THE DEEP DARK SECRETS THE CLINTON AND THE LEFTIST MEDIA WILL NOT EXPOSE!
By Shepard Ambellas |
(INTELLIHUB)
— A plethora of controversy and allegations of steamy sexcapades,
treasonous business scandals, illicit criminal activity, drug
trafficking, and even a number of mysterious deaths has surrounded the Clinton family for years. In fact, these scandals, many of which have been documented, may be
some of the best kept secrets hidden from the American people to this
day. According to an underrated documentary film titled “The Clinton
Chronicles,” which contains scores of multiple eyewitness testimonies,
the Clinton family is “sick” and may be one of the biggest criminal
syndicates to have ever occupied the White House, aside from maybe the
Obama Administration. The film points out just how energetic and inspirational former U.S.
President and Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton was in his younger years
before he started trafficking cocaine and successfully laundering drug
money from the illicit operations conducted through the Arkansas
Development Finance Authority ( ADFA) and other channels – to the tune
of millions of dollars. Larry Nichols, former Director of Marketing for the ADFA, was brought
in by Clinton in 1988 to help with “loan” operations when he stumbled
upon what Bill Clinton had previously touted to Nichols as “the best
kept secret in Arkansas” at the time. Nichols spoke a little about his time at the ADFA, about a month into his employment:
“I was literally working, setting, in the middle of Bill
Clinton’s political machine. It was where he made payoffs, where he
repaid favors for campaign support. I was in an interesting seat and I
knew it.”
Nichols said the ADFA was the “epicenter” of the Clinton’s money laundering operations. Doc DeLaughter, a former Arkansas police investigator, also came
forward in the film, detailing how law enforcement had a grand jury case
with witnesses built who would confirm that Dan Laster was indeed
involved in cocaine trafficking and was one of Clinton’s largest
financiers and best friends. According to Larry Nichols, Dan Laster and the Clinton crew would
give “piles and piles of cocaine […] ashtray after ashtray full at
parties and they were giving it to young girls,” including a 14-year-old
girl who eventually became devirginized after the group had a physician
place her on birth control. Nichols also reported that both Bill and Hillary were complicit in
the money laundering scheme, which used a state program, the ADFA, that
was ostensibly set up “to provide low-interest bond loans to churches,
schools, and colleges”. Moreover, Nichols also reported that Bill
Clinton’s signature had to be on every single loan, which would
theoretically empirically link the former U.S. president to the alleged
scandal. Additionally, Nichols said that both Webb Hubble and Hillary Clinton,
who at the time worked for the Rose Law Firm, had a hand in the illicit
operation and even helped get ADFA approved by drafting legislation
“Act 1062″ and more. Interestingly, it turns out Webb Hubble also received the first loan
from the ADFA. Webb Hubble and Hillary Clinton also did the “audit and
evaluation of the loan application” they were employed at Rose Law Firm,
according to Nichols.
“The first loan was $2.85 million, and never was a penny of that paid back.”
Nichols also noted that the “same cast of characters” were smuggling
in loads of narcotics into Mena, Arkansas back in 1982 as Bill Clinton’s
ego and drug use slowly got out of hand. At one point, according to a
reporter, Bill Clinton was admitted into the hospital for “sinus
problems” related to his “cocaine abuse and overdose”. One woman even claimed that she “had sex” and did “cocaine” at toga
parties” with Clinton’s crew and other prominent members of government
and the police department on a number of occasions when Hillary, Bill’s
wife, was “nowhere to be found.” At one point the criminal activity became so blatant that it was said
to be commonly known throughout certain circles exactly what had been
taking place, people even ended up dead. Many were awaiting indictments
but the Clinton family tentacles were just too long and the path taken
by investigators led to nowhere. As the documentary points out there were two kids who witnessed
low-flying aircraft drop narcotics in Mena on several occasions who were
later found with their bodies placed on train tracks to be ran over after being killed because “they saw something they shouldn’t have seen,” said the mother of one victim. Their deaths were ruled “accidental” though the victims bodies showed
signs of a stab wound and blunt-force trauma which was later proven to
have taken place before the two were hit by the train. “The fact is we know who killed these kids,” said one man who was
involved with the case. Everyone who covered-up the case was promoted by
Bill himself. All in all “a total of six people with information about the boys
murders were eventually murdered as well,” the film’s narrator said. Eventually it was discovered by the former head of Arkansas Drug Task
Force, Jean Duffy, that “drug trafficking in Arkansas was linked to
government officials in frightening proportions” and a “grand jury” was
being built. Duffy said, “Although there was an abundance of evidence and word
kept reaching me from members of the grand jury that they were ready to
indict, no indictments came” because the U.S. District Attorney at the
time blocked all attempts.” Out of the ten years the smuggling ring was operating not one single
load was busted and not one single arrest was made. To top it all off
it’s been said that the operations continued for years to come and yet
still nothing has really come of it.
