Voter Fraud Compendium

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News

"The voting machine controversy likely will linger after a look at the systems source code software from Ohio-based Diebold yielded reports of numerous bugs."
-- "Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems," UPI, 11/12/04

"In addition to voter registration problems, some provisional ballots from one precinct will prompt an examination. The batch showed that all disqualified ballots were Democrat, and those that qualified were all Republican..."
-- "Ballot sorting finished," Ed Asher, Albuquerque Tribune, 11/11/04

"Election equipment counted straight-party votes for Democratic candidates as Libertarian votes, an error that could affect election outcomes in as many as nine counties..."
-- " Glitch causes Franklin Co. recount," Franklin Co, IN, The Indianapolis Star, 11/11/04

"We have problems with the machines, problems with the patchwork of regulations covering everything from recounts to provisional ballots, and problems with self-interested party officials deciding which votes count."
-- "Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off an Alarm," Adam Liptak, New York Times, 11/9/04

"Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals."
-- "Countinghouse Blues; Too many votes," WOWT 6, Omaha NE, WOWT.com

"To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here."
-- "Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies," Sam Parry, ConsortiumNews.com, 11/9/04

"A systems software glitch in Craven County's electronic voting equipment is being blamed for a vote miscount that ... swelled the number of votes for president here by 11,283..."
-- "Election problems due to a software glitch," Sue Book, North Carolina Sun Journal, 11/5/04

"...software used in Broward County can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward"
-- "Software flaw found in Florida vote machines," Cox News Service, 11/5/04

"...documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states — from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation." -- "Group Finds Voting Irregularities in South," AP, 11/5/04

"...unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct,"
-- "Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes," AP, 11/5/04

"Several hundred ballots in Seminole County, Fla., mysteriously got wet and were rejected by voting machines Tuesday..."
-- "Wet Ballots Found, Rejected By Voting Machines," WKMG, Central Florida, Local6.com

"...the first two or three printouts from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered voters."
-- "Computer glitch still baffles county clerk," Kristin Miller, Michigan City, IN, The News-Dispatch

"Some of the machines malfunctioned, others had problems with the personal electronic ballot cartridge placed into the machines before each vote to count the ballots, and other problems were caused by human error..."
-- "Errors plague voting process in Ohio, Pa.," The Vindicator, 11/3/04

"The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system."
-- "Global monitors find faults," International Herald Tribune, 11/3/04

"Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof."
-- "How to Hack an Election," New York Times, 1/31/04

Opinion

Kerry Won by Greg Palast

Grand Theft Election by Wayne Madsen

The Ultimate Felony Against a Democracy by Thom Hartmann

"If You Want to Win an Election, Just Control the Voting Machines" by Thom Hartmann

Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election? by Lynn Landes 10/22/04

Resources

Steal Your Election (A Compendium):  "Here are the Facts: You Decide"

"The Sale of Electoral Politics" - Project Censored 2005

Why did none of the 109,656 voters in Hernando County, FL, vote this year?

Michael Moore's Election Watch

How George W Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election

Pledge of Action to Stop a Stolen Election

This Time We're Watching

VoterGate

Last Updated: May 3, 2006 3:19 PM