Listen to Republicans admit they want to end Democracy

 

Listen to a Washington State GOP representative say they want to get rid of Democracy

 

 

This video gives insight into the oppressive laws Republicans has been passing in recent years such as anti-voting laws to rig elections in their favor, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT laws and how Russia shares many of the same anti-democratic ideals and values held by Republicans.

 

Why Republicans Don’t Want A Democracy

 

Republicans have declared WAR on the Truth and Democracy

 

American Democracy has been on a steady decline. For years, we’ve been trying to make sense of it. How can one party seem to be so opposed to the single principle on which this nation was built. Here’s one school of thought: maybe it’s not that the far-right wants to tear democracy down. Maybe, they never believed in its existence in the first place. For decades, there’s been a misguided philosophy that America is not a democracy, but rather, a Republic.

 

Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump and his cronies intend to “terminate rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution”, invoke the “Insurrection Act”, declare “Martial Law” to Quash Protests and replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists.

 

Trump cronies like Steve Bannon has promised to use “Shock Troops” to take over the government shown in the above video.

 

Project Esther, spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation, creator of Project 2025, lays out the ways that antisemitism will be co-opted by the right to push through their xenophobic, nationalist, anti-DEI agenda.

 

Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity

Trump believes he should have Presidential Immunity to do anything he wants.  On Jan. 9, 2024, Trump’s legal team argued to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that a President should be able to order SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent and be immune to criminal prosecution. On July 1, 2024, the Radical Right Wing dominated Supreme Court agreed and gave Trump the authority of a Dictator by granting him “Absolute Immunity”. He’s promised to ‘root out’ those who he thinks are ‘communists, marxists and ‘the radical left’. This means anyone who opposes him.

Trump’s statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution, Citizens rights, eliminate Freedom of Speech and shut down media outlets which have been critical of him. Trump has proven to be a lawless pathological liar, narcissistic psychopath and a clear & present danger which the RNC is recklessly unleashing onto the American public by enabling, sponsoring and promoting on they’re ticket.

 

‘Project 2025’: Trump & Radical Right Wing Republicans Plan to turn the United States into a Fascist Dictatorship

 

How Trump is Following Hitler’s Playbook

 

On Dec 31, 2023 ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviewed three former Trump White House staffers who stated a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’.

This is just one of the many warnings Americans had about Trump being re-elected so it defies logic and reason that the majority of Americans actually voted to put Trump back in the White House.

 

Hard-Right Republicans want to replace democracy: Anti-Trump conservative

“Democracy is hard work and they want a shortcut to achieve their craven policy ends without doing the work,” Rick Wilson told Newsweek.

Per the above article: “Some on the far-right, including within the Republican Party, are seeking to “replace democracy” with a system that “they alone benefit from,” according to a leading anti-Trump conservative.

Rick Wilson, a former GOP media consultant who co-founded The Lincoln Project, a conservative campaign group opposed to Donald Trump, told Newsweek when asked why some conservatives have been sympathetic towards Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.

They want to put the control of all the people in the hands of a government that reflects their own ideological bias. It’s easy to see why they would want to replace democracy with a system that allows that they alone benefit from.”

 

Trump’s new autocratic plan exposed? Alarms over ‘radical second term’ plots

In a new report, The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.

 

If a Republican wins the Presidential election in 2024, they’re planning to implement “Project 2025” which would give their leader the power of a Dictator.

As stated by wikipedia; “Project 2025 seeks to place the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of the Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. To reshape the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands to come to Washington, D.C., to replace existing employees to restructure the Executive Branch of the federal government as to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump. The plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory – a theory proposing the president of the United States have absolute power of the executive branch – upon inauguration”.

“The development of the plan is led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank. It includes widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies”. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025]

 

Trump is a Wanna-be Dictator who plans to become a Dictator if Elected in 2024.

Trump’s insane statements prove he intends to violate his Oath of Office, the United States Constitution and Citizens Rights on DAY ONE. His claiming he’s only going to be a Dictator for ONE DAY is BULLSHIT. Let’s not forget how Fact Checkers found Trump LIED over 30,000 times while President, so he has no credibility. He did everything possible to stay in office after he lost in 2020. If he gets back in the White House in 2024, he isn’t leaving… he’s made it clear; he wants to be a DICTATOR FOR LIFE. Under Trump’s rule, the United States could become like Russia where dissenters are arrested, locked up and executed.

