• Restoring Democracy in America
• The Coming American Revolution
• Corporatism vs. Democracy in America
• Bollyn on Fictional Elections
• ELRON - VOXEO: The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus
• Chicago Ballot Chaos
• Florida Election Stolen
• Death of Democracy Or May the Best Hacker Win

Restoring Democracy in America

March 19, 2011

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), author of Democracy in America

As this system is the only form and principle of government by which liberty can be preserved, and the only one that can embrace all the varieties of a great extent of country, it necessarily follows, that to have the representation real, the election must be real; and that where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce like.
- Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States, 29 January 1803

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
- Plato

The reason why I'm so strong on democracy is democracies don't go to war with each other...I've got great faith in democracies to promote peace. And that's why I'm such a strong believer that the way forward in the Middle East, the broader Middle East, is to promote democracy.
- President George W. Bush comments on Middle East, 12 November 2004

 
It's in our national interest that the work you're doing here, the work of helping the Afghans develop a democracy - it's in the interests of your children and your grandchildren. Because, you see, democracies yield the peace we all want. History has taught us democracies don't war. Democracies - you don't run for office in a democracy and say, please vote for me, I promise you war. You run for office in democracies, and say, vote for me, I'll represent your interests; vote for me, I'll help your young girls go to school, or the health care you get improved. Democracies yield peace, and that's what we want.
- President George W. Bush to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Bagram Air Base, 1 March 2006

The American relationship to democracy is very much like the Soviet relationship to communism.  American politicians and the media talk about democracy in the same way that Soviet leaders and their media spoke about communism.  The Soviet Union had institutes devoted to communism and the Kremlin fostered communist regimes in nations far and wide.  Likewise, the United States has institutes that claim to promote democracy around the world and Washington wages war to foster democracy in distant lands.  While U.S. presidents blather about waging war in support of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq, most Americans assume that they live in a democratic nation - but do they?  If the United States is a truly a functioning democracy in which the government is controlled by representatives who are elected by the people, why is there such a disconnect between what the American people want from their government - and what they get?     

The United States of America is generally thought to be the world's most powerful democratic nation and the leading proponent of democracy.  According to President George W. Bush, this is why the U.S. was attacked on 9/11.  As the president told the nation, "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." 

After 9/11, claiming it was in the nation's interest to remove the Taliban regime and install a democratic government in Kabul, the Bush administration invaded Afghanistan.  As Bush told U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan in 2006, "History has taught us democracies don't war...Democracies yield peace, and that's what we want."  The main reason for the decade-long military occupation of Afghanistan, we are told, is to protect its fledgling democracy.  Likewise for the eight-year-old occupation of Iraq.

The Bush belief that "democracies yield peace" is merely a continuation of the democracy doctrine of Bill Clinton, which he articulated in his State of the Union address in January 1994, saying, "the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere."

 
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.
- President Bill Clinton, State Of The Union Address, 25 January 1994

ZIONISM vs DEMOCRACY

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

While Clinton and Bush claimed to be proponents of democracy, their deeds utterly failed to match their words.  In 2006, for example, when the Palestinians held free and fair elections, the United States refused to even accept the results.  In an open and democratic election for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) the clear winner was Hamas, who won the majority and should have been able to form a government.  Because the Hamas victory did not suit the Israelis, the United States ignored the election results and banned any meeting with Hamas officials.  As a result of the Israeli ban on Hamas, the U.S. government has supported the unelected Palestinian Authority and its self-proclaimed president for the past five years.  The Zionist diktat clearly trumped democracy for the Palestinians, a pattern we have seen repeated many times during the past decade. 

The United States supports brutal dictatorships and undemocratic regimes across the Middle East.  Israel portrays itself as a democracy although full rights and the democratic franchise is reserved only for Jews.  A Jewish settler on the West Bank, for example, is enfranchised to vote while his Christian or Muslim neighbor is not.  Why would a democracy like America support a dictatorship or an exclusive tribal state like Israel or Saudi Arabia?  It simply doesn't make sense unless one considers that the U.S. political system is controlled by Zionists.  An oil-rich democracy like Norway has to sell its oil in the same way as a dictatorship with oil.

The Obama administration has accepted the Israeli diktat and still refuses to meet with Hamas.  Likewise, Obama has shown tepid support for pro-democracy movements across the Middle East.  Rather than supporting peaceful protestors calling for democratic change, the U.S. has done little to prevent the tyrants it works with in the region from using lethal force against their own citizens.  In some cases, such as with its allies Egypt and Bahrain, the U.S. has evidently secretly supported the use of brutal force against pro-democracy protestors.

This raises a fundamental question about the nature of the U.S. government.  If the United States is truly a democratic state governed by representatives elected by the people, why does it support regimes that are clearly anti-democratic?  Why does the U.S. president ignore the will of the citizenry?  The American people were strongly opposed, in some polls by a ratio of 1,000 to 1, to the Bush-Obama bailout of Maurice Greenberg's criminal A.I.G. and the greedy investment banks it insured, yet the incredibly costly bailout sailed through Congress.  When it comes to the fraudulent "War on Terror", a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans say Obama's war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting and nearly three-quarters of the population say he should withdraw a “substantial number” of combat troops from Afghanistan this summer, but only 39 percent say they expect he will do that.  How can such a disconnect exist in a country that is supposedly governed by a president and congressmen elected by the people?

Ten years ago, I wrote an article about the electronic voting machines introduced in Chicago for the 2000 presidential election.  Having found that these machines completely removed the citizen from the vote-counting process and gave that power to the people who controlled the machines, I called the article "The Death of Democracy Or May the Best Hacker Win".  I have monitored several elections in Chicago since 2000 and have found that there is absolutely no citizen oversight of the vote counting process and no transparency whatsoever in how the results are tallied.  Furthermore, there is absolutely no discussion in the media of these most obvious and serious flaws in our elections.  Elections are really only a big story in America every four years and the fact that Americans have completely lost their democratic franchise does not seem to concern many people because they do not really understand how elections are supposed to be held in a democracy. 

A PRIMER ON DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

Franchise means the right to vote in a country's elections.  Americans are enfranchised when they have the right to vote for their representatives.  The word "franchise" comes from the Latin word francus, which means free.  In French, the words franc and franche derive from the Germanic tribe of Franks, because only Franks had full freedom in Frankish Gaul.  The French take their democratic franchise very seriously.  Having observed elections in other nations, I was most impressed by the simplicity and beauty of the open and transparent elections held in France in May 2002.

