First I stumbled across [this sworn testimony](http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/12/images/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf) (pdf file) from a software programmer who, in 2000 was asked by by Tom Feeney, then Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, to ìdevelop a prototype of a voting program that could alter the vote tabulation in an election and be undetectableî. He developed the programme. Read his affidavit if you’ve the time – it reads like a plot for a Tom Clancy novel.
This lead me on to a [story](http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/19421.html) that the internal logs of at least 40 touch-screen voting machines (used in Palm Beach County in the Nov 2004 US election) reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night!
It gets worse. Several dozen of the voting machines had no votes cast on the election day at all, many were powered off during the election day – all up the voting machine logs contained approximately 100,000 errors. And that’s just for one county in Florida.
Don’t get me started on the [Ohio](http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml) vote machine problems of negative vote counts, wrong candidates selected etc etc.
It is worth noting that an [analysis](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=371211) at DemocraticUnderground.com shows that incidents of “electronic vote switching” from Kerry to Bush outnumber incidents going from Bush to Kerry by a ratio of greater than 12:1. Apparently the odds of that happening are 1 in 1,783,106,652,071,710,000. That’s quite a large number.
Dang – this is really starting to piss me off, and then I read [this.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-soby-jr/whistleblower-charged-wit_b_16411.html) Essentially, two years ago a guy working for a legal firm discovered documents which provided evidence that Diebold was using illegal, uncertified software in California voting machines. The documents also showed that Diebold’s California attorneys had told them they were in breach of the law for using uncertified software, but Diebold continued to use the uncertified software anyway. This guy (Stephen Heller) did the right thing and went public. Weeks later thousands of voters were unable to cast their votes in the 2004 elections in California. Diebold were decertified and sued by the Californian attorney general, they settled out of court ($US2.6m) and are once again providing voting machines to 17 counties in California. And Stephen Heller? Well two years later he’s being prosecuted in the Californian Supreme court for commercial burglary. So Diebold cheat, use uncertified software and disenfranchise thousands of voters and the whistleblower might go to gaol. [LA Times story here.](http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-diebold22feb22,1,7096292.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
So Bush stole the election?
So big companies roll the little guy and get rewarded?
So a [gun-wielding deaf man with man-boobs](http://governor_general.blogspot.com/2006/02/heavy-handed-heavily-armed-awb.html) gets paid a million dollars to forget everything?
So what? At least we’re all “relaxed and comfortable” and anyway lies like children overboard, weapons of mass deception etc etc don’t affect our stock portfolio or real estate values.
My name is Adam and tonight I’m angry.
Time to write more stern letters of disillusioned passion.
Take it easy all – and remember that to hear lies and say nothing is to support them.