VOTING Machine Companies Named Defendents in RICO Lawsuit

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RICO Lawsuit includes
VOTING Machine Companies

(The relevant "defendents" are listed at the end of this post. These include
Diebold, Seqioia, Hagel, ESS . . . many more. BBV was also used as a
reference in this case)

RICO lawsuit, filed on October 21st.
(This is a small portion of the lawsuit)
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint10b.htm

E. THE ENTERPRISE HAS ENGAGED IN A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ELECTION FRAUD.

317. The American patriot Tom Paine wrote, “The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery.” Soviet dictator Josef Stalin supposedly said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” In large and increasing part, “those who count the votes” in the United States are corporations owned by far-right Republicans, which corporations are beholden to (mostly) Republican politicians and appointed officeholders, who select the manufacturers of computerized voting machines, and favor them with lucrative contracts.

318. Following the debacle of “hanging” and “pregnant” chads in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, it was thought desirable to “modernize” voting by funding the replacement of old and, in some cases, unreliable equipment with more modern means to record and tabulate votes. However, the Enterprise – as a primary means of advancing its goal of de facto one-party (Republican) rule, while deceiving the broad public into believing that genuine electoral democracy continues to exist in the United States -- has energetically seized upon this movement toward “modernization” to promote the adoption of so-called “black box” voting machines, which may be described, generally, as computerized (in many instances, touch-screen) devices, as have been in use for years in automated teller machines in banks. Such devices can be “hacked” from without, which is to say the results tampered with, e.g., by modem, with such tampering being difficult or impossible to detect.

319. As always, the Enterprise has not let pass any opportunity to promote its criminal agenda at public expense. Accordingly, the 2002 Help America Vote Act (“HAVA”) was pushed through Congress and, as a result, nearly $4 billion in federal funds have been invested to purchase electronic voting machines. It is estimated that, in the 2004 national elections, between 25% and 30% of the overall vote will be recorded using the new machines.
320. Under HAVA, there was to have been an oversight committee, headed by two Democrats and two Republicans, as well as a technical panel to determine standards for new voting machinery. These panels were not constituted in time, and thus tens of thousands of new machines have gone into use or been contracted for without the vetting that HAVA provided for.

321. Indeed, one member of the Republican Party’s slender majority in the United States Senate, defendant Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, gained his office in 1996, and was re-elected in a purported landslide in 2002, in elections in which roughly eighty percent of the vote statewide was tabulated by his own company. The company in question, Election Systems & Software, is owned by the McCarthy Group, founded in the 1990s by Michael McCarthy, campaign director to Sen. Hagel during the 1996 and 2002 elections. Hagel, even after his re-election in 2002, owned up to $5 million in the McCarthy Group, as well as shares in AIS Investors, Inc., a group of investors in ES&S itself. Hagel’s election as the first Nebraska Republican to win a senate seat in 24 years was hailed by the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, which happens also to be a large investor in ES&S.
322. Hagel did not disclose owning or selling shares in AIS Investors Inc. to the Senate Ethics Committee, not did he disclose that ES&S is an underlying asset of the McCarthy Group. Following disclosures due to investigation by Black Box Voting author Bev Harris and Alexander Bolton, a reporter from The Hill. Senate Ethics Committee counsel, Victor Baird, resigned after meeting with Hagel’s staff on the subject in January 2002. Baird’s successor, Robert Walker, obligingly provided a looser interpretation regarding what Hagel ought to have disclosed. When Hagel’s defeated opponent in the 2002 Senate race, Charlie Matulka, wrote to Walker in October 2002 to request an investigation into Hagel’s ownership and non-disclosure of his interest in ES&S, Walker peremptorily dismissed Matulka’s complaint as lacking merit.

323. The second biggest company in the electronic voting machine market is Sequoia. In 1999, the Justice Department filed federal charges against Sequoia, alleging that employees paid out more than $8 million in bribes. In 2001, election officials in Pinella County, Florida, cancelled a $15.5 million contract for voting equipment after discovering that Phil Foster, a Sequoia executive, faced indictment in Louisiana for money-laundering and corruption.

324. Diebold is probably the best known of the three major manufacturers, owing to its unsuccessful attempts to thwart the release of thousands of inter-office memos over the Internet. Those memos showed that Diebold executives were aware of bugs in the company’s software, and warned that the network is poorly protected against hackers. Diebold also garnered negative publicity because of voting irregularities associated with its machines in the 2000 election in Florida. As a consequence of such bad publicity, and following an award of a contract to Diebold to supply machines statewide in Maryland, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, California was hired to review the Diebold Election Systems software. Following the debacle of “hanging” and “pregnant” chads in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, it was thought desirable to “modernize” voting by funding the replacement of old and, in some cases, unreliable equipment with more modern means to record and tabulate votes.

However, the Enterprise – as a primary means of advancing its goal of de facto one-party (Republican) rule, while deceiving the broad public into believing that genuine electoral democracy continues to exist in the United States, has energetically seized upon this movement toward “modernization” to promote the adoption of so-called “black box” voting machines, which may be described, generally, as computerized (in many instances, touch-screen) devices, as have been in use for years in automated teller machines in banks. Such devices can be “hacked” from without, which is to say the results tampered with, e.g., by modem, with such tampering being difficult or impossible to detect.

http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint.htm

Defendents include:
ELECTION SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE,
DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS, INC.,
WALDEN O’DELL,
SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS, INC.
CHUCK HAGEL,
SAXBY CHAMBLISS,
NEW BRIDGE STRATEGIES, LLC
JOE M. ALLBAUGH,
JAMES A. BAKER III,

http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/RodriguezComplaint.htm


(Plantiff) William Rodriguez with (a Defendent) Mr. Bush in 2002

http://www.911forthetruth.com/index.htm

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