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David Graeber asks in Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology:

Q: How many voters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Because voters can’t change anything.¹

“Ever since the presidential election of 2000 put the words ‘hanging chad’ into the lexicon, states are going high-tech,” according to a WishTV.com news site article available in 2005.²

The switch to computerized systems is to eliminate the problems with older voting methods such as punch card ballots which can “be rigged, by selectively die-cutting so that some chads dislodge more easily than others,” points out Bev Harris in “Embezzler Programmed Voting System” for the Scoop Independent News website.³

“Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical failures could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precincts nationwide to delete or alter votes,” according to an Associated Press (AP) release “Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary” at the Wired.com website.⁴

Bob Fitrakis writes in his 2004 article “Black Box Voting” at the OnlineJournal.com news website:

The electronic voting industry is dominated by only a few corporations – Diebold, Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Sequoia. Diebold and ES&S combined count for an estimated 80 percent of U.S. black box electronic votes.…

Johns Hopkins researchers at the Information Security Institute issued a report declaring that Diebold’s electronic voting software contained “stunning flaws.” The researchers concluded that vote totals could be altered at the voting machines and by remote access. Diebold vigorously refuted the Johns Hopkins report, claiming the researchers came to “a multitude of false conclusions.” ⁵

CBS News quotes Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University in its “E-Voting: Is The Fix In?” report:

“We found all kinds of problems in the code,” he said. “A computer scientist can look at program and immediately tell you if it was written by professional programmers who know how to do software engineering or if it was just put together by a bunch of hacks. And, upon looking at the source code for Diebold, it was pretty clear that this was a real amateur job.” ⁶

“Omaha-based ES&S, and its Republican roots may be even stronger than Diebold’s,” writes Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman in their 2004 article “Diebold’s Political Machine” article for the Mother Jones website which details egregious “Black Box” miscounted votes including U.S. “Vice President Al Gore getting minus 19,000” in one county. “Wherever Diebold and ES&S go, irregularities and historic Republican upsets follow,” according to Fitrakis in “Black Box Voting.” ⁷

“At least five convicted felons secured management positions” at a Diebold subsidiary reports the “Con Job” article. “‘Mob ties, bribery, felony convictions, and threats of coercion are visible in the public record of the [Sequoia] election services company,’ according to investigative journalist and filmmaker Daniel Hopsicker, and reported in Spotlight.com,” writes Lynn Landes in a 2002 article for the CommonDreams.org News Center, “Elections In America – Assume Crooks Are In Control.” ⁸

An interview featured in a short documentary regarding the secretive Bilderberg Group comprised of globalist and industrialist leaders describes the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats:

Here’s the way you get it: it’s organized crime. All you do is call the Republicans the Genoveses and you call the Democrats the Gambinos. The people at the top, they treat it like a crap game, like it’s their crap game, like they’re making lots of money. Occasionally somebody at the table shoots each other, but the moment anything threatens their crap game they all unite to protect it. They’re both controlled by the same financial, economic, and corporate interests.⁹

“Post-election, conservative talk shows have taken a hit as their viewership realized they had been completely misinformed about where the election was going,” notes Justin Acuff for the Addicting Info website. “Although they assured their viewers that the election was very close, the statistics indicated otherwise and were confirmed the morning of November 7.” ¹⁰

With 1% of the votes in during the South Carolina primaries, a small sample of exit polling clearly shows Mitt Romney in the lead, but CBS News (and other stations using the same data), call the election in favor of Newt Gingrich.

“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” — Susan B. Anthony, 1872

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¹ David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: IL, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004), p. 77.

² Rick Dawson and Loni Smith McKown, An I-Team 8 Investigation: Part One: Will Your Vote Count?, wishtv.com, at http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886 (retrieved: November 2005); see also newsmine.org, at http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=cabal-elite/election-fraud/electronic/2004-primaries/investigation-will-your-vote-count.txt (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

³ Bev Harris, “Embezzler Programmed Voting System,” 23 December 2003, Scoop.com, at http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

⁴ Associated Press, “Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary,” 27 December 2003, Wired.com, at http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2003/12/61640 (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

⁵ Bob Fitrakis, “Black Box Voting: Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy,” Online Journal 10 March 2004, at http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html (retrieved: 26 October 2008).

⁶ “E-Voting: Is The Fix In?” CBS News, 4 August 2004, at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

⁷ Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, “Diebold’s Political Machine,” 5 March 2004, at http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

⁸ Lynn Landes, “Elections In America – Assume Crooks Are In Control,” CommonDreams.org, 16 September 2002, at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm (retrieved: 26 October 2008).

⁹ “New World Order Bilderberg Group – Open Your Eyes and See The TRUTH,” Ysalys video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Z0eCz0pF4&t=7m37s (retrieved: 5 October 2011). (Watch it here)

¹⁰ Justin Acuff, “Fox Talk Shows Plummet In Ratings Post-Election,” AddictingInfo.org, at http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/01/fox-talk-shows-plummet-in-ratings-post-election/ (retrieved: 2 January 2013).

See also

Kevin Crosby, “Voting,” SkewsMe.com, at http://www.skewsme.com/voting.html (retrieved: 5 October 2011).

William J. Chambliss, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at the George Washington University, and President of the American Society of Criminology (1988), On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents, Second Edition (Indiana: University Press, 1978, 1988).

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men (New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1974, 1975).

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“2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes,” centralpavote video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM (retrieved: 6 November 2012). (Watch it here)

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“New World Order Bilderberg Group – Open Your Eyes and See The TRUTH,” Ysalys video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Z0eCz0pF4 (retrieved: 5 October 2011). (Watch it here)

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“This Hoax Affects Everyone,” mhfm1 video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OynCgwmD-HM (retrieved: 12 February 2012). (Watch it here)

“Is there a conspiracy against Ron Paul?,” RTAmerica video at YouTube.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IO8_9Xiu1o (retrieved: 15 March 2012). (Watch it here)

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