Voting machine manufacturing company disparities« Thread Started on May 22, 2004, 11:45pm »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Harry Hope (rivrvu@ix.netcom.com)Subject: Voting machine manufacturing company bombshell This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush, alt.politicsDate: 2003-12-18 19:18:49 PST Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical failurescould cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precinctsnationwide to delete or alter votes. From The Associated Press, 12/17/03:http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.htmlCon Job at Diebold SubsidiaryAssociated Press Page 1 of 1SAN FRANCISCO --At least five convicted felons secured management positions at amanufacturer of electronic voting machines, according to criticsdemanding more stringent background checks for people responsible forvoting machine software.Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of asubsidiary of Diebold, one of the country's largest voting equipmentvendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulentstock transactions and a programmer jailed for falsifying computerrecords.The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary codeused to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice presidentof Global Election Systems, or GES.Diebold purchased GES in January 2002.According to a public court document released before GES hired him,Dean served time in a Washington state correctional facility forstealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that"involved a high degree of sophistication and planning.""You can't tell me these people passed background tests," Harris,author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, saidin a phone interview.