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	Vote -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Voting is a method of (The cognitive process of reaching a decision) decision making wherein a group such as a (A formally arranged gathering) meeting or an (The body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote) electorate attempts to gauge its opinion—usually as a final step following discussions or debates.
		A vote, or a ballot, is an individual's act of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain (A change of position that does not entail a change of location) motion (e.g.
		A (A vote in which each person's choice is secret by the totaled votes are public) secret ballot, the standard way to protect voters' (Click link for more info and facts about political privacy) political privacy, generally takes place at a (A place where voters go to cast their votes in an election) polling station.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/vote.htm (1476 words)

	Guardian \| Claims of Pop Idol vote-rigging laughed off as media hype
		Exasperated producers explained that the telephone voting system was impossible to "fix", and revealed that Young, 23, had beaten Gates, 17, in six out of 10 of the Pop Idol shows which solicited votes.
		In the last half of the series, when viewers were asked to vote for their favourite singer each week, only the result of the losing contestant was announced; viewers were never told who had topped the poll.
		Telescope, the logistics company that ran the vote, explained that both numbers were held on the same telephone "bank", which could handle 22,000 calls at once.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4354294-103690,00.html (487 words)

	HongPong.com: Murder at Florida motel, an Iran-Contra arms merchant, illegal aliens at NASA, a prototype vote rigging ...
		Sit back and hear of the prototype vote hacking machine that a Florida congressman allegedly ordered built, and hear more about offshore banking—and how the CIA may be so angry about Bush's purges that they're revealing some of the parapolitical financial arrangements used to finance their schemes.
		In cases when the Republican is already leading, the vote is left as is. I built the program to demonstrate that with proper supervision that the election machines would be safe.
		The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
	www.hongpong.com /hp-archives/2004/12/10/murder_at_florida_mo.html (2191 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| West Midlands \| Judge upholds vote-rigging claims
		Judge Mawrey said evidence of "massive, systematic and organised fraud" in the campaign had made a mockery of the election and ruled that not less than 1,500 votes had been cast fraudulently in the city.
		The deputy high court judge said the system was "hopelessly insecure" and expressed regret that recent warnings about the failings had been dismissed by the government as "scaremongering".
		Speaking outside court, a spokesman for the People's Justice Party called for postal voting to be outlawed at the general election.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/west_midlands/4406575.stm (619 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - The Computer Vote Rigging Scandal Must be Addressed NOW! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An independent analysis, comparing actual votes to final polls, revealed that the chances were much greater than 1000 to one that the elections were rigged - the Dems were so far ahead in each poll, that it is unlikely that 4 out of 10 would have gone to the Republicans.
		All our votes were counted, because their programs are honest, and who the hell are we to question the Repukes.
		Voting fraud is very much of a concern to me and I am sure that goes for all members of this board.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID60/33068.html (2701 words)

	0xTC ★ Republican Congressman asked Programmer to write Vote-Rigging Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If it was, the machine would award that candidate 51 percent of the total votes recorded on the machine and redistribute the remaining votes among the other candidates in the race.
		Adam Stubblefield, a graduate student in computer science at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored a now-famous report(.pdf) about Diebold's voting machine code last year, thinks the chances that Curtis' code was used in a voting machine are nil.
		It wasn't until he read a news story last spring indicating that voting software is proprietary and is not open for inspection once it's certified that the earlier conversations began to concern him.
	0xtc.com /story249 (1731 words)

	Britain: Opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections
		During the course of the hearing, the QC heard evidence that the vote rigging was organised on a large scale and included the fraudulent use of postal ballots, death threats and other forms of intimidation.
		Efforts to defraud the election continued until the votes were to be counted.
		Large numbers of genuine voters turned up at polling stations to vote, only to learn to their surprise that they had been put on the postal voters’ list and sent a postal vote (which, of course they had never seen).
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a11.shtml (2092 words)

	VoterNewsService (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1964, computers were used to predict election outcomes, as well as to count votes on "punch cards." With the use of computerized vote counters and the news networks exclusive control over polling data in major elections, the gates to election fraud were wide open.
		If someone suspects vote rigging, there's always VNS to say that the results match their projections.
		The authors of "Votescam, The Stealing of America," James and Kenneth Collier (both deceased) chronicled vote rigging from 1970 to 1992, that followed a similar scheme.
	www.ecotalk.org /VoterNewsService.htm (856 words)

