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Lou Dobbs Perez article:

December 21, 2020
Some follow-up information about the Smartmatic fact-check on Fox

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020
/12/some_followup_information_about_the_smartmatic_factcheck_on_fox_comments.html

December 21, 2020
Some follow-up information about the Smartmatic fact-check on Fox
By Andrea Widburg

Fox News aired claims by Sidney Powell and others that there's a link between Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic, which provides voting software. Because Smartmatic threatened to sue, Fox News included on Lou Dobbs's, Jeanine Pirro's, and Maria Bartiromo's shows a taped segment from Eddie Perez shooting down those claims. This post shares publicly available information about both Eddie Perez and Smartmatic.

In the first three minutes and ten seconds, you can see the Perez appearance:

Lou Dobbs describes Perez as one of the "leading authorities on open-source software for elections" and "the global director of tech development at Open Source Technology Institute." Dobbs explains, "We asked him for his assessment of Smartmatic and recent claims about the company."

Although there's a Fox Business chyron, the interview is unusual. While the camera focuses on Perez, an off-camera voice asks a series of questions that are displayed on the screen, with Perez then responding.

Perez has no firsthand knowledge. He recites information he's heard from other sources.

In January 2020, an article on congressional testimony about voting systems (including Dominion) being vulnerable to manipulation refers to a phone interview with Eddie Perez (emphasis mine):

Eddie Perez, global director of technology research and development at the OSET Institute, said in a phone interview that while it's important to get industry on record supporting increased reporting requirements, he's skeptical whether the companies plan to follow through absent federal enforcement.

He argued many of the other proposed changes discussed in the hearing would not meaningfully address the fundamental, systemic problems that plague the industry and inhibit better security practices, namely the consolidation of voting machine production across just three vendors and a plodding system for testing and certifying machines.

In November, however, Perez had this to say (emphasis mine):

There have been only a "small handful" of issues that were the result of human error involving voting technology, not the software itself, said Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan election technology research and development nonprofit.

The OSET Institute has helped monitor more than 1,000 reports of voting issues throughout the U.S. since Election Day.

Perez said he was not aware of any systemic issue related to problems with Dominion software that would affect the tabulation of results.

If you look at Perez's Twitter page, this is his pinned tweet:

His tweets — both his own tweets and his retweets — indicate that Perez is not nonpartisan; instead, he actively supports Biden's alleged win.

About Smartmatic: Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate founded Smartmatic in 1997 in Caracas, Venezuela, the year before Hugo Chávez was elected. It's now headquartered in London, and Mugica is the CEO.

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>>10164
con't.

[UPDATE: My information about Smartmatic came from Wikipedia. This is Smartmatic's statement about its origin:

The founders of Smartmatic were born in Venezuela. The company, however, was founded in Boca Raton, Florida in 2000 and still maintains its US base there. Tesla, Procter & Gamble, Kohl’s, TJ Maxx, Houzz.com, Google and many other American companies were founded by people born outside the US. A US company is still a US company, regardless of where its founders or shareholders happened to be born.]

Piñate was the COO in 2014. That's the year that Piñate and Mugica joined Smartmatic's new parent company — SGO — along with Lord Mark Malloch-Brown and Sir Nigel Knowles. Malloch-Brown was the original chairman of the board but is now president of George Soros's Open Society Foundations. The board currently consists of Piñate, Mugica, and Knowles.

At the time, he helped form SGO and joined its board, Knowles was the global CEO of DLA Piper, retiring in 2016. Doug Emhoff (Mr. Kamala) joined DLA Piper in 2017. There is no Wikipedia page for SGO. Anzola died in a plane crash in Venezuela in 2008.

In 2015, during an interview, Mark Malloch-Brown acknowledged that Smartmatic and Dominion had entered into a limited licensing agreement:

Reporter: The question on people’s minds, why is Smartmatic even still here in the Philippines after reports it had violated provisions of the election automated law. Number one for example that it was never allowed to bid in the 2010 elections because it did not actually own the software. Dominion owned the software. Dominion Voting owned the software. Plus the difficulty that they had to put the COMELEC (Commission on Elections) in order to access the source code. Issues like that. Your thoughts? People say we should not be subjected to Smartmatic again this time around.

Mark Malloch Brown: Yes, well I think that’s competitors who say that. The fact is, yes a part of our technology IS licensed from Dominion. But you tell me a large technology company which isn’t using in part licenses from other companies. And we have a license for the international use of that particular piece of the technology.

Reporter: So Mark let me just cut in there and ask you, the license issued by Dominion for you to use for proprietary software, that is a live license for you to use?

Mark Malloch Brown: Yes.

[UPDATE: This is Smartmatic's statement about its business in the Philippines:

There are no ties between Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic – plain and simple. No ownership ties, no software leasing, no business at all between them. In 2009, (that’s more than a decade ago) Smartmatic licensed scanning machines from Dominion for use in The Philippines for a Smartmatic election project. Our one contract with Dominion was short-lived and ended in a lawsuit. That was the first and last time that Smartmatic and Dominion tried to do business together.]

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The Oligarchy’s Money
Soros is largely a creature of the British-run oil spot market scheme, and got his start as a currency specula-
tor, a role which would not have been possible had not President Richard Nixon, under the sway of British agent George Shultz, ended FDR’s Bretton Woods
system of fixed currency rates in 191. As a fund man-
ager, Soros depends upon the money of others, and that money comes largely from networks around the Roth-
schild banking apparatus and, according to our sources, the British Royal Family. Far from being a self-made man, he is a façade, a face behind which the imperial dirty-money specialists can operate out of the public eye.
Soros displayed his character defects as a young man in Nazi-occupied Hungary, when, a Jew himself, he helped the fascists confiscate the estates of wealthy Jews. He moved to Britain in 19 to escape the Sovi-
ets, and, during the early 190s, studied at the London School of Economics, where he was molded into an im-
perial stooge, studying under Austrian-born Sir Karl Popper, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies. Ultimately, Soros named his major operation against Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 35, Number 36, September 12, 2008
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nation-states the Open Society Institute (there have been as many as 20 separate OSIs in different nations since the 1990s).
After an apprenticeship at the City of London mer-
chant bank Singer & Friedlander, Soros moved to the United States and became an arbitrager and analyst on Wall Street; he then spent a decade at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, where, in 199, he headed his first fund. Thus trained, he left Bleichroeder and created his own Quantum Fund, in 193.
The timing of this move is indicative of the way So-
ros’s career has been shaped by his controllers, as 193 was also the year of the first great oil hoax, and the cre-
ation of the spot market in crude oil. The spot market was designed to allow financial speculation in oil prices, and resulted in huge amounts of “petrodollars” piling up in the banks of the City of London and other banking centers. A portion of those petrodollars, along with nar-
codollars and other hot money, was directed into the coffers of Soros Fund Management.
Soros’s big break came in 1992, when he bet heavily against the British pound and won, making a reported $1 billion when the pound fell and was taken out of the European Community’s Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). Soros was lionized as “the man who broke the Bank of England,” but the operation was actually run by the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and sev-
eral big—and quite bankrupt—banks. The operation served the Brits by pulling the pound out of the ERM, and the profits from this market manipulation helped bail out the bankrupt banks.
But most of all, his accounts fattened by over $1 billion, courtesy of the British, Soros promptly di-
rected about $100 million of it to operations in Moscow, in December 1992, through the Soros Foun-
dation and the Open Society Institute. From the Moscow base, working with Malloch Brown, Soros imposed the brutal “free market” economics that looted Russia. He parceled out tranches of $2 mil-
lion, or $0 million in renewable loans, and grants to Macedonia and Bosnia, setting up the conditions for permanent ethnic wars and destabilizations. Ulti-
mately, Soros was kicked out of Russia, Croatia, Be-
larus, and other former East Bloc countries, for his dirty operations.

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Soros and the Foreign Office
In 200, Lord Mark Malloch Brown returned to his British mother, after decades of being sheep-dipped in international institutions: the World Bank, the UN, and before that, a somewhat notorious public relations com-
pany, Sawyer Miller in New York.
Today, Malloch Brown’s position in the Foreign Office, has led to criticism that he has “lorded it over”`
Foreign Secretary David Miliband and received far higher perks than his boss, such as a residence worth about £ million. To take the job, Malloch Brown had to leave his highly lucrative position as vice president of the Quantum Fund!
Soros and Malloch Brown have been at it—destabi-
lizing countries and installing British operatives—since at least 198, according to the book Alpha Dogs, by London Times Editor James Harding. Harding describes how Malloch Brown boasts of having overthrown Phil-
ippines President Ferdinand Marcos, by representing Corazon Aquino for President. After that, Malloch Brown decided to try the same tactics in Chile—but with George Soros’s money.
“Through the summer of 198, Mark Malloch Brown was in discussions with George Soros, the hedge fund manager who was just getting known for his support of insurgent democracy movements around the world,” writes Harding, about Soros’s financing of a weak, squabbling grouping of Chilean opposition figures.
In 1993, Soros hired Malloch Brown to handle an initial $0 million grant to Bosnia, the country that had been torn to shreds in the British-run war of the early 1990s.
But the Soros-Malloch Brown duo grabbed the crown jewel in 2003-0, when they put the money up to install Mikhail Saakashvili as “democratic” dictator of Georgia, even providing millions of dollars to pay the salaries of Saakashvili, his Cabinet, security officers, and police!
Now, after British puppet Saakashvili’s invasion of South Ossetia, Malloch Brown is at the center of the British drive to sanction Russia for responding to Saakashvili’s invasion, which the Empire ap-
proved.
In assessing Soros, it is useful to keep in mind that corruption and chaos within nation-states serve the goals of the British Empire. This is emphatically the case with one major track of Soros’s activity, legalizing drugs—a subject too extensive for this short review, but which will be a feature of follow-up articles. The Brit-
ish policy is genocide, and Soros is a great practitioner of the policy.

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>>10162
Philip Stark et al v US EAC

==PHILIP STARK ET AL V. UNITED STATES ELECTION ASSISTANCE
COMMISSION==
Fighting capture of election regulators by voting machine manufacturers.'

Philip Stark, a federally appointed advisor to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC"), and Free Speech For People filed a federal lawsuit against the EAC. The lawsuit alleges that the EAC violated the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (“HAVA”), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act ("FACA") by unlawfully holding private meetings with voting machine vendors to discuss proposed federal voting system standards after the closure of the public notice and comment period. These meetings resulted in the EAC revising the federal voting system standards to weaken voting system security requirements, to the benefit of voting system manufacturers. The material revisions were released mere days before the Commission voted to approve the standards, without proper notice and comment procedure required by law.
The lawsuit seeks to establish that the meetings between the EAC and voting machine manufacturers violated federal law. It seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, asking the court to hold unlawful and to set aside those provisions in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (“WSG”) 2.0 that were negotiated directly with voting machine manufacturers in an unlawful, nonpublic, proceeding. This lawsuit seeks to ensure that the WSG 2.0 contains only those provisions that were established through lawful procedures, pursuant to the principles of transparency and open government.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/philip-stark-et-al-v-united-states-election-assistance-commission/

https://gcn.com/articles/2020/01/10/voting-equipment-security-requirements.aspx

EDDIE PEREZ says something different about voting system integrity in this article than he does on Lou Dobbs FOX
1-10-2020

....
Eddie Perez, global director of technology research and development at the OSET Institute, said in a phone interview that while it's important to get industry on record supporting increased reporting requirements, he's skeptical whether the companies plan to follow through absent federal enforcement.

He argued many of the other proposed changes discussed in the hearing would not meaningfully address the fundamental, systemic problems that plague the industry and inhibit better security practices, namely the consolidation of voting machine production across just three vendors and a plodding system for testing and certifying machines.

"I would have preferred to have heard more questions that press upon the status quo, because the fundamentals of the market today, supported by current policies of the [Election Assistance Commission] and in particular implementation of its certification program, those are big part of the reason why voting infrastructure is suffering," he said.

While many new voting machines have come on the market over the past two decades, virtually all of them were designed to system standards developed by the EAC in 2005. The agency is working on updated standards, but they will almost certainly not be in place this year as states look to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in new federal grant funding to update their voting machines.

Perez said he was worried states would end up simply repeating the mistakes of the past.

"The real danger is that in the absence of any more significant change, Congress and EAC and the vendors are just going to hit the reset button on 10 more years of dysfunction in continuance of the last decade's problems," he said.

On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian eVoting Firm Dominion Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez Ties in Announcement
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-on-heels-of-die_b_620084
Brad Friedman
06/22/2010 02:17 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017- but don't know what the update is

Very detailed article on Dominion and its acquisition of Diebold/Premier from ES&S (2010) and Sequoia of historic interest. Emphasizes the growing hegemonic influence of Dominion, even in 2010.

One amusing fact: Dominion's spokesman is Chris Riggall.

Most important statment: ‘Intellectual Property’ of voting systems still owned by firm linked to Venezuelan President, despite press statement to the contrary.

PLUS: The election official/e-voting company revolving ‘oversight’ door continues to turn...

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/delian-project-democracy-through-technology


The DELIAN Project: Democracy through Technology
Commitment by DELIAN Project

In 2014, Dominion Voting committed to providing emerging and post-conflict democracies with access to voting technology through its philanthropic support to the DELIAN Project, as many emerging democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of election results. Over the next three years, Dominion Voting will support election technology pilots with donated Automated Voting Machines (AVM), providing an improved electoral process, and therefore safer elections. As a large number of election staff are women, there will be an emphasis on training women, who will be the first to benefit from the skills transfer training and use of AVMs. It is estimated that 100 women will directly benefit from election technology skills training per pilot election.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/delian-project-democracy-through-technology


The DELIAN Project: Democracy through Technology
Commitment by DELIAN Project

In 2014, Dominion Voting committed to providing emerging and post-conflict democracies with access to voting technology through its philanthropic support to the DELIAN Project, as many emerging democracies suffer from post-electoral violence due to the delay in the publishing of election results. Over the next three years, Dominion Voting will support election technology pilots with donated Automated Voting Machines (AVM), providing an improved electoral process, and therefore safer elections. As a large number of election staff are women, there will be an emphasis on training women, who will be the first to benefit from the skills transfer training and use of AVMs. It is estimated that 100 women will directly benefit from election technology skills training per pilot election.

THE PCR TEST & THE PINEAL GLAND

Astrid Stuckelberger questions whether they are using the PCR test to paralyze the pineal gland.

The pineal gland was described as the "Seat of the Soul" by Ren� Descartes (French 17th Century philosopher) and it is located in the center of the brain. The main function of the pineal gland is to receive information about the state of the light-dark cycle from the environment and convey this information to produce and secrete the hormone melatonin - which is giving humans senses and sensibilities. Reducing or eliminating these unique capacities, makes us humans vulnerable to "robotization".

If there wasn't a deeper agenda behind the PCR-test, she says there wouldn't be a need to stick a test-swab deep into your sinuses where it touches a thin membrane that separates the sinus cavity from your brain. A saliva sample would be enough.

Dr. Stuckelberger also mentions the plan of nano-chips being implanted with the mRNA-type gene-therapy.

"TRANSHUMANS"

https://henrymakow.com/2021/06/stickleberger-you-are-being-chipped.html

The Dominion software story keeps getting worse
https://www.sott.net/article/444391-The-Dominion-software-story-keeps-getting-worse

Dominion software's reputation for reliability may have taken another hit with the claim that Eric Coomer, a vice president and dominion, and the person in charge of the software's security, is an Antifa supporter and Trump hater. This information is disturbing when added to the way in which the software churned out impossible pro-Biden results in the wee hours of November 4 in Democrat-run states following a Trump wave.

Wikipedia has deleted most of Dominion's history. I visited the page a few days ago and read about its origins in Venezuela. If you go to the Wikipedia page today, that history is gone and, in its place are accusations against QAnon. At the "view history" page, you can see dozens of recent changes since the election. The primary editor - Molly White - is a recent college grad and bisexual leftist.

These changes, along with endless "fact checks" from leftist media outlets keep burying ever more deeply the history behind Dominion. However, that history is worth dredging up because it goes a long way to explaining where we are now.

As a predicate, remember that the system is so vulnerable to hacking that, in January 2020, Texas's Secretary of State refused to certify it:

The examiner reports identified multiple hardware and software issues that preclude the Office of the Texas Secretary of State from determining that the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system satisfies each of the voting-system requirements set forth in the Texas Election Code. Specifically, the examiner reports raise concerns about whether the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system is suitable for its intended purpose; operates efficiently and accurately; and is safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation. Therefore, the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system and corresponding hardware devices do not meet the standards for certification prescribed by Section 122.001 of the Texas Election Code.