All of this seems to only be a small snippet of what the Clinton
family has actually had their hands in. In fact, I exposed another one
of Bill’s escapades back in January in an article titled “St. James Island exposed: The elites best kept secret, until now.”
Jet-setters from around the world meet on private island for
‘orgies’ and other sexual acts with young, sometimes underage, women
If you can name it–it has likely taken place on the lavish private
island off the coast of Puerto Rico which boasts a beautifully
landscaped plush luxury estate complete with its own helipad, privy only
to certain members of the global elite. Owned by Jeffery Epstein,
a wealthy American financier and convicted sex offender, Little St.
James Island appears to be somewhat of a gathering place and is a well
desired hangout among key figureheads, actors, and royalty including the
likes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and even Prince Andrew. However, the people attending the lavish residence are likely not
there to discuss “cutting edge scientific and medical research” as the
Epstein VI Foundation would like you to believe, but rather to
experience full-on sexual encounters with underage girls as young as
fourteen. That’s right, just like a scene out of the Hollywood blockbuster film Eyes Wide Shut, wild parties, prostitution, orgies, and even underage sex all reportedly occur at Little St. James. Back in 2005 police conducted an 11 month-long undercover
investigation into Epstein and his estate after the mother of a
14-year-old girl went to police after suspecting her daughter was paid
$300 for at least one sexual act on the island in which she was ordered
to strip, leaving on just her panties, while giving Epstein a massage. Although police found tons of photos of young women on the island and
even interviewed eyewitnesses, Epstein was hit with a mere slap on the
wrist after “pleading to a single charge of prostitution”. Epstein later
served 13-months of his 18-month service in jail. In 2008, Epstein was hit again, this time with a $50 million civil
suit after another victim filed in federal court claiming that she was
“recruited” by Epstein to give him a “massage” but was essentially
forced into having sexual intercourse with him for $200 which was
payable upon completion. The women were coming out of the woodwork. Now Bill Clinton is back in the press and not for his controversial
relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but rather his friendship with
Epstein. In fact, flight records indicate that Bill would frequent the
island paradise during the 2002 and 2005 era while Hillary, Bill’s wife,
was a Senator in New York. ‘I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here kind of
thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me a favor,’ one
unidentified woman said in the lawsuit, which was filed in Palm Beach
Circuit Court. The woman went on to say how orgies were a regular occurrence and
that she recalled two young girls from New York who were always seen
around the five-house compound but their personal back-stories were
never revealed. “At least one woman on the compound was there unwillingly,” reported the Daily Mail in a recent article.
The woman was allegedly forced to have sex with “politicians,
businessmen, royalty, academicians” at the retreat. Just one of “more
than 40 women” that have come forth with claims against Epstein, showing
the vast scale of the man’s dark operations, which aren’t limited only
to Little St. James. Moreover, Epstein was invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010
amongst 400 other guests, demonstrating his close friendship with the
Clinton family. To top it all off blue blood, “Prince Andrew was allegedly one of the house’s visitors. On Friday, the Duke of York was named
in a federal lawsuit filed against Epstein, whom the FBI once
reportedly linked to 40 young women. Filed in 2008 in the Southern
District of Florida, the $50 million lawsuit claimed Epstein
had a “sexual preference and obsession for underage minor girls …
gained access to primarily economically disadvantaged minor girls in his
home and sexually assaulted these girls,” reported the Washington Post.