Americans don't need a violent revolution to throw out the criminals who control the United States.  What is required is to restore democracy in America by returning to open and democratic elections in which the citizens count the votes openly in each polling station.  Because Americans don't do this and don't understand how it should be done, I will explain how democratic elections should be done using my photographs from the French presidential election I monitored in Avignon on 5 May 2002, between the incumbent Jacques Chirac and Jean Marie Le Pen of France's National Front. 

Voter turnout was nearly 80 percent of the 41 million registered voters in France in the second round of the presidential election on 5 May 2002.  Nearly all of 33 million ballots cast had been hand counted in each polling station within one hour after the polls closed at 6 p.m. and the national tally was virtually complete by 8 p.m.  The French method of voting and the hand-counting of the votes by the citizens is an excellent model of how open and transparent democratic elections should be done.  There is no valid reason why Americans should not return to this foolproof method of voting.  This is, in fact, the only way to remove the criminals who have taken over our government. 

Campaign posters for the two candidates in Paris, May 2002


The author speaking to the press at Le Pen headquarters in St. Cloud near Paris


Le Pen giving a press conference several days before the election


Christopher Bollyn with Jean Marie Le Pen


Le Pen signing his biography for the author


Bollyn interviews Le Pen's daughter, Marine, who is currently the leading presidential candidate in France.  Elections will be held in 2012.


The famous old town of Avignon


An enfranchised French citizen signs in before casting his ballot.


In French presidential elections, the voter only chooses between the two strongest candidates. The voter takes a ballot for each candidate and puts his choice in a blue envelope in the privacy of the voting booth.  He then deposits his envelope in the transparent box in front of the election judges.  In America, on the other hand, the ballot on Election Day is often cluttered with hundreds of choices.  The election thieves intentionally clutter the ballot in order to confuse the voters and provide an excuse for using electronic vote-counting machines, which are controlled by members of the crimocracy.
   

An actual ballot for Le Pen from the election of 2002


After the polls close, the box of votes is opened by the local election judge in front of the press and the public.

The blue envelopes containing the ballots are dumped on the table in front of the citizens who will count the votes.


The envelopes containing the ballots are first counted and the tally compared with the number of voters who signed in at the polling station.  In this case there was a discrepancy of 1 vote.


The ballot envelopes are then put into larger envelopes of 100 votes.  In this polling station at the city hall of Avignon, there were about 760 votes cast.


The counting of the votes is done openly in front of the citizens and press.  This is an essential part of transparent and democratic elections.  If the vote counting is not done openly, the election cannot be called democratic.  The counting of the votes took less than one hour.


Each envelope of 100 votes is counted individually and the results checked twice and tallied.  Here the election workers remove the ballots, which are carefully counted and stacked by candidate.

Only those who are appointed to be part of the vote counting are allowed to touch the ballots or envelopes.  The public is able to witness every step of the vote counting, which is what makes an election authentic and transparent.


The station's results are tallied and authenticated by the judges.  This is what authenticates the election results in each polling station across France.  Such vote counting and authentication of precinct results was once done in polling stations across the United States but is now done only in a few rural communities.  Nearly all of the votes in the United States are processed by electronic voting machines or systems that are controlled by private companies.


The final tally for her station complete, the results are signed and sealed and returned to the box, which is locked.


The station's election judge is ready to take the results from her polling station to the central counting station for Avignon, which was in the city hall.


Election judges from across Avignon brought their boxes of votes to the city hall to be registered for the district tally.


The authenticated results from each polling place are registered.


The district results are then communicated by computer to the nation's central tally center.  Because the results of each polling place have been counted openly by the citizens there is virtually no chance for election fraud.  Because all the polling stations counted their votes simultaneously, virtually all the votes in France, nearly 33 million ballots, had been counted and tallied by 8 p.m.  Chirac won with 82 percent of the vote.  The French method is an excellent model of how an open and transparent democratic election should be conducted.

Sources and Recommended Reading:

Bollyn, Christopher, "Death of Democracy Or May the Best Hacker Win," 27 October 2000  
http://www.bollyn.com/death-of-democracy-or-may-the-best-hacker-win 

Bollyn, Christopher, "On Fictional Elections & Taking Our Republic Back," 3 January 2008
http://www.bollyn.com/bollyn-on-fictional-elections

Bollyn, Christopher, "Who Controls Our Elections?" Solving 9/11
http://www.bollyn.com/who-controls-our-elections 

Bollyn, Christopher, "Who Really Controls Our Political Parties?" Solving 9/11
http://www.bollyn.com/who-really-controls-our-political-parties 

The Coming American Revolution

June 25, 2010

Where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also.  Like will always produce like.
- Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States, January 29, 1803

A revolution is brewing in the United States of America.  The public discontent surrounding the costly and disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the firing of General Stanley A. McChrystal, and the BP oil spill in the Gulf are all indications that a revolution is nearing.  There are, of course, many other grievances, such as the trillion dollar bail-out and taxes, but there is one issue that makes a revolution inevitable:  the government lies and cover-up about what really happened on 9-11.

The publication in March 2009 of the discovery of a large amount of super-thermite in the dust of the pulverized World Trade Center was not just the end of the government's version as an acceptable explanation of what happened on 9-11 – it marked the beginning of the American revolution against the tyranny that has hijacked our republic. 

President Obama says that U.S. troops are fighting in Afghanistan because of the terrorism of 9-11 but we have solid scientific evidence that the Twin Towers were demolished with an extremely powerful form of super-thermite made with nanotechnology.  The government lies about 9-11 and the proof cannot co-exist in peace.  The discovery of super-thermite effectively marked the end of the criminal regime that runs the United States.  Its days are numbered.

Revolutions are usually associated with violence, but they don't have to be.  Since 1990, half the nations of Europe and Asia have gone through peaceful revolutions that replaced the former dictatorships of the once mighty Soviet Union.  The apartheid regime of South Africa also came to an end without violence.  The revolution to restore the sovereignty of the American people certainly need not be violent, and really should not be.

The essential problem with the American republic today is that "the representation is a fiction" because our elections are fraudulent fiction.  President Obama and the Congressmen running the United States do not really represent us, the American people.  Our politicians are beholden to the people who put them in power, i.e.  the people who own and control the electronic voting machine systems used across the United States.