	Vote rigging alleged in Ukraine election - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Allegations of vote rigging in Ukraine's national election sparked a protest rally of tens of thousands in Kiev's central square Monday, the BBC reported.
		The central election commission said with 98 percent of votes counted Monday, Viktor Yanukovych had 49.5 percent, while Viktor Yushchenko had 46.5 percent.
		Addressing the crowd, Yushchenko, a pro-western liberal denounced the "total falsification" of Sunday's vote, which was a second-round run-off following days of wrangling over the results of the first round Oct. 31.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20041122-064055-2436r.htm (194 words)

	Scoop: Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program
		Voters vote at the precinct, running their ballot through an optical scan, or entering their vote on a touch screen.
		Therefore, if you keep the correct votes in vote ledger 1, a spot check of detailed precincts (even if you compare voter-verified paper ballots) will always be correct.
		Britain J. Williams, Ph.D., is the official voting machine certifier for the state of Georgia, and he sits on the committee that decides how voting machines will be tested and evaluated.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm (2890 words)

	Vote Rigging demo
		To be able to access the voting system software, so that they could add their vote rigging code, they may have been working for a voting machine company, or found some other way to hack into the system!
		When all the voters have cast their votes, a random check of a small percentage of the voting machines is then made by counting their paper ballots.
		Many voting machines do not have test mode buttons so rigging code may have many clever ways to tell the difference between a real election and voting that is occuring just for test purposes.
	www.dcnet2000.com /%7Eneural/Voting/VotingFraudExample.html (2156 words)

	Absentee vote cases provide evidence of Republican vote-rigging in Florida
		The facts of the Seminole County case were not in dispute—on the contrary, both sides stipulated to a detailed exposition of the facts which included sworn deposition testimony from the county Supervisor of Elections, Sandra Goard.
		Richman cited the Miami precedent in urging that all of Seminole County's absentee ballots be discarded.
		And Republican state legislators were calling a special session of the Florida state legislature to deprive the citizens of Florida of any right to vote in the presidential election, by appointing a Bush slate of electors regardless of the outcome of the popular vote in this state.
	www.janrainwater.com /htdocs/absentee.htm (906 words)

	THE BRAD BLOG
		She says anyone who is having difficulty voting should ask one of the poll workers for assistance.
		Voting so far on new touch-screen machines has not been quite as seamless as local board of elections officials had hoped.
		And on the topic of the RNLA, we'll remind you of one of their star legal-eagle disenfranchisers, National General Counsel to Bush/Cheney '04 Inc., Mark F. "Thor" Hearne who was the keynote speaker at the Florida RNLA Chapter’s "2005 Kickoff Reception" on April 15th of this year.
	www.bradblog.com (7952 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- Internet presidential primary is a modern process with traditional ...
		WASHINGTON – More than a million Internet users will be invited to vote in a virtual Democratic primary next week, but this most modern of elections is facing age-old allegations of vote-rigging.
		Organizers of the site say any advantage for the former Vermont governor is due to his appeal among their members, and not any misdeeds in their process or because one of their employees worked on his campaign.
		Trippi said Dean's rivals know they aren't going to win the primary and are only asking their supporters to vote to keep Dean from getting a majority of the votes.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/computing/20030619-1502-virtualprimary.html (626 words)

	More Evidence of Vote Rigging: Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?
		In Ohio, an estimated 14.6% of the votes are cast on e-voting machines, known for their glitches and susceptibility to hacking and fraudulent manipulation.
		Voting rights activists from Citizen’s Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE-OH) have already begun to claim that the voting places with e-voting machines were sites that did not match scientific exit poll data.
		There also were fewer voting machines.” In one precinct, the Free Press reported 12 voters leaving due to work or because they were handicapped or elderly.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/FIT411A.html (777 words)

	TOPDOG08.COM: Voter fraud funded by the RNC
		Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
		The focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
		So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken.
	www.topdog04.com /000772.html (449 words)

	Voting Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feb 10: Voting machines must include a verifiable paper trail and audit capability in time for the 2006 elections, according to a bill introduced this week in Congress.
		Voting by secret ballot, voting machine, absentee, early, Internet, e-mail, phone, fax, central "counting" facility, or carrier pigeon is an invitation to undetectable system failure and vote fraud.
		Today, 20% of all votes are cast early or by absentee and 99.4% of all votes are counted by machines.
	www.ecotalk.org /VotingSecurity.htm (6948 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Ex-councillor faces jail over vote-rigging
		Hussain won a seat on Blackburn With Darwen borough council with 1,728 votes and a majority of 685.
		However, an investigation found that 233 postal votes were fraudulent.
		Hussain admitted conspiring to defraud returning officer Philip Watson by "dishonestly causing and permitting falsely completed postal ballot papers and accompanying declarations of identity to be submitted in the local government elections for the Bastwell ward".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Politics/localgovernment/story/0,9061,1427319,00.html (282 words)

	afrol News - "Massive vote rigging" alleged in Mozambique
		He alleged manipulations to the software used to tabulate the votes, claiming that passwords to computers containing a database of results had been altered.
		The Carter Centre reminded of its monitoring of the 1999, where its observer were denied full access to the final tabulation process, during which more than 500,000 cast ballots were questioned by the CNE and invalidated.
		President Joachim Chissano officially won the vote by a narrow margin, despite the complaints of Mr Dhlakama.
	www.afrol.com /printable_article/14951 (621 words)

