[Voterescue] A plot to steal the next election

[Karen Renick]

*The anonymous author of Cassandra,/ Chanting/ is scheduled to appear 
again on the Kathryn Raaker <http://www.kathrynraaker.com/> radio show 
(TOMORROW) on Saturday, March 29 at 10:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time. The 
show can be heard from the station's website: http://www.wcvx.com/.*

Cassandra, /Chanting/ is now available at Amazon.com 
<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Cassandra-Chanting/Anonymous/e/9781434353245/?itm=1>and 
Barnes and Noble 
<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=cassandra+chanting>.  


/_"Written by an election world insider who must remain anonymous, the 
novel exposes in authentic and chilling detail just how vulnerable our 
electoral system is today. 
<http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=1138564288185372277&widgetType=Image&widgetId=Image3&action=editWidget>It 
also reveals how warnings by experts are going unheeded and leaving 
Americans dangerously exposed,... 
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<http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=1138564288185372277&widgetType=Image&widgetId=Image3&action=editWidget>_/

History
*An Election Insider's Nightmare*

At the center of Cassandra,/ Chanting/ is a plot to steal the next 
American presidential election. Written by an election world insider who 
must remain anonymous, the novel exposes in authentic and chilling 
detail just how vulnerable our electoral system is today. It also 
reveals how warnings by experts are going unheeded and leaving Americans 
dangerously exposed, just as warnings by the mythological Cassandra went 
unheeded, resulting in the destruction of ancient Troy. As the novel 
opens, plotters travel to America and seduce and recruit government 
officials in order to gain access and then manipulate in undetectable 
ways the computer programs that control voting systems. The subversive 
group targets weak leaders and government bureaucrats whose thirst for 
power or other gain makes them susceptible. They find many eager takers. 
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in D.C. 
has assembled a team led by former Navy SEAL Carl Martello to work on 
federal election oversight. He is joined by Angela Elanthos, brilliant 
at computers and decoding, and soon they become suspicious of one of the 
largest voting companies controlling millions of voting machines, 
certain they have rigged their programs. Despite government inertia and 
very different backgrounds, Carl and Angela race against the clock to 
uncover the high-tech complexities of a plot to fix the outcome of the 
election. As the novel so alarmingly reveals, the means by which the 
democratic institutions can be sabotaged within the voting process are 
all too real, as is the public's continuing indifference to what could 
happen. Cassandra,/ Chanting/ is a gripping tale telling us why we must 
be ever diligent in protecting our institutions against those who 
exercise no restraint attempting to destroy those institutions and us. 
"Embedded in this spell-binder of a novel is a startling and convincing 
message -- the vulnerability of the very voting system the US is now 
adopting. The author clearly understands the new system and what makes 
it tick and shows how it could be 'fixed' to produce a winner different 
from the popular vote. In the process, the very legitimacy of our 
political system would be subverted. November 2008 is not so far away. 
We must heed this warning." .Marvin Zonis is a Professor in the Graduate 
School of Business, The University of Chicago. He also heads Marvin 
Zonis + Associates, Inc., political risk consultants. 
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 /"To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and 
situated, is incapable of listening."/
Margaret Mead: /Culture and Commitment/

 /...[W]e demonstrate that the insider threat is also quite 
considerable, showing that not only can an insider ... modify the votes, 
but that insiders can also violate voter privacy and match votes with 
the voters who cast them."/
Quoted from Analysis of an Electronic Voting System ; February 27, 2007 
by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin And Dan S. 
Wallach.(http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf ). Used with permission.

/"All computer systems are subject to subtle errors. Moreover, computer 
systems can be deliberately corrupted at any stage of their design, 
manufacture, and use. The methods used to do this can be extremely 
difficult to foresee and detect."/
Quoted "Resolution on Electronic Voting 
<http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=5028>" posted on 
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/, the website of The Verified Voting 
Foundation, Prof. David L. Dill, Founder and Board Director. Used with 
permission.

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