Konnech CEO Eugene Yu worked for the Chinese Communist Party
The U.S. election software CEO managed the Guangzhou Development Zone, and his Chinese subsidiary developed electronic voting systems for China's National People's Congress for nearly two decades.
Eugene Yu, the 65-year-old CEO of American election technology company Konnech, was criminally charged earlier this month for allegedly storing Los Angeles election worker data on servers in the People’s Republic of China.
Konnech develops software that manages the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Public records reveal that a Chinese election software company named Jinhua Hongzheng Technology (金华鸿正科技有限公司) uses the controversial U.S. election software company’s patents.
Hongzheng Technology operates in more than 20 provinces across China in partnership with Lenovo, Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile and specializes in providing electronic voting systems to China’s National People’s Congress.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has designated China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, and Huawei as “national security threats.”
Hongzheng Technology claims on social media that “its predecessor "Jinhua Yulian Network Technology Co., Ltd." (Konnech., Ltd) was established in November 2005.”
In other words, the Chinese company that provides electronic voting systems to the Chinese Communist Party claims it’s a byproduct of Michigan-based Konnech.
Hongzheng Technology also claims to have “more than 20 government customers in North America.”
The company’s social media features Chinese characters written below the official seals of Washington D.C., Detroit, Michigan, and St. Louis, Missouri, among other U.S. counties.
Hongzheng Technology posted Konnech’s U.S. patent (#8949745), "Device and method for selection of options by motion gestures" onto an archived “Chinese and American Patents” page on its website hongzhengtech.cn.
Eugene Yu (Okemos, MI), Jun Yu (Zhejiang), and Guojun Shao (Jinhua) invented this patent, and Konnech features the same patent in its marketing material.
Guojun Shao is a longtime software developer and employee of Konnech.
Public records show that Guojun Shao and Jun Yu are two of the seven registered owners of Hongzheng Technology.
Hongzheng Technology also posted a Chinese patent (#CN104618378A), “System and data processing method for network voting of absent electorates,” awarded to inventors Chen Wei and Shao Guojun on February 13, 2015.
Konnech Chinese subsidiary Jinhua Konnech Inc transferred the Chinese patent to Jinhua Hongzheng Technology.
Chen Wei is a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Beijing University, a member of the prestigious China Cryptography Society, a professor at Zhejiang University, and a Deputy General Manager at Hongzheng Technology.
Konnech registered “hongzhengtech.cn” for Hongzheng Technology to admin@konnech.com on July 31, 2015.
As a result, the U.S. election software company had core control over Hongzheng Technology’s website—a Chinese company partnered with Chinese telecom giants that specializes in providing electronic voting systems to the Chinese Communist Party.
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