"California suing voting machine maker for $15 million
11/19/07
"California Secretary of State Debra Bowen is suing the voting machine company ES&S, seeking fines and reimbursements of nearly $15 million for alleged sales of nearly 1,000 uncertified machines. "ES&S ignored the law over and over and over again and it got caught," Bowen said in a statement after filing suit against the company. "I am not going to stand on the sidelines and watch a voting system vendor come into the state, ignore the laws and make millions of dollars from California's taxpayers in the process."
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=31812-------------------------------
This is not only Chuck Hagel's corporation (he had an interest in it, when ES&S voting machines put him in office), it is Howard Ahmanson's corporation. Ahmanson was the initial funder. Ahmanson also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals (among other things).
ES&S is Diebold's evil twin (but in this case both spawn are evil). It is a spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture). And the two election theft corporations also have an incestuous relationship, as to management. Until recently, they were run by the Urosevich brothers (Todd and Bob). Diebold (now re-named Premier--the name Diebold is in such disrepute, virtually synonymous with election theft, they had to change it) had CEO Wally O'Dell, a Bush/Cheney campaign chair, and major fundraiser, who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush/Cheney in 2004."
Together, Diebold and ES&S 'counted' 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, using extremely insecure and insider riggable electronic voting systems, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--a fascist coup that was engineered in the Anthrax Congress, in the same month as the Iraq War Resolution (Oct. 2002), by Tom Delay, Bob Ney and Christopher Dodd. (Yeah, you heard right--that Christopher Dodd!) I think the IWR and the so-called "Help America Vote Act" ($3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle) are closely related. The IWR guaranteed unjust war; HAVA provided the means to shove the unjust war down the throats of the American people.
ES&S was recently in court in the FL-13 case--an '06 election in which ES&S machines 'disappeared' 18,000 votes for Congress in Democratic areas, in an election 'won' by only 350 or so votes. (The Republican 'won,' of course.) When the lawyers for the Democrat (Christine Jennings) took the matter to court, and asked to review ES&S's "trade secret" code--to try to find out what happened to those 18,000 votes--ES&S REFUSED, and argued that their "right" to profit from our elections trumps the right of the voters to know how their votes were counted. And the pity of it is that the judge agreed. Can you imagine? It's just so outrageous. Further, Congress has done nothing--NOTHING! It has the power to fix this, and it didn't. Blatantly stolen election.
Bad dudes. Real bad dudes. Worse than Diebold, I think--and less well known.
ES&S manufactures its crapass election theft machines in sweatshops in the Philippines.
See: "The Trouble With Touchscreens"-www.HD.net --Dan Rather's searing documentary about ES&S. They also had their fingers in Florida 2000.
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