Texas is right to be suspicious. In testimony before the Democrat-run House this past January, Dominion was one of the three voting system companies (the other two were ES&S and Hart InterCivic) that "acknowledged they relied on Chinese-made gear":

Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos and Hart InterCivic President Julie Mathis said their companies use Chinese-made LCD screen components, chip capacitors and resistors, arguing that in some cases there's no option for manufacturing those parts in the United States.

(Incidentally, in a January interview about that same congressional testimony, Eddie Perez, of the OSET Intitution, said that the voting systems (including Dominion) are systemic security problems. Last week, though, he told AP, "he was not aware of any systemic issue related to problems with Dominion software that would affect the tabulation of results." Hmmm.)

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Dominion also has ties to the Clinton Foundation through its DELIAN project, and to Nancy Pelosi, whose aide is Dominion's D.C. lobbyist. Dominion has also been tied to numerous cases of election fraud.

During a recent appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight, super lawyer Sidney Powell, one of the smartest people in America, had a great deal to say about Dominion's origins and reliability. Pay special attention to the video Dobbs plays before introducing Powell, because that will be your introduction to Dominion Vice President Eric Coomer:



Puppet Masters
Attention
The Dominion software story keeps getting worse
Andrea Widburg
American Thinker
Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:49 UTC
Dominion voting
Dominion software's reputation for reliability may have taken another hit with the claim that Eric Coomer, a vice president and dominion, and the person in charge of the software's security, is an Antifa supporter and Trump hater. This information is disturbing when added to the way in which the software churned out impossible pro-Biden results in the wee hours of November 4 in Democrat-run states following a Trump wave.

Wikipedia has deleted most of Dominion's history. I visited the page a few days ago and read about its origins in Venezuela. If you go to the Wikipedia page today, that history is gone and, in its place are accusations against QAnon. At the "view history" page, you can see dozens of recent changes since the election. The primary editor - Molly White - is a recent college grad and bisexual leftist.

These changes, along with endless "fact checks" from leftist media outlets keep burying ever more deeply the history behind Dominion. However, that history is worth dredging up because it goes a long way to explaining where we are now.

As a predicate, remember that the system is so vulnerable to hacking that, in January 2020, Texas's Secretary of State refused to certify it:

The examiner reports identified multiple hardware and software issues that preclude the Office of the Texas Secretary of State from determining that the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system satisfies each of the voting-system requirements set forth in the Texas Election Code. Specifically, the examiner reports raise concerns about whether the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system is suitable for its intended purpose; operates efficiently and accurately; and is safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation. Therefore, the Democracy Suite 5.5-A system and corresponding hardware devices do not meet the standards for certification prescribed by Section 122.001 of the Texas Election Code.

Texas is right to be suspicious. In testimony before the Democrat-run House this past January, Dominion was one of the three voting system companies (the other two were ES&S and Hart InterCivic) that "acknowledged they relied on Chinese-made gear":

Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos and Hart InterCivic President Julie Mathis said their companies use Chinese-made LCD screen components, chip capacitors and resistors, arguing that in some cases there's no option for manufacturing those parts in the United States.

(Incidentally, in a January interview about that same congressional testimony, Eddie Perez, of the OSET Intitution, said that the voting systems (including Dominion) are systemic security problems. Last week, though, he told AP, "he was not aware of any systemic issue related to problems with Dominion software that would affect the tabulation of results." Hmmm.)

Dominion also has ties to the Clinton Foundation through its DELIAN project, and to Nancy Pelosi, whose aide is Dominion's D.C. lobbyist. Dominion has also been tied to numerous cases of election fraud.

During a recent appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight, super lawyer Sidney Powell, one of the smartest people in America, had a great deal to say about Dominion's origins and reliability. Pay special attention to the video Dobbs plays before introducing Powell, because that will be your introduction to Dominion Vice President Eric Coomer:


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In the same hearing, Sharon Meroni stated that, when Coomer was asked who could make these changes to the software, Coomer allegedly replied that "vendors, election officials, and others who need to be granted access," could do so. Coomer, who was present when she repeated his words, did not object.

There's also an allegation that Coomer, a UC Berkeley grad, is more than just the Veep of a company that has an easily hackable software system and strong Democrat ties. Joe Oltman, a tech company CEO, contends that he located Eric Coomer's Facebook account before the latter shut it down, and that it was a far left feast:

According to Oltmann, Coomer's now-deleted Facebook posts include his sharing songs tilted "Dead Cops," "Dead Prez," and "ACAB." One post of particular interest is a long "statement" from Antifa he shared in June in response to President Trump declaring Antifa a terrorist organization.

Twitter suspended Oltman's account, so there's no way to view his tweets in their original form. Either he was committing slander, which is possible, or Twitter is doing its level best to clean up Coomer's allegedly compromised history, which is equally possible. You can see the alleged posts here, but please keep in mind that there is, as yet, no proof that they came from the Eric Coomer who works at Dominion.

Oltman has also gone on the record saying that, at an Antifa meeting he infiltrated, "Eric from Dominion," allegedly said "Don't worry about the election. Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that." This person may not be Eric Coomer, but Oltman seems to be pretty sure that it is the same "Eric."


Comment: It's not just that. Peter Neffenger, who is on Biden's transition team, is chairman of the board for Smartmatic, which Rudy Giuliani has claimed owns Dominion through a subsidiary, that Dominion uses Smartmatic software, and that Dominion voting data gets sent back to Smartmatic. Smartmatic denies all such connections. They have been denying such connections for years. But their denials seem at best misleading.

According to a HuffPo investigation:

According to the Huffington Post — in an exclusive report that revealed the relationship between Smartmatic, Sequoia and Dominion — "The 'intellectual property' of the voting systems (of Sequoia, acquired by Dominion) remains the property of the company linked to the Venezuelan president (Smartmatic and Hugo Chávez), despite the rather misleading press statement" issued by Dominion in 2010.

The report mentions, among many other details, that the intellectual property "of most/almost all of Sequoia's voting systems was actually secretly owned by the firm Smartmatic", linked to Chavism and the numerous electoral fraud scandals in Venezuela.

According to this report, Dominion provided Smartmatic with PCOS machines used in the 2010 Philippine election. Their agreement was terminated in 2012. As for Sequoia, Smartmatic acquired it in 2005. Dominion then acquired Sequoia in 2010 (purchasing "inventory and all intellectual property"). Dominion itself is the rebirth of Diebold (Dominion bought its assets). Needless to say, the voting machine industry seems quite incestuous.

Trump lawyers Powell and Giuliani are making what media appearances they can. Here are the most recent:


See also:

Hammer and Scorecard: Big Tech's drive to end democracy
Soros-linked voting machines cause concern over rigging of future presidential election
Voting tech company Smartmatic used in 16 states has deep ties to Soros
Surprise! George Soros and his Open Society network are all over Kenya's elections

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Anonymous 08/10/21 (Tue) 08:22:44 aa3d44 No.81073 >>81090 >>81122 >>81126
there are GRAPHICS with this - find them

INFO ON UBS AG & CHINA

In 1964, UBS was the first Switzerland-based bank to establish a presence in the Asia Pacific region, primarily through its wealth management business.

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/our-firm/apac/_jcr_content/mainpar/toplevelgrid/col1/innergrid/xcol2/linklist/link_1301793348.0433125927.file/bGluay9wYXRoPS9jb250ZW50L2RhbS9ob21lcGFnZXMvc2VjdGlvbnMvZ2xvYmFsL2RvY3VtZW50cy9jaGluYS1mYWN0c2hlZXQucGRm/china-factsheet.pdf

UBS has provided corporate finance advice to Chinese enterprises since 1985.

UBS is the first foreign bank that was allowed to have a fully-licensed securities joint venture in China.

This facilitator of the deal is Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan, who is deemed the most finance-savvy Communist official. He was the mayor of Beijing in 2006 when he met with UBS’s then-chairman Marcel Ospel.

According to Chinese company profiling website Qixin, after the 2020 election, the Beijing UBS went through a major leadership turnover on Nov. 30.

One day before Lin Wood’s tweet about UBS, 12 out of its 15 board of directors quit including Ye Xiang.

Another who just quit the board is Cheng Yixun. The former CEO of UBS’s Beijing-based subsidiary and an expert hired in the Chinese Communist Party’s “Thousand Talents Program.”

https://irvinejournal.com/News/2908

The rest you know.

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$400 Million SEC Filing Links Dominion, UBS, and China

admin 2020.12.05 15:52 Views : 7055

Attorney Lin Wood claimed on Dec. 1 that communist China purchased Dominion Voting for $400 million dollars. Wood published a link to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, showing Dominion Voting Systems’ parent company receiving $400 million dollars from a Swiss bank subsidiary.

The transaction itself does not directly show what the attorney alleges it to be. However, it does show ties between the voting software company and the Chinese regime.

The transaction happened less than a month before the election.

According to a press release, the party that received the money, Staple Street Capital, acquired Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.

The acquirer calls itself a New York-based, middle-market private equity firm.

The party that paid the money is UBS Securities LLC, a subsidiary of Swiss investment bank UBS.

But UBS is not necessarily the eventual buyer in the transaction.

As an investment firm, it could have just served as a middleman, selling partnership interests of State Street Capital to UBS clients or holding it on behalf of clients through its prime broker.

So how is this related to the Chinese Communist Party?

In another Twitter post, Lin Wood claims the Chinese regime is the majority shareholder of the middleman UBS securities.

Through state entities, China does own much stock of UBS’s Beijing-based subsidiary. But the subsidiary’s name is UBS Securities Co. Ltd, whereas the entity sending money to Dominion is UBS Securities LLC, which is based in New York.

The New York subsidiary is a private firm so its shareholders’ information is not open to the public.

However, a closer look into the New York subsidiary shows that among four of its board members, who are appointed by shareholders, three appear to be Chinese.

One of them is Ye Xiang, a Chinese national who also served as a board member of the Beijing-based UBS subsidiary.

The person worked at the Chinese regime’s central bank, the state-owned Bank of China, as well as the Hong Kong government’s financial regulatory agencies.

UBS is the first foreign bank that was allowed to have a fully-licensed securities joint venture in China’s very restricted financial market.

This facilitator of the deal is Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan, who is deemed the most finance-savvy Communist official. He was the mayor of Beijing in 2006 when he met with UBS’s then-chairman Marcel Ospel.

According to Chinese company profiling website Qixin, after the 2020 election, the Beijing UBS went through a major leadership turnover on Nov. 30.

One day before Lin Wood’s tweet about UBS, 12 out of its 15 board of directors quit including Ye Xiang.

Another who just quit the board is Cheng Yixun. The former CEO of UBS’s Beijing-based subsidiary and an expert hired in the Chinese Communist Party’s “Thousand Talents Program.”

The U.S. senate deems the program a threat to U.S. national security.

According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, UBS is among the major western banks that played a key role as middlemen in helping Chinese communist officials set up trusts and companies at offshore centers usually associated with hidden wealth.

The SEC filing shows only two transactions related to Dominion’s parent company. Both are from UBS’s New York subsidiary. Other than the $400 million transaction in October. Dominion received $200 million from UBS in 2014.

In a previous voter fraud lawsuit filed by Sidney Powell, a former military intelligence official claims in an affidavit that Chinese operatives had access to Dominion Voting Systems in several key states


https://irvinejournal.com/News/2908

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March 12, 2021
UBS looks to raise stake to 67% in mainland China joint venture

By Reuters Staff

HONG KONG, March 12 (Reuters) - UBS Group is moving to increase ownership in its Chinese securities joint venture to 67%, as two local partners put their stakes up for sale, an exchange filing shows.

Guangdong Provincial Communication Group and China Energy Investment Corp, which currently owns 14.01% and 1.99% of the joint venture, will auction their entire holdings, filings on the China Beijing Equity Exchanges showed.

The exchange did not name the potential bidders, but UBS said the auctions will result in UBS holding 67% of the JV if the deal is done.

“China is a key market for UBS. The further opening up of China’s financial sector represents great opportunities for all of our China businesses, including wealth and asset management, and investment bank,” UBS said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

“We are committed to the China market and will continue to invest strategically. Our further stake interest in UBS Securities demonstrates such commitment.”

UBS was the first bank to move to majority control of 51% in November 2018 after foreign banks were allowed to take larger stakes in their joint ventures.

Majority or full ownership could make it easier for foreign banks to expand their operations in the multi-trillion-dollar Chinese financial sector.

Goldman Sachs has applied for 100% ownership of its operations and JP Morgan owns 71% of its operations.

Morgan Stanley has been touted as the buyer of a 39% stake that its joint venture partner Shanghai Chinafortune Co will sell in Morgan Stanley Huaxin Securities that would take the U.S. bank’s ownership to 90%. (Reporting by Scott Murdoch in Hong Kong and Samuel Shen in Shanghai; editing by Jason Neely)

https://www.reuters.com/article/ubs-group-china/ubs-looks-to-raise-stake-to-67-in-mainland-china-joint-venture-idUSL4N2LA2G1

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/about_ubs/about_us/history/ubs-and-the-world.html

from qresear.ch

BAIN capital and UBS AG
DIG

from qresear.ch:
dig of Ghislaine shows links to UBS.

#7019512 at 2019-07-12 23:57:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8981: Bakers Union REEEing Through The Night And Into The Day Edition!

>>7019231
Notice that Ghislaine Maxwell was/is using UBS Bank.
It's a SWISS BANK, anons
Falls under the legendary Swiss banking laws

Thought that was curious, so I did a little side dig on UBS Bank before diving into TerraMar's 2017 990 forms.

Company history (what a handy interactive timeline)
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/about_ubs/about_us/history/ubs-and-the-world.html

Wiki:
"UBS Group AG[nb 1] is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution in the world. UBS client services are known for their strict bank-client confidentiality and culture of banking secrecy."

Not just "a" Swiss bank, basically the largest:
"During the early 2000s, the commensurate rise of UBS and Credit Suisse established a legally-sanctioned oligopoly on Swiss private market activity."

Holy shit:

"Apart from private banking, UBS provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services for private, corporate, and institutional clients with international service. UBS manages the largest amount of private wealth in the world, counting approximately half of the world's billionaires among its clients. Despite its trimming of sell side operations, UBS is among the world's nine "Bulge Bracket" investment banks and is considered a global primary market maker.

The bank also maintains numerous underground bank vaults, bunkers, and storage facilities for gold bars around the Swiss Alps and internationally.

Partly due to its banking secrecy, it has been at the center of numerous tax avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian authorities. UBS operations in Switzerland and the United States were ranked first and second, respectively, on the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index."

Hmm. I wonder if White Hats have managed to get their hands on Ghislaine's OTHER accounts at UBS.

Switching gears a little bit, now to the company logo.
"Therefore, UBS is no longer an acronym but is the company's brand. Its logo of three keys, carried over from SBC, stands for the company's values of confidence, security, and discretion."
Everybody remembers what OTHER entity uses a logo with crossed keys? The similarity is remarkable, huh?

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>>10345

The natural impulse to wonder what they were doing during WWII led to a company history dig. UBS had most of the assets of the entire nation of Switzerland at one point:

"The activities of the Union Bank of Switzerland during World War II were not publicly known until decades after the war, when it was demonstrated that UBS likely took active roles in trading stolen gold, securities, and other assets during World War II.[87][88] The issue of "unclaimed property" of Holocaust victims became a major issue for UBS in the mid-1990s, and a series of revelations in 1997 brought the issue to the forefront of national attention in 1996 and 1997.[89] UBS confirmed that a large number of accounts had gone unclaimed as a result of the bank's policy of requiring death certificates from family members to claim the contents of the account.[90][91] UBS's handling of these revelations were largely criticized and the bank received significant negative attention in the U.S.[92][93] UBS came under significant pressure, particularly from American politicians, to compensate Holocaust survivors who were making claims against the bank.[94]"

Assets including gold stashed in bunkers in Switzerland, confirmed.
I have personally stood outside a heavy metal door in the side of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland, just outside Lucerne. The Alps are RIDDLED with caves, including some with weapons dating back decades (there is a Rick Steves' Travel episode where he is shown visiting one, and trying out an anti-aircraft gun emplacement)

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Jordan Esten Promoted to CEO of Clear Ballot
Founder Larry Moore continues his role as Board Member
Clear Ballot

NEWS PROVIDED BY
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Sep 06,2018,10:51 ET
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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2018/PRNewswire/ — Clear Ballot announced today that Jordan Esten, who joined Clear Ballot in 2012 and was previously Clear Ballot's Chief Operating Officer, is the company's new Chief Executive Officer. Larry Moore remains on the board.

Moore founded Clear Ballot in 2009 and has built the company into a rapidly growing leader in elections. Esten joined Clear Ballot in 2012, with responsibility for sales, marketing, customer success and operations. He has played a pivotal role in the company's growth and success. He has been Chief Operating Officer since 2015.

