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>RUNBECK

>https://www.arizcc.com/post/2020/03/23/charles-a-chuck-runbeck

Arizona Contractor & Community

Mar 23, 2020

2 min read

Charles A. “Chuck” Runbeck

Charles A. “Chuck” Runbeck passed away on Monday, March 9, 2020, roughly six weeks shy of his 92nd birthday.

Born in 1928 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, his parents were Swedish immigrant Anton Runbeck and Wisconsin native Nina Hooper. In 1937, his family moved to Coolidge, Arizona, where he first entered the printing industry, helping his grandfather produce the local newspaper by typesetting, folding papers, and making deliveries.

His family returned to Aberdeen just as World War II was starting in Europe. Anxious to serve his country, Chuck ran away from home in 1945 at age 17 to enlist in the Marine Corps, but his mother wouldn’t sign the papers and he had to wait until he was 18 in 1946. He always referred to himself as a “Hollywood Marine,” never serving outside of California.

After an honorable discharge in 1948, Chuck moved to Phoenix and attended Arizona State College (now ASU). In 1952, he started an advertising agency with an acquaintance and his soon-to-be wife, Kathryn “Kay” Liem. Chuck and Kay married in 1954 and had three sons:Charles Craig (1955), Robert Kevin (1957), and Brian Frederick (1963).

In 1953, Chuck began a long partnership with Johnny and Martha Akers selling advertising and publishing construction-related magazines including Arizona Builder & Contractor and Arizona-New Mexico Contractor and Engineer. In 1969, he launched Runbeck & Associates, an advertising agency and print brokerage. Chuck added election printing to the mix in 1970, and that became important work that grew steadily.His son, Kevin, took the company helm in the late 1980s, and the name evolved from Runbeck Graphics to the current Runbeck Election Services. Chuck was also involved in land development,lobbying, and public relations.

In 1983, Chuck returned to publishing, reviving a previous magazine and renaming it Southwest Contractor and then starting Southwest Builder a few years later. In 1990, he sold both these successful publications to McGraw-Hill, but not ready to retire, he returned to Runbeck Graphics, and, with son Kevin, began Southwest Graphics magazine.

Chuck “retired” for the second time in 1997 and he and Kay moved to east Texas, while Chuck managed to stay actively involved in Southwest Graphics. In 2006, Chuck and Kay returned to Arizona, buying a home in Payson and eventually settling back in Phoenix at Sagewood retirement community in 2012.

In 2011, at age 83, Chuck was approached to help launch a new magazine, Arizona Contractor & Community; he mentored the young staff and became the lynchpin for the publication’s success. He was still selling advertising through his 90th year, in person.

Chuck also proudly served for 35 years as Executive Director of the Associated Equipment Distributors of Arizona.

Throughout his life, Chuck enjoyed travel, family, friends, and work. Chuck is survived by his wife of 66 years, Kay, his sons Craig (Debra) , Kevin (Sandi and Kayti), and Brian, his grandchildren Nathan, Daniel (Chelita), Matina (David), and Erin, his great-grandchildren Emilio and Elena, his older sister June Potochnik, and many in-laws, nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, friends and co-workers, all of whom loved him dearly.

Unfortunately, no public services can be planned at this time. Please visit hansenmortuary.com for online condolences.

>>13675383

>had three sons:Charles Craig (1955),

Same Craig?

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>>13675419

pretty long article

> https://story.californiasunday.com/mail-in-ballots-election/

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

A weird thing happened to Andrew Schipke in early March. Schipke is a vice president at Winkler+Dünnebier, a German-born manufacturing company that runs its U.S. operations from a city in eastern Kansas. One of its most popular products is the “inserter,” an obscure but essential component in the business of voting by mail. An inserter stuffs the envelope that contains a ballot and voting instructions. Pick whatever metaphor you like linchpin, keystoneas long as it conveys that without inserters, you can basically forget about a fair presidential election.

Inserters can cost millions and last a long time. In a typical year, Schipke might sell seven or eight. On the afternoon of March 10, he was sitting in his office when a longtime client called with a last-minute order. Runbeck Election Services, a Phoenix-based ballot printer, wantedten new inserters. $500,000 apiece. Schipke thought: What the hell?

He started asking around. In the vote-by-mail industry — they call it “VBM” in the trade —everyone knows everyone,so Schipke could swiftly gather intel. It was early March: COVID-19 cases were minimal and lockdowns hadn’t gone national, butVBM people were already predicting an unprecedented scenario. In 2016, a little more than 20 percent of Americans had voted by mail. This year, when polling places could be hobbled on November 3, they were projecting 50 percent. There could be tens of millions of new ballots in the system, and each one would have to be printed, sorted, distributed, and counted.It was the biggest VBM business opportunity of all time,or the prelude to a quite big mess.