Keep in mind all of this was going on the whole time and now Hillary
is running on the Democratic ticket for the 2016 Presidency! And on one last note, did you know that over 90 people surrounding the Clinton family have mysteriously ended up dead?
Be aware that even though Donald Trump is getting all the polls going his way, in the end its Voting Machines that tally the votes and its the "Electoral College votes" that count and the Democrats control the VOTING AND COUNTING in most Key swing STATES where Republicans MUST win.
UNDERSTAND THAT the Dems start with an almost guaranteed 217 out of 270 for a win Electoral College votes. The states that are supposed to win it for the Republicans like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida have electronic voting and George Sorros and the Democrat operatives control that vote!
A little bit of information to share. Joseph Stalin said it best a long time ago. It does not matter who votes, it matters who counts those votes!
Question: Are Our National Elections Rigged? Answer: HELL YES FROM A LONG TIME AGO...
My warning to Donald Trump. Do not sit on the happy poll numbers. Its Voting Machines and the Electoral College that will vote for a president based on the vote count in specific states and right now its winner take all in every State.
Well
of course they are. That's a foregone conclusion; not even a fit
subject for intelligent debate any more. Oh, it's a little more
sophisticated now than in the days of the old Tennessee custom of a
Mason jar of moonshine, or the Chicago precinct captain's distribution
of "walking around money." But the practice is alive and well, and more
pervasive than ever. The evidence is everywhere if we choose to look.
Why
do you think there is such a push to eliminate citizenship ID as a
requirement to vote? Why do you think there is such a push to grant
voting rights to illegal aliens? Why do you think voting machines that
leave a paper trail have been eliminated in favor of electronic
tabulation, far away from where the votes are actually cast? Why do you
think that in the 2012 Presidential Election there were many reports of voter fraud, or intimidation, but no reports of conviction? Remember the 158.85% voter turnout in St. Lucie County Florida,
the highest voter turnout in the Country? Of course it contributed
heavily to the defeat of Republican Congressional incumbent, Colonel
Alan West. And yes Colonel West did ask for a recount, but it was not granted. Remember
the uniformed members of the New Black Panthers, wielding billyclubs
and blocking entry to the Philadelphia polling places? Charges were made
but subsequently dropped by the Obama Justice Department. And I won't even get into the unchallenged Acorn voter registration frauds.
Of course, there is a pattern here that favors one political
party over the other, but these are rather insignificant isolated
instances compared to the big picture that is beginning to emerge. I
believe it was Joseph Stalin who said, "It's not the people who vote
that counts. It's the people who count the votes." That advice has been taken to heart by our current crop of politicians.
Is political tampering new? Of course not. In 1915 mass
indictments for voter fraud were handed down in Terre Haute, IN, in
which the incumbent sheriff, and the local judge, and the Terre Haute
mayor were all sentenced to the pokey.
By 1932 Louisiana senator Huey "Kingfish" Long had polished the process
to the point that he won unanimously in sixteen New Orleans precincts
and tallied identical votes in 28 others. New York's Tammany Hall
political machine bought off judges, politicians, ward captains, and
controlled Democrat Party nominations for more than a century. What is
new is the size and scope of election tampering now made possible with
current electronic monitoring and tabulation. Mass corruption began in earnest in 2002 with the passage of
another of those laws with the cutsie little name of the "Help Americans
Vote Act," which gave states $3.9 BILLION if they would to do away with
balloting that left a paper trail, and substituted what was termed
"Direct Recording Electronic" (DRE) voting machines. This took vote
counting away from local communities and transferred it to centralized
voting centers with political interests in the outcome. (Please remember
the aforementioned Joseph Stalin quotation.)