"My goal is to provide election administrators the technology they need to run modern and efficient elections," said Moore. "Jordan has been instrumental to the company's product and market expansion, so at this exciting time of growth, it feels right to pass the leadership of the company on to him. I am looking forward to seeing Jordan guide the company to its very promising future."


Clear Ballot has sustained an annual growth rate of more than 100% over the last three years. There has been an increased interest and demand across all products - our audit solution, vote-by-mail, and precinct solutions.

• Clear Ballot began providing audit as an election service in 2012. The company has since expanded, and now offers election audit services to counties across Florida, New York and the whole state of Vermont and Maryland.

• In 2015 the company introduced its vote-by-mail voting system, which led to continued growth in counties across Oregon. The company then expanded to Washington, where we continue to work with more election officials to strengthen the integrity in election administration. More than 60% of Oregon and Washington now vote with Clear Ballot. In 2017, the company expanded its vote-by-mail solution to Colorado.

• In February of 2018 the ClearVote system, including its precinct tabulation solution was federally certified by the EAC. The approval from the Commission opened the door for Clear Ballot to attain state certification in Wisconsin and Ohio. Clear Ballot ran its first precinct election in Sheboygan, Wisconsin August 2018.

"Clear Ballot is at an inflection point and I'm excited to lead our team as we transition from early growth to rapid scaling," said Esten. "We have a tremendous customer base that we partner closely with to drive innovation in elections. We continue to attract new employees with experience in the latest technologies that want to apply these new techniques to something incredibly meaningful. We plan to expand our team to facilitate this growth and to drive continuous improvement for our customers."


About Clear Ballot:

Clear Ballot is a U.S. based company and a leader in election innovation. We have introduced a new class of tools and a modern approach to voting, enabling record speed, accuracy, and transparency that officials and the voting public have asked for. Designed for ease-of-use, Clear Ballot's browser-based software, used in conjunction with commercially available scanning hardware, scales to election jurisdictions of all sizes, and responds directly to the budgetary realities of counties and municipalities. Our election technology is certified for use in six states, and received U.S. EAC certification in February 2018.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jordan-esten-promoted-to-ceo-of-clear-ballot-300708143.html



How did this company go from being an "audit" service to providing full-fledged mail-in ballot systems that work well enough that big cities like NYC and Seattle would use them?

>>10315
>Guangdong Provincial Communication Group and China Energy Investment Corp, which currently owns 14.01% and 1.99% of the joint venture, will auction their entire holdings

ZERO mention of whether this deal went through or not.

If it did, would we know?

Sept 26, 2021 search shows just the attempt last March.

https://t.me/GarrettMichaelZiegler/2928

[In reply to Garrett Ziegler]
[ Photo ]
Look at the language in this graphic. It means that liberty-loving Latins figured this out before Americans did. And look at the right side of the screen...what is that? Olivetti! That's an Italian surname, isn't it? Did you know that Olivetti actually built the hardware for the first electronic "voting" machines? Now you do. Bizta did the software, Smartmatic sub-contracted out the hardware to Olivetti, who in turn actually made the damn things.

>>10404

https://t.me/GarrettMichaelZiegler/2926

10/29/2006
🙃

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html

https://t.me/GarrettMichaelZiegler/2930
[In reply to Garrett Ziegler]
[ Photo ]
This dude is absolutely central to the theft of your vote. Would bet my life on it.

https://t.me/GarrettMichaelZiegler/2931

[In reply to Garrett Ziegler]
Eric Coomer knows this dude. He's literally listed on a patent w him. Wonder why we cannot forget about Coomer?

"Eric from Dominion": "Oh, don't worry about Trump winning. He won't—I made f'n sure of that!"

LOOP Capital

>>10407
there more from Ziegler on the ITALIAN connection - see telegram thread

probably Marco Polo thread too

On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian eVoting Firm Dominion Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez Ties in Announcement
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exclusive-on-heels-of-die_b_620084

06/22/2010 02:17 pm ET --Updated Dec 06, 2017--
- but don't know what the update is

Very detailed article on Dominion and its acquisition of Diebold/Premier from ES&S (2010) and Sequoia of historic interest. Emphasizes the growing hegemonic influence of Dominion, even in 2010.

One amusing fact: Dominion's spokesman is Chris Riggall.

Most important stat3ment:
‘Intellectual Property’ of voting systems still owned by firm linked to Venezuelan President, despite press statement to the contrary.

PLUS: The election official/e-voting company revolving ‘oversight’ door continues to turn...

ALSO: Dirt on Edwin Barkley Smith.

Credit Suisse Settles Spying Case With Former Wealth Chief Khan

Credit Suisse Group AG said it reached a settlement with its former wealth-management executive Iqbal Khan and a private detective firm, calling to a close a spying scandal that rocked one of Europe’s biggest lenders and ultimately led to the ouster of its chief executive officer Tidjane Thiam last year.

“All involved parties have agreed to settle, and this matter is now closed,” a spokesperson for the bank said on Sunday, confirming that it had reached a settlement with Khan, his wife and the private detective firm Investigo. No further details were disclosed. A probe by Swiss financial regulator, Finma, over the company’s surveillance activities is ongoing. In 2019, Credit Suisse hired a private investigator to spy on Khan, once seen as a potential successor to the CEO before defecting to rival UBS Group AG. The incident culminated in a physical confrontation in downtown Zurich between Khan and the men who followed him, shaking Switzerland’s financial world and setting off investigations by Zurich’s prosecutor and the company’s board of directors. The settlement would close a chapter for Credit Suisse as it seeks to move past a string of recent scandals. It faces an exodus of senior bankers after the collapse of Archegos Capital Management and Greensill Capital. In the aftermath, new chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio pledged a review of the bank’s businesses.

Credit Suisse is set to report its second-quarter earnings on July 29.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/credit-suisse-settles-spying-case-with-former-wealth-chief-khan-1.1632774

right in front of earnings release......

https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/775

Wow! Looks like the CCP may have been using the Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA to steal US aerospace technology for years!

And, would you look at that - Leonardo SpA also happens to be in business with the same UBS Securities that infused $400 million into Staple Street Capital (owner of Dominion Voting Systems) just three weeks before the 2020 presidential election!

Makes you wonder - why is there an Italian affidavit alleging that Leonardo SpA's Head of IT Arturo D'Elia admitted to taking part in a cyber hack of the 2020 election❓

Full Report:
www.marcopolo.guru
>>10422

https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/463
[ Photo ]
You think they ever cross the street and have lunch together❓

* Clinton Global Initiative
* Staple Street Capital
* UBS Asset Mgmt Co

Following the 2020 election, Chris Krebs of CISA issued a statement saying the election was the most safe and secure in history. Oddly, this letter, from the government agency in charge of election security, was co-authored by several voting machine manufacturers, who it turns out, sit on the board of advisers for CISA. How did this arrangement happen? Article 5 provides the answer.

https://t.me/praying_medic/3554

Relevant part of Article 5:

Summary of article:

When CISA was created in 2018, an Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council was created - the EISCC. Made up of members of the private sector, not the govt. What does this mean?

Turns out the INFRASTRUCTURE = companies that make voting systems like DOMINION and SMARTMATIC:

"the members of the EISCC are the actual election infrastructure owners and operators, and they handle the physical security along with the cybersecurity through their own “voluntary actions”."

"They “coordinate with the DHS to develop, recommend, and review sector-wide plans, procedures, and effective practices in support of infrastructure protection, including training, education, and implementation”. They also “make recommendations to appropriate authorities to mitigate impediments to effective critical infrastructure security”."

At the end of the article is a discussion all about Staple St Capital/UBS Securities LLC (Chinese subsidiary of UBS from Switzerland).

THE FOXES SMARTMATIC, DOMINION, CLEARBALLOT ARE GUARDING THE HENHOUSE BIGTIME.

Dominion's ERIC COOMER on him making EFFIN SURE that Trump wouldnt win
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fAsOj34fMow [Embed]

Joe Oltmann talking to Gateway Pundit

CLIP:
Joe:
end of Sept 2020
Sept 27?
They were trying to infiltrate ANTIFA in C Spring and Denver.
Wasn't looking for Eric Coomer.
It was only after the election that he knew who Coomer was.
On the call, someone says "Eric is the Dominion guy.
Don't worry about the election, Trump is not gonna win. I made effin fure of it."

From gateway pundit: Joe Ottman

#11726426 at 2020-11-21, Q Research General #14968
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YTz_jeuuK68 [Embed]

In March 2020 the Chicago Election Board Approved Providing Remote Access to Dominion for the 2020 Election - How Many Other Election Boards Did the Same Thing?

In a video online from March 2020, the Chicago Election Board held a meeting where they approved providing Dominion Voting Systems the right to remotely access their machines during the 2020 election. Eric Coomer from Dominion was on the call which indicates Dominion was the one running the elections around the US.

On this "Chicago Election Board - Emergency Meeting - 2020-03-19" video with Dominion Voting executives Eric coomer, Director of Product Strategy and Security, and Nicole Nollette, EVP of Dominion Voting ON THE CALL, the board moves to allow election personnel (including Dominion Voting contractors) to telework and "work from home" due to the COVID emergency.

This allowed Dominion Voting contractor personnel, including election Systems Administrators and technicians from Dominion FULL remote access to Chicago election systems from anywhere. Thus Dominion Voting systems administrators had free and open access (and opportunity) to tamper with our election systems and data for 7 1/2 months prior to the election. They would have had full access to all voter registration information poll books, requests for absentee ballots, voter mailout lists, virtually EVERYTHING related to elections.

How many other election boards around the country granted Dominion Voting similar access? Probably ALL of them in over 30 states and 2000 jurisdictions including EVERY BATTLEGROUND STATE! They had the key to our election in their hands long before the election ever occurred.

And why were two executives from Dominion Voting even invited to an emergency meeting of the Chicago Election Board in March 2020?

This video shows that Dominion was running the show in US elections around the country. Who allows contractors to run elections? This appears to be the standard across the country as well. Dominion are the administrators. The fact they have access to quantity and number of votes before the election is shocking. They knew all they needed to know ahead of time before the election in order to impact the election.

In Investigative techniques [From Wikipedia]
In seeking "indicators of suspicion" in investigations, suspects will need to have had:
* Motive to commit the crime (for example, financial gain or to seek revenge)
* Means to commit the crime (including tools and physical capabilities)
* Opportunity to commit the crime (including being at the crime scene at the time of the offence)
*They will also establish the relationships between the victim and any potential offenders.[4]
Dominion Voting had all three: Means, Motive, and Opportunity
Means: Ability to manipulate the software
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/shocking-march-2020-chicago-election-board-approved-providing-remote-access-dominion-2020-election-many-election-boards-thing/

Eric Coomer digs from QResear.ch

https://twitter.com/JoeOltmann/status/1326925274789908480
This is a FB post from Dr. Eric coomer. This is the Antifa "manifesto" letter to Trump. This is the man that is responsible for the strategy and Security of Dominion Voting Systems. I will post all of the posts here over the next couple of days. Share and follow


#11799554 at 2020-11-26 23:02:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15061: Absolutely and Completely Comfefe Edition
Eric coomer explains how to alter votes via the Dominion voting system

#11792329 at 2020-11-26 06:31:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15052: The Kraken ROARS Edition
Eric coomer had a PhD in Nuke Physics…and rigs fucking voting machines.

#11792004 at 2020-11-26 05:57:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15051: The Night The Kraken Went Down To Georgia Edition
120.
Plaintiffs have also learned through several reports that in 2010 Eric coomer joined Dominion as Vice President of U.S. Engineering. According to his bio, coomer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics. Eric coomer was later promoted to Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security although coomer has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors. Dominion altered its website after Colorado resident Joe Oltmann disclosed that as a reporter he infiltrated ANTIFA, a domestic terrorist organization where he recorded Eric coomer representing: "Don't worry. Trump won't win the election, we fixed that." - as well as social media posts with violence threatened against President Trump. (See Joe Oltmann interview with Michelle Malkin dated November 13, 2020 which contains copies of Eric coomer's recording and tweets).

#11791961 at 2020-11-26 05:54:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15051: The Night The Kraken Went Down To Georgia Edition
(a) In the prior case against Dominion, supra, further implicating the secrecy behind the software used in Dominion Systems Dr. Eric coomer, a Vice President of Dominion Voting Systems, testified that even he was not sure of what testing solutions were available to test problems or how that was done, " I have got to be honest, we might be a little bit out of my bounds of understanding the rules and regulations... and in response to a question on testing for voting systems problems in relation to issues identified in 2 counties, he explained that "Your Honor, I'm not sure of the complete test plan... Again Pro V&V themselves determine what test plan in necessary based on their analysis of the code itself." (Id. at Document 959-4, pages 53, 62 L.25- p. 63 L3).

#11791863 at 2020-11-26 05:46:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15051: The Night The Kraken Went Down To Georgia Edition

https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT-CJ-PEARSON-V.-KEMP-11.25.2020.pdf
As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted
declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military
Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic
intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf
of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the
most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a
copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric coomer is
listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See
Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages,
November 23, 2020).

>>10479

#11791853 at 2020-11-26 05:44:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15051: The Night The Kraken Went Down To Georgia Edition
These were some of the New Bigguns! section 14 and 15.
14.As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric coomer is listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages, November 23, 2020).

15.Expert Navid Keshavarez-Nia explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion. He states that Dominion's software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states. He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice-President Biden. (Exh. 26).


CONFIRMED: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Used Dominion's Eric coomer as Witness for the State to Defend LAST MINUTE COMPUTER CHANGES
Dr. Eric coomer who is responsible for the strategy and Security at Dominion Voting Systems.
But if you search the company's profile Eric coomer has since been removed from their page of directors.
This was after coomer was found to be a Trump-hating Antifa sociopath.
And in 2017 Eric coomer explained how to alter votes in the Dominion Voting Systems in a Chicago demonstration.
This then is the SECOND VIDEO of top Dominion executive explaining to elections officials how to alter votes with the Dominion machines!
This was a separate demonstration in the Chicago area (notice he is wearing a dark jacket and is without the wrist protector.)
Earlier today Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reported on Eric coomer's work in Georgia.
According to reports in late September Dominion's radical Leftist Eric coomer made a "critical software change" to GA's Dominion voting machines "without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission".
This was reported in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Now this...
A group of Georgia attorneys sued the state after news of the late minute changes to the Dominion voting machines. They called for paper ballots to be used instead of the controversial computer voting systems.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called in Dominion's Eric Coomer to testify for him in the state's defense.
Election officials halted testing in the 77 counties where it had begun after they learned about the problem, said Gabriel Sterling, statewide voting system implementation manager.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/confirmed-georgia-secretary-state-brad-raffensperger-used-dominions-eric-coomer-witness-state-defend-last-minute-computer-changes/

Far Left Judge Marie Avery Moses Issues Protective Order on Eric Coomer’s Deposition After He Comes Across as Completely Unhinged – But Not on Defendants Including The Gateway Pundit

What double standard?

The American left is out to destroy the justice system in the country today.

Attorney Sidney Powell announced during an interview last week that her legal team will depose Dominion’s Eric Coomer for questioning later in the day.

Coomer sued several Trump supporters, media outlets and media personalities following the 2020 presidential election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Michelle Malkin, Joe Oltmann, The Gateway Pundit and Jim Hoft, among others.

Eric Coomer was deposed for an hour by Powell’s attorneys last week.

From what we are hearing it was a complete disaster. The Dominion executive came across completely unhinged and angry.

That’s when far left Judge Marie Avery Moses stepped in to protect Eric Coomer.

Judge Moses issued a Protective Order that only grants secrecy to Eric Coomer’s deposition – but not anyone else’s.

According to our confidential source, The Judge issued this order sua sponte, which means that no one asked her to do this. She just did it on her own the day after Coomer gave a train-wreck deposition in which he was very clearly emotionally unstable, arrogant, and repeatedly failed to give direct answers to questions. He was clearly playing games and his testimony is simply not credible.”

The media is now blocked from downloading his testimony.

One wonders how the Judge came to this conclusion – the day after Coomer’s deposition – that his deposition transcript needed to be sealed.

What happened to integrity, honesty and justice in America?

>>10494
9-30-2021

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/far-left-judge-marie-avery-moses-issues-protective-order-eric-coomers-deposition-comes-across-completely-unhinged-not-defendants-including-gateway-pundit/?utm_source=add2any&utm_medium=PostSideSharingButtons&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

>>10477

#86686 at 2021-08-27 06:39:20 (UTC+1)
QRB General #549: Shadow Gov't Fighting Silent Wars Edition

Dr Eric Coomer VP at Dominion admits they don't update software to protect against voter fraud
8-30-2016
DefendtheVote
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BbCmq0jPUxY [Embed]
also made a copy of this as an mp4 on Aug 26 2021 in case YT takes it down.