 

How Wannabe Dictators become REAL Dictators

 

In an interview with Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker on May 9, 2018, Trump Stated about the United States Constitution; “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess. We need to tear it up and start over. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He also called the First Amendment “something that really has to go. No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution. Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”

 

Trump double downs on anti-democratic rhetoric in new speech, calling 2024 ‘our final battle’

Former GOP Strategist Rick Wilson and Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project join Ali Velshi to discuss Donald Trump’s “extraordinarily dangerous” remarks last night at Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida and why his rhetoric signals a dark turning point for his 2024 campaign and democracy at large.

 

RADICAL RIGHT WING REPUBLICANS WANT THE UNITED STATES TO BECOME LIKE VICTOR ORBÁN’S HUNGARY

Videos show how Autocrat Victor Orbán & his Radical Right Wing Party eliminated Democracy in Hungary by taking over the Government and turned it into a authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere. This is what Trump and Republicans want to do to the United States.

 

Hungary Is a Version of What Republicans Wants For The U.S.

Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.

Right-Wingers turned Hungary into a Anti-Democratic Fascist One-Party-Rule Dictatorship. It will happen here unless Republicans are STOPPED.

Republicans have passed laws to overturn / override election results in states they control and put partisans in control of counting the votes, allowing them to make sure only Republicans are declared the winner.

 

DeSantis & Florida Republicans are following the playbook of Fascist
Autocrat Dictator of Hungary Viktor Orban by taking control of Education

 

 

How To Dismantle A Democracy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become a favorite among Trump-loving ethno-nationalists. Yale’s Jason Stanley and authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat break down why Orbán and the fascination with Orbán is so dangerous.

 

Thousands of solders from around the world fought and died to DEFEAT Fascism in WWII. We owe it to them and ourselves to continue fighting for freedom and against Anti-Democratic Fascist DICTATORS

 

 

 

‘Dictator worship’: Orban visit puts Trump soft spot for dictators on display

Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to emulate autocrats such as Putin, Kim Jong Un and Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban who visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

 

Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.

 

Expert Compares Trump’s Politics to Fascism

Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains why he claims President Donald Trump’s politics are akin to fascism, a political movement based around a leader.

 

The Right’s Embrace of Fascism and Authoritarianism

 

Rules of the Demagogue

 

Report Details Trump’s FASCIST Plans If Elected In 2024

 

The GOP has a plan to push America into classical fascism and it’s happening faster than you know. Only three steps to go.

 

Viktor Orban Is A ‘Right Wing Dream For GOP Trying To Destroy Our Democracy’

Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban, who was accused of pure Nazi rhetoric by one of his own aides–but that did not prevent him from receiving the red carpet treatment by Republicans at CPAC. “Viktor Orbán has nothing to offer, nothing to export. His country is bankrupt,” foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal says. “He’s begging Europe to basically give him some money.”

 

POLL: Only 36% Of Republicans Support Freedom Of The Press

43% of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36% disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll

 

Trump Supporters Are Excited By The Idea Of Him Being A Dictator

Donald Trump did exactly what most of us expected, and he actually convinced his base that he SHOULD be a dictator if he gets back into office, and that it is somehow a good thing to trample on the Constitution. Ever since Trump first made his dictator comments, his supporters have been quick to defend and ultimately offer their praise of the comments, and that part isn’t dying down, either. A new poll also shows that a strong number of Iowa voters say that his rhetoric makes it MORE likely that they will support him.

 

Expert Compares Trump’s Politics to Fascism

Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains why he claims President Donald Trump’s politics are akin to fascism, a political movement based around a leader.  80+% of Republicans approve of Trump, even after he has LIED more than any other Politician in history (fact checkers claim over 30,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president).

 

Inside Hungary’s far-right movement

The radical narratives mounted by Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party and far-right movements are gaining ground ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. Euronews reporter Valerie Gauriat traveled to Hungary for the national Republic Day to hear from supporters and critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration—and what it means to be Hungarian.

