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10/31/2012 Re 5 Reasons Karl Rove is NOT Going to Electronically Steal This Election

Steven Rosenfeld offered 5 Reasons Karl Rove is NOT Going to Electronically Steal This Election in his October 27 disclaimer (Alternet) of reports from several media sources that rationalized potential election-rigging scenarios among the implications of recent discoveries by investigators of the electronic-voting industry.

With commercial media leveraging the focus of unprecedented public attention to such far- and farther-fetched scenarios, Rosenfeld argues, it creates an unhelpful distraction from more visible and widespread issues including the suppression of voting.   

"If you're nervous, vote early and help others to vote on Election Day."

Attorney Cliff Arnebeck has prosecuted election fraud in Ohio for years and offered his consideration in the following response to Rosenfeld's article.
On Oct 30, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Clifford Arnebeck wrote:

Steve,

This is the actual Email received from the Hamilton County BOE:

http://freepress.org/images/departments/4756_hamilton_letter.pdf

This is embedded in the first Freepress article on Hart InterCivic.

The number of OptScan machines is 1025.

The number of DRE machines is: 2174 of three different variations: 751, 626, 797 of each type.

Best regards,

Cliff
614-361-9434
614-224-8771

This is the comment I submitted three times on your Alternet article.  It just would not seem to post, although I was able to post two replies to other people's comments.

Steve,
Rove has been redshifting, by about five points every Presidential election since 1988. See RichardCharnin.com.  Why would you think he would stop now?  It is what he does, and does well.  Rove has described this as the most important election for an America at the crossroads.
The massive commercial propaganda and voter suppression tactics are designed to bring the vote margin to within the margin of fraud (the Republican five-point handicap).  
Hamilton County, Ohio has been described by NBC TV as the place where the Ohio electoral vote will be decided.  Gerry Bello tells me there are 2000 DRE Hart InterCivic machines and 1000 Optiscan.  The paper trail on the DRE's is practically useless.  These machines are readily hackable per the 2007 Everest Study.  Nothing has been done to correct their flaws since then. Why would partisan Republicans invest so heavily in the machines that will count the votes if there were not some partisan advantage in doing so?
The concern of researchers Jill Simpson and Jim March about Scytl handling Internet overseas voting is not the number of overseas votes, but the Internet access without any security of a foreign power to meddle with county tabulators around the country.  This takes the ease of access for fraudsters to a whole new level.
Exit polls are the International Gold standard for detecting fraudulent vote counts.  They will show the margin of fraud.  Why will that not be respected?  Because Rove has defamed scientific exit polling and misguided and/or corrupted groups hide, "adjust," and discredit them to preserve the fiction that computerized voting is secure.  It's not.  There is not a single scientific study that upholds the suitability of electronic voting for honest elections.
The one thing that may justify the view you express is the fact that the US DOJ has established oversight of this election--not just of illegal voter suppression activity, but also of vote count fraud.   If this program is proactive and guided by the cybersecurity unit of the FBI, then Karl Rove would be foolish to unleash his cyber attack team in this election.  I most sincerely hope that is the case, and therefore there is no cause for alarm, because the alarm has already been sounded, heard and professionally answered.  For that we should be grateful to the FreePress.org, BradBlog, and the electionprotectionaction.org for sounding the alarm, and to the Department of Justice of the United States for responding to uphold the rule of law in our elections.
Cliff

10/29/2012 Video of Oct. 24 National Press Club Conference on Karl Rove's Electronic Empire Of Fraud by Dana Jill Simpson and Jim March

Note: If you have difficulty viewing the National Press Club main press conference video, try loading it directly from http://youtu.be/pikI5xrdE8c.
This press release (below) covers issues related to election fraud and the political misuse of our so-called "justice" system. The issues are intertwined! In the Don Siegelman case, he was subjected to election fraud by Rove's operation and when that wasn't enough to make him quit politics they falsely jailed him.

This presentation includes a complete guide to the internetworked companies, people and organizations that make up Karl Rove's empire of election fraud.

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The link to the petition to free Don Seigelman via a pardon by Obama is located at:

http://free-don.org

There is also a selection of exit-poll related statistics at:

http://richardcharnin.com

NOTE: the main camera had issues. This was recorded with a head-mounted Looxie2 camera from the audience that we used as backup. There are brief audio glitches caused by unknown interference at the press club, probably a sat uplink somewhere. 


10/28/2012 Posted Audio of Oct. 22 Forum Will the 2012 Election be Stolen? 

An emergency forum of election integrity and reform activists at the Open Center in New York City, last week, was convened to discuss the recently reported prospects for election fraud to threaten the outcome of November's vote for President.

(See the following Update item of 10/28/2012, a copy of the October 22 Media Advisory for participant details, etc.).  

Listen to audio recording of conference (mp3 file opens in new window).

10/28/2012 Slide set of October 22  Presentation by Jill Simpson and Jim March

 

10/28/2012 Media Advisory of Oct. 22 Emergency Forum on 2012 Election

Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism

MEDIA ADVISORY

Does Your E-Vote Now Belong to the Romney Family?

