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RAW NOTES: VOTING SYSTEMS ORGS AND COMPANIES privatizing, monopolizing, & politicizing the voting process... around the world. At the highest levels, both political parties, the U.S. Government, and major news media are well aware of this situation because they are complicit in it.

9/3/09 - ES&S has bought Diebold - now counts 80% of all votes in America! http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/diebold-sells/

CAUTION: Much of the information below is historic and out-of-date. http://www.electiontech.org/ "The Election Technology Council (ETC) consists of companies which offer voting system technology hardware products, software and services to support the electoral process. These companies have organized as an association to work together to address common issues facing our industry. Current members of the ETC are: Advanced Voting Solutions, Danaher Guardian Voting Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, Perfect Voting System, Sequoia Voting Systems, and UniLect Cor... (Continued)"

The voting technology business is dominated by Republican-leaning U.S. and foreign corporations. Today, two Republican-controlled corporations, Election Systems and Software ( ES&S) and Diebold Voting Systems, and a British-based company, Sequoia, control about 80% of the vote count in the U.S.. But many other corporations are also involved in the elections industry (see below). Meanwhile, the long history of election upsets due to voting machine "glitches", that overwhelmingly favor Republican candidates, continues to grow. See:http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineErrors.htm (Sep 3, 2018, over the years it has become clear that both political parties have benefitted from rigged elections and have demonstrated no interest at all in voting security.)

Will future elections feature The Battle of the Backdoors to voting software? Military defense contractors that also provide election services include: Accenture (a business partner of Halliburton, also a defense contractor), Diebold Voting Systems, Northrop Grumman/Diversified Dynamics/TRW (partners with Science Applications International Corporation, SAIC, also in defense industry), General Dynamics/Computing Devices Canada, Unisys (partners with ES&S), National Semiconductor Corporation, Hart Intercivic, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Perot Systems Government Services, Inc..

Government Oversight: There is no federal agency that has regulatory authority over the elections industry according to Brian Hancock, spokesperson for the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and Jorge Martinez, spokesperson for the Department of Justice (DOJ). No agency or organization even has a complete list of voting machine companies. Using a rough estimate, there are about 70 voting machine companies worldwide, with at least 48 based in the U.S.. The FEC lists only 19, the Texas-based National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) lists 16 that are 'industry certified' (which are outmoded and voluntary guidelines), while the IFES Buyers Guide lists about 64 companies worldwide that appear to be engaged in electronic voting. Meanwhile there is one company that is 'flying under the radar' of both the FEC and NASED, that is the Bermuda-based Accenture (formally Andersen Consulting) that has the contract for the online military vote in 2004.

Ownership: There are no government standards or restrictions on who can sell and service voting machines and systems. Foreigners, convicted criminals, office holders, political candidates, and news media organizations can and do own these companies. It appears that these companies are dominated by members of the Republican Party and foreign investors. Jack Kemp, a former GOP candidate for vice president in 1996 and a possible candidate for Governor of California this year, is on the board of directors for Election.com, while Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) was the past president of the company (AIS) that counted the votes in his first election and an investor in the company (ES&S) that counted the votes in his second election. At least four companies are foreign-owned: Sequoia (UK), Accenture/Election.com (UK Bermuda), EVS (Japan), and N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek (Netherlands). Election.com was formerly owned by Osan, Ltd., a Saudi Arabian firm. Many voting machine companies appear to share managers, investors, and equipment which raises questions of conflict-of-interest and monopolistic practices.

NOTES & LINKS

Orange = media ownership

Purple = politician ownership

Brown = defense industry - LIST: http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/list.aspx?act=top

Red = CIA/NSA intelligence agencies

Yellow = general stuff

ORGANIZATIONS / COMPANY LISTS

(Note: I have found no complete list of vendors, lists must be cross-checked)

Check out: National Workshop on Internet Voting / see Aug 27, 03: Internet Voting - The End of Democracy?



There are several organizations that are promoting electronic voting around the world. Many of these organizations appear to have strong ties to the Republican Party and the intelligence community (CIA, NSA, etc.) Ace Project - "Three leading international organizations that provide electoral assistance have worked together to produce the ACE Electronic Publication. The project partners are the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/pi/pid04.htm

IFES - The International Foundation for Election Systems http://www.ifes.org Since 1987, IFES has supplied world governments with election observation and analysis and has developed into one of the world's leading centers of election information and resources. Comment: It appears that t he organization was founded and is currently chaired by right wing members of the Republican Party (GOP), although they also have directors that come from the Democratic party. IFES funding comes from USAID that has historic connections to the CIA, according to reports (see red section below) Current FUNDING FOR IFES - 80% from U.S. gov't sources including USAID http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/ USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created by executive order USAID.Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. Is IFES a business or advocacy organization? Finally, under the leadership of our Strategic Business Development division, we are com-mitted to broadening our valued partnerships with USAID, DFID, SIDA, FINNIDA, the UNDP and other funders.With our new strategic plan in place,IFES will offer more products with the same independent,responsive,research-based project development on which our partners have come to rely. http://www.ifes.org//biennial_low_PRINT.pdf It appears that IFES awards contracts - Controversy about the voter identification cards has continued. In early August, the U.S. based International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) took bids for which company would print the cards. In a move that angered many in Haiti, IFES gave the job to Code Canada. A consortium of Haitian businesses had also made a bid, and saw this as evidence of the conditional nature of foreign aid to Haiti’s democratic process. Perhaps it would make more sense for an agency training the officials of Haiti’s electoral system to award the job to a Haitian consortium, so that they could learn the process for future elections. http://quixote.org/haiti/archives/H31_conditions.html IFES / USAID / NED / CIA connections ? ? http://www.hanitzotz.com/challenge/58/pangos.htm CIA & USAID / Palestine-Isreali conflict http://www.freedomdomain.com/cia/mcgehee02.html CIA & USAID / Laos late 1960's http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/National%20EndowmentDemo.html NED & CIA http://www.wmd.org/information.html NED and World Movement for Democracy IFES founder, the late F.Clifton White http://archives.ashland.edu/white.html ... is a longtime rightwing Republican strategist. In the 1950's he and William Rusher, publisher of the National Review, helped to turn the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP youth arm, from a moderate to a very conservative group. (18) White played an important role in the preconvention campaign of Barry Goldwater in 1964. (23) White was or is a member of The Conservative Network, a small group founded in 1985 by Reagan administration presidential appointees to bring the administration's conservative political philosophy into the private sector. (17) White is on the board of the National Republic Institute for International Affairs, the Republican Party's conduit for NED funding. (2) He is on the board of the Center for Democracy, a conservative group "working to promote and strengthen the democratic process. "(2) The Center for Democracy is heavily funded by NED. (28) White is also on the board of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. (2) http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-71.htm http://www.namebase.org/gw/ifes.txt (dated) Excerpts - " It appears that the bulk of IFES funding comes from NED (National Endowment for Democracy) - see current funding below . (26) NED is a quasi- governmental organization conceived by the Reagan administration and funded by Congress to "promote democracy" overseas.(27) NED's funding comes from the U.S. government, primarily from the U.S. Information Agency and the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID).(2) The current focus of IFES work is in Nicaragua with Via Civica. ViaCivica, a grassroots electoral organization working on voter education and registration. It receives additional NED funding through the Costa Rican political/electoral training firm Counseling Center for Democracy (CAD). CAD receives NED funding for its work with Via Civica through the America's Development Foundation, another conservative "democracy building" organization.(27) According to Henry Quintero, who was hired by IFES specifically for the Nicaraguan project, IFES assists in Via Civica's electoral training and education work and provides them with materials such as flyers, bumper stickers, and the like.(28) Via Civica, through the CAD project SISTEMAS, provides a wide range of educational and election work, including election analyses and demographics, opinion polls, surveys, electoral training workshops, an election "hot line," and poll watching.(6) Via Civica claims to be nonpartisan but is closely associated with the Nicaraguan National Opposition Union (UNO), the U.S. backed coalition opposing the Sandinista government.(2) In a recent interview, Henry Quintero said that in addition to Nicaragua, IFES has election projects in Hungary, Namibia, India, USSR, and Paraguay.(28)F. Clifton White worked with CIA director William Casey on the Reagan administration's pro-contra propaganda network.(2) According to a November 1986 memo from Walter Raymond to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, White was to be in charge of the formation of a group modeled after the bipartisan cold war champion, Committee on the Present Danger, but focusing on Central America.(2) White and Richard Scammon of IFES lunched with the Soviet Central Election Commission to the U.S. during their November 1989 visit.(10)" William J. Hybl, Chairman - Bush appointee and senior adviser to the 56th UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (2001) William J. Hybl is the Chairman and Chief Executive Office of the El Pomar Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the Rocky Mountain region. The El PQmar Foundation provides grants for programs in education, health care, the environment, amateur sports, human services, and the arts, with special emphasis on excellence in nonprofits. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Broadmoor Hotel Inc. and President Emeritus of the United States Olympic Committee. In addition, he is a member of the International Olympi c Committee and on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Foundation.In 1981, he served as Special Counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Hybl was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1972 to 1973. Having received three consecutive presidential appointments, from 1992-1997, Mr. Hybl served as Vice- Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy http://www.un.int/usa/ga56_hybl_bio.htm Chairman and CEO of the El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs, CO, the largest foundation in the Rocky Mountain region; President of the United States Olympic Committee during four Olympic Games and member of the International Olympic Committee; former member of the Colorado House of Representatives and Assistant District Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District of Colorado; former U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly and special assistant to President Ronald Reagan . http://www.ifes.org//board.htm El Pomar is known as an extreme right wing group http://www.cat.org.au/a4a/fake29.html Paul DeGregorio, Executive vice president of IFES Helped GW Bush win Florida - http://www.dailyillini.com/dec00/dec05/news/campus02.shtml June 12, 2003 Bush nominates DeGregorio, IFES VP, to Election Assistance Commission (HAVA) http://www.ifes.org/pressroom/Press%20Releases/06_12_03_DeGregorio_EAC.pdf http://www.newstribune.com/stories/011001/sta_0110010068.asp