	MyDD :: Wrap up of "Stop U.S. Vote Rigging Now!": San Jose, Sat. Mar 26th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It has a UPC code that represents the votes on the various races, which can be verified by the voter before the voter puts their ballot in the ballot box.
		The voting machine in the OVC proposal is basically just a printer that also records a backup tally of the votes that can be used to audit and double-check the counting of the actual ballots.
		There was a little controversy in the form of a couple of folks who were paper-only voting advocates trying to start a debate which was inappropriate at that point and place.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/3/28/12545/6795 (707 words)

	USATODAY.com - Some Azerbaijan election results annulled after dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan's election commission on Tuesday annulled the results of the weekend parliamentary vote in two districts and ordered a recount in another, while the ruling party claimed victory.
		Azerbaijan's opposition on Monday rejected the results of weekend parliamentary elections, calling them rigged and vowing to overturn the outcome of a voting process that foreign observers said fell short of international standards.
		Kerimli said the opposition hopes to bring 50,000 supporters into the streets and to include other opposition leaders who have kept their distance from Azadliq — seen by some critics as representative of a more than decade-old movement that has achieved little.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-11-07-azerbaijanvote_x.htm (821 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Gardaí investigating vote-rigging claims in Tipperary
		The complaints relate to alleged personation, whereby one person assumes the identity of another in order to cast their vote.
		This morning's reports said up to 300 suspect votes were being examined.
		Some of those votes were allegedly registered to dead people or people who were known to be out of the area on polling day, while some legitimate voters were also allegedly turned away because somebody else had already cast their vote.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2004/09/28/story168432.html (213 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| West Midlands \| By-elections follow vote rigging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Voting has been under way in by- elections to choose successors to six Birmingham Labour Councillors, banned after vote rigging last year.
		He said evidence of "massive, systematic and organised fraud" in the campaign had made a mockery of the election and ruled that up to 1,500 votes had been cast fraudulently in the city.
		He criticised the government's insistence that the current postal voting system was working.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4722809.stm (228 words)

	Guardian \| Union official quits in vote rigging row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Roger Maskell, an official in the Amicus union, quit after he was accused of an "amateurish" attempt to wipe incriminating computer records.
		Electronic records, showing at least four officials had been switched between branches to vote for Sir Ken at more than one nomination meeting each, were found to have been tampered with.
		Sir Ken, seeking to stay on as joint general secretary of Amicus despite reaching 65, hopes the resignation will draw a line under a controversy that has marred his re-election campaign.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4431743-103685,00.html (263 words)

	.Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services - ZDNet UK News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is a very high incidence of people attempting to cast multiple votes, even though the poll script blocked out most attempts at multiple voting.
		There is also clear evidence of automated voting, with scripts attempting to post multiple times.
		Although votes cast after 21 December are suspect, this latest episode illustrates the importance of Web services -- at least to suppliers, anyway.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html (615 words)

	Web Abuzz With Vote-Rigging Tales
		The basic claim was that the early exit polls — which showed Kerry ahead of George W. Bush — were right; the vote tallies were rigged.
		Yes because, thanks to a patchwork system of machine and paper ballots, a vast and confusing array of irregularities are turning up in many different counties.
		His Countdown With Keith Olbermann (at 8 and midnight) is a smart and snarky look at the day's events, with little of the spin you typically find on TV.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1114-22.htm (907 words)

	Programmer Says He Developed Vote-Rigging Prototype for Florida Congressman
		According to his affidavit, Yang, his employer, later informed him that the software might be used to “control the vote in South Florida.” He says that he would never have developed the software had he known its alleged ultimate purpose.
		If the other candidate is leading the race the vote totals are altered so that the selected candidate is now leading the race with 51% of the vote.
		Yang, Curtis again explained to her that it would be impossible to hide routines created to manipulate the vote if anybody would be able to inspect the precompiled source code.
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/programmer_vote_rigging_florida.htm (2787 words)

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