 

Fiona Hill Discusses how Democracy in the United States is Under Assault

 

Trump & Republicans are following in Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels footsteps by telling the BIG LIE that Trump won the 2020 election while “Accusing the other side of that which they are guilty”.

Today’s Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascist, determined to seize and maintain power by any means necessary.

 

Republicans are constantly demonizing Antifa (Anti-Fascist) as being BAD. Being against Antifa means your against Democracy and FOR anti-democratic, authoritarian Fascism. German Nazis were Right-Wing “Conservative” Fascist.

The full name of Hitler’s party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. In English, that translates to National Socialist German Workers’ Party. But it was not a socialist party; it was a right-wing, ultranationalist party dedicated to racial purity, territorial expansion and anti-Semitism and total political control.

The Nazi party was largely supported by small-business men and conservative industrialists (just like today’s American Republican party).

Thousands of solders from around the world fought and died to defeat Fascism in WWII. We owe it to them and ourselves to continue fighting for freedom and against Anti-Democratic Fascists who wants to take away our freedom and democracy. Enemies of Democracy should be REJECTED and DEFEATED.

Republicans equate Black Lives Matter as being one and the same as Antifa. They’ll say “BLM Antifa Protestors” in the same sentence as though a BLM protestor is a automatically a member of “Antifa”. Not true.

“Antifa is an ideology, not an organization” stated FBI Director Chris Wray in sworn testimony to congress on September 17, 2020.

 

The American Republican Fascist Party

 

Republicans are starting to look like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds | CNN

The Republicans have become more illiberal and populist in recent decades and are now starting to resemble autocratic parties like Hungary’s Fidesz and Turkey’s AKP, according to a new study from Sweden.

Per the above article’ “Experts from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden stated US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties like Hungary’s Fidesz and Turkey’s AKP.

“What we see is that the disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence and also the violation of minority rights … they have all clearly increased with the Republican Party in recent years, since [President Donald Trump] came in the leadership but also before that,” Anna Luehrmann, V-Dem’s deputy director and one of the lead authors of the study, told CNN”.

 

Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un… “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

 

 

Republicans fit all of the Characteristics of Fascism described below

Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism – Article by Dr. Lawrence Britt

1. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

2. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

3. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

4. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

5. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

6. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

7. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

8. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

9. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

10. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

11. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

12. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

13. Manipulate & Control elections – Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate & control elections.

14. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

 

REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

Note how Republicans uses flags and symbols like Islamic Terrorists. This is an example of how Right-Wingers around the world behave in a similar manner

 

Radical Right Wing, Trump Supporting Republicans can be easily spotted in Pick-up Trucks with flags (similar to Islamic Terrorist in pick-up trucks with flags).

 

 

Republicans Have a Friend in the Company That Counts Their Votes

ES&S % Voting Systems: A Friend To Republicans. Raising Some Questions about the Company Behind So Many Surprise Wins This Year.

ES&S Voting Systems: A Friend To Republicans

Per the above article: Raising Some Questions about the Voting Machine Company Behind So Many Surprise Wins This Year

After initially focusing on the surprisingly lopsided results of the senatorial election in Kentucky, DCReport broadened our scope to look at the electronic vote-counting software and electronic voting systems that we rely on to tally our votes. This prompted us to raise questions about Electronic Systems & Software (ES&S), America’s largest voting machine company. What we found was a revolving door between government officials and ES&S.

Voting results in three states that saw surprising majorities by vulnerable incumbent Republican senators—Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina—were almost all tabulated on ES&S machines.

Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell and Fox hosts have been making such bold and naked claims against the ES&S competitors, without any substance or evidence, that Fox News, NewsMax and OAN have all been threatened with litigation unless they fully retract their claims and correct a number of egregious factual errors.

Team Trump has been so vigorous in going after Dominion that it prompted us to look into how ES&S operates. What we have found so far is far from comforting.