Paul DeGregorio (BA 1992), International Expert on Elections and Director of UMSL, Outreach and Development, and Caroline Bean, Alumni Chapter President. University of Missouri - St. Louis http://www.umsl.edu/~polisci/2001reun.htm

COMPANIES:

The voting systems companies listed below seem to be in a constant state of changed names and/or ownership. Editor welcomes leads. Send to lynnlandes@earthlink.net



ES&S - election Systems and Software http://www.essvote.com/

2010: ES&S has bought Diebold - now counts 80% of all votes!

Update: http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2006/aug/election2006.htm "What is known about the company’s ownership, dug up by Harris, points to a twisty trail of criminality, conflict of interest and non-disclosure. In 1987 the Omaha World-Herald purchased 47 percent stake in the company, and the McCarthy Group bought 35 percent. The Omaha World-Herald, in turn, is owned by the Peter Kiewit Foundation. Harris contends that Kiewit is just about the last company that should have anything to do with an election system vendor. Kiewit and its subsidiaries have been involved in as many as 11 cases of bid-rigging on road contracts and state and federal highway projects. With convictions in Louisiana, South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska, the companies have paid millions of dollars in fines. “Kiewit has connections with both ES&S parent companies and has a track record of hiding ownership when it wants to,” says Harris. “It has a powerful profit motive for getting the people it wants into office and it has broken the law in the past to achieve its goals.”"

FORMERLY: 56% of U.S. vote count: Probably the largest voting machine company. ES&S claims that they tabulated " 56% of the U.S. national vote for the past four presidential elections." source: http://www.essvote.com/

Company official description: Full Service. ES&S "...handle(s) more than 40,000 of the world's most important events and elections. In the U.S. 2000 general election, ES&S systems counted over 100 million ballots." source:http://www.essvote.com/

Established: 1999

Ownership: The World Companies (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company), The McCarthy Group (an Omaha investment banking company - http://www.mccarthygroupinc.com/index.php3?g=1&p=4 whose primary investor is World Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Co.), Business Records Corp. (BRC), and American Information Systems (AIS) employees. source:http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html

History: In 1999, American Information Systems (AIS), purchased Business Records Corp (BRC) to become ES&S American Information Systems (AIS): AIS (1980) was formerly Data Mark (1979), both founded by brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich . Bob is currently president of Diebold (see below). Todd Urosevich is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales of ES&S. AIS was primarily funded with money from Ahmanson brothers, William and Robert, of H.F. Ahmanson Co. , holding company for the nation's largest savings and loan association and a group of Omaha-based insurance companies, at the time. http://www.essvote.com/index.php?section=exec&rightnav=about&f_exec_id=4 Howard Ahmanson belongs to Council for National Policy (hard right wing organization) http://www.ifas.org/cnp/name98.html . Howard Ahmanson also helps finance The Chalcedon Institute : "Established in 1965, Chalcedon (kal-SEE-dun) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) and Christian educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and promoting Christian reconstruction in all areas of life... Our emphasis on the Cultural or Dominion Mandate (Genesis 1:28) and the necessity of a return to Biblical Law has been a a crucial factor in the challenge to Humanism by Christians in this country and elsewhere... A world that is increasingly pessimistic and disillusioned with the failure of secular Humanism is now feeling the impact of Christians who are exercising dominion and reclaiming lost spheres of authority for Christ the King." http://www.chalcedon.edu/ / critical profile: the organization's purpose is to establish Old Testament Biblical law as the standard for society. Chalcedon promotes Christian Reconstructionism -- which mandates Christ's dominion over all the world. http://www.ifas.org/fw/9501/chalcedon.html Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) was Chairman of the Board of AIS (resigned 1995) and was also president of McCarthy & Company (resigned 1996). Michael R. McCarthy is Hagel's current campaign treasurer. source: http://www.csd.cq.com/senate_mem/s0531.html / Hagel may still be an investor in the McCarthy Group, see http://www.talion.com/Hagel.html Business Records Corp was/is part of Cronus: (Substantial Hunt family influence) source: http://www.talion.com/election-machines.html Rosewood Financial Partners [ Caroline Hunt , the youngest daughter of legendary oilman H. L. Hunt ]: 6%; (more Hunt info below) Alex Sheshunoff 5.32% http://www.ashesh.com/Sheshunoff/home.nsf/homepage?openform http://www.sheshunoff.com/index.html - Alex Sheshunoff was nailed for insider trading on Business Records Corp.He owned more of Business Records Corp. than I thought. He was given a cease and desist order in litigation against him, and apparently paid a fine in a settlement for the case. The SEC nailed him for manipulating the stock price of BRC using a technique called "marking the close." By

1995, he had increased his holdings to over 8%. I got my info from an SEC insider trading lawsuit pertaining to Business Records Corp against him. The web address of the SEC filing against Sheshunoff is http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/3437419.txt SEC case: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/3437419.txt - insider trading for BRC by Alexander Sheshunoff, Sr., age 56, a resident of Austin, Texas SEC action July 11 1996 Business Records Corporation ("BRC"), formerly known as Cronus Industries, Inc., is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. BRC specializes in providing election services and land records management to state and local governments and municipalities. general source: www.talion.com Charter Oak Partners 9.97% P.E. Esping (now dead) http://www.charter-oak.com/, founded in 1990 as an affiliate of Rothschild Realty Inc., which is an affiliate of Rothschild, Inc. http://www2.nmrothschild.com/home/ 11.7%, C.A. Rundell (don't know what%), Chairman of Cronus and CEO of Integrated Securities Systems, Inc. http://www.integratedsecurity.com/pressrel/20000821.html / A public company, Integrated's major stockholders are two funds managed by Dallas-based Renaissance Capital Group Inc.: Renaissance U.S. Growth & Income Trust P.L.C., known as Rusgit, and Renaissance Three. http://www.rencapital.com/ / http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2001/10/22/story8.html / A Dain Rauscher director http://www.rbcdain.com/DRP_1.0/Public_Site/Home/DRP_1.0VDynamicHome/1,37985,,00.html source - http://www.tamirfishman.com/pr_20000928.html C. A. Rundell, Jr., chairman and CEO of Cronus, a company which in 1985 claimed to have about 40% of the election-service market, replying to a reporter's question regarding which jurisdictions their equipment would be counting votes in 1988 - "We certainly are not going to provide you with a list of customers and the kinds of systems they have." "We've got to ask how much competitive intelligence we divulge to our competition." [New Yorker, November 7, 1988] http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/cfp93/mercuri.html / Ed Belanger (don't know what%) http://www.cds-technologies.com/ ?"We are in a wireless age," said Ed Belanger, president and CEO of CDS Technologies, "and the need for information anywhere, anytime is critical to progressive business. This driver gives QNX developers the 'edge' in the marketplace." source: http://www.swd.de/news/press/010306_en.html / http://www.cds-technologies.com/ Buttonwood Capital Corp 7.3% ? http://38.136.248.93/index_noflash.lasso UK ( Jeb B. Terry as over 20 years of financial investment experience. Jeb is currently the founder and President of Aberdeen Investment Management (AIM), a privately held hedge fund. Prior to AIM, Jeb was Vice President of Private Client Services at Bear Sterns & Co., Co-General Partner at ROSEWOOD (Hunt) Financial Partners & Buttonwood Capital Partners, Vice President and Investment Officer at Bedford Equities, and Vice President at Summit Partners. source: http://www.hillcast.com/company/advisors.asp) Richard McKay (don't know what%) L.D. Brinkman Corp 5.32% ( Thad R. Finley: His experience includes serving as Vice-President and General Counsel, L.D. Brinkman Corporation 1979-1987; as Vice-President and General Counsel, Hunt International Resources Corporation , 1977-79: and as an Associate and Partner in a Ft. Worth firm, 1971-77. http://www.hammerle.com/tfinley.asp Richard A. McDaniel (don't know what%) ??? maybe not >>> Government Records Services, Inc. http://www.acs-inc.com/ 2800 West Mockingbird Lane Dallas, Texas 75235 Richard A. McDaniel Telephone: (214) 902-5000 or (800) 782-5652 Product: Records management services (microfilm/optical imaging). http://www.county.org/resources/library/county_mag/county/112/assocmems.html / William D. Oates 5.4%, of InterPro "The Company has an international presence, with employees and offices located in North America, Europe, South America, and the Middle East. InterPro’s corporate headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois." source: http://www.interproglobal.com/content.htm?management.htm

