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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 07:47 AM
> To: 'Editorial'
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] 	FP: King County, Diebold Voting Software, and Felons, Oh My
> 
> 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
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> _________
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> __________
> 
> <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>...
> 
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