A
number of hardware manufacturers got into the act with no electronic
experience, but lots of political connections. None worse than Diebold, a
producer of wall safes. Their voting machine subsidiary was so
dysfunctional that its collection of ballots was easily hacked, remotely
or on-site, using any off-the-shelf
version of the Microsoft "Access" program. The US Department of
Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued a report that the outcome of
an entire election could be arranged by anyone with $26 in parts and an
8th grade science education. Diebold's reputation was so bad that they
eventually changed their name to "Premier Election Solutions." But by
then the damage was done, so Diebold got out of the election business
altogether, selling out to "Election Systems and Software" (ES&S).
This story has so many ins-and-outs, and involves too many
interconnecting politicians and entities, I will follow only one. The
aforementioned Election Systems and Software (ES&S). The
date: 1996. The location: Nebraska. The event: A senate race. From out
of nowhere, a virtually unknown millionaire named Chuck Hagel staged an
amazing upset victory over the popular Democrat Governor Ben Nelson, who
had been elected in a landslide only two years previously. It was
little known at the time, but two weeks before announcing his candidacy,
Chuck Hagel had stepped down as CEO of ES&S, the firm that would
soon count his own senate votes. He won, of course.
In
2002 Hagel was challenged by Democrat Charlie Natulka. The votes were
again electronically tabulated by ES&S, and this time Hagel won 83% of the vote, the largest margin of victory ever recorded in Nebraska history!
Matulka's request for an investigation
by the Senate Ethics Committee was denied. Would not have mattered
though since Nebraska law states that recounts must be conducted using
the same "vote-counting device" used in the actual election, which, of
course, would be the same ES&S machine.
There are many, many, other facets to this voter corruption
scandal. I have only scratched the surface with this one, and I am
already running out of space, but let me conclude this one part by
asking that you please keep in mind that this is the same Chuck Hagel,
who after serving two terms in the United States Senate, is now the
Obama administration's recently appointed Secretary of Defense.
Who says that crime doesn't pay? Depends on the game, I guess.
When George Sorros and the Obama Cabal took over the Voting Machine ownership and used it for their own wins, they blackmailed Chuck Hagel into silence and then offered a position in their cabal. He accepted the offer he could not refuse!
Still doubting that our elections are rigged, you can view the video below
and hear first-hand the sworn testimony of a Mr. Clinton Eugene Curtiss
before a select United States Senate Committee, admitting that he was
retained by former Florida Congressman Tom Feeney,
then Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, to develop a
program for the specific purpose of determining the outcome of
electronically tabulated elections. This, and other election-throwing computer programs, became vital to
the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. Voters in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas all reported that a vote
for Romney resulted in either a direct or a default vote for Obama.
The Market Daily News reported that in 100 Cuyahoga County (Cleveland)
Ohio precincts, Obama got 99% of the votes and Romney 0. In more than 50
different precincts, Romney received two votes or less. In
Philadelphia, 59 precincts recorded not one single vote for Romney. And
the list goes on. How is this possible? I will attempt to answer this
question as you again remember the Joseph Stalin quotation, "It's not the people who vote that counts. It's the people who count the votes."
How could so many
similar events be occurring simultaneously in so many different
locations? READ ON...
In 2002, the use of "Direct
Recording Electronic" (DRE) voting machines and the elimination of all
paper trails of balloting was imposed upon the states through the
enactment of the "Help Americans Vote Act." Since the conduct of
elections is constitutionally delegated to the sovereign states, the
feds came up with a $3.9 BILLION inducement for them to adopt electronic
voting. Obviously, there was a lot of money and a lot of political
influence involved in concentrating the tabulation of balloting into the
hands of a select few. A few with connections in high places.
Enter now from left stage, the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Ted.
They respectively controlled Ohio-based Diebold and its theatrical
stand-in, Nebraska-based "Election Systems and Software" (ES&S). Diebold eventually sold out
to ES&S, thus ending the competition charade. There then emerged
another major performer in this off-Broadway production --- Sequoia. Its
machines serviced nearly 9 million voters in the 2012 election.