Notes: Current ES&S CEO Bill Welsh was profiled in the University of Tulsa Magazine, Fall 2001. An interesting excerpt: "Given the fundamental importance and the logistical complexity of elections, Welsh and company leave nothing to chance: they had four business jets and two turboprops on standby; as well as more than 1,000 temporary employees, some drawn from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. ES&S staff were ready to be anywhere at a moment's notice to help iron out unexpected kinks." Comment: Why does ES&S go to an air force base for temporary personnel? http://www.utulsa.edu/alumni/magazine/pdf/TUmgFa01.pdf ES&S voting machines are attached to modems, so they can be operated/accessed from offsite locations. source: http://www.essvote.com/index.php?section=about_faq&rightnav=about Vikant Corp., http://www.vikant.com/ a Chicago-area company owned by Alex Kantarovick, formerly of Minsk, Belorussia (also known as White Russia, formerly U.S.S.R.), supplies ES&S the all-important 'control cards' Kantarovich would not disclose where the control cards are made, except they aren't made in America, writes Bollyn. Nor would he discuss his previous employment. Bollyn says he got some not-too-thinly-veiled threats from Kantarovich. source: http://www.spotlight.org/11_07_00/VMachines/vmachines.html ES&S supplied the touch screens for Miami-Dade and Broward counties where the worst machine failures occurred. But the debacle was nothing new for ES&S. Associated Press (AP) reporter Jessica Fargen wrote in June 2000, "Venezuela's president and the head of the nation's election board accused ES&S of trying to destabilize the country's electoral process. In the United States, four states have reported problems with equipment supplied by the company. Faulty ES&S machines used in Hawaii's 1998 elections forced that state's first-ever recount." http://www.ecotalk.org/AmericanElections.htm More stuff on Hunts: Commercial Litigation. "Mr. Stevens has over 30 years' as a trial lawyer representing businesses in complex commercial litigation. Significant cases include State of Illinois v. United States Steel Company; Commodity Futures Trading Corporation v. N.B. Hunt, et al.; and Procter & Gamble v. Rockwell Corporation . For example, in Commodity Futures Trading Corporation v. N.B. Hunt, et al , Mr. Stevens successfully defended a Commodity Futures Trading Commission enforcement action against N.B. Hunt and W.H. Hunt alleging violation of soybean position limits under the Commodity Exchange Act as well as a series of related private civil actions, including a class action in which he made what at the time was new law (no implied private right of action for market manipulation under the Commodity Exchange Act). Mr. Stevens also successfully defended the Hunts and Hunt International Resources Corporation in a group of state and federal court cases alleging land fraud and securities law violations with respect to land developments in Colorado and Arizona." source: http://www.mbc.com/attorneys/extBio.asp?ID=S944011867 The Hunt Brothers and the Silver Bubble - http://www.buyandhold.com/bh/en/education/history/2000/hunt_bros.htm Hunts in Columbia - http://www.ecopetrol.com.co/prin/review/carta/jul99/panor59.htm Members of Council for National Policy (hard right wing organization) http://www.ifas.org/cnp/name98.html and The Chalcedon Institute: Nelson Bunker Hunt Rev. R. J. Rushdoony of The Chalcedon Institute Howard Ahmanson



To better appreciate the scope of the corporate takeover of the democratic process, here is Unisys's description of itself in the IFES Buyers Guide, "Unisys has successfully implemented national voter registration, identification, and integrated electronic election systems for Brazil (100 million registered voters), South Africa (20 million), Malaysia (10 million), Dominican Republic (4 million), Costa Rica (2 million), and Panama (2 million). Unisys has also successfully implemented Internet-based election results real-time reporting systems for Rome, Italy and for the State of Minnesota. In partnership with Election Systems and Software (ES&S), Unisys has successfully implemented in the United Kingdom multi-channel voting pilot test systems -including touch-screen voting, kiosk voting, postal voting, Internet voting, telephone voting, and digital television voting. Unisys has offices in more than 100 countries." http://www.ifesbuyersguide.org/detailtest.php?title=Regions&subtitle=Middle_East

DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS, INC (military defense contractor) http://www.diebold.com/solutions/election/default.htm

also check out - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup this website has most of Bev Harris stuff on Diebold.

Article: November 2002: The face of modern ballot tampering by Faun Otter http://www.bartcop.com/diebold.htm

Felons at Diebold:

Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

Aug 28, 03 - Vote Company Exec Joins Bush Re-Elect Effort "The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." "The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election." by Julie Carr Smyth of Cleveland Plain Dealer Bureau http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml

approx 33- 35% of U.S. computerized vote count (scanners and touchscreen) - source - Diebold

Company description: " Diebold develops, implements, and services the world's most advanced self-service and security delivery systems, traditionally for financial institutions, and increasingly for retail and other applications." source: http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/profile2.htm

Ownership: Diebold, Inc. http://www.diebold.com

History: In 2002 Diebold accquired Global Election Systems http://www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=2840 - founded 1991, which itself acquired the AccuVote system the same year. " From the strength and security of the safes and vaults first manufactured by Charles Diebold in 1859, to the technology-based integrated systems, software, and service that the Company provides today .." source: http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/history.htm Diebold (and Canada-based Subco) acquire Global Election Systems (a Delaware corp, but always listed as having corporate offices in McKinney Texas) from Global, Canada corp. http://www.ssc.gov.sk.ca/files/exemptionorders/dieboldincorporated-nov30-01.pdf

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2001_Jan_24/69436303/p1/article.jhtml MCKINNEY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2001GLOBAL ELECTION SYSTEMS INC. (TSE:GLE.) Global to be the only U.S. publicly traded company solely focused on high-tech voting systems. Based in McKinney, Texas and founded in 1991, Global has steadily grown its market share in the voting systems industry. During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, over 14,000 of Global's AccuVote(TM) optical scan and touch screen voting systems were successfully used in 850 voting jurisdictions across the country. This is a very important day for our company," said Bob Urosevich, Global President. "For the first time U.S. investors can readily buy shares in Global Election Systems, a company that has successfully increased its market share in the elections industry by becoming an expert in local voting regulations that govern elections in the U.S.

Owners & staff: ( Heavy Shoup influence. Unclear whether Van Pelt and Ensminger listed below are with BOTH Global and Shoup-Advanced Voting Solutions)

Bob Urosevich, president, Diebold Election Systems, Inc, founded ES&S with brother Todd. Bob's brother Todd Urosevich is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales of ES&S Bob also founder of Data Mark in 1979, which became American Information System , which bought part of Business Records Crop to become ES&S also with Canada-based Global Election Systems (1991) http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2256/history.htm

Howard Van Pelt was with Canada-based Global Election Systems http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2256/history.htm, now president of Shoup Voting Solutions http://www.fec.gov/pages/vendorslist.htm / Formerly with Computer Election Systems (formed by 4 IBM salesmen. "But Anderson said he finds unacceptable Shoup president Howard Van Pelt's proposal to use a company owned by his wife as a minority contractor to satisfy the county's 20 percent minority participation goal. Anderson wants to see a financial statement of the company, founded in 1895 but purchased by a group of investors a year ago." http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0201/28/m06.html

Larry Ensminger was also with Global http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2256/history.htm. Now with Shoup Voting Solutions http://www.dougbedell.com/voting.html / http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/spotlight/2002/042202.html / also formerly with Computer Election Systems which became? Computer Election Systems (1970's-1996) No major corporation has ventured into the U.S. voting equipment business since IBM, which popularized punch-card voting in the United States, got out of it in the early 1970s. IBM sold the rights to its Votomatic machine to four of its salesmen, who started a company called Computer Election Systems. source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2001-02-13-voting.htm

Report: WHO COUNTS THE VOTES? High-tech elections have spawned new vote-fixing conspiracy theories. Is there any truth to the charges? By Gary Ashwill and Chris Kromm . The Diebold corporation is heavily political, and heavily favors the Republican Party. Since 2000, the company itself has made $170,000 in political contributions – all to the Republican National State Elections Committee. Diebold’s corporate directors and officers are similarly clear in their political sympathies. Long-standing and generous friends of the Republican Party such as Louis Bockius III, Donald Gant, and Eric Roorda populate the board of directors. According to campaign finance records at OpenSecrets.org, of the over $240,000 given by Diebold’s directors and chief officers to political campaigns since 1998, all has gone to Republican candidates or party funds. http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/votingmachines-new.htm

SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS INC. http://www.sequoiavote.com

News:

As of May 14, 2006: "Today Sequoia Voting Systems is owned by Smartmatic Corporation, a U.S. company. Smartmatic Corporation is owned by a Dutch holding company, which also owns all of the other companies in which Smartmatic currently conducts business. Smartmatic is privately held. A controlling interest is held by its founder and CEO, Antonio Mugica, who holds dual Spanish and Venezuelan citizenship." http://www.sequoiavote.com/article.php?id=72

Nov 24, 04: Election Company Has Long Criminal History by Daniel Hopsicker

Dec 24, 03: "Sequoia is also linked to the Bush family: De La Rue’s corporate parent, private equity firm Madison Dearborn, is a partner of the Carlyle Group, the investment firm that employs the current president’s father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/vote-d24.shtml "A subsidiary of De la Rue producing passports for the Mexican government. De La Rue now own the US Sequoia computerised voting systems company, part owned by Carlyle group partner, US investment firm Madison Dearborn who took over Jefferson Smurfit's share of Sequoia." http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_drugs/doc3057.html

Oct 29, 03: Sequoia Software Found Online http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61014,00.html

August 4, 03: "Sequoia Voting Systems, a pioneer in direct recording electronic voting systems and a leading provider of voting equipment and services in the United States, will partner with VoteHere, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington, a leading supplier of secure electronic voting technology, to provide a new level of electronic ballot verification to customers of the AVC Edge touch screen voting system." http://www.votehere.net/news/archive03/080403.htm

Notes:

? % of U.S. vote count: According to its website, Sequoia technicians "managed thousands of electronic elections for 14 years in 16 states." http://www.sequoiavote.com/aboutSequoia.php

Company description: Full service. "Through its nationwide network of offices, Sequoia has equipped and supported elections in thousands of jurisdictions - with populations ranging from a few hundred voters to over three million." http://www.sequoiavote.com/aboutSequoia.php

Ownership: 85% De La Rue www.delarue.com 15% Jefferson Smurfit Group http://www.smurfit.ie/ / source: http://moneyextra.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200205290701145655W.html "De La Rue (London, UK) is the world 's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers. Employing almost 7,000 people across 31 countries, the company is also a leading provider of cash handling equipment and software solutions to banks and retailers worldwide helping them to reduce the cost of handling cash. We are also pioneering new technologies including tailored solutions to protect the world 's brands through to government identity solutions in secure passports, identity cards and driver 's licences. De La Rue has a 20% shareholding in Camelot - the operator of the UK National Lottery." source: http://www.delarue.com/about/ http://moneyextra.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200205290701145655W.html "The Jefferson Smurfit Group ... (Ireland) is one of the largest European-based manufacturers of containerboard, corrugated containers and other paper-based packaging products. In addition to wholly owned operations, the Group has interests in several associated companies, the principal of which is Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (SSCC). Spanning 4 continents and 30 countries, JSG and its associates employ some 68,000 people and are significant players in Europe, Latin America and North America." source: http://www.smurfit.ie/ (see below for Madison Dearborn Partners buy out information) Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Partners has received antitrust approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed acquisition of Jefferson Smurfit Group PLC ..http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2002/07/15/daily68.html Madison Dearborn Partners ("one of the largest and most experienced private equity investment firms, lots of communication stuff - http://www.mdcp.com/portfolio.asp ) has ownership stakes in Milnot Holding Corp. http://www.milnot.com/ and Outsourcing Solutions Inc. http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2001/05/07/daily28.html in St. Louis. Jefferson Smurfit Corp., the American division of Ireland-based Jefferson Smurfit Group PLC holding company, was based in St. Louis prior to its 1998 merger with Stone Container Corp. The merged company became Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. based in Chicago. Jefferson Smurfit holds about 29.5 percent of Smurfit-Stone. Jefferson Smurfit (NYSE: JS) is one of the largest manufacturers of container board and corrugated containers and recycles wastepaper in about 600 facilities worldwide. Madison Dearborn Partners: Council Tree Hispanic Investors II, LLC Longmont, Colorado CTHI indirectly owns approximately 18% of Telemundo, one of two Spanish-language broadcasting networks in the U.S. Telemundo reaches approximately 85% of U.S. Hispanic viewers, and owns and operates eight full-power television stations serving the seven largest Hispanic markets in the U.S. and the leading full-power television station and related production facilities in Puerto Rico. http://www.mdcp.com/companies/85.asp (Note: General Electric -part owner of Voter News Service - http://www.ecotalk.org/VoterNewsService.htm also exercises a lot of control over the news media through ownership of NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo, the nation's second-largest Spanish-language broadcaster.

History: (Sequoia) "With roots going back to 1896, Sequoia and its predecessor companies(?) have been in the election equipment business longer than any other voting equipment manufacturer in the U.S. Election districts choose Sequoia Voting Systems for the clear advantages of Sequoia's resources, strength and support. As one of the worlds most respected and reliable manufacturers, Sequoia backs its solutions with the comprehensive election experience and unmatched service ethic of its industry-leading professionals." source: http://www.sequoiavote.com/aboutSequoia.php Sequoia bought Business Records Corporation's optical scan vote tabulation business as part of a 1997 Dept. of Justice anti-trust action. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REQUIRES VOTING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS TO SELL OFF VOTING TABULATION BUSINESS IN ORDER TO MERGE After the Department of Justice expressed concern about the possible anticompetitive effects of a merger between two voting machine manufacturers-- American Information Systems and Business Records Corp .--Business Records agreed to sell its optical scan vote tabulation business to a third party. Optical scan vote tabulation equipment is used by state and local governments to run elections. Attorneys General from eight states--Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona, Washington, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania--participated in the investigation.Omaha, Nebraska-based American Information Systems and Dallas-based Business Records are two of only three manufacturers of optical scan vote tabulation equipment in the U.S.Sequoia Pacific Systems of Exeter, California, a division of St. Louis, Missouri-based Smurfit Packaging Corp., will buy Business Records' optical scan vote tabulation business. Sequoia Pacific is a leading maker of direct recording electronic vote tabulation equipment with substantial experience in the elections business.Under the terms of the divestiture, Sequoia Pacific will immediately be able to compete for sales of such products."State and local governments--like any other consumers-- rely on competition to get fair prices," said Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department's Antitrust Division. "This divestiture preserves competition for voting machines, which is the best way to ensure that taxpayers and voters are protected from high prices and low quality."Optical scan vote tabulation equipment electronically counts and records ballots. This equipment differs from other types of vote tabulation equipment in several respects, most notably in its use of paper ballots, and is viewed by many state and local governments to be the preferred way to record votes accurately. Like most products sold to public entities, optical scan vote tabulation equipment is generally sold through a competitive bidding process. Business Records Corporation had 1996 revenues in all of its product lines of about $100 million.American Information Systems is an unincorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. American Information Systems' 1996 sales in all of its product lines were about $14.3 million.Sequoia Pacific Systems is a division of Smurfit Packaging Corporation, which is owned by the Jefferson Smurfit Group plc. Jefferson Smurfit Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and had 1996 revenues of about IR£2,594,141,000, with its U.S. operations accounting for IR£185,054,000 of that total.The Department said that additional assistance was provided by the offices of the State Attorneys General of Oregon, Oklahoma, Michigan and Iowa. Working closely with state enforcers on matters of mutual interest has been a major priority of the Antitrust Division. Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/November97/489at.htm.html

Notes: 1995 SEC litigation: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. SEQUOIA SYSTEMS, INC., GABRIEL P. FUSCO, KENT R. ALLEN, KEITH D. JOHNSON, AND EDWIN J. HUDSON, JR. , Civil Action No. 95-0321 (D.D.C. February 16, 1995). "The Complaint, filed on February 16, 1995, alleges that Hudson, a former Sequoia salesman, together with three former officers of Sequoia, engaged in a fraudulent scheme to inflate the revenue and pre-tax income reported by Sequoia in its periodic and annual reports and financial statements that were publicly disseminated and filed with the Commission. Sequoia is a Nasdaq-listed company headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, engaged in the design, manufacture and service of fault-tolerant computer systems. Specifically, the Complaint alleges that Sequoia made materially false and misleading statements in all but one of its quarterly reports filed with the Commission during fiscal 1991 and 1992, as well as in its 1991 and 1992 annual reports. Sequoia recognized and recorded sales revenue notwithstanding the fact that the consummation of the sales transactions and Sequoia's receipt of payment for its products were contingent upon future events, or in circumstances where there was no binding sales contract." http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr14726.txt The Big Louisiana Election Scandal of 1999-?: Sequoia has been plagued by scandal. And it has some of the earmarks of an outrun run by organized crime. In 1996 right wing Republican Woody Jenkins lost to (increasingly conservative) Democrat Mary Landrieu for U.S. Senate seat. Jenkin's investigation led to federal charges of bribery of election officials. Sequoia Pacific’s Regional Manager, Phil Foster, and their regional sales executive, Pasquale (Rocco) Ricci (also owner of New Jersey-based Independent Voting Machine Services), were indicted for paying out about $8 million in bribes to Louisiana Commissioner of Elections Jerry Fowler. Glenn Boord and Ralph Escudero, also involved, owned Uni-lect, which was associated with Sequoia Pacific. They pled guilty to conspiracy to compound a felony. According to Asst. Dist. Atty. Sandra Reber, "Foster’s hands-on involvement was Foster's recruitment of his own brother-in-law, Donald Philpot of Birmingham, Alabama, (owner of Election Services Inc.) to help launder the kickbacks." J. Herbert Webb, president of Electec, Inc. was also involved. Fowler may have paid as much as $8 million more than required to buy machines, parts and maintenance services from Pasquale Ricci and David Philpot. In all, 22 people were indicted on charges related to a department whose primary responsibility is warehousing and maintaining the state's voting machines. Nine have pleaded guilty. Ricci, amazingly, got a one year home detention. Fowler got over 50 months in prison. Sources:http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/27/fowlertrial.ap/ / http://www.madcowprod.com/intro.htm / http://www.securepoll.com/Archives/Archive47.htm / http://www.whoseflorida.com/voting_machines.htm http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/11/19/story4.html / ?Voting Machine Service Center, Inc.? address, 2 quotes to town supervisors, same owners? http://www.commercial.com/tchester/tocminutes/tb071399.html Electec, Inc. electecinc@home.com 41 East Monroe Street, P.O. Box 79, Mount Holly, NJ 8060 Ph: [1] 609-265-8181

