https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87B00858R000400480027-1.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/jrc1h6/dominion_voting_systems_acquired_by_staple_street/

https://trustthevote.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-whartonoset_industryreport.pdf

The big three firms solidified their market position over the past decade. While the influx of HAVA funding into the industry

in 2002 incited a flurry of investment in new electronic voting technology, as this funding dried up, the industry began to

consolidate, with Hart Intercivic, Dominion Voting and ES&S rapidly acquiring their smaller competitors. This enabled these

larger firms to establish customer relationships in counties to which they previously did not have access.

” In one documented instance, ES&S negotiated a

contract in 2010 with Nassau County in New York for a new integrated voting system and service agreement costing over $14

million, in which the company offered to buy back, “at a higher price than the original purchase price,” all 450 of the county’s

current ImageCast voting machines (manufactured by competitor Dominion), thus effectively granting the county a rebate of

over $4.5 million. To make the deal sweeter, ES&S agreed to re-market and sell the discarded Dominion machines “as is,” and

to split the resulting proceeds 50/50 with Nassau County, which the county would then use as an additional credit “for their

future purchase of products and services from ES&S.” ES&S was even willing to “guarantee a minimum of $500,000 in sale

proceeds” and to make those funds “immediately available to the County Board of Elections” in Nassau County for making the

proposed purchases from ES&S.50