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Runbeck, 63 and smoothly bald, has been around elections intermittently his whole life. His first job in high school wasworking for his uncle, who had a contract to prepare punch-card ballots for the 1972 Nixon-McGovern election. (Runbeck made a penny a page.) Spend enough time in the democracy trade, and a person learns not to get political in his speech: A customer is a customer, regardless of party. “Our vision is to restore confidence in the electoral process,” Runbeck told me when I visited the factory in late June. “The reason we’re talking to you is to help the public understand that it’s secure.”

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And there it was: a Winkler+Dünnebier BB700-S2 inserter, the thing without which nothing else works. It was 20 feet long and L-shaped, tended by four women in T-shirts. A commercial-grade printer can produce 50,000 ballots an hour, but the process of putting them into envelopes is slower, more intricate. About 14,000 packaged ballots come off the inserter every hour. On the side closest to us, bright-yellow envelopes, stacked in a clear plastic chute, were being sucked down onto a belt with the speed and rhythm of a superfast blackjack dealer.A camera scanned the barcode on the envelope, which was linked to a specific voter-registration file. The computer looked at the file and told the inserter what to put in the envelope, and, like a car chassis traveling the assembly line getting doors and windows and wheels, the envelope traveled down the inserter getting what it needed: the right ballot for the right party for the right election, directions to the right polling place, an instruction sheet for the local races. Octavia Morales, Sacramento County, Republican, Precinct 13453. An “I Voted” sticker was added, andanother camera matched the barcodeon the ballot back to the barcode on the envelope. If a person tried to vote twice, or send in a fraudulent piece, the computer at the county would notice a mismatch in the barcodes and immediately reject it. At the end, the envelope was sealed, addressed, scanned by a laser beam that ensured the proper thickness, and dropped into a tray to be handed off to the United States Postal Service.

>>13675553

bingo

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In 2014, an inserter like this one misfired for 35 seconds in the back of Runbeck’s factory.Cameras failed to catch it.As a result, 232 voters in Sacramento and about 1,000 total in Colorado and Arizona received a mismatched ballot-envelope combination. (The other 3.8 million that were mailed out that day were fine.) When the error came to light, the company provided those voters with new, corrected ballots in plenty of time before the election. But the mistake still troubles Runbeck. In his industry, the standard is perfection. “This put us on the front page in Sacramento, Arizona, and Denver, with headlines like‘Ballot Blunder Jeopardizes Election,’”he said. “We had Fox News in our parking lot at 10 o’clock at night.” The pressure on the industry now exceeds the pressure of any previous election year. Mistakes will be seized, held up to prove the president’s point about an election rigged from the jump. A 35-second misfire in 2020 would have consequences graver than a news truck in the parking lot. Misprinted ballots could lead the national news and strain faith in the mechanics of the democracy. “The market,” Runbeck said, “has changed.”

>https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2014/10/27/incorrect-adams-county-ballots-may-have-already.html

Incorrect Adams County ballots may have already been counted

Oct 27, 2014, 9:45am EDT

A number of ballots that wereincorrectly mailed to to at least 94 Adams County voters may have already been counted,said County Clerk & Recorder Karen Long Sunday.

"It is possible that a small number of these incorrect ballots have already been counted but we believe that we will catch the vast majority of them," said Long.

Long said the voters received the faulty ballots due to a malfunctioning piece of equipment at an Arizona facility owned by Runbeck Election Services, an external ballot printing service retained by Adams County.

The incorrect ballots listed the right statewide and country-wide candidates and questions, but incorrect congressional district or state legislative candidates, municipality, school district or other special district questions, according Long.

Long said Runbeck is also responsible for the 243 voters who received__ duplicate ballots,__an error discovered last Thursday.

"We have used this vendor twice in the past without issue," said Long. "These mistakes are very disappointing."

Long said they are working to contact the 94 affected voters and issue them a corrected ballot if they have not already submitted it.

Adams County uses 327 different ballot styles for more than the 209,000 ballots mailed for the November election.

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OTHER VENDORS

contract with GEORGIA

reeled them in

In the absence of federal directives, election officials have to shop for every component they need. To run a vote-by-mail election, a county sources two kinds of technology: outbound and inbound. Outbound, which Runbeck handles, is the ballot that goes to the voter. Inbound is what the voter sends back. Outbound requires making something. Inbound requires counting.

There are multiple vendors in each category, hundreds of possible combinations. There are the conglomerate players and independents and family outfits, all in competition for similar contracts. In outbound, there’s Runbeck’s main western rival,K&H, in Washington: the biggest ballot printer in the country by volume. There’s the smallerBradford & Bigelow, in Massachusetts. There’sMagnolia,in Florida;Midwest Direct,in Ohio. Some printers exclusively do ballots, and some do ballots and other commercial products.Cathedral, in upstate New York,earns about 25 percent of its revenue by printing offering envelopes for churches (the technology transfers to ballots because offering envelopes often need to be personalized, with a thank-you for the previous year’s donation).

