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In November 2020, several of us dug on GEMS - the software developed to permit fractionalized voting detailed here:
https://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

This chart identifies the key players and events involving GEMS.

But everything started with this video


Here's the fraction magic video on YT:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration

Bev Harris

2016

A real-time demo of the most devastating election theft mechanism yet found, with context and explanation. (See also: Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg Business analyzes Fraction Magic in its Cyber Security Segment: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

and Cover Story in Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/20... )

This demonstration uses a real voting system and real vote databases and takes place in seconds across multiple jurisdictions. Over 5000 subcontractors and middlemen have the access to perform this for any or all clients. It can give contract signing authority to whoever the user chooses. All political power can be converted to the hands of a few anonymous subcontractors.

It's a product. It's scaleable. It learns its environment and can adjust to any political environment, any demographic. It runs silently, invisibly, and can produce plausible results that really pass for the real thing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fob-AGgZn44 [Embed]

>>9929
Fraction Magic – Part 1
con't.

Fractionalized vote:
Instead of “1” the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a whole number.

++What fractionalized votes can do__:
They allow “weighting” of races.....

GEMS fractionalizes votes in three places:
- The “Summary” vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on Election Night
- The “Statement of Votes Cast”, which provides detailed results by precinct and voting method (ie. Polling, absentee, early, provisional)
- The “undervote” count


Fractionalizing the votes which create the Summary Results
allows alteration of Election Night Web results and results sent to the Secretary of State, as well as results available at and local election officials.

Fractionalizing the “Statement of Votes Cast”
allows an extraordinary amount of precision, enabling alteration of results by specific voting machine, absentee batch, or precinct. Vote results can be altered for polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods, and can parse out precincts within a mixed batch of early or absentee votes.

Fractionalizing the undervote category
allows reallocation of valid votes into undervotes.

Fractions in results reports are not visible.Votes containing decimals are reported as whole numbers unless specifically instructed to reveal decimals (which is not the default setting)....



Source code: Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers are inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been created by accident.

https://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

>>9931
JENNY COHN ARTICLE, con't.

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."

27. dean also programmed the GEMS central tabulator system, which counted one third of the votes in 37 states in 2004…….

30. Because elected officials and news organizations never followed up on dean's whereabouts, we can only speculate as to when (if at all) dean's relationship with the company ended.

SO: the person responsible for GEMS was
Jeffrey Dean-
a CONVICTED FELON whose ongoing role remains a mystery.

There is ONE clue that he remained with Diebold a long time:

31. In 2010, Dominion bought Diebold’s intellectual property rights and warehoused equipment.

But ES&S kept some — perhaps even most — of Diebold’s servicing and maintenance contracts, which is where control of elections would mostly come from.

Note the name of the Dominion spokesperson in this article.
[SEAN DEAN- see article]
I do not know if there is a relationship.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/05/07/10/source-code-firm-dominion-sheds-light-voting-glitch

>>9932
http:'//'news.abs-cbn.com/nation/05/07/10/source-code-firm-dominion-sheds-light-voting-glitch

SEE ARTICLE IN PREVIOUS POST

Source code firm Dominion sheds light on voting glitch

By Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News

May 07 2010 07:32 PM

MANILA, Philippines - A Canada-based software firm who leased the source code for the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines for the May 10 Philippine polls has shed light on the glitch that caused the machines to incorrectly read the ballots.

Sean Dean, product manager of Dominion Voting Systems, said the company only found out about the voting machine glitch during the final testing and sealing of PCOS machines in several municipalities last Monday.

In response to doubts on the integrity of the program and automation system, Dominion said it is staking its name that nobody interfered or had any access in the generation of the program files and configuration process.

"At no point was there any outside party involved in the configuration of the ballots and the election files. It was all done by ourselves and supervised only from a viewing perspective by the Comelec but other than that they didn't have access to the station. They didn't touch it. It was all strictly done by us," he said. ....

>>9933

Whoever SEAN DEAN is, he has a number of PATENTS together with ERIC COOMER and others.

All seem similar, here's an example:

BALLOT ADJUDICATION IN VOTING SYSTEMS UTILIZING BALLOT IMAGES Publication number: 20150071501

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.

Type: Application Filed: November 12, 2014

Publication date: March 12, 2015

Inventors: JAMES HOOVER, JUSTIN BALES, STEVEN BENNETT, ERIC COOMER, SEAN DEAN, GENEICE MATHEWS, BENJAMIN RICE

Both WA state and KING COUNTY continued to have suspicious-looking elections.

WA Sec of State doc shows the (cleaned-up) history of voting in WA State thru 2008. CAPP.

Here's a smattering of articles about problems involving 2004 election fraud, 2006 fraud involving ACORN, the notorious 2004 gov. election between Dina Rossi and and Dean Logan, the Elections Commissioner - who left in disgrace. He is now in charge of LA County elections.

Fraud alleged in 2004 Washington voter-registration drive
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Prosecutors in King County are looking at possible criminal charges related to a voter-registration drive held in 2006, echoing the suspicions of impropriety raised during the razor-close gubernatorial election of 2004.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fraud-alleged-in-2004-washington-voter-registration-drive/

Local ACORN cleans up act after 2006 scandal
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/local-acorn-cleans-up-act-after-06-scandal/

When It Doesn’t Add Up
https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/when-it-doesnt-add-up/

Dead voted in governor's race - Seattle PI
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Dead-voted-in-governor-s-race-1163612.php

The Washington 2004 Gubernatorial Election Crisis: The Necessity of Restoring Public Confidence in the Electoral Process
file:///C:/Users/susan/AppData/Local/Temp/The%20Washington%202004%20Gubernatorial%20Election%20Crisis%20The%20Necessity%20of%20Restoring%20Public%20Confidence%20in%20the%20Electoral%20Process.pdf

So far, the posts above briefly cover

- GEMS software

- Its developer: Jeffrey Dean

- How GEMS made its way from GES to Diebold to Dominion (and elsewhere?)

- How the HOME of GEMS - King Co WA - was the launching point for a network of systems designed to negate the electoral process and guarantee wins for whomever could pay the most - or exert the most influence.

SUMMARY of Jeffrey Dean DIG so far

* developer of GES software that became GEMS
* Global Election Systems (GES) software developed by a guy named Jeffrey Dean around maybe 1999.
* He developed voting software for GES out of accounting software. But probably has many backdoors - because he was also a convicted embezzler/hacker who was hired after a four-year prison sentence.
* By 2001, had become Senior VP of GES and had 1.6m shares of stock (more than anyone else) - right before the company was sold to Diebold.
* Stuck around as a consultant, but always a shadowy figure.
* Supposedly, he later parted ways with Diebold and/or Dominion. No one is sure what became of him.
* But there is a guy named Sean Dean who worked for Dominion in 2010. Same guy?? Nobody knows.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180203174239/https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/updated-attachment-states-have-bought-voting-machines-from-vendors-controlled-and-funded-by-nation-6597e4dd3e70 (For more details, check out #17 - 34)

Sean Dean = Jeffrey Dean?
Looked up patents by Sean Dean.
He has a patent on an adjudication system and Dominion is the assignee:–
BALLOT ADJUDICATION IN VOTING SYSTEMS UTILIZING BALLOT IMAGES
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/sean-dean?page=2


NEXT: A DEEPER DIG INTO THE PAST
1 - Jeffrey Dean's roots
2 - Diebold / Dominion's roots

JEFFREY DEAN'S AMAZING HISTORY
Bev Harris article from 2006 details Dean's history LONG BEFORE he went to jail for embezzlement.

originally from QRB General thread: >>82507, >>82519 JEFFREY DEAN / GEMS DIGG - ongoing

Programmer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit
by Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and John Howard
January 26, 2006

Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the largest ballot printing contracts in history.

In a 2003 deposition, Dean states that he was a scapegoat who was left holding the bag in a series of unapproved payments from Culp, Guterson & Grader, one of the most politically connected law firms in Washington state.

One of this firm's partners at the time was Egil "Bud" Krogh, who headed the White House "plumbers" unit under Richard Nixon. Krogh ordered the burglary of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Dean claimed that other persons from the firm were involved in a scheme, and upon discovery of illicit payments (averaging $14,000/month) he was made to take the blame. Krogh was a partner at Culp Guterson & Grader during the time period that Dean was receiving illicit payments of approximately $15,000 per month.

Like Jeffrey Dean, Krogh did time in prison -- four months for Watergate-related crimes. He was disbarred, but after a fight from a Culp Guterson & Grader attorney, his credentials were restored. At the time, the firm was called "Culp Dwyer Guterson & Grader."

'He [Krogh] was hired on the merits of his character, intelligence and skills as a lawyer,'' said William L. Dwyer, the firm's senior partner, who had represented Mr. Krogh in his disbarment fight. Dwyer became a U.S. district judge.


DEAN BECOMES A BALLOT PRINTER
Shortly after Jeffrey Dean was released from prison a company owned by his wife (but run by Jeffrey Dean)was awarded one of the largest ballot-printing contracts in history, with King County, Washington.In SEC documents, this company (Spectrum Print & Mail Ltd.) lists assets located in the Seattle area, British Columbia, San Francisco and in the Norwalk (CA) location that houses the Los Angeles County Elections Division.


DEAN DEVELOPS COMPUTERIZED ELECTION SYSTEMS
According to depositions taken in 2003, Jeffrey Dean programmed the ballot sorting software used to process incoming and outgoing mail-in ballots; he also developed the Vote Remote software used to track and authenticate mail-in ballots.

Key logs from King County Elections show that Jeffrey Dean was given intimate access to the GEMS server (Diebold central tabulating software); internal memos from Diebold refer to an ongoing consulting arrangement with Dean, and document that he had management involvement in the touch-screens, the 1.96 version of the optical scan, the votercard encoder and the Windows CE operating system used in Diebold voting machines. In addition, during recent litigation Dean called Peter G. Martin as a witness, indicating that he had worked closely with Martin, who programmed the new upcoming High Speed Central Count system.


RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE DEAN FAMILY
Black Box Voting has learned that Jeffrey Dean and his wife Deborah have recently been ordered into Chapter 7 bankruptcy by a trustee who become fed up with their "gamesmanship" in recent attempts to obstruct discovery of their assets.

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>>9950

A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF TROUBLE
Jeffrey Dean has a 25-year history of financial problems, tax liens and litigation, going back to a company he formed while working for Boeing. Though he refers to this company in recent depositions as "Astec," its real name was Advanced Systems Technology, Inc., a company run by Dean and partner Michael C. Redman. Dean represents that this company did aircraft design, and says that he sold it to Raleigh-Durham Aviation in 1980. Legal documents show that he had a $700,000 tax lien imposed on him in connection with the "failed business" in 1984, and several creditors filed civil suits against him in 1979 and 1980.

By 1982, Dean was a contractor for Culp, Guterson & Grader. Assets began accumulating under his wife's names. When Dean divorced his first wife and married wife #2, Lorimay, she began accumulating real estate under an entity called "JAL Investments Inc." This entity and its real estate was transferred to Dean's third wife, Deborah M. [Pederson] Dean.

These efforts failed when it was revealed that over $180,000 of inappropriately received funds were spent on Deborah Dean's house, and that Deborah had been cashing checks as large as $10,000 at a time from the illicit funds.

Although she was involved in litigation over restitution issues, Deborah Dean was not prosecuted in the thefts from Culp, Guterson & Grader.

Jeffrey Dean entered an Alford Plea admitting to 23 felony counts, and was ordered to appear at the Shelton Correctional facility to begin his incarceration. Instead, he failed to show up and went to Oregon, where he apparently lived under a different name. Bench warrants were issued and he went to prison.

Meanwhile, wife Deborah began "Spectrum Print & Mail Ltd." According to depositions, this firm was mostly delivering newspapers to contract deals like the Washington ferries.

Shortly after Jeffrey Dean got out of prison, however, Spectrum Print & Mail got into ballot printing and designing software for elections.

This ballot printing plant, using software Dean claims to have developed, handles ballot printing and mail-ballot processing for counties like King County (WA) and Los Angeles County, Fresno County, San Diego County, Alameda County (CA), and for the state of Georgia and many other locations.

The Deans were rewarded for Jeffrey Dean's ballot printing and election software programming work in a $4 million buyout by Global Election Systems shortly before election 2000. The Deans became the largest stockholders of Global Election Systems, and Jeffrey Dean took a position on the board of directors.

In January 2002, Diebold Inc. purchased Global Election Systems. Oddly, in a 2003 deposition, Jeffrey Dean claims that his contact with Global was always Pat Green -- but Green is a Diebold employee, not a Global Election Systems employee. Yet Diebold claims it hasn't worked with Jeffrey Dean.

The Dean's ballot printing company was acquired by Diebold in the Global Election Systems acquisition.

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>>9951

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
The Vote Remote software and the absentee ballot processing software developed by Jeffrey Dean was never submitted for certification, has not been examined by anyone, and due to technicalities i n the certification regulations, is not subject to certification. Several counties have recently announced plans to force voters into all mail-in voting, including King County, Jeffrey Dean's first elections client.

Exactly what Jeffrey Dean was doing to the GEMS database program, what "oversight" he was providing to the touch-screen technology purchased by Diebold, and what expertise he provided for the votercard encoder, the optical scan 1.96 series, and the upcoming High Speed Central Count are not publicly known at this time.


DIEBOLD CLAIMS MERIT FURTHER SCRUTINY
Diebold claims that it did not work with Jeffrey Dean after acquiring Global Election Systems in 2002. However, the Dean depositions reveal that in May and June 2002, during the time the "rob-georgia" patch was created, Jeffrey Dean was called back to do consulting for Diebold. The Deans have been accused of obstructiveness and evasion by attorneys seeking to recover funds in a pending bankruptcy case. Specifically, when asked to identify monies paid by or due from Diebold Election Systems, they omitted answers.

