Someone in /qr/ found a detailed article on voting systems. In qresear.ch now.

States have used taxpayer money to buy systems from vendors with close past and/or present ties to a foreign dictator, US politicians, a Religious Right group, and a convicted embezzler whose crimes involved computer tampering

January 28, 2018

https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/updated-attachment-states-have-bought-voting-machines-from-vendors-controlled-and-funded-by-nation-6597e4dd3e70

Although the author is no conservative, there is still a ton of useful info here. Have not digested it yet, but here are the caps to all 68 points she makes.

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>>11318

States have used taxpayer money…

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Have to string out these caps, file is too big.

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Will take 3 - "file is too big"

>>11318

>>11319

States have used taxpayer money…

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>>11320

States have used taxpayer money…

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Got a bunch of sections from one mega-article to post from 2012:

https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-rig-an-election - Nov 2012

• GEMS: a Vote Rigger's Dream

• How HAVA Subsidized FRAUD-PRONE Touchscreen Voting Systems

• In 2000, Sequoia employees were told to purposely use inferior paper stock for ballots

• More History: Diebold, ES & S, Urosevich Brothers and Scytl

Not especially pro Conservative, but full of good historical nuggets. In 2012, not all liberals were communists.

>>10692 pb

>>10918 pb

Moar on GEMS = Global Election Management System

Was Diebold's system.

But sure sounds a lot like Global Election Systems, which was bought by Diebold in 2002. Robert Urosevich's was its President - came to Diebold when the company was sold.

Will also post the latest version of GEMS CHART tonite - after a little more research.

GEMS: a Vote Rigger's Dream

The spread of computerized voting has carried with it an enormous potential for electronic skulduggery. In 2003, Bev Harris, a citizen sleuth and the author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, made a shocking and game-changing discovery: Diebold, then one of the primary manufacturers of voting machines, had left the 40,000 files that made up its Global Election Management System (GEMS) on a publicly accessible website, entirely unprotected.

Diebold was never able to explain how its proprietary tabulation program ended up in such an exposed position. Harris downloaded the files, and programmers worldwide pounced, probing the code for weaknesses. The wall of secrecy, said Harris, began to crumble.

GEMS turned out to be a vote rigger's dream. According to Harris' analysis, it could be hacked, remotely or on-site, using any off-the-shelf version of Microsoft Access, and password protection was missing for supervisor functions. Not only could multiple users gain access to the system after only one had logged in, but unencrypted audit logs allowed any trace of vote rigging to be wiped from the record.

The public unmasking of GEMS by an average citizen (who was not a programmer herself) served as a belated wake-up call to the world's leading computer-security experts, who finally turned their attention to America's most widely used voting systems.

https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-rig-an-election - Nov 2012

How HAVA Subsidized FRAUD-PRONE Touchscreen Voting Systems

In 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), offering states $3.9 billion in subsidies to modernize their election administration and equipment, purportedly in response to Florida’s hanging-chad fiasco of 2000. HAVA mandated that every polling place provide at least one voting system that allowed disabled people to vote with the same “privacy and independence” accorded to nondisabled voters.

Thanks to confusing language in HAVA itself, and even a misleading report issued by the Congressional Research Service, one might easily assume that the mandate called for the purchase of DRE [direct recording electronic] machines. In this way, the blind and visually impaired were unwittingly used as pawns to advance the agenda of the voting-machine industry.

One election supervisor claims that Diebold went so far as to send him threatening letters after he sought out less expensive alternatives to service the disabled, even when these machines were compatible with Diebold’s systems.

https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-rig-an-election - Nov 2012

In 2000, Sequoia employees were told to purposely use inferior paper stock for ballots

In a 2007 Dan Rather exposé, "The Trouble with Touch Screens," seven whistleblowers at Sequoia charged that company executives had forced them to use inferior paper stock for ballots during the 2000 election. What’s more, said the whistleblowers, they had been instructed to misalign the chads on punch cards destined for the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach County.

“My own personal opinion was the touchscreen-voting system wasn’t getting off the ground like they would hope,” said Greg Smith, a thirty-two-year Sequoia employee. “So, I feel likethey deliberately did all this to have problems with the paper ballots.”

https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-rig-an-election - Nov 2012

More History: Diebold, ES & S, Urosevich Brothers and Scytl

"ELECTION DAY IS DOMINATED BY A HANDFUL OF SECRETIVE, PARTISAN CORPORATIONS WITH INTERLOCKING OWNERSHIP"

Dieboldbecame the most infamous name in the industry in 2003, when its CEO, Walden O’Dell, a top fund-raiser for George W. Bush, made a jaw-dropping public promise to “deliver” Ohio’s electoral votes to Bush. The following year, California __banned Diebold’s touchscreen system"", and Secretary of State Kevin Shelley blasted the company as “fraudulent,” “despicable,” and “deceitful.” O’Dell stepped down in 2005, right before the filing of a class-action suit that accused Diebold of fraud, insider trading, and slipshod quality control.