Sales Contact: J. Herbert Webb, President (electecinc@home.com) [1] 800-833-9912

Description: Sales and service of AVM and Shoup voting machines and Global Election Systems AccuVote electronic voting systems. Equipment sales and rental. Printing of digitized poll books using our easy-view binder system. Complete inventory of parts for both Shoup and AVM mechanical machines. According to Daniel Hopsicker, Harold and Herb Webb are twin brothers operating election service industry companies in New Jersey. These companies, Garden State Elections (Mt.Holly, NJ) and Elec-tec (Birmingham, AL - http://www.birminghamchamber.com/news/2001/feb/newspg2_0101.html), were used to conceal transactions involving election services industry giant Sequoia Pacific, according to court documents, which fingered that company last week for orchestrating a 10-year long bribery scheme involving the Commissioner of Elections for Louisiana. http://www.madcowprod.com/welcomechad.htm / Did Louis Wolfson own Sequoia as alledged by Hopsicker? "Only a generation ago, (1969) Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas was compelled to resign after it was revealed that he had given private legal advice to financier Louis Wolfson and received payments from the Wolfson family foundation while on the high court. Fortas was a corrupt Democratic Party crony of President Lyndon Johnson, but he never took part in any case directly affecting Wolfson's interests, let alone his own family's, as Thomas and Scalia have done in Bush v. Gore ." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/dec2000/sup-d22.shtml Hopsicker says that Ricci got his start from Shoup. Where's the proof? Hopsicker says that Sequoia also makes slot machines. True?



DANAHER'S GUARDIAN http://www.controls-online.com/gvs / http://www.danaher.com/business/niche_division.asp?key=36

% of U.S. vote count: ?

Company description: "As a full service election division of Danaher Corporation, we can be counted on to deliver total solutions and world class support -- today and tomorrow." source: http://www.controls-online.com/gvs/

NOTE: I t looks they use Shoup equipment www.AdvancedVoting.com)/ http://www.shoupvote.com/ . Danaher markets ELECTronic 1242 Voting System, formerly known as 'Shouptronic' Voting Machine" http://www.nased.org/. Ransom Shoup II, was convicted in 1979 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into a lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia. Philadelphia bought voting machines from Danaher for the 2002 elections.

Ownership: Danaher Corporation http://www.danaher.com/main.asp big defense contractor- http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=024744476 Steven M. Rales, Chairman of the Board of Danaher Corp. since 1984 http://www.danaher.com/html/corpprofile/dhr_directors.asp, Mitchell P. Rales, Chairman of Executive Committee USA Today - 400 richest Americans (each worth $1.3 billion) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti562a.htm Latest SEC filing. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/ Jack Andersen wrote, "In the summer of 1988, a pair of corporate raiders out of Washington, D.C., brothers Steven M. and Mitchell P. Rales, targeted Interco for takeover, offering to buy the company for $64 a share, or $2.4 billion. To fend off the Raleses, Interco's management turned to Wasserstein Perella, which came up with a plan valued at $76 a share. Interco obviously did not have that kind of cash lying around. So the plan called for the company to borrow $2.9 billion." http://www.politicalindex.com/wrong1.htm Mitchell P. Rales & Steven M. Rales, appear to own PAR Broadcasting Company, Inc., http://198.17.75.65/fril/1996/19960312/96-5873.txt / http://www.parbroadcastgroup.com/index.html PAR switched to Citicaster http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/Brdcst_Actions/ac970304.txt Although Citicasters was acquired by Jacor, which then was bought by Clear Channel, http://www.clearchannel.com/wld_exe.php, the Citicasters name remains on the license.) Clear Channel is owned by the Mays brothers (3) http://www.insideradio.com/survivor/bios.shtml Steven and Mitchell sit on board of Imo Industries, "..a multinational manufacturer of a broad range of industrial products operates through five segments - power transmission, pumps, instrumentation, morse controls and roltra-morse. The power transmission segment designs and manufactures electronic adjustable-speed motor drives, gears and speed reducers. The pumps segment makes a broad range of rotary pumps, including a proprietary line of two and three-screw pumps. The morse controls segment manufactures push-pull cable and remote control systems ." ?? 609 8967600 / http://www.business.com/directory/automotive/parts_and_equipment/imo_industries_inc/profile IMO, INDUSTRIES INC., Lawrenceville, New Jersey and England, is a leader in selected markets for analytical and optical instruments, electronic and mechanical controls, engineered power products and related support services. Imo is an international company with approximately $1 billion in revenues. http://www.mertz.com/tombstones/33.shtml I.M.O. Industries, Inc., as successor to and formerly known as Delaval Turbine, Transamerica Delaval and IMO Delaval http://www.mesotheli.com/david.htm (not quite sure this is all the same company) Equity Group Holdings is a private equity firm led by Steven M . Rales and Mitchell P . Rales , a Curl Corporation Board member. http://www.curl.com/html/about/investors.jsp Danaher Controls http://www.dancon.com/index.sht "owned by the Danaher Corporation, a Fortune-500 company (NYSE - DHR), Danaher Controls was formed through the merger of the Veeder-Root Company -- the best known name in counting, the Dynapar Corporation -- the motion control specialists, and Eagle Signal Controls -- the premier name in timing." HARBOR FINANCE PARTNERS v DANAHER CORP http://www.legalcasedocs.com/120/240/782.html



ADVANCED VOTING SOLUTIONS INC / SHOUP VOTING SOLUTIONS www.AdvancedVoting.com)/ http://www.shoupvote.com/

% of U.S. vote count: ?

Company description: Full Service. (www.AdvancedVoting.com)

Ownership: Shoup Voting Solutions, Inc. (same business address and contact info) http://www.shoupvote.com/

History: Company (Shoup) "dates back to before the turn of the last century (1895) when it's founders developed the first mechanical lever machine." One of the most widely used direct recording machines is called the "Shouptronic" named for its company, R.F. Shoup. The president of that company, Ransom Shoup II, was convicted in 1979 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into a lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia. According to Hopsicker, Shoup got a three year suspended sentence. http://dispatches.phoblacht.net/archive/dispatch220.htm Officers of Philadelphia-based Shoup Voting Machine Co. were indicted for allegedly bribing politicians in Tampa, Fla. in 1971 , according to published reports. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/11/19/story4.html

Notes: Company seems to be still operating under the name of Shoup Voting Solutions. http://www.securepoll.com/Archives/Archive80.htm Strong Diebold/Global Election Systems connection, almost entire management team (see below) came from Global Election Systems - now Diebold. source: info@advancedvoting.com : Howard T. Van Pelt: The company was recently reborn and reconstructed under new ownership and new leadership to re-address the marketplace. Howard T. Van Pelt, who was invloved in the management of two of the most successful election equipment companies in the industry's history (Computer Elections Systems [CES] and Global Election Systems [Global], a company he co-founded) became president and chief executive officer in June 2001. He quickly began assembling a staff of seasoned election professionals whose experience dates back to 1970." http://clients.enfocom.com/avs/company.html Larry Ensminger: started his career at Computer Election Systems in mid-1970's and then join Global Election Systems upon its creation in 1991 where he held progressive management positions during his 10-year term. He joined Advanced Voting Solutions in late 2001 to assist in the restructuring and redeployment of the company. He has held vice president positions in sales, operations and corporate development. Ingrid Giordano: managed the field service operations and created the service bureau at the Global Election Systemns. Tyler Lincks: has experience as a regional project manager at Global an then later established and managed the in-house training center. Kimblerlee Shoup: has carried on the longstanding Shoup family name in the elections business. She has held a number of responsible positions and has spearheaded sales and service organizations to support the mechanical lever machine and Shouptronic 1242 customer base.



