Saudis, Enron Money Helped Pay for US Rigged Election?

If true, this could be the "smoking gun" investigators have been looking for in the search for evidence about fraudulent activities during the presidential election:

Special Report
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer.

November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.

Go to for the entire article and a link to a follow-up on the rigging scheme. (Thanks to Andrea Sterling for this article.)

Update: This story has been debunked by Keith Olbermann in one of his Bloggerman posts.