Concerned about its tarnished brand, the company removed its label from the front of voting machines. Then Diebold went one step further and changed the name of its voting-machine division to Premier Election Solutions.

In 2009, Diebold, which makes ATMs and other security systems, got out of the elections business altogether, selling Premier to ES&S. Here was a windfall for the Urosevich brothers in more than one sense: Bob had decamped to Diebold in 2002, when the company bought Global Election Systems, where he then served as president. Todd, meanwhile, remained at ES&S. This cozy arrangement was disrupted by a Justice Department antitrust intervention, which forced ES&S to split ownership of Premier with Dominion, the next big name in election technology. A month later, the deck was shuffled once again with Dominion’s purchase of Sequoia.[1]

Between them, Dominion and ES&S now count the majority of American ballots. There are, of course, newer technologies in development, including Web-based voting. This latest innovation is being peddled by the Spanish-ownedScytl, which named Bob Urosevich managing director of its Americas division in 2006.

[1] At the time of the purchase, Dominion absorbed some key staffers from Sequoia, among them Edwin B. Smith, who now serves as Dominion’s vice president of certification and compliance. In 2008, Smith threatened legal action against two computer scientists hired by an association of New Jersey election clerks to examine malfunctioning Sequoia touchscreen machines. The following year, in a farcical conflict of interest, he was appointed to the EAC’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee, which helps determine which specific voting machines should be certified for use.

https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-rig-an-election - Nov 2012

ELECTION SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE (ES&S) CORRUPTION

Ran across this just now. A 40 page pdf recently compiled (latest update TODAY)

https://fairfight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Election-Systems-and-Software-ESS-Corruption-07162019.pdf

Here is an overview.

THEME 1: ES&S Pay-For-Play Schemes Run Rampant Across U.S. As Election

Officials Trade Million Dollar Voter Machine Contracts for Donations and Gifts

THEME 2: ES&S Lied to Federal Lawmakers

Regarding Data Security and Consistently Demonstrated a Dangerous Lack of Competence in Creating Secure

and Reliable Machines. Their “Criminally Negligent” Software Caused Election

Altering Undervotes, Exposed the Personal Data of Millions, and Violated State

Laws

The newest info is on how the Georgia Secretary of State awarded ES&S with

$450,000 sole source contract—giving a private corporation direct access to

and/or responsibility over voter registration, ballot access, and ballot counting

until Dec 31st, 2019.

>>11337

>>11333

GEMS references from the ES & S PDF https://fairfight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Election-Systems-and-Software-ESS-Corruption-07162019.pdf

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In 2018, GASOS Paid Private Corporation-ES&S $300,000 to Prepare Data Necessary for the

Entire Georgia Election Management System (GEMS) & for All Voter Rolls. “Scope of Work: State

Entity seeks to enter into a contract to provide assistance in data preparation for ExpressPoll 4000 and

5000 running EZRoster version 2.1.2 and the '''Georgia Election Management System (GEMS) database

version 1.18.22g!'''… The cost will be $25,000 per month for the calendar year 2018.” (CGG Subpoena,

page 14, 7/5/2019)

2

GASOS Claimed 2018 “Sole-Source” Award to Private Corporation, ES&S, Justified Because

ES&S Was Only Company with Licenses to Work Both Components of Georgia’s Voting System.

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“Sole-Source Intent to Award Justification: Exclusive Capability: The State of Georgia utilizes

ExpressPoll 4000 & 5000 running EZRoster version 2.1.2 and GEMS version 1.18.22g!.

3

2015 Memphis Undervote Caused by Software Bug ES&S [Diebold] Aware of Since 2008. '''“Among

the documents released to Chumney is a user’s manual for the county’s version of GEMS. It shows

they’re using a version of the software that contains the bug known to drop votes, the subject of that 10-

month investigation in Ohio in 2008. The software flaw creates exactly the situation described in the emails by Young and other officials, one that has been well-known for eight years. Diebold didn’t replace

the flawed versions outside of Ohio, and for counties to do so on their own was expensive.”'''

(Bloomberg, 9/29/2016)

4

In 2008, ES&S [Diebold] Lied to Ohio Secretary of State About Software Bug That Caused

Primary Undervote in 11 Counties. '''“Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner sued Diebold following

the 2008 primaries after 11 counties using the company’s AccuVote-TSX voting machines and GEMS

tabulator dropped votes.''' The company claimed the problem was the result of the antivirus program the

counties were using. After a 10-month fight, Diebold conceded the lost votes were the result of a

software bug. The bug was fixed in later versions, and more than half of Ohio counties received free or

discounted voting machines and software as part of the settlement.” (Bloomberg, 9/29/2016)

• • • • -

This doc tells us three things:

1. GEMS is still in [probably widespread] use today.

2. It has been previously implicated in vote-dropping.

3. The latest version of GEMS = 1.18.22g!

GEMS Digg, con't.

