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US Electi: Riggei The computer progra to count over one-t votes cast in the last U dential election is vul to manipulation and f According to expert court inactions challenging localan: sional elections in three US ; tion-wide votes counted by t may have been secretly altere The vote-counting progr lenged in Indiana, West Vir Maryland, was developed by | Election Systems, which has cused of helping to rig electior ing the election of Ronald Rei The rapidly increasing u: systems and the widesprea computer skills among most ing authorities constitutes a serious risk. “There is a massive pot problems,” said Mr Gary Gr director of the Washington-bi national Centre on Election Administration. John Kemp, president of | Election Systems, denied the was involved in fraudulent but also said any computer sys be tampered with. “It is totally economically to have a fraud-proof system quoting the projected price system at over $US1 billion. In three of the legal « against the company, losing « hired computer consultants v in court affidavits, testimony views that the company’s pre been designed so that vote to’ be altered without leaving a tampering. The allegations, if true,u der the last US Presidential invalid and unconstitutior they have received little since first being made in Ju US Elections | Life, Death and Plastic Comets R i g g e d They used a telescope-mounted infra- Hattey’ s Comet is partly made of plas- red detector at Siding Spring Mountain tic, according to analysis of data ob- Observatory near Coonabarabran to The computer program used tained during its last visit. make both discoveries. They are investi- 5 “It may be there are very few gating theories by British astronomer to count over one-third of things man can make that don‘talready Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wick- votes cast in the last US Presi- exist,” said Mr Walter Huebner, who ramasinghe (Dayal’s brother) that vi- dential election is vulnerable | identified the a te ters Bernas ait, ee me 3 . e oxymethylene. The Halley’s are brought to Ea y these Cosmic to manip ulation and fraud. rasta ribinty pesaxttl the sun and spermatazoa’. ; According to expert court witnesses planets, and plastic compounds may “Five years ago I wouldn’t have be- inactions challenging localand congres- also exist in other interstellar objects. lieved a word of it,” said Dr Wick- sional elections in three US states, na- On leave from the US Los Alamos ramsinghe. “Now, I think it’s quite pos- tion-wide votes counted by the system National Laboratory, Mr Huebner said sible. may have been secretly altered. the plastic was found deep within the “I don’t think the implications - for The vote-counting program, chal- comet’s head, using spectroscopic biology, for the spread of diseases and lenged in Indiana, West Virginia and analysis. The compound is among the the origin of life- have been investigated Maryland, was developed by Computer easiest plastics to manufacture and was properly, because no-one outside a Election Systems, which has been ac- first produced on Eartharound theturn small group of people is thinking about cused of helping to rig elections -includ- of the. century. Made from hydrogen, them.” ing the election of Ronald Reagan. carbon and oxygen, it was probably Unlike the regular visits of Halley’s The rapidly increasing use of such formed in the comet by exposure to comet (which may have been contami- systems and the widespread lack of cosmic radiation or ultraviolet light. nated by repeated passages through our computer skills among most local vot- ing authorities constitutes a new and serious risk. “There is a massive potential for problems,” said Mr Gary Greenhalgh, director of the Washington-based Inter- national Centre on Election Law and Administration. John Kemp, president of Computer Election Systems, denied the company was involved in fraudulent schemes, but also said any computer systemcould be tampered with. “It is totally economically infeasible to have a fraud-proof system,” he said, quoting the projected price of such a system at over $US1 billion. In three of the legal challenges solar system), Comet Wilson’s flyby is thought to be its first and only trip into the inner solar system. Life and Death? The theory that a huge comet orasteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago has gained support. A team of US Government geologists have found matching pieces of shattered quartz in sites across the world -from Europe to the middle of the Pacific. The quartz is believed to have been hurled around the globe (along with a world wide dust “blanket”) whena large object smashed through the Earth’s crust. According to one British scientific team, this resulted in the formation of Cosmic Sperm against the company, losing candidates Evidence also seems to confirm the Greenland (which rose from the sea at hired computer consultants who stated theory that comets carry seeds of life roughly the same time) due to a massive in court affidavits, testimony and inter- through space. The discovery of or- upwelling from the mid-Atlantic ridge. views that the company’s program had ganic matter - complex hydrogen-car- The dust blanket is thought to have been designed so that vote totals could bon molecules - in Comet Wilson by starved off many species which sur- be altered without leaving any sign of Australian scientists this year indicate vived the effect of impact - catastrophic tampering. that the chemical building-blocks of life earthquakes and ‘mile-high tidal waves’ The allegations, if true, would ren- may be transported by comets. encircling the globe. der the last US Presidential elections Similar chemicals were found in Other evidence includes a layer of invalid and unconstitutional - but Halley’s Comet in 1986 by Dr David red clay deposited around the world 65 they have received little attention Allenofthe Anglo-Australian Observa- million years ago, coincident with mass since first being made in July, 1985. tory and Dr Dayal Wickramasinghe of extinction - its highest concentrations the Australian National University. are centred around the North Atlantic. Nexus New Times Three US Elections Rigged The theory that a huge comet orasteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago has gained support. A team of US Government geologists have found matching pieces of shattered quartz in sites across the world -from Europe to the middle of the Pacific. The quartz is believed to have been hurled around the globe (along with a world wide dust “blanket”) whena large object smashed through the Earth’s crust. According to one British scientific team, this resulted in the formation of Greenland (which rose from the sea at roughly the same time) due to a massive upwelling from the mid-Atlantic ridge. The dust blanket is thought to have starved off many species which sur- vived the effect of impact - catastrophic earthquakes and ‘mile-high tidal waves’ encircling the globe. Other evidence includes a layer of red clay deposited around the world 65 million years ago, coincident with mass extinction - its highest concentrations are centred around the North Atlantic. Ls