[Seattle-editorial] FP: King County, Diebold Voting Software, and Felons, Oh My

[Gentry Lange]

Full Disclosure, I'm Andy's Campaign Manager. Walt was at this Press
Conference as well... so I didn't see anything from him today, so here's my
post.

Gentry
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Title: King County, Diebold Voting Software, and Felons, Oh My
Subtitle: Democracy and Voting In America

Andy Stephenson, a Democratic Candidate for Secretary of State in Washington
has dug up some new dirt on Diebold, along with Black Box Voting author, Bev
Harris. According to allegations made at a press conference today in
Seattle, Diebold is apparently full of convicted felons, this AP Story
details some of the allegations levied. While the complete press pack is
available online at Black Box Voting. During the press conference it came
out that, Jeffery Dean, a current executive with Diebold was previously
convicted of thefts that were hidden through a "cover-up [that] involved a
high degree of sophistication and planning in the use and alteration of
records in the computerized accounting system that defendant maintained for
the victim, and the defendant used his position of trust and fiduciary
responsibility as a computer systems and accounting consultant for the
victim to facilitate the commission of the offenses.” Last month the
Secretary of State of California had a meeting and ordered Diebold to
cooperate with, and to pay for an audit of their installed
hardware/firmware/software versions statewide. Today partial results of that
audit were released, and it was a doozie...


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<a href="http://www.andystephenson.com">Andy Stephenson</a>, a Democratic
Candidate
for Secretary of State in Washington has dug up some new dirt on Diebold,
along
with Black Box Voting author, Bev Harris. According to allegations made at a
press
conference today in Seattle, Diebold is apparently full of convicted felons,
this
<a
href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031216/APN/3
12161067">AP
Story</a> details some of the allegations levied. While the complete press
pack
is available online at <a href="http://www.blackboxvoting.com">Black Box
Voting</a>.
During the press conference it came out that, Jeffery Dean, a current
executive
with Diebold was previously convicted of thefts that were hidden through a
"cover-up
[that] involved a high degree of sophistication and planning in the use and
alteration
of records in the computerized accounting system that defendant maintained
for
the victim, and the defendant used his position of trust and fiduciary
responsibility
as a computer systems and accounting consultant for the victim to facilitate
the
commission of the offenses.” Last month the Secretary of State of California
<a href="http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/vsp_121603.pdf">had
a meeting</a> and ordered Diebold to cooperate with, and to pay for an audit
of
their installed hardware/firmware/software versions statewide. Today partial
results
of that audit were released, and <a
href="http://www.blackboxvoting.org/htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID52/28.html">it
was a doozie</a>...