Starts with Sharon Meroni testifying in front of the State Board of Elections of Illinois, see below.


THE KEY TESTIMONY BEGINS AT 6:11 COOMER starts around 7:27 - Quality? I shot this on an IPad.

Those wishing to discuss voter integrity in context to this video have my consent to use. Please attribute credit to "From August 2016 - Sharon Meroni - DefendTheVote.com"

by Sharon Meroni,
(Sep. 1, 2016) - On Friday, August 26th, during a meeting at the Illinois State Board of Elections, the Vice President of Engineering for Dominion Voting, Dr. Eric Coomer*, was asked if it was possible to bypass election systems software and go directly to the data tables that manage systems running elections in Illinois. His response was, "Yes, if they have access."

Bypassing the election systems software means whoever has access can potentially manipulate the vote without many risks of detection. So the question needs to be asked, who has access to these data tables?-

We asked Dr. Coomer that question. Dr. Coomer replied, 'Vendors, election officials, and others who need to be granted access.'

This is explosive information.

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>>10500

Dr. Coomer's statement is an admission that various vendors, election officials, and others have access to the back end data tables that permit bypassing the operating system's configuration. It is notable that when someone accesses these systems from a data table, their actions are not logged by the system; thereby making detection much more problematic. This contradicts Dr. Coomer's assurances that the system is secure.


Our letter to the Illinois State Board of Elections on August 17th specifically requested the Board to answer the following questions:

At the ISBE level:
Who has access to software produced by vendors?
Has the ISBE had an expert examine the computer code?
How is access granted and documented?
What role does the ISBE play in monitoring the GEMS software used in each election jurisdiction?

As is typical for the Board members at the Illinois State Board of Elections, with its rich history in treating citizens concerned about election security with disregard and disrespect, the Board refused to say a single word regarding Defend the Vote's concerns expressed during 'public comments'. Only 4 of the 8 members of the Board bothered to stay to hear our comments. To date, the Board has failed to provide answers to the questions asked in our letter.

And that is not all! The Board asked Dr. Coomer if he had any comments. In direct response to the Illinois State Board, Dr. Coomer made the following statement:

"We are constantly assessing different threat models against all of our systems we have fielded across the US and internationally as well. Due to the certification environment that we are in, no we are not allowed to do routine updates without having to go through re-certification efforts, but we do routinely give guidance on how to best secure systems and also going back again, to the final mitigation against all of this is a robust auditing canvasing process which all of our jurisdictions have implemented."

Dr. Coomer failed to mention that Illinois does not have any auditing procedure for absentee mail-in ballots.

In 2014, mail-in paper balloting was 8% of the vote. Across Illinois, many election jurisdictions are working to increase this percentage! Illinois does not require any justification when audits show a vote discrepancy. They simply correct the total votes that are reported to the new totals found in the audit. Further, it is not a blind audit. Auditors know what vote totals were reported before they begin the post-election re-count. So much for Coomer's robust auditing process...

Dr. Coomer's statement brings to light a very serious issue all voters should understand.

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>>10501

Voting systems must be re-certified each time they make changes to the hardware or software. Recertification is an expensive and time consuming process. What Dr. Coomer told the Board is that Dominion Voting does not go back for recertification of software when threats to their code are discovered.Rather, they rely on post-election auditsand providing advice to election jurisdictions about security. I have reviewed all of the recertification documents produced by Dominion, and I do not recall any software adjustments for security purposes.

=This is the reality of the security of your vote. Software systems that count and record the vote across Illinois and throughout the USA are not updated to address security problems, and even if they were, the software can be completely bypassed by going to the data tables that drive the systems.=

I am not an expert on how other states audit the vote after an election. I do know that in Illinois, at least 8% of the vote never see any post-election audit. At least that amount of the vote is vulnerable to be manipulated without much chance for detection.

*Before coming to Dominion Voting, Dr. Coomer was Senior Information Services Manager of smartmatic Corporation and Vice President of Research and Product Development for Sequoia Voting Systems Inc." Wikipedia

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more on COOMER....

Sidney Powell: The Court Has Given Us A ‘Two-Hour Deposition’ Of Dominion’s Eric Coomer
https://www.thefreedomtimes.com/2021/09/22/sidney-powell-the-court-has-given-us-a-two-hour-deposition-of-dominions-eric-coomer/
9-23-2021

DETAILED NOTES FROM VID

--Video 1--
Sidney gives background on her earlier work - very interesting - always in the interests of uncovering the truth
10:10 mentions that a lot of people in Dominion worked in SERBIA
Any real audits so far? Maricopa counting. Over 100,000 ghost voters - voters they invent
"We're going to expose it all."
Antrim Co - found over 6000 votes flipped from Trump to Biden
Dom told congress they were not connected to the internet - they've had to walk that back, was a "flatout lie"
So what happened in Mesa Co? Country clerk Tina Rogers made a before-after copy of "Trust Build" by Dominion.
(Interviewers are from Colorado)
Our judicial system is not honest - Sidney agrees, citing General Flynn case. "Everything was wrong." DOJ finally did the right thing in dismissing the case.
"I've practiced 4 decades - never seen anything even coming close to what i've seen with the Flynn case."
Discussion of how America has been pulled to the left - thru the Judicial system.
"i think what we're dealing with here is pervasive and very, very dark - very well organized - eg, Kelly Loeffler."
They want to destroy us - working to create the 'apocalyse hoax' (covid)....want to [take over anything] that's what we're fighting." 22
Refs to Dominion, Smartmatic, Coomer suits
Reps Jan 6 defendants under horrible conditions, people getting beaten by guards for seeking medical help
We've witnessed a complete instituional failure on the part of everything that was put in place to prevent this. If Supreme Court doesn't remedy this, we have no use for them.
Talks about proof that election was thrown - excellent summary. All the evidence will be assembled in Dominion case.
Have to go to paper ballots - they've been doing this since 2004.
Mail in ballots - an invitation to fraud.
We can't trust the elections. We have to fix 2020.
Story overheard about Philippines. Sidney knows all about it - how you stop the counting and votes show up in the middle of the night. 32
Not just the Dems - Repubs have also done. Mentions source of many decisions - Soros-land
America is much more conservative than people know - but corrupt elections don't show it.

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>>10503

--Video 2-- Questions: 34
Q - Discovering possible in Coomer case?
A - YES. 2 hours depostion of Coomer - talk about anti-slap law in Coro. see article.
Q - Why didn't Pres Trump site the insurrection act or use Cybersecurity order to look at machines?
A - Sidney was encouraging this but no other aide would support - the others wanted him to leave. They said nobody would support her. He was undermined by many of his WH staff. It wasn't about him - it was about the Republic of the USA. Machines should have been impounded. many people EXACTLY what happened and they are DETERMINED to bury the truth.
Q - Why are u optimistic?
A - People are coming forward - the truth WILL win out.
Q - How is it possible we could have a conspiracy this big?
A - There are lots who din know they were committing a crime. Didn't take that many people for many things. Swing states - more people knew. DOJ and FBI, CISA, Homeland Sec - didn't do their job, that shows a big effort.
Q - What about foreign influence?
A - We have a lot of intel, warnings. Iran, Russia, Pakistan, China. There were data packets being transferred.
Q - But these achines were not supposed to be connected to the Net.
A - That's what Poulos said but it's not true.
A - No real handcount except for Antrim Co and AZ. GA never did that. They are terrified of doing one in GA.
Q - How did Trump win in 2016.
A - He caught them by accident. Trump voters turned out in such nos - reprieve. In 2020, Covid was the cover for plan b.
A - Why did POTUS give Fauci so much authority - it opened up a door.
Q - they have been very clever in what they did.
A - There are things coming out in AZ that are going to make a dif.
Q - What can average citizen do?
A - Demand paper ballots, voter id, etc. God has got to step in and save this country, but we have to do our part.

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>>10506
Tokenist article has a lot of interesting info on UBS LLC.
tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities

It manages to sort out some if not all of the confusing threads.

the fact checker author of the following article IGNORED the above article, so it's full of inaccuracies.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/23/fact-check-dominion-voting-systems-foreign-investment-claim-false/4038654001/

If i get a chance, will come back and analyze it point by point.

AT&T Building That Was Bombed In Nashville Has Connections To Dominion
12-26-2020

The rabbit hole connected with Dominion Voting Systems got a little deeper.

Multiple reports have shown there is a clear connection between the bombed AT&T building and Dominion Voting Systems.

According to Wikipedia and other outlets, Cerberus Capital Management owned the AT&T Building in 2007.

So, what?

Well, Hootan Yaghoobzadeh the current owner of Staple St. Capital which owns Dominion Voting Systems worked at Cerberus Capital Management as the Senior Vice President.
After a quick search on Bloomberg, you can see clearly that Hootan Yaghoobzadeh worked for cerberus.

He also sits as a Board member for Dominion Voting Systems.

As you can see he was the Senior Vice President of Cerberus from 2003 to 2009.

In 2006 cerberus bought the AT&T Building:
Is this just one big coincidence?
Many users on Twitter think not.

https://newsla.localad.com/2020/12/26/att-building-that-was-bombed-in-nashville-has-connections-to-dominion/

Here's a first draft of WHO OWNS DOMINION chart.

>>10590

From /qrb/:
https://8kun.top/qrb/res/98136.html#q98153

>If they [Dominion or State Street] are at risk of "losing" then the patents ie assets have been passed for another to use

I watched a vid where a guy was reading from the 18 patents contract - he noticed something odd:

an expiration date of 6/20/2021.

Does that apply to the entire agreement? Does it simply expire NINE MONTHS after it was signed?

https://ugetube.com/watch/dominion-voting-gave-18-patents-as-collateral-to-hsbc-bank-canada-on-september-25th-2019_nw5vAHxyLL2eCHQ.html?cf_chl_jschl_tk=pmd_uHK7PnVRwo6FZ2TVABaCIEYPPr_yRjsN0SpppU0GQDg-1633235380-0-gqNtZGzNAqWjcnBszQj9

from Dec 2020 not recent - whoops.
many factual inaccuracies, but will leave it for now.

Biden Partners And Sponsors Invested In Dominion Voting Systems

https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/12/02/biden-partners-and-sponsors-invested-in-dominion-voting-systems/


We know Hunter Biden, son of presidential candidate Joe Biden owns 10% of a private-equity firm called Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co (BHR); he acquired this interest in 2017 after leaving the BHR board.

Joe & Co Didn’t Just Sell Out America, They Sold Out The Whole Free World


An investigation into Dominion Voting Systems by Austin Security and Investigation Solutions showed Staple Street Capital acquired Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.


As noted by the Gateway Pundit, “On Oct 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed SEC Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities.


“UBS Securities is a swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government,” states the report.

What we didn’t know was Biden’s sponsors and investors in BHR are strategic partners with COFCO Group which owns 14% of UBS Securities, hence own an interest in Dominion Voting Systems.


COFCO Group is a state-owned enterprise under the control SASAC (The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council).

>>10598
>>10598

Hunter Biden’s BHR partner, China Life Insurance has a strategic cooperation framework agreement with COFCO dating back to 2013. China Life Insurance (CLI) and Biden’s BHR are invested together in other projects including China’s DiDi which bought out Uber in China.


COFCO Corporation and China Life Insurance (Group) Company signed the strategic cooperation framework agreement in Beijing on February 25, 2013.


Where it gets interesting is Biden’s BHR investment with an Uber-like company called DiDi which is a major investment for BHR. DiDi Chuxing lost $1.6 billion in 2018. CLI is not only backing Biden’s BHR investment as a sponsor and partner, they backstopped DiDi’s losses with their own investment in 2016. DiDi received $21 billion in financing from 18 investors including CLI.


The real problem is influence. CLI as COFCO’s strategic partner is one phone call away from Dominion Voting Systems and Hunter Biden. Both of them are strategic partners. All have an interest in a Biden win.


The question isn’t whether Hunter will influence the Chinese, after all he has to send half his salary to daddy Biden. The question is how invested are these companies and the Chinese government in a Joe Biden win?

Did this ever happen???

Funds News
March 12, 20212:01 AMUpdated 7 months ago

HONG KONG, March 12 (Reuters) - UBS Group is moving to increase ownership in its Chinese securities joint venture to 67%, as two local partners put their stakes up for sale, an exchange filing shows.

Guangdong Provincial Communication Group and China Energy Investment Corp, which currently owns 14.01% and 1.99% of the joint venture, will auction their entire holdings, filings on the China Beijing Equity Exchanges showed.

The exchange did not name the potential bidders, but UBS said the auctions will result in UBS holding 67% of the JV if the deal is done.

“China is a key market for UBS. The further opening up of China’s financial sector represents great opportunities for all of our China businesses, including wealth and asset management, and investment bank,” UBS said in an emailed statement to Reuters.

“We are committed to the China market and will continue to invest strategically. Our further stake interest in UBS Securities demonstrates such commitment.”

UBS was the first bank to move to majority control of 51% in November 2018 after foreign banks were allowed to take larger stakes in their joint ventures.

Majority or full ownership could make it easier for foreign banks to expand their operations in the multi-trillion-dollar Chinese financial sector.

Goldman Sachs has applied for 100% ownership of its operations and JPMorgan owns 71% of its operations.

Morgan Stanley has been touted as the buyer of a 39% stake that its joint venture partner Shanghai Chinafortune Co will sell in Morgan Stanley Huaxin Securities that would take the U.S. bank’s ownership to 90%. (Reporting by Scott Murdoch in Hong Kong and Samuel Shen in Shanghai; editing by Jason Neely)

https://www.reuters.com/article/ubs-group-china-idUSL4N2LA2G1

https://rumble.com/vhniqx-dominion-in-canada.html

Dominion in Canada
short clip but interesting

what election was stolen?

https://t.me/Pi_An0n/5121
Coomer deposition
Oct 2021

America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core
Jennifer Cohn
ANTI REPUBLICAN BUT POTENTIALLY USEFUL
https://jennycohn1.medium.com/americas-electronic-voting-system-is-corrupted-to-the-core-1f55f34f346e
September 7, 2019
Updated June 24, 2020


Introduction
We can’t fix that which we don’t understand. The dark underbelly of America’s staggeringly insecure voting system is no exception. Without knowledge of the following facts, the American public is at grave risk of being scammed by pretend fixes to a system that is corrupted to the core.
The centralization of America’s election system.

Just two vendors — Election Systems & Software, LLC (ES&S) and Dominion Voting — account for eighty percent of US election equipment. Thus, corrupt insiders or foreign hackers could wreak havoc on elections throughout the United States by infiltrating either of these vendors.


Corrupt insiders?
ES&S and Dominion are both owned by private equity, which means we don’t know who funds and controls them.
ES&S, which by itself accounts for 44 percent of US election equipment, received its initial financing from the families of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Howard Ahmanson, Jr., right-wing billionaires who also contributed substantially to the Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Reconstruction’s main think tank.

Hunt and Ahmanson were also prominent early members of the Council for National Policy, a networking group for the Religious Right and billionaires whose recent members have included Kelly Anne Conway, Steve Bannon, Mike Pence, Richard DeVos, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, Robert and Rebekka Mercer, and Bob Dallas, a convicted embezzler whose nonprofits have been closely linked to massive voter data leaks.

In 2000, ES&S’s founder, Bob Urosevich, was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of another mega-vendor, Global Election Systems, which later changed its name to Diebold and was acquired by ES&S in 2009. Urosevich’s brother remained at ES&S the whole time as a Senior VP.

It was a Global/Diebold voting machine that “lost” 16,000 Gore votes in the 2000 presidential election in which George W. Bush was declared victorious over Al Gore by just 537 votes in Florida. The “Volusia error” was discovered only because an alert poll worker happened to notice Gore’s total dropping which should never happen — absent fraud or error. It is unknown whether other machines experienced similar issues because Bush — with an assist from future Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts — succeeded in stopping the recount.
As discovered by Black Box Voting author Bev Harris, Global’s largest shareholder & Senior Vice President was Jeffrey Dean, a convicted embezzler who programmed voting machines for the company. According to the Guardian, Dean programmed ⅓ of the machines in 37 states used in the 2004 presidential election.

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In August 2004, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Cyber Security Bulletin regarding Diebold’s “GEMS” central tabulator, stating that “a vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could [allow] a local or remote authenticated user [to] modify votes.”

The control cards that transfer the vote totals from the precincts to the central tabulators are another potential target for bad actors. From 2000 through at least 2017, ES&S got its control cards from a company called Vikant whose owner refused to tell an investigative reporter where the cards were made.