The only way to peacefully restore the stolen sovereignty to the American people is to restore integrity and transparency to our elections.  The widespread use of electronic voting machines is how our republic is stolen from us every time we hold elections.  The easiest and surest way to get our nation back is to return to hand-counted paper ballots in every polling place across the United States.  The Constitution gives the states and counties the authority to determine the manner of voting.  The citizens in every county need to be involved and present at the counting of the votes in every polling place to properly authenticate the tally.  This is the absolute essential condition, the conditio sine qua non of an open and democratic election.  If the people are not involved in the counting of the votes, the election is not authentic.  It's that simple.  A few hours spent counting votes is a small price (but the absolute minimum required) to pay for preserving our republic.

Christopher Bollyn (left) visited ES&S in Omaha to ask a few questions about the company that runs the voting machines in many counties in the United States.  ES&S clearly did not want to talk and had absolutely no information to provide to the media.

In a discussion of the recent primary election in South Carolina in which a previously unknown candidate beat the Establishment candidate, I received the following email from a writer who goes by the name Jimi Big Bear.  Mr. Big Bear's comments about electronic vote fraud in the United States explain the problem in a way that everyone can understand.

Jimi Big Bear wrote the following:

In all likelihood, the same voting machines were used as were used to elect Obama. Right? Why no cries of vote rigging then?

Coulter:  Obama senior adviser [and Zionist handler] David Axelrod said Greene was not a "legitimate" candidate and called his victory "a mysterious deal." (Yes, how could a young African-American man with strange origins, suspicious funding, shady associations, no experience, no qualifications, and no demonstrable work history come out of nowhere and win an election?)

Is electronic voting a major problem? Absolutely. But I think what this incident points out is how corrupt the whole process is - what a farce and a sham it is. Maybe that's what whomever put up the $10,000 for this numb skull (Greene) wanted to show America? Maybe it's just the mood of the country to vote out all incumbents? Maybe Greene watched "Used Cars" one too many times?

There is only one Establishment party - a political MONOPOLY. It appears to have two "wings" or branches to it - Republican and Democrat - and the gullible public believes that one of the parties has their interests at heart, or is somehow or in someway "better" than the other party. It's so superficial, it's like TV sports (any/all of them). People have their team and wear their team's colors and watch their games - sometimes even travel to major cities to spend lots of money to watch their team live.

Time has proven that with Obama we have VERY LITTLE difference than if McCain/Palin would have been elected. The lesser of evils is still evil, after all. Why do those of you who voted for Obama not call him on his lies?

Obama is a Zionist-controlled politician just like Bush and Clinton.

Same thing with the media. It's all owned by just 6 companies - all of them owned/controlled by Zionists. The media collectively has a "box" - one side of the box is "left", "liberal", Democrat starring Mathews, Olberman, etc. The other side of the box is "right", "conservative", Republican starring Limbagh, Hannity, O'Reilly and Coulter, etc. The media makes it SEEM like there are real differences between the two sides, and they go to great lengths to keep us from "seeing" the box, and they all know, pretty much from experience, that if they want to keep getting the big paychecks, that they do NOT want to get out of the box. Don't get out of the box. Don't even talk about the box! Divide and conquer - just as M said. That's what demo[n]cracy is all about - divide and rule. That's why M also said, "Damn the democracy!"

To get caught up in the Al Greene debate is to be distracted from the bigger picture. The quickest way to get our Country back is to take the MONEY POWER away from the Zionist Crimocracy that runs the country. Without the "terrible power of the purse" they'll have to fold up their tent and move on. Liberals will stop being Neoliberals and Conservatives will stop being Neoconservatives. With cool heads, warm hearts and compromise, statesmen will replace politicians and our Country will be restored to greatness…

Vote fraud has been going on FAR longer than 2000 Bush Gore, folks. The Collier brothers are (or were - I think they were both killed with cancer) THE premier vote fraud discoverers.  In Florida, way back in the early 60's, one of the brothers ran for office and the other brother was his campaign manager. What they discovered - by actually participating in the process - was astounding.

VOTESCAM: The Stealing of America by the Collier brothers

Anyway, the media turned out to be involved in the vote fraud that was going on WAY back then - WAY before electronic voting machines. Janet Reno was involved. Catherine Graham - the Grand Dragon Lady of the Washington Post - and even the friggin League of Women Voters!!!! The Collier brothers were hounded and I believe ultimately murdered (slowly with cancer) by the ESTABLISHMENT'S CIA.

The crux of the problem remains the same:  THE VOTING IS SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET.  THE COUNTING IS SUPPOSED TO BE PUBLIC!

The Collier brothers walked into a back room of a voting machine company - with a video camera (big as they were in the day) - and captured members of the League of Women Voters actually altering the punch cards that the voting machines made that day in the election! They had "chads" all over their clothes!

The point I've been trying to make is that the core problem isn't Republicans or Democrats, it's the Establishment! They OWN Obama - just as they owned Bush-Cheney and McCain-Palin! They own the media. They own MOST of Congress. They own the voting machine companies.

If you're honest with yourself, you will admit that things are very little different from Bush-Cheney Junta to Obama. How many more of Obama's lies do you have to see proven before you will admit that there is only the one Establishment party? The Goldman-Sachs crowd owns Obama just as surely as they would (do) own McCain-Palin.

So, bottom line, DOES IT REALLY MATTER IF THERE IS VOTING FRAUD WHEN THE ONLY CHOICE WE HAVE IS BETWEEN THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS? SOMEONE FROM THE APPARENT DEMOCRAT WING OF THE ONE ESTABLISHMENT PARTY? OR SOMEONE FROM THE APPARENT REPUBLICAN WING OF THE ONE ESTABLISHMENT PARTY?

The time has come folks. We have to stop listening to and believing the awesome figure in front of us:  "Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain."

Look!

It's not really the Great and Powerful Oz that we need to tremble and grovel in front of - it's just a little Free Mason from Kansas.

WE outnumber THEM by almost a million to one. Their greatest fear is that we'll see them for what they are - that we'll see thru the illusion, confusion and ignorance that keeps them in power over us. That we will unite - throw the bastards out - and live in Liberty, Peace, Prosperity and Love.

Sources and Recommended Reading:

"On Fictional Elections & Taking Our Republic Back", January 3, 2008
http://www.bollyn.com/bollyn-on-fictional-elections

Corporatism vs. Democracy in America

January 23, 2010

 

"The conceit that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons in the political sphere is not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify the Court's disposition of this case.  In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant.  Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it.  The cannot vote or run for office.  Because they may be managed and controlled by nonresidents, their interests may conflict in fundamental respects with the interests of eligible voters.  The financial resources, legal structure, and instrumental orientation of corporations raise legitimate concerns about their role in the electoral process.  Our lawmakers have a compelling constitutional basis, if not also a democratic duty, to take measures designed to guard against the potentially deleterious effects of corporate spending in local and national races...

Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law...

The Court operates with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel when it strikes down one of Congress' most significant efforts to regulate the role that corporations and unions play in electoral politics."

-  Justice John Paul Stevens in his 90-page dissenting opinion in which he wrote that granting First Amendment rights to "corporate speech" would have been "inconceivable" to the Framers of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertising is the death knell for democracy* in America.  If voting machines killed the democratic franchise in the United States, this decision by the Supreme Court is a dump truck dumping tons of dirt on its grave.  This is the legal acceptance of what can only be called the rule of corporatism in America.  American voters do not generally elect their presidents and representatives based not on their real merits or political skills but mainly on the image of the candidate received through television advertising and televised debates, which are controlled by the two major political parties.  President Obama (my former senator who failed to respond to my letters) was not elected on his proven merits or political achievements (which are very scanty) but on a carefully crafted image of the candidate created by corporate lobbyist David Axelrod, his senior media strategist and political advisor.  This ruling gives corporations an even bigger voice than they already have in politics by allowing them to run televised political ads before an election.  This is a extremely flawed interpretation of the freedom of speech and cannot be allowed to stand if the United States is to retain any semblance of being a democratic republic.

"Joined by the other three members of the court's liberal wing, Justice Stevens said the majority had committed a grave error in treating corporate speech the same as that of human beings."
- New York Times, January 22, 2010

Corporations are not individuals or citizens.  They are super-sized entities that are international in scope and size.  Many of them are not beholden to any nation.  Corporations simply cannot be equated with citizens as they do not belong to any nation.  Corporations are concerned with gaining power and wealth and have core interests that are clearly contrary to the national good or public interest.  With this ruling corporations will be able to use their general funds to play a super-size role in any political contest in the nation.  How can any candidate of the people compete against someone who has the backing of a huge corporation with a war chest of millions of dollars to spend on advertising and television ads?  Corporations have business interests in every congressional district in the nation.  This ruling will enable them to exercise a massive influence in every congressional race.

“If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”
- Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing for the majority

Corporations can not be granted the same rights as those enshrined in the First Amendment for citizens of the United States.  To rule that corporations have the right of free speech in federal elections and then allow them to spend freely from their immense financial resources on political campaigns at every level across the United States is a most absurd interpretation of the Constitutional right of Freedom of Speech.  Justice Kennedy's statement above does not take into account that churches are "associations of citizens" that are fined (taxed) for engaging in political speech.  Churches in the United States do not have the right to political speech.  Why should corporations, which are often foreign-owned and controlled, be allowed to have the loudest voice in U.S. elections while churches are forced to be silent?  This decision destroys the notion that America is a government "of the people, by the people, for the people."

 

* The term democracy should not be taken to mean that the United States is a "democracy" in the literal or classical Greek meaning of the word.  Switzerland is a democracy in the real meaning of the word.  The Swiss citizenry is truly involved in making political decisions for the nation.  The United States was created as a republic with democratic elections in which representatives are chosen.  The right to choose political representatives through open and transparent elections is the "democratic franchise", something which has completely disappeared in most counties of the United States with the use of computerized electronic voting systems.

Recommended Reading:

Kirkpatrick, David D., “Lobbyists Get Potent Weapon in Campaign Ruling,” New York Times, January 21, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22donate.html

Hasen, Richard L., “Money Grubbers - The Supreme Court kills campaign finance reform”, January 21, 2010
http://www.slate.com/id/2242209/pagenum/all/

Bollyn on Fictional Elections

January 3, 2008

On Fictional Elections & Taking Our Republic Back

LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES
– On The Urgent Need to Take Our Elections Back

By Christopher Bollyn

It is always the interest of a far greater part of the nation to have a thing right than to have it wrong; and therefore, in a country whose government is founded on the system of election and representation, the fate of every party is decided by its principles.
As this system is the only form and principle of government by which liberty can be preserved, and the only one that can embrace all the varieties of a great extent of country, it necessarily follows, that to have the representation real, the election must be real; and that where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce like.
- Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States, Letter V, January 29, 1803

WHERE THE ELECTION IS FICTION

"Where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also," Thomas Paine wrote in 1803, "Like will always produce like."

Born and raised in Chicago and suburban Cook County, and having run for office in my hometown, I know something about fictional elections. Election fraud is a fact of life in Chicago and Illinois. It is the way to power for ambitious men and has been for a very long time. Illinois is a state where elections have long been criminal and fraudulent.

"Like will always produce like," as Paine wrote. Sure enough, the politicians in Chicago and Illinois reflect the criminality that brought them to power. It is not at all uncommon in Illinois for the former governors and mayors to be charged and imprisoned on serious crimes -- after they leave office. This is also how it has always been in my hometown of Hoffman Estates.

Tonight, the presidential race of 2008 officially begins with the Iowa caucus. We now know that Voxeo, a foreign company connected to the Israeli military, controlled and tallied the Iowa caucus results in 2004. The Iowa caucus results from 2004 were clearly manipulated to benefit John Forbes Kerry, the dark horse Democrat from Massachusetts who went to Iowa lagging far behind in 5th or 6th place, but who, quite unexpectedly, won the caucus.

Will Voxeo and the Iowa caucus cheat the American people again in 2008?

They will unless they are stopped by the good people of Iowa. The only hope to prevent another Iowa fraud is that the good people participating in the caucus do their own reporting and conduct their own tally of the results. The people of Iowa and the United States don't need or want the Israelis to tally their caucus.

The rest of the race is history. The fraudulent caucus results from Iowa created the utterly fake race of 2004. George W. Bush, the pro-war unelected incumbent was challenged by his good buddy from their secret homosexual society at Yale University, Skull & Bones.

The Israelis running Voxeo gave the Iowa caucus to Kerry. He ran as a pro-war Democrat whose only argument about the war was how to fight it more effectively. With two perverted Skull & Bones buddies running for office, Kerry was part of a conspiracy to deceive the American people by running a fake race.

In this way, the real burning issues of the day, for example America's Middle East policies and involvement in the illegal and disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were effectively removed from the debate.

Four years later, our republic is in increasingly dire straits. The second unelected administration of the dictatorial George W. Bush has made plans to continue the illegal wars of occupation in the Middle East until at least 2017. The Israelis must be pleased.

Some 4,000 Americans have already died in these costly and unnecessary wars on top of the thousands who were killed in the false flag terror attacks that were used to start them. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been disabled and maimed for life. Many more Iraqis have been killed and wounded. Half the Iraqi population is now homeless, severely distressed, or in exile. What is this war being fought for?