[ALSO: Remember that someone named SEAN DEAN is mentioned on the patents and elsewhere - search on other posts with that name]

Depositions, documents, and supporting documentation will be posted on the Black Box Voting Web site this week. These documents include depositions, bankruptcy papers, criminal court records, SEC documents and civil litigation records.


Jeffrey Dean prison records:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/14323.html
by Black Box Voting investigators Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and Jim March, with assistance from Black Box Voting members Pat Vesely and John Howard.

NEW Citizen research & investigations section now available: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/17141/17141... (you must register and log in to use this)

https://freepress.org/article/programmer-jeff-dean-worked-chief-white-house-plumbers-unit

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from QRBunker

https://endchan.net/qrbunker/res/9395.html#9592
Bev Harris Article from 15 years ago.

Black Box Voting
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393084/index.htm
https://archive.is/D1Ekn
https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393084/index.htm


Rage against the machine

Diebold struggles to bounce back from the controversy surrounding its voting machines

FORTUNE Magazine
By Barney Gimbel, Fortune writer-reporter
November 3 2006
(Fortune Magazine)

Here's a five-step plan guaranteed to make an obscure company absolutely notorious.

- First get into a business you don't understand, selling to customers who barely understand it either.
- Then roll out your product without adequate testing. Don't hire enough skilled people.
- When people notice problems, deny, obfuscate and ignore.
- Finally, blame your critics when it all blows up in your face.

With missteps like those, it would be hard to succeed in the gumball business. But when your product is the hardware and software of democracy itself, that kind of performance gets you called not just incompetent but evil - an enemy of democracy. And that is what has happened to Diebold Inc. (Charts) of Canton, Ohio, since it got into the elections business in 2001.

[SEE CAP - Ballot Box Blues]

>>9954
con't.

The move seemed like a good idea at the time. The $3 billion public company, whose core products are ATMs, bank vaults and security systems, had just sold 186,000 voting machines to Brazil, where they delivered a quick and clean count in the 2000 elections.

Surely, Diebold reasoned, it could duplicate this success closer to home. "We thought if we got this right," says Thomas Swidarski, the company's CEO and president, "then we could do it across the globe."

But faster than you can say hanging chad, things went wrong. In early 2003, activists found a version of Diebold's secret software on the Internet. The code had so many security flaws that one group would later post a video of a chimpanzee changing votes.

[What secret software? Dean's GEMS software?

Weeks later, Diebold's then-CEO Walden O'Dell famously wrote to fellow Bush supporters in a fundraising letter that he was committed to "help Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President." It didn't take long for political activists, many of them already suspicious of the new voting technology, to begin diving through the company's dumpsters and picketing its shareholder meetings.

Though other voting-machine companies have also had their difficulties, it is "the dreaded Diebold," as one blogger on DailyKos refers to it, that stirs up the likes of Michael Moore. "The reason Diebold gets so much heat," says activist Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," "is not because they're any worse than their competitors. It's because we got more information on them early on."

The drumbeat of bad news has never stopped. This year, researchers have found more security flaws, and another version of the software was leaked. In Maryland, Diebold allegedly knew that some of its machines had defective motherboards but did not replace them for a year. Both candidates for governor there advised their supporters to vote via absentee ballot rather than use Diebold machines.

Rolling Stone published an article alleging that Diebold helped deliver Georgia to the GOP (Diebold calls the story "fiction"). The company is an unwitting star in a new HBO documentary called "Hacking Democracy." Oh, and the SEC is investigating accounting irregularities.

con't.

>>9955

Deep in a corporate nightmare, Diebold is wondering how to shake itself awake. After all, this is a 147-year-old company once headed by Eliot Ness, the storied crime fighter. Internally there is little doubt that the company rues the day it stepped out of its comfort zone and into the maw of electoral politics.

Selling political equipment to politicians is an ugly business - and thanks to lawsuits, lobbying expenses and public relations consultants, the profit margins have been stingy too. (The voting division, which accounts for just 5 percent of the $3 billion company's revenue, only started making money last year.)

But after a close look at Diebold and its operations, it's hard to see the company as evil. Naive? Yes. Ignorant? Sure. Stupid? Sometimes. "We didn't know a whole lot about the elections business when we went into it, "admits Swidarski. "Here we are, a bunch of banking folks thinking making voting machines would be similar to making ATMs. We've learned some pretty painful lessons."


A history of success
A cow, a lantern, and a straw-filled barn made Charles Diebold (pronounced DEE-bold) a household name in the banking world. It was the night of Oct. 8, 1871, when, as legend has it, the Great Chicago Fire started in Mrs. O'Leary's cowshed. When 878 Diebold safes survived with their contents unharmed, business took off.

Canton became known as "Little Germany," thanks to the thousands of immigrants who flocked to work in the Diebold factories. (German immigrants arriving in New York reportedly only had to say "Diebold" for directions to Canton-bound trains.)

By the beginning of the 20th century, the company was making jails, trapdoors for gallows, and padded cells for asylums. During World War II it made armor plating for tanks and airplanes. Then, in the 1960s, the company bet its future on a speculative technology: automated teller machines.

Diebold quickly became a global market leader. But it stayed intensely Midwestern, content to manufacture its machines locally and allow companies like IBM (Charts) to distribute them overseas.

In the mid-1990s, however, when rival NCR (Charts) passed it to become the market leader, Diebold changed tactics and took control of its worldwide distribution (today its share is 30 percent). The company began buying up suppliers around the world, including a Brazilian ATM maker, Procomp Amazonia, in October 1999.

>>9956

Entering the political sphere

Around the same time, the Brazilian government was looking to fully automate its election system. Procomp got the $106 million contract - Diebold's largest ever - to make 186,000 identical electronic voting machines for the 2000 election.

At the exact same time that Florida's officials were haggling over butterfly ballots, Brazil's were congratulating themselves on a clean and tidy result.

Emboldened by Diebold's success in Brazil, CEO Walden O'Dell set out to ensure that the company got a serious piece of the U.S. elections business.

The first problem was that the Brazilian machines weren't sophisticated enough for the U.S. market and couldn't be certified quickly. So O'Dell needed to buy a company to get into the market for the 2002 midterm elections.

In June 2001, Diebold announced it was acquiring Global Electronic Systems, based in McKinney, Texas, for about $30 million. Global was a $7 million operation that made most of its money printing ballots for its optical-scan reading machine. Its touch-screen system, the Accu-Vote-TS, wasn't a big seller.

Nothing was a big seller then. The elections business was populated by a couple dozen private firms that often literally sold equipment out of the back of their cars. That's because their customers were poor.

U.S. elections are intensely local affairs, run by more than 3,000 separate counties. Buying new equipment was a luxury. If county commissioners had to choose between filling a pothole or buying new voting equipment, the pothole invariably won.

That all changed when Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002. With it came $3.9 billion in grants for states to replace punch-card and mechanical-lever machines and to set up statewide voter lists.

Local election officials soon found themselves inundated by high-powered lobbyists. "I don't think those election boards had ever seen as many dinners out," says Paul Tipps, a prominent Democrat who lobbied for Diebold in Ohio.

With its main rivals - Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems and Omaha, Neb.-based Election Systems & Software - making inroads in Florida, Diebold targeted other states. In March 2002, just two months after it completed its purchase of Global, Maryland put in a $13 million order to equip four counties with touch-screen machines. In May, Georgia signed a $54 million contract to buy 20,000 Diebold machines.


Early warning signs
After the takeover, the big contracts meant big problems. Diebold had let the Global operation alone, but it just couldn't keep up. Orders were lost, manufacturing fell behind schedule, the technical staff was overwhelmed.

Recalls Swidarski, the unit lacked "the wherewithal really to know how to manage a business. They were doing complex rollouts without the depth or breadth or skill set to deal with what they were going to do."

con't.

>>9957

The same could be said of the customers. Election administrators were often unsophisticated county employees who had been in the job forever. "If we work with Bank of America and they want to roll out 1,000 ATMs, they'll have 25 professional project managers," says Swidarski. "You go to a meeting at a county and you're looking at two people."

It didn't help that Global's touch-screen system, the AccuVote-TS, was flawed from the start. It had purchased the technology from a small company called I-Mark, whose founders had designed it as an unattended voting terminal that could be used in places like shopping malls or supermarkets. "The only problem was they weren't looking at security," says Douglas Jones, a computer science professor at University of Iowa who has been testing voting machines since 1994.

Not quite the only problem. Because there was little demand for touch-screen systems before 2001, Global hadn't spent much on software development. (Jones thinks they needed to start over.)

So the system voters used in 2002 was bug-ridden. Diebold machines crashed early and often, and there was insufficient trained staff to cope with the inevitable problems. (One problem: "vote hopping," where, due to an uncalibrated touch screen, pressing one candidate counted the one next to it.) Even so, after the election, press accounts largely glossed over the problems as isolated hiccups. Orders continued to roll in. And then things fell apart.

Until recently, hardly anyone gave a thought to the mechanics of voting. Even fewer thought about hackers. But in the wake of 2000, the mechanics of voting became politicized.

One key moment came when Bev Harris heard her suburban Seattle county was considering switching to electronic touch-screen machines. Curious, she started trawling the Internet for information - and late one night in January 2003, she discovered a cache of files on an unprotected Diebold server. In it were e-mails between programmers discussing the system's problems.

"Distributing this software is extremely dangerous," a programmer wrote in 2001. "Our smart-card format has absolutely no security, so if someone were to get a copy of this software and a reader, they could stand at the ballot station and quietly burn new voters cards all day.... I can see the cover of USA Today in my head. Consider everyone warned." (Diebold says the problem was fixed before the 2002 elections.)

Digging further, Harris found a version of the company's secret software that ran the machines. She passed it to Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Within an hour, Rubin says, he discovered that the software's encryption system was one "everyone knew was broken since 1998." That same day, he found that the administrative password to all the machines was the same: 1-1-1-1.

"It looked like an experimental student project," Rubin says. "If it was my student's project, they would have gotten an F." His report, which came out two days after Maryland had awarded Diebold a $56 million contract for 11,000 touch-screen machines, galvanized those who had always been suspicious of electronic voting.

The company pointed out in a 27-page retort that the software wasn't in use and that there were checks and balances to prevent fraud. The response didn't satisfy the skeptics; an avalanche of criticism - some of it thoughtful, some of it wacko - began to bear down.

In 2004, California decertified Diebold machines and joined a civil lawsuit filed by Bev Harris that alleged Diebold lied when it said its equipment had been federally certified. The company admitted no guilt but agreed to settle, paying California $2.6 million.

At the same time, it continued to have manufacturing problems, once shutting down production because the touch-screen machines were malfunctioning. (It took a year to replace the defective motherboards.)

con't.

>>9958

Changing gears

Soon, Swidarski, then a senior marketing executive in the ATM unit, took over the elections business. "The board understands, as best anyone can, the volatile nature of the business/media and that politics are involved," Swidarski wrote in an e-mail to his deputies in the elections division. "However, the board cannot understand how the [Secretary of State] of [California] indicates that we have lied, misled, and withheld information."

Swidarski fired many Global staff and brought in a new boss from Canton, Dave Byrd, to run the business. The voting unit began to operate more smoothly, grossing $150 million in 2005 and making a small profit.

In December 2005, the board pushed O'Dell out and named Swidarski CEO. Just as he did with the elections business, Swidarski cleaned house: Only two of the seven top executives he inherited are still at Diebold today.

Swidarski is cut from a different cloth than his predecessor. O'Dell liked deals and was frankly bored by ATMs; he loved being known as one of Bush's Pioneers - generous Republican donors. A former senior executive with Emerson Electric, O'Dell's top priority was to make the numbers.

Swidarski, by contrast, is more focused on the customers than he is on Wall Street. (He refuses to give quarterly earnings guidance.) A former marketing executive at PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, he is straightforward and unpretentious. In his short tenure as CEO, he has changed the mood at Canton. "This place is dramatically different from a year ago," says CFO Kevin Krakora, "almost night and day."

Smart Business 100, Swidarski's $100 million plan to cut costs and increase customer service, is beginning to show dividends. Since fading to less than $35 in September 2005, Diebold's stock is now at $42. Profits dropped 41 percent last year, but were still a healthy $161 million on $2.6 billion of revenue.

Diebold looks set to beat those numbers this year. "The new management team," says Gil Luria, a research analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, "seems to be on top of what they really need to do to turn around the company." Krakora puts it simply, "This company prints cash."
Dubious voting

But its voting machines continue to attract scorn. In August, Edward Felten, a computer-science professor at Princeton University, got his hands on a Diebold machine similar to those still used in Georgia. With the help of two graduate students, he posted a video online that showed him infiltrating and installing a virus in what appears to be less than a minute.

Felten found that the key to the lock protecting the memory card, which is used to both update the software and record votes, was one commonly used in office furniture and even hotel minibars. Once the door to the slot was open, he could slip in a virus-infested memory card and alter votes. "We were completely floored by how easy it was," Felten says.

con't.

>>9958

Diebold disputes the accuracy, integrity and plausibility of the Princeton study, pointing out that Felten's team used an old machine with two-year-old software not in use today. Plus, the team had four months to figure it all out.

"The report all but ignores physical security and election procedures," says Mark Radke, marketing director of Diebold Election Systems. "Every local jurisdiction secures its voting machines - every voting machine, not just electronic machines. Electronic machines are secured with security tape and numbered security seals that would reveal any sign of tampering."

Therein lies the rub, says Michael Shamos, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has been testing election equipment since 1980.

"Diebold doesn't fully get it about security," he says. "Their position every time somebody raises the prospect of insider manipulation of elections is, 'Are you telling me you think that these election officials would commit a felony?' And the answer is, 'Yes, that's what we're saying. They might commit a felony, and what is your system doing to prevent them?'"

