involved in elections, how Global Election Systems took over Dean's
company (Spectrum), and then Diebold took over Global and Spectrum,
and other information of historical significance.
- The documents also contain copies of checks forged by Jeffrey Dean.
Even Black Box Voting has not read all of these documents yet. They
are hot off the scanner and full of surprises.
AND THIS: AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED:
here are the kinds of databases that are and will be created with new
e-elections technology:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/17778.html
- Massive computerized statewide voter registration databases
- Voter identification cards and voter biometrics
- VoteRemote-style electronic signature databases
- Electronic poll check-in databases
- And proposed by some companies, databases for electronic
verification of your vote
Are there any laws at all that protect this kind of information from being
purchased by companies like Choicepoint, one of the nation's primary
resellers of personal information to homeland security, law enforcement
agents, employers, insurance agencies and direct marketing groups?
Choicepoint, according to the Atlanta Constitution and the Associated
Press, has purchased voter registration databases before. It has a
$60 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security, and
was one of the first clients to sign up with lobbyist "The Ashcroft Group"
-- run by former attorney general John Ashcroft.
Within 24 hours of publishing this story, which is about the issues that
remain to be addressed in the ethics and regulations of data-brokering
for elections information, the president of Choicepoint called Bev Harris.
In this surprising conversation, he revealed that his wife is on the board
of directors for VoteTrustUSA. He said he did not believe this needs to
be disclosed.
He pointed out that Black Box Voting erred in the article iin saying there
were ties with Choicepoint and Equifax, and Black Box Voting issued a
correction in the story to that effect.
For more information on Choicepoint, see EPIC.org:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/choicepoint/
5) This story was broken by BradBlog, and it's important:
A court has ordered a re-do of an election in Ohio, due to Diebold touch
screens recording too many votes.
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002379.htm
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