• Owned by a private equity firm, ES&S has been elusive about identifying the people in its ownership.
• A number of ES&S executives and lobbyists have ties to top GOP election officials and politicians.
• The ES&S executive in charge of the security previously worked in the Trump administration as a government executive at Health and Human Services before leaving under a cloud.
• Forty of the 50 states use ES&S to cast and count some of their votes.
• Of the 25 states Trump won, all but 3 either partially or fully relied on ES&S machines. The states where Trump won that didn’t use ES&S machines were Oklahoma, Louisiana and Alaska.

 

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Per the above article: Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former Republican election official, according to a person familiar with the sale.

John Poulos, the former Dominion CEO, confirmed the sale in a statement. “Liberty Vote has acquired Dominion Voting Systems,” Poulos said.

Voting systems made by Dominion, one of the most-used voting machine companies in the U.S., were used in 27 states in during the 2024 election.

In a statement, Liberty Vote said it is founded and run by Scott Leiendecker, whose LinkedIn profile says he served as the election director for the city of St. Louis until 2012. News articles from the time indicate he was a Republican.

Voting systems and software in the United States have Republican Owners & Presidents as detailed in this Google search

In October 2025, Dominion Voting Systems was acquired by a newly formed company, Liberty Vote, which is run by a former Republican election official, Scott Leiendecker.

Another major vendor, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), is owned by a private equity firm with past ties to a Republican investor.
Dominion Voting Systems (now Liberty Vote)

Ownership: The company was purchased by Liberty Vote, a firm founded and run by Scott Leiendecker, who previously served as an election director in St. Louis and is a former Republican election official.

Political Alignment/Messaging: The new ownership has embraced language and priorities aligning with President Donald Trump’s calls for election reforms, such as emphasizing hand-marked paper ballots and 100% American ownership. This messaging contrasts with Dominion’s prior non-partisan stance and was unexpected by some state election officials.
Usage: Dominion’s systems are widely used, having processed votes in over half the states during the 2024 election.
Impact on Systems: Despite the change in ownership and messaging, election officials were told that no immediate staff changes, contract terminations, or product overhauls were expected, and that the existing systems still comply with current federal and state laws.

Election Systems & Software (ES&S)

Ownership: ES&S is a privately owned company, which means it is not legally obligated to reveal all ownership details. A controlling interest is held by the Omaha-based private equity firm McCarthy Group.

Political Ties: An ES&S spokesperson has confirmed in the past that its investors are U.S. citizens or entities. Historically, the company was purchased in 1977 by an investment firm owned by Republican Prentis Cobb Hale, a strong supporter of Ronald Reagan, and some company founders had Republican leanings. ES&S executives and lobbyists have also had ties to GOP officials and politicians.

Usage: ES&S is one of the largest election equipment vendors in the U.S., used by 40 of the 50 states to cast and count votes.

Other Major Vendors

Hart InterCivic: This is the third major vendor in the U.S., and it is also owned by a private equity firm that is not obligated to disclose its investors.

Smartmatic: This company has faced conspiracy theories regarding links to Venezuelan leadership, which have been widely debunked through defamation lawsuits and by election experts. It operates in several countries and is a competitor to Dominion.

 

 

‘They think they are above the law’: the firms that own America’s voting system

In the second of a two-part series: How a few private companies that have little oversight and keep information secret run US elections

‘They think they are above the law’: the firms that own America’s voting system

Per the above article: Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin is a newcomer to the cause of reforming America’s vote-counting machines, welcomed through baptism by fire. In 2015, Maryland’s main election system vendor was bought by a parent company with ties to a Russian oligarch. The state’s election officials did not know about the purchase until July 2018, when the FBI notified them of the potential conflict.

The FBI investigated and did not find any evidence of tampering or sharing of voter data. But the incident was a giant red flag as to the potential vulnerabilities of American democracy – especially as many states have outsourced vote-counting to the private sector. After all, the purchase happened while Russian agents were mounting multiple disinformation and cybersecurity campaigns to interfere with America’s 2016 general election.

The fact is that democracy in the United States is now largely a secretive and privately-run affair conducted out of the public eye with little oversight. The corporations that run every aspect of American elections, from voter registration to casting and counting votes by machine, are subject to limited state and federal regulation.