Event:  Emergency Forum: “Will the 2012 Election be Stolen?”

Date/Time/ Location:            

Monday, October 22, from noon to 2pm

@ The Open Center, 22 East 30th Street, NY, NY (betw. Madison and Fifth Avenues)

(open to the public)

Speakers: Mark Crispin Miller (Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform); Attorney, election reform activist, and former GOP political operative Jill Simpson; Lori Grace, Founder, Institute for Democracy and Election Integrity; Jim March, BlackBoxVoting; Moderated by Bob Fitrakis, attorney/author, election reform activist, Executive Director, Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and Harvey Wasserman, author, democracy activist, Senior Editor, Columbus Free Press

Contact: Linda Cronin-Gross, LCG Communications: 718.853.5568; 917.767.1141, linda@lcgcommunications.com

This November, voters in Ohio and other swing states will vote on machines owned by friends and business associates of the Romney family. Former GOP operative and current Alabama corruption fighter Jill Simpson will join election reform/protection activists at an emergency forum to discuss the possibility of continued voter disenfranchisement and fraud in the upcoming Presidential election @ a forum in NYC on Monday, October 22 @ Noon @ The Open Center, 22 E. 30th Street.

Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis of the Free Press (freepress.org) will present shocking new information on the Bain Capital part ownership of one of America’s chief voting machine companies, Hart InterCivic, that counts many votes around the US. (Bain Capital is a private equity firm started by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.) Additionally, Jill Simpson and Jim March will present on the wireless empire of Karl Rove and associates for possible election manipulation. Both presentations will be part of a panel which also includes NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller and election activist Lori Grace on other possible upcoming election manipulations in the November 2012 elections nationwide.

A special two-hour radio broadcast will follow at the Progressive Radio Network:  “WILL THE GOP STEAL AMERICA’S 2012 ELECTION?” will be heard on Harvey Wasserman’s Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show as a special live broadcast @ www.prn.fm from 3-4pm following the forum.  Harvey will co-host with Bob Fitrakis.  Among his guests will be panelists Mark Crispin Miller and Jim March, as well as Craig Unger, contributing editor of Vanity Fair Magazine and author of Boss Rove:  Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power.

10/24/2012 Press Release : Karl Rove's Electronic Empire Of Fraud 

ElectionProtectionAction.org

Press Contact 614-361-9434

For Immediate Release

Wed. Oct. 24th 2012

Karl Rove's Electronic Empire Of Fraud
Jill Simpson and Jim March are election integrity researchers who have traveled the country documenting the various elements of Rove's electronic election fraud network, guided by Ms. Simpson's past as a volunteer GOP operative directly under Karl Rove.

Jim March is a specialist in electronic voting systems and one of Bev Harris' supporters at BlackBoxVoting.org.

Together they have produced the first “big picture” outline of what the total election fraud network looks like, at least as connected to Karl Rove (which is most of it).

They are particularly concerned due to the passage of something called the “MOVE Act” in 2009.  This new federal law for Military Overseas Voting Enhancement purported to make voting more “efficient” for this surprisingly large class of voters consisting of military, various “contractors” overseas, consulate staff and the usual mix of US business people overseas.

The act specified new federal funds for new systems to support the MOVE Act, which requires that these voters have the option to both register to vote and vote electronically over the Internet.  No security provisions were put in – at all.  And worst of all, states are not allowed to put in security provisions more strict than the MOVE Act specifies if it slows down the “efficiency goals” of the MOVE Act in any way.

Scytl, an up-and-coming voting system vendor out of Barcelona Spain set up a series of sham US offices but in reality ran these critical functions out of Spain.

To fully implement “MOVE Act” election fraud, data mining companies would be needed to identify which overseas voters to impersonate – we have identified two including one with a notorious past as a cocaine dealer.  Political strategists would be needed to identify races and counties to target – we have located those as well.  Corruptable county election officials would be a boon to this scheme and we know how that works too.

We will be taking questions and doing a brief intro today at high noon, National Press Club.

Download: PDF of October 24, 2012 Press Release
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10/24/2012 Roadmap to Karl Rove's Empire of Election Fraud

Click to enlarge the Roadmap image, below, or open a pdf version of the Roadmap to Karl Rove's Empire of Election Fraud .
One-page charge of the Rove empire
Roadmap to Karl Rove's Empire of Election Fraud

10/24/2012 Investigative Contributions to the Roadmap

The Roadmap to Karl Rove's Empire of Election Fraud is based on information from a number of sources including substantial reporting by investigators of the Columbus Free Press Elections Department at FreePress.org.
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Romney family and friends will help tabulate the vote count in Cincinnati: Hart Intercivic holds maintenance contracts on their own machines
  October 24, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Election software company Scytl on the run from the Free Press, from one fake address to the next
  October 22, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Does the Romney family now own your e-vote?
  October 18, 2012
  Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Will H.I.G.-owned e-voting machines give Romney the White House?
  October 12, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Vote counting company tied to Romney
  September 27, 2012
  Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis

Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
  September 18, 2012
  Gerry Bello