Pennsylvania Voting machine News
Below is a list of Pennsylvania counties that use voting machines made by Election Systems & Software aka ES&S.
A Wisconsin resident informed Black Box Voting (http://www.blackboxvoting.org) that ES&S has failed to gain federal certification, and thus approval in Wisconsin as well, for hardware alterations that ES&S wishes to make on each and every one of their computerized voting systems (M100 scanners, AutoMARK, Unity servers, iVotronics), but for which they decline to provide specifics. An outgrowth of this lack of federal and local certification is that ES&S is threatening unilateral changes to or termination of maintenance contracts with local election officials. Basically, ES&S using strong-arm tactics to change approved machines to unapproved machines.
Here's a link for copies of letters between ES&S and Wisconsin:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/79488.html.
ES&S sent notices to at least nine states. If you live in one of the below counties, please contact your county voting officials and ask them to confirm whether or not your county has received similar notice from ES&S. If the official says no, ask them to put it in WRITING to you. If the answer is yes, politely demand that the county not knuckle under to ES&S. Follow up on this matter until you determine whether or not your county has caved in.
G Adams County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
R Allegheny County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Beaver County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Butler County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Cambria County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Cameron County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Centre County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
G Chester County ES&S: polls, M100 opscan; accessible, iVotronic DRE
R Clearfield County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Clinton County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Columbia County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Crawford County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Cumberland County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Elk County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Erie County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Forest County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
G Franklin County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
G Fulton County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
R Greene County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
G Huntingdon County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
G Indiana County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
G Juniata County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
R Jefferson County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Lawrence County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Lebanon County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Luzerne County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R McKean County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Mercer County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
G Mifflin County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
R Montgomery County Sequoia Advantage DRE
G Montour County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
R Perry County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
G Snyder County ES&S: polls M100 opscan; accessible, AutoMARK
G Susquehanna County ES&S: Model 650 central count scanner & AutoMark
R Venango County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Westmoreland County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
R Wyoming County ES&S: iVotronic DRE
* DRE means direct recording electronic
now..can you just list the addresses of the wherehouses
where they keep the machines...
...and leave the rest to the remaining Patriots who have guts...
they will "take care " of this for good!!!!
think Boston Tea party...ala "Boston voting machine party"
I think they would get the message.....
Good idea!
The same thought has come to me as well, but that would entail trespass, breaking and entering, destruction of public property and a host of other state, and perhaps also federal, charges. So one would have to go into that project with eyes wide open and with a network of people who could raise sufficient bail.
Now, what do you think would be the likely outcome were someone to trash 100% of a county's hackable computer voting machines (whether from ES&S or other)? Would the county just decide to discontinue use of machines and opt in favor of manually-counted paper ballots? Or would they wind up getting a combination of emergency state and federal grants plus local taxes to replace the machines? And would news of the destruction of the machines cause country residents to side with or against the persons who destroyed the machines? These are all things to consider.
Personally, I believe that the wisest choice of action is to secure patriots in the state legislature (Sam Rohrer et al) to introduce legislation to ban the use of computer voting machines on a state-wide basis based on their proven general unreliability, hackability, wireless capability, proprietary programming and, applicable to all DRE machines, lack of ability to audit voting results. These considerations, jointly and severally, violate the First Amendment apart from any state law.
I concur but...
I would think it possible that if such a group of patriots DID decide to take such action, and that other patriots planned similar actions to follow after a brief interlude for the story to break the media, we could easily conduct money bombs to pay for bail and legal fees. After all, they would be 'taking one for the team' so to speak by putting their own liberty at risk in order to preserve the same for us and for their children.
Paying their bail and legal expenses is the least we could do. And we've proven we have the ability to raise millions.
Remember, the Founders engaged in many acts which at the time, and even today would have been considered 'criminal' by government.
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