Even so, Shamos doesn't completely buy the Princeton study. "What Felten found wasn't a bug in the software," he says. "It was a deliberate feature that comes from the need to be able to update the machines quickly."

Felten, he says, makes it seem like anyone with a memory card could go into a Diebold machine, root around and swing an election. Shamos points out that since the machines aren't networked, a virus would have to be tailored to the ballot and inserted into each machine one wanted to manipulate. That's a lot more work - and a lot more opportunities to screw up - than it looks like on video.

A national rollout of almost any product is bound to have glitches. But when elections depend upon the product in a country whose politics are scarred by distrust, there is little tolerance for error.

The problem critics had with the early touch-screen systems was the lack of a tangible way - such as the kind of receipt consumers get at ATM machines - to verify results. (Oddly, few made this complaint about lever machines.)

Though about half of the touch-screen systems in use today provide an audit trail that voters can see, that presents its own problems, such as installing the paper or keeping it from jamming.

What really gets the critics going, though, is the possibility of stealing or "editing" votes by the bundle, either in a specific precinct or, worse, by hacking into a central database.

[PAY DIRT]

As William "Boss" Tweed, who effectively ran New York City in the mid-1800s, once noted, "The ballots made no result; the counters made the result."

Diebold's critics say that is the problem. But for all the sound and fury swirling around the company, there has not been a single confirmed incident of tampering with a Diebold or any other electronic machine; it's much more difficult to write a computer virus than to tinker with a ballot box. (Ah, say the critics, but prove it hasn't happened.)

con't.

>>9959

So what's the prediction for this election? The primaries were a mixed bag. One big story was that Florida was not a story, but there were problems elsewhere, from poll workers unable to boot up the machines, to transmission problems, to unexpected screen freezes.

"History shows us it always takes at least three good-sized elections before we have any new system down," says Doug Lewis, the executive director of the Election Center, an organization that represents and trains local election administrators. "It would be a miracle if there weren't problems in this election."

As for Diebold, Swidarski is questioning whether the election business "fits into our product portfolio."

He says he'll make a decision within the next three months. But it says something that the company recently ordered the name "Diebold" removed from the front of the voting equipment. Why? A spokesman would only say, "It was a strategic decision on the part of the corporation."

-END-

L O N G Article
But worth studying.

- Suggests that Diebold's problem as mostly the result of ignorance.

- But are they?? They hired JEFFREY DEAN - A FELON - as a consultant and his GEMS "fraction magic" software in their machines.

Not mentioned in the article because nobody yet knew about it.

Diebold's main defenses:
* we don't really know the business
* you've never caught us cheating
* "do you really thing election officials would commit a felony?"

May add more after reading more carefully....

archive so far -
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More on Diebold from WIKIPEDIA:

Diebold Election Systems and UTC (2002-2009)
See also: Premier Election Solutions

In 2002, Diebold entered the United States elections industry through the acquisition of Global Election Systems, a producer of touch-screen voting technology based in McKinney, Texas. Branded Diebold Election Systems (DES), the acquisition was their smallest business segment,[33] and in late 2002, 3.7 million voters in Georgia used DES touch-screen stations.[28][34]

DES was soon the subject of controversy amid allegations surrounding the security and reliability of some of its products,[35] as well as the political fundraising activities of Diebold's then-CEO Walden O'Dell in 2003. Critics argued O'Dell had a political conflict of interest which could compromise the security of Diebold's ballots,[32] which O'Dell denied.[36] Shortly afterwards, Diebold forbade its top executives from making political donations.[37]

Citing personal reasons,[38] O'Dell resigned in December 2005[39] after several consecutive quarters of poor performance,[38] with his role taken by Tom Swidarski.[40] In August 2007, DES rebranded itself as Premier Election Solutions,[41][42][33] and two years later the division was sold to a competitor, Election Systems & Software.[43]

Wired Magazine reported in 2007 that an editor using a Diebold IP address had removed negative information from the Diebold Wikipedia page, with the information later moved to a more appropriate location.[44] Diebold was increasingly focusing on technology related to mobile banking as of 2008,[45] incorporating mobile banking into many of its products. That year Diebold was selected to be the sole ATM provider at certain Beijing Olympics venues.[12]....

PG 1

Diebold, con't - Wikipedia
GEMS moves from Diebold > ESS > Dominion


In August 2007, DES rebranded itself as Premier Election Solutions,[41][42][33] and two years later the division was sold to a competitor, Election Systems & Software.[43]


Election Systems & Software: ES&S
Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services.[1] The company's offerings include vote tabulators, direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines, voter registration and election management systems, ballot-marking devices, electronic poll books, Ballot on Demand printing services, and absentee voting-by-mail services.

ES&S is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC. In 2014, ES&S was the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the United States, claiming customers in 4,500 localities in 42 states and two U.S. territories.[citation needed] As of 2014, the company had more than 450 employees, more than 200 of whom are located in Omaha.
An ES&S DS850 8000-ballot-per-hour central-count ballot scanner....


Premier Election Solutions
Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (DESI),[1] was a subsidiary of Diebold that made and sold voting machines.

In 2009, it was sold to competitor ES&S. In 2010, Dominion Voting Systems purchased the primary assets of Premier, including all intellectual property, software, firmware and hardware for Premier's current and legacy optical scan, central scan, and touch screen voting systems, and all versions of the GEMS election management system from ES&S.

At the time ES&S spun off the company due to monopoly charges its systems were in use in 1,400 jurisdictions in 33 states and serving nearly 28 million people.[2] ....

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) acquired Premier Election Solutions on September 3, 2009....


Acquisition by Dominion
Following the acquisition, the Department of Justice and 14 individual states launched investigations into the transaction on antitrust grounds.[5] In March 2010, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against ES&S, requiring it to divest voting equipment systems assets it acquired from Premier Election Solutions in order to restore competition.[6] The company sold the assets [including GEMS] to Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion Voting Systems acquired Premier on May 19, 2010.[7] "We are extremely pleased to conclude this transaction, which will restore much-needed competition to the American voting systems market and will allow Dominion to expand its capabilities and operational footprint to every corner of the United States," said John Poulos, CEO of Dominion.

So what happens to GEMS from there?

SUMMARY OF WHAT WE KNOW:

1. GEMS can generate fractionalized votes
>>9926 BH on GEMS (2016)
>>9929
>>9930

2. GEMS was used in King Co WA elections in the 1990s (Seattle)
>>9937
>>9932

3. GEMS remains part of the software used on Dominion machines TO THIS DAY.
Was definitely used in NH in 2020
see NH audit discussion in next post

GEMS is probably used in all Dominion Voting systems and also many others as well -
BUT could use a deeper dig.

>>10020

Other highlights of the GEMS-in-New-Hampshire video:

* good breakdown/review on Dennis Montgomery's "Hammer and Scorecard" at ~9 mins. also mentions Amazon's ability to control elections.

* we know these systems are all connected to the internet ~12 mins

* remote access was embedded as a backdoor into Hammer and Scorecard - when copied by others, was included. ~26 mins

* CTCL - change local laws to allow for election fraud ~32 mins

* programmers all lived in BELGRADE, Serbia

* New Hampshire discussion begins ~38 mins

* How VerifiedVoting (Mark Lindeman) was involved in audit, despite pushback from citizens who wanted Jovan Pulitzer

* Harri Hursti & Philip Stark picked as auditors picked by Secy of State - in all these [contested] states, SOS's are corrupt. HH is an "evil genius." ~42 mins

* Discussion of the supposed need for backdating NH Windham machines in NH ~49

* Hursti in 2016: hacks can be either persistent or "one time". ~53 mins

* Memory card reset/copying discussion vs "clear counters"- master memory card need not be wiped out ~59

* Hursti said he did it the way he did because it was the only way to do it [overwriting the master?] ~1:04 - not true acc to Josh Merritt.

* Is it true that there was "no way" these machines could be connected to the net? ~1:08

* NO - Dennis helped developed X86 chipset. "that guy is full of shit."

>>10027
More on Stark's disappearance from NH audit. Date is around May 25 2021.

From GP:

The conflicted audit in Windham, New Hampshire just incurred a major blow. One of three auditors selected to perform the audit has exited from the team.

Last night we reported on how the auditors in the Windham, New Hampshire audit all have serious conflicts due to their activities with each other and the Democrat Party.

On Tuesday, UncoverDC's Michelle Edwards exclusively reported,

On Tuesday, the auditors will conduct a forensic analysis of the voting machines, one of which had more difficulties with folded ballots than the others. each memory card will need 90 minutes to read. With no explanation provided, details emerged late Monday that auditor Phillip Stark would not be present for the remainder of the audit, which leaves the inspection under the command of Harri Hursti and Mark Lindeman.

It is simply shocking that one of these auditors ups and leaves, quits, and neither the Windham board of selectmen nor the NH AG and SoS have said a word!

Losing an auditor places this election audit in direct violation of SB 43, the NH law which authorized this audit and it requires a team of three auditors, one selected by the Windham board of selectman (Mark Lindeman, acting executive director of Verified Voting), one by the NH Attorney General and Secretary State (Harri Hursti, Ph.D.) and one selected by those two auditors (Philip Stark, Ph.D.).

Why has the audit team, or Stark himself, provided no details as to why he walked away from his job?

Why did Stark pull out at the very moment that this team was to audit the hackable, insecure memory cards of these Diebold AccuVote Optical Scan (OS) machines? (the exact model no. is Diebold ES2000, shockingly also used by 137 other NH municipalities.)

Did Stark go MIA because he knows putting his name to an audit of these Diebold machines and memory cards could place his professional reputation at grave risk?

With Dr. Philip Stark making an unannounced bolt from this audit team, we have to wonder if word came down from on high from Speaker Pelosi, who appointed him, a high-ranking American computer scientist to his position on the eac, to move on. Is he required elsewhere in another state, with yet another 2020 election audit about to blow up, needing to be crushed?

Stark, likely wanted off this audit to salvage his professional reputation and be as far away as possible from putting his name on an audit report which asserts NH's Diebold machines and the 90-minute audit of each and every memory card by the team has revealed all's good, nothing to see here.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/breaking-one-three-auditors-exits-windham-nh-election-audit-law-requires-team-three-auditors/

>>10031
>>10027
Philip Stark turns up again here:
>>10162 Key member of OSET Institute, Open Source Election Technology Inst., a shadowy org that wants open source code using for voting:
The OSET Institute is about researching, developing, and making innovative public election technology (i.e., publicly available open source technology subject to an OSI-accredited license for production uses, and AGPL3 for all other research and some production applications) in order to increase verification, accuracy, security, and transparency (in process), and ensure that ballots are counted as cast.
https://www.osetfoundation.org/about-us
Chief project: Trust The Vote
More on OSET from Resource Thread: >>10161, >>10164, >>10165
OSET is also where Eddie Perez is from - the guy brought on Fox by Smartmatic as a "neutral" source to refute Sidney P's claim that Smartmatic was involved in 2020 election fraud. Worked at HartInterCivic b4 coming to OSET - has patents. Will probably add something below on that. >>10161 - >>10166.

We already know that NH audit = coverup (GEMS coverup--)
Here we see a vid clip of Philip Stark LYING about what went down in NH: >>10020
The discussants include experts able to verify that he was lying about the capabilities of GEMS software to connect election machines with the net.

Now Stark is apparently suing the EAC - WHY???
QRB: >>74760 Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) Is Being Sued for Secretly Permitting Internet Access on Election Machines/Civil
SEE NEXT POST

BACKGROUND: WHAT IS THE EAC?
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration. It is charged with administering payments to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and accrediting voting system test laboratories and certifying voting equipment. It is also charged with developing and maintaining a national mail voter registration form.
- Wikipedia

>>10032

Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) Is Being Sued for Secretly Permitting Internet Access on Election Machines

In a strange series of events, the Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) is being sued for updating its policy and allowing voting machines to include Internet access. These policy changes were discussed in private with voting machine companies and silently passed by the EAC without required public debate.

EAC
We’ve reported on the EAC before. Earlier this year we reported that the EAC approved the certification for two audit firms within four hours of TGP reporting that the firms were not certified.

We’ve asked what processes did the EAC go through to update these individuals’ credentials and re-certify them within 4 hours of our article being published noting that they weren’t certified.

Philip Stark
Philip Stark has a checkered past. He resigned from Verified Voting which would suggest he is a good guy.

Philip Stark is also a Board member of the EAC and was also in the news lately when he was selected to be one of three ‘auditors’ selected for the New Hampshire audit. We reported the following on Stark.

It appears very likely that the course of this audit has been quietly steered by top Democratic leadership in the U.S. Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), through the auditors themselves.

Both Philip Stark, Ph.D. and Barbara Simons, Ph.D., the board chair of Verified Voting and also a member of George Soros’ elite Democracy Alliance Board, are current appointees to the corrupt and powerful U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

Stark was appointed by Speaker Pelosi in 2016 and Simons was appointed by former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D) in 2008 and was re-affirmed by then-Senate Minority now Majority Leader Schumer.

Stark made an early exit in New Hampshire never to be seen again. It’s not known how much time and effort he supplied to the audit and what he was paid for being an auditor in name only. Nor is it known why he left.

But now Stark is back in the news.
This time he is suing the EAC, where he is a Board member. Stark and the organization, Free Speech for People, are suing the EAC for updating voting machine guidelines that allow them to have access to the Internet.

The EAC does not seem like an agency full of integrity especially now after secretly updating the guidelines to allow voting machines to have Internet access.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/elections-assistance-commission-eac-sued-secretly-updating-policy-allowing-internet-access-election-machines/

>>10033
There's clearly a mystery here....

EAC could use a DEEPER DIG.

