How to Rig An Election

Harper's Magazine, November 2012

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]

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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-owned Scytl, which named Bob Urosevich managing director of its Americas division in 2006.

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[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.

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Where Massachusetts ballots were counted publicly by hand, Martha Coakley beat her Tea Party opponent, but in electronically counted areas, she lost.

In Florida, Rick Scott was elected governor in November after an historically close race with his opponent, Alex Sink.

Scott, a millionaire and Tea Party favorite, squeaked through with a 1.15 percent margin of victory, representing just 61,550 votes, after a number of Dominion machines in Hillsborough County failed to upload results.

In the wake of what was described as a memory-card glitch, election workers manually rescanned about 38,000 early-voting ballots, without any supervision by the public or the press. Sink, who needed only 35,000 more votes to trigger a mandatory recount, conceded the following day.

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