Our civil liberties are under attack from every quarter. The economy is in shambles, the infrastructure is crumbling, and millions of illegal immigrants live within our borders. The U.S. dollar is worth only half what it was in 2002, and is worth less than the Canadian dollar. At this rate, it will soon be on par with the Mexican Peso.

These, my fellow Americans, are the results of a criminal government, what I call a "crimocracy" – a government of criminals, by criminals, for criminals.

This regime of tyrants came to power in the same way that criminals have always come to power in Illinois – through fraudulent elections run by fellow criminals.

It is time for this nonsense to come to a screeching halt. The citizens of the United States need to remember that these are our elections and this is our government. There is no place for foreigners in our elections.

We need to insist that the Israelis and Venezuelans and their private vote-counting companies and their bogus software will not be tolerated to have any part in our elections. Their criminal conduct has been exposed and their days of stealing our elections are over.

Americans need to learn to be real patriots and jealously protect our nation in the same way they would defend their wives and children. We must guard our republic like a protective husband and prevent all enemies, domestic and foreign, from infiltrating and corrupting our elections and our government.

This is our sacred obligation as citizens of our democratic republic. If we are unwilling or unable to protect the integrity of our elections, we will lose our republic and our way of life – it's that simple.

We must demand that our elections are open and transparent and refuse to accept any electronic voting machine systems run by secretive and foreign companies to steal our elections. This is what ES&S, Diebold, Sequoia, and the others are doing – they are part of a foreign conspiracy to control our elections and government.

Nobody will give honest elections to us: we must demand them as our right as citizens in our republic. Forget about the mass media, non-governmental organizations, the courts, or the government fixing this for us. They are the ones who have created this mess and who benefit from it. It is up to us, as citizens, to stand up and demand that our votes be properly and openly counted.

We must refuse to accept electronic voting machines and computer generated tallies in any way, shape, or form. If our counties will not return to hand-counted paper ballots, we must challenge them and conduct our own elections. We must stand up and resist the stealing of our elections in the same way that the Mexicans did. We must make noise and demand open and transparent elections.

We must demand that the ballot be simple and uncluttered. On Election Day, we should only be voting for president and our representatives at the federal and state level. Cluttering the ballot with county judges, local officials, and other issues and candidates complicates the process and gives the criminals an excuse for using their computer card vote-stealing machines.

Elections should be simple, clear, and frequent. In Switzerland, a truly democratic republic, elections are held 4 times a year.

Demanding hand-counted paper ballots is the only way to take back our nation peacefully. The ballots must be kept in plain sight at all times and openly counted in each polling station in front of the public immediately after the polls close. This is not difficult or time consuming. Each precinct has only a few hundred voters. This is the way democratic elections are supposed to be. There can be no compromise on this transparency in the vote counting. This is the sine qua non of honest elections.

This is what we must demand. In doing so we are only demanding what is rightfully ours as citizens. This is our republic and this is our government. If we all stand up and demand open and honest elections, with hand-counted paper ballots, we can save the republic and our way of life. It is the only way.

Christopher Bollyn (back to camera) interviewing the rather angry CFO of Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Mr. Tom O'Brien, in August 2004 at the company's Omaha headquarters on John Galt Blvd. The CEO was unavailable for comment and the company that counts millions of American votes was unable to answer any questions or provide any press releases or information about itself. O'Brien was very uncomfortable being asked about the product his company sells.
Photo – Helje Kaskel

ELRON - VOXEO: The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus

By Christopher Bollyn
31 December 2007

The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?

The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process.

VOXEO

In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.

The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history. See Bollyn article on Yang below.)

The calls from the nearly 2,000 caucus centers in Iowa went to a Voxeo call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

On January 31, 2005, I wrote to Michelle Bauer, Iowa's Secretary of State with some questions about the use of Voxeo, a foreign company located in Florida, to tally the results of the Iowa caucus:

Subject: How was the Iowa Caucus Tallied?

Dear Sirs,

When I visited the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Des Moines last summer, I learned that the tally of the Iowa caucus had been "out-sourced" to a company in Atlanta, Georgia.

What this means is that the tallying of the Iowa caucus results was done over the telephone, using the touch-tone buttons, to enter the results from each caucus location…

I am interested in how this was done, and why. Why did the Democratic Party allow the crucial tally of the caucus results to be done by a company in Atlanta? Don't they trust their own math skills?

Can any of you provide any information about this matter?

Kind regards,

Christopher Bollyn

A person named Mike Milligan wrote back on behalf of Secretary of State Bauer:

Mike Milligan <milliganconsulting@mchsi.com> wrote:

Dear Christopher:

The Secretary of State forwarded me the email you sent to then on Monday, January 31, 2004 [sic] regarding the Iowa Caucuses.

Unfortunately you either received some incorrect information in your travels or are confused. The Iowa Democratic Party completed all of the caucus night tabulations in Iowa, in the Des Moines/Polk County Convention Center, which was the Caucus night HQ. In fact, our tech staff wrote the software that tabulated the results.

To answer your second to last question, we feel we have a comfortable grasp of mathematics.

Sincerely,

MWM

Mike Milligan, Executive Director
Iowa Democratic Party
(515) 244-7292 ex. 676

I wrote this note back to Mr. Milligan:

Dear Mr. Milligan,

I am responding to you about how the caucus results for the Iowa Democratic Party were tallied on the night of the nation's first caucus. After checking my sources, I can assure you that it is correct that an out-of-state telephone/computer system tallied the Iowa precinct results.

The system used was provided by Voxeo Corporation based in Orlando, Florida. The calls went from Iowa to a call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

See: http://www.voxeo.com/

This information was first provided to me last August by John McCormally, Communications Director for the Iowa Democratic Party in Des Moines, Iowa.

Today I called Voxeo (800) 305-5771 in Orlando and although I didn't go into detail, the receptionist confirmed that Voxeo had conducted the telephone tally of the Iowa Democratic Caucus results.

How is it that you don't know that?

McCormally told me that chairmen were selected in all 1,993 precincts and these chairmen called in on touch-tone phones and after giving their PIN number, were able to enter the results from their precinct using the touch-tone number pad.

I'm not going to go into great detail at this point, but this procedure of using an out-of-state computer company to tally the precinct results for the Iowa Democratic Caucus lacks the transparency and openness that one might expect in this exercise in grass-roots poll.

Clearly, if someone wanted to adjust the results, it would be the easiest thing to do to do it through this computer system in Orlando, Florida. The Democrats in Iowa would never be aware of it, regardless of their math skills, unless the paper results were carefully audited in an open and honest manner.

