Exit polls and Diebold

From an e-mail forwarded by Tom:

I heard on public radio a week or so before the election that Bush had inexplicably been ignoring Ohio, having at that time, campainged there only once in the last 19 days. The commentator called it phenomenal, totally unexplainable etc... and later theorized that Ohio was no longer a swing state, only "we" don't know which way it swung.

...I just found this posting in the Democratic Underground site ...on several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results.

In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

So we have MATCHING RESULTS for exit polls vs. voting with audits

vs.

A 5% unexplained advantage for Bush without audits.

Unexplained. Ha.

Now, let me say unequivocally that I do believe the GOPugnant party rigged Ohio and Florida and other states to bring about another Bush term. They had to. These people are in so many criminal investigations that it boggles the mind they haven't been run out of the country on a rail. It was absolutely imperative that they stay in office to keep a lid on.

The thing you cannot argue, however, is that America has become a perverse, theocracy-yearning, other-hating country. There is no way to explain the Republican gains in Congress otherwise. (Unless, of course, they tampered with every state that voted Repugs into previously held Demwit seats - and that of course is possible, so I take it back.) Bush may not have won, but it's obvious that Americans want a more fascist, exclusionary country. And Bush is just the man to give it to them.

Here's an old Steve Bradenton cartoon that I've had on my vote fraud webpage:

Black Box Voting.com (BBV) is a spin-off from the website that originally broke and reported the stories about possible frauds with e-voting, Bev Harris' Black Box Voting.org - which carries the notice: NOTE: We are ".ORG." BlackBoxVoting".COM" is a deceptively designed site, not affiliated with Bev Harris, nor with Black Box Voting Inc. - BBV.com is kinder to Bev's site, but...whatever.

Diebold, the company that promised to deliver Ohio to Bush, caused the original BBV to shut down when they first put up their findings, but through favorable court rulings in related cases, they were able to get up and running again and have been reporting ever since.

This is the latest from David, posted at BBV.com:

I will take a look at the exit polls and compare their accuracy in the various states. I will be very interested in any state where the exit polls vary greatly from the actual vote tally reported by our faith-based voting machines.. In the absence of actual paper ballots, this could be an indicator of malfunction or fraud.

David also posts stories from voters about what went wrong when they were trying to use the machines and comments on the likely causes.

Bev Harris' site claims:

Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit.

America: We have permission to say No to unaudited voting. It is our right.

Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems -- optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips.

An earlier FOIA is more sensitive, and has not been disclosed here. We will notify you as soon as we can go public with it.

...Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulation of electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the proof, based not on soft evidence -- red flags, exit polls -- but core documents obtained by Black Box Voting in the most massive Freedom of Information action in history.

We need: Lawyers to enforce public records laws. Some counties have already notified us that they plan to stonewall by delaying delivery of the records. We need citizen volunteers for a number of specific actions. We need computer security professionals willing to GO PUBLIC with formal opinions on the evidence we provide, whether or not it involves DMCA complications. We need funds to pay for copies of the evidence.

Emphasis added.

Either (both) BBV site will be the place to break any positive proofs of fraud.