>>10034
Of course, there have been concerns about voting fraud for a long time. Here's something on DEMS looking at it from 2019:

Warren, Klobuchar, Wyden, and Pocan Investigate Vulnerabilities and Shortcomings of Election Technology Industry with Ties to Private Equity
December 10, 2019

Excerpts:

Three private equity-owned election technology vendors serve 90% of eligible voters but fail to sufficiently innovate, improve, and protect deteriorating voting systems; Election security experts have noted for years that our nation's voting systems and election infrastructure are under serious threat

Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), sent letters to three private equity firms McCarthy Group, staple street Capital Group, and H.I.G. Capital that reportedly own or have investments in election technology vendors responsible for developing, manufacturing, and maintaining the vast majority of voting machines and software in the United States.

In their letters, the lawmakers raise concerns about vulnerabilities and a lack of transparency in the election technology industry and the poor condition of voting machines and other election technology equipment. They request information about the role private equity investment in these companies have played in creating and perpetuating these conditions.

Election security experts have noted for years that our nation's election systems and infrastructure are under serious threat, but voting machines reportedly continue to fail and breakdown across the country, as vendors fail to innovate, improve, and protect voting systems, putting U.S. elections at avoidable and increased risk.

The three vendors Election Systems & Software, Dominion Voting Systems, and Hart InterCivic collectively distribute voting machines and software that facilitate voting for over 90% of all eligible voters in the United States. Private equity firms reportedly own or control each of these vendors, which "have long skimped on security in favor of convenience," leaving voting systems across the country "prone to security problems."

https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/letters/warren-klobuchar-wyden-and-pocan-investigate-vulnerabilities-and-shortcomings-of-election-technology-industry-with-ties-to-private-equity

Kanekoa
https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/626
[Forwarded from Nick Moseder]
🚨🚨🚨
Cann-Con’s YouTube channel was just banned completely
No warning… No email explaining why…
Just BANNED!!! Forever

Locals: https://locals.com/member/CannCon?community_id=20028
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@CannCon:e
Telegram: https://t.me/CannCon

Telegram: https://t.me/CannCon

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CannCon was one of the participants in this discussion about election fraud in Windham NH and the key role played by GEMS.
>>10020

>>10020
Dr David Clements interviewed by Stew Peters
Aug. 15, 2021
(just after Mike Lindell symposium)

He's been with the President, Gen Flynn, Patrick Byrne, Mike Lindell in the last 2 weeks. What does he think about that?

DC - all patriots but all different.

Excellent interview - believes the explosive intel/counterintel stuff around Mike Lindell is basically true - beyond the scope of anything he's dealt with before.

Very balanced response - thoughtful.

"I'm just this law professor in the middle of the desert and got pulled into this somehow....but let's not waste time [focusing on the 'spy novel' aspect of things] but focus on getting forensic audits.

Too many secondhand sources right now. He trusted some people and endorsed them - wants to focus more on the audits (not the personalities/possible betrayals).

Let's take greater ownership of the process but also pay attention to what is happening.

sTew - Has a coup taken place?

DC - Yes, absolutely. Knew on Nov 4....hard for an audience to hear. So instead focus on promoting debate - this is like a digital version of the Gulag Archipelago.

DC - on 45: he's the Art of War personalified. Has assets and tools that others don't have - he won the election. Black hats know he won, so do white hats. We have to break the spell over the others.

Stew - how do we do this?

DC - be practical, need a strong faith - you do this bc you have family. don't care if someone thinks i'm crazy, we've already fallen over that cliff. Republic is hanging on by a thread. There's a sense of urgency. We need to hit critical mass - we're so close now. We have to make msm OBSOLETE.

Cabal was hoping we would have been over this election by March - that didn't happen. Now they're desperate. Have to find a homebase [goes on to describe what qrb seems like....hahahaha - but TRUE]

moar....

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/08/dr-david-clements-live-bad-actors-exposed-coup-attempt-real-all-lies-revealed/

WHERE WE'RE AT NOW

NH Dig & GEMS
tells us
* GEMS still widely used
* NH audit is EXTREMELY suspicious - as are all those involved such as Philip Stark
* There are related entitles (e.g., VerifiedVoting, EAC) in need of a dig
* those who ask q's about GEMS are likely to be silenced (CannCom, Prof. Clements)

NEXT:
* More on voting systems: ES&S, Premier, Sequoia, Smartmatic (in brief)
* Serbian connection material - Serbia is connected with both Soros and Dominion - more on that later. But articles on this also include lots of stuff on these companies, so good time to include.
* Main focus here is on Dominion but voting companies are very entwined, so need for context.


THEN
"Circle back" to King Co, because that is where Jeffrey Dean got started. Root of corruption.
* Seattle's move to vote-by-mail (just in brief)
* ClearVote system - seems like a shell company entwined with Smartmatic via Edwin Barkley Smith
* How disgraced election head from King Co, Dean Logan, went to LA Co - and started working with Smartmatic in California


FINALLY
* Edwin Barkley Smith's role in CISA, EISCC
* Devolution Pt 5 - on EISCC and its powerful influence on CISA and election policy


with that, we'll have the foundation to look at current DOMINION activities in much more detail
* Serbian connection
* ownership & control
* who ultimately controls our elections?

>>10125
links are from qrb/8:
>>65488, >>65492, >>65494, >>65496, >>65497
THE SERBIAN SOFTWARE AND THE ELECTION FRAUD IN USA
Nov 16, 2020

This is a MEGA article with a vast amt of material.
SEE NEXT POST for excerpts on election companies.

Although the focus is on connecting Dominion with Serbian efforts to influence American elections, there is a lot of background material that brings in the role of Soros, color elections, Bidens and much else.

Article author of two mega-articles and an interview in Srdjan Nogo, a former member of Parliament who knows a LOT about Serbian politics.

1. EXCLUSIVE: Soros-Biden Network Ukrainegate (US Elections and The Day After) 11-2-2020
https://srbin.info/svet/exclusive-soros-biden-network-ukrainegate-us-elections-and-the-day-after/
by Srdjan Nogo >>10093

2. THE SERBIAN SOFTWARE AND THE ELECTION FRAUD IN USA 11-16-2020
https://srbin.info/svet/the-serbian-software-and-the-election-fraud-in-usa/
by Srdjan Nogo

3. A Stolen Country - The US ELECTIONS AND WHAT COMES NEXT 2-19-2021
https://srdjannogo.rs/a-stolen-country-the-us-elections-and-what-comes-next/

4. 3. Boginja Proleća Thread on Dominion Voting Systems (DATE?)
https://twtext.com/boginjaproleca


There is more material on Serbia connection, will add when i can find it.

>>10129
https://srbin.info/svet/the-serbian-software-and-the-election-fraud-in-usa/
THE SERBIAN SOFTWARE AND THE ELECTION FRAUD IN USA 11-16-2020

EXCERPT on Smartmatic, Dominion and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein & Clinton Foundation

In 2009 Dominion has concluded a contract with Smartmatic concerning the elections in the Philippines in 2010 and early elections in 2013. After these elections numerous lawsuits were launched due to allegations of omissions and fraud. Independent review of source codes that were used in Dominion’s machines discovered many problems and quality and security of its software were disputed. The Chairman of Smartmatic is Mark Malloch Brown, member of the British House of Lords and former Vice-President of the World Bank. He was also United Nations Deputy Secretary-General in 2006 and UK Minister (2007–2009).

However, the most interesting thing about Malloch Brown is the fact that he is one of more important officials of Soros’s network. Cooperation between these two goes way back, even since the war in the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993-1994). Malloch Brown was the Vice-President of the most important Soros’s organizations – the Quantum Fund and the Open Society Foundations and now he is a member of the Global Board. He is also one of the people most responsible for the creating of the infamous International Crisis Group and he is a member of its Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Thanks to Soros, Dominion’s voting machines are being used in the elections to the European Parliament since 2014. Dominion’s servers in which all of the data are stored are located in Frankfurt, wherein is also the head office of the European Central Bank. Dominion shares an office floor in Toronto with the Tides Foundation which is connected to George Soros (Dominion Voting Systems Shares Floor Space With Soros Group, Partnered With Soros’ Friendgroup-partnered-with-soros-friend).


Next to its associations with George Soros, Dominion Voting Systems has numerous connections to the Democratic Party in the USA. The company hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, a lobbying firm. One of the directors of this lobbying firm is Nadeam Elshami, former chief of staff to Democratic Leader and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Elshami is officially registered as a lobbyist for Dominion.

>>10131
con't.

Another well-known Democrat who is connected to this election software is Richard Blum, husband of influential United States Senator Dianne Feinstein who has been a US Senator since 1992.

According to the allegations made by lawyer Sidney Powell, Blum is a majority shareholder in a company that produced voting software that were used in the elections.

Mainstream media have tried to deny these allegations by claiming that the only company in which Blum has made any investments is Avid which deals with graphic and video software. However, this is not exactly true. Avid did produce software that were used in these elections, including the elections in the state of Michigan. Avid advertises its own election software called LeaderPlus Election Management System and Blum is one of its investors – Blum i Avid

It is worth mentioning that Blum has lucrative financial affairs with China as well as ties to Chinese Communist Party which goes a long way to explain some of his wife’s political agenda and her voting policy in the Senate. This influential political couple was also connected to human organ trafficking.

The use of the video software in elections can be best observed in reports made by American mainstream media which use this video applications to follow the election process. Take a look at this video and notice how, during the process of entering new results, the number of votes that were cast for Trump is decreasing. Not the percentage, but the number of votes! This video is constantly being censored and removed from YouTube and social networks.

The Clinton Foundation is also connected to Dominion Voting Systems. In 2014 Dominion has made a donation to The Clinton Foundation to be used for the DELIAN Project.

- This is a more formatted version of anon's excellent dig from >>>/qresearch/11652967
- More on HART from another anon: >>>/qresearch/11653232
https://pastebin.com/X9Bacyf6

HART InterCivic DIG

Semi-Quick Run Down (supporting evidence and images/screenshots will be dumped):
- Hart InterCivic is responsible for a large chunk of the voting machines in the USA (Dominion, ES&S & Hart make up ~90%) – but Hart is found in the most impacted counties (EG – OAKLAND, MI) (Sourced)
- They have had a troubled past (Romney/Rove, Failed Security Measures, Fucked Up Elections because of their tech ‘flipping votes’ [see all of the history posted here below this QRD]) (Sourced)
- The same gentleman in charge of tech since 2012 (Jim Canter) has seen countless investigations/lawsuits due to his machines ‘swapping votes’ in elections against the top-of-ticket candidate (Sourced)
- In July 2019, they had a major shakeup in ownership after Katelyn Love (AG – NC) asked for them to disclose their ownership model. This disclosed H.I.G Capital as a ~80% owner and Gregg L Burt as ~10.5% owner (Sourced)
--Uh-oh – that’s a ‘trade secret’ – PANIC--

- Shortly afterwards, a series of company shakeups moves CEO Philip Braithwaite up to the BOD, being replaced by Julie MATHIS, and hiring Sam Derheimer (Sourced)
- The company then mysteriously is dropped from H.I.G’s listing within its portfolio (Sourced)
- The company then scrubs its website presence and goes into anonymous mode (--remember this--) (Sourced)
- There is now no defined ownership of the company, and no display of leadership/board members or investors (Sourced)
- Pete Lichtenheld and Jim Canter developing a new machine for 2019 sales cycle which has cellular modems inside, allowing connection to internet (illegal) improving upon previous designs (Sourced)
- 4 “Hart” related companies show up on a patent (Hart Intermediate Holding Company, Inc is one of those patent holders) along with a Ukrainian based development team leader – Gregg L Burt remains on a few boards…… (Sourced)

- At the same time as the sales cycle, the company is then shifted into WOFE status by a foreign based ‘security’ business (Chelsea / Hart International - Hart international is one of the largest security contracting firms in the world. Owns Chelsea Group and Hart Intermediate) with their own ambitions and candidate preferences (BIDEN). This occurs via --Gregg L Burt’s C PA-- (Hart +C PA) (Sourced)
- Sales cycle is now in full-swing for 2020 election
- Larry Norden is the leader of pushing ‘election security’ at Brennan Group (Sourced)
- Larry just so happens to be good buddies with Sam and a whole host of EAC officials (retired and current) (Sourced)

- Hart manages to land a ton of key contracts in these heavily contested areas of the 2020 election''' because of ‘special discounts’ and EAC support + brennan policy recommendations (sam derheimer + Larry pushing this on ‘friends’ and politicians) (Sourced)
- A ton of counties were unable to certify the new machine specs as designed before the election''', per records (illegal AF) (Sourced)
- Elections happen; Look up results from Hart-districts
- Dr. Shiva releases the algo video (lightbulb which spurred all of this research) (Sourced)
- H.I.G is a Clinton foundation donor in 2020 (shhiiiiiiiiiit)

YOU ARE HERE

The pieces and data/intel is there to connect how these machines operate, who wanted to fix the election, how they did it and why.

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>>10134

Remaining questions:

1. Which counties recently required changes to their Verity Voting Software prior to the 2020 election? Like Alleghany County: https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Hart%20Intercivic%20Verity%20voting%202.3.3/Hart%20Verity%20Voting%202.3.3%20%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%20final%20with%20signature%20for%20web.pdf)

2. Why and how did Hart Group use Gregg L Burt’s C AG2 firm and Phillip W. Braithwaite use Gilbert PC Law to develop shell companies/transfers of ownership to Hart Group and then R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd?