Meanwhile, as reported in Bloomberg and Salon and highlighted during a recent election-security panel by SMARTelections.us, ES&S (Diebold) voting machines in both Tennessee and Georgia seem to be “losing” large numbers of votes from predominantly black neighborhoods. It was concerned citizens, rather than election officials or campaigns, who discovered these problems. The missing black votes in Georgia are now the subject of a citizen-funded lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Coalition for Good Governance. As a result of the lawsuit, the House has opened an investigation as well. Concerned citizens can donate to the litigation, which has national implications given ES&S’s national presence, via this link: https://coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/donate/

Dominion accounts for 37 percent of US election equipment. Dominion was a Canadian company that became a major player in US elections when the Department of Justice forced ES&S to sell some of Diebold’s assets because the combined ES&S/Diebold company had accounted for a whopping 70 percent of US election equipment.
It was Dominion that bought those Diebold assets in 2010. Like ES&S, it is owned by private equity. (Since initially writing this, I have learned that ES&S kept most of Diebold’s large contracts.)

Dominion does some of its programming in Serbia. And a former executive of GTech/IGT — an international gaming company and former Paul Manafort client — joined Dominion as a Senior Vice President in June 2016.
Another former executive of GTech/IGT, Donald Sweitzer, who once worked for Paul Manafort, sits on the Board of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with Ken Blackwell (infamous former Ohio Secretary of State) and Tad DeVine (Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign advisor).

These connections are concerning because, among other reasons, DeVine worked with Paul Manafort and Rick Gates (Manafort’s partner) as recently as 2014 to promote Vladimir Putin’s candidate and other interests in Ukraine and also advised the 2014 campaign of pro-Putin Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia.

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The 2004 presidential election.
As for Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former Secretary of State, he infamously hired Republican operatives Mike Connell (owner of GovTech and New Media Communications) and Jeff Averbeck (owner of Smartech and Airnet) to create a mirror website and backup server hosted by Smartech in Tennessee for Ohio’s election-night returns during the 2004 presidential election. At 11:14pm on election night, Kerry appeared poised to win the presidency. But at that moment, as reported by Craig Unger in his book Boss Rove, the backup server kicked in and “inexplicable anomalies began to flood the vote totals — all of which favored George W. Bush.” Bush was deemed to have won the state and thus the election, defying the exit polls, which Blackwell had attempted to block in Ohio.

After the 2004 election, Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck filed a lawsuit alleging that Karl Rove and his associates had stolen the election by electronically manipulating Ohio’s results. According to a report by McClatchy, a “ 2004 election-night computer architecture map for Blackwell’s office appear[ed] to suggest that as many as 51 of Ohio’s 88 counties periodically sent their results to the secretary of state’s office.” A spokesman for Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic Secretary of State who succeeded Blackwell, “said that computer technicians in her office [were] unable to determine how many, if any, counties transmitted results directly from vote tabulators, rather than from separate computers to shield against outside access to vote counts.”

On November 3, 2008, Arneback “took a sworn deposition from Connell, who had repeatedly tried to quash [the] subpoena.” According to Harpers, Blackwell hired Connell, an anti-abortion activist, in 2004 “to design a website that would post Ohio election results to the public” and to “create a ‘mirror site’ that would kick in to display the vote totals if the official Ohio servers were overwhelmed.” The backup server was provided by Smartech, which was headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee and whose “servers hosted hundreds of high-profile Republican websites (and later on, an assortment of anti-Obama websites).”

Connell testified in deposition that the system he created “was not connected to the [county or state] tabulators in any way.” According to Harpers, he also “denied… any knowledge of whether the mirror site had even been activated,” but Smartech’s server did go “into action at 11:14 p.m. on Election Day.” The transfer of Ohio’s vote count to the backup server remains a mystery because there was no evidence that the main server had failed. According to Global Research, “Connell swore under oath that, ‘[t]o the best of my knowledge, it was not a fail-over case scenario…” Bob Magnan, a state IT specialist for Blackwell in 2004 “agreed that there was no failover scenario”
Here is a link to Mike Connell’s deposition testimony:
https://bradblog.com/Docs/Deposition_MichaelConnell_110308.pdf. Although Connell was subpoenaed to testify at trial, he died in a private plane crash soon after and thus never provided that testimony.

John Kerry has since said that his campaign suspected electronic vote tally manipulation during the 2004 election in Ohio, but decided against dividing the country with a court challenge.
Brunner attempted to clean up after Blackwell in Ohio by, among other things, firing members of a county election board (after the criminal convictions of two members for rigging the 2004 Ohio recount), commissioning a study that revealed alarming ES&S vulnerabilities, and suing Diebold for damages.
The 2008 and 2012 elections.


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>>10987


The 2008 and 2012 elections.
John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, was not a fan of Karl Rove, but his campaign hired Paul Manafort to assist the campaign for a time. In 2007, Manafort had a lobbying firm called 3EDC, which listed New Media (Mike Connell) and Airnet (Jeff Averbeck) as “strategic partners.” (It was election attorney Bob Fitrakis who first reported this connection.) McCain, however, fired 3EDC before the 2008 election, which Obama won.
In 2012, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted (R), was caught allowing ES&S to install uncertified software patches throughout Ohio just before the election. Fitrakis, who made this alarming discovery as well, sued to compel Husted to remove the patches. Although the court dismissed the case as premature (no damages), she said that she would be “happy” to consider ordering a recount after the election. Fitrakis apparently deemed this unnecessary when Obama won re-election, triggering the infamous on air melt down of political consultant Karl Rove (George W. Bush’s former senior advisor) when Ohio didn’t go as Rove had expected.

The hacker group Anonymous has claimed that it prevented Karl Rove’s associates from stealing the 2012 election. As noted by Salon, however, it has never produced evidence to prove its claim.
Meanwhile, in 2016, citizen advocates discovered that Husted had allowed election officials throughout Ohio to disable voting machines’ “ballot image” audit functions. Litigation again ensued, and the court again ruled in Husted’s favor. Trump proceeded to defy the exit polls and win the state in 2016.
Ohio’s current Secretary of State is Frank LaRose who chose Ken Blackwell to lead his transition team and is in the midst of purging more than 200,000 supposedly “inactive” voters from the state’s voter rolls despite numerous concerns, including the recent discovery that 1600 active voters were mistakenly included on the purge list. The vendor responsible for this “mistake”? ES&S.

The National Election Defense Coalition, Public Citizen, OSET, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and other election-integrity groups have asked the House Administration Committee, which is chaired by Representative Zoe Lofgren, to conduct a hearing and call the vendors to provide testimony, presumably about ownership and other security concerns. But it is not at all clear that the Committee will oblige.
Even if it does subpoena the vendors, it is unclear how deep the Democratic House majority will be willing to dig. The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer (D), co-wrote the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which allocated billions of dollars for new voting machines without requiring a paper trail. Not only that, Hoyer joined with Mitch McConnell and Bob Ney — who later went to prison for accepting bribes from Diebold lobbyist Jack Abramoff— to defeat legislation that would have included such a requirement. Hoyer also sits on the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with Dan Sweitzer, Tad DeVine, and Ken Blackwell.

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>>10987


The 2008 and 2012 elections.
John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, was not a fan of Karl Rove, but his campaign hired Paul Manafort to assist the campaign for a time. In 2007, Manafort had a lobbying firm called 3EDC, which listed New Media (Mike Connell) and Airnet (Jeff Averbeck) as “strategic partners.” (It was election attorney Bob Fitrakis who first reported this connection.) McCain, however, fired 3EDC before the 2008 election, which Obama won.
In 2012, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted (R), was caught allowing ES&S to install uncertified software patches throughout Ohio just before the election. Fitrakis, who made this alarming discovery as well, sued to compel Husted to remove the patches. Although the court dismissed the case as premature (no damages), she said that she would be “happy” to consider ordering a recount after the election. Fitrakis apparently deemed this unnecessary when Obama won re-election, triggering the infamous on air melt down of political consultant Karl Rove (George W. Bush’s former senior advisor) when Ohio didn’t go as Rove had expected.

The hacker group Anonymous has claimed that it prevented Karl Rove’s associates from stealing the 2012 election. As noted by Salon, however, it has never produced evidence to prove its claim.
Meanwhile, in 2016, citizen advocates discovered that Husted had allowed election officials throughout Ohio to disable voting machines’ “ballot image” audit functions. Litigation again ensued, and the court again ruled in Husted’s favor. Trump proceeded to defy the exit polls and win the state in 2016.
Ohio’s current Secretary of State is Frank LaRose who chose Ken Blackwell to lead his transition team and is in the midst of purging more than 200,000 supposedly “inactive” voters from the state’s voter rolls despite numerous concerns, including the recent discovery that 1600 active voters were mistakenly included on the purge list. The vendor responsible for this “mistake”? ES&S.

The National Election Defense Coalition, Public Citizen, OSET, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and other election-integrity groups have asked the House Administration Committee, which is chaired by Representative Zoe Lofgren, to conduct a hearing and call the vendors to provide testimony, presumably about ownership and other security concerns. But it is not at all clear that the Committee will oblige.
Even if it does subpoena the vendors, it is unclear how deep the Democratic House majority will be willing to dig. The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer (D), co-wrote the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which allocated billions of dollars for new voting machines without requiring a paper trail. Not only that, Hoyer joined with Mitch McConnell and Bob Ney — who later went to prison for accepting bribes from Diebold lobbyist Jack Abramoff— to defeat legislation that would have included such a requirement. Hoyer also sits on the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with Dan Sweitzer, Tad DeVine, and Ken Blackwell.


Vendor lies re: election security
Voting machine vendors have an alarming history of deception. In July 2018, cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter reported that, despite ES&S’s prior denials, ES&S’s election-management system (EMS) computers were sold with remote access software between 2000 and 2006. ES&S won’t say where it installed the remote access software that it lied about, but claims it’s been removed. According to Zetter’s article, Diebold’s EMS computers were sold with remote access software as well, and Dominion refused to comment.

The installation of remote access software in EMS computers is a big deal because these are centralized county or state computers used to program all voting machines in the county or state. According to Zetter’s reporting, some of these computers also include the central tabulators that aggregate all precinct totals.


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But the vendor lies don’t end there. On August 8, 2019, Zetter further reported that ES&S’s EMS computers also connect to the internet, something else that ES&S had said was not the case but that leading election-security experts had long suspected.

Meanwhile, ES&S installed wireless modems in ballot scanners in Florida, Wisconsin, and Illinois starting in about 2015. Although some election officials claimed that these modems do not connect to the internet, this too was a lie, as further reported by Zetter.


Vendors’ misleading new definition of “paper ballots.”
In terms of solutions, experts say that the only way to know for sure if electronic vote totals have been altered is to compare a hand tally of the paper ballots to the electronic totals.
But over the past several years vendors, have changed the meaning of “paper ballot” to include not only unhackable hand marked paper ballots, but also hackable machine-marked summary cards with barcodes from expensive new electronic ballot marking devices (BMDs). The barcode, which voters can’t read, is the only part of the printout counted as your vote.

Although the printouts also include a human readable summary, the BMDs can be hacked to change or omit the selections on the summary.

We’ve seen the problems with vote-flipping touch screen voting machines in Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas. The situation will be no better if voters notice vote flipping or deletions on the paper printouts marked by these new BMDs. As before, the concern will not be the voters who notice and correct problems, but rather those who don’t.
This is extremely problematic because any manual audit or recount based on a corrupted paper trail will produce a corrupted result. Thus, according to leading election-security experts, BMDs cannot assure the will of the voters and should be purchased only for those voters who are unable to hand mark their ballots.

The critical takeaway here is that, if election officials or lawmakers don’t mention the “hand marked” prefix, they are probably about to scam the public with machine-marked summary cards with barcodes from pricey and insecure BMDs.
The following states include one or more counties that have already chosen barcode BMDs for 2020: Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Delaware, and California. I’m told that Florida recently passed a law to enable to the use of barcode BMDs as well.

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The corruption fueling the purchase of dangerous new barcode ballot marking devices (BMDs).
Despite objections from leading election-security experts and advocates, jurisdictions throughout the United States are flocking to these new barcode BMDs and purchasing them for use by all voters. It appears that corruption is enabling and fueling many of these decisions. Here are some indicators of this corruption:
• ES&S has donated $30,000 to the Republican State Leadership Committee — which houses the Republican Secretary of State’s Association — since 2013.
• Lobbyists who work for ES&S and Dominion have made small donations to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign. McConnell is blocking all federal election-security legislation, including the SAFE Act, which would ban barcode BMDs altogether.
• South Carolina’s top election official sat on voting machine vendor ES&S’s secret advisory board & received trips, lodging, & dining worth $20,000 from ES&S. The entire state recently signed a $51 million contract for ES&S’s ExpressVote barcode BMDs.
• New York City’s top election official also sat on ES&S’s secret gift-giving advisory board and is pushing the City to buy ES&S’s ExpressVote XL barcode hybrid BMDs for early voting.
• The Pennsylvania Auditor General reported earlier this year that election officials in at least 18 Pennsylvania counties have accepted gifts from voting machine vendors.
• ES&S used lobbyists to make donations to the two decision markers in Philadelphia who ignored leading experts and election-security advocates by choosing ES&S’s risky barcode “hybrid” BMDs, rather than hand marked paper ballots.
• Dallas County, Texas rejected unhackable hand marked paper ballots in favor of hackable machine-marked printouts with barcodes from ES&S’s ExpressVote machines after the county’s election administrator attended a lavish ES&S boondoggle in Las Vegas.
• Voting machine vendor ES&S’s agent in North Carolina, Printelect, has also sweetened the pot with donations to the governor of North Carolina and many others in the state. A few weeks ago, the North Carolina Board of Elections ignored leading experts and election-security advocates by certifying the ExpressVote barcode BMD system.

Confusion over competing election-security bills.''
The only election-security bills in the Senate with any traction are the Secure Elections Act (SEA) and the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act would ban barcode BMDs, require that jurisdictions give voters the option to vote with hand marked paper ballots, and require robust manual audits. The SEA would do none of these things. It would provide a false sense of security.

But the SEA is the only bill with bipartisan support thus far. Although it failed in the senate’s last session, Republicans for the Rule of Law have been promoting it, and Senator Lankford (R) said in August that it will be re-introduced and that Mitch McConnell is open to it.

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>>10991

Voters should demand, at a minimum, that lawmakers amend the Secure Elections Act to ban barcode BMDs and to require that all voters have the option to use hand marked paper ballots at the polling place.
The US government’s opposition to transparency.

In 2017, a U.S. Air Force veteran and NSA contractor named Reality Winner leaked a classified report, which showed that Russia had successfully penetrated three election-service providers, one of which was VR Systems, which services eight states. The next day, the Election Assistance Commission, which is responsible for certifying voting equipment, tweeted out election-security guidance and recommendations, using the #RealityWinner hashtag. Key state election officials were unaware of Russian hacking before Reality Winner leaked the report.

The leaked report also seems to have been the catalyst for election officials in North Carolina to finally submit its VR Systems electronic poll books, which had failed spectacularly in 2016 in Durham County, to the Department of Homeland Security for forensic analysis.

But the US government opposes such transparency. It imprisoned Reality Winner for five years due to the leak and won’t disclose the names of the other two vendors that were breached by Russia. Nor will it tell the public the name of the second Florida county whose voter registration system is confirmed to have been penetrated by Russia. It is unclear whether it will tell the public the result of its forensic analysis of North Carolina’s electronic poll books.
Meanwhile, it has omitted to mention that VR Systems provides not only electronic poll books and voter-registration-system software, but also is involved with election websites and election-management systems.
Demand transparency — it may deter fraud and increase voter interest and participation.

As noted by journalist Sue Halpern in an election-security piece for the New Yorker, there is indeed a school of thought that telling the public the truth about hacking and election-system vulnerabilities will depress voter turnout. But in a Harris poll conducted in 2018, voters said they were more likely to vote due to concerns about hacking. Thus, the apparent rationale for keeping the public in the dark on these vital issues may be a fallacy.
Not only that, this lack of transparency may actually hinder meaningful change by dampening the outrage that apparently is needed to overcome the corruption plaguing the system.

Thus, in addition to demanding that election-security legislation prioritize hand marked paper ballots and robust manual audits (and ban barcode voting), voters should insist that Representative Zoe Lofgren and other members of the House subpoena the vendors to testify under oath about ownership, past security lapses, and where and when they have installed remote access software and wireless modems.


Updated June 24, 2020
This piece was updated to provide information about Mike Connell’s involvement in the 2004 election.
Updated April 23, 2021: I added this: “(Since initially writing this, I have learned that ES&S kept most of Diebold’s large contracts.)”

