The Election - or Not

One of the things that left wingers/liberals/democrats are loath to say - Election Fraud. They don't want to come off as a bunch of lunatics with impossible conspiracy theories.

But, I'm not constrained as such. The news today:

The surveys of voters as they left polling places led to widespread speculation on Election Day that Sen. John Kerry was sweeping President Bush out of office. But whether voters will ever know what happened remains unclear.

Why were all of the exit polls so wildly inaccurate? They weren't. Go read this for some real eye opening facts.

In case you don't bother to go look at that, I'll just post a couple here;

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

I'll just say it plainly, Bush did not win the election. There was massive voter fraud in Ohio, and compromised voting mechanics.

I write software for a living. The electronic voting systems are simple. They are simple in logic, and simple to program. Why on earth is there no paper trail? Really think about that. No paper trail at all. The only reason you would do that is because you don't want to have any way to verify the results of what the machine gives you. There is no other reason at all, and I defy anyone to tell me why else you would have no method of vote validation what-so-ever.

If I was writing the code for those systems, I could compromise it so easily it would make your head spin. I could have it flip votes just enough so that my candidate wins, but not be obvious. In fact, it could keep track of how my candidate is doing, and if ahead, just leave it alone.. Just off the top of my head, I could rig it in so many different ways to assure an outcome, but be undetectable. I could even program the machines to communicate to one location so I could see the results of the election in real time, and modify it all from the comfort of my home study.

Source code is something that a person could look at, and understand what it's function is. Computers don't understand that. You have to "compile" the code, which translates the program into something the computer understands. Once it's compiled, a programmer cannot look at the compiled code and see the fuction.

The source code used in the voting machines was not compiled in front of an election official. In other words, the programming code has not been validated as fraud free. What should have happened is that a programmer gives the high level program code to an election official. The election official would generate a checksum on the code, which basically gives you a number that represents the sum total of all the programming code. Then the official would generate a checksum on the programming code before it is compiled to ensure the source code matches what is compiled exactly. Then the election officials would review the raw source code to verify there is no vote flipping in it.

None of that was done. They totally trusted those companies not to put simple fraud techniques into the programing code, and they did not validate anything.

I think we depend too much on the mainstream media to investigate these things. If a reporter used the word "fraud", they would be branded and blacklisted. They'd never work again. So nothing happens, and once again, the man elected to office is not the one in the office. Bush stole the Presidency twice.

Does the name Katherine Harris ring a bell? Think Florida 2000. Now, we have Ohio 2004, Ken Blackwell, Republican. Bush "won" the Presidency by 135,000 votes. Imagine that..