3. How many counties are currently running non-approved or non-tested Verity software with their Hart Voting Machines?

4. Why the fuck are foreign companies influencing our elections so hard?
Key Players:
* Julie Mathis – CEO as of 2019
* Phillip Braithwaite – Previous CEO; now CHAIRMAN of the BOD
* Jim Canter – CTO as of 2012
* Pete Lichtenheld – SVP of CUSTOMER success (knows systems inside & out) as of 2001
* Lawrence Norden – Brennan Center exec pushing for the adoption of the tech
* Gregg L. Burt – former CEO & BOD president. May be the leader of the shell companies

[moved sauce to end]

Now you faggots can pay me back for last night with some help digging into those docs and into the questions here:

1. Which counties recently required changes to their Verity Voting Software prior to the 2020 election?

2. How many counties are currently running non-approved or non-tested Verity software with their Hart Voting Machines?

3. Why and how did Hart Group use Gregg L Burt’s C AG2 firm and Phillip W. Braithwaite use Gilbert PC Law to develop shell companies/transfers of ownership to Hart Group and then R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd?

4. Why the fuck are foreign companies influencing our elections so hard?
https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/certified-voting-systems
https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/system-certification-process


Main links so far:
https://icitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ICIT-Analysis-Hacking-Elections-is-Easy-Part-Two.pdf
http://www.stancounty.com/bos/agenda/2019/20190910/DIS03.pdf
San Francisco:
https://sfelections.sfgov.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/20150828_Hart.pdf
Idaho:
https://www.co.bonneville.id.us/images/PDF/Commissioner/Exhibits/2013%20Exhibits/Exhibit_157-13_Book_31_Page_406.pdf
Michigan:
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/071B7700128_Hart_Sch_B_and_C_556895_7.pdf
Colorado:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/RFI/proposals/HartColoradoUVSProposal.pdf
http://ouraycountyco.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2661/E-4—License-Agreement-Renewal-with-Hart-InterCivic
Ohio:
https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/pdf_boe/en-US/2019/Tabulation/Hart%20Survey%20Response%202018_ALL.pdf
New Hampshire:
https://sos.nh.gov/media/zklcrgei/hartcivic-response-to-nh-questionnaire.pdf
CA:
http://www.sierracounty.ca.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/7364?fileID=7214
Pennsylvania:
https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Hart%20Intercivic%20Verity%20voting%202.3.3/Hart%20Verity%20Voting%202.3.3%20%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%20final%20with%20signature%20for%20web.pdf
https://www.alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/Allegheny_Home/Dept-Content/Elections/Docs/FINAL_Voting%20Systems%20Evaluation%20Committee%20Report_08-19-19.pdf


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>>10136
Sidney Powell Tweet

add here anything else about voting companies

>>10214
Verified Voting
QRB General 18: Bread Unlocked Bunker Unchained Edition
>>14149
DIEBOLD is the Soros company.
You might want to read up on all the election fraud being perpetrated by DIEBOLD.
Sauce:
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/premier-diebold/accuvote-os/
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp

Looks like Windham NH fags need some help digging.
Town selectmen acting just like the Maricopa County Board of homos
>https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/verified-voting/
Verified Voting is a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates against the use of electronic voting machines, instead (((championing )))the use of verified paper ballots to allegedly promote election security. [1] During the 2020 presidential election, Verified Voting participated in recount efforts in Georgia. [2]

Despite claiming to be nonpartisan,Verified Voting has an extensive history of working with left-of-center organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), theBrennan Center for Justice, the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, Public Citizen, and Common Cause. [3] Verified Voting board chair Barbara Simons also sits on the board of the Democracy Alliance,a powerful left-of-center donor collective. [4] Verified Voting has accepted grants from the left-of-center MacArthur and Threshold Foundations. [5] [6]

In 2019, longtime Verified Voting board member Philip Stark resigned in protest. Stark accused Verified Voting of misrepresenting the science behind risk-limiting audits (RLAs), which the organization promoted as a solution to election security. Stark's resignation letter accused Verified Voting of promoting a "false and misleading impression" of RLAs and questioned the integrity of the organization. After Stark's departure, board member Richard DeMillo left the Verified Voting advisory board as well. [7]

>https://verifiedvoting.org/team/#barbara
Barbara Simons, Ph.D.

>>10214
Voting machine security: Too little too late?
Jan 10, 2020
https://gcn.com/articles/2020/01/10/voting-equipment-security-requirements.aspx

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.

>>9922
https://endchan.gg/qrbunker/res/9922.html
ARCHIVED

>>10275

The Oligarchy’s Money
Soros is largely a creature of the British-run oil spot market scheme, and got his start as a currency speculator, 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 1971. As a fund manager, Soros depends upon the money of others, and that money comes largely from networks around the Rothschild 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 1947 to escape the Soviets, and, during the early 1950s, studied at the London School of Economics, where he was molded into an imperial stooge, studying under Austrian-born Sir Karl Popper, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies. Ultimately, Soros named his major operation against
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 merchant 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 1969, he headed his first fund. Thus trained, he left Bleichroeder and created his own Quantum Fund, in 1973.

The timing of this move is indicative of the way Soros’s career has been shaped by his controllers, as 1973 was also the year of the first great oil hoax, and the creation 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 narcodollars 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 several 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 directed about $100 million of it to operations in Moscow, in December 1992, through the Soros Foundation 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 $25 million, or $50 million in renewable loans, and grants to Macedonia and Bosnia, setting up the conditions for permanent ethnic wars and destabilizations. Ultimately, Soros was kicked out of Russia, Croatia, Belarus, and other former East Bloc countries, for his dirty operations.


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>>10276
Soros and the Foreign Office
In 2006, 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 company, 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—destabilizing countries and installing British operatives—since at least 1986, according to the book Alpha Dogs, by London Times Editor James Harding. Harding describes how Malloch Brown boasts of having overthrown Philippines 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 1986, 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 $50 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 2003-04, 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 approved.

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 British policy is genocide, and Soros is a great practitioner of the policy.

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>>10132
DELIAN Project

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.

Here's the details on Dominion sharing space with Tides Foundation in Toronto office building. BONUS - info on Dominion getting FUNDED by ACT BLUE. Not exactly a politcally neutral organization.

Dominion Voting Systems Shares Floor Space With Soros Group, Partnered With Soros’ Friend
--So Much Nonsense In The 2020 Election--
Patrick Howley November 13, 2020

--Dominion Voting Systems shares an office floor with the George Soros-funded left-wing Tides Foundation in Toronto, NATIONAL FILE has learned.-- Our tipster makes clear that “Soros people” are very close with Dominion, which has partnered with a voting technology company chaired by one of left-wing billionaire George Soros’ best friends and associates. ...Dominion is headquartered in Toronto and has a U.S. office in Denver.

The Robertson Building’s Directory of Tenants shows that Dominion Voting is listed at both Suite 200 (the suite Dominion lists publicly) and also Suite 370, which places it in neighborly range of the Tides Canada Foundation in suite 360. Tides Foundation in America, based in San Francisco, created and financially supports Tides Canada Foundation. The Tides Foundation has reportedly received more than $20 million in donations from George Soros’ groups, and Tides shares Soros’ vision for a radical left-wing makeover of Western civilization and the world. Tides has given out money to numerous left-wing groups including ACORN and Project Vote and recently created the Black Lives Matter Support Fund.

This is just one link between Dominion Voting Systems and George Soros. Access Wire reported that “Dominion entered into a 2009 contract with Smartmatic and provided Smartmatic with the PCOS machines (optical scanners) that were used in the 2010 Philippine election, the biggest automated election run by a private company.”

Smartmatic is chaired by Mark Malloch-Brown, who is good friends with George Soros and even called Soros his landlord at a five-bedroom house in Westchester County, New York. Malloch-Brown has worked with Soros on various projects including as vice chairman of the Open Society Institute and also Soros Fund Management. .....

[They have known each other since 1986 - see https://endchan.net/qrbunker/res/9922.html#10275]

Dominion Voting Systems also hired the notorious Democrat political organizing operation Act Blue. .....

https://nationalfile.com/dominion-voting-systems-shares-floor-space-with-soros-group-partnered-with-soros-friend/

>>10284
March 2021
Astrid Stuckelberger
Corona Commte interview
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANKLLWX0DMQ [Embed]

Switzerland figures prominently below RE Who Really owns Dominion? May be Switzerland. Or at least it's subject to Swiss hegemony.

Switzerland is a major center of corruption. Where GAVI is from, even tho it's American. They can do whatever they want, police cannot intervene. Working now for a lawyer in Quebec, he was there with two other lawyers - what i'm going is finding out a bit more.

There's an agreement signed by 194 member states, it's embedded in the constitution of WHO. The international health regulations. You have to go and dig to see. They are directing as a corporate agency the WHO.

SO: When Tedros says something, all the countries have to agree. Binding law for everyone who is a member of the WHO.

Two countries made reservations:
1. USA
2. Iran

At one point, Bill Gates lobbied to a MEMBER STATE. This is unprecedented. Not officially so far - but unofficially??? He has total immunity.

Very suspicious. She thinks he has done something with EVERY member state - thru contracts. This is abnormal. She knows he did it with SwissMedic.

Another participant: "BillGatesistan"

This is why every country says the same thing, same message.

Normally NGO's have limitations. GAVI has no taxes to pay and total immunity. Criminally immune. "Qualified Diplomatic Immunity." No taxes since 2009. This is the law in Swizerland.

UN has been brought into this corporation.
Reiner conclusion: We're dealing with the bunch of criminals.

David Fidler article on hegemony on global governance.
This is probably it:
file:///C:/Users/susan/AppData/Local/Temp/fidler_africa_covid_int_law.pdf

Something about PCR test alert - look at again. Seems to say two contradictory things. At the very end.

At this point, we have looked at all the companies involved in elections to some extent.
- Part of the aim is to give background
- Part is to demonstrate how intertwined they all are

BUT THERE'S MORE

It concerns
- Smartmatic & ClearVote
- Edwin Barkley Smith
- Dean Logan (head of elections first in King Do then LA county)
- role of EISCC
- Patel Patriot's Part 5 DEVOLUTION

SO

let's start by picking up with KING CO and what happened there as a lead in.

>>10287
"Clear" Voting Systems - July 2021 DIG from Qresear.ch
"clearballot" - 30 results, 6 are from original MNR dig.

Qresearch digs:

#11569589 #14771 Nov 11 2020
- WAnon found digg on illegal voting machines used by State of WAnon
- they're used for mail-in voting
- clearballot is used for vote counting in King County (Seattle), and likely other states. Vote rigging is highly likely, given that ever since the State of Washington went to 'all mail-in-ballots' in 2005, there has never been a Republican governor in that time. It's all been Democrats, and the same with the Attorney General.
>>>/comms/28112
there was a 'writ of mandamus' (an order to correct the chain of custody for voting) filed back in 2018.against Kim Wyman, the Secretary of State for the State of Washington. Kim Wyman is a Deep State Operative, having been in the 'Aspen Institute' (A George Soros' funded organization)

#11573228 at 2020-11-10 #14776
All of Clear Ballot's certified products operate on a closed and isolated wired network, never attached to modems, the Internet, WiFi, or Bluetooth.Network traffic is encrypted using algorithms recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
First red flag for me here: NIST? same guys who think two buildings each a quarter of a mile high will merely collapse into their own footsteps?

Clear Ballot's visual verification technology provides election officials with the ability to validate voter intent and digitally adjudicate unreadable ballots by highlighting discrepancies and stray marks, including overvotes and undervotes.
2nd red flag: provides election officials with the ability to validate voter intent and digitally adjudicate
I still cannot find their voting tabulation method. I suppose one would have to inquire and that, too, I suspect is by design.
But hey, what do I know?

#11573272 at 2020-11-10 #14776
Could not find any board of directors....These folk seem real dicey.

#11580789 at 2020-11-10 #14785
survey in Contra Costa Co (Ca) - compares Dominion Voting Systems , ES&S, clearballot and Hart
http://64.166.146.245/docs/2018/BOS/20180206_1051/32486_Staff%20Report%20Voting%20Systems_120817%20complete.pdf

#11606308 at 2020-11-12 #14818 MARK MALLOCH-BROWN Globalist, Satanist? Edition
>Dominion software configuration
I would think would be controlling Clarity elections software
Here is what appears be Clarity elections software administrator manual for counties.
I think this is the Clarity Elections group that managed 28 states count / elections. Not 100% but looks solid has all the code variables in the appendix.
Clear Design Administrators Guide
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/systemsDocumentation/clearballot/ClearDesign/ClearDesignAdministratorsGuide-r.pdf
July 2021: YES - ClearDesign is DEFINITELY part of ClearBallot group

"Clarity is now owned by Service Point Solutions"
Service Point Solutions (Paragon) announces acquisition of Scytl:
Service Point Solutions, a company quoted in the Spanish Stock Exchange and part of Paragon group, announced today the acquisition of Scytl, a Barcelona based company leader in digital voting and electoral modernization. The acquisition also includes Civiciti, the citizen participation platform launched by the software company in 2016, and Scytl subsidiaries in USA, Canada, Australia, France and Greece. This acquisition unveils Paragon's group strategy to position Service Point Solutions as a pan-european platform for high-growth digital business.
See full details here.
https://www.scytl.com/en/news/

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>>10288

[July 2021: We know that votes from Dominion were sent to Scytl - so both Clarity and Scytl are owned by Service Point Solutions/PARAGON.Who in the hell are THEY??]

same poster/same bread #11606372
poster notices link to ClearBallot - which was used in BUCKS CO, PA. It's on their index page (or was). Mentions ClearBallot's "browser-based technology"....CBS News highlighted the partnership between Bucks County and Clear Ballot.

same bread #11606600
King County Washinton (seattle)
https://clearballot.com/case-studies/king-county
Multnomah County
https://clearballot.com/case-studies/multnomah-county
Pierce County Washington
https://clearballot.com/case-studies/pierce-county
Snohomish County Washington
https://clearballot.com/case-studies/snohomish-county

[THESE ARE CASE STUDIES - available on Qresear.ch] - King Co is here: #11747538]
Stress is on EFFICIENCY, not SECURITY

#11818853 stuff on PA voter certification
https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/clearballot/ClearVote%201.5%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%2

#11872179 2020-12-02 #14154
Dig on Edwin Barkley Smith, a Central Character in Election Fraud

DIG ATTACHED BELOW


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>>69183

Edwin Barkley Smith, cont.
LINKED IN

US Global Services Director at Smartmatic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-smith-785a791
Describes a specific project in which he has been involved:
Los Angeles Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project

About:
I've never shied away from a challenge. In mid-2018 I left a good job where I stood atop the intersection of the development community and the sales/service/finance community (a place at a start up that I truly enjoyed, learned a lot, and was well respected) to join the most innovative, challenging, and largest elections project in the history of the United States: the Los Angeles Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project. At a baseline value of $212 million with additions of over $80 million, VSAP exceeds anything done before at the County level of US elections by 10X. You should read about it at https://vsap.lavote.net/. I took over as Service Delivery Manager on the project. Although this meant that I was assigned management of the Help Desk, aspects of the Implementation and other areas of accountability, what it really meant is that I got to dive into a number of project areas, roll up my sleeves and spend the days leading up to the election working as anything from an electronic pollbook programmer, a parking lot attendant for 300 vans and trucks, and a roving voting machine technician. The hours were long, 4:30 AM to 11:30 PM was the norm for weeks, but I was exactly where I was meant to be. …and I was able to juggle my Service Delivery “assigned duties” while dealing with those election preparation emergencies.