Other election systems companies:

Accenture & Election.com (military defense contractor) (June 2003 - www.Election.com purchased by http://www.accenture.com)

As mentioned in the following article, Accenture also has a business relationship with Hart Intercivic of Austin, Texas http://www.hartintercivic.com - http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/spotlight/2002/042202.html

Unisys - http://www.unisys.com/index.htm (military defense contractor) http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=005358932

Partners with ES&S, Dell, and Microsoft - see below

"In 1996, Unisys installed 77,000 voting machines in Brazil. It also has built a voting system in Costa Rica and an online voting system in Rome. In the United States, Unisys built an online tabulation and reporting system for Minnesota that was used for a presidential preference poll March 7, 2000. “It used the state’s intranet, so it was very secure,” Curry said."

http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/15_22/state/16033-7.html

To better appreciate the scope of the corporate takeover of the democratic process, here is Unisys's description of itself in the IFES Buyers Guide, "Unisys has successfully implemented national voter registration, identification, and integrated electronic election systems for Brazil (100 million registered voters), South Africa (20 million), Malaysia (10 million), Dominican Republic (4 million), Costa Rica (2 million), and Panama (2 million). Unisys has also successfully implemented Internet-based election results real-time reporting systems for Rome, Italy and for the State of Minnesota. In partnership with Election Systems and Software (ES&S) , Unisys has successfully implemented in the United Kingdom multi-channel voting pilot test systems -including touch-screen voting, kiosk voting, postal voting, Internet voting, telephone voting, and digital television voting. Unisys has offices in more than 100 countries." http://www.ifesbuyersguide.org/detailtest.php?title=Regions&subtitle=Middle_East

Article: Unisys, Dell, MS team on vote technology By Sandeep Junnarkar

Special to ZDNet January 10, 2001, 4:00 PM PT http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-527091.html?legacy=zdnn

Northrop Grumman/Diversified Dynamics' iPaper (military defense contractor) http://www.northropgrumman.com/

Northrop Grumman bought TRW (also involved in the voting machine business) in 2002 - http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/333626.html

http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=016435559

"Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $25 billion global defense enterprise, with worldwide headquarters in Los Angeles, Calif. Northrop Grumman provides technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in defense electronics, systems integration, information technology, advanced aircraft, shipbuilding, and space technology. With approximately 120,000 employees and operations in all 50 states and 25 countries, Northrop Grumman serves U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers." http://www.northropgrumman.com/news/new_faq_main.html

The Carlyle Group (which employees the former President George H.W. Bush, and former CIA director) bought into Northrop Grumman's Commercial Aerostructures business (now called Integrated Systems Sector), which is the largest supplier of aircraft structures to the Boeing company, which is the nation's 2nd largest contractor. http://www.northgrum.com/news/news_releases/0700-111_Carlyle_close.html

Oct. 30, 2002 NORTHROP GRUMMAN ENTERS NEW MARKET WITH INNOVATIVE ELECTION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES HERNDON, Va. -- -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today that the company has entered the worldwide electronic election services market by signing an agreement with iPaper, LLC, Richmond, Va., to exclusively license and manufacture iPaper's electronic voting systems. Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) and Electronic Systems sectors will develop and market high-tech election systems, addressing a critical need for fully integrated, dependable and affordable voting systems throughout voting precincts in the United States. Northrop Grumman selected the iPaper solution following a comprehensive evaluation of available technologies and systems. http://www.it.northropgrumman.com/news/news_releases/ng021030.html

April 22, 02 Voting Machine Firms Enlist Lobbyists by John McCosh, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer http://www.ajc.com/ "Seven contestants. Fifty-four million dollars. And the clock is running. Within two weeks, we'll know the winner of the $54 million contract to set Georgia voters up with 18,000 touchscreen voting machines this November. Will it be the team that hires the best political insiders? Then the race would be a close one between the tandems Diebold Election Systems/Global Elections, which hired former Secretary of State Lewis Massey as a lobbyist, and Northrop Grumman /Diversified Dynamics, which retains the lobbying firm of Department of Transportation board member Boyd Pettit. Or maybe it will go to the firm that hired the lobbyist that contributed the most to the 2002 election campaigns of the state's top constitutional officers. Accenture/Hart Intercivic is enlisting the help of lobbyists Thomas Boller and Rusty Sewell, who contributed a combined $16,000 to Gov. Roy Barnes, $6,000 to Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor and $2,000 to Secretary of State Cathy Cox. That easily outpaces the re-election donations of William Wingate, the lobbyist for Election Systems & Software, who contributed $7,000 to Barnes, $1,000 to Taylor and $500 to Cox."

"Diversified Dynamics has brought the election process to the technological level of the new millennium by designing the world’s most advanced electronic vote recording and election management system. We were supported in this effort by the engineering and software capabilities of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a world leader in systems development and integration. This totally electronic and fully Y2K compliant direct recording voting system enables government officials and meeting planners to administer election processes more efficiently and economically than ever before. Utilizing PCMCIA and smart card technology, the System 5 DVRS has established a new benchmark in the election management industry." http://www.divdyn.com/sys5.htm Comment: Aug 12, 03: Black Box: SAIC testing of Diebold to remain a secret

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59976,00.html

http://www.capitol.northgrum.com/press_releases/ngpress103002.html Diversified Dynamics, Inc. was co-founded in 1997 by former Commonwealth of Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder (Democrat) and Midlothian, Va., businessman, Thomas G. Davis, to develop electronic voting technology. Wilder is the company's chairman of the board of directors. Davis, the company's vice chairman, is also managing member of iPaper, LLC, a separate company founded to develop patented 'audio ballot voting technology' and other patented 'paper-based' computerized data collection technologies for use in next-generation absentee voting systems and to provide immediate improvements in educational testing processes. Their patent pending SYSTEM 5 DVRS (Direct Vote Recording System) and 5 Plus! EMS(c) (Election Management Software) is fully NASED (National Association of State Election Directors) certified.



TRW (military defense contractor) Voting business? sketchy info

"A year ago the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) named the US technology company, Cogent Inc, as its preferred bidder to develop Jamaica's proposed computerised voting system in which an elector's fingerprint would be matched from the existing database before the automatic delivery of ballots. Cogent, another American firm TRW Inc., and the French firm, Sagem, in March last year competed to provide the system, based on configurations for which the EAC holds a US patent, and displayed their fingerprinting matching capabilities at demonstrations in Kingston." http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/

News article: Northrop Grumman bought TRW in 2002 after the Carlyle Group suddenly backed out. http://www.webprowire.com/summaries/333626.html / http://www.ventureeconomics.com/buy/protected/1031550851830.html

More on TRW, Vinnell, and the Carlyle Group (all three are military defense contractors) http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=004179453

" The Vinnell Corporation (a TRW company, owned until 1997 by Carlyle Group) is one of the three pre-eminent private mercenary corporations in the world. It is also the dominant entity for the training of security forces throughout the Middle East. Vinnell is a leader in training foreign military forces to U.S. standards. For more than 20 years Vinnell has been the contractor for training and modernization of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. In addition, provide a range of training to other fighting forces in the Middle East. Vinnell operates and maintains facilities and equipment all over the world for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and U.S." http://www.dyncorp-sucks.com/trw.htm (page is blank, find the following under cache in google)

For five years until 1997 it (Vinnell) was owned by the Carlyle group , a defence and investment house close to the Bush family. Vinnell recently came under the financial control of giant US defence contractor Northrop." http://www.rense.com/general37/asqaedasaidhated.htm "

Firm (Vinnell) Was 'Cover for CIA' by Ian Cobain Published on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 by the Times/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0514-06.htm

Dr. Robert Gates "Dr. Robert Gates has 27 years experience as an intelligence professional for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including serving as Director of Central Intelligence from November 1991 until January 1993. Currently, Dr. Gates is the Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a position he has held since 1999." (Editor's note: Dr. Gates is on the Board of VoteHere and TRW. July 25, 03 - it was just reported on MSNBC by Andrea Mitchell that Robert Gates was with the CIA and NSA (National Security Agency)

Cogent http://www.cogentsystems.com/cogent/cogenthome.html

Jamaica Observer "A year ago the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC) named the US technology company, Cogent Inc, as its preferred bidder to develop Jamaica's proposed computerised voting system in which an elector's fingerprint would be matched from the existing database before the automatic delivery of ballots. Cogent, another American firm TRW Inc., and the French firm, Sagem, in March last year competed to provide the system, based on configurations for which the EAC holds a US patent, and displayed their fingerprinting matching capabilities at demonstrations in Kingston." http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/

SAIC http://www.ecotalk.org/VoteHereSAIC.htm Privately held. One of the world's largest providers of Internet voting services.

VoteHere (Bellevue, Washington) www.votehere.net

Google's description: VoteHere, Inc - A Global Elections Technology Company is the leading worldwide supplier of secure Internet voting technology.

