Computers count around 80% of America’s votes. ibid.
Why were there so many security flaws and why could they count votes backwards? ibid.
‘Why they [Diebold] are collecting receivables from the Republican committee?’ ibid. activist
Diebold was called to account by the state of California. ibid.
‘The source code in fact got out. The key is not published.’ ibid. inquiry dude
‘They did not fix any of the problems.’ ibid. activist
They malfunctioned leaving thousands without a vote. ibid.
‘We cannot win this [Ohio] election’ [John Kerry] … People were stunned. John Kerry had promised to challenge the machines … Kerry stopped any investigation by conceding. ibid.
Voting is about our capability to change the way the government works by changing the people who make the decisions. And have a peaceful transfer our power when the people have made their choice. Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, Harri Hursti, election security expert, Sky Documentaries 2020
You understand how fragile everything is … Everything is hackable, always. ibid.
Most 20th-century voting stations are little more than mechanical adding machines. Often, the only electronic component was the electric light. Today, computers are in charge – even in precincts that use paper ballots. ibid.
‘There’s no national election system. No agency. And all this is left up to the counties.’ ibid. Sue Halpern
In 2005, using only a memory card, Hursti demonstrated how easy it is to change votes on a digital voting machine. When Hacking Democracy was released, the manufacturer called the hack a sham and attempted to stop the film’s distribution. ibid. caption
After two years of negative publicity, Diebold Election Systems was sold, ultimately to a Canadian company called Dominion Voting Systems. The same machine that Hursti hacked in 2005 is slated for use in 20 states for the 2020 election. ibid.
If you don’t believe that there is this kind of room [Las Vegas hacking convention] in Russia running 24/7 you are kidding yourself. ibid. Hursti
DEF CON reported that every piece of equipment in the Voting Machine Village was ‘effectively breached’. ibid. caption
A federal court banned the use of Accuvote voting machines in Georgia beginning in 2020. ibid.
Not President Clinton? OK. Forget the polls: Trump stole the election. Now my book is not a prediction, it’s a warning … The facts: They’ve already removed 17,000,000 people from the voter rolls, that’s federal government’ numbers for the past two years’ of record keeping. 17,000,000 voters. We’re going to be shocked that they don’t get their mailing ballot, and guess what, Max? … If you don’t get your ballot, you can’t mail it in. Greg Palast, interview The Keiser Report, RT 2020
2020: It has been stolen through the massive purge of the voter rolls and other trickery and through changes in the election law … But it can be stolen back. ibid.
Brand new tricks: see, in 2018 the Supreme Court handed a new weapon to the vote thieves … A new trick to remove voters … If you miss a couple of elections, that means you’re an inactive voter … and then you don’t answer [a] postcard. ibid.
They took it for a test drive in Georgia in 2018 and I was there … One third of a million voters in Georgia were wiped out illegally. In fact, 300,134. ibid.
‘Hundreds of thousands of voters from Brooklyn went missing from the voter rolls.’ ibid. Stacy Herbert
Democrats disenfranchise each other. ibid.
2016: You elected a kind of orange-stained porcine bloated bigot … We’ve had a coup d’etat: you’re slaves now. ibid.
Five million ballots disqualified … They can’t steal all of the votes all of the time … ibid.
People didn’t see Trump as a threat. When you have basically Gestapo-kind-of-proto-death-squads grabbing people on streets, I think it’s motivating young people. ibid.
You have to have a special ID to vote in Madison, to vote in Wisconsin, not just over a regular student ID. That’s over 100,000 … You have to prove you’re in good standing. ibid.
He said he lost his family in the Grenfell fire. But his story sparked suspicion. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e1: The Grenfell Conman
It was Britain’s worst residential fire since the Second World War. The fire broke out on the 4th floor when a faulty fridge-freezer sparked flames that set alight polythene-filled cladding that covered the Tower. ibid.
The public responded immediately moved by images and stories of families who had lost everything. More than £1 million was raised in the first 24 hours. In total £26 million was donated, and 10,000 people volunteered to help. ibid.
Anh Nhu Nguyen presented himself at the emergency health centre, telling his heartbreaking story of losing his wife and son in the blaze. He received £360 in cash, fresh food and clothing and temporary hotel accommodation … Now he was applying for a further £5,000 from the Grenfell fund. ibid.
He never lived there and nobody had ever heard of him. ibid. Kerry
The calm of Salt Lake City Utah was rocked today by two booby-trap bombs that left two people dead … Murder Among the Mormons I, newscaster, Netflix 2021
A morning that brought fear and death. The first explosion ripped through a downtown office building, killing one man. The second explosion outside a holiday home claimed another life … ibid.
There was dark talk involving religious documents, hired professional killers … ibid.
The bombing’s impact has drawn the Church into an uncomfortable spotlight. ibid.
Salt Lake City 1980: At that time I was introduced to Mark Hofmann. And I was very excited to meet Mark. He was in the Mormon document world, he was a rock star. ibid. Shannon Flynn, rare document dealer
The Anthon Transcript discovery was widely publicized and brought Mark Hofmann into contact with top leaders in the Mormon Church. ibid. reporter
I’d never seen anybody come up with the material that Mark was coming up with. ibid. Brent Ashworth, historical document collector
He takes out from his briefcase the Salamander letter. ibid. Flynn
It just changed everything. Instead of God and angels, now it’s salamanders and magic. ibid. Sandra Tannner
The McLellin Collection was potentially devastating. ibid. Flynn
Last year Hofmann sold a document known as the White Salamander letter to the men who were the apparent targets of the first attack. Murder Among the Mormons II
For more than three hours officers sifted through boxes and collected evidence they hope to use in their case against Hofmann. ibid. news
The FBI has reportedly concluded there is no reason to believe the Salamander letter is a phony. ibid.
Every single document that Hofmann had handled had that cracked ink. ibid. document verification dude
It’s the biggest forgery case to ever occur. Period. Murder Among the Mormons III, observer
After Mark’s confessions, the Parole Board decides he will serve his entire life in prison. ibid. caption
In the UK one of the most well-known cases was that of Barlow Clowes. Between October 1983 and May 1988 about 11,000, mainly elderly, small investors entrusted their money to Barlow Clowes International, the vast majority of whom were persuaded to do so by misrepresentation that their funds would be securely invested in gilts (government bonds). In fact, very little, if any, of that money was invested in gilts. Investors’ moneys were stolen and used to buy houses, farms, yachts, cars, antique furniture, a vineyard and shares in private and public companies. In 1992, after a trial lasting 112 days Peter Clowes got 10 years in prison. This case is still relevant in that it was only in 2011 (7 February 2011) that the case was finally declared closed when H M Treasury announced it had finally recovered £125 million of the £150 million defrauded from investors. John Lea, A Brief Introduction to Corporate Crime
Blowing The Whistle: One Man’s Fight Against Fraud in the European Commission. Paul van Buitenen