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ELECTION FRAUD THREAD LINKS
Stuff that didn't get picked up in August 2021

>>78468 Jovan Pulitzer: "I'M NOT even dropping the BIG BOMBS YET"
>>78655, >>78657, >>78660, >>78663, >>78674 CM spells out how AZ criminals are going down
>>78857, >>78862, >>78873, >>78903 New CMs on election whistleblower/booting BIOS from remote source via PXE
>>79093, >>79094 Dr. Shiva Discovers Existence of the Secretive Long Fuse Report
>>79248 FINAL LIST OF STATE CHATS - Election Audits
>>80200, >>80201, >>80205, >>80208 Carlyle Group sold by co-founder/non-exec BoD: $234m-Aug 3/ D’Aniello
>>>/qresearch/14296217 WARNING FOR AMERICANS & THE WORLD W/ EXEC. PRODUCER OF ABSOLUTE PROOF & ABSOLUTE PERIL, MARY FANNING
>>80522 Bobby Piton is running for US Senate (IL)
>>81068, >>81073 Waldron outing UBS Securities as being China controlled.
>>81247, >>81248, >>81251 Son of Bolsonaro, fraud being exposed
>>81207, >>81209 NH: the lie, the truth
>>81415 Dominion Voting Systems Sues Newsmax and One America News for Airing Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium
>>81477 Dr Frank - we have forensic images of some election machines
>>81484, >>81491 Dominion’s Legal Counsel Stephen Shackelford
>>81532 @JovanHPulitzer #youtube deplatformed me for doing live play by play commentary regarding Mike's Cyber Symposium
>>81611 GEMS is the Key
>>81689, >>81691 Dr. SHIVA with Mike on now
>>81709 Mesa County Colorado Recorder confirmed active erasure of evidence from Dominion systems, but by Dominion not her office./made a forensic copy before/proof beyond PCAP
>>81715 Interviewing Colonel Phil Waldron
>>81731, >>81732 Draza destroying FL data on symposium….
>>81814 Lindell Symposium: They’re Destroying the Evidence
>>81815 Gen. Flynn: Mike Lindell is a national hero
>>81816 22 minute video from Lindell Symposium on Election Fraud

America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core

Jennifer Cohn
­Sep 7, 2019·14 min read
By Jennifer Cohn @jennycohn1
September 7, 2019
Updated June 24, 2020
Introduction
We can’t fix that which we don’t understand. The dark underbelly of America’s staggeringly insecure voting system is no exception. Without knowledge of the following facts, the American public is at grave risk of being scammed by pretend fixes to a system that is corrupted to the core.
The centralization of America’s election system.
Just two vendors — Election Systems & Software, LLC (ES&S) and Dominion Voting — account for eighty percent of US election equipment. Thus, corrupt insiders or foreign hackers could wreak havoc on elections throughout the United States by infiltrating either of these vendors.
Corrupt insiders?
ES&S and Dominion are both owned by private equity, which means we don’t know who funds and controls them.
ES&S, which by itself accounts for 44 percent of US election equipment, received its initial financing from the families of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Howard Ahmanson, Jr., right-wing billionaires who also contributed substantially to the Chalcedon Foundation, Christian Reconstruction’s main think tank.
Hunt and Ahmanson were also prominent early members of the Council for National Policy, a networking group for the Religious Right and billionaires whose recent members have included Kelly Anne Conway, Steve Bannon, Mike Pence, Richard DeVos, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, Robert and Rebekka Mercer, and Bob Dallas, a convicted embezzler whose nonprofits have been closely linked to massive voter data leaks.
In 2000, ES&S’s founder, Bob Urosevich, was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of another mega-vendor, Global Election Systems, which later changed its name to Diebold and was acquired by ES&S in 2009. Urosevich’s brother remained at ES&S the whole time as a Senior VP.
It was a Global/Diebold voting machine that “lost” 16,000 Gore votes in the 2000 presidential election in which George W. Bush was declared victorious over Al Gore by just 537 votes in Florida. The “Volusia error” was discovered only because an alert poll worker happened to notice Gore’s total dropping which should never happen — absent fraud or error. It is unknown whether other machines experienced similar issues because Bush — with an assist from future Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts — succeeded in stopping the recount

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As discovered by Black Box Voting author Bev Harris, Global’s largest shareholder & Senior Vice President was Jeffrey Dean, a convicted embezzler who programmed voting machines for the company. According to the Guardian, Dean programmed ⅓ of the machines in 37 states used in the 2004 presidential election.
In August 2004, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Cyber Security Bulletin regarding Diebold’s “GEMS” central tabulator, stating that “a vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could [allow] a local or remote authenticated user [to] modify votes.”
The control cards that transfer the vote totals from the precincts to the central tabulators are another potential target for bad actors. From 2000 through at least 2017, ES&S got its control cards from a company called Vikant whose owner refused to tell an investigative reporter where the cards were made.
Meanwhile, as reported in Bloomberg and Salon and highlighted during a recent election-security panel by SMARTelections.us, ES&S (Diebold) voting machines in both Tennessee and Georgia seem to be “losing” large numbers of votes from predominantly black neighborhoods. It was concerned citizens, rather than election officials or campaigns, who discovered these problems. The missing black votes in Georgia are now the subject of a citizen-funded lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Coalition for Good Governance. As a result of the lawsuit, the House has opened an investigation as well. Concerned citizens can donate to the litigation, which has national implications given ES&S’s national presence, via this link: https://coalitionforgoodgovernance.org/donate/
Dominion accounts for 37 percent of US election equipment. Dominion was a Canadian company that became a major player in US elections when the Department of Justice forced ES&S to sell some of Diebold’s assets because the combined ES&S/Diebold company had accounted for a whopping 70 percent of US election equipment.
It was Dominion that bought those Diebold assets in 2010. Like ES&S, it is owned by private equity. (Since initially writing this, I have learned that ES&S kept most of Diebold’s large contracts.)
Dominion does some of its programming in Serbia. And a former executive of GTech/IGT — an international gaming company and former Paul Manafort client — joined Dominion as a Senior Vice President in June 2016.
Another former executive of GTech/IGT, Donald Sweitzer, who once worked for Paul Manafort, sits on the Board of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with Ken Blackwell (infamous former Ohio Secretary of State) and Tad DeVine (Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign advisor).
These connections are concerning because, among other reasons, DeVine worked with Paul Manafort and Rick Gates (Manafort’s partner) as recently as 2014 to promote Vladimir Putin’s candidate and other interests in Ukraine and also advised the 2014 campaign of pro-Putin Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia.
The 2004 presidential election.
As for Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former Secretary of State, he infamously hired Republican operatives Mike Connell (owner of GovTech and New Media Communications) and Jeff Averbeck (owner of

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>>11051
Smartech and Airnet) to create a mirror website and backup server hosted by Smartech in Tennessee for Ohio’s election-night returns during the 2004 presidential election. At 11:14pm on election night, Kerry appeared poised to win the presidency. But at that moment, as reported by Craig Unger in his book Boss Rove, the backup server kicked in and “inexplicable anomalies began to flood the vote totals — all of which favored George W. Bush.” Bush was deemed to have won the state and thus the election, defying the exit polls, which Blackwell had attempted to block in Ohio.
After the 2004 election, Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck filed a lawsuit alleging that Karl Rove and his associates had stolen the election by electronically manipulating Ohio’s results. According to a report by McClatchy, a “ 2004 election-night computer architecture map for Blackwell’s office appear[ed] to suggest that as many as 51 of Ohio’s 88 counties periodically sent their results to the secretary of state’s office.” A spokesman for Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic Secretary of State who succeeded Blackwell, “said that computer technicians in her office [were] unable to determine how many, if any, counties transmitted results directly from vote tabulators, rather than from separate computers to shield against outside access to vote counts.”
On November 3, 2008, Arneback “took a sworn deposition from Connell, who had repeatedly tried to quash [the] subpoena.” According to Harpers, Blackwell hired Connell, an anti-abortion activist, in 2004 “to design a website that would post Ohio election results to the public” and to “create a ‘mirror site’ that would kick in to display the vote totals if the official Ohio servers were overwhelmed.” The backup server was provided by Smartech, which was headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee and whose “servers hosted hundreds of high-profile Republican websites (and later on, an assortment of anti-Obama websites).”
Connell testified in deposition that the system he created “was not connected to the [county or state] tabulators in any way.” According to Harpers, he also “denied… any knowledge of whether the mirror site had even been activated,” but Smartech’s server did go “into action at 11:14 p.m. on Election Day.” The transfer of Ohio’s vote count to the backup server remains a mystery because there was no evidence that the main server had failed. According to Global Research, “Connell swore under oath that, ‘[t]o the best of my knowledge, it was not a fail-over case scenario…” Bob Magnan, a state IT specialist for Blackwell in 2004 “agreed that there was no failover scenario”
Here is a link to Mike Connell’s deposition testimony: https://bradblog.com/Docs/Deposition_MichaelConnell_110308.pdf. Although Connell was subpoenaed to testify at trial, he died in a private plane crash soon after and thus never provided that testimony.
John Kerry has since said that his campaign suspected electronic vote tally manipulation during the 2004 election in Ohio, but decided against dividing the country with a court challenge.
Brunner attempted to clean up after Blackwell in Ohio by, among other things, firing members of a county election board (after the criminal convictions of two members for rigging the 2004 Ohio recount), commissioning a study that revealed alarming ES&S vulnerabilities, and suing Diebold for damages.

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The 2008 and 2012 elections.

John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, was not a fan of Karl Rove, but his campaign hired Paul Manafort to assist the campaign for a time. In 2007, Manafort had a lobbying firm called 3EDC, which listed New Media (Mike Connell) and Airnet (Jeff Averbeck) as “strategic partners.” (It was election attorney Bob Fitrakis who first reported this connection.) McCain, however, fired 3EDC before the 2008 election, which Obama won.
In 2012, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted (R), was caught allowing ES&S to install uncertified software patches throughout Ohio just before the election. Fitrakis, who made this alarming discovery as well, sued to compel Husted to remove the patches. Although the court dismissed the case as premature (no damages), she said that she would be “happy” to consider ordering a recount after the election. Fitrakis apparently deemed this unnecessary when Obama won re-election, triggering the infamous on air melt down of political consultant Karl Rove (George W. Bush’s former senior advisor) when Ohio didn’t go as Rove had expected.
The hacker group Anonymous has claimed that it prevented Karl Rove’s associates from stealing the 2012 election. As noted by Salon, however, it has never produced evidence to prove its claim.
Meanwhile, in 2016, citizen advocates discovered that Husted had allowed election officials throughout Ohio to disable voting machines’ “ballot image” audit functions. Litigation again ensued, and the court again ruled in Husted’s favor. Trump proceeded to defy the exit polls and win the state in 2016.
Ohio’s current Secretary of State is Frank LaRose who chose Ken Blackwell to lead his transition team and is in the midst of purging more than 200,000 supposedly “inactive” voters from the state’s voter rolls despite numerous concerns, including the recent discovery that 1600 active voters were mistakenly included on the purge list. The vendor responsible for this “mistake”? ES&S.
The National Election Defense Coalition, Public Citizen, OSET, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and other election-integrity groups have asked the House Administration Committee, which is chaired by Representative Zoe Lofgren, to conduct a hearing and call the vendors to provide testimony, presumably about ownership and other security concerns. But it is not at all clear that the Committee will oblige.
Even if it does subpoena the vendors, it is unclear how deep the Democratic House majority will be willing to dig. The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer (D), co-wrote the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which allocated billions of dollars for new voting machines without requiring a paper trail. Not only that, Hoyer joined with Mitch McConnell and Bob Ney — who later went to prison for accepting bribes from Diebold lobbyist Jack Abramoff— to defeat legislation that would have included such a requirement. Hoyer also sits on the International Foundation for Electoral Systems with Dan Sweitzer, Tad DeVine, and Ken Blackwell.

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Vendor lies re: election security
Voting machine vendors have an alarming history of deception. In July 2018, cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter reported that, despite ES&S’s prior denials, ES&S’s election-management system (EMS) computers were sold with remote access software between 2000 and 2006. ES&S won’t say where it installed the remote access software that it lied about, but claims it’s been removed. According to Zetter’s article, Diebold’s EMS computers were sold with remote access software as well, and Dominion refused to comment.
The installation of remote access software in EMS computers is a big deal because these are centralized county or state computers used to program all voting machines in the county or state. According to Zetter’s reporting, some of these computers also include the central tabulators that aggregate all precinct totals.
But the vendor lies don’t end there. On August 8, 2019, Zetter further reported that ES&S’s EMS computers also connect to the internet, something else that ES&S had said was not the case but that leading election-security experts had long suspected.
Meanwhile, ES&S installed wireless modems in ballot scanners in Florida, Wisconsin, and Illinois starting in about 2015. Although some election officials claimed that these modems do not connect to the internet, this too was a lie, as further reported by Zetter.
Vendors’ misleading new definition of “paper ballots.”
In terms of solutions, experts say that the only way to know for sure if electronic vote totals have been altered is to compare a hand tally of the paper ballots to the electronic totals.
But over the past several years vendors, have changed the meaning of “paper ballot” to include not only unhackable hand marked paper ballots, but also hackable machine-marked summary cards with barcodes from expensive new electronic ballot marking devices (BMDs). The barcode, which voters can’t read, is the only part of the printout counted as your vote.

Although the printouts also include a human readable summary, the BMDs can be hacked to change or omit the selections on the summary.
We’ve seen the problems with vote-flipping touch screen voting machines in Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas. The situation will be no better if voters notice vote flipping or deletions on the paper printouts marked by these new BMDs. As before, the concern will not be the voters who notice and correct problems, but rather those who don’t.
This is extremely problematic because any manual audit or recount based on a corrupted paper trail will produce a corrupted result. Thus, according to leading election-security experts, BMDs cannot assure the will of the voters and should be purchased only for those voters who are unable to hand mark their ballots.
The critical takeaway here is that, if election officials or lawmakers don’t mention the “hand marked” prefix, they are probably about to scam the public with machine-marked summary cards with barcodes from pricey and insecure BMDs.
The following states include one or more counties that have already chosen barcode BMDs for 2020: Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Delaware, and California. I’m told that Florida recently passed a law to enable to the use of barcode BMDs as well.

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The corruption fueling the purchase of dangerous new barcode ballot marking devices (BMDs).
Despite objections from leading election-security experts and advocates, jurisdictions throughout the United States are flocking to these new barcode BMDs and purchasing them for use by all voters. It appears that corruption is enabling and fueling many of these decisions. Here are some indicators of this corruption:
• ES&S has donated $30,000 to the Republican State Leadership Committee — which houses the Republican Secretary of State’s Association — since 2013.
• Lobbyists who work for ES&S and Dominion have made small donations to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign. McConnell is blocking all federal election-security legislation, including the SAFE Act, which would ban barcode BMDs altogether.
• South Carolina’s top election official sat on voting machine vendor ES&S’s secret advisory board & received trips, lodging, & dining worth $20,000 from ES&S. The entire state recently signed a $51 million contract for ES&S’s ExpressVote barcode BMDs.
• New York City’s top election official also sat on ES&S’s secret gift-giving advisory board and is pushing the City to buy ES&S’s ExpressVote XL barcode hybrid BMDs for early voting.
• The Pennsylvania Auditor General reported earlier this year that election officials in at least 18 Pennsylvania counties have accepted gifts from voting machine vendors.
• ES&S used lobbyists to make donations to the two decision markers in Philadelphia who ignored leading experts and election-security advocates by choosing ES&S’s risky barcode “hybrid” BMDs, rather than hand marked paper ballots.
• Dallas County, Texas rejected unhackable hand marked paper ballots in favor of hackable machine-marked printouts with barcodes from ES&S’s ExpressVote machines after the county’s election administrator attended a lavish ES&S boondoggle in Las Vegas.
• Voting machine vendor ES&S’s agent in North Carolina, Printelect, has also sweetened the pot with donations to the governor of North Carolina and many others in the state. A few weeks ago, the North Carolina Board of Elections ignored leading experts and election-security advocates by certifying the ExpressVote barcode BMD system.
Confusion over competing election-security bills.
The only election-security bills in the Senate with any traction are the Secure Elections Act (SEA) and the SAFE Act. The SAFE Act would ban barcode BMDs, require that jurisdictions give voters the option to vote with hand marked paper ballots, and require robust manual audits. The SEA would do none of these things. It would provide a false sense of security.
But the SEA is the only bill with bipartisan support thus far. Although it failed in the senate’s last session, Republicans for the Rule of Law have been promoting it, and Senator Lankford (R) said in August that it will be re-introduced and that Mitch McConnell is open to it.
Voters should demand, at a minimum, that lawmakers amend the Secure Elections Act to ban barcode BMDs and to require that all voters have the option to use hand marked paper ballots at the polling place.'