The companies are privately-owned and closely held, making information about ownership and financial stability difficult to obtain. The software source code and hardware design of their systems are kept as trade secrets and therefore difficult to study or investigate.

The market for election vendors is small and the “customer base” mostly limited to North America and centered on the US, meaning that competition is fierce. The result is a small network of companies that have near-monopolies on election services, such as building voting machines. Across the spectrum, private vendors have long histories of errors that affected elections, of obstructing politicians and the public from seeking information, of corruption, suspect foreign influence, false statements of security and business dishonesty.

But these companies are the safekeepers of American democracy.

A corner of the computer security world has been sounding the alarm since voting machines were adopted after the punch-card disaster of the 2000 election recount in Florida. Now lawmakers, election officials and national security experts are joining in on the clamor after Russian agents probed voting systems in all 50 states, and successfully breached the voter registration systems of Arizona and Illinois in 2016.

Both Robert Mueller’s report and a previous indictment of 12 Russian agents confirmed Russians also targeted private vendors that provided election software. The Russians successfully breached at least one company, its name redacted in the reports, “and installed malware on the company network”, according to the Mueller report.

Intelligence agencies expect cyber attacks from Russia, China and other nations against America’s democracy to continue in 2020.

Oregon senator Ron Wyden, in a speech at an election security conference in Washington DC, said that the voting machine lobby “literally thinks they are just above the law, they are accountable to nobody, [and] they have been able to hotwire the political system in certain parts of the country like we’ve seen in Georgia”.

Wyden was referring to the fact that Brian Kemp, who is now Georgia’s governor after overseeing his own election while secretary of state, appointed an ES&S lobbyist as his deputy chief of staff. Meanwhile, the state is in the process of purchasing more than $150m in new voting machines.

“My view is that the maintenance of our constitutional rights should not depend on the sketchy ethics of these well-connected corporations that stonewall Congress, lie to public officials and have repeatedly gouged taxpayers,” Wyden said.

Meanwhile, weak state or federal guidance leaves many cybersecurity companies doing whatever they want, according to Joshua M Franklin, president and co-founder of Outstack Technologies, a cybersecurity company that helps protect campaign and election infrastructure.

“There are no technical standards or best practices from the US federal government on the security of voter registration systems,” Franklin said. “One to two pages [of guidelines] don’t cut it. Similarly, we are missing technical security specifications that election night reporting or blank ballot distribution systems must meet.”

Like voting machine vendors, companies providing voter registration and election-night reporting services have their own history with security lapses and false statements. Very little is known about the contracts and relationships between states and vendors such as PCC and Scytl that provide voter registration or other online election services.

When it was discovered three days before the 2018 midterms that poor cybersecurity left Georgia’s voter registration system vulnerable to being altered, it was unclear whether the state or the company were responsible for the failures. Computer security experts tested the systems of two other states also listed as clients by PCC. One of the coding problems also existed in North Carolina and Washington, though the way the states structured their websites muted the potential hazard faced in Georgia.

Not only are the companies largely free from public records requests, they are often asked to investigate or police themselves, according to election law expert Candice Hoke.

“It is unheard of, for instance in a bank, that if they have anomalies or a potential hack that they need to investigate, that they are supposed to call the software licensor or the software company and get them to examine their own software and decide whether their software was hacked or flawed in some way,” Hoke said. “Absolutely preposterous. And yet we allow that in our elections.”

 

Diebold Indicted: Its spectre still haunts Ohio elections

Diebold: the controversial manufacturer of voting and ATM machines, whose name conjures up the demons of Ohio’s 2004 presidential election irregularities, is now finally under indictment for a “worldwide pattern of criminal conduct.” Federal prosecutors filed charges against Diebold, Inc.

Per the above article by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman posted October 31st 2013

Diebold: the controversial manufacturer of voting and ATM machines, whose name conjures up the demons of Ohio’s 2004 presidential election irregularities, is now finally under indictment for a “worldwide pattern of criminal conduct.” Federal prosecutors filed charges against Diebold, Inc. on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 alleging that the North Canton, Ohio-based security and manufacturing company bribed government officials and falsified documents to obtain business in China, Indonesia and Russia. Diebold has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the two criminal counts against it. This is not the first time Diebold’s been accused of bribery.

