They program every single voting machine in New Hampshire, Connecticut, almost all of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. But did state officials in five New England states ever do a criminal background check on this company's executives? Do the laws of these five states even ALLOW them to hire convicted criminals for services paid for by the state? What about over 500 local towns and municipalities?
According to my sources, LHS Marketing and Sales Director Ken Hajjar grew up with owner John Silvestro in Lawrence, Massachusetts. They both moved to Londonderry, New Hampshire, where Ken Hajjar was arrested, indicted, and pleaded guilty to "sale / CND" and sentenced to 12 months in the Rockingham County Correctional facility, and fined $2000. As things go for the politically connected, he was then given a deferred sentence and $1000 of his fine was suspended.
Hajjar doesn't limit his involvement in the voting machine business to sales. According to an interview conducted by Brad Friedman, Hajjar totes memory cards around in the trunk of his car and defends the boggling concept of swapping out memory cards during the middle of elections.
(excerpt) Other LHS staff members we spoke with, including Mike Carlson and Tom Burge, provided similar comments. They said they would open machines up during an election and swap memory cards as needed. This is illegal under Connecticut law and Deputy Secretary Mara told us she has since informed LHS that such actions were in violation of Connecticut election laws.
In 2006, as Hajjar argued in favor of their policy to change cards during elections, I asked him about about the laws which govern chain of custody issues. His response: "I mean, I don't pay attention to every little law. It's just, it's up to the Registrars. All we are is a support organization on Election Day".
He said he had three memory cards in the trunk of his car and, in the event they had to be used, the chain of custody issues wouldn't matter since, "once you run the [pre-election] test deck through, you're golden".
Black Box Voting has sent out 10 freedom of information requests, called "right to know requests" in New Hampshire, and public records requests elsewhere.
Hajjar's conviction was in 1987, but we have asked also for complaints filed on a threat allegedly made in recent years to a New Hampshire woman, and any other reports for Hajjar or LHS owner John Silvestro.
Until recently, LHS employees were listed on the company Web site. Now the pages identifying who programs New England voting machines have been taken down.
We want to know.
We want to know exactly what the secretaries of state/commonwealth know about LHS Associates.
Did they know of Hajjar's criminal background? If so, why's he toting voting machine cards around in the trunk of his car in case they are "needed" in live elections, and if not, why not?
VOTING MACHINES - SKILLFULLY MANIPULATED - LEAVE NO EVIDENCE
The famous "Hursti Hack" of the memory card in the voting system version used in New Hampshire preloaded the card with minus and plus votes, passed the "zero test" at the beginning of the day, and after 6 no and 2 yes votes were fed through it, pronounced election totals of 7 yes and 1 no. Yes, these are the cards Hajjar totes in trunk.
Good news for the citizens of Connecticut. According to Brad Friedman, Hajjar was booted out of the state after he posted "You're full of shit" on BradBlog, a liberal political site that does kick-ass voting machine stories.
Whether Hajjar works in Connecticut or not, he works at LHS, and it is inside the Methuen, Massachusetts-based factory that the memory cards are programmed for Connecticut and the rest of New England.
I don't understnad why executive never have a background check performed, people would be shocked at how many people in power have a criminal record of some sort that might make them think twice.
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Barry Snyder (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 7:15:44 AM
And who is the nebulus "they" that Mr. Hajjar is working for or are you alleging that because of his criminal record Mr. Hajjar is working for himself? What I see presented here is a deliberate association of disparate incidents along the line of a pre-determined conclusion. Where is the motive?
I'll readily admit that I'm skeptical about your conclusions here, but I am genuinely curious as to your answers. While I wasn't overly surprised by the primary results, I found it unusual that Senator Clinton went from being "Dei Gratia Regina" in December to "Hostis Humani Generis" within the first week of January. I know that Sentaor Obama got a bump from Iowa, but a 12% bump as reported by Zogby - click here ?
I think the polling is equally suspect here, and it's common sense that dictates it too should be included in any discussion. As something totally anecdotal but associated with the articile's topic, the Clinton Campaign pushed very hard on New Hampshire voters in the few days before the election. Even I, as a registered Republican, was contacted three times by phone and once in person by Senator Clinton's people in the 48 hours that preceded the primary vote.
Couple this push with her "heartfelt" appeal to the voters on January 7th (which I think was calculated but that's immaterial) and it's conceivable that the observed results are the legitimate results. I think it naïve to think that a simple comparison of the Accuvote vs. handcount results from the primary is proof of wrongdoing. Most of the handcounting precincts tend to incvolve smaller populations. With smaller populations it's more probable that a bias in one direction over that of the surrounding area could be present.
Regarless, a thorough statistical analysis on the votes would need to be conducted to demonstrate satisfactorily that intentional wrongdoing was present. In the interim, fraud is just one of several competing theories being forwarded to explain the primary results - http://www.pollster.com/blogs/new_hampshire_so_what_happened.php .
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1707 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:17:01 AM
I'd just like to reiterate, bwaaa ha ha, bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha, bwaa ha ha ha ha ha ha, as a comment on your ludicrous and oh so often repeated demand for rigor when people point out the wrongdoing of your neocon boys.
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John Sanchez Jr. (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 1155 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 10:03:55 AM
So then you're saying the "whom" are the "neocon boys"? Do you have (a) name(s), as well as evidence at the voting locations that used Accuvotes as to "how" the votes were switched?
I thought the folks at Democracy for New Hampshire, given their pre-primary "concerns", would have monitors watching election moderators for just such wrongdoing in sample locations? And how was it that this group was so certain that the votes would be "flawed"; could it be that they were part of an "inside job" to ensure that their candidate won the primary? And all the while, through slight of word and keyboard, they've been drumming the beat of vote-rigging and implying that it was "interests" other than their own members that were at the heart of this matter (e.g., Mr. Hajjar) - http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5309 , http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5317 , and http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5308 .
Very interesting - and convenient, indeed.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1707 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 10:54:20 AM
An even bigger story in this whole cesspool (if that's possible) is the virtual shutout the minstream media is NOT pitching in regards to this story. The Straw Man story about their 'poll failure' all-too-conveniently went up just as the first reports of massive vote fraud and wholesale inconsistencies on a statewide scale started to surface. How can there BE a bigger story than this?
My point exactly! Allowing any of this story to break in the mainstream would bring down the house of cards carefully built by the party elite, with surehanded help from the folks at DIEBOLD, LHS and you friendly neighborhood network executive. Admitting the existence, let alone the possibility of voter fraud this massive and this easily implemented would shake the foundations of this Republic and forever taint the electoral process and those who benefit from it. If you need any evidence that conclusively proves that the 'FIX' is in and the television networks are controlled completely by the corrupt corporate elite, this story (or the lack thereof) is that evidence.
So- what to do now? Now is not the time for passive acceptance or being intimidated. This story MUST get out to every American across the country, lest they continue to stay asleep and dream the fuzzy dreams of sheep being led unknowingly to the slaughter. At the forefront should be the political leaders and campaigns most sleighted by this corrupt and heinous fraud. The full weight of the United States Justice system must be brought to bear, even to the point of filing an emergency brief with the Supreme Court, as this matter is of the utmost time sensitivity and importance.
Don't sit idle by as our freedoms and liberties are bought and sold off piecework by the very men and women sworn to uphold and protect them. Unless we defend our Country HERE and NOW, there soon will be nothing left worth defending.
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Thaddeus Kaczor Jr (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 32 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 5:28:27 PM
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