People tell me that my restless desire to “get dirty”, to walk the shop floor daily and get to know the people and process, along with an innate ability to exude calmness in the face of ugly situations are some of my strengths. My ability to explain to laypersons deep technical and business concepts is also a strength. Getting the job done with no excuses while encouraging others to thrive, make mistakes, and always maintain their dignity and spirit is important to me. The type of persons I find most valuable: someone who focuses on accountability, communicates 360, is trainable, and does not engage in political, diffusive, or divisive efforts. Every company and its people have a finite amount of energy. Focusing that energy is key to success. Mentoring others is also important; and I am proud of how many people I have worked with over the years who continue to stay in touch.

Most of my experience has been at smaller companies or new divisions of larger companies. I have helped all to find a place in the market, knock out incumbents, differentiate their offerings and exceed in getting more than their fair share of those markets.

END OF EDWIN BARKLEY SMITH INTRO

3 possible directions:

* More on Clearvote and its role in King Co / Washington State

* Smartmatic and its role in Cali elections & LA County

* EISCC ( >>> Cisa & Devolution pt 5)


The first two are related thru Dean Logan, who was first Elections head of King Co (early 2000s) and then Elections head of LA Co

EISCC takes us into much broader territory because it involves national policymaking on elections and all of the major elections companies. Leads back to Dominion as well - and seems like DOMINION is now the company behind the companies.

So the question:
Who is Stealing American's elections?
leads most of all back to DOMINION and those behind it, especially George Soros.

>>10287
>>10288
King Co selects ClearVote/ClearBallot as New Voting System
The new voting system will process ballots five times faster than any other voting system
6-09-2017

BOSTON, MA, July 10, 2017 – Clear Ballot announced today that King County, Washington, which includes the City of Seattle, selected ClearVote™ as its new voting system. King County is the largest jurisdiction in Washington and the 13th largest election jurisdiction in the United States with more than 1.2 million registered voters. The county also is the largest vote-by-mail election jurisdiction.

Since 2012, Clear Ballot has provided the election industry with a modern voting platform that delivers unprecedented security, speed, and transparency. The voting platform includes ClearAudit™, the nation’s first independent, automated audit and ClearVote, a complete, modern voting system. The rapid adoption of both products has made Clear Ballot the fastest-growing election technology provider in the nation. Forty-two percent of registered voters in Washington State will use ClearVote in its August elections. Since becoming certified in Oregon two years ago, 65 percent of registered voters in the state have had their ballots counted on the ClearVote voting system.

....

King County will be the first jurisdiction to use high-performance intelligent scanners from ibml with ClearVote software to process vote-by-mail ballots. The technologies will process ballots five times faster than any other voting system.

“We are excited to update our voting system with the latest technology from Clear Ballot,” said Julie Wise, Director of King County Elections. “ClearVote meets the needs of our growing county and will enable us to process elections with greater efficiency. We’re ready for the future.”

King County’s decision to use the ClearVote system and ibml’s scanners offers a compelling vision for the increasing number of states and counties considering vote-by-mail. King County will set a new bar for election innovation for jurisdictions that want to increase their transparency and efficiency while reducing cost.

Clear Ballot CEO Larry Moore stated, “We are honored to partner with King County to create the highest performing, most transparent voting system in the country. With a sustained ballot scanning capacity of more than 50,000 ballots per hour, the ability to resolve the closest of elections within minutes, and the opportunity to significantly reduce costs through streamlined procedures, King County’s new voting system will be a showcase for every election jurisdiction in the United States.”


About Clear Ballot:

Clear Ballot is the leader in election innovation. Clear Ballot has introduced a new class of tools and a modern approach to voting, with the speed, accuracy and transparency that officials and the voting public have sought for decades. Designed for ease-of-use, Clear Ballot’s browser-based software, used with commercially available scanning hardware, scales to election jurisdictions of all sizes and responds directly to the budgetary realities of counties and municipalities. Boston-based, Clear Ballot was founded by a team of experienced technologists in 2009.

Clear Ballot election technology is certified for use in Oregon, Washington and New York and is also used to conduct audits in Vermont, Florida and Maryland. Clear Ballot and the State of Maryland conducted the nation’s first 100% automated, independent statewide audit for the 2016 Presidential Election.

https://clearballot.com/news/king-county-washington-states-largest-county-selects-clearvote-its-new-voting-system

>>10305

KING CO WASHINGTON

* Home to felons responsible for fractionalized voting - which has never been fully exposed or investigated

* No investigation was ever done in the early 2000s to determine if there was election fraud, although it looks extremely suspicious

* Now the same system is EXCLUSIVELY vote-by-mail with ballot boxes in front of libraries and it other public places.

* Given its checkered history and the pivotal role played by two felons 20 years ago, what is going on with elections in present-day King Co?

What are the chances that ClearVote / ClearBallot is really on the up-and-up?


probably not that great.-- but until recently, there's been a pretty rosy picture painted:

Washington’s successful vote-by-mail system wasn’t built overnight
Many states are looking for guidance on conducting their own 2020 elections by mail, but Washington state officials warn it won’t be easy.
by Donna Gordon Blankinship
April 15, 2020
“It’s not going to be pretty,” Wise said, between enthusiastic declarations about why every state in the nation should consider vote-by-mail and not just because it’s a good idea during a pandemic. In addition to Washington, the other vote-by-mail states are Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii and Utah. At least another 21 states have laws that permit some smaller elections, like those for school boards, to be conducted by mail, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.....
https://crosscut.com/2020/04/washingtons-successful-vote-mail-system-wasnt-built-overnight

If WA state conducted a FORENSIC AUDIT, what would the auditors find??

>>10305
looks like 2020 Gov candidate Loren Culp wasn't too confident about elections throughout the state:
https://mynorthwest.com/2360431/culp-campaign-lawsuit-secretary-of-state/

But he gave up fighting it (for now) when the state pushed back hard.

Loren Culp drops lawsuit alleging election fraud in Washington state
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Loren Culp, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who lost to Gov. Jay Inslee in the 2020 election, has withdrawn a lawsuit against the state alleging widespread election fraud.

The move to drop the suit comes after the state Attorney General's Office threatened legal sanctions against Stephen Pidgeon, Culp's lawyer, for "legally baseless" claims "filed with the improper purpose of undermining confidence in a free and fair election."

[SO THEY THREATENED HIM]

Culp and his lawyer responded in a lengthy live video posted on Culp's Facebook page. He said the AG's office would likely drag this out for years, costing "millions of dollars." "I don't have that money. I don't feel that it would be right to ask you for that money just to be thrown out by a judge," Culp said. Official numbers show Inslee, now in his third term as governor, won the election with 56.7% of the total vote, while Culp received 43.3%.

On a Facebook live video with supporters Friday, Culp said that continuing the lawsuit would have cost millions, only to risk it being thrown out and being forced to repay the state’s legal fees.

https://www.q13fox.com/news/loren-culp-drops-lawsuit-alleging-election-fraud-in-washington-state

more on Clearvote/WA state

con't

>>10359

More on LA's VSAP (Smartmatic) from Qresear.ch

Smartmatic on VSAP
https://www.smartmatic.com/us/vsap-quotes-from-key-stakeholders/

Chavista Company Smartmatic Responsible for Vote Counting in United States
The company Smartmatic, which for a decade counted the votes of the electoral processes in Venezuela under the Socialist regime, now operates in the U.S. elections....The decision was made by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to develop its "Voting for All Solution" (vsap). However, this company, which boasts on its website that it is an approved supplier to the United States Department of Defense and a founding member of the Electoral Infrastructure Subsector of the Department of Homeland Security, is made up of Chavista tentacles.....
https://en.panampost.com/gabriela-moreno/2020/11/11/smartmatic-usa-election/‘‘‘

Smartmatic welcomes Microsoft's newest election solution
...Smartmatic, which has already been engaged by the largest voting jurisdiction in the United States, Los Angeles County, to develop its Voting Solutions for All People (vsap) system, looks forward to continuing to introduce its advanced technology to the United States for the 2020 elections....
https://elections.smartmatic.com/smartmatic-welcomes-microsoft-newest-election-solution/

Smartmatic peddled vsap to CA SoS Padilla back in December 2019, laundering $500M in the process
https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/LAC/vsap2-acc.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgiselarsalas

Spotlight on Elections: Voting, Cloud, and Alexa
Votem, which recently acquired AWS partner, Everyone Counts, in one of their first joint projects will complete implementation of the Interactive Sample Ballot (ISB) as part of the "Voting Solutions for All People" (vsap) project in Los Angeles County with Smartmatic, another AWS partner.
https://archive.is/oMdvI

California OK's highly questioned LA county voting system
I wonder - did my vote even count?
California has among the nation's most rigorous election equipment certification regimes and requires independent forensic testing including attempted hacking. In the case of the vsap system, testers found a series of problems that made its system vulnerable to unauthorized access. Their report said "seals, locks, labels and sensors can all be bypassed" on the system, and the ballot box can be opened without detection - meaning ballots can be inserted or removed. They also determined that "unrestricted access to, and the ability to boot from, the USB port allows access to data" that could thus be tampered with.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-01-24/california-oks-highly-questioned-la-county-voting-system

SMARTMATIC RE-NAMES TO VSAP FOR LA 2020
https://www.smartmatic.com/media/article/smartmatic-wraps-successful-2019-and-looks-toward-bigger-year-in-2020/

L.A. E-VOTING MACHINES VULERNABLITIES REPORT
Here's the report pdf which warns of the Soros Smartmatic e-voting machines about to be used in L.A.
https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/LAC/vsap2-func.pdf

LA County Intoduces E-Voting System: Not Hand-Marked, Not Paper, Not Hand-Counted In Public
No doubt Los Angeles County's vsap ("Voting Solutions for All People") rollout will not be covered as a debacle. The real question is: If there were a debacle - like, say, a case of election fraud - would we even know? Doubtful. Just what we want in a voting system! In this post, I'll give a brief overview of issues with electronic voting. Then I'll look at vsap as an institution. Next, I'll show why the vsap system is not only insecure, but likely to make money-in-politics even worse than it already is.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/la-county-intoduces-e-voting-system-not-hand-marked-not-paper-not-hand-counted-public

DEVOLUTION, CISA & EISCC

- 1990s: Jeffrey Dean likely "cooking" elections in King Co WA - where Dean Logan was the Director of Records and Elections
https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/election-pros-are-cons/

- 2004: Dean Logan leaves after election scandal to become Director of Elections in LA CO - where he remains today (working closely with Smartmatic, who designed the touch screen election systems they use)

- 2011: Washington State adopts statewide mail-in voting (prolly COMP'D, given its history)

- 2017: King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties in WA adopt ClearVote/ClearBallot system
>>10289
But is ClearBallot its own company or an extension of Smartmatic, thru Edwin Barkley Smith, who wrote a letter to Colorado SoS on their behalf?
>>10298
>>10287, >>10288, >>10296, >>10299
Unclear!!
ClearBallot needs a bigger DIG. Still obscure. Even the website is EXTREMELY general - even when they replaced the CEO, there's almost zero info on the guy. It's like he came outta nowhere. from Resource thread:
>>10364 Jordan Esten Promoted to CEO of Clear Ballot

- But turns out that Edwin Smith
* has a fulltime position at Smartmatic
* participates on the Elections Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council [EISCC] on behalf of Smartmatic

- Also turns out that the "Clear Ballot Group" is ALSO one of the founding members of EISCC:
Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council Charter://www.cisa.gov › default › files › publications
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/election_infrastructure_subsector_specific_plan.pdf

- As DEVOLUTION PART 5 reveals, EISCC - which consists of all the major elections systems - has a LOT of power when it comes to CISA policy.


so how did a company founded in 2009 to do "audits" develop a vote-by-mail system capable of handling elections for both NYC and Seattle within a few years? And also become one of the founding members of EISCC?

