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Thursday, October 23, 2003
Unauthorized Diebold vote replacement led to TV networks calling race for Bush (BlackBoxVoting.org)
BOOM! Black Box Voting is back with some hard numbers on Diebold's involvement in the Florida 2000 election fraud.
If you strip away the partisan rancor over the 2000 election, you are left with the undeniable fact that a presidential candidate conceded the election to his opponent based on a second card (card #3) that mysteriously appeared, subtracted 16,022 votes from Al Gore, and in some still undefined way, added 4,000 erroneous votes to George W. Bush, then, just as mysteriously, disappears. Black Box Voting reveals for the first time that it was the Volusia and Brevard County anomalies that caused TV networks to call the election for Bush. An internal document from CBS, combined with timelines and interviews from Agence France-Presse and internal Diebold memos show that:
- A replacement set of votes was uploaded on the Diebold machines (then called Global Election Systems) in Volusia County about one hour after the original votes.
- The original votes were on "copy 0" of the memory card containing the vote database. The replacement votes were tagged to a "copy 3."
- According to an internal memo written by Diebold Election Systems Sr. V.P. of Research and Development Talbot Iredale, the second set of votes should not have been done and may have been "unauthorized."
- In the replacement vote set, totals for all races were correct except for the presidential race.
- According to CBS documents, the erroneous 20,000 votes in Volusia was directly responsible for calling the election for Bush.
- Brevard County, Florida also used Global Election Systems (now Diebold) voting machines. Brevard omitted 4,000 votes for Gore from its tally, which contributed to the decision by the networks to call for Bush.
- The two erroneous county totals came directly from the central tabulating system
for the county. The GEMS program is Diebold's central tabulation software.
Ed Bradley sounded alarm bells over discrepancies in the data, but no one paid attention to him. CBS also ignored independent data from The AP; had CBS and the other networks used AP data instead of Voter News Service (VNS), they would not have called the election for Bush."
BOOM! Black Box Voting is back with some hard numbers on Diebold's involvement in the Florida 2000 election fraud.
If you strip away the partisan rancor over the 2000 election, you are left with the undeniable fact that a presidential candidate conceded the election to his opponent based on a second card (card #3) that mysteriously appeared, subtracted 16,022 votes from Al Gore, and in some still undefined way, added 4,000 erroneous votes to George W. Bush, then, just as mysteriously, disappears. Black Box Voting reveals for the first time that it was the Volusia and Brevard County anomalies that caused TV networks to call the election for Bush. An internal document from CBS, combined with timelines and interviews from Agence France-Presse and internal Diebold memos show that:
- A replacement set of votes was uploaded on the Diebold machines (then called Global Election Systems) in Volusia County about one hour after the original votes.
- The original votes were on "copy 0" of the memory card containing the vote database. The replacement votes were tagged to a "copy 3."
- According to an internal memo written by Diebold Election Systems Sr. V.P. of Research and Development Talbot Iredale, the second set of votes should not have been done and may have been "unauthorized."
- In the replacement vote set, totals for all races were correct except for the presidential race.
- According to CBS documents, the erroneous 20,000 votes in Volusia was directly responsible for calling the election for Bush.
- Brevard County, Florida also used Global Election Systems (now Diebold) voting machines. Brevard omitted 4,000 votes for Gore from its tally, which contributed to the decision by the networks to call for Bush.
- The two erroneous county totals came directly from the central tabulating system
for the county. The GEMS program is Diebold's central tabulation software.
Ed Bradley sounded alarm bells over discrepancies in the data, but no one paid attention to him. CBS also ignored independent data from The AP; had CBS and the other networks used AP data instead of Voter News Service (VNS), they would not have called the election for Bush."
