Excerpt: "Finally, the major for-profit media is approaching consensus that
it's easy to hack U.S. political elections. Even candidates Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump are raising unprecedented doubts - from very different
directions - about the reliability of the upcoming vote count. Ultimately,
there is just one solution: universal hand-counted paper ballots, with
carefully protected voter registration rolls, and a transparent chain of
custody."
Andre Witcher, of Detroit, casts his ballot at the Wayne County Community
College Northwest Campus. (photo: AP)
Distrust of 2016's Hackable Election Is a Media Landslide With Just One
Solution: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
07 September 16
Finally, the major for-profit media is approaching consensus that it's easy
to hack U.S. political elections. Even candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump are raising unprecedented doubts - from very different directions -
about the reliability of the upcoming vote count.
Ultimately, there is just one solution: universal hand-counted paper
ballots, with carefully protected voter registration rolls, and a
transparent chain of custody.
The corporate media and the Democrats are obsessed with the "Russians."
Donald Trump rants about a mythological army of voters voting multiple
times.
But the real threat to our election system comes from private for-profit
corporations that register voters, control voter databases, then count and
report the vote with secret proprietary software and zero transparency,
accountability, or recourse.
After ignoring or attacking the reportage since Florida 2000 of Bev Harris,
Greg Palast, freepress.org and numerous others, the corporate media seems
finally to be getting the message: under the current system, any American
election - even the one for president - can be stripped and flipped by a
tiny handful of electronic hackers working anywhere from the Kremlin to a
party HQ to a state governor's office to a teenager's garage.
Here is some of what the mainstream media is finally admitting. In an
article posted on July 28, 2016, NBC News pointed out that our elections are
vulnerable to hacking because they "are not part of the vast 'critical
infrastructure protection' safety net set up by the Department of Homeland
Security."
CBS News wrote August 10, 2016, about "the hackers at Symantec Security
Response" who demonstrated how "Election Day results could be manipulated by
an affordable device you can find online."
Former national coordinator for counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, reporting
for ABC News on August 19, 2016, analyzed the particular security problems
related to battleground states like Ohio and Florida: "In 2000 and 2004,
there were only a handful of battleground states that determined which
presidential candidate had enough Electoral College votes to win. A slight
alteration of the vote in some swing precincts in swing states might not
raise suspicion. Smart malware can be programmed to switch only a small
percentage of votes from what the voters intended. That may be all that is
needed, and that malware can also be programmed to erase itself after it
does its job, so there might be no trace it ever happened." Clarke was on
the White House National Security Council during both Bill Clinton's and
George W. Bush's administrations.
Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the North Carolina School of
Information and Library Science, in his August 12, 2016 New York Times op-ed
"The Election Won't Be Rigged but It Could Be Hacked," wrote: "The mere
existence of this discussion is cause for alarm. The United States needs to
return, as soon as possible, to a paper-based, auditable voting system in
all jurisdictions that still use electronic-only, unverifiable voting
machines."
On August 30, 2016, the Washington Post wrote: "Deleting or altering data on
voter rolls could cause mayhem on Election Day disenfranchising some voters.
Many voting machines themselves also are vulnerable, especially touch-screen
systems that do not create a paper record as a guard against fraud or
manipulation." The Post also supplied a list of the 15 states with the most
vulnerable voting systems.
The list of those now admitting the obvious includes the Boston Globe, The
Atlantic, USA Today, The Guardian, Mother Jones, and Politico, some of which
have previously mocked those of us reporting on this issue. Most important
has been the highly influential The Hill, which weighed in on May 2, 2016
with "Election fraud feared as hackers target voter records." The lede was
straightforward: "A series of data breaches overseas are spurring concerns
that hackers could manipulate elections in the United States."
Trump advisor Roger Stone wrote a column in The Hill with the headline: "Can
the 2016 Elections Be Rigged? You Bet." He also referred to our latest
summary volume, "The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows &
Electronic Election Theft," as "a must-read book on the strip and flip
techniques used to rig these machines."
But in the 2016 primary election, there are other must-reads as well.
Perhaps the most important is Election Justice USA's report entitled
"Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries."
This report cites six major areas of election irregularities in this year's
26 primary elections:
1. Targeting voter suppression
2. Registration tampering
3. Illegal voter purges
4. Exit poll discrepancies
5. Evidence for voting machine tampering
6. The security (or lack thereof) of various voting machines types.
In their 96-page report, Election Justice researchers documented how Hillary
Clinton's campaign benefited from these "various types of fraud." Their
conclusion: "Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an
upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a
consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud."
