You may choose to laugh but this is deadly serious. These ****ers
have been at this for a long time. They don't give up.

''Increasingly, investigative writers seeking an explanation have
looked to Diebold’s history for clues. The electronic voting industry
is dominated by only a few corporations – Diebold, Election Systems &
Software (ES&S) and Sequoia. Diebold and ES&S combined count an
estimated 80% of U.S. black box electronic votes.

In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&S’s
originator, Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from
the far-Right Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership
stake, according to the Omaha World Herald. After brothers William and
Robert Ahmanson infused Data Mark with new capital, the name was
changed to American Information Systems (AIS). California newspapers
have long documented the Ahmanson family’s ties to right-wing
evangelical Christian and Republican circles.

In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, “. . . primarily funded by
evangelical Christians – particularly the wealthy Ahmanson family of
Irvine – the [Discovery] institute’s $1-million annual program has
produced 25 books, a stream of conferences and more than 100
fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral research.” The chief
philanthropists of the Discovery Institute, that pushes creationist
science and education in California, are Howard and Roberta Ahmanson.

According to Group Watch, in the 1980s Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. was a
member of the highly secretive far-Right Council for National Policy,
an organization that included Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Major
General John K. Singlaub and other Iran-Contra scandal notables, as
well as former Klan members like Richard Shoff. Ahmanson, heir to a
savings and loan fortune, is little reported on in the mainstream U.S.
press.''


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:03:59 -0500, "T. Early"
wrote:


"David" wrote in message
news
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

You behind schedule David. The loonies have already given us a good
laugh over this one.