70,000 votes for Amendment 4.

....Orange County, Florida. November, 2004. ES&S Optical Scan System
Vote tabulating software omits counting 8,400 votes.21

....Guilford County, North Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S DRE System
Vote tabulating software changes two outcomes in Guilford County.

.....Carroll County, North Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S Optical Scan System
Vendor mis-programming caused the miscount.

.....Mahoning County, Ohio. November, 2004. ES&S DRE
Machines broke down in 16 precincts; others needed calibration.
Many problems plagued the ES&S iVotronic touch screen voting machines in 16 of the 312 Mahoning County precincts.

......ES&S iVotronic — Case Study of a Tiny Programming Bug
All software has bugs, but the opportunity to examine a bug in voting software is rare.
Fortunately, we had a chance after a news article was published May 13, 2004 telling about a
"serious bug" found by Orlando Suarez in Miami-Dade's ES&S election equipment nearly a year
earlier. ES&S had known about this serious bug for nearly a year and had not fixed it.71

....Indiana – ES&S iVotronic
Election Systems & Software provided illegal software for last year's election, lied to the
board about a temporary fix and fired a helpful project manager, said Clerk of the Courts
Jill Jackson

.....Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood
The claim: March 8, 2004. "Well, I have a high confidence level. And it's based on the fact that,
since 2002, when we put new equipment in place in the state of Florida, that we have
had no problem whatsoever, according to our 67 supervisors of elections." 169
The facts: Miami-Dade County, 2002: ES&S iVotronics failed to count 8.2% of the votes.170
Broward County, 2002: An ES&S iVotronic error missed counting 22% of the votes.171
Palm Beach County, 2002. Sequoia Edge touch screens froze up when the language
was selected, sometimes switched votes to the opposite candidate.172
Broward County, January 2004: ES&S iVotronics lost 134 votes in a one-race election.
The winning margin was 12 votes.173

....ES&S Paid Commissions to Officials who Endorsed Their Products

....Fortune's Worst Technology of 2003: Paperless Voting
Fortune magazine's winner of the worst technology of 2003 award was "Paperless Voting."
Fortune considers this technology even worse than implanted identification devices, which only
won the runner-up award.

.....the complete document including citations is available here



......That’s not to say that there were no problems. When election workers plugged memory cards from Flathead County electronic voting machines into computers, the computers tabulated all the county’s votes for just one candidate.

County Election Director Monica Eisenzimer says she felt more comfortable using the printouts to count the votes anyway, “especially with all the speculation about the machines.”

The voting machines in use in the Flathead, made by Omaha, Neb.-based Election Systems & Software (ES&S), are the only ones approved for use in Montana by the Secretary of State’s office.

Elsewhere, problems with ES&S machines were reported in one Arkansas county, where some precincts reported more votes than voters, and another where no votes were recorded in a mayoral race. In Florida, 18,000 votes were completely lost by ES&S machines. read more here


.......IMPORTANT.....

In October of 2007, We The People Foundation filed the Clean Election lawsuit against all 50 states. To date, Montana has ignored this lawsuit, making it an issue that we the voters must address before our election on November 4th. This press release is being sent to all known newspapers as well as other media outlets in Montana. Everyone reading or hearing this needs to promptly contact his or her local elections office. Of Montana's 56 counties, 44 use hackable optical scanners to count our votes. We must all contact our county elections office and demand to see the report issued by our state election official, better known as the Secretary of State, certifying the integrity of our vote counting machines. If such a report is not available, then the vote counting machines covered by the county report cannot be legally used in the election. (See MCA 13-17-101.2). Each county's report must be a certification of the integrity of the software used in the machines, the pronouncement that the machines were investigated and found to be unhackable, the chips in them deemed not replaceable, no modems (which can be either hard-wired or operated by remote control,) exist in the machines, and basically a strong verification that each machine is absolutely tamper-proof and fully reliable, as well as operating in a fully transparent manner. Please take a moment now and contact your county elections office. If each of us do this and view the reports for ourselves, we can better guarantee a fair and honest election. Remember, it is not he who votes that counts, but he who counts the votes.
Furthermore, we should all be aware of the fact that we have a right to request our votes be hand-counted. Note that when you go to vote, each precinct has a large envelope sitting in front of the election official. Those large envelopes are provided to hold the ballots from voters requesting their ballot be hand-counted. If you are unsure, as I am, that an unhackable machine is accurately counting your vote, then request that your vote be hand-counted instead of sent through the optical scanner.
If we all work together, we can not only further ensure a fair and honest election, but will also address the well-known voter fraud proactively rather than reactively.


Sharbono for secretary of state

Brokaw Powell Frauds....Puppets!