In 2005, the Free Press exposed that Matt Damschroder, Republican chair of the Franklin County of Elections in 2004, reported that a key Diebold operative told Damschroder he made a $50,000 contribution to then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell’s “political interests” while Blackwell was evaluating Diebold’s bids for state purchasing contracts. Damschroder admitted to personally accepting a $10,000 check from former Diebold contractor Pasquale “Patsy” Gallina made out to the Franklin County Republican Party. That contribution was made while Damschroder was involved in evaluating Diebold bids for county contracts. Damschroder was suspended for a month without pay for the incident. Despite the scandal, he was later appointed as Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s Director of Elections.

The ghosts of 2004 election irregularities Diebold was at the center of Ohio’s 2004 election debacle, much of this captured in an article by Free Press Senior Editor Harvey Wasserman and this author, entitled, “Diebold’s Political Machine.” Walden “Wally” O’Dell, chairman of the board and chief executive of Diebold, was a long-time funder of Republican candidates. In September 2003, he held a packed $1,000-per-head GOP fundraiser at his 10,800-square-foot mansion Cotswold Manor in Upper Arlington, Ohio. He was feted as a guest at then-President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch, joining a cadre of “Pioneers and Rangers” who pledged to raise more than $100,000 for the Bush reelection campaign. Most memorably, in 2003 O’Dell penned a letter pledging his commitment “to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President.” O’Dell defended his actions, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer “I’m not doing anything wrong or complicated.” But he also promised to lower his political profile and “try to be more sensitive.” But the Diebold boss’ partisan cards were squarely on the table. Prior to the 2004 election, Blackwell tried to award a $100 million unbid contract to Diebold for electronic voting machines.

A storm of public outrage and a series of lawsuits forced him to cancel the deal. But a substantial percentage of Ohio’s 2004 votes were counted by Diebold software and Diebold Opti-scan machines which frequently malfunctioned in the Democratic stronghold of Toledo. It was revealed in 2006 that Blackwell owned Diebold stock. Diebold’s GEMS election software was used in about half of Ohio counties in the 2004 election. Because of Blackwell’s effort, 41 counties also used Diebold machines in Ohio’s highly dubious 2005 election. Also in the Ohio 2004 election, a whistleblower leaked documents revealing that Diebold had allegedly used illegal, uncertified hardware and software during California election. The ghosts in the Diebold election machines go bump in the 2002 election Wherever Diebold and the other most well-known voting machine company Election Systems & Software (ES&S) go, irregularities and historic Republican upsets follow. Alastair Thompson, writing for scoop.co of New Zealand, explored whether or not the 2002 U.S. mid-term elections were “fixed by electronic voting machines supplied by Republican-affiliated companies.”

The Scoop investigation concluded that: “The state where the biggest upset occurred, Georgia, is also the state that ran its election with the most electronic voting machines.” Those machines were supplied by Diebold. ES&S and Diebold would later merge and now count about 80 percent of all U.S. votes. Wired News reported that “. . . a former worker in Diebold’s Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machine before the state’s 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials.” Questions were raised in Texas when three Republican candidates in Comal County each received exactly the same number of votes – 18,181 – on ES&S machines.

Following the 2003 California election, an audit of the company revealed that Diebold Election Systems voting machines installed uncertified software in all 17 counties using its equipment. In 2012, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted approved a secret last-minute contract allowing ES&S to install untested, “experimental” software patches on central voting tabulators in 39 Ohio counties. Congressional testimony exposed that last-minute patches were installed in several Ohio counties including Miami and Clermont in the 2004 election. Johns Hopkins researchers at the Information Security Institute issued a report declaring that Diebold’s electronic voting software contained “stunning flaws.”

The researchers concluded that vote totals could be altered at the voting machines and by remote access. Diebold vigorously refuted the Johns Hopkins report, claiming the researchers came to “a multitude of false conclusions.” Perhaps to settle the issue, apparently an insider leaked documents from the Diebold Election Systems website and posted internal documents from the company to Bev Harris’ Black Box Voting website. Diebold went to court to stop, according to court records, the “wholesale reproduction” of some 13,000 pages of company material. The Associated Press reported in November 2003 that: “Computer programmers, ISPs and students at at least 20 universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received cease and desist letters” from Diebold. A group of Swarthmore College students launched an “electronic civil disobedience” campaign to keep the hacked documents permanently posted on the Internet.