>>11337, >>11333, >>11338

Wow - GEMS comes from GES (Global Election Systems) & is the product of felon Jeffrey Dean

The whole story is laid out here:

19. Diebold entered the voting machine business with its 2002 acquisition of Global Election Systems, a company whose Senior VP (programmer Jeffrey Dean) was a CONVICTED FELON who had served time for sophisticated crimes involving “COMPUTER TAMPERING”.

20. Global brought on Dean shortly before the 2000 election. A few months later, it hired a convicted drug trafficker — who Dean met in prison — to oversee punch card printing.

1. Diebold told the AP that Dean left the company in 2002.

1. But [Beverly] Harris obtained Dean’s court file, which included internal Diebold memos showing that Dean remained as a Diebold consultant.

26. According to Wired, Dean “wrote & maintained…code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes.”

27. Dean also programmed the GEMS central tabulator system, which counted one third of the votes in 37 states in 2004.......

30. Because elected officials and news organizations never followed up on Dean’s whereabouts, we can only speculate as to when (if at all) Dean’s relationship with the company ended.

SO: the person responsible for GEMS was a CONVICTED FELON whose ongoing role remains a mystery.

(All info is from >>11318, which has 3 caps - these are from the middle CAP, see cap for sauce)

One last thing:

King Co WA (Seattle) uses Dominion for voting - and GEMS as well. Dean was also employed there in the early 2000s and, according to Harris, had access to voting machines.

https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/election-pros-are-cons/

Past Digs - all PB:

>>10918, >>10921, >>11024, >>11025 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10918, >>10921 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10742 Signey Powell tweet

>>10693, >>10696, >>10697, >>10698, >>10699, >>10700, >>10701, >>10702 Black Box Voting: Diebold GEMS Central Tabulator Software

>>8308, >>8322 Fraction Magic diggs

Past Digs - all PB:

>>10918, >>10921, >>11024, >>11025 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10918, >>10921 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10742

>>10693, >>10696, >>10697, >>10698, >>10699, >>10700, >>10701, >>10702 Black Box Voting: Diebold gems Central Tabulator Software

>>8308, >>8322 Fraction magic vids

>>11355

aw shucks - got extra junk in there, will REPOST below

>>11355

GEMS Digg, con't.

>>11337, >>11333, >>11338

Wow - GEMS comes from GES (Global Election Systems) & is the product of felon Jeffrey Dean

The whole story is laid out here:

19. Diebold entered the voting machine business with its 2002 acquisition of Global Election Systems, a company whose Senior VP (programmer Jeffrey Dean) was a CONVICTED FELON who had served time for sophisticated crimes involving “COMPUTER TAMPERING”.

20. Global brought on Dean shortly before the 2000 election. A few months later, it hired a convicted drug trafficker — who Dean met in prison — to oversee punch card printing.

1. Diebold told the AP that Dean left the company in 2002.

1. But [Beverly] Harris obtained Dean’s court file, which included internal Diebold memos showing that Dean remained as a Diebold consultant.

26. According to Wired, Dean “wrote & maintained…code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes.”

27. Dean also programmed the GEMS central tabulator system, which counted one third of the votes in 37 states in 2004.......

30. Because elected officials and news organizations never followed up on Dean’s whereabouts, we can only speculate as to when (if at all) Dean’s relationship with the company ended.

SO: the person responsible for GEMS was a CONVICTED FELON whose ongoing role remains a mystery.

(All info is from >>11318, which has 3 caps - these are from the middle CAP, see cap for sauce)

One last thing:

King Co WA (Seattle) uses Dominion for voting - and GEMS as well. Dean was also employed there in the early 2000s and, according to Harris, had access to voting machines.

https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/election-pros-are-cons/

Past Digs - all PB:

>>10918, >>10921, >>11024, >>11025 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10918, >>10921 Dig and Dig Call: gems software is the KEY to unlocking election vote fraud

>>10742 Signey Powell tweet

>>10693, >>10696, >>10697, >>10698, >>10699, >>10700, >>10701, >>10702 Black Box Voting: Diebold GEMS Central Tabulator Software

>>8308, >>8322 Fraction Magic diggs

>>11358

Here is the latest UPDATE on the GEMS chart (version 4)

At this point, there's key info for each of the five companies that utilize GEMS software for voting. Will refine/add/subtract a little more as info comes to light. Got ideas? Please say.

>>11362

>"King Co uses Dominion for voting"

<King Co uses ClearVote.

You are right - currently, King Co does NOT use Dominion - uses ClearVote, as you indicate.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/voting-systems-by-county.aspx

But on the map at >>11359

Video from which it's taken was made about 4 years go. On that map, it uses GEMS - which is owned/controlled by Dominion. SO: did it switch? or is ClearVote another name for GEMS?

Map I believe is four years old. Next step:

1. try to update it to the present day

2. find out what ClearVote really is - which may be a challenge. It's going to be affiliated with one of these big companies like Dominion, ES&S, etc.

3. For King Co: get a history of voting systems from around 2000 to the present.

>>11502

will post on new bread

would be good to add to notables from THIS bread if possible

>>11358, >>11359, >>11362, >>11502

GEMS comes from GES (Global Election Systems) & is the product of felon Jeffrey Dean