Christopher Bollyn

THE ISRAELIS & VOXEO

Now, who really is Voxeo, and why are the Iowa caucus results tallied by them? I don't know if the 2008 Iowa results will be tallied in the same way, but I wouldn't doubt it.

Voxeo is headed by Jonathan Taylor, who is the company's President and CEO. This is what his Voxeo webpage says about him:

Jonathan combined his experience in both business operations and technology innovation to found Voxeo in 1999. Under his guidance, Voxeo has seen triple-digit revenue growth for four consecutive years and has been profitable since January, 2004. Prior to Voxeo, Jonathan founded and helped bring three additional software and infrastructure service companies to profitability.

From 1995 to 1997, Jonathan was the founder and President of InterResearch and Development Group (IRdg), Inc. IRdg created and licensed iPost - the first internet powered OEM unified messaging solution - to leading telecommunications providers including Ericsson, Motorola and Unisys. IRdg was acquired by Elron Electronic Industries (Nasdq: ELRN) subsidiary MediaGate in 1997.

There you have it. Jonathan Taylor's company, which he founded, was taken over by Elron Electronic Industries, the Israeli defense high tech company:

In its early days, Elron focused on defense, particularly electronics and avionics, as well as the emerging medical and technology sectors. In 1966, Elron founded Elbit, which combined the expertise of the Ministry of Defense-Research Institute in special computer design with Elron's experience in electronic product design, manufacture and management.

Source: http://www.elron.net/default.asp?PageID=203

This is important information that Americans need to know and which they will not find in the Zionist-controlled media in the United States. It needs to be understood that the entire election process in the United States is a fraud. More than that, it is a fraud that is being perpetrated by the Israeli defense establishment on the naïve and gullible American public.

The sine qua non of an honest and transparent election process is the open counting of the votes by the voters themselves in each polling station in front of the open eyes of other citizens and members of the media. Any compromise in this most fundamental and essential process which acts to remove the citizenry from the vote-counting process simply cannot be accepted.

This is what Americans MUST get back to, in every polling station in the nation: paper ballots that are hand counted in front of the public.

Nothing else will do to protect their democratic franchise in the United States - NOTHING. 

URGENT- The Remedy to Protect the Iowa Caucus Results

See also:

• URGENT- The Remedy to Protect the Iowa Caucus Results

Chicago Ballot Chaos

New Computer Vote Machines Malfunction, Unverifiable

By Christopher Bollyn
5 April 2006

COOK COUNTY, Illinois—Chicago’s use of a flawed computerized voting system operated by a privately held foreign company reveals how meaningless and absurd the “democratic” process in America has become. Having observed voting systems across Europe, from Serbia, Germany and Estonia to Holland and France, this reporter has noted that the most honest and transparent elections are also the most simple.

The more complicated methods of voting, such as the unverifiable computerized voting systems widely used across the United States, lack the most essential element of democratic elections—transparency.


The $50 million touch-screen and optical-scan voting system provided by Sequoia Voting Systems failed across Chicago and suburban Cook County during the March 21 Illinois primary. However, the leading corporate-controlled newspapers merely lamented the failures of the system without addressing its fundamental flaws or even reporting that the company running the election is foreign-owned.


The “high-tech” computerized voting system was “cumbersome” and “slow,” one mainstream Chicago newspaper reported. The machines failed across the county causing “plenty of frustration and confusion for voters,” the paper reported. The ballots and votes from more than 400 precincts were still uncounted two days after the election due to machine malfunctions and lost memory cartridges which contain the results.


Reports from other dailies noted that as of noon Wednesday, Chicago was missing memory cartridges from 252 polling stations while Cook County officials “couldn’t find” the results from 162 suburban precincts.


Election officials tried to assure the public that although nobody knew where all the ballots and computerized memory cartridges were, they were “most assuredly not lost.”


“I don’t trust that,” U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said. “This is Chicago. This is Cook County. We created vote fraud, vote scandal and stealing votes. We created that mechanism. It became an art form.”


“Ballot chaos” is how another large Chicago newspaper described the situation in which the votes from hundreds of precincts could not be found or counted on Election Night.


“We have accounted for the votes,” Langdon Neal, city election chairman told the publication. “What we haven’t been able to do is count them.”


In one precinct on the Near South Side, for example, the Sequoia optical scanner failed to register anything but Republican ballots. Although “election officials” tried to repair the machine four times, by the end of the day it had failed to register a single Democratic ballot in a precinct in which some 86 percent of the voters are Democrats.


When this reporter went to vote, the touch-screen machine went completely dead as the voter in front of me pressed the button to print. When the poll workers were asked if other voters had had similar problems with the equipment they said it had happened all day and showed me an unplugged machine that had broken down earlier.


When the polls closed at 7 p.m., I was at the Cook County Clerk’s office to see how the votes were tallied.

Citizens in Chicago, as in most American cities, are, however, forbidden from viewing or participating in the any aspect of the vote-counting process.


The so-called counting of the votes is managed by some two dozen employees of Sequoia Voting Systems, a privately held foreign company. These employees, many of whom are not even U.S. citizens, have “full access” to the “back room area,” a sealed-off section of the 5th floor of the county clerk’s office which is called the “tally area.”


In Chicago, the person in charge of the tallying of the votes was a British employee of Sequoia named David Allen from London. Allen, who ran the “Sequoia War Room” in an office next to that of Cook County Clerk David Orr, oversaw the “tally room” team, which included a dozen Venezuelan employees, who operated the hidden computer equipment that counts the votes.


As I have reported before, there are wire services such as the Associated Press, who could be seen having direct connections leading from their computers to the hidden mainframe computer of the Sequoia tallying system located behind the wall on the 5th floor of the clerk’s office.


Senior executives from Sequoia Voting Systems and from its partner company, Smartmatic, such as company president Jack A. Blaine and Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez, vice president of special operations, also had “full access” to the tally area.


Sequoia, which was previously held by the British-based firm De La Rue PLC, a company, which produces bank notes, travelers checks and cash handling equipment, was merged or combined with Smartmatic in March 2005.


Smartmatic, which has a U.S.-based office in Boca Raton, Fla., is headed by three young Venezuelans along with Blaine, a former vice president with Unisys. A dozen Venezuelans could be seen managing the most sensitive aspects of the recent election in Chicago.


Smartmatic, the parent company of Sequoia Voting Systems, obtained the company for a “ridiculously low amount of money,” Charles D. Brady, an analyst with Hibernia Southcoast Capital Inc., said at the time of the merger.