"VoteHere is a pioneer in developing secure e-voting technology that simplifies the election process, while adding increased security and reliability over traditional voting methods. Additionally, the cost of the election and voter appeal are equal considerations in adopting new election methods. "

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Jan. 30, 2002 – VoteHere announces standards for qualifying remote voting technology. VoteHere, the industry leader in secure technology and software for electronic and online voting systems, announced today that it has released a draft of voting system standards suitable for voting on electronic network devices including wireless phones, Internet-connected PCs, televisions, and ATM-style kiosks.

more news:

Aug 18, 03: Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold... Scam To Vet Voting Software? (Comment: From additional reports I've received, it's clear to me that Avi Rubin went to some lengths to conceal his relationship with VoteHere. After the news broke about his conflict of interest, Rubin asserted that it was his decision to go public. In fact, Rubin issued his statement only hours after I interviewed him. And according to another computer expert, Rubin's personal webpage on the VoteHere website was taken down a few weeks ago after that expert confronted Rubin about his VoteHere affiliation.)

Jan 10, 01: Tech backing for VoteHere Only a week after last year's presidential election, Cisco Systems and Compaq Computer were among those who pumped $10 million into Bellevue, Wash.-based VoteHere.net, bringing the start-up's total funding to $15 million. The company makes secure online voting systems. By Sandeep Junnarkar

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-527091.html?legacy=zdnn

Admiral Bill Owens, Chairman "Admiral Bill Owens serves as the Company's Chairman. Currently, Bill Owens is Co-CEO and Vice Chairman of Teledesic, a global broadband networking company. Previously, he was President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the nation’s largest employee-owned high-technology company. During his distinguished military career, Bill Owens held the rank of four-star Admiral in the US Navy and served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also served as the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments, commander of the US Sixth Fleet, senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney and director of the Office of Program Appraisal for the Secretary of the Navy."

Dr. Robert Gates "Dr. Robert Gates has 27 years experience as an intelligence professional for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including serving as Director of Central Intelligence from November 1991 until January 1993. Currently, Dr. Gates is the Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a position he has held since 1999." (Editor's note: Dr. Gates is also on the Board of TRW, which owns Cogent, another voting machine company - see above. July 25, 03 - it was just reported on MSNBC by Andrea Mitchell that Robert Gates was with the CIA and NSA (National Security Agency)>

Advisor - Robert G. Wolfe, General Partner, Northwest Venture Associates "Robert Wolfe brings 25 years of finance, operations and technology management experience to the VoteHere team. He is currently a General Partner with Northwest Venture Associates (NWVA), the largest venture capital fund exclusively invested in Pacific Northwest-based companies, where he previously served as Entrepreneur in Residence and Advisory Board Member. Most recently, Mr. Wolfe served as President and COO of GT Group Telecom, Canada's largest independent, facilities-based telecommunications provider, where he grew revenue from under C$2 million to C$250 million (annual rate) and closed several key acquisitions. He drove multiple financings over C$2 billion, including the company's initial public offering on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE 300). Mr. Wolfe was also CFO of Trillium Corporation, a global investment firm with real estate and forestry interests, where he oversaw the firm's investment portfolio and financial strategies, including technology, retail, media and venture funds.Mr. Wolfe has also held several senior positions with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in Asia, Europe and the US, where he provided investment-banking services for non-Japan Asia and European financial institutions. His efforts led to the first Euroyen auto-backed financing, overseeing mortgage- and asset-backed securities finance and assisting in the development of Fannie Mae's multi-billion dollar callable debt program."

Advisor - Deborah Brunton, Vice President, Public Affairs - "Debora h Brunton comes to VoteHere from the Microsoft Corporation, where she held the position of Director of State Government Affairs in the Law and Corporate Affairs department. In this role, she was responsible for a program focused on issue advocacy, policy development, relationship building and industry affairs management. From 1989 to 1993, she also served as Press Secretary for United States Senator Slade Gorton. Ms. Brunton received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Whitman College."

UniLect Corporation http://www.unilect.com/

Note: According to reporter Daniel Hopsicker, Glenn Boord and Ralph Escudero owned a now-defunct voting-machine company, Uni-lect, associated with Sequoia Pacific. Is it defunct? source: http://www.madcowprod.com/II.htm

"UniLect Corporation , headquartered in Dublin, California, was founded in 1989 to serve the large government election industry in the United States, Canada, and to a lesser degree, internationally. UniLect is a development, sales, manufacturing, installation and support corporation for its election products. Each of these products involves state-of-the-art hardware and software, including voting equipment and systems, required or desired by state, county, city, and town governments. The President of UniLect Corporation is Jack Gerbel, who has been actively involved in the election equipment industry since 1965. His career began in elections with IBM Corporation and then as a founder, Vice-President and Board of Directors member of Computer Election Systems (CES), which at the time of its sale was the largest election equipment company in the world. Mr. Gerbel had at that time the distinction of personally selling and installing more successful election systems than any other person in the U.S. Two major accounts that he sold and successfully installed were Cook County, Illinois and the City of Chicago. Upon the sale of CES, Mr. Gerbel became Vice-President of Sales for Business Records Corporation (BRC), including new product development. He has become nationally known for his expertise in the election industry and has been called upon to consult on various election projects."

Booz·Allen & Hamilton, Inc. (CIA director R. James Woolsey is Vice President, MON, JUNE 23, 2003 http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=62

military defense contractor - http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=006928857

Jan 4, 02 - "The Pentagon spent $6.2 million on a pilot program, which in 2000 was used for absentee voting over the Internet by just 84 service members. Carried out by private contractor Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., the project was described in a report on the Voting Over the Internet (VOI) Pilot Project, released with little fanfare this summer by the Defense Department's Federal Voting Assistance Program. Critics noted that the cost involved in the pilot program worked out to $74,000 per voter. " http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/pdf/defense.bill.okd.by.bush.bna.01.04.02.pdf

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General Dynamics' Computing Devices Canada (military defense contractor) http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=001381284

Computing Devices Canada Ltd. became General Dynamics Canada Ltd. on January 01, 2002. http://www.gdcanada.com/company_info/post.asp?type=Articles

2002 Texas - Voting Systems Certifications http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/certifications.shtml

AccuPoll http://www.smallcapreview.com/acup.htm "AccuPoll Holding Corporation (OTC-BB - ACUP) represents the future of the voting industry. Spurred on by nearly $4 billion in congressionally approved spending over the next three years, ACUP's system will allow voters to electronically and securely place votes for their candidates in a secure and technologically accurate environment."

Hart Intercivic of Austin, Texas - DFM Associates's Mark-A-Vote? business alliances with Accenture and Dell http://www.hartintercivic.com ( www.Accenture.com (military defense contractor) - see above - has a business relationship Hart. See http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/spotlight/2002/042202.html Dell and Hart InterCivic Announce Alliance to Modernize American Voting Companies Join Forces to Manufacture and Market Advanced Electronic Voting Systems http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/corporate/press/pressoffice_news_2001-06-04-aus-001.htm

"David Hart, chairman of Hart InterCivic, said that because of the business he's in he doesn't contribute. A major investor in Hart InterCivic is Tom Hicks's investment firm, Stratford Capital Partners. Hicks was in the group of investors who bought the Texas Rangers from Bush and others for nearly three times their investment in it. Hicks has also been a lavish donor to Bush campaigns." Source: U.S. Election 2004: How the Republicans Can 'Decide' the Vote by Ronnie Dugger Released: 3 Aug 2004 http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=197

READ MORE -October 20, 2004—As if Bush's sale of his $606,000 share of Texas Rangers stock to owner Tom Hicks for $15 million wasn't enough, there's more from deep in the heart of Texas to nail the good old boy, namely the possibility of tax evasion. That is, Bush declared the proceeds as a long-term capital gain, which it wasn't, as opposed to ordinary income, which it was. This means Bush paid at the capital gains' rate of 20 percent as opposed to the ordinary income rate of 39.6 percent. Beating the IRS out of nearly 20 percent in additional taxes. But the fun doesn't stop there. ... http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/102404Mazza/102404mazza.html

http://www.internetvoting.com/solutions/eslate.html

eSlate was developed by Neil McClure, the founder (in 1996) of

Worldwide Election Systems, which was aquired by Hart InterCivic in 1999.

