super rough notes-working on refining- have at it, clowns skulls and bones everywhere.

PREMIER ELECTION SYSTEMS / DIEBOLD

Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (DESI),[1] was a subsidiary of Diebold that makes and sells voting machines.

In 2009, it was sold to competitor ES&S. Another subsidiary selling electronic voting systems in Brazil is Diebold-Procomp, with minor market share in that nation. In 2010, Dominion Voting Systems purchased the primary assets of Premier, including all intellectual property, software, firmware and hardware for Premier's current and legacy optical scan, central scan, and touch screen voting systems, and all versions of the GEMS election management system from ES&S.

At the time ES&S spun off the company due to monopoly charges its systems were in use in 1,400 jurisdictions in 33 states and serving nearly 28 million people.[2]

PREMIER ELECTION SYSTEMS / ES&S / DOMINION

Acquisition by Election Systems & Software

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) acquired Premier Election Solutions on September 3, 2009. ES&S President and CEO Aldo Tesi said combining the two companies will result in better products and services for customers and voters. The sale did not affect the Brazilian division.[5]

Following the acquisition, the Department of Justice and 14 individual states launched investigations into the transaction on antitrust grounds.[6] In March 2010, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against ES&S, requiring it to divest voting equipment systems assets it acquired from Premier Election Solutions in order to restore competition.[7] The company then sold the assets to Dominion Voting Systems.

PREMIER / CHOICEPOINT

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 /BSNewswire/ – Diebold, ChoicePoint and Sproul - in a new partnership between government and business involving unprecedented interagency cooperation between the RNC/PNAC, the Patent Office, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security - and funded in part by venture capital from Microsoft's capital-markets division - have announced plans to form a joint venture to leverage core software patents and other intellectual property for the purpose of maintaining America's strategic edge at providing "the best democracy money can buy."

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0411/S00055.htm

HAVA also provides funding for computerized voter rolls, including programs for removal of “ineligible” voters. It is modeled on the vote scrubbing operation carried out by Database Technologies and its parent company, ChoicePoint, in the 2000 election under a multi-million dollar contract signed by then-Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Tens of thousands of mostly African American and Latino voters were improperly removed from the Florida voting rolls, key to George W. Bush’s theft of the election.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/who-is-counting-your-vote-diebold-and-bush-vs-the-public-interest/

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LEXISNEXIS / CHOICEPOINT

In September 2008, Reed Elsevier purchased data aggregator ChoicePoint. This acquisition included an insurance business and the C.L.U.E. database, an underwriting database for the U.S. auto insurance market. LexisNexis completed the migration of public records to HPCC Systems the same year.

LEXISNEXIS / SEISINT / MATRIX

In 2004, Reed Elsevier purchased Seisint Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida.[8] Seisint housed and operated the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX).

LEXISNEXIS / NCMEC

Missing Children

U.S.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions developed the ADAM (Automated Delivery of Alerts on Missing children) program in 2000 to help the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) find missing children.[16] ADAM distributes missing child alert posters to law enforcement, hospitals, libraries and businesses within specific geographic search areas. The system was expanded in 2017 to allow individuals to receive an email alert when a child is reported missing near to them.[17]

In 2017, a feature was added to ADAM to allow NCMEC to focus on a highway where a missing child and abductor may be travelling in order to distribute posters to recipients along the relevant corridor. Combining this filter along with the system’s radius search allows for broad, yet targeted, poster coverage. Functionality was added to ADAM to allow members of the public to sign up for missing child email alerts in their area. More than 1.8 million individuals, private enterprises, hospitals, schools, news outlets and law agencies have signed up to receive automated ADAM alerts.

CHOICEPOINT / ACXIOM DEAL

Data giant Acxiom has acquired the Database Marketing Solutions division of ChoicePoint Precision Marketing, a subsidiary of ChoicePoint, for an undisclosed sum.

The acquisition adds seven clients from multiple industries, including banking, insurance and media to Acxiom's client base.

It also includes a team of about 75 associates based in the US, who deal with account management, technical, and analytic functions.

Annual revenues are estimated to be approximately $16m (£8.1m).

ALLTEL / ACXIOM / DIANE FEINSTEIN

When the Democrats gained control of Congress in 2006, both Alltel and Acxiom joined in formation to unfurl their primary team colors.

Within the same week in '07, each was acquired by TPG/Newbridge Capital, co-chaired by US Senator Diane Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum.

YANG / DATAMAXX / CHOICEPOINT

Rapp Systems background

DU thread searching for a link between Triad and Datamaxx (cited page from the Rapp Systems website)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x198399

dug up the fact that Rapp Systems claimed to have developed software for NASA (also a client of Yang Enterprises) to monitor tiles on the Space Shuttle

*NOTE

choicepoint connection *search archives for choicepoint

CHOICEPOINT / CIA

ChoicePoint and other private companies increasingly occupy a special place in homeland security and crime-fighting efforts, in part because they can compile information and use it in ways government officials sometimes cannot because of privacy and information laws.

ChoicePoint renewed and expanded a contract with the Justice Department in the fall of 2001. Since then, the company and one of its leading competitors, LexisNexis Group, have also signed contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency to provide public records online, according to newly released documents.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2005/3/2/96212/-