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(USA) 1/12 - GLOBAL INTERNET VOTING FIRM BUYS U.S. ELECTION RESULTS REPORTING FIRM - By Bev Harris
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In
a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the
world's dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA's
dominant election results reporting company.
When you view your
local or state election results on the Internet, on portals which often
appear to be owned by the county elections division, in over 525 US
jurisdictions you are actually redirected to a private corporate site
controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name
ClarityElections.com.
The good news is that this firm promptly
reports precinct-level detail in downloadable spreadsheet format. As
reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in 2008, the bad news is that this
centralizes one middleman access point for over 525 jurisdictions in AL,
AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, KY, MI, KS, IL, IN, NC, NM, MN, NY, SC, TX, UT, WA.
And growing.
As local election results funnel through SOE's
servers (typically before they reach the public elsewhere), those who
run the computer servers for SOE essentially get "first look" at results
and the ability to immediately and privately examine vote details
throughout the USA.
In 2004, many Americans were justifiably
concerned when, days before the presidential election, Ohio Secretary of
State Ken Blackwell redirected Ohio election night results through the
Tennessee-based server for several national Republican Party operations.
This is worse: This redirects results reporting to a
centralized privately held server which is not just for Ohio, but
national; not just USA-based, but global.
A mitigation against
fraud by SOE insiders has been the separation of voting machine systems
from the SOE results reports. Because most US jurisdictions require
posting evidence of results from each voting machine at the precinct,
public citizens can organize to examine these results to compare with
SOE results. Black Box Voting spearheaded a national citizen action to
videotape / photograph these poll tapes in 2008.
With the
merger of SOE and SCYTL, that won't work (if SCYTL's voting system is
used). When there are two truly independent sources of information, the
public can perform its own "audit" by matching one number against the
other.
These two independent sources, however, will now be
merged into one single source: an Internet voting system controlled by
SCYTL, with a results reporting system also controlled by SCYTL.
With
SCYTL internet voting, there will be no ballots. No physical evidence.
No chain of custody. No way for the public to authenticate who actually
cast the votes, chain of custody, or the count.
SCYTL is moving
into or already running elections in: the United Kingdom, France,
Canada, Norway, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, India
and Australia.
SCYTL is based in Barcelona; its funding comes
from international venture capital funds including Nauta Capital,
Balderton Capital and Spinnaker.
Here is the link to the press release regarding SYCTL's acquisition of SOE:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/scytl-acquires-soe-software-becoming-the-leadin g-election-software-provider-2012-01-11
quote:"In
2007...the top 250 companies in the world had sales in excess of $14.7
trillion...an amount exceeding the GDP [Gross Domestic Product] of the
United States or the European Union, $13.2 trillion and $13.7 trillion,
respectively...combined sales of the top five (Wal-Mart, Exxon-Mobil,
Royal Dutch Shell, BP and General Motors) was nearly $1.5 trillion --
larger than the GDP of all but seven countries." -- Superclass: The
Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, by David Rothkopf
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