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Here's another possible puzzle piece -
Does Hunter Biden company Bohai Harvest have any connections to Dominion?
Oct 4 2021

https://t.me/GarrettMichaelZiegler/3086

[In reply to Garrett Ziegler]
[ Video ]
My friend Emerald kept her promise to me—and all of you!—to keep pounding the table about ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN's 10% STAKE in a multi-billion dollar CCP slush fund called Bohai Harvest. As you heard the wretched Psaki say, please send this video and all other questions to george.mesires@faegredrinker.com and/or 312-972-4151


https://youtube.com/watch?v=D_3NBKrvJqA [Embed]

SEE ALSO
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jen-psaki-has-heated-exchange-over-hunter-biden-e2-80-99s-investment-in-chinese-firm-e2-80-98i-e2-80-99m-certainly-not-yelling-e2-80-99/ar-AAP8jRI

https://t.me/marcopolousa/49

[ Photo ]
The Bank of China is on the board of BHR with Hunter Buyden and is literally funding Hunter Buyden.


Hunter Biden

article from Erica
from the Smartmatic website

https://www.smartmatic.com/en/media/article/2689/

GES and Smartmatic further relationship with second election

New York, United States –September 16, 2016 - Global Arena Holding, Inc. (OTC PINK: GAHC), (the "Company") announced today that the Company’s subsidiary, Global Election Services, Inc. ("GES"), has furthered its relationship with Smartmatic, completing another major labor union election, with the industry’s leading voting technology provider.

"I am really excited to see this relationship between GES and Smartmatic begin to take shape,” said Mr. John Matthews, CEO of Global Arena Holding, Inc. “It’s not every day you get the opportunity to collaborate with one of the world’s leading election technology providers. Given that this is the second time Smartmatic has accepted the engagement, I’m pleased to know that GES is not only meeting our expectations, but those of industry leaders.”

The first time GES worked with Smartmatic, was at a major election for a Hawaiian Union [July 2016] – where GES successfully used Smartmatic’s tabulation and scanning software. Management indicated that the system worked flawlessly and that the Hawaiian Union was pleased with the services GES provided. This second time, GES and Smartmatic worked together to run an election for a major Florida Labor Union.

In this election, GES utilized Smartmatic’s Registration Process to ensure that all of the members who voted, were eligible to vote. The hardware and software for the registration system provided by Smartmatic, enabled GES’ team to accurately – in real time – identify potential non-eligible envelopes quickly. The process worked seamlessly and provided all candidates and observers the transparency needed to feel confident that GES ran a fair and orderly election.

Mr. Matthews concluded, “It goes without saying that once again, Smartmatic’s hardware and software, along with the professionalism exhibited the Smartmatic team, substantiates their being a leader in election technologies worldwide. Smartmatic’s system provided immediate and accurate data to GES, enabling the election to proceed seamlessly. I am certainly excited to see what tremendous opportunities evolve from a continuing relationship between GES and Smartmatic.”

The election results will be filed with the International Union and the United States Department of Labor.

>>10586
Just became aware of this book from 2004: The Iron Triangle on the Carlyle Group.

▶Anonymous 11/21/20 (Sat) 14:58:41 3fffb8 (3) No.13553 >>13554 >>13564
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2012 article (and not conservative-friendly) but full of useful info.

Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
https://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4719
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Various far-right conspiracy researchers have been alleging for some months that George Soros somehow secretly will control the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election. The Free Press's exhaustive research can find not a single tangible link between George Soros and any manufacturer of voting equipment. Our research did find links much more frightening.

The Free Press widely reported the various dirty tricks employed by Karl Rove and company to apparently outright steal the election for George W. Bush in Ohio, and thus the nation, in 2004. Since then, a witness in our case has died in a mysterious plane crash, and all the players in the DRE (Direct Reporting Electronic) voting machine game have shifted seats in a gigantic game of musical chairs.

The Soros Allegations revolve around the entry of Barcelona based Scytl into the US elections market. Scytl was formed as a start up out of the Autonomous University of Barcelona to leverage existing concepts in modern cryptography (public key cryptography, digital signatures and zero-knowledge proofs) to ensure a secure and verifiable voting system in paperless remote environments including the internet and over wireless carriers. Scytl's scheme is intended to provide the voter with both privacy and verification that their vote was recorded as intended. Scytl's start up funding comes from three European venture capital firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR (a subsidiary of Riva y Garcia, which is described as an independent financial group). None of these are connected to George Soros. Balderton Capital is the London based spinoff of Benchmark Capital Investments which has no overtly political connections that our research could determine at this time. Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR are a different matter.

Nauta Capital was founded by 8 executives of the European management consulting firm Cluster Consulting. Cluster Consulting was purchased by Diamond Consulting (NYSE: DPTI) to form Diamond Cluster consulting. Diamond Cluster was subsequently purchased by Mercer Management Consulting and its Europe division spun off. The principles of the original Cluster Consulting used their profits from these mergers to fund Nauta. Two of the principals, Jordi Vinas and Charles Ferrar Roqueta, also have board positions at Spinnaker SCR and/or Riva y Garcia, keeping this coterie's control of Scytl very close. All of Nauta's partners have a strong background in the telecommunications business.


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▶Anonymous 11/21/20 (Sat) 14:58:41 3fffb8 (3) No.13553 >>13554 >>13564
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listed in /qresear.ch/ but not notabled.
2012 article (and not conservative-friendly) but full of useful info.

Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
https://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4719
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Various far-right conspiracy researchers have been alleging for some months that George Soros somehow secretly will control the outcome of the 2012 Presidential election. The Free Press's exhaustive research can find not a single tangible link between George Soros and any manufacturer of voting equipment. Our research did find links much more frightening.

The Free Press widely reported the various dirty tricks employed by Karl Rove and company to apparently outright steal the election for George W. Bush in Ohio, and thus the nation, in 2004. Since then, a witness in our case has died in a mysterious plane crash, and all the players in the DRE (Direct Reporting Electronic) voting machine game have shifted seats in a gigantic game of musical chairs.

The Soros Allegations revolve around the entry of Barcelona based Scytl into the US elections market. Scytl was formed as a start up out of the Autonomous University of Barcelona to leverage existing concepts in modern cryptography (public key cryptography, digital signatures and zero-knowledge proofs) to ensure a secure and verifiable voting system in paperless remote environments including the internet and over wireless carriers. Scytl's scheme is intended to provide the voter with both privacy and verification that their vote was recorded as intended. Scytl's start up funding comes from three European venture capital firms, Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, and Spinnaker SCR (a subsidiary of Riva y Garcia, which is described as an independent financial group). None of these are connected to George Soros. Balderton Capital is the London based spinoff of Benchmark Capital Investments which has no overtly political connections that our research could determine at this time. Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR are a different matter.

Nauta Capital was founded by 8 executives of the European management consulting firm Cluster Consulting. Cluster Consulting was purchased by Diamond Consulting (NYSE: DPTI) to form Diamond Cluster consulting. Diamond Cluster was subsequently purchased by Mercer Management Consulting and its Europe division spun off. The principles of the original Cluster Consulting used their profits from these mergers to fund Nauta. Two of the principals, Jordi Vinas and Charles Ferrar Roqueta, also have board positions at Spinnaker SCR and/or Riva y Garcia, keeping this coterie's control of Scytl very close. All of Nauta's partners have a strong background in the telecommunications business.


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>>12256

In 2010, Scytl purchased a 100% interest in SOE software, an up and coming player in the American elections market with their Clarity Software Suite which is used in 525 jurisdictions in 19 states.

SOE has a strategic partnership with ES & S, the major marketer of electronic voting systems in the US. ES & S was sued by the US DOJ in 2009 on anti-trust grounds after purchasing Diebold's elections division, Premier Election Solutions. ES & S subsequently sold Premier to rival manufacturer Dominion. Bob Urosevich, founder of ES & S, was also President of Diebold. In 2006 Urosevich was listed as managing director of Scytl Americas, although his name has subsequently been removed from their website.

The director of Nauta's American operations is Dominic Endicott, who went from Cluster Consulting to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) where he oversaw wireless practice. He then rejoined his former colleagues from Cluster Consulting at Nauta. In his capacity as a Nauta partner Endicott also sits on the board of CarrierIQ.

Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by the Bush family friendly firm Carlyle Group. A long time government contractor, Booz Allen’s current and former management team has included some of the leading lights of the intelligence community such as:

• James Woolsey (director of the CIA 1993-1995),

• Michael McConnell (Director of the NSA 1992-1996 and Director of National Intelligence 2007-2009)

• Dov Zakheim (Comptroller of the Pentagon and part owner of Landmark Aviation, a support company for the extraordinary rendition flights)

• George Little (Director of Media Relations, CIA 2007-2011)

• James Clapper (Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1992-1995 and the current Director of National Intelligence)

• Keith Hall (Director of the National Reconnaissance Office 1997-2001)

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Booz Allen was heavily involved as a sub-contractor in Projects TrailBlazer and PioneerGroundbreaker, which were NSA warrantless wiretap programs that spied on US Citizens in the wake of 9/11. These programs, along with Echelon, Carnivore, Thinthread and StellarWind were designed as an end run around FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and the 4th amendment. The programs relied heavily on cooperation from private industry, including most telecom and wireless providers, a community where Endicott has vast experience having “worked with nearly all American mobile operators and is a well-known expert in wireless industry in USA,” according to Nauta's website.

Booz Allen also has a finger in the electronic voting industry, being the providers of the first DRE voting scheme for use by overseas voters in 2000. In the end, the $6.2 million program allowed 84 service members to vote. Booz Allen applied for and was granted a US patent (7,729,991 applied for 3/20/01 granted 6/1/10) for another electronic voting system and voter registration system over a network. This system bears a passing similarity to Scytl's scheme, although without the verification of voter intent by the voter.

Endicott's board tenure at CarrierIQ is also not without controversy around privacy concerns. Researcher Trevor Eckhart discovered in November of 2011 that CarrierIQ's software, installed on smartphones made by Apple, HTC, NEC and Samsung and used by the carriers AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, logs the location, phones call times and destination (pen-register), texts, internet searches and keystrokes for the mobile service provider without end user knowledge or opt-in, possibly in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The FBI denied a FOIA request for training manuals and documents relating to CarrierIQ's software on the basis of a pending law enforcement proceeding. The FBI could make this claim this if it is using CarrierIQ for domestic surveillance of American citizens.

Scytl's allegedly secure voting method would be completely undermined by CarrierIQ's software. Interestingly Scytl seems to be set to market and deploy mobile phone voting applications for iPhone and Android in the 2014 election cycle. Scytl's end user verification of voter intent is completely useless in conjunction with all DRE voting machines currently in use. With direct internet and wireless reporting, targeted man-in-the-middle attacks against certain precincts could tip election results without leaving the evidence traces of 2004 which allowed the Free Press to raise serious questions as to whether the United States of America was subjected to its second coup in as many elections.

Revised 9/30/2012

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Scytl was acquired by Service Point Solutions, part of Paragon Group

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Spain M&A
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Scytl, a Barcelona, Spain- based company provider of digital voting and electoral modernization tech, announced that it was acquired by Service Point Solutions, a company quoted in the Spanish Stock Exchange and part of Paragon group.

FInancial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition also includes Civiciti, the citizen participation platform launched by Scytl in 2016, and the subsidiaries from USA, Canada, Australia, France and Greece.

As part of its integration into the Paragon group, the company will be renamed Scytl Election Technologies.

Scytl, founded in 2001 and led by CEO Silvia Caparrós, is a developer of secure online voting and election modernization software. Its technology has been successfully used by more than 30 countries around the world and is entering the private elections market as well. Scytl has a very strong presence in the United States, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Spain.

Scytl was backed by professional investors including Nauta Capital, Vulcan Capital and Balderton Capital, which funded the company with EUR 5 million ($5.6M) in 2019.

Dominion, Smartmatic, and Scytl: Foreign Influence in America’s Elections
Alexandra Brinkley
December 13, 2021


Foreign Influence in the 2020 General Election

Was there foreign influence in the 2020 General Election?

As the election fraud investigation and litigation continues, speculation surrounding these three companies, Dominion, Scytl, and Smartmatic has led to many theories. It is increasingly difficult to find the correct information for several reasons. Firstly, these companies historically have been very secretive and cryptic with insight into their ownership. To make things more complicated, these companies have partnered with, sold, and acquired other companies who, at times, have changed their names.

To make matters worse, as Americans started scouring the internet for more information, these companies began “scrubbing” details that were once listed online. However, as good internet sleuths do, most of this information was preserved on archiving websites. The more important observation here is that these companies raced to delete any connection with each other, the problem is there was already too much evidence of their connections.

As noted in previous articles by New Right Network, Dominion is a Canadian based company with US headquarters located in Denver, Colorado. However, it is important to note the history of these other companies as well. These companies are interconnected through name changes, acquisitions, shell companies, and holding companies. It is troubling that transparency into their ownership and financial backing is not clear. What is even more troubling is that they all appear to have foreign ties.


SCYTL OVERVIEW

- Scytl is a Barcelona based company that provides many election products all over the world, including the United States.
- Scytl says it is a “leader in digital voting and electoral modernization.”
- Scytl was formed in 2001 and recently filed bankruptcy in 2020, but was acquired by a company called “Service Point Solutions” which is part of the “Paragon Group.”
- It is not initially clear who the “Paragon Group” is, where they are located, or who owns them.
- A search for this leads to multiple different companies, none of them with a clear tie to either Scytl or Service Point Solutions.

In 2012 Scytl acquired a company called SOE Software. SOE is run out of Tampa, Florida. SOE Software Corp was founded in 2002 by Mark Schneider. Initially, claims of Scytl being connected to Dominion were refuted.

However, New Right Network was able to find a “request for information” prepared exclusively for “the state of Colorado” which was presented by Michael Greenman. According to his Linked in Profile, Michael Greenman was a Regional Manager for Dominion Voting Systems until 2018. Not a smoking gun on its own, but it does add to the web of secrecy and confusion surrounding these companies.

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Smartmatic Corp located in the UK

Smartmatic has been specifically mentioned by President Trump’s personal attorney and former mayor of New York, Rudy Guliani. Smartmatic was formed by three engineers while working in Caracas, Venezuela- Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate. The company officially incorporated in Delaware in April of 2011 with its headquarters located in Boca Raton, FL.

In 2004, Smartmatic acquired Sequoia Voting Systems from De La Rue, a British printing company that prints banknotes and tax stamps, among other things. However, Sequoia was sold in 2010 to Dominion Voting Systems. Sequoia Voting Systems has had its own share of controversies including an investigation by Dan Rather for “deliberately supplying poor-quality punch-card ballots to Palm County Beach, Florida for the 2000 election” that resulted in a hanging chad.


In 2014, the CEO of Smartmatic Antonio Mugica and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown announced a partnership and the formation of SGO Corporation Limited. SGO claims to be “an investor group that finds and funds innovative companies that demonstrate long-term promise in areas that enhance lives.” They list four main categories on their website that they focus on- democracy and citizen participation, governance, identity and privacy, and climate and clean air. Lord Malloch-Brown also has ties to George Soros. Malloch-Brown is the Vice-chairman of George Soros’s Investment Funds, as well as his Open Society Institute, and a Vice‐President at the World Bank.
https://twitter.com/1Naasty/status/1223944853056155648?s=20

In addition, Smartmatic has denied any ties to Dominion Voting Systems, but in a 2015 interview about Smartmatic’s role in the Philippines elections, Malloch-Brown admits to a licensing agreement with Dominion.



--Foreign Influence in America’s Elections__

Although the 2020 election is hotly contested, this is not the first time the concern of foreign influence in our elections has been in question. Most recently, the Democrats claimed that Russia was involved in the 2016 election and tried for three years to connect President Trump to Russian collusion. Questions regarding the safety of our electronic voting machines, ties to Venezuela, and more have been in question long before this election. The more important question here is- why was nothing done about these concerns? After millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on investigations and 24/7 coverage by the mainstream media on the Russian collusion allegations, one would assume that the security and integrity of our elections would be a high priority, no matter who was on the ballot.

As we established above, all of these voting systems in question have ties to foreign countries. Scytl is a Spain owned company, Smartmatic has ties to Venezuela and the UK, and Dominion is a Canadian based company. Moreover, there are recent concerns that our election tabulation is being completed on and stored in a server overseas. While these claims are not yet verified, it is cause for investigation and concern.
https://twitter.com/RealBasedMAGA/status/1328503497428504576?s=20

As we reported recently, Scorecard is a CIA developed software that changes the tabulation of voting in the data transfer stage of electronic tabulation reporting. The “glitches” that were seen during vote tabulation updates on live television Election Night could have been this software, or other software manipulation, in real-time.