While De La Rue purchased 85 percent of Sequoia in 2002 for $35 million, it reportedly sold the growing global company for only $16 million in 2005. Tracey Graham, then president of Sequoia, said more than 30 organizations had expressed interest in buying her company, yet no names of other bidders were given citing “confidentiality agreements.”


The chief officers of Sequoia-Smartmatic are two 32-year old Venezuelans from Caracas, Antonio Mugica and Alfredo Anzola. Anzola also works as a Venezuela-based lawyer brokering international oil deals with the Cleveland law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.


“With the combination of Sequoia and Smartmatic, both proven innovators with accomplished track records in either the U.S. or abroad, we are creating the first truly global leader in providing voter-verified electronic voting systems,” Blaine said in March 2005 when the merger was announced.


There is, however, nothing verifiable about the Sequoia voting system used in Cook County. The voter has no way of knowing if his vote has been counted or how it was counted.


The absolute lack of transparency in U.S. voting systems yields unverifiable election results, which can only be accepted on faith. In Chicago voters are asked to trust the results produced by malfunctioning machines operated by a privately owned foreign company.


Asked about the nature of the foreign company that runs elections in Cook County, Scott Burnham, spokesman for Cook County Clerk Orr simply said, “Ask Sequoia” and hung up the phone. Asked about the ownership of the privately held company, Allen, who supervised the tally, refused to answer and handed the phone to Michelle Shafer, the company’s vice president and spokesperson.


Pressed about Allen’s citizenship, Shafer finally admitted that the Sequoia employee who oversaw the tally was, indeed, a British citizen who had been assisted by a team of Venezuelans.


Dimas Ulacio, one of the Venezuelan technicians who worked in the tally area spoke with me. “Who really owns Sequoia?” I aksed Ulacio. “Is Sequoia-Smartmatic truly a Venezuelan company or is it a British-owned company masquerading as a Venezuelan company?”


Ulacio laughed but refused to answer.


While a high percentage of the precinct results—about 90 percent—are usually reported within one hour of the polls closing, the Sequoia system failed to produce any results for nearly two hours. Only 44 percent of the precinct results had been reported four hours after the polls closed.


The widespread failures of the Sequoia voting system in the Cook County election, Shafer said, made for a “very typical Election Day in a jurisdiction where they are changing voting technology.” Rather than blame the machines, Shafer blamed human error.

See also:

• Florida Election Stolen
• WHO IS BEHIND FLORIDA VOTE FRAUD AND SPYING ON NASA?

Florida Election Stolen

Computer Programmer Reveals Scheme to Steal 2000 Vote
By Christopher Bollyn

21 December 2004

TITUSVILLE, Florida. While the mainstream media has focused on a sensational murder trial in California and the political crisis that followed the flawed elections in Ukraine, it has ignored a huge domestic story about the computer programmer who has come forward and explained how he had written computer code to steal elections in Florida.


An affidavit signed by the programmer, Clinton Curtis, in Prince George’s County, Md., on Dec. 6, 2004, names the individuals involved in a computer vote fraud scheme that he worked with in “the early fall of 2000” as “lead programmer” for a company called Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), based in Oviedo, Fla.


The 4-page Curtis document contains 15 points that he swears are both true and correct.


“I declare under penalty of perjury,” Curtis signed on the affidavit, “that the above is true and correct.”


By the fall of 2000 Curtis had worked as a programmer for two years with YEI, a listed “small, minority, woman-owned business” that does extensive business with NASA and Florida. The CEO of YEI is a Chinese immigrant named Mrs. Li Woan Yang.


On its web site, YEI says it has 250 employees working at its Oviedo headquarters, the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Patrick Air Force Base and Tallahassee, Fla.


According to published company documents, the contact person for YEI is Mike Cohen, Yang’s “executive secretary.” Cohen, named by Curtis as being one of the three key persons at YEI involved in creating the program in 2000, has not answered telephone calls.

To read the whole article, click here:

http://www.bollyn.com/index/?id=10548

See also:

• WHO IS BEHIND FLORIDA VOTE FRAUD AND SPYING ON NASA?

Death of Democracy Or May the Best Hacker Win

by Christopher Bollyn
27 October 2000

What is particularly troubling about these machines is the fact that they contain an internal two-way modem, which enables anyone with a modem-equipped computer, from hackers and vendors to telephone company personnel and politicians, to potentially access and alter the computer’s tally of the votes.

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Cook County, IL – Across the United States, in precincts from coast to coast, ballot-counting computers equipped with cellular telephony and two-way modems have counted the votes of the American people. These ballot-counting machines, designed and operated by private companies, and the laws that ushered in their use have essentially disenfranchised citizen election judges from the vote-counting process and relegated them to insignificant roles as public servants working for private business on election night.

Computer programmers leave no fingerprints inside a computer, what happens inside it cannot be seen, and its records, and printouts can be fixed to conceal whatever an operator wants to keep secret. However, here and in other key jurisdictions around the nation, election judges have signed off on tally tapes of computer-generated vote counts without any actual verification on their part that the tally is correct.

OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE

Some officials concerned with elections have pondered the unthinkable; namely, the stealing of a presidential election by computer fraud in the metropolitan areas of key states. Steve White, former assistant attorney general of California, said, “ Given the importance of the national election, sooner or later it will be attempted. There is a real reluctance to concede the gravity of the problem.”

Officials at the Illinois State Board of Elections, the agency that approves the voting machines used in the state was contacted and asked about how the integrity of the elections could be safeguarded; each and every official interviewed was indifferent to the threat of computer vote fraud. Rick Fulle, Assistant Director of voting systems and 25-year veteran of the board said, “You can’t secure any computer system.”

When asked if election judges were permitted by law to do a manual recount of the votes – to verify the accuracy of the computer tally – the officials invariably replied, “You do not do a hand count,” although Fuller added, “nothing would stop them.”

A hand count of the votes by the election judges at the precinct level, before posting the results, is the only way to ensure that the machine tally is correct and that no computer fraud has been perpetrated. However, election officials discourage any manual audit saying that there are too many choices on the ballot and that a manual count would take too long. 

In Switzerland, arguably the most democratic nation, all major political decisions are put before the people as referenda and polling with hand-counted paper ballots is conducted at least four times a year. Switzerland is not a member of the United Nations due simply to the fact that the Swiss people have rejected UN membership at the polls.

NOBODY CARES 

Tests of computer vote-counting systems used in Illinois from 1983-1987, which tested tens of thousands of ballots, revealed significant errors in the computer counting in more than twenty percent of the tests. Fulle said that in Illinois today there is “a 16 percent error rate” with ballot-counting machines. He expected numerous problems on election night saying “equipment will fail across the state.”