CISA and the 2020 Election\
"The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the Nation’s risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborating to build more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.• The blue outer ring and the inner red ring indicate CISA’s unity with DHS and a nod to our efforts to cut through government red tape, while the three blue lines in the outer ring represent the Agency’s three congressionally mandated missions: cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and emergency communications.   • The eagle faces to the right, signifying CISA’s keen eye on the future and forward posture.   • The center shield represents CISA’s commitment to “Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow,” while the eagle’s folded wings reinforce CISA’s protection and defense of our nation.   • The image includes wavelengths representing the emergency communications mission, which emanate from buildings that signify the infrastructure security mission, while the nodes in the eagle’s arm indicate the cybersecurity mission. • The bridge represents the vital, two-way connection, communication, and collaboration between the public and private sectors, which is so key to CISA’s mission success. CISA’s new logo officially launched April 30, 2020 and has layers of meaning representing the Agency and its mission. "
https://www.cisa.gov/about-cisa

AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION, CISA issued a statement about the security of that election:
"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election

This came as a shock in light of the fact that there seemed to be MAJOR DISCREPANCIES in election procedures in many jurisdictions. But because of CISA's "official" status, that statement made if very difficult to credibly challenge the results of the election.

SO

Just who helped to generate that statement?

THE VERY COMPANIES WHICH HELPED PERPETRATED THE FRAUD.

This is the subject of Part 5 of Devolution - BELOW.

SUMMARY TO THIS POINT

GEMS & Jeffrey Dean
* Bev Harris did a number of investigations into GEMS fractionalized voting (2016) and Jeffrey Dean's role in it extending back into the 1990s.
* Dean played a key role in King Co (Seattle) elections but the GEMS went everywhere via GES, Diebald, Premier and eventually DOMINION.
* Dean himself is a mysterious figure with a highly checkered past who has "disappeared" since the early 2000s. Is he Sean Dean? Nobody knows.

ELECTION COMPANIES & INDIVIDUALS
* There are a relatively small number of election companies that dominate elections worldwide now: *Smartmatic, ES&S, Sequoia and Dominion are the biggest but there are new ones like ClearBallot or Verity Voting as well.
* It's common for people to move from company to company over the years. Although they supposedly compete, they are closely intertwined.
* It's hard to pin down who really controls these companies and how their systems truly function. But there have been major fraud allegations since at least 2000.
* Figures such as George Soros, his BFF Mark Malloch-Brown, and corrupt leaders such as Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), and Neil Nanpeng Shen are linked directly or indirectly, and countries like China, Italy, and Serbia seem to be playing an active role in subverting American elections, espec. in 2020.

WASH STATE AFTER JEFF DEAN
* Meanwhile, King Co. has had at least one fraudulent governor's race (2004) and the head of King Co elections has gone on to head LA Co. elections (Dean Logan).
* LA elections have systems engineered by Smartmatic, which also helps certify elections on the state level.
* Washington State is all mail in ballots since 2011; since 2017, King Co. has used ClearBallot for that purpose, a company that's very hard to pin down. Like Dominion, went from relative obscurity to having very big clients like NYC and Seattle.

EDWARD B SMITH, CISA & EISCC
* Edwin Barkley Smith has advocated on behalf of ClearBallot, even tho he works fulltime for Smartmatic, and also serves at the EISCC rep for that company.
* The EISCC (private - mostlly election companies) works closely with CISA (public) to regulate elections in the US, but it appears that EISCC plays a far more influential role than anyone realized until recently (via Devolution part 5).
*ClearBallot is also one of the founding members of EISCC, along with giants like Dominion.


There are plenty of other things to look at re election fraud, but we are tracing a particular thread here that focuses on the role of GEMS, how it shaped Dominion, and how Dominion because a dominant force in the election world. Check the Additional Resources thread for more stuff on Italy, Marco Polo/Garrett Ziegler, more info on voting systems/individuals, etc.


There is evidence that Dominion/GEMS played a PIVOTAL ROLE in 2020 Election Fraud
'''For starters, the damning admission by Dominion VP Eric Coomer to ANTIFA comrades that 'Trump won't win, I made effing sure of it.' SEE >>10472
Sidney Powell and others started to investigate - and eventually Dominion fought back. see below
But over time, the work of Seth Keshel and others showed widespread election fraud. see below

Dominion and its GEMS software seemed to play a central role.

SIX MONTHS LATER

from 7-11-21

Captain Seth Keshel: The Numbers Don't Lie. The Election was STOLEN.

The Professor's Record with David K. Clements Published July 9, 2021

Rumble — In this interview, Captain Seth Keshel discusses his journey from baseball analytics to military intelligence, followed by a providential meeting with General Michael Flynn that changed his life forever.

Captain Keshel breaks down the impossible statistical anomalies that defy election trends going back over 100 years, and pulls back the curtain on what it was like to be on the all-star team of General Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood.

https://rumble.com/vjmyud-captain-seth-keshel-the-numbers-dont-lie.-the-election-was-stolen.html

Some of the players closest to Dominion:

Carlyle Gp
Cerberus
Bill Gates
Staple Street Capital
George Soros
Mark Malloch Brown
Smartmatic
Gain Capital
Antonio Mugica
AccuVote
Blackstone
Runbeck Election Services
Neil Shen & Sequoia Capital China
ES&S
CFR
Nigel Knowles
DLA Piper
Peter Neffender
eDevice
AccuVote
Kamala Harris
UBS
UBS Securities
Perkinds Coie
Dough Emhoff
Frank Carlucci
James Baker
David Mark Rubenstein

REMINDER: Dominion is a CANADIAN Company Based in TORONTO
* next door to Soros' TIDES FOUNDATION
* Hired ACT BLUE.
* Entwined with Smartmatic, via Mark Malloch-Brown, who's cozy with the United Nations thru his UN Fund (etc)
SEE >>10281, >>10282

SUMMARY

There are TWO sub-branches of UBS - one in NYC and another in China - with similiar names.

China: UBS Securities Co, Ltd.
NYC: UBS Securities So, LLC.

UBS Securities Co. Limited
First foreign-invested fully-licensed securities firm in China, 51% owned by UBS AG
https://www.ubs.com/cn/en/ubs-securities.html
https://www.scmp.com/infographics/economy/china-economy/article/2175939/china-allows-ubs-take-controlling-stake-local (see CAP previous post)
Current shareholders: UBS AG (51%); Beijing Guoxiang Property Management Co., Ltd (33%); Guangdong Provincial Communication Group Co., Ltd (14.01%); and China Guodian Capital Holdings Ltd (1.99%).
https://www.ubs.com/cn/en/ubs-securities.html

UBS Securities, LLC
UBS Securities LLC operates as the investment banking division of UBS, providing investment and broker-dealer services worldwide. The Company provides services such as equities sales and trading, fixed income products, and treasury products. UBS Securities offers financial services to individual and institutional investors.
Address: 1285 Avenue Of The Americas New York, NY 10019 United States
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/5766Z:US
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.ubs_securities_llc.a9a903d2f17c03a8fe88a4b3b57c5d45.html
tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities

tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities
This in an extremely useful article for sorting out some of the confusion.
Explains not only the significance of Dominion but the COVER-UP attempted after the Oct 8 transaction.
Lends credence to the idea that there was a definite effort to make it look like UBS-Sec-LLC (NY) was completely separate from UBS-Sec-LTD (China) when this was not true. What we don't know is who pulled the strings - was it the Swiss parent company UBS AG?


What We Know: Dominion Voting Systems & UBS Securities and the Oct 8th $400mil investment
Tim Fries, Last updated on December 07, 2020

Some claims have surfaced suggesting Dominion Voting Systems—the company that provided voting hardware and software used in 28 states during the most recent US presidential election—was under majority Chinese ownership.

While this isn’t exactly the case, SEC-filed paperwork indicates a connection of some kind.


Dominion Voting Systems and a $400 Million Investment

On December 1, Trump-hired attorney Lin Wood first revealed that China bought Dominion for $400 million. Despite providing the SEC form D for this claim, it was not quite correct. Namely, the link between Dominion and China was not as straightforward as Wood first claimed. However, the convoluted chain of links does connect Dominion to China in some way:

- The payer of the $400 million was UBS Securities LLC [NYC], which is a subsidiary of Swiss investment bank UBS.
- The receiver of the payment was Staple Street Capital, which previously bought Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.
- The payment occurred on October 8, 2020.
- Although there is a Chinese bank and investment firm named ‘UBS Securities’, it is UBS Securities Co. Ltd (based in Beijing), not UBS Securities LLC (based in New York). [BUT BOTH ARE OWNED BY UBS AG FROM SWITZERLAND]
- However, with regard to UBS Securities LLC (based in New York), three out of four board directors were Chinese nationals. One of them, Ye Xiang, also served on board of the other subsidiary, UBS Securities Co. Ltd (based in Beijing). He also worked for China’s central bank.
- UBS received a special, fully-licensed status in China, which is rarely given to foreign banks. [GOT TO BE REFERRING TO UBS AG]
- The deal broker was none other than Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan, who has a reputation as a finance specialist in the Chinese government.

page 1

>>10517
tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities
con't.


On top of all that, a day before Lin Wood’s tweet, 12 out of 15 UBS board members quit their positions. Among them was Ye Xiang. Another most recent individual to walk away was Cheng Yixun, a financial expert from Chinese’s Thousand Talents Program and the ex-CEO of Beijing-based UBS Securities Co. Ltd. Interestingly, the Thousand Talents Program has been widely covered by the US media as a security threat to America’s national interests.

Things don’t end there, as Dominion itself had Chinese insiders. Among them is Andy Huang, the Dominion’s Core Infrastructure Manager of Information Technology. Andy previously worked for China Telecom, from 1998 to 2002. Needless to say, such vital companies are tightly controlled by the Chinese government.


Why is This Important?

Soon after President Trump took office, his presidency was brought into question under the framework of allegations widely known as Russian Collusion or Russiagate. Ultimately, no evidence was found.

However, the prolonged Russiagate saga did firmly establish that even a possibility of foreign election tampering erodes its legitimacy. The emerging Dominion scandal, if it turns out to be significant, holds much more of such legitimacy-eroding elements than Russiagate ever attempted to establish.

After all, Dominion voting machines were used in 28 states. More importantly, they were used in almost all swing states.
Could this Negatively Impact the Economy?

Considering that the Federal Reserve is the most important US institution, it doesn’t matter who ends up being the President. Across the US Treasury, the personnel of both administrations are likely to follow the same Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) guidelines, aimed at maintaining financial stability.

Much will depend on the judicial system if it deems the surfacing Dominion concerns sufficient enough for an election do-over, or some other scenario. Ordinarily, DoJ and the FBI would be in charge of delving deeper into the Dominion-China connection. However, these are the same institutions that initiated Russiagate.

If things go in the direction of questioning the integrity of the recent election, we may see further weakening of the USD. Already, Biden’s presidency is widely viewed as the beginning of the USD falling, based on his policies delivering many concessions in international trade.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this Tokenist article really NAILS down the situ
Explains the close relationship between the two UBS subsidiaries from NYC & Beijing.

Compare what it reveals with the following hit piece put out by USA Today in Feb 2021 - whose author completely IGNORES these ties:

USA TODAY Fact Check: "China invested $400 million in Dominion Voting Systems"
They say this is false, but there are problems.

A Dec. 7 Facebook post states Dominion Voting Systems.....has ties to China, based on a recent financial transaction.
[the Oct 8th transaction - see CAP here: >>10510]

There is documentation of a recent exchange of securities with Dominion Voting, but by an American company with an almost identical name to a Chinese company. There was no foreign investment.
[UBS-Sec NYC - which has CLOSE TIES to UBS-Sec Beijing!!]

On Dec. 1, Infowars, a far-right-wing news and opinion website, posted an article about an investigation — it does not state by whom — that revealed Dominion Voting received $400 million "from a Swiss bank with close ties to the Chinese government" in October.
[It is TRUE that UBS AG has close ties to the Chinese gov't, not false.]

The claim was picked up by Georgia-based attorney and Trump supporter Lin Wood, who tweeted a link to a Form D notice
[TRUE - writes goes on to gratuitously associate Lin W with Qanon conspiracy, KEK].

A Form D, or a notice of exempt offering of securities is filed within 15 days after the first sale of securities, which are tradable financial assets.
[TRUE? I don't know.]

CONCLUSION: A claim stating China invested $400 million in Dominion Voting Systems is FALSE, based on our research.
The source of the claim, which is unclear, confused New York-based UBS Securities Co. LLC with Beijing-based UBS Securities Co. Ltd. Further, the U.S.-based bank brokered an exchange of securities between institutional investors and private equity firm Staple Street Capital III L.P., but it did not invest in the company.
[SO...who are these investors, anyway? Just guys off the street? Seems unlikely.]

www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/23/fact-check-dominion-voting-systems-foreign-investment-claim-false/4038654001/


This conclusion is UNWARRANTED. Ignores key facts__
a. Historically, the two UBS subsidiaries are not just connected, but intertwined. SEE "WHO OWNS DOMINION?" CHART - BELOW
b. After the election, UBS-Sec NYC got rid of all the people with Chinese connections AFTER THE ELECTION. WHY???
c. The two subsidiaries are functionally similar & have the same parent company: UBS AG.
d. UBS AG is very friendly with China. SEE BELOW.
e. Unasked question: Why did Staple Street use a broker with obvious Chinese ties to do this transaction?

>>10579
another post on HSBC transaction - recent one from Kanekoa/Marco Polo looking for info Soren Schwartz, who brokered it.

#63857 at 2021-06-17, QRB General #318:
https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/473, [Forwarded from Marco Polo], https://t.me/marcopolousa/16


On 09/26/2019, a paralegal from Chapman & Culler LLP, Soren Schwartz, facilitated and signed a Security Agreement between two foreign entities: Dominion Voting Systems Corporation & Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Canada.

The agreement assigned 18 patents owned by Dominion to HSBC as collateral.

In effect, the intellectual property (IP) in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) in 28 states - used by 40% of U.S. - is now held by a CCP-connected bank whose former work includes money laundering for the Sinaloa cartel.