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Sidney Powell, attorney to General Flynn and part of President Trump’s legal team, said recently on Lou Dobb’s that they have a sworn affidavit from a “high ranking military official” that has first-hand knowledge of Smartmatic. He says he was present when Smartmatic was designed “in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected.” He also alleges that “Smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produced the software and hardware that accomplished the result for President Chavez.”
https://twitter.com/RedPillReport/status/1328590405626191872?s=20

CEO Mugica of Smartmatic is on record confirming manipulation by Venezuela using their machines in 2017. Mugica goes on to say that there must be “people auditing the system and watching for that evidence.” He states that during this election with confirmed manipulation there “were no auditors from the opposition party… it is important to point out that this would not have occurred if the auditors of all political parties had been present.”

This sounds much like what we are hearing today in the 2020 US Elections. Observers from the Republican party were forced out and ballots were tabulated in secret. It should be of concern to everyone that not only are we using the same software and hardware but we are also witnessing the same troubling behavior right here in this country.
https://twitter.com/TrumpLadyFran/status/1328738950458994689?s=20


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--Election Integrity and National Security__

Given all that we know with these voting systems and software, it is more important now than ever to take a hard look at our election integrity. Technology has made it more possible to breach security than ever before. Software with “backdoors” designed to allow voter tabulation manipulation is just the tip of the iceberg. Our national security is also at risk.

In 2014, the CIA made a sweetheart deal with Amazon to use commercial cloud computing for its operations. Ironically, the deal was first outlined by former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Clapper was also named by whistleblower Dennis Montgomery in the whistleblower tapes that outlined 47 hard drives of information on the commandeering of the Hammer software. Hammer and Scorecard are used together to manipulate votes.

The CIA using commercial cloud computing through Amazon Web Services is a “radical departure” from its normal mode of operation. What is even more troubling is that the AWS pod networking uses parts built in other countries, namely China. In 2016 Bloomberg Business reported that Amazon “quietly began [an] evaluation a start-up company called Elemental Technologies… that fit nicely with Amazon’s government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was building for the CIA.”

However, it was discovered that there was a tiny microchip, no bigger than a grain of rice nestled on the motherboard of the new technology. Bloomberg reported that “Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships.” It was also reported that “investigators determined that the chips allowed the attackers to create a stealth doorway into any network that included the altered machines.” These hardware hacks were inserted in factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.

These hardware attacks are about access. As reported, “The implant was placed on the board in a way that allowed it to effectively edit this information queue, injecting its own code or altering the order of the instructions the CPU was meant to follow.” What could this mean for our National Security? With technology now at the forefront of our most secret operations, is it worth asking the questions about being compromised?

More importantly, our intelligence agencies have been aware of all of these facts. They have been made aware of the security concerns regarding our elections. Why has it been allowed to progress to the point that confidence in our technology is no longer warranted? Moreover, why are journalists not asking these questions?

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Voting Machine Makers Claim The Names Of The Entities That Own Them Are Trade Secrets
Failures
from the yeah-this-makes-you-all-look-way-less-shady dept
Wed, Jul 10th 2019 9:24am — Tim Cushing

Recently, the North Carolina State Board of Elections asked suppliers of electronic voting machines a simple question: who owns you? (h/t Annemarie Bridy)
On June 14, 2019, the State Board of Elections requested that your companies disclose any owners or shareholders with a 5% or greater interest or share in each of the vendor’s company, any subsidiary company, of the vendor, and the vendor’s parent company.

This seems like very basic information -- information the Board should know and should be able to pass on to the general public. After all, these are the makers of devices used by the public while electing their representatives. They should know who's running these companies and who their majority stakeholders are. If something goes wrong (and something always does), they should know who's ultimately responsible for the latest debacle.

It's not like the state was asking the manufacturers to cough up code and machine schematics. All it wanted to know is the people behind the company nameplates. But the responses the board received indicate voting system manufacturers believe releasing any info about their companies' compositions will somehow compromise their market advantage.

Hart Intercivic said letting the public know that the company is owned by H.I.G. Hart, LLC and Gregg L. Burt is a fact that would devalue the company if it were made public.
Hart InterCivic, a corporation that derives independent actual value from this information not being generally known or readily ascertainable and makes reasonable efforts to maintain the secrecy of this information, requests that it be designated as a trade secret pursuant to G.S. § 132-1.2(1)d. and G.S. § 66-152(3).


Election Systems & Software (ES&S) said basically the same thing, claiming this information is "proprietary and confidential information:"
The following individuals and/or entities own 5% or more of the shares of Government Systems, Software & Services, Inc.:
McCarthy Group, LLC
Tom Burt
Tom O'Brien

Clear Ballot also claimed its list of owners was a trade secret:
Hello, per your request please see below for a list of our shareholders with a 5% or greater share of Clear Ballot Group, Inc. We have no other parent companies or subsidiaries:
1. Larry Moore
2. Tim Halvorsen
3. Steven Papa
4. Raging Capital Opportunity Fund V, LLC

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Even this minimal amount of transparency had to be extracted at Board-point.

While it's true private companies such as these are under no obligation to inform the public about the details of their ownership, they're all involved with providing goods and services to government agencies. Government agencies hooking up with private companies that treat ownership details as trade secrets isn't a good idea -- not when the government has certain transparency obligations.

Even with the release of these details, there's still plenty of secrecy to go around. Election security advocate Lynn Berstein says the ownership of voting machine companies is a deliberate, multi-layered mess designed to obscure who's running these shops -- and to possibly hide a bunch of stuff that looks like corruption, fraud, or general financial malfeasance.

One of ES&S's subsidiaries (and there are at least 39 of those) -- Meritage Homes Corp. -- shuffled some securities ownership the same day the North Carolina election board asked it to provide information about the company's ownership. Maybe it's a coincidence. Or maybe ES&S was offloading a politically-inconvenient owner. Whatever the case is, it certainly doesn't look good.

The government can't do everything itself. It will need vendors to supply goods and services. But these vendors need to operate under the same transparency the government is forced to, if they want to secure these lucrative contracts. Voters aren't given a choice in voting machine providers. They're stuck with whatever their government gives them. But when the government actually decides to perform a little vetting, the makes of the machines trusted to deliver accurate vote counts want to hide behind trade secret exceptions to prevent the public -- and their elected officials -- from knowing exactly who they're dealing with when they head into the voting booth.

Given the abhorrent track record of so many voting machine companies, it's no surprise they're extremely reluctant to share any details with the voting public. But that doesn't make them right. It just makes them a little bit more evil.

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>>12272
SAUCE:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190706/17082642527/voting-machine-makers-claim-names-entities-that-own-them-are-trade-secrets.shtml

>>12272
from qresear.ch

#14186485 at 2021-07-24 04:29:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17947: Grand Coulee Dam Edition

https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-election-analysis-finds-gop-174100854.html
JUNE 18, 2021

Arizona election analysis finds GOP voters disenchanted with Trump helped Biden win

An unofficial bipartisan election analysis conducted respectively to the Senate-led recount of 2.1 million ballots in Arizona's Maricopa County concluded that Republicans disenchanted with then-President Donald Trump were responsible for his loss in the 2020 election.

Benny White, a Republican election researcher who previously ran for Pima County recorder, joined with Democrat Larry Moore and independent Tim Halvorsen, two retired executives from election company clear ballot, performed an analysis of the cast vote record in the November general election in Maricopa County. White has worked on over two dozen previous election audits, and Moore has had experience in more than 200, White told the Washington Examiner.....




THERE IS MORE.
But this article is BIZARRE.
Entire article is attached.

For now, just want to point out that 2 of the 3 people doing the "election analysis" -- Democrat Larry Moore and independent Tim Halvorsen -- ARE MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS IN CLEAR BALLOT.
They are in NO WAY non-partisan, either politically or financially.

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING???

>>12276
MORE ON YAHOO ARTICLE

https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-election-analysis-finds-gop-174100854.html

..

Oregon elections director - who previously worked for Clear Ballot - was fired just after the 2020 election. Why?


Oregon elections director out after penning a blistering memo
By Dirk VanderHart (OPB)
Nov. 9, 2020 12:37 p.m. Updated: Nov. 9, 2020 3 p.m.
Steve Trout says he was fired Thursday. Days earlier, he sharply criticized the secretary of state’s office for a “lack of vision and leadership.”
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'''Steve Trout, who was tapped for a second stint managing Oregon elections in 2017, served his last day on Friday, according to the secretary of state’s office. Trout’s former deputy, Michelle Teed, is serving as acting elections director, according to Andrea Chiapella, chief of staff for Secretary of State Bev Clarno.

“Steve gave us notice that he would be leaving the agency and in order to ensure a smooth transition, his last day was Friday,” Chiapella said Saturday evening. “We appreciate all of his great work as elections director and we are lucky to have had such a knowledgeable advocate for the democratic process on our team.”

Trout said Monday he was actually fired via text message last Thursday, after raising serious concerns about the office and informing Clarno he was seeking other work. He said he had committed to staying on with the secretary of state’s office until December 15, in order to complete duties associated with the election.

In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, election workers organize ballots at the Multnomah County Elections Division in Portland, Ore. Oregon's elections director was abruptly fired in a text message by the secretary of state after he pointed out serious issues with the state's aging and vulnerable technology for running elections.


“I would not abandon my staff or the counties before the election is over, especially since I was the only one at the SOS office with a security clearance that could be notified of any election attacks during this certification process,” Trout wrote in an email. “There is no resignation letter because I didn’t resign. I was laid off via text message late Thursday.”

A memo Trout sent last week to secretary of state candidates provides more context to his dismissal. In the damning letter to Secretary of State-elect Shemia Fagan and her opponent, state Sen. Kim Thatcher, Trout laid out a litany of challenges faced by the elections division.

He said that the secretary of state’s office, which has been run by four people since 2015, suffered from “a lack of strategic vision and plans for the agency, and staff are not focused due to that lack of vision and leadership.” Part of that, Trout wrote in the letter sent on the eve of the election, was due to former Secretary of State Dennis Richardson dying of cancer in 2019, which, he noted, “was no one’s fault.”

While Trout touted strong partnerships with federal agencies in addressing threats and disinformation in Oregon elections, he said the elections division has been denied resources. He laid out 12 specific upgrades he’d requested for state election systems that had not been funded — projects such as a replacement for the state’s ORESTAR website, security upgrades and fixing dozens of bugs within elections systems.

“Some of our election systems are running on Windows Server 2008,” Trout wrote. “End-of-life mainstream support from Microsoft ended back on January 13, 2015, and all support ended on January 14, 2020. Our public facing websites are single threaded through one power supply on the capitol mall and one internet connection. There is no redundancy or resiliency or plan to provide either.”

Trout also said that the elections division is among the first places that sees budget cuts in tough times, and he complained that lawmakers had not authorized officials to spend nearly $12 million made available by the federal CARES Act. He also noted that lawmakers had rejected a request for a “social media/public records” position, even as the number of public records requests spiked.

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Trout closed the memo on a dour note:

“I don’t want you to be surprised if you hear I am interviewing for new jobs,” he wrote. “It is not because I don’t want to work for either of you, but rather because I cannot succeed with the current state of technology and lack of support in the agency. I don’t believe anyone will be able to succeed.”

Trout did not make clear in the memo that his departure was imminent, however. Rather, he urged Fagan and Thatcher to take his concerns seriously, saying: “I would be willing to discuss staying on as a part of your administration. There are so many opportunities for improving elections right now throughout the country that I want to use my talents and abilities to effectuate the most good. As things currently stand, I cannot do that in Oregon, but with your leadership anything is possible.”

Clarno’s office said Monday that she was aware of the memo, but had not seen it. Trout’s departure was first reported by Willamette Week.

The negative portrayal of Oregon’s elections system runs counter to the reputation Oregon has enjoyed this year. As a leader in universal vote by mail, the state — and Trout specifically — have been a model for many other states who rushed to get their own systems online in the pandemic.

Last week’s events mark the second time Trout has been let go as the state’s election director. He was first pushed out in 2013 by then-Secretary of State Kate Brown, after roughly four years on the job. Trout began working for Clear Ballot, a company that supplies ballot creation and tallying equipment to many counties in Oregon and beyond. But he re-emerged in 2016, when newly elected Secretary of State Dennis Richardson added Trout to his transition team, and subsequently hired him as elections director.

Trout is not the only high-ranking member of Clarno’s staff to depart last week. Her chief of staff, Cameron Smith, also left the office, having accepted a job with the Northwest Credit Union Association. Smith’s plans to leave the office were announced in late September.

EXCERPT FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT ARTICLE
relevant because it has info seen NOWHERE ELSE - is it REAL info or not? no sauce.

probably withdrawn bc it had some inaccurate info regarding % on Chinese Govt ownership re USB LTD (USB subsidiary of USB AG in Beijing - NOT NY)
But available via Wayback Machine

Dominion Voting Systems operates voting machines in 28 states and has been accused by President Trump and his supporters of being involved in deleting millions of votes for Trump in addition to switching votes to Biden on election night.
“On Oct 8,2020, Staple Street Capital filed SEC Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities,” states the investigation, which also notes that another payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/china-connection-parent-company-dominion-voting-systems-received-400-million-ubs-bank-switzerland-75-owned-chinese-government/

''The statement in RED is interesting but currently UNVERIFIED, it's a claim made by InfoWars'

same info
it is VERY hard to find anything at all out about most voting systems:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/voting-machine-makers-money-unclear-origins-64297452

▶Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 16:19:02 726a4d (7) No.15469631 >>15469660 >>15469692

DOMINION ON THE ROPES: Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell Say They Are Open to Settlement with Dominion “After Discovery Is Complete”
— As Dominion Files Suit to Block Audit in PA

The lawyers for Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell announced their clients were open to a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems after their discovery requests are complete.

Dominion sued Powell and Rudy and Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion for accusations they say damaged the company.

But Dominions won’t let ANYONE expect their machines or systems. They blocked any investigation of their machines in Arizona. They refused any legitimate inspection in Georgia. And Dominion currently has a lawsuit against Pennsylvania County auditors to prevent them from looking at their machines.

Dominion says it’s because any audit will damage their machines. Really? If this is true why would any county in the US use their product? They should immediately be disqualified.

Watch Dominion refuse any discovery in their case against Rudy, Mike and Rudy.

It won’t happen.

Business Insider reported:

Dominion Voting Systems said this week in a court filing that there was no “realistic possibility” that it would settle its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the pro-Trump lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

The company made its position clear in a new filing Monday night as part of the company’s lawsuits against the trio for pushing an array of conspiracy theories about the election-technology company’s role in the 2020 election.

“Given the devastating harm to Plaintiffs, the lack of remorse shown by Defendants, and the fact that many of them continue to double down on their lies, Plaintiffs do not believe any realistic possibility of settlement exists,” lawyers for the company wrote in the filing.

In the same filing, lawyers representing Powell and Giuliani reiterated their positions that their claims about Dominion’s role in the election didn’t meet the legal standard for defamation.

“Powell and Giuliani are open to settlement discussions once discovery is complete and Dominion realizes that its claims are without merit and that it has no damages legally attributable to Powell and Giuliani,” the filing said. “Powell and Giuliani have nothing to show remorse for and dispute that they have lied about anything.”

The claims were made in a joint filing in which the parties proposed a schedule to US District Judge Carl J. Nichols, who is overseeing Dominion’s array of defamation lawsuits, to move the cases forward. In August, Nichols denied attempts from Powell, Giuliani, and Lindell to dismiss Dominion’s lawsuits against them. He later consolidated the case so they would move to trial together.

HOT Wisconsin added: “Dominion never had a case in the first place. They filed to direct the attention at the defendants calling them conspiracy theorist. Now they’re in a real Court case and Discovery is looming. Now they’re looking to settle by saying they can’t settle.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dominion-ropes-lawyers-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-say-open-settlement-dominion-discovery-complete-dominion-files-suit-block-audit-pa/

FOX News will Air Tucker Carlson Instead of Liz Cheney’s Jan. 6 Committee Hearing – Causing Brian Stelter to Suffer Major Meltdown
By Jim Hoft
Published June 7, 2022 at 12:22pm

FOX News announced this week they will not be airing the sham January 6 hearings this Thursday night.

Instead, FOX News will air their top-rated show, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

It is widely known that Liz Cheney’s Jan. 6 Committee will not discuss Ray Epps, FBI operatives, or the brutal killings of Ashli Babbitt or Rosanne Boyland.

This sent CNN’s Brian Stelter into meltdown mode. How dare they not show the lies and smears and omissions of the January 6 Committee!

CNN host Brian Stelter criticized the decision to air Tucker Carlson because his show “promotes conspiracy theories about the riot, calls the committee ‘illegitimate,’ and ridicules the committee members.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/fox-news-will-air-tucker-carlson-instead-liz-cheneys-jan-6-committee-hearing-causing-brian-stelter-suffer-major-meltdown/