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Dominion was meant to break up the GOP’s corrupt 70% stranglehold on US elections via voting machine vendors ES&S & Diebold. It was @SenSchumer who alerted the DOJ. But ES&S kept most of Diebold’s contracts & thus maintained much of that stranglehold. 1/ https://www.wired.com/2009/09/diebold-antitrust/
ES&S & Diebold were connected via Bob & Todd Urosevich who founded ES&S. Bob then became president of Global (which later changed its name 2 Diebold), whose largest shareholder & Sr