Bewijzen verkiezingsfraude VS (Alaska)?

[dirkie]

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Bart,

Als je er nog wat meer over wilt weten dan:
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

Ook dit is errug interessant,lang maar de moeite
waard:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101906R.shtml

Als je 2 minuten weg kan scheuren van de hollandse
politieke soap opera...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12054520/the_10_worst_congressmen

dirkie met niets beter te doen vandaag...

--- Bart Meerdink <bm_web at kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
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> In een tijd dat niemand zich zorgen lijkt te maken
> dat iemand bij Nedap
> de uitslag van onze verkiezingen bepaalt:
>
>
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1853&Itemid=113
>
> Alaska: 2004 Electronic Election Data Was Changed in
> 2006
>
> By Kay Brown, Alaska Democratic Party
> October 05, 2006
>
> Division of Elections Asked to Explain Changes
>
> The Alaska Democratic Party today asked the Division
> of Elections to
> explain why changes were made in July of 2006 to the
> electronic database
> that contains the results of the 2004 General
> Election.
>
> A review of the audit trail of the GEMS database for
> the 2004 elections
> shows that modifications were made to the database
> on July 12 and July
> 13, 2006.
>
> The Democratic Party recently obtained the
> electronic GEMS file by suing
> the Division of Elections in State Superior Court.
> The Division of
> Elections had refused for more than nine months to
> release the public
> records, but did so late last month just before a
> hearing was scheduled
> to begin in the case.
>
> "We do not understand why 2004 election results
> would be manually
> modified in 2006 after the complaint was filed
> asking that you produce
> the database," Jake Metcalfe, chair of the Alaska
> Democratic Party, said
> in a letter to Division of Elections Director
> Whitney Brewster. "Data
> from the 2004 election may have been altered,"
> Metcalfe said.
>
> One of the modifications made in 2006 appears to
> alter data for House
> District 5. In that district's race for the State
> House, Democrat Tim
> June lost by 59 votes to Republican Bill Thomas.
> [see audit log of GEMS
> database]
>
> The Democratic Party also questioned the 293 manual
> entries that were
> made to the electronic file between 11/2/04 and
> 12/2/04. [see attached
> audit log of GEMS showing examples]. According to
> the same audit log,
> the Primary Election for 2004 had 17 manual entries.
>
> "Two hundred and ninety-three is an incredibly high
> number of manual
> entries," said Jim March, a consultant and member of
> the Board of
> Directors of Black Box Voting who examined the GEMS
> database.
>
>
>
> "Manual entries usually happen when a ballot is too
> crumpled to scan or
> is marked in blood, crayon or in an unusual manner.
> A small number of
> manual entries is normal. In an election about your
> size, approximately
> 20 or so manual entries would be common. Having 293
> manual entries for
> the General Election is completely off the charts,
> while the 17 manual
> entries that were made for the Primary is within the
> normal range. The
> high number of manual entries is troubling since
> several elections were
> decided by less than 100 votes," March said.
>
> One of the problems revealed by examining the GEMS
> database is that
> every individual who modified the file had the same
> "admin" User ID,
> March said.
>
>
>
> Failing to assign each individual who has access to
> the database a
> unique User ID negates an important safeguard, he
> said.
>
>
>
> "We now know the Alaska Division of Elections isn't
> tracking which human
> being performs which action on the central database
> of votes, including
> a startlingly high number of manual entries of vote
> data.  If a person's
> actions in the election aren't tracked, personal
> accountability fails.
> This is a classic flaw in the Diebold product,"
> March said.
>
> The Democratic Party filed new public records
> requests asking for a copy
> of the GEMS database as it existed before the
> changes made in July,
> 2006, and for the name and affiliation of each
> person who did any manual
> modification to the 2004 General Election GEMS
> database at any time,
> what data that person entered manually, and why
> those changes were made
> or those data were entered manually.
>
> March said he has not yet been able to determine why
> the votes from the
> 2004 election in the district-by-district reports do
> not match the
> statewide summary. "First we need to get the correct
> version of the
> database. The one that the Division of Elections
> gave the Democratic
> Party appears to have been altered after the fact,"
> he said.
>
> According to the Division of Elections' vote reports
> that were produced
> by the state's Diebold computer system and are
> posted on the Division's
> official web site, a far larger number of votes were
> cast than the
> official totals reported in the statewide summary.
> In the case of
> President George Bush’s votes, the
> district-by-district totals add up to
> 292,267, but his official total was only 190,889, a
> difference of
> 101,378 votes. In the U.S. Senate race, Lisa
> Murkowski received 226,992
> votes in the district-by-district totals, but her
> official total was
> only 149,446, a difference of 77,546 votes.
>
> In 20 of the 40 State House Districts, more ballots
> were cast than there
> are registered voters in the district, according to
> information on the
> state's web site. In 16 election districts, the
> voter turnout percentage
> shown is over 200%.
>
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