Voting Machines and the Defense Industry

VoteHere -Dategrity -> Dategrity later spun off into two other companies, ElectionTrust and DemocracyLive

Dategrity Corp offered election audit and verification technology for use in elections in the US and Europe. Formerly an Internet voting company known as VoteHere, changed name to Dategrity Corporation in May, 2005.

Who is this VoteHere company? VoteHere “aspires to provide cryptography and computer software security for the electronic election industry.” Basically, they want total control of the “security” on all electronic voting machines. As of right now, it appears that Diebold and Sequoia use VoteHere cryptography in their voting systems. They also have a deal with election systems in the UK.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was on the VoteHere board of directors. Gates is of course a former CIA Director; Iran-Contra conspirator; close personal friend of George Bush Sr.; CIA Director under him and was head of the George Bush School of Business at Texas A&M. He was Bush Jr.’s first choice to be the first ever Director of National Intelligence, a position created shortly after 9/11. VoteHere was not Gates’ first election machine company, he was also a board member of TRW Cogent, a Northrup Grumman company.

VoteHere’s former Chairman is Admiral Bill Owens, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a member of the Defense Policy Board and he even served as a military aide to both Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, who also worked with Bush Sr. at the Carlyle Group. However, other than Gates and Owens being cronies of Bush Sr. and Cheney and sitting on the VoteHere board together, they also have another pivotal connection. They were both top executives at Scientific Applications International Corp. (SAIC). Owens was the President and CEO of SAIC and Gates was a board member. This is significant because SAIC has been involved in testing security standards for the voting machine industry.

HIG owns Hart InterCivic

6 July 2011

Millions of votes are cast each year using Hart eScan and eSlate polling place voting systems and Ballot Now central scanning/by-mail solution. Hart’s latest products, ePollbook and the eSlate A/T have triggered dramatic growth in the market.

https://higcapital.com/news/release/h.i.g.-capital-completes-strategic-investment-in-hart-intercivic

One of Franklin Templeton Discovery funds major holding has been HIG, whose CEO, Christopher Swift, was a lawyer for BakerHostetler