Key info on development of GEMS is in the section below, #17 - 34; key points are listed below.
Diebold Election Systems/Premier (previously called “Global Election Systems”)
19. Diebold entered the voting machine business with its 2002 acquisition of Global Election Systems, a company whose Senior VP (programmer jeffrey dean) was a CONVICTED FELON who had served time for sophisticated crimes involving "COMPUTER TAMPERING".
20. Global brought on dean shortly before the 2000 election. A few months later, it hired a convicted drug trafficker - who dean met in prison - to oversee punch card printing.
24. Diebold told the AP that dean left the company in 2002.
25. But [Beverly] Harris obtained dean's court file, which included internal Diebold memos showing that dean remained as a Diebold consultant.
26. According to Wired, dean "wrote & maintained...code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes."