Diebold computer goblin causes the 2000 election to be called for Bush The rush to embrace computerized voting, of course, began with Florida’s 2000 presidential election. But, in fact, one of the Sunshine State’s election-day disasters was the direct result of a malfunctioning computerized voting system; a system built by Diebold. The massive screw-up in Volusia County was all but lost in the furor over hanging chads and butterfly ballots in South Florida. In part that is because county election officials avoided a total disaster by quickly conducting a hand recount of the more than 184,000 paper ballots used to feed the computerized system. But the huge computer miscount led several networks to incorrectly call the race for Bush. The first to call it was Fox News where Bush’s first cousin, John Ellis, was in charge of election night coverage.

The first signs that the Diebold-made system in Volusia County was malfunctioning came early on election night, when the central ballot-counting computer showed a Socialist Party candidate receiving more than 9,000 votes and Vice President Al Gore getting minus 19,000. Another 4,000 votes poured into the plus column for Bush that didn’t belong there. Taken together, the massive swing seemed to indicate that Bush, not Gore, had won Florida and thus the White House. Election officials restarted the machine, and expressed confidence in the eventual results, which showed Gore beating Bush by 97,063 votes to 82,214. After the recount, Gore picked up 250 votes, while Bush picked up 154. But the erroneous numbers had already been sent to the media.

Harris has posted a series of internal Diebold memos relating to the Volusia County miscount on her website, blackboxvoting.com. One memo from Lana Hires of Global Election Systems, now part of Diebold, complains, “I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16,022 [votes] when it was uploaded.” Another, from Talbot Ireland, Senior VP of Research and Development for Diebold, refers to key “replacement” votes in Volusia County as “unauthorized.” Harris has also posted a post-mortem by CBS detailing how the network managed to call Volusia County for Bush early in the morning. The report states: “Had it not been for these [computer] errors, the CBS News call for Bush at 2:17:52 AM would not have been made.”

As Harris notes, the 20,000-vote error shifted the momentum of the news reporting and nearly led Gore to concede. It also gave rise to the incorrect chant that, “Bush won twice.” What’s particularly troubling, Harris says, is that the errors were caught only because an alert poll monitor noticed Gore’s vote count going down through the evening, which of course is impossible. Diebold blamed the bizarre swing on a “faulty memory chip,” which Harris claims is simply not credible. The whole episode, she contends, could easily have been consciously programmed by someone with a partisan agenda. Such claims might seem far-fetched, were it not for the fact that a cadre of computer scientists showed a year ago that the software running Diebold’s new machines can be hacked with relative ease. In 2006, Princeton computer scientists revealed that a computer virus could be easily implanted on a Diebold AccuVote Touch Screen voting system allowing the vote to be flipped. Professor Edward Felten noted that a single individual, “with just one or two minutes of unsupervised access to either the voting machine or the memory card” could rig the system.

Carnegie Mellon’s Michael Shamos called the discovery “the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system.” Diebold sued over faulty equipment, settles by giving away more faulty equipment Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio) election officials accused Diebold of breach of contract, negligence and fraud following the 2008 Ohio primary. Then-Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner sued Diebold for breach of contract, warranty violations and misrepresentations by Diebold representatives involving 47 Ohio counties. In a bizarre settlement in 2010, more than half of Ohio’s county boards of elections received free and discounted voting machines and software from Premier Election Solutions (formally Diebold). This is a result of the August 2008 lawsuit against Diebold filed by Brunner.

In the counterclaim filed by Brunner, she alleged that Diebold voting equipment “dropped votes in at least 11 counties.” The failure to count votes occurred when Diebold memory cards were uploaded to computer servers. Diebold in 2010 reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the U.S. government sued them for $25 million in a fraud case. Diebold admitted that they had overstated the value of their election division by 300% in a stock manipulation scheme. U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach noted that “Companies that pay bribes to public officials, whether those officials are in Cleveland, in Ohio, or overseas, violate the law.” Amen. Why would a free people allow a company with Diebold’s track record to have anything to do with our elections at all. The Diebold indictment underscores a much greater problem in the U.S. election system. As long as the United States allows corrupt, partisan private corporations to secretly count its votes, democracy remains in danger.