“I don’t understand why nobody cares,” Michael L. Harty, former Illinois director of voting systems and standards said, “At one point, we had tabulation errors in twenty-eight percent of the systems tested, and nobody cared.” 

The indifference of election officials, the people ultimately responsible for the integrity of the elections, proves a point made by a former president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, who said, “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Officials from the Illinois Board of Elections said that election judges are only required to verify that the number of ballots tabulated by the machine matches the number of ballots counted by the judges – as if voters are only voting for one candidate. Fulle added, “Nothing in the law [Illinois] requires that the count be accurate.” In this way the basic role of election judges -- to count and verify the accuracy of the vote -- has been usurped and compromised by election machines operated by private companies.

PUBLIC ELECTIONS ARE PRIVATE BUSINESS 

Whether it was the Precinct Ballot Counter 2100 (PBC), the Optech Eagle III, the Model 100 Optic Mark Reader (OMR), or the Votronic touch-screen system that counted your vote, these machines have something in common:

they are all designed and operated by Elections Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) - and they each contain a two-way modem, allowing them to communicate - and be communicated with - while they are in operation.

What is particularly troubling about these machines is the fact that they contain an internal modem, which enables anyone with a modem-equipped computer, from hackers and vendors to telephone company personnel and politicians, to potentially access and alter the computer’s tally of the votes.

ES&S is “the largest company in the world focusing solely on automating the election process.” The company “provides specialized systems and software to automate the entire election process for local, state, and national governments worldwide.” ES&S is a reorganized company that was given a new name in November 1997 after combining two of the largest election machine companies: Business Records Corp. (BRC, formerly part of Cronus Industries) and American Information Systems, Inc. (AIS). 

ES&S is a privately held company owned by unknown investors and headed by Aldo Tesi, who refers to the democratic franchise as “the election industry.” The company is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and supplies “thousands and thousands of machines being used across the country” to more than 2,200 U.S. jurisdictions in 49 states. 

Cook County bought nearly 5,000 PBC machines from ES&S at a cost of $25 million for the suburbs and the city of Chicago in what a company spokesman called a “huge contract.” 

ES&S FIASCO IN VENEZUELA 

ES&S supplied Model 100 ballot-counting machines (through a Madrid-based company called Indra – Note the use of pagan deity names) for the elections in Venezuela. 

It was reported (in the Omaha World Herald, whose publisher, John Gottschalk is one of the directors of ES&S) that the head of Venezuela’s National Elections Council, Etanislao Gonzalez, placed the blame for the technical difficulties during the election on the Nebraska-based ES&S. Gonzalez said, “the firm flagrantly failed to meet its commitments and the failure had destabilized the country’s electoral process.”

A Venezuelan air force jet flew to Omaha to fetch experts to “salvage” the election. It was reported that more than 6 percent of the 7,000 voting machines broke down during the Venezuelan election and that there were major “technical glitches”. ES&S said that the rate of failure in the Venezuela election was "slightly higher than we would expect."

EASY ACCESS ANYTIME

The PBC machines contain an internal Expedite modem made by Novatel Wireless, an international company based in San Diego, a “spin-off” of two Canadian companies: NovAtel, Inc. of Calgary, a company specializing in satellite communications and global positioning systems, and an internationally owned oil company in Alberta.

“You certainly run the risk of somebody hacking into these [vote-counting] machines,” a spokesman for Novatel Wireless said, “The machine can be accessed anytime it is plugged in,” – if one knows the computer’s IP (Internet Protocol) address. “Internet voting scares me,” he added, “it puts us in the same situation as a third-world country.” When asked about the ownership of Novatel Wireless, he said, “I’ve no idea who owns the company.”

Roy Saltman, a computer consultant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Computer Systems Laboratory wrote a report for the U.S. Commerce Dept. in 1988 entitled, “Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying”, in which he documented many instances of vote mistabulation and the inherent vulnerability of U.S. voting systems to error and fraud. Among the possible methods he listed by which “unknown persons may perpetrate undiscoverable frauds” were “fraudulent alterations in the computer program or in control cards that manipulate the program” and “introduction of false voting summaries through changes in data stored in removable data storage units of precinct-located, vote-counting devices.”

Herb Deutsch, who works in the technical department of ES&S in Rockford, IL, where the PBC was designed has worked with election software and hardware for 25 years having formerly worked for BRC. Deutsch defended the PBC saying that its ballot tabulation program is “generic” and that its computer code has been “certified.”

CONTROL CARDS 

However, each PBC machine is programmed and run by a pre-programmed 512-K memory card. According to Deutsch, “the memory card can be used for lots of purposes” and contains the coded instructions that “essentially tell the machine what to do” when it is turned on. These cards are programmed at the company offices of ES&S in Chicago. The card is removed by the election judges and turned in to headquarters when the polls close. 

Vikant Corp., a Chicago area company owned by Alex Kantarovich of Minsk, Belorussia, supplied the control cards to ES&S. When asked where Vikant cards are produced, Kantarovich said, “I cannot disclose where the cards are made,” but admitted that they are not made in America. 

Mr. Kantarovich said that he has been in America for 11 years but declined to discuss his employment prior to running Vikant Corp., saying, “I don’t want to disclose that information.”

Kantarovich said he had obtained his degree in the Soviet Union and initially refused to answer questions about how his product was chosen for the ES&S voting equipment saying that it was “inside information that I cannot disclose.” Kantarovich said later that his firm was chosen over larger firms like IBM and Panasonic because Vikant was uniquely able to meet the specific requirements of ES&S and provide the cards on short notice. He added, however, that there had been “some problems” with the cards from other suppliers. 

Kantarovich said, “To tell you the truth, I have no idea how these vote counting machines work. We are just the supplier of one particular product.”

“NO ONE IS SAFE”

Deutsch said that he trusted that the election computers were safe from hackers on the very day that it was reported that Microsoft’s computers and source code had been “hacked” for a week. Teenagers have demonstrated that breaking into the most secure computer networks in the world is “child’s play,” but serious questions about the security of the national election computer network are dismissed as preposterous.

Security experts say the attack on Microsoft shows that no one is safe - it was reported that the information stolen from Microsoft was sent to Russia, although this could be a front for people anywhere on the net.

Source:
NA (Network America) e-wire
http://www.votefraud.org/News/2000/10/102700.html

See also:

• Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control
• HOW A PRIVATE COMPANY COUNTS OUR VOTES