The Diebold-ES&S collaboration was temporarily disrupted by a Justice Department ant-trust indictment, forcing ES&S to sell its Diebold interest
to the Dominion Corporation --- the fourth largest name in voter
technology. But a month later, the DOJ turned a blind eye as Dominion
purchased Sequoia. So now, the cast of players was complete. Only two
domestic voting machine manufacturers remained on stage -- ES&S and Dominion.
About that time, things got a little dicey in the head offices. Many of the key staffers were accused or convicted
of a dizzying array of white-collar crimes, including conspiracy,
bribery, bid rigging, computer fraud, tax fraud, stock fraud, mail
fraud, extortion, and drug trafficking.
While their interests were directed elsewhere, newer
technologies, including Web-based voting, emerged on the scene in the
form of the Spanish-owned firm, Scytl. And to keep things nice and cozy,
Scytl named our old friend Bob Urosevich, of Diebold fame, as managing
director of its Americas division.
Scytl became the subject of much speculation that the tabulation
of domestic balloting had been outsourced by the Obama administration to
this Spanish firm, owned by international financier, George Soros.
True, Scytl had been contracted to handle some overseas military
ballots, but there is apparently no basis
to the Obama outsourcing story, or ownership by George Soros. However,
Scytl is believed to have provided the Web-based technology to Allpoint
Voter Services, used by the North Carolina State Board of Elections and
the Obama campaign's GottaRegister.com website to enroll at least 11,000 persons via the internet, in violation of North Carolina state law.
So, as the curtain falls on what has now become an
American Tragedy in voting, the very foundation of our Representative Republic,
the right to free and open elections, is now concentrated in the hands
of a few politically connected entities; entities that are neither free
nor open.
WE MUST BE AWARE OF THIS EARLY AND DONALD TRUMP MUST PREPARE HIS BATTLE PLANS TO FIGHT NOW AND NOT LATER!
Tampering of elections has progressed from the outmoded inefficiency
of buying a single vote through the offering of a Mason jar of bootleg
whiskey or the dispensing of a little "walking around money," to the
current practice of influencing entire elections. Why? Because, as
Joseph Stalin so accurately observed many years ago, "It's not the
people who vote that counts. It's the people who count the votes." Act II
showed how control of the entire voting process became possible through
the outlawing of the paper ballot, and its inconvenient trail of truth,
and replacing it with the Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting
machine -- capable of manipulating the votes of many, in order to
benefit the few. Act III now opens to show that sinister plots
were already at play in the presidential election of 2012, even before
the ballots were cast. Return with us now to those golden days of
yesteryear; to the mystical, magical land of Camelot; to the days of the
Kennedy administration; to the enactment of the National Voter
Registration Act of 1993, also known as the Motor Voter Act. This
legislation requires
states to accept voter-registration applications for federal (i.e.,
House, Senate, and Presidential) elections by three principal means:
By being registered to vote if applying for, or renewing, a driver's license (hence the name “motor voter”)
By
being registered to vote upon application at all offices that provide
public assistance of any kind -- including Obamacare -- thus appealing
to those who are receiving free or subsidized assistance to favor the
party in power.
By voter-registration applications being accepted on line, or by mail, with no verification of legitimacy.
Obviously, this has vastly expanded the opportunities for ballot fraud.
Some
eight million people have registered this way, but only about five
percent of them usually bother to vote -- leaving a considerable pool of
names available to those bent on election mischief.
Only
seven states require photo IDs at polling booths -- making it easier to
vote in someone else's name, either in person or by absentee ballot.
Last July 18th, Senate Bill S.1336 was
submitted by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), et al., to amend the National
Voter Registration Act of 1993 to permit all States to require proof of
citizenship for registration to vote in elections for Federal office.
However, Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has not brought the bill up for
consideration.
So how has that been working out for you? Motor Voter opened the door
to a massive increase in fraudulent registrations. For example, the
number of registered voters in Philadelphia increased by 24% from 1995
to 2004, even as the city's population declined by 13%. By 2009, an
independent study estimated that America's voter registration rolls
included more than 16 million invalid voters. In St. Louis, the Postal
Service says it cannot locate 28% of all registered voters. This provides fertile ground for ACORN and other groups that seek to turn phony registrations into votes.
