Ethical questions about Diebold personnel

[kster]

SNIP...Jeffrey Dean has told many conflicting stories about his legal troubles. Black Box Voting is looking into Dean’s circle of contacts because of his instant rise as an insider in U.S. elections after getting out of prison — gaining government contracts that made him a millionaire, from King County and British Columbia, and developing software used nationwide

SNIP...Dean’s involvement in elections was not publicly exposed until Dec. 16, 2003, by Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris and a candidate for Washington secretary of state, the late Andy Stephenson.* The elections involvement of Dean and four other felons and swindlers was exposed by Harris and Stephenson in a press conference on Dec. 16, 2003, with the story hitting The Associated Press that night.

SNIP...In a separate investigation in Dec. 2003, Black Box Voting investigators Harris and Stephenson had uncovered evidence that the founders of Global Election Systems were swindlers. Global Election Systems was the firm that bought Jeffrey Dean’s “Spectrum Print & Mail” operation, making Dean the largest stockholder of Global. Both Global and its subsidiary, Spectrum, were acquired by Diebold in 2002.

SNIP...On Dec. 16, 2003, harris & Stephenson broke the story of the five felons and swindlers. That night Dean’s involvement in elections made the Associated Press, a month later the Seattle Weekly, Seattle Times and the Post Intelligencer ran stories on it, the felons were mentioned in a New York Times column, and in April 2004 the story made Vanity Fair magazine. In June 2004, the now high-profile Jeffrey Dean was sent back to prison for failing to pay restitution and violating his parole.



http://freddevan.com/wordpress/2007/02/21/ethical-questions-about-diebold-personnel/

[Stevepol]

1. Tremendous post kster. For God's sake can't somebody get this to Waxman??

This stuff is incendiary. If Waxman or maybe even Kucinich could be persuaded to read this and check it out, this could blow the whole electronic voting machine scam and con game sky high.

[rumpel]

2. aha

"This ballot printing plant, using software Dean claims to have developed, handles ballot printing and mail-ballot processing for counties like King County (WA) and Los Angeles County, Fresno County, San Diego County, Alameda County (CA), and for the state of Georgia and many other locations."

"The Deans were rewarded for Jeffrey Dean’s ballot printing and election software programming work in a $4 million buyout by Global Election Systems shortly before election 2000."

"In January 2002, Diebold Inc. purchased Global Election Systems. Oddly, in a 2003 deposition, Jeffrey Dean claims that his contact with Global was always Pat Green — but Green is a Diebold employee, not a Global Election Systems employee. Yet Diebold claims it hasn’t worked with Jeffrey Dean. Since Dean began interfacing quite intimately with Global in 1998, and acquisition talks between Global and Diebold didn’t start until 2001, this indicates that:"

Now I know how far back I have to go to check to whom McCormack gave the mail-processing contract of Los Angeles County to. :mad:

I know "proprietary" voter registration software used by LA County is a wholly owned subsidiary of Diebold - let's see what other wholly owned subsidiaries handle election work.

[autorank]

3. My appologies for not getting to this sooner. I've been whelmed;)

This is outstanding. So we've got a released criminal hired by swindlers to form a pillar of the election system for thie country. What more do we need? Why hasn't anyone covered this in all the e-voting coverage. This is heavy duty, outstanding, and highly revealing.

OUTSTANDING