Does ACS (computer division) have ties to electronic voting? Some interest

[KaliTracy]

interesting things came up yesterday in a thread about them ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3529128&mesg_id=3529128 )and a Social Services division (?) which Duers pulled a lot of information, i found the following




(from http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/bushinsiders.pdf )



When I found this information I found a couple of references of people talking about ACS and electronic voting on blogs, but never got any information further that that -- and never came up with anything on their website besides them supplying software to keep track of records -- though they do a lot of government type record keeping. As I've been reading more ways in which companies and the * Administration rub hands with each other with contracts related to testing or just corporations who help make the education policies/curiculum/etc, I started to wonder if there is more (or less) to some of the ties.


this is what I found on one google search The definition from the google search itself states:




and the link states this
ACS, Inc.

7030 Fly Road
East Syracuse, NY 13057
315.437.1283
315.437.2314 (f)
Contact: John Lockwood
[e-mail]
www.acsgrm.com

ACS Government Records Management is America’s largest land records company. Their core business is land records. Their parent corporation, Affiliated Computer Services, is the leading provider of outsourcing and IT solution services to local and state governments. ACS GRM has headquarters in Syracuse, NY with additional extensive facilities in Dallas, TX and Stone Mountain, GA. ACS’ five computerized land records management systems, running of four networked operating platforms (Windows, UNIX, Novell andiSeries/400) are currently in use in over 500 counties across the United States. ACS’’ vast financial resources enable them to place computer systems in County offices without large capital appropriations, as part of all-inclusive, pay-as-you-go service agreements.

Over 1,400 county and municipal Clerks, Recorders of Deeds, registers, title companies and other clients rely on ACS as their single source service provider for every conceivable records management and processing service: electronic recording services; Internet hosting and web delivery services for public records; film to image and image to film conversions; compact book printing directly from microfilm or from digitized image; custom data conversions; land record re-indexing, index verification, and re-creation services; Kodak recognized archival film laboratories, security Micro filming, land record microfilm storage, tape storage and duplication services, secure underground storage and much more! ACS is unique in offering all these support services under one roof, with complete control over every process.

http://www.iacreot.com/2004_trade_show_vendors.htm#ACS,%20Inc.

The other reference I had to ACS being part of electronic voting was a link directly above this in my google search



Nothing more than what is in this definition was found -- it was a blog and the spiders found this sentence -- that's all there was.

My criteria for my Google Search was ACS Youth Services Edison Group Bush Republican -- as the thread was about privatization and Edison has tried its hand in the Privatization school business
-- it was only after I pulled up some references to voting machines that I began to wonder more about this company.

Should it drop (should I forget about it)? Or is there something of interest here?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. :shakes head:

There is something interesting here.

[stillcool]

2. It never ends.....

i wish i could help, but just reading the above made my eyes glaze over. After the election i tried to find out who owned what, but the frequency that these companies sell and or morph into one another was beyond me, as well as names coming from left field, and sending me off on a tangent. More power to you!

[KaliTracy]

3. if you think the connections here are overwhelming -- you should see

some of the connection for the Big Business / Testing Companies / No Child Left Behind / Bush Family. McGraw of McGraw hill and the Bushes have been close friends for 3 decades.... I have more -- but I don't want to confuse the issue here.















See this article here in The Nation (January 28, 2002) if interested. Might have to register (I didn't, but I might have already in a different life....)
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020128&s=metcalf

[stillcool]

4. Thanks for the link....

i am so overwhelmed by the empire that this country has become.