I got into a little tiff with my Girl Friend the other day. I mentioned my feeling about Colin Powell and Tom Brokaw and how they were both sell outs. She, bless here heart still has that patriotic innocence that these phonies play on. Today I see on one of my favorite sites...Jesse Richard does a piece on just this....check out his....Interview with Ray McGovern concerning Colin powell and Tom Brokaw. The facts that point to their deception and distortion of what led us to invade Iraq. Brokaw is a fraud who has the CFR agenda ahead of truth and historical fact!

go here

Tom Brokaw


Colin Powell

http://crooksandliars.com/2008/09/28/meet-the-press-brokaws-fairness-facts-pulled-out-of-thin-air-to-make-mccain-look-better

War Crimes

Some one needs to be the sacraficial lamb so to speak...(not that Bushie is anything like a lamb) before the country can move forward. It is like when a family discovers that the father has been sexually abusing the children....do you look the other way?? or does everyone bury their heads in the sand look the other way while the victims grow up to become the abusers and the injustice becomes the norm!?? I am happy to relay that there is some serious dialogue(action) happening.....here is where you can get more info.....Mission
and here

George W. Bush will not be impeached.

After Inauguration Day Bush will leave office and continue to live a life of privilege and comfort.



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American Military Deaths in Iraq
Total In Combat
Since war began: 4185 3388
Since 5/1/2003: 4046 3280
Official Estimated
Total Wounded: 30702 100000+

An estimated 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion. More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country

Cost of the War in Iraq
$563,555,409,037

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Regardless of the horrendous damage Bush has inflicted upon Iraq and this country, George W. Bush is planning to walk away from the greatest crime ever committed by an American President.


He took this country to war under false pretenses.

He lied to the Congress and the rest of the American people in order to start his war with Iraq.

How can we let this happen? Is there anything we can do about it? Vincent Bugliosi has come up with a remarkable solution in his latest book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

After reading the book it becomes obvious that impeachment, even if it was "on the table," is not justice.

From: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/143772/index.php

Propaganda now known as Public relations

The American approach to social control
is so much more sophisticated and pervasive

that it deserves a new name

It not propaganda any more, it's “prop-agenda”

It's not so much the control of what we think,

but the control of what we think about

Propaganda for Dummies
In the West the calculated manipulation of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is much more covert and therefore much more effective than a propaganda system imposed in a totalitarian regime.

Its greatest triumph is that we generally don't notice the influence of propaganda — or laugh at the notion it even exists.

We watch the democratic process taking place - heated debates in which we feel we could have a voice — and think that, because we have “free” media, it would be hard for the Government to get away with anything very devious without someone calling them on it.

The American approach to social control is so much more sophisticated and pervasive that it really deserves a new name.

It isn't just propaganda any more, it's “prop-agenda.” It's not so much the control of what we think, but the control of what we think about.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about.

And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false “intelligence” and selected “leaks”.

With the ground thus prepared, governments are happy if you then “use the democratic process” to agree or disagree — for, after all, their intention is to mobilise enough headlines and conversation to make the whole thing seem real and urgent.

The more emotional the debate, the better. Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Keeping the People Passive & Obedient

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views.

read the rest of what Noam Chomsky wrote here

Presidential canidates

When I want the kids to do some work around the house I don't ask if there want to mow the lawn, or if they will do the dishes, or would they mind pulling some weeds in the garden, and I don't order them to do these things (unless plan A fails...but there not that smart yet!). what I do is i frame or propose what I want them to do so that they feel like they have a choice. I will say hey little johnny what do ya think about helping me out today, response usually "OK" then I ask if they would rather mow or do the dishes....thus they are thinking between the 2 choices I framed for them ...not any thing else....and they are happy about it ...because they had a choice and exercised it!!

Elections may be more complex but the fundamentals apply. Our 7Th grader came home the other day excited about the test they took that indicates if they are more republican or more Democrat and how it related to their pick between McCain or Obama....what an educational tool I thought (sarcastically to my self). I suggested that he ask the teacher about the other candidates running and the parties they represent to stir some discussion......Ill never forget How he responded....he said so innocently only as a youngster could "they teacher would say I'm too smart and to not confuse the class" I thought to my self " how prophetic"

well there are at least 10 candidates running for president, I will list them and their links....check em out ...I'm not saying who you should vote for...just educate yourself..

also make sure to go to TV News Lies...Jesse over there always has something real to say



Candidate Party Site

Gene Amondson/Leroy Pletten /prohibition Partyhttp://www.geneamondson.com/prohibition-party-2004.html

Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle /Constitution Partyhttp://baldwin2008.com/

Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root /Libertarian Partyhttp://bobbarr2008.com/

Róger Calero/Alyson Kennedy /Socialist workers Party http://www.themilitant.com/2008/ElectionCampaign/platform.html

Alan Keyes/Brian Rohrbough /Independent Partyhttp://www.alankeyes.com/

Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente /Green Partyhttp://www.votetruth08.com/

Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez /Random Partyhttp://votenader.org/

Ted Weill/Frank McEnulty /Reform Party http://www.reformpartyusa.org/

A more complete list is available here