In July 2010, a newly-formed voter registration group, Houston Votes, investigated a sampling of registered voters, and brought their results
to the local paper, the Harris County Registrar. Of 25,640 new
registration applications submitted, only 7,193 were actually new
voters, the remainder being a deliberate effort to over-burden the
processing system with thousands of duplicate and incomplete voter
registration applications, in keeping with the Cloward-Piven strategy of governmental overthrow by clogging legitimate government function with overwhelming public demands. So
how is all this possible? Easy. As an example, a call to the State
Department of Transportation (DOT) driver's license bureau revealed that
although they do require an applicant to submit a Social Security
number (SS#), and although the DOT does have access to a Federal
database for SS# verification, they seldom do so since the legitimacy of
a valid SS# is not of concern to the issuer of drivers' licenses.
If
the applicant indicates a willingness to be registered to vote, which
the wording of the form encourages the applicant to do, a copy of the
applicant's personal information is transmitted directly to the
appropriate county Election Commission Office, where the application is
processed, and a voter registration card issued. However,
although a valid SS# is required for voter registration, the Election
Commission Office has no means of checking its authenticity, but assumes
the information provided was verified by the originating government
agency. So the government agency with the capacity to verify the
citizen's ID, often doesn't; and the government agency with the need to
verify the citizen's ID, can't. The loophole is obvious. This is one
reason why the Motor Voter Act, the brainchild of the same NYC Columbia
University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven mentioned
previously, has been termed the nation's primary source of voter
irregularities; and it's all perfectly legal. So there you have
it. Is this going to be the final act? I would like to think that we
might have a happy ending, but if so, we had better get to work on it.
Time is running out, and the final curtain on legitimate elections is
fast closing.
So what's the answer? Short of an armed revolution that none of you all in large numbers are willing to join and I have called for for over 7 years, it can only be found
at the ballot box, corrupt though it may be.
Our voting for Donald Trump in the elections of 2016 must be so overwhelming that they defy
those who would corrupt the outcome. Will it be easy? Certainly not. Can we do it HELL YES.. we must.
THE SILENT CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY MUST GET OFF THEIR ASSES AND MOBILIZE NOW.
Plan to have observers and counters at polling places with a dubious past and track the votes. We must also demand that in the case of outright fraud, this time the Republican Party will stand up and fight and not cower in fear like they did in 2012!
SOCIALISTS MAKE LONG TERM PLANS!!:Obama
wins Ohio and PA with margins that boggle the mind. ( 100% in some
precincts!)Well...Guess who was in charge of the company that makes the
machines that count the votes??? The longer we allow them to use these machines the worse it becomes for the chances for Conservatives to win anywhere there are electronic voting machines.
CHUCK HAGEL: Now he is getting his payback. So he
too can cash in on the Cash Cow that is the federal Government. Look you
think these guys make their money from the paycheck they get ?? HELL
NO!! Its the Kickbacks and secret deals with bank accounts in Arab
Countries outside the reach of the IRS. Same reason Al Gore went with Al
Jazeera. Obama and got a secret kick back in QATAR or Dubai or some
other Arab country. Back to Hagel: In 1992, Hagel was CEO of Election
Systems & Software, maker of computerized voting machines.
On March 15, 1995, Hagel resigned as CEO but kept millions in stock
options and declared that he was going to run for the U.S. Senate in
Nebraska. Although he was a virtually unknown candidate; although he ran
against a former governor, Ben Nelson, who was hugely popular; and
although all the polls prior to the election indicated Ben Nelson would
win the election, oddly Hagel won by a landslide with 83% of the vote. It later turned out that Hagel’s voting machines had been used in virtually all of the precincts. When Hagel ran for reelection in 2006, his previous landslide of 83% was eclipsed by an even wider margin. It turns out that Hagel’s former company, Election Systems &
Software/Diebold now counts the votes in most elections. Who has
controlling interest in it now ? The Omaha Group with the secret backing
of Warren Buffet and the other vote counting machine company is owned
in some way by George Soros. And it turns out Hagel’s voting machines have been embroiled in
investigations of hacking and vote-switching that continue to this day. Now consider this....Barack Obama won the presidential elections the
same way Hagel won his senatorial seat? How? By using those machines to defraud
the electorate and he was given the position of Secretary of Defense as a kick back for
the favor?