Inbound presents its own complications. Mail-in ballots can take a long time to count: Officials have to validate that the envelope is legitimate, then validate that the ballot is legitimate, then match a voter’s signature to the signature in her voter-registration or DMV record. Only then can they look at the vote. In a small county, a few election officials can go through 500 or 1,000 ballots by hand. In a large county, like San Diego or Los Angeles, the millions of inbound ballots must be devoured by a “tabulator” — a counting machine tuned to read the specific type of ballot that the printer has fired off. When counties upgrade their voting systems,ballot printers and tabulation vendors can team up to try to win the business.Runbeck got a contract with Georgiathis year because a tabulation company called Dominion Voting Systems won the bid and reeled them in.

>>13675699

Runbeck Dominion search

> https://cviog.uga.edu/_resources/documents/training-and-education/gavreo-conference-documents/vendor-bios.pdf

Vendor Biosfrom some Georgia Uni site with names of Dominion BIG STEAL losers

>Tom Feehan, Sr. Project Manager, Georgia

Tom joined Dominion Voting in August of 2019 to lead the Project Team in implementing the Dominion Voting solution for Georgia. As Senior Project Manager, his responsibilities include all logistics for product receiving, configuration, acceptance and delivery at the State and County level. He serves as the direct liaison with the Project Manager from the SOS office, and handles all facility management, staffing and other resourcing for the project.Prior to his arrival in Georgia, Tom was a Senior Project Manager for Clear Ballot Group with oversight of all new precinct product installations in Ohio and all audit accounts in New York State. Before that assignment, Tom was the Senior Project Manager for the Maryland State Board of Elections leading their initiative to implement paper ballot voting across the state. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Lafayette College and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

3 Scott Tucker – Customer Relations Manager As the Customer Relations Manager, Scott is the primary point of contact for the customer and works closely with the regional operations director in planning, organizing, and managing project teams in order to achieve pre-determined goals.Scott’s election experience started in 2005 working in the state of Ohio for Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. as a Regional Manager and then continued as a National Trainer with the training department. Scott returned to elections with Dominion in 2015 as the Customer Relations Manager for Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Between Scott’s elections experience he worked in various roles in the IT industry from Customer Support to IT Management.

>Beau Roberts – Customer Relations Associate

Beau joined Dominion Voting in October of 2019. In his role as Customer Relations Associate, he works closely with the Customer Relations Manager and the regional operations director in planning, organizing, and managing project teams. Beau works directly with the counties overseeing the day to day operations to ensure they receive the product support and service they need to run successful elections. Before joining Dominion Voting, Beau served 2 years as Director of Public Relations for the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office and assisted in implementation of new voting equipment. Prior to his role in Public Relations, Beau served as Confidential Assistant to the Louisiana Secretary of State. Before that assignment, Beau served as an Office Manager for one of Louisiana’s premier lobbying and government relations firms. Beau is a native of Baton Rouge, LA and graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.

>Cathi Smothers – Training Specialist

Cathi has over 30 years of experience in elections. Cathi served as Deputy Registrar for the Hamilton County, Tennessee Election Commission for nineteen years before joining the original Global Election Systems’ team in 2000. Since that time, she has supported many new system implementations and provided a full range of election support for customers in twenty states. Cathi is also classified as a senior technical specialist. Cathi has also been a member of the Project Lead Teams for the Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, and New Mexico statewide voting system installations.Cathi is currently holds a CERV certification (Certified Elections/Registration Vendor) through the Election Center’s CERA/CERV Professional Education Program.

>Mitch Keddrell – Training Specialist

Mitch has more than 10 years of election system support and implementation experience that includes assistance with statewide voting systems implementations and working with voting jurisdictions of all sizes across the United States. In his 10 years working with elections, he has managed and executed responsibilities involved with many aspects of voting system implementations and o

>>13675322

>Morning, Frenz

ur late!

>>13675646

>How long have our Votes been Hijacked by the DS?

quite a while I'd say anon

>>13675528

>Runbeck, 63 and smoothly bald, has been around elections intermittently his whole life. His first job in high school wasworking for his uncle, who had a contract to prepare punch-card ballots for the1972 Nixon-McGovern election

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>Tomorrow's the 17th :D

>>13675838

>"seals were broken…" is more interesting. That's what anons have been waiting for..unsealing

>>13675896

>[unseal]

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Runbeck in California link

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ovsta/voting-technology-vendors/runbeck-election-services