Reid's Petition to End Corruption - My comment: End Corrupt Elections!

[IndyOp]

Harry Reid wants a million signatures on his petition to demand Honest Leadership in DC. I signed and I added the following comment to link GOP culture of corruption & elections.

Wake Up Washington!! Everything in DC is about elections - including the corruption!!

Senator Reid:

What about the Republican Felons who own & operate the major voting machine companies in the US?!?!

Check this out - No less than 5 people (Cooper, Lee, Graye, Elder, and Dean - http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf ) involved with the management and development of Diebold's systems are convicted felons, including Senior Vice President Jeff Dean, and topping the list are his twenty-three counts of felony Theft in the First Degree. According to the findings of fact in case no. 89-1-04034-1 (Washington State, King County District Court):

“Defendant’s thefts occurred over a 2 1/2 year period of time, there were multiple incidents, more than the standard range can account for, the actual monetary loss was substantially greater than typical for the offense, the crimes and their cover-up involved a high degree of sophistication and planning in the use and alteration of records in the computerized accounting system that defendant maintained for the victim, and the defendant used his position of trust and fiduciary responsibility as a computer systems and accounting consultant for the victim to facilitate the commission of the offenses."

To sum up, he was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft from by - get this - planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection. The reason for the embezzlement? He needed the money because "he was embezzling in order to pay blackmail over a fight he was involved in, in which a person died." A little more:

BlackBoxVoting.org's associate director Andy Stephenson obtained the court records of Jeffrey Dean which noted that the King County, Washington prosecutor was after him for over $500,000 in restitution.

"So now we have someone who's admitted that he's been blackmailed over killing someone, who pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement, who is given the position of senior programmer of the (Diebold) GEMS central tabulator system that counts approximately 50 percent of the votes in the (Bush-Kerry) election, in 30 states, both paper ballot and touch screen," said Stephenson.

In addition, Dean told prosecutors (whose offices were on the ninth floor of the King County courthouse) that he was unemployed, when in fact he was working for Diebold who afforded him with 24-hour access to Diebold's King County, Washington GEMS central tabulator, according to Stephenson. (Dean worked on the GEMS tabulator on the fifth floor of the same King County courthouse!) http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

Keep watching Andy. We are thinking about you and working to finish what you started. O8)

[Village Idiot]

1. Anyone who believes 2006 will be any different than 2002 is an IDIOT.

[EFerrari]

2. Anyone who believes 2006 will be different than 2002 IS an idiot.

Anyone old enough to remember that annoying commercial:

"When we tried to talk to you like adults, you didn't listen."

:kick: and recommend.

[nicknameless]

3. Exactly, IndyOp. We did NOT vote for this crap!

The only way to end corruption is to prosecute these mobsters and dump their method of insuring their "wins" at the ballot box.

Nominated.

[kster]

5. Yes, Al Capone would have been proud of HAVA

If Capone had a law like HAVA he could have given the taxpayers money to the speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries, and then with that money force them to buy only his illegal Gaming machines, liquor and services, he would have been in all his glory.

It all reminds me of HAVA give the states taxpayer money then with that money force them to buy illegal electronic election theft machines. Lawsuit to force NY to comply comes to mind, Hava would be equivalent of Al Capone's "strong arm or enforcer"

[nicknameless]

7. Yes. We're being charged billions to end our democracy.

[Peggy Day]

9. And spending everyone's retirement money, current education

money and all around make this world a better place money.

[Amaryllis]

4. I was thinking the same thing all during Gore's speech when he was calling

for action. We are only in this position in the first place because of rigged elections.

[Stevepol]

6. Great! My Recommendation puts it onto the Greatest where it should be!

[IndyOp]

8. Link to Reid's Petition - YOU SIGN TOO!!

Add a note about the corruption in elections! - Or whatever corruption most concerns you!
< http://giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/honest >

Here is another I thought of after signing:

Democrats must FILIBUSTER ALITO TO FIGHT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Americans United for Separation of Church and State reports that Pastor Herb Lusk, Philadelphia preacher who hosted "Justice Sunday III" earlier this month to support ALITO's nomination has a long history of partisan activity on behalf of Republicans and was awarded more than $1 million in "faith-based" grants by the Bush administration.