Election software issues again?? Possible Florida 2000 connection

[rainbow4321]

Here's the deal...googled Yuma Solutions, Inc found on McCain's FEC site..they are one his payroll over and over, month after month.

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M6/C00430470/B_PAYEE_C00430470.html

YUMA SOLUTIONS INC 516,865.96
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Found these 2 sites with a shitload of IT info from 2000, Yuma Solutions was renamed from a company that had issues/connections in Florida (2000). MUCH more at the link!

http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/features/1-latest-news/137-connell

Mike Connell is the RNC's IT guru connected to many websites of Ohio, Florida and the Federal governments. He is now believed to have been under the direction of Karl Rove during the contested elections of 2000 and 2004. In the current cycle, Karl Rove joined John McCain's campaign in March 2008 while Connell reportedly began laying his groundwork for it after August 2006. If allegations are true, what happened in 2000 and 2004 is merely the warm up act to what’s in store for 2008.

In 2006, oddly enough, a Computerworld reporter0 sought out Mike Connell -- rather than Karl Rove -- to inquire into the GOP's electoral outlook. It was Connell (not Rove) who described how substantially the GOP was counting on microtargeting to make the difference in a difficult year. Two years earlier, Connell was the strategist who summarized "A Republican Perspective: What Worked Online in the 2004 U.S. Elections"in a presentation slidedeck. In that analysis, he emphasized email list development, microtargeting and the big data push of 2004, 72-hour programs, and special GOTV emails detailed even to the level of providing driving directions to the polls.
Mike Connell's Friends of John McCain 2008
As we face the 2008 election, these concerns about the tabulating of votes in 2000 and 2004 may seem so yesterday, but consider the following list of characters who are currently active in John McCain’s campaign and see if there are any of them ring familiar. 15

From June and July Monthly Disbursements by JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. (FEC Committee ID #: C00430470)

CAMPAIGN SOLUTIONS - Becki Donatelli; collaborator and partner with Connell in Connell-Donatelli, Inc. aka CD Inc.

CD INC. - partnership with Connell formed directly after Campaign Solutions client, Fair Judiciary, was linked to leaks of 'hacked' Democratic Senate Judiciary Cmte memos.

DAVENPORT, DOUGLAS - DCI Group principal who, with Doug Goodyear, 'stepped down' from McCain's campaign after news of DCI Group lobbying for Burma broke.

DIRECT RESPONSE GROUP - one of the many faces of primarily DCI Group principals with 2005 AZ corporation filings indicating Doug Goodyear, Tom Synhorst, Charles Gately, Christopher Holt and Jack Padovano as then-principals. fka GPS VENTURES

EDONATION.COM - online transaction, Becki Donatelli.

NEW MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS INC - Mike Connell

SMARTECH - Tennessee based Internet services provider for RNC. Hosting services for outsourced Election Night Results reporting system of Connell and Ohio SOS Ken Blackwell in 2004 and 2006. Jeff Averbeck.

YUMA SOLUTIONS INC - Florida company, renamed from Gencom Network following Roy Cales' divestiture of ownership interest. Services provider to Tidewaterinc.com, et al.

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And a BradBlog entry from 2005 that may have a some of the same cast of characters involved??

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1259


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Nightowls:
Please keep kicked/rec'd if you all find anything good as you look at the links :-) cuz I am off to bed now.

[rainbow4321]

1. Kicking for the morning crowd

Not the best online etiquette--kicking my own post--but knowing that these guys on McCain's payroll just seems, IMHO, important enough to do so.

[brooklynite]

2. I'm not sure what your message is...

Is it that McCain is microtargeting potential voters? I'd assume that was fairly obvious, although from the results to date, I don't think he's doing a terribly good job.

[rainbow4321]

3. I don't know what microtargeting is..

Just thought it was interesting that he has the same people/companies on his payroll that were involved in the 2000/2004 election...specifically, Florida's and Ohio's parts in it and that they all into software. Software + election machines = stolen elections.
Guess it is not a big deal judging by the response here on DU but at the time that I found it, I thought that it was. Live and learn, I guess.