I've included sources, in case you want to check the facts.
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. [Link here and here.]
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. [Link here and here]
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. [Link here and here]
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." [Link here and here]
5. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. [Link here and here]
6. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. [Link here and here]
7. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. [Link here and here]
8. Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, including planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of two years. [Link here or download this PDF]
9. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here.) [Link here and here]
10. All the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.[Link here, here, here, here and here]
Angry Girl has these and more posted on her blog for you to read, if this hasn't been enough to turn your stomach.
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