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"Voting Company Crimewave.............
>
> Indictments and convictions
>
> Before he became vice president of Elections Systems and Software, Tom
> Eschberger was accused by Arkansas authorities of colluding with
> then-Arkansas Secretary of State Bill McCuen to sell used voting
> machines that Eschberger's former employer, Business Records Corp.,
> had received in trade. Eschberger was granted immunity in exchange for
> a deposition he gave state prosecutors. McCuen pleaded guilty in 1995
> to political corruption and related charges and served two years in
> prison.
> Former Louisiana Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler is serving a
> five-year sentence for racketeering in a scheme that involved
> kickbacks from voting machine vendors. Sequoia Pacific's vice
> president was indicted in the Fowler case.
> (Source: Steve Ritea, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Jan. 19, 2002)
>
> Convicted felon programmed Diebold's software
>
> Managers of a subsidiary of Diebold are alleged to have included a
> programmer jailed for falsifying computer records. Jeffrey Dean, who
> served time in a Washington correctional facility for stealing money
> and tampering with computer files, wrote and maintained proprietary
> code for vote counting as senior vice president of Global Election
> Systems Inc. The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary,
> Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating
> system that touch-screen voting terminals use.
> (Source: Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, San Francisco, Dec. 16, 2003)
>
> Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
>
> The company that Maryland Governor Ehrlich chose to review Diebold's
> system, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), is
> itself in the elections business, and its record in the U.S. is not
> good. It pleaded guilty to a 1990 indictment for fraud in its
> management of a Superfund toxic cleanup site, and was sued in 1993 by
> the Justice Department for civil fraud on an F15 fighter contract.
>
> Also, at least three present or former directors of SAIC are former
> Directors of the CIA. That is troubling in view of the CIA's history
> of upsetting elections in other countries, notably that of President
> Allende in Chile.
> (Source: Lynn Landes, publisher of www.ecotalk.org, and formerly a
> regular commentator for a BBC talk radio show and environmental news
> reporter for DUTV in Philadelphia.)
>
> Sequoia Voting Systems
>
> Sequioa is owned mostly by London-based De La Rue Cash Systems, "the
> world's largest security printer and papermaker, involved in the
> production of over 150 national currencies," as well as travelers'
> checks and vouchers. In 1999, two Sequoia executives, Phil Foster and
> Pasquale Ricci, were indicted for paying Louisiana Commissioner of
> Elections Jerry Fowler an $8 million bribe to buy their voting
> machines. In August 2002, a losing candidate in Boca Raton, Fla., city
> council elections wanted to have Sequoia voting machines examined by
> experts. But Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LaPore
> (responsible for the infamous butterfly ballot) said that the contract
> with Sequoia, as well as state law, defined Sequoia's equipment and
> programming as "trade secrets," shielded from public scrutiny.
> (Source: "Who Counts the Votes?" by Gary Ashwill, Managing Editor, and
> Chris Kromm, Publisher and editor, Southern Exposure.)
>
> More information in FREE book
>
> The publisher's website www.blackboxvoting.com is making Bev Harris's
> new book about voting machine fraud chapter by chapter on line for
> free downloading."
>
> Indictments and convictions
>
> Before he became vice president of Elections Systems and Software, Tom
> Eschberger was accused by Arkansas authorities of colluding with
> then-Arkansas Secretary of State Bill McCuen to sell used voting
> machines that Eschberger's former employer, Business Records Corp.,
> had received in trade. Eschberger was granted immunity in exchange for
> a deposition he gave state prosecutors. McCuen pleaded guilty in 1995
> to political corruption and related charges and served two years in
> prison.
> Former Louisiana Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler is serving a
> five-year sentence for racketeering in a scheme that involved
> kickbacks from voting machine vendors. Sequoia Pacific's vice
> president was indicted in the Fowler case.
> (Source: Steve Ritea, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Jan. 19, 2002)
>
> Convicted felon programmed Diebold's software
>
> Managers of a subsidiary of Diebold are alleged to have included a
> programmer jailed for falsifying computer records. Jeffrey Dean, who
> served time in a Washington correctional facility for stealing money
> and tampering with computer files, wrote and maintained proprietary
> code for vote counting as senior vice president of Global Election
> Systems Inc. The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary,
> Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating
> system that touch-screen voting terminals use.
> (Source: Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, San Francisco, Dec. 16, 2003)
>
> Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
>
> The company that Maryland Governor Ehrlich chose to review Diebold's
> system, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), is
> itself in the elections business, and its record in the U.S. is not
> good. It pleaded guilty to a 1990 indictment for fraud in its
> management of a Superfund toxic cleanup site, and was sued in 1993 by
> the Justice Department for civil fraud on an F15 fighter contract.
>
> Also, at least three present or former directors of SAIC are former
> Directors of the CIA. That is troubling in view of the CIA's history
> of upsetting elections in other countries, notably that of President
> Allende in Chile.
> (Source: Lynn Landes, publisher of www.ecotalk.org, and formerly a
> regular commentator for a BBC talk radio show and environmental news
> reporter for DUTV in Philadelphia.)
>
> Sequoia Voting Systems
>
> Sequioa is owned mostly by London-based De La Rue Cash Systems, "the
> world's largest security printer and papermaker, involved in the
> production of over 150 national currencies," as well as travelers'
> checks and vouchers. In 1999, two Sequoia executives, Phil Foster and
> Pasquale Ricci, were indicted for paying Louisiana Commissioner of
> Elections Jerry Fowler an $8 million bribe to buy their voting
> machines. In August 2002, a losing candidate in Boca Raton, Fla., city
> council elections wanted to have Sequoia voting machines examined by
> experts. But Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LaPore
> (responsible for the infamous butterfly ballot) said that the contract
> with Sequoia, as well as state law, defined Sequoia's equipment and
> programming as "trade secrets," shielded from public scrutiny.
> (Source: "Who Counts the Votes?" by Gary Ashwill, Managing Editor, and
> Chris Kromm, Publisher and editor, Southern Exposure.)
>
> More information in FREE book
>
> The publisher's website www.blackboxvoting.com is making Bev Harris's
> new book about voting machine fraud chapter by chapter on line for
> free downloading."
http://www.stimson.homestead.com/factsheet.html
Boy, that is awesome to know that these kind folks, are who are running ES&S and Diebold, just about the only companies controlling our democracy!
