VoteHere is a mysterious election vendor whose most significant contribution to the industry has been lobbying for the Help America Vote Act and paperless e-voting. Founded during the dotcom bubble by a tech entrepreneur, who propped it up through venture capital funds, VoteHere quickly acquired a strange group of insiders from the elections and defense industries. The two most notable arrivals were Admiral Bill Owens and Robert Gates, military and CIA leaders who were both on the board of defense contractor SAIC. Under the direction and guidance of these insiders, VoteHere poured significantly more money into HAVA than all the major vendors (ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia) combined. They later ended up lobbying against a paper trail requirement for New York's voting machines. The actual products made by VoteHere gained little traction, so its actions in the industry mainly only served to benefit the large, existing players. This oddity has fueled suspicions that VoteHere was actually a front, for the CIA or military-industrial complex, meant to serve as a lobbying apparatus unconnected to the main vendors.

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