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Archive for the Month of August, 2005.
Viewing Voting Integrity NEWS articles 1 through 8 of 8.


August 1, 2005

Multiple vulnerabilities in Diebold Optical Scan - A Technical Report published by BlackBoxVoting.org (4 Jul 2005) details multiple critical security vulnerabilities in the Diebold Optical Scan voting equipment that was used to tally approximately 25 million votes in the 2004 US election.
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August 5, 2005

Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election? - The Republican Party has -- barely -- snatched another election in Ohio. And once again there are telltale symptoms of the kind of vote theft that put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000 and then kept him there in 2004.
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August 7, 2005

Locked Out Of Democracy - As more and more crimes, especially drug offenses, have been defined as felonies during decades of "tough on crime" rhetoric and populist politicking, the number of felony convictions is increasing. Until this year, a half-dozen states—mainly in the South-permanently disenfranchised people with felony convictions. There have been some victories-like when Nebraska and Iowa jettisoned their permanent disenfranchisement laws earlier this year. But in the United States today, 48 out of 50 states still deny voting rights to people based on conviction status. Maine and Vermont stand alone as never denying ballot access based on felony status.
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August 14, 2005

Election Fraud Continues in the US - New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004
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August 15, 2005

Ohio GOP Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell cannot certify how Federal election assistance money was spent. - Ohio's Blackwell received over $40 million in Federal funds to ensure all Ohioans could vote in November 2004 election. Instead, he sat on over $30 million and diverted the money he spent to friends and businesses owned by top GOP contributors. He even parked the money in a bank run by a top Republican businessman.
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August 19, 2005

Firm's operations could trouble voters - A company whose touch-screen voting machines won state certification in Missouri last month has been raising money through stock placements that found their way to unlicensed securities "boiler rooms" in Europe.
(1991 views)


August 21, 2005

Did Diebold lobbyist try to tempt elections board chair with $$? - The story detailed reports from various county elections boards around the state that Diebold representatives used pressure tactics and offers of money to try to induce the boards to choose Diebold to provide their new legally mandated voting systems.
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Diebold hires top Dem for PR blitz - With a phone call and a retainer, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell has launched former Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew on a 50-state ambassadorship for electronic voting.
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