This could be what we have to look forward to. A tightening race once again tipped by electoral fraud.
Stephen Spoonamore, considered one of the top cyber security experts in the world, with a resume that includes working for credit card companies, the Secret Service, the Pentagon, and the FBI, and who is a lifelong member of the GOP, stated in an interview way back in 2006, and which is just surfacing, thanks to Velvet Revolution, and Alternet charges that
- Diebold is stealing elections.
- George W. Bush did not win in 2004.
Links to video of the interview & transcript below the fold:
To sum up Spoonamore's accusations
- Diebold refuses to let any outside experts read & verify that their voting machine code works properly (unlike their ATM machines).
- There are many vulnerabilities and ways in which the machines & memory cards can be rigged, yet without professional transparency, we'll never know what's really happening inside those machines.
- In a number of instances nationwide now (Cleland-Chambliss in Georgia) Diebold voting machines were anywhere from 5-12% off the exit polls, all in favor of Republican candidates--a statistical impossibility according to Spoonamore.
- Spoonamore thinks its highly probably that the 2000 election was electronically stolen, that 2004 was, Cleland won, and that Diebold is deliberately stealing elections.
"[W]e need to live in a place where your election is actually reflected in the vote." -- Stephen Spooner
He advocates paper ballots as being the only really secure way to protect the vote. Failing that, absolute transparency in voting machines is necessary.
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The entire interview (27 minutes long) is available for download HERE or in segments on YouTube.
The transcript (.doc) is available HERE.
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