According to Harris, VoteHere was a company shilling cryptographic solutions and filled with NSA types (another director was Admiral Bill Owens, another crony of Rummy, Perle and Wolfowitz). Apparently VoteHere never sold any voting machines, but did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. Robert Gates stepped away from VoteHere shortly before he showed up in Chapter 8 of Bev's book, Black Box Voting, in a short bit about the VoteHere company history. You can read that here

Also, Stephen Heller is being threatened with up to five years in prison for allegedly leaking Diebold release notes to Bev. Contribute to Stephen Heller's defense fund

8/18/06 - Was the Mexican Election Stolen? Questions Raised Over Results From Preliminary Recount

As protests for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continue in Mexico, we take a look at the country's contested presidential election. Mexico's Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research's says Mexico's handling of the recount raises questions about the lack of transparency in the recount and the election.

8/7/06 - CLMP EXCLUSIVE: CERTIFICATION DOUBTFUL FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY'S CHOSEN HAVA VOTING SYSTEM

7/24/06 - RFK Jr. Blows the Whistle on Diebold
By John Ireland, In These Times
On July 13, the Pensacola, Fla.-based law firm of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a "qui tam" lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic voting machine (EVM) companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were "unhackable."

7/13/06 - Mexico - Ohio Con Salsa by Greg Palast

According to Black Box Voting, the California Secretary of State has quietly removed voting system approval procedures from its website. Since specific Procedures were created and published by the secretary of state and do exist, they must be followed.

A non-partisan and diverse group of California voters filed a motion on July 3 for a preliminary injunction to block the use of Diebold Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) TSx touch-screen computerized voting systems in the state's November 2006 elections. After the initial complaint was filed on March 21, the plaintiffs dismissed their claims against eight California counties after those county election officials agreed not to use the TSx and to submit sworn affidavits confirming their intent.

6/23/06 - RFK Jr: Taking the Stolen Election Seriously

In his Rolling Stone article, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals how the Republican Party engaged in a criminal conspiracy to both steal the 2004 election, and to cover up evidence of the theft.

4/07/06 - Stop disenfranchising California voters California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson entered into an agreement with the Bush Administration's Justice Department last year to implement a statewide voter registration database system that will disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in California. More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications from Los Angeles County alone were recently invalidated under this new stringent set of regulations -- and other counties are seeing similar results. Take action.

4/6/06 - Humboldt County Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to deploy a pilot Vote-PAD system only at the elections department for the June 6 primary. Acting on a request from Recorder/County Clerk-Registrar Carolyn Crnich, the cost will be $3730 for the purchase of two Vote-PAD packages comprised of 20 booklets and 10 extra ballot sheaths. According to Crnich, Vote-PAD, designed to allow disabled voters to vote privately and independently, will also "demonstrate good faith efforts to meet HAVA [Help America Vote Act] requirements." Read more.

3/31/06 - VoterAction sues to ban Diebold touch-screen system statewide. It's called vulnerable to hackers seeking to change results.

3/9/06 - The Civil Liberties Monitoring Project has sent a letter to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors supporting the purchase of VotePad technology to assist disabled voters in compliance with the Help Americans Vote Act. The letter states, "VotePad is a simple assistive system that is less expensive to purchase, store and maintain than touch-screen machines, which are only certified conditionally at this point. VotePad would require no maintenance contract and no regular maintenance, which would represent a substantial savings over electronic equipment." In addition, CLMP strongly supports ongoing County efforts with the continued aim of making the voting process as transparent as possible with a solid, verifiable paper trail. "Open-source voting is one option to consider, as is the all-paper ballot," said CLMP's letter. Read more.

12/22/05 -Secretary of State Warns Counties Diebold Voting Machines May Not be Certified in time for Spring 2006 Elections

9/22/05 - BradBlog reports a Diebold whistleblower alerted it to a September 2004 US Computer Emergency Readiness Team cyberalert stating of Diebold equipment: "A vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could [be used by?] a local or remote authenticated malicious user [to?] modify votes. No workaround or patch available at time of publishing."

Black Box Voting speaks out against pending Diebold "AccuProject" election management software and reports citizens can get pictures of ballots

8/11/05 - Attorney General Lockyer Files Suit To Remove Redistricting Initiative From November 2005 Ballot

8/7/05 - California Denies Diebold Voting Machine Certification

OVC Seeking $1 Million in Development Funds

5/24/05 - Looking at Voting Machines

5/19/05 - The Open Voting Consortium launches challenge grant fundraising drive.

4/3/05 - Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"? by Thom Hartmann "Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States," Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."

3/18/05 - A letter has been submitted to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors by Clerk-Recorder Carolyn Wilson Crnich and elections manager Lindsay McWilliams, discussing options to bring the county into compliance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). Humboldt County is considering new or augmented voting machines, including touch screens and plans to revisit the issue on April 5.

87 CITIZEN GROUPS LAUNCH NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO END SECRECY IN AMERICA'S VOTING MACHINE COMPANIES. The Velvet Revolution has begun. Also see Myth Breakers: Facts About Electronic Elections.

2/8/05 - Invisible Ballots: A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud is an excellent documentary with the top experts on electronic voting, now being aired on Free Speech TV.

2/1/05 - Why the Recount Still Matters, and What's Next

1/20/05 - California Approves Paper-Trail Audit of Voting

1/10/05 - California Senator Barbara Boxer contests 2005 Presidential Election

12/08/04 - Congress holds forum on voter fraud in 2004 election

The latest on the GAO investigation and Congressman Mike Thompson joins the GAO request.

11/17/04 - Cobb and Badnarik raise necessary funds for Ohio recount

DMV loses 300 voter registrations; other problems reported

11/10/04 - SIX CONGRESS MEMBERS ASK GAO TO INVESTIGATE ELECTION

Kerry said to be reconsidering concession of election

Exit Polls Right, Tallies Wrong? By Thom Hartmann and Exit Polls Analysis Graphically Displayed

Democracy Now!: The E-Vote Factor: Kerry Conceded But Did He Really Lose?

Keith Olberman of MSNBC reports Warren County, Ohio election officials decided to lock down the vote count and excluded any observation of the tallying process, citing Òhomeland securityÓ concerns unconfirmable by Cincinnati newspapers. Olbermann went on to report on the startling results from 29 Florida counties which had all flipped their vote from their registration.

Bev Harris files massive information act request on voting machine data.

Lynn LandesConcludes...IT LOOKS LIKE THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, AGAIN and more importantly, Republicans can't prove that it wasn't.

11/08/04 - Former Connecticut Secretary of State details election failures and the Sacramento Bee calls for HAVA reform and reveals that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was an honorary co-chair of the Bush campaign and recorded a message urging Ohioans to vote for the defense of marriage act on their ballot.

CA's Governator Defeats Three Strikes You're Out reform initiative with lies and Keeps Journalists Out of Prisons

11/06/04 - Voting machine error gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio and, according to journalist Greg Palast, Kerry Won

11/03/04 - US argues only Attorney General Ashcroft can sue to enforce the voting rights in HAVA

An election spoiled rotten

10/09/04 - A federal judge rules in favor of of internet site that posted Diebold voter machine code

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