Election Justice's well-documented estimate that Sanders lost 184 delegates
means that if the election had been conducted fairly, the Senator from
Vermont would now be the Democratic nominee.
Another document essential to understanding election irregularities that
allowed Hillary Clinton to capture the Democratic Party nomination is a
paper co-authored by Axel Geijsel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands
and Rodolfo Cortes Barragan of Stanford University. Their analysis found
that primary election results in states with the most vulnerable and
hackable voting machines and without a paper trail overwhelmingly favored
Hillary Clinton 65 percent to 35 percent. Sanders led Clinton 51 percent to
49 percent in states where the vote count could be verified with a paper
trail.
The correlation between the increased Clinton vote and the increased
vulnerability of the voting machines has been avoided like the plague by the
corporate media.
Equally important to read is mathematician Richard Charnin's blog. Charnin
is a man the mainstream media often attacks - but not with mathematical
formulas to rebut Charnin's detailed analysis. Rather they attack him
because, like the vast majority of Americans, he believes that John F.
Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman. In 2016, official Democratic
primary vote counts compared to exit poll results were significantly outside
the margin of error in 12 of 26 states. Charnin concluded that the
probability of those official vote tallies being correct are one in 78
billion. There were no such discrepancies in this year's Republican
primaries.
Now 16 years after the theft of the presidency in Florida 2000, and a dozen
since it was done again in Ohio 2004, the corporate media are approaching
consensus that it is indeed very easy to strip millions of legitimate
citizens from the voting rolls, and then to hack electronic voting machines
and computerized central tabulators to flip the official final outcome.
The threat to this year's election does not come from non-existent armies of
mythological hordes voting multiple times. It comes from the private
partisan companies with their secret proprietary software that control the
voter rolls, the electronic machines, and ultimately the final outcome at
all levels of government. The mega-corporations are the ones that flipped
George W. Bush into the White House and Hillary Clinton into the Democratic
nomination, not to mention manipulating countless Senate, House, and state
and local elections along the way.
For a hopelessly vulnerable electronic election system which is flawed,
hackable and riggable from top to bottom, there is just one solution:
transparent unhackable voter rolls, and universal hand-counted paper ballots
open to public scrutiny from the precinct level to the final official
tallies, as dutifully reported by our slowly awakening corporate media.
________________________________________
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of The Strip & Flip Selection
of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft, available at
www.freepress.org and www.solartopia.org, where Bob's Fitrakis Files and
Harvey's Solartopia! can also be found.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
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Distrust of 2016's Hackable Election Is a Media Landslide With Just One
Solution: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
07 September 16
inally, the major for-profit media is approaching consensus that it's easy
to hack U.S. political elections. Even candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump are raising unprecedented doubts - from very different directions -
about the reliability of the upcoming vote count.
Ultimately, there is just one solution: universal hand-counted paper
ballots, with carefully protected voter registration rolls, and a
transparent chain of custody.
The corporate media and the Democrats are obsessed with the "Russians."
Donald Trump rants about a mythological army of voters voting multiple
times.
But the real threat to our election system comes from private for-profit
corporations that register voters, control voter databases, then count and
report the vote with secret proprietary software and zero transparency,
accountability, or recourse.
After ignoring or attacking the reportage since Florida 2000 of Bev Harris,
Greg Palast, freepress.org and numerous others, the corporate media seems
finally to be getting the message: under the current system, any American
election - even the one for president - can be stripped and flipped by a
tiny handful of electronic hackers working anywhere from the Kremlin to a
party HQ to a state governor's office to a teenager's garage.
Here is some of what the mainstream media is finally admitting. In an
article posted on July 28, 2016, NBC News pointed out that our elections are
vulnerable to hacking because they "are not part of the vast 'critical
infrastructure protection' safety net set up by the Department of Homeland
Security."
CBS News wrote August 10, 2016, about "the hackers at Symantec Security
Response" who demonstrated how "Election Day results could be manipulated by
an affordable device you can find online."
Former national coordinator for counter-terrorism Richard Clarke, reporting
for ABC News on August 19, 2016, analyzed the particular security problems
related to battleground states like Ohio and Florida: "In 2000 and 2004,
there were only a handful of battleground states that determined which
presidential candidate had enough Electoral College votes to win. A slight
alteration of the vote in some swing precincts in swing states might not
raise suspicion. Smart malware can be programmed to switch only a small
percentage of votes from what the voters intended. That may be all that is
needed, and that malware can also be programmed to erase itself after it
does its job, so there might be no trace it ever happened." Clarke was on
the White House National Security Council during both Bill Clinton's and
George W. Bush's administrations.
Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the North Carolina School of
Information and Library Science, in his August 12, 2016 New York Times op-ed
"The Election Won't Be Rigged but It Could Be Hacked," wrote: "The mere
existence of this discussion is cause for alarm. The United States needs to
return, as soon as possible, to a paper-based, auditable voting system in
all jurisdictions that still use electronic-only, unverifiable voting
machines."
On August 30, 2016, the Washington Post wrote: "Deleting or altering data on
voter rolls could cause mayhem on Election Day disenfranchising some voters.
Many voting machines themselves also are vulnerable, especially touch-screen
systems that do not create a paper record as a guard against fraud or
manipulation." The Post also supplied a list of the 15 states with the most
vulnerable voting systems.
The list of those now admitting the obvious includes the Boston Globe, The
Atlantic, USA Today, The Guardian, Mother Jones, and Politico, some of which
have previously mocked those of us reporting on this issue. Most important
has been the highly influential The Hill, which weighed in on May 2, 2016
with "Election fraud feared as hackers target voter records." The lede was
straightforward: "A series of data breaches overseas are spurring concerns
that hackers could manipulate elections in the United States."
Trump advisor Roger Stone wrote a column in The Hill with the headline: "Can
the 2016 Elections Be Rigged? You Bet." He also referred to our latest
summary volume, "The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows &
Electronic Election Theft," as "a must-read book on the strip and flip
techniques used to rig these machines."
But in the 2016 primary election, there are other must-reads as well.
Perhaps the most important is Election Justice USA's report entitled
"Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries."
This report cites six major areas of election irregularities in this year's
26 primary elections:
1. Targeting voter suppression
2. Registration tampering
3. Illegal voter purges
4. Exit poll discrepancies
5. Evidence for voting machine tampering
6. The security (or lack thereof) of various voting machines types.
In their 96-page report, Election Justice researchers documented how Hillary
Clinton's campaign benefited from these "various types of fraud." Their
conclusion: "Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an
upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a
consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud."
Election Justice's well-documented estimate that Sanders lost 184 delegates
means that if the election had been conducted fairly, the Senator from
Vermont would now be the Democratic nominee.
Another document essential to understanding election irregularities that
allowed Hillary Clinton to capture the Democratic Party nomination is a
paper co-authored by Axel Geijsel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands
and Rodolfo Cortes Barragan of Stanford University. Their analysis found
that primary election results in states with the most vulnerable and
hackable voting machines and without a paper trail overwhelmingly favored
Hillary Clinton 65 percent to 35 percent. Sanders led Clinton 51 percent to
49 percent in states where the vote count could be verified with a paper
trail.
The correlation between the increased Clinton vote and the increased
vulnerability of the voting machines has been avoided like the plague by the
corporate media.
Equally important to read is mathematician Richard Charnin's blog. Charnin
is a man the mainstream media often attacks - but not with mathematical
formulas to rebut Charnin's detailed analysis. Rather they attack him
because, like the vast majority of Americans, he believes that John F.
Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman. In 2016, official Democratic
primary vote counts compared to exit poll results were significantly outside
the margin of error in 12 of 26 states. Charnin concluded that the
probability of those official vote tallies being correct are one in 78
billion. There were no such discrepancies in this year's Republican
primaries.
Now 16 years after the theft of the presidency in Florida 2000, and a dozen
since it was done again in Ohio 2004, the corporate media are approaching
consensus that it is indeed very easy to strip millions of legitimate
citizens from the voting rolls, and then to hack electronic voting machines
and computerized central tabulators to flip the official final outcome.
The threat to this year's election does not come from non-existent armies of
mythological hordes voting multiple times. It comes from the private
partisan companies with their secret proprietary software that control the
voter rolls, the electronic machines, and ultimately the final outcome at
all levels of government. The mega-corporations are the ones that flipped
George W. Bush into the White House and Hillary Clinton into the Democratic
nomination, not to mention manipulating countless Senate, House, and state
and local elections along the way.
For a hopelessly vulnerable electronic election system which is flawed,
hackable and riggable from top to bottom, there is just one solution:
transparent unhackable voter rolls, and universal hand-counted paper ballots
open to public scrutiny from the precinct level to the final official
tallies, as dutifully reported by our slowly awakening corporate media.
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of The Strip & Flip Selection
of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft, available at
www.freepress.org and www.solartopia.org, where Bob's Fitrakis Files and
Harvey's Solartopia! can also be found.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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