Americans should demand to see each and every vote cast for both Chuck Hagel and Barack Obama. Now. Today, WE ARE BEING DUPED PATRIOTS... TIME FOR A REVOLUTION !!! BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
FYI: Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters
heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts
and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and
security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne
National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed
hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of
the manipulation behind.
“We believe these man-in-the-middle attacks are potentially possible
on a wide variety of electronic voting machines,” said Roger Johnston,
leader of the assessment team “We think we can do similar things on
pretty much every electronic voting machine.”
The Argonne Lab, run by the Department of Energy, has the mission of
conducting scientific research to meet national needs. The Diebold
Accuvote voting system used in the study was loaned to the lab’s
scientists by VelvetRevolution.us, of which the Brad Blog is a
co-founder. Velvet Revolution received the machine from a former Diebold
contractor.
Previous lab demonstrations of e-voting system hacks, such as
Princeton’s demonstration of a viral cyber attack on a Diebold
touch-screen system relied on
cyber attacks to change the results of elections. Such attacks,
according to the team at Argonne, require more coding skills and
knowledge of the voting system software than is needed for the attack
on the Diebold system.
Indeed, the Argonne team’s attack required no modification,
reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine’s proprietary
source code. It was carried out by inserting a piece of inexpensive
“alien electronics” into the machine. The Argonne team’s demonstration of the attack on a Diebold Accuvote
machine is seen in a short new video shared exclusively with the Brad
Blog [posted below]. The team successfully demonstrated a similar
attack on a touch-screen system made by Sequoia Voting Systems in 2009.
The new findings of the Vulnerability Assessment Team echo
long-ignored concerns about e-voting vulnerabilities issued by other
computer scientists and security experts, the U.S. Computer Emergency
Readiness Team (an arm of the Department of Homeland Security), and even
a long-ignored presentation by a CIA official given to the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission. “This is a national security issue,” says Johnston. “It should really be handled by the Department of Homeland Security.” The use of touch-screen Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting
systems of the type Argonne demonstrated to be vulnerable to
manipulation has declined in recent years due to security concerns, and
the high cost of programming and maintenance. Nonetheless, the same
type of DRE systems, or ones very similar, will once again be used by a
significant part of the electorate on Election Day in 2012.
According
to Sean Flaherty, a policy analyst for VerifiedVoting.org,
a nonpartisan e-voting watchdog group, “About one-third of registered
voters live where the only way to vote on Election Day is to use a
DRE.”
Almost all voters in states like Georgia, Maryland, Utah and Nevada,
and the majority of voters in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Texas, will vote on DREs on Election Day in 2016, says Flaherty. Voters
in major municipalities such as Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and
Pittsburgh will also line up in next year’s election to use DREs of the
type hacked by the Argonne National Lab.
Voting machine companies and election officials have long sought to
protect source code and the memory cards that store ballot programming
and election results for each machine as a way to guard against
potential outside manipulation of election results. But critics like
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen have pointed out that
attempts at “security by obscurity” largely ignore the most immediate
threat, which comes from election insiders who have regular access to
the e-voting systems, as well as those who may gain physical access to
machines that were not designed with security safeguards in mind.