Aug. 15, 2003, 11:55PM Hart InterCivic, together with MAXIMUS, NCR Corporation and DFM Associates have teamed to provide election equipment and services to Ohio counties. (BW) Hart InterCivic Conducts Successful Elections in Ohio Counties with eSlate Electronic Voting System Business Editors/High-Tech Writers/Government Writers

(c) 2003 Business Wire. AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2003-- found in google cache http://216.239.53.104

Perot Systems Government Services, Inc.(military defense contractor) www.soza.com "specializes in systems integration services in support of critical business such as election management." http://www.perotsystems.com/government/careers/whatwedo.htm / http://www.ifesbuyersguide.org/detailtest.php?title=Regions&subtitle=Middle_East

"Election Services Corporation (ESC) http://www.electionservicescorp.com/ is the Internet voting company and Democratic bad boy Tony Coelho is on their board. This is a little unusual in a business dominated by the Republican and foreign corporations. Tony "was a six-term congressman and House majority whip, who resigned from Congress after reports surfaced that he had accepted a sweetheart loan from a troubled S&L operator. The loan helped Coelho buy a $100,000 junk bond, but he never reported it on his government disclosure form. The Justice Department decided not to bring charges against him," according to Slate.msn.com. He was also investigated by the State Department when he was Al Gore's campaign manager for the 2000 presidential election. The investigation was reportedly related to his work as the commissioner general of the United States Pavilion at the 1998 World Expo. As a result, Tony resigned as Gore's campaign manager. " http://www.ecotalk.org/Democrats&VotingTechnology.htm

Avante http://www.avantetech.com or http://www.aitechnology.com/avantetech/homepage.htm sister company AIT has representatives in England, France, and offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China.

Fidlar & Chambers http://www.fidlar.com

Microvote - http://www.microvote.com / http://www.microvote.com/html/email.htm http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/00D0273P.HTM "James F. Ries misappropriated the prototype of an electronic voting machine from another company..."

Voting Technologies International http://www.vtintl.com/new/default.asp

IVM - online voting http://www.cwf.co.uk/clients_casestudies_wrestle01.asp

Election Resources Corporation http://www.ballots.com/ Distributer of ES&S? The BPS is used to prepare Votomatic ballot pages and absentee ballots, Paper ballots, E.S. & S. and Optech ballots. The system also produces an array of reports to assist in the printing of ballots and the preparation of voting devices.

Harp Enterprises, Inc. www.harpenterprisesinc.com Lexington, KY

Sales Contact: Roger D. Baird, President (harpent@aol.com) [1] 800-432-9282

Description: Distributor for the Danaher E.V.M 1242 Voting System, ballot printer for Shoup and AVM Lever, printer of ES&S optical scan ballots. Supplier for precinct election supplies, signs, ballot boxes, etc.

Safevote, Inc. http://www.safevote.com Eva Waskell, Communications Director (interview: Safevote does online voting only. It's a private company. Would not release any company information. Oct 16, 2002 source: L. Landes

Populex a voting systems company that is reportedly creating the electronic voting system for Illinois, has on its advisory board, Frank C. Carlucci, Chairman Emeritus, The Carlyle Group, former Secretary of Defense and Advisor to the President for National Security Affairs, and business partner of former President George H.W. Bush

Triad Governmental Systems, Inc. http://www.triadgsi.com/

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Triad_Governmental_Systems,_Inc.

Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed

By William Rivers Pitt

t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 15 December 2004 Among activists and investigators looking into allegations of vote fraud in the 2004 Presidential election, the company always mentioned was Diebold and its suspicious electronic touch-screen voting machines. It is Diebold that has multiple avowed Republicans on its Board of Directors. It was Diebold that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush’s election campaign. It was Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell who vowed to deliver Ohio’s electoral votes to Bush. As it turns out, everyone was looking the wrong way. The company that requires immediate and penetrating scrutiny is Triad Systems. Triad is owned by a man named Tod Rapp, who has also donated money to both the Republican Party and the election campaign of George W. Bush. Triad manufactures punch-card voting systems, and also wrote the computer program that tallied the punch-card votes cast in 41 Ohio counties last November. This Triad company graphic displays the counties where their machines are used:



Given the ubiquity of the Triad voting systems in Ohio, the allegations that have been leveled against this company strike to the heart of the assumed result of the 2004 election. Earlier this week, the allegations against triad were first raised by Green Party candidate David Cobb, who testified at a hearing held in Columbus, Ohio by Rep. John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Cobb stated: Mr. Chairman, though our time is limited, I must bring to the committee's attention the most recent and perhaps most troubling incident that was related to my campaign on Sunday, December 12, about a shocking event that occurred last Friday, December 10. A representative from Triad Systems came into a county board of elections office un-announced. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the up-coming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad supplied Tabulator (a card reader and older PC with custom software) is kept. He told them there was a problem and the system had a bad battery and had "lost all of its data". He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and another "spare" tower type PC also in the room. He may have had spare parts in his coat as one of the BOE people moved it and remarked as to how very heavy it was. He finally re-assembled everything and said it was working but to not turn it off. He then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to the tabulator computer. The Triad Systems representative suggested that since the hand count had to match the machine count exactly, and since it would be hard to memorize the several numbers which would be needed to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by observers. He suggested making them look like employee information or something similar. The people doing the hand count could then just report these numbers no matter what the actual count of the ballots revealed. This would then "match" the tabulator report for this precinct exactly. The numbers were apparently the final certified counts for the selected precinct. Triad is contracted to do much of the elections work in this county and elsewhere in Ohio. This included programming the candidates into the tabulator, and coming up with the rotation of candidates in the various precincts (that is, the order of which candidate is first changes between precincts). They also have a technician in the office on election night to actually run the tabulator itself. Triad also supplies the network computers on which all of the voter registration information and processing is kept for the county. It was unusual for the computers to be taken apart. At least one member of the Board of Elections was told the tabulator was in pieces when he called to check on the office. The source of this report believes that the Triad representative was "making the rounds" of visiting other counties also before the recount. This person also stated they would not pass on the suggestion of the "posted" hidden totals, and would refuse to go along with it if it were suggested by the others in the office at the time. The source of this information believes they could lose their job if they come forward. The source of this information is named Sherole Eaton, Hocking County deputy director of elections. She has since written and signed an affidavit describing her experience with the Triad representative, the text of which is here: Go to Original AFFIDAVIT

December 13, 2004

Sherole Eaton

Re: General Election 2004 - Hocking County, TriAd

Dell Computer about 14 years old - No tower On Friday, December 10 2004, Michael from TriAd called in the AM to inform us that he would be in our office in the PM on the same day. I asked him why he was visiting us. He said, "to check out your tabulator, computer, and that the attorneys will be asking some tricky questions and he wanted to go over some of the questions they maybe ask." He also added that there would be no charge for this service. He arrived at about 12:30PM. I hung his coat up and it was very heavy. I made a comment about it being so heavy. He, Lisa Schwartze and I chatted for a few minutes. He proceeded to go to the room where our computer and tabulation machine is kept. I followed him into the room. I had my back to him when he turned the computer on. He stated that the computer was not coming up. I did see some commands at the lower left hand of the screen but no menu. He said that the battery in the computer was dead and that the stored information was gone. He said that he could put a patch on it and fix it. My main concern was - what if this happened when we were ready to do the recount. He proceeded to take the computer apart and call his offices to get information to input into our computer. Our computer is fourteen years old and as far as I know had always worked in the past. I asked him if the older computer, that is in the same room. could be used for the recount. I don't remember exactly what he said but I did relay to him that the computer was old and a spare. At some point he asked if he could take the spare computer apart and I said "yes". He took both computers apart. I don't remember seeing any tools and he asked Sue Wallace, Clerk, for a screwdriver. She got it for him. At this point I was frustrated about the computer not performing and feared that it wouldn't work for the recount. I called Gerald Robinette, board chairman, to inform him regarding the computer problem and asked him if we could have Tri Ad come to our offices to run the program and tabulator for the recount. Gerald talked on the phone with Michael and Michael assured Gerald that he could fix our computer. He worked on the computer until about 3:00 PM and then asked me which precinct and the number of the precinct we were going to count. I told him, Good Hope 1 # 17. He went back into the tabulation room. Shortly after that he (illegible) stated that the computer was ready for the recount and told us not to turn the computer off so it would charge up. Before Lisa ran the tests, Michael said to turn the computer off. Lisa said, " I thought you said we weren't supposed to turn it off." He said turn it off and right back on and it should come up. It did come up and Lisa ran the tests. Michael gave us instructions on how to explain the rotarien, what the tests mean, etc. No advice on how to handle the attorneys but to have our Prosecuting Attorney at the recount to answer any of their legal questions. He said not to turn the computer off until after the recount. He advised Lisa and I on how to post a "cheat sheet" on the wall so that only the board members and staff would know about it and and what the codes meant so the count would come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a full hand recount of the county. He left about 5:00 PM. My faith in Tri Ad and the Xenia staff has been nothing but good. The realization that this company and staff would do anything to dishonor or disrupt the voting process is distressing to me and hard to believe. I'm being completely objective about the above statements and the reason I'm bringing this forward is to, hopefully, rule out any wrongdoing. Further buttressing Eaton’s claim is an addendum to a previous affidavit filed by Evelyn Roberson who, you may recall, was involved in the Greene County recount action that was summarily shut down by Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell. Her addendum reads as follows: Addendum to Declaration of Evelyn Roberson dated December 12, 2004

Re: Incidents of December 10, 2004 This is to add to the approximately 1 :15 p.m. portion of the visit with the Deputy Director of Elections Lyn McCoy with respect to the following comment: "She said they would have their computer technician check over their computers on Monday in case they has been tampered with." the addition is that Lyn McCoy also mentioned to me at the same time that her computer technician was with Triad.