A registered Democrat, Soren has been an intern for Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). Why would Staple Street Capital LLP, which owns Dominion, retain a recent NYU graduate and paralegal to facilitate an important IP transaction between two multinational companies?
Perhaps his undergraduate thesis, "Underrepresentation of Women in the United States House of Representatives," could explain his unlikely involvement. Marco Polo will find out.


Personal Identifiable Information (Pll)
DOB: 08/15/1997
Employer: Chapman & Cutler LLP
Alma mater: New York University (2019)
Twitter: @sorenschwartz
Instagram: @sorenschwartz
Associated #: 862-216-5667
Associated Email: sschwartz@chapman.com
Associated Address:
655 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10009

If you have seen or spoken to Soren - or know of someone who has - please send tips to mpolo@criptext.com
Marco Polo, mpolo@criptext.com
>>63354

Aug. 2021:
here is the agreement in pdf form
https://t.me/marcopolousa/17

Now we can put together the pieces - at least, the pieces we have so far.


WHO OWNS DOMINION?

There are THREE big "streams of influence" (although the UBS stream can be broken down in two):

1. Staple Street Capital / Carlyle Group / Cerberus
Staple Street formally owns Dominion but its two co-founders - Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh - "are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, respectively, and first worked together in Carlyle's US Buyout Group starting in 1998."
https://staplestreetcapital.com

2. UBS-Sec NYC (and potentially, UBS-Sec Beijing bc they are connected)
OR the clients for whom they brokered the deal on 10-8-2020

3. UBS AG - huge Swiss Bank
the huge Swiss bank that owns both UBS-Sec NYC and UBS-Sec Beijing

4. HBSC Canada and/or its owner, HSBC-London/China
which holds 18 Dominion patents as collateral - for a loan?

The WHO OWNS DOMINION? CHART shows what can be documented as of now (Oct 3, 2021).

There is an possible addition which is less formalized: Hunter Biden's Bohai Harvest company: see >>11240, >>11241.

Who owns Dominion? SUMMARY OF DIGS

>>10507, >>10509 Carlyle Gp influence
>>10510 Ex-Carlyle, Cerberus execs' Staple Street "one-and-done" close on Fund III (Oct 8 2020 $400mil transaction involving Dominion)

>>10511 Who bought into Dominion?
>>10512 Was it UBS-Sec LLC NY or UBS-Sec Ltd Beijing? UBS-Sec LLC NY
>>10517 But they are closely related

>>10518 That relationship was purposely obscured after the 2020 election
>>10577 USA fact-checker also helped obscure the truth

>>10579 Another party who owns a chunk of Dominion: HSBC Canada (18 patents being held as "collateral" since 2019)
>>10580 Where is Soren W Schwartz? He arranged the HSBC deal

>>10581 Who Owns Dominion? CHART - Staple St, UBS-Sec LLC NYT, HSBC Canada

Last but not least:
UBS-Sec LLC NYC is owned by UBS AG (Switzerland); but its affiliate UBS-Sec LTD is out of Beijing CHINA.
HSBC Canada is owned by HSBC Gp (now out of London, but bank was established in Hong Kong and Shanghai CHINA in 1865.

>>10581, >>10586

Implications:

Staple Street Capital owns Dominion on paper.


But there were two HUGE transactions before the election:

- First, in Sept 2019, HSBC Canada did some kind of loan, in exchange for 18 of Dominion's most prized patents as collateral (HSBC = Chinese bank from 1865 now supposedly out of London).

- Second, on Oct 8 2020, there was a $400mil deal for some chunk of Dominion brokered by UBS-Security LLC, which is out of NYC, but with definite ties to UBS-Security LTD in Beijing. Both owned by UBS AG in Switzerland. Re the second deal: An author writing about it said how unusual it was to see a one-investor done so fast and during a pandemic, to boot. (Of course, this was probably the most important election in US history. So maybe money was no object.)Is Staple Street Capital now just a shell company, a Dominion owner in name only?

https://www.buyoutsinsider.com/ex-carlyle-cerberus-execs-shop-staple-street-holds-one-and-done-close-on-fund-iii/

[insert]

>>11245

INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTE
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.[88][89]
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.[90] 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.
[91][92] UBS's handling of these revelations were largely criticized and the bank received significant negative attention in the U.S.[93][94] UBS came under significant pressure, particularly from American politicians, to compensate Holocaust survivors who were making claims against the bank.[95]

MERGER WITH PAINE WEBBER
On 3 November 2000, UBS merged with Paine Webber, an American stock brokerage and asset management firm led by chairman and CEO Donald Marron.[115][116] At the time of its merger with UBS, Paine Webber had emerged as the fourth largest private client firm in the United States with 385 offices employing 8,554 brokers. The acquisition pushed UBS to the top wealth and asset management firm in the world. Initially, the business was given the divisional name UBS PaineWebber but in 2003 the 123-year-old name Paine Webber disappeared when it was renamed UBS Wealth Management USA.[117] UBS took a CHF 1 billion write-down for the loss of goodwill associated with the retirement of the Paine Webber brand when it integrated its brands under the unified UBS name in 2003.[47]

If more info becomes available, will put in Resource thread and link it HERE.

[more info on UBS AG?]

So this concludes our study of UBS AG - for now.

Key points so far -
- SIZE: Switzerland's largest bank and Europe's 3rd largest.
- CULTURE: climate-focused, globalist perspective.
- CHINA FOCUS: unique relationship with China/CCP (first bank to own dominant share in a Chinese company)
- DOMINION OWNER: likely owns a major stake (if the $400mil Oct 8 SEC translation with subsidiary UBS Sec LLC NYC went thru)
- DEGREE OF DOMINION INFLUENCE: unknown (because influence depends on (a) how much Dominion is worth and (b) who else has influence and how much.

Other possible stakeholders include:
- Staple Street (with major ties to Cerberus and Carlyle)
- Bohai Harvest (indirectly/informally; see >>11240
- HSBC Canada/HSBC Holdings plc (parent company)

NEXT: we'll take a closer look at HSBC.

>>10285
[new link]
WHO Insider Blows Whistle on Gates and GAVI
Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger is a health scientist who does research, training and teaching in public health. Early on in her career, she began working with WHO, doing research which she says was “science for politics.” In this video she talks about the “suspicious” activities of Bill Gates and the reservations she has about the actions of the WHO, GAVI and Gates.

As her career advanced, she started getting asked by politicians to organize events in public health. And then, in her capacity working with research ethics for WHO, she was asked by Geneva University to work on international health regulations in 1999.

She also worked with Georgetown University and others to be ready for a pandemic and to act quickly in the event one happened. In a stunning confession, she says Switzerland is the center of corruption, and that GAVI and Bill Gates have total immunity from everything they do.

Worse, when the pandemic began, she found that many breaches to international health regulations were occurring, and more. The rules under which countries work with WHO virtually put WHO in charge of all rules and formal edicts and announcements — with Gates being right there as part of the executive board like an unofficial member state, making decisions that affect the entire world.
One of the primary arguments for genetically engineered (GE) crops and foods was that it was going to solve world hunger. Reality, however, has demonstrated the massive flaws in this argument.

GE agriculture actually does the complete opposite by destroying our soils and making food more toxic and less nutritious. Regenerative farming, on the other hand, has demonstrated its superiority with regard to yield and nutrition, all without the use of toxic chemicals.

Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association is calling for a transition toward regenerative organic farming, which has the ability to solve many of our most pressing problems simultaneously.

He believes that there are four major drivers of change to create the regenerative system we would like to have:

Education and awareness raising
This also includes putting the information into practice, meaning, every time you pull out your wallet, you’re considering whether your money is going to support a degenerative or regenerative system. True change comes when people act out their beliefs in the marketplace
Innovation
This includes innovation of farmers, ranchers, people who take care of our forests and wetlands and people who are innovative in terms of educating the public
Policy changes
Local school boards
Park districts
White House
Funding and investment — This includes both private investors and public monies

Farms such as the Via Organica farm in Mexico are promoting a novel way to produce inexpensive, yet highly nutritious, animal feed made from native agave plants driving this change of paradigm. But there is much more that needs to be done.

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=55656
https://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?q=who%20gavi#stq=who%20gavi

Bev Harris
@BevHarrisWrites
A history - some of which has never been published before:

The setup for mass mail balloting started in Washington state in 1985 with a plan to turn Washington blue.
At that time Republicans were very good at their mail ballot game, but absentee voting was restricted.
The Democrats effort to achieve dominance in absentee voting involved a software guy named Jeffrey Dean, who specialized in accounting software, and his brother Neil Dean, who mobilized temp workers and had a mail sorting operation.
The plan was interrupted when Jeff Dean was sentenced to prison for embezzlement from his politically connected employer.

SPECTRUM PRINT & MAIL (ballots)
As soon as he was released from prison, some unknown entity financed Jeff Dean for his own ballot printing company, to the tune of a couple million $. He was immediately given the contract to handle ballot printing for King County WA, and his brother handled mail sorting for absentees, plus provided election workers through his temp firm.
Meanwhile, embezzler Jeff got 24 hour keycard access to King County elections with total god-level admin access to both their voter registration system and their central tabulation.
Jeff hired his prison buddy, narcotics trafficker John Elder, to help run the ballot printing. Sometimes they left bags of ballot overages on the curb for night pickup.

JEFF DEAN BUYS GLOBAL ELECTION SYSTEMS
Even though he had made no attempt to pay court ordered restitution of over $300k, somehow Jeff Dean had enough financing to purchase Global Election Systems, a manufacturer of optical scan machines, DRE touchscreens, and the GEMS central tabulator.

DOUBLE SET OF BOOKS
Within weeks of purchase, Jeff Dean had ordered programmers to create a unique architecture featuring a double set of books in the central tabulator. This is interesting timing, because he had been visiting then-Los Angeles County registrar Conny McCormack to set up her central tabulation system.
California had just enacted a law requiring a hand count audit of one-half percent of its precincts. The GEMS double set of books enabled a crooked election to pass a hand count spot check:
- vote totals for each voting machine for each precinct fed into its Microsoft Access database, in two identical tables.
- when you run a results report it pulls from one of the tables.
- by entering a "-1" in a specific field, the vote data in the two tables decouple from each other.
- when doing a spot check audit (or any RLA) the precinct you are auditing will pull from a true table even if the actual data being summed up in the other table, the total, is false.
I traced this specific design to Jeffrey Dean. As a financial accounting programmer, he understood the importance of a double set of books to defeat audits.
My sources told me Jeff Dean wasn't a great programmer, but he did do the architecture specifications.

VOTE REMOTE
He brought in programmers to create "Vote Remote" which was an automated signature comparison program, with ways to set matching tolerance as loose or tight as needed for any group of ballots.
His brother Neil was working on sophisticated mail processing and sorting. Jeff did some of the programming for Neil.
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FRACTIONAL COUNTS
By June 2001 Jeff had a new design specification for the central tabulator: fractional counts and a weighted race function. This allows a preset allocation of votes by assigning a percentage of each vote, which can be less than or more than one.
This appeared to be a requirement for acquisition of the merged Global Elections and ballot print & mail firm. Jeff Dean was the largest stockholder in both (put in wife's name because he still owed restitution on his embezzlement).
By 2001, Global Election Systems was basically insolvent. Two days after completing the commit on the new fractional count feature, Diebold issued a large bridge loan to Global Elections.

DIEBOLD ACQUIRES GLOBAL ELECTIONS
Diebold acquired Global in Jan. 2022. Using the trade name Diebold, but with the elections division operating as a stand-alone, "Diebold" sold its first major deal, a statewide voting system buy by the state of Georgia.
In the mean time, Jeff Dean and partner John Elder were running around California signing up customers for Vote Remote and a planned expansion of vote by mail.

ESCAPE FROM FINANCIAL PREDICAMENTS
I started writing about Jeff Dean in 2003. His convicted felon past got too hot to handle so Diebold put him at arms length with a lucrative consulting agreement.
I got his story into The Associated Press, which snowballed into a court order to cough up the $300k restitution. But Jeff shielded the millions he made on the Diebold acquisition claiming it all belonged to his wife.
In 2004, one of his Vote Remote programmers sued him for a piece of the Diebold $$ Jeff had promised him.
The programmer, Tae Kim, won, but Jeff and wife declared bankruptcy while also somehow funding acquisition of a plush ranch in Idaho and bankrolling son into ownership of a nearby RV resort.
Through 2006 they were tied up in bankruptcy fraud investigations.
Brother Neil's firm was acquired by Pitney Bowes, which quickly lined up several patents for signature comparison, vote by mail processing, ballot envelope design, and ballot tracking software.
By this time most of Washington State was vote by mail, all of Oregon, and it was vastly expanded in Colorado, California, and many other states.
Former drug trafficker/ballot printer John Elder went into a private consulting business helping with vote by mail and also petition signature matching.
By 2011, with vote by mail getting into full swing, Jeff Dean sat atop his hilltop ranch, horses running around, and (according to a neighbor I interviewed) "surrounded by empty vodka bottles in a room full of servers."
She had no idea what he was doing with the servers.
Jeff Dean is quite old now and probably out of the elections industry he helped launch.
He managed to reverse the judgment against him by Tae Kim and got extricated from bankruptcy.
All in all, Jeff Dean seemed to have a lot of help getting out of his financial problems.
In his depositions, he explained it was unfair to take the rap for embezzlement, claiming that certain partners at the firm had been compensating him under the table for a project that couldn't be discussed. When other partners found out, he took the fall and the firm split up.
The firm handled business for King County and the Washington State Democrats. Among its partners was Egil "Bud" Krogh, previously head of the Watergate Plumbers unit under Richard Nixon.
The shadowy bankrolling of Jeff's ballot printing plant while he was on work release from prison, his extraordinary on site access to King County voting software, and his intimate involvement with every facet of what became modern election systems nationwide, has always had me wondering if he had 3-letter agency friends.
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