 

Per a Google search result: The association between Diebold and the Republican party primarily stems from the activities and statements of its former chairman and CEO, Walden “Wally” O’Dell, in the early 2000s, when the company had a division that produced voting machines. The current company, Diebold Nixdorf, is a publicly traded corporation with diverse institutional shareholders and is no longer in the election systems business.

Past Political Controversy

CEO’s Political Statements: In August 2003, O’Dell, a major Republican donor and Bush campaign organizer, wrote a fundraising letter to Ohio Republicans stating he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year”.

Conflict of Interest Concerns: This statement, combined with the fact that Diebold Election Systems was a potential supplier of new electronic voting machines in Ohio, raised significant concerns about partisanship and potential conflicts of interest regarding election integrity.

Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”

Math doesn’t lie-people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.

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Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”

Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.

In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.” — Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr

In an exclusive interview, former CIA operative Adam Zarnowski laid out pieces of an intricate network of bad actors and covert operations behind transnational organized crime and the stolen 2024 election. Some of his disclosures confirmed long‑held suspicions; others were shocking, exposing connections between organized crime, political operatives, and global power brokers.

Adam’s testimony paints one of the clearest—and most disturbing—pictures yet of how the cover‑up was orchestrated and why it has remained buried. His free book Jörmungandr expounds on this testimony, making these intricate networks impossible to ignore.

He explained that none of his revelations are classified; he has full authorization to speak and is prepared to testify under oath. Having personally assisted the NSA in collecting the data, he stressed that a full forensic hand‑count of the 2024 election—beginning with Representative Victoria Spartz—must be this country’s top priority. The completed NSA audit results have been submitted, yet so far have been met with silence.

That silence isn’t just political inertia—it’s cover for how the 2024 election was subverted. At the center is the machinery itself: illegally copied software, decades of ES&S vulnerabilities, and the installation of a back door through a last‑minute change order right before the election.

ECO 1188: The Unlocked Backdoor

In September 2024, ES&S quietly pushed a change into its certified election software: ECO 1188. Pro V&V rubber‑stamped it. The EAC signed off. This change alone isn’t the whole issue—rather it’s just one piece of a much larger, compromised puzzle that’s been taking shape in plain sight for decades.

On paper, it was filed as a “de minimis” update — a minor tweak that wouldn’t require deep review.
In reality, it moved a critical file (config.ini) from the static hash list to the dynamic hash list inside ES&S’s Electionware software.

For anyone who doesn’t speak vendor-euphemism, here’s what that means:

• Certified voting software normally has cryptographic hashes — a kind of digital fingerprint — for every file.
• If even a single character in a protected file changes, the hash doesn’t match, and the system throws an error.
• ECO 1188 told the software: Don’t check this file anymore.

 

The config.ini file isn’t trivial. It controls how Electionware generates and formats vote totals for reports—the very outputs that are read on election night. By moving it to the “dynamic” list in September 2024, ES&S, Pro V&V and the EAC created a window where reporting behavior could be altered without triggering any security warning within EVS 6.5.0.0, approved for use in July 2024—coming soon to an election booth near you.

If that sounds reckless, it’s because it is. And it’s not as if we weren’t warned. Princeton’s Andrew Appel and Susan Greenhalgh have been sounding the alarm for years that vendor‑controlled hash systems are little more than security theater—especially when vendors can exclude or reclassify files at will. This isn’t their first, second, or even third rodeo—we highly recommend reading their findings in this CITP Blog.

To understand how we reached a point where a president who lost an election can illegally breach voting equipment, maliciously copy the software, and leave that same equipment in service; where tech oligarchs with a vested interest in the election’s outcome can partner with a company that has access to 70% of U.S. voting machines; and where a private vendor with a long, checkered history can slip in last‑minute backdoor access right before a presidential election—we have to rewind, all the way back to the year 2000.

Read the full article at – thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited