The Evidence

A number of independent, award-winning investigators have compiled overwhelming evidence to support the claim that that American elections are regularly derailed, and on occasion outright stolen, with the help of computerized voting machines.

Privately owned and secretly programmed, electronic voting systems have infiltrated American elections for decades. Today they count over 98% of our ballots.

Voting machine manufacturers have been exposed as a incestuous cartel of shady corporations who far too often change their company names to disassociate from criminal charges and convictions.

Below is a starting point for journalists and civic organizations interested in reform efforts and potential litigation.

ELECTION INTEGRITY INVESTIGATORS AND ACTIVISTS

Fraud Buster Bob (Bob Fitrakis) | The Landes Report | Richard Charnin / True Vote | The Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots

VOTESCAM.ORG

Website:
http://www.votescam.org

Home of the original groundbreaking 25 year Votescam investigation into computerized election fraud begun by James and Kenneth Collier in Dade County, Florida, 1970. The book implicates major players in the Justice Department and corporate media with aiding and abetting centralized election rigging.

Website Highlights:

Read the first 6 chapters of the book.
Order Votescam
Central Database of Online Election Theft Evidence
Join the movement for Hand Counted Paper Ballots, full election transparency and integrity

BLACK BOX VOTING

Website:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackboxvoting/

Website of Bev Harris, by far the top election investigator and computer forensics specialist to emerge since the 2000 election debacle. Black Box Voting is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan elections watchdog group.

Contact information: 206-335-7747 (mobile phone - Director, Bev Harris);
E-mail: crew@blackboxvoting.org

Website Highlights:

Access an enormous database of information on how computers can be used to rig elections
Read the book: Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century
See the infamous Diebold Chimpanzee hack
Sign up for action alerts and join the Black Box forum
Get their Citizen's Toolkit
See the section Top 10 Things Citizens Can Do To Oversee Elections (posted on this website)

BLACK BOX VOTING IS A MUST READ BOOK -- Here is it, free, online.

Chapter 01   I Will Vote
Chapter 02 Can we trust these machines?
Chapter 03 Why we need disclosure of owners
Chapter 04 A brief history of vote-rigging
Chapter 05 Cyber-Boss Tweed
Chapter 06 Who’s beholden to whom
Chapter 07 Why vote?
Chapter 08 Company information --
What you won’t find on company Web sites — Business Records Corp. • ElectionSystems & Software • Sequoia Voting Systems • Votehere • election.com • HartIntercivic • Wyle Labs • Diebold Election System
Chapter 09   First public look ever into a secret voting system
Chapter 10 Who’s minding the store?
Chapter 11 “rob-georgia.zip” – noun or verb
Chapter 12   Open source exam
Chapter 13   Security Breaches
Chapter 14   A modest proposal (solutions)
Chapter 15   Practical activism
Chapter 16   The men behind the curtain
d - Appendix  More problems (continued from Chapter 2
Footnotes
Index

THE BRAD BLOG

Website:
http://www.bradblog.com

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheBradBlog?sk=wall

Brad Friedman is an L.A.-based investigative journalist/blogger, political commentator, broadcaster, author, Commonweal Institute Fellow and the Publisher and Executive Editor of The BRAD BLOG. He has filed, literally, thousands of stories on issues of Election Integrity and Electile Dysfunction since at least November 3rd, 2004. His expertise in such matters has earned him invitations to address the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in D.C., the Texas State Legislature and many other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Read his full bio.

View the MUST SEE original award-winning film: Murder, Spies & Voting Lies tells the story of Clint Curtis, Republican vote-rigging whistleblower who testified before Congress in 2006

The BRAD BLOG : QUICK SUMMARY: The Clint Curtis / Tom Feeney / Yang Enterprises, Inc. Vote-Rigging.

VIEW THE FILM: MURDER, SPIES & VOTING LIES

Website Highlights:

ELECTION DEFENSE ALLIANCE

Website:
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Election-Defense-Alliance/113121462081115?ref=ts

Election Defense Alliance (EDA) is a participatory organization of citizens collaborating at the local, state, and national levels to defend against electoral theft, establish transparent vote counting, and ensure that governments accountable to the people are legitimately elected. EDA helps to train and carry out citizen exit polls.

Contact information:

Jonathan Simon, 617.538.6012 Jonathan[at]ElectionDefenseAlliance[dot]org

Sally Castleman, 781.454.8700 SallyC[at]ElectionDefenseAlliance[dot]org

**** See also this great interview of Jonathan Simon with Joan Brunwasser -- must read! ****

Election Defense Alliance's Jonathan Simon
with the Timely Lowdown on Our Elections

Website Highlights:

EDA Election Forensics Research and Positon Papers

THE LANDES REPORT

Website:
http://www.thelandesreport.com

Lynn Landes is a Philadelphia-based writer, researcher, and activist in the fields of politics, health, and the environment. Her articles and opinions have been published in several books, films, and online publications. On the environment, she has been a commentator for BBC radio, a radio talk show host, and a television news reporter, and written numerous articles. Since 2002, Lynn has been one of the nation's leading researchers and analysts on voting security issues. Her work has been featured in the books, Hacked and BlackBoxVoting. Lynn also appears in several documentaries including: Got Democracy, The Right To Count, Stealing America, and her own, Voting 101 and The Fix Is In.

Contact information: 215-629-3553
Email: lynnlandes@earthlink.net

Website Highlights:

The 2007 Landes Report to Congress: America's Unverifiable Election Results - The Case for a Return to Open Voting
The 2005 article, Plan B: Organize Parallel Elections & Signed Ballots, Lynn called on citizens to organize parallel elections in response to the total lack of transparency in U.S. elections.
From July 2, 2004 to April 4, 2006, Lynn Landes challenged the use of voting machines and absentee ballots, citing the lack of public participation and oversight. See her documents on Constitutional Issues, Federal & Case Law
Lynn's numerous articles on the right to vote, including:

RICHARD CHARNIN / TRUE VOTE

Website:
http://www.richardcharnin.com

Blog: richardcharnin.wordpress.com

Book: Proving Election Fraud: Phantom Voters, Uncounted Votes, and the National Exit Poll

Website Highlights:

Links to the True Vote Models
2008 Unadjusted Exit Polls Confirm the True Vote Model
- The national state exit poll aggregate exactly matched Obama’s 58.0% TVM share.
Footprints of Election Fraud: 1988-2008 State Exit Poll Discrepancies
Closing the book on the "Swing vs Redshift" Argument
The exit poll naysayers claimed that the near zero correlation between swing (change in Bush vote share from 2000 to 2004) and red-shift (exit poll discrepancies) “killed the fraud argument”. But it was based on a false premise.
Closing the book on the "False Recall" Argument
It was the naysayer final “Hail Mary” attempt to explain the impossible 43/37 returning Bush/Gore voter split in the Final 2004 National Exit Poll. But it was based on the same false premise.
To Believe Bush Won in 2004...
You must believe these 36 myths and ignore the facts
Confirmation of a Kerry Landslide
A detailed analysis of the statistical evidence in book form
Response to the TruthIsAll FAQ
Debunking the Mystery Pollster on RFK's Rolling Stone Article
Debunking Nate Silver's Pollster Rankings
Debunking Nate Silver on Exit Polls
A Rebuttal of the "Voter Fraud" Myth
A Graphical Exposure of Election Myths
2006 Midterms Landslide Denied
Obama Won by at least Twice the Recorded Margin
Proof that Obama Won by Much More than 9.5 Million Recorded Votes
2010 Senate Post Election Analysis
This analysis utilizes final likely (LV) and registered (RV) state and national pre-election polls along with preliminary and final exit polls. Likely voter (LV) polls are a sub-sample of registered voter (RV) polls. Since 2000, LV polls have closely matched the recorded vote while RV polls closely matched the unadjusted and preliminary exit polls. The typical reaction of the pundits is to promote the conventional wisdom that it was a GOP blowout of epic proportions - even bigger than 1994. The unconventional wisdom is that the Democrats do significantly better than the recorded vote indicates in every election. There is no reason to suspect that 2010 was any different.
2010 Governor True Vote Analysis
In the 2010 midterms, the GOP won the race for Governor in FL, OH, PA, WI and NJ (2009). They won the official recorded vote. But did they win the True Vote?
Did the GOP Steal the 2010 Senate Elections?
The GOP won the WI, IL and PA senate elections. They won the recorded vote. But did they win the True Vote?
Wisconsin Recalls: A True Vote Analysis
Wisconsin Supreme Court Recount: A Statistical Analysis

WHERE'S THE PAPER?

Website:
http://www.wheresthepaper.org

This incredible website by Theresa Hommel has not been updated in a few years. I haven't found a similar resource like this, so I'm going to migrate a lot of her stuff to this website, because she says the site might only stay up a few more years. It's a wealth of resources and archived articles, you just have to scroll through it.

About Ms. Hommel

A corporate trainer in computer technology and a consultant for more than 20 years, Teresa Hommel has been speaking to groups in New York and other states, alerting them to the problems with electronic voting machines and the potential threat they pose to the integrity of our elections. Her voting machine simulation, a demonstration called the "Fraudulent Voting Machine" has been used internationally to help people understand the special security problems with computers used in voting. It was exhibited at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Symposium "Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems" Dec. 10-11, 2003, www.vote.nist.gov/

Teresa testified before the NY State Task Force on HAVA Implementation in July, 2003, in New York City; her testimony in the official transcript begins on page 138. She also testified before the Government Administration and Elections Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly in February, 2004. She has addressed the 2004 Communications Workers of America National Legislative/Political Conference in Washington DC. on March 28, 2004; the USACM-Sponsored Workshop on Voter Verified Election Systems in Denver in July, 2003; and the Urban Ministries Conference of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, March 20, 2004. She has written articles on this issue for the September, 2003, newsletters of the NY Women's Bar Association and the Sierra Club New York City Group.

Teresa's work was featured in the Spring, 2004, issue of The Key Reporter. The Fraudulent Voting Machine was mentioned in the Rocky Mountain News, May 30, 2004, and the Village Voice, July 21-27, 2004. Here is Teresa's July 13, 2004, statement at the Rally for Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails in Albany, New York. Here is her statement before the Governmental Operations Committee of the New York City Council, October 18, 2004. Teresa wrote an article called Don't Hand Democracy Over to Computers for the November/December 2004 issue of UU World. Here is her statement before the Election Law Committee of the New York State Assembly, Dec. 20, 2004.

In 2005, Teresa addressed New Standards for Elections: A forum on technical and nontechnical requirements for voting systems , at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Feb. 12. Her remarks are available here and at the forum web site. On May 4, she addressed the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayor's Election Modernization Task Force.

She spoke in Pennsylvania on Monday, June 27, 2005.

On June 30, 2005, she testified before the EAC. On September 23, 2005, she testified before the Government Operations Committee of the NY City Council on VotersUnite.org's analysis of New Mexico data from November, 2004, which suggests that two pushbutton DRE voting systems disenfranchised Hispanic and Native American voters. On November 21, 2005, she testified before the Government Operations Committee of the NY City Council on two subjects, calculation of acquisition costs of PBOS versus DREs, and criticism of the State Board's new Draft Regulations on Voting Systems Standards. On December 13, 2005, she testified before the Assembly Elections Committee on four subjects.

On December 20, 2005, Teresa Hommel submitted a comment to the New York State Board of Elections on the draft Voting System Standards. On January 22, 2006, she submitted a second comment including proposed language for escrow provisions and the conduct of a large public test of systems prior to certification.

On February 27, 2006 Teresa spoke before the Governmental Operations Committee of the New York City Council on Oversight of the Process of Selecting New Voting Machines. On March 7, 2006 Teresa spoke before the same committee on The Cost of New Voting Machines.

On March 9, 2006 Teresa spoke before the Ways and Means Committe of the Suffolk County Legislature.

On April 24, Teresa testified before the Governmental Operations Committee of the New York City Council in favor of resolutions urging adoption of paper ballots and optical scanners, and urging public testing prior to selection.

On June 10, 2006, Teresa addressed a Caucus at the League of Women Voters national convention. On June 12, the delegates approved a strong resolution requiring voting systems to have a voter-verifiable paper ballot/record.

Teresa addresssed the City Council Governmental Operations Committee on June 26, 2006 and Oct. 4, 2006 to urge continuous, detailed oversight of the NYC Board of Elections, and to urge that simplicity, understandability, manageability, and observability be added to the Board of Elections' criteria for selection of equipment for 2007.

Teresa addresssed the Press Conference at City Hall for Resolution 228-A Aug. 16, 2006. Click here for more on the resolution and press conference, including photos.

Teresa addresssed a Press Conference in Brooklyn sponsored by State Senator Velmanette Montgomery on November 13, 2006 and the Board of Elections in the City of New York on November 21, 2006. She addresssed the Board of Elections in the City of New York AGAIN on January 23, 2007, the joint hearing of the Governmental Operations Committee and the Technology in Government Committee of the New York City Council on January 29, 2007, and law students at Cardozo School of Law on January 31, 2007.

Teresa addresssed the Press Conference on the steps of City Hall on March 14, 2007 to celebrate passage of Resolution 131 which urges adoption of paper ballots and optical scanners.

Teresa submitted a statement entitled "Limitations of Certification Testing, "Transparency," and Current Standards and What Congress Can Do" to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, on the occasion of their Field Hearing in New York City, May 7, 2007.

Here is Teresa's paper Election Fraud in America: Don't worry about Paper Ballots--The Problem is Secret Procedures and Lack of Observers! dated Nov. 16, 2007.

Teresa submitted a statement for the official record of the July 25, 2007, hearing on S1487 by the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee.

Teresa testified before the New York City Council Governmental Operations Committee on Nov. 13, 2007 and explained why "one of the greatest voter deceptions in our nation today is the use of computers to record, cast, store, handle, and count votes."

Teresa testified before the New York City Council Governmental Operations Committee on Feb. 14, 2008 on "Improving Democracy and the Ability of Citizens to Participate in the Electoral Process." She testified again on September 26, 2008 and on November 25, 2008.

Teresa testified before the New York State Senate Elections Committee on April 24, 2009 on election day voter registration and enabling voter registration forms to be submitted to a Board of Elections as late as 10 days before an election.

Teresa spoke at a workshop at the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations 48th Annual General Assembly in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, June 27, 2009, on "Does Touchscreen Voting Violate the 5th Principle?". She also spoke at the forum with Secretary of State Ritchie of Minnesota and Secretary of State Bowen of California.

Website Highlights:

Key Documents
Links by subject

ADDITIONAL TOP ARTICLES & RESEARCH

WITNESS TO A CRIME: A Citizen's Audit of an American Election by Richard Hayes Phillips

To see the website Table of Contents, click here: Table of Contents

To view the dust jacket, click here: Full Dust Jacket for "Witness to a Crime"

To send an e-mail to the author, contact: richardhayesphillips@yahoo.com

Richard Hayes Phillips has been the leading investigator of the fraudulent 2004 presidential election in Ohio. His work was relied upon by John Conyers in challenging the Ohio electors in Congress, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his article for Rolling Stone magazine, and by Algenon L. Marbley in issuing his federal court order protecting the ballots from destruction. Assisted by teams of volunteers equipped with digital cameras, Phillips amassed some 30,000 images of forensic evidence. Then he analyzed it all himself, examining 126,000 ballots, 127 poll books, and 141 voter signature books from 18 counties in Ohio.

Phillips' long-awaited book, "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election," was published by Canterbury Press on April 12. The book is 448 pages, with a hard cover and a dust jacket. The book includes eight color plates, and a CD with 1200 digital images of actual ballots, poll books, voter signature books, ballot accounting charts, and other forensic evidence from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.

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The Facts on the 2000 Election by Michael Moore

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Diebold, Electronic Voting and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, by Bob Fitrakis

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Why Can't the Left Face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008? by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

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Yale Study: What if one vote per computer is switched?
Small Vote Manipulations Can Swing Elections, considering the effects and implications of changing only a single vote per machine.

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MIT-Caltech study votes for paper ballots, levers, scanning devices

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E-Voting Failures in the 2006 Mid-Term Elections,
January, 2007, by VotersUnite, VoterAction, VoteTrustUSA, and Pollworkers for Democracy.

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Testing Election Software Effectively
By John Washburn, VoteTrustUSA Voting Technology Task Force, Feb. 2, 2006.

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GAO Report

Report from United States Government Accountability Office, September 2005, confirms security and usage problems with electronic voting systems.
Press Release from Davis, Waxman, Sensenbrenner, Conyers, Boehlert, and Gordon.
Press Release, pdf

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Myth Breakers: Facts About Electronic Elections
70-page document, should be delivered to every elected and appointed official.

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American Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs Actuals
by Alastair Thompson, November 12, 2002.
printable copy
Was the vote in some races in the U.S. midterm elections fixed by electronic voting machines supplied by republican affiliated companies? Scoop's analysis shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects in critical Senate races (Georgia and Minnesota) where the Republican Party secured its complete control of Congress.

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89 ARTICLES ON WHY VOTING BY MAIL IS A VERY BAD IDEA -- From the No Vote by Mail Project