“This is a fundamentally very powerful attack and we believe that
voting officials should become aware of this and stop focusing strictly
on cyber [attacks],” says Vulnerability Assessment Team member John
Warner. “There’s a very large physical protection component of the
voting machine that needs to be addressed.” The team’s video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive
electronic device into the voting machine can offer a “bad guy”
virtually complete control over the machine. A cheap remote control
unit can enable access to the voting machine from up to half a mile
away. “The cost of the attack that you’re going to see was $10.50 in
retail quantities,” explains Warner in the video. “If you want to use
the RF [radio frequency] remote control to stop and start the attacks,
that’s another $15. So the total cost would be $26.” The video shows three different types of attack, each demonstrating
how the intrusion developed by the team allows them to take complete
control of the Diebold touch-screen voting machine. They were able to
demonstrate a similar attack on a DRE system made by Sequoia Voting
Systems as well. In what Warner describes as “probably the most relevant attack for
vote tampering,” the intruder would allow the voter to make his or her
selections. But when the voter actually attempts to push the Vote Now
button, which records the voter’s final selections to the system’s
memory card, he says, “we will simply intercept that attempt … change a
few of the votes,” and the changed votes would then be registered in
the machine. “In order to do this,” Warner explains, “we blank the screen
temporarily so that the voter doesn’t see that there’s some revoting
going on prior to the final registration of the votes.” This type of attack is particularly troubling because the manipulation would occur after
the voter has approved as “correct” the on-screen summaries of his or
her intended selections. Team leader Johnson says that while such an
attack could be mounted on Election Day, there would be “a high
probability of being detected.” But he explained that the machines could
also be tampered with during so-called voting machine “sleepovers”
when e-voting systems are kept by poll workers at their houses, often
days and weeks prior to the election or at other times when the systems
are unguarded.
“The more realistic way to insert these alien electronics is to do
it while the voting machines are waiting in the polling place a week or
two prior to the election,” Johnston said. “Often the polling places
are in elementary schools or a church basement or some place that
doesn’t really have a great deal of security. Or the voting machines
can be tampered while they’re in transit to the polling place. Or while
they’re in storage in the warehouse between elections,” says Johnston.
He notes that the Argonne team had no owner’s manual or circuit
diagrams for either the Diebold or Sequoia voting systems they were
able to access in these attacks.
The team members are critical of election security procedures,
which rarely, if ever, include physical inspection of the machines,
especially their internal electronics. Even if such inspections were
carried out, however, the Argonne scientists say the type of attack
they’ve developed leaves behind no physical or programming evidence, if
properly executed.
“The really nice thing about this attack, the man-in-the-middle, is
that there’s no soldering or destruction of the circuit board of any
kind,” Warner says. “You can remove this attack and leave no forensic
evidence that we’ve been there.”
Gaining access to the inside of the Diebold touch-screen is as simple
as picking the rudimentary lock, or using a standard hotel minibar key,
as all of the machines use the same easily copied key, available at
most office supply stores. “I think our main message is, let’s not get overly transfixed on the
cyber,” team leader Johnston says. Since he believes they “can do
similar things on pretty much every electronic voting machine,” he
recommends a number of improvements for future e-voting systems. “The machines themselves need to be designed better, with the idea
that people may be trying to get into them,” he says. ” If you’re just
thinking about the fact that someone can try to get in, you can design
the seals better, for example.”
“Don’t do things like use a standard blank key for every machine,”
he warns. “Spend an extra four bucks and get a better lock. You don’t
have to have state of the art security, but you can do some things
where it takes at least a little bit of skill to get in.”
So i am warning the Conservatives and the Trump Team.
Do not sit on the happy poll numbers. Its Voting Machines and the Electoral College that will vote for a president based on the vote count in specific states and right now its winner take all in every State.
So if the playing field is level Trump will win. If he does.... My Advise to his new Administration.
Do not rest on the laurels of victory. Use the 4 years you will have in office to make it a mission to remove the Electronic Voting Machines from the counting of votes in Federal elections. You cannot change how States vote but you can for Federal Selections. If you don't I fear that the cheating using electronic voting machines will become worse and worse with every election cycle and the Democrats and the Obama backers will perfect "THE ART OF THE CHEATING" and elections will always be won by the Socialist Democrats gunning to steal our country. its their long game as I said.