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"james g. keegan jr." |
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17 Dec 2003 12:57:44 PM |
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more 'bush-type' voting |
it's almost too outlandish to believe, but.....
Posted on Wed, Dec. 17, 2003
Critics: Convicted felons worked for electronic voting companies
RACHEL KONRAD
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines has
employed at least five convicted felons as managers, according to
critics demanding more stringent background checks for people
responsible for voting machine software.
Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a
subsidiary of Diebold Inc., one of the country's largest voting
equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who
conducted fraudulent stock transactions, and a programmer jailed
for falsifying computer records.
The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary
code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice
president of Global Election Systems Inc. Diebold purchased GES
in January 2002.
According to a public court document released before GES hired
him, Dean served time in a Washington correctional facility for
stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that
"involved a high degree of sophistication and planning."
"You can't tell me these people passed background tests," Harris,
author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st
Century," said in a phone interview.
Michael Jacobsen, a spokesman for North Canton, Ohio-based
Diebold, emphasized that the company performs background checks
on all managers and programmers. He said many GES managers -
including Dean - left at the time of the acquisition.
"We can't speak for the hiring process of a company before we
acquired it," Jacobsen said. He would not provide further
details, saying company policy bars discussion of current or past
employees.
The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary, Global
Election Management Systems, which produces the operating system
that touch-screen voting terminals use.
Dean could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced a bill last week that
would require stringent background checks on all electronic
voting company employees who work with voting software. The bill,
which the California Democrat plans to introduce in January,
would toughen security standards for voting software and
hardware, and require touch-screen terminals to include printers
and produce paper backups of vote counts by the 2004 presidential
election in November.
Harris and Andy Stephenson, a Democratic candidate for secretary
of state in Washington, conducted a 10-day investigation in
Seattle and Vancouver, where the men were convicted. Harris and
Stephenson released the findings in a 17-page document online and
at a news conference in Seattle.
Also Tuesday, Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed announced
legislation that would require electronic voting machines in
Washington to produce a paper trail. If the legislature approves
it, touch-screen machines in the state would be required to
produce paper receipts by 2006. Voters would get to see but not
touch or remove the receipts, which would be kept in a county
lock box.
Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical
outages could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used
in precincts nationwide to delete or alter votes. California
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Nov. 21 that touch-
screens in the nation's most populous state must provide paper
receipts by 2006.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7507193.htm
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: more 'bush-type' voting |
20 Dec 2003 12:04:41 AM |
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james g. keegan jr. <keegan@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
it's almost too outlandish to believe, but.....
Posted on Wed, Dec. 17, 2003
Critics: Convicted felons worked for electronic voting companies
RACHEL KONRAD
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines has
employed at least five convicted felons as managers, according to
critics demanding more stringent background checks for people
responsible for voting machine software.
Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a
subsidiary of Diebold Inc., one of the country's largest voting
equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who
conducted fraudulent stock transactions, and a programmer jailed
for falsifying computer records.
This is the same company that updated voting machine software for
the last election here in California without telling the state or
getting approval for the update.
And still they pretend that the machines are secure.
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "james g. keegan jr." |
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| Title: Re: more 'bush-type' voting |
20 Dec 2003 07:55:53 AM |
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(Ray Fischer) wrote in
news:bs0opo$pa1$1@bolt.sonic.net:
james g. keegan jr. <keegan@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
it's almost too outlandish to believe, but.....
Posted on Wed, Dec. 17, 2003
Critics: Convicted felons worked for electronic voting
companies RACHEL KONRAD
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines
has employed at least five convicted felons as managers,
according to critics demanding more stringent background
checks for people responsible for voting machine software.
Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a
subsidiary of Diebold Inc., one of the country's largest
voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man
who conducted fraudulent stock transactions, and a programmer
jailed for falsifying computer records.
This is the same company that updated voting machine software
for the last election here in California without telling the
state or getting approval for the update.
And still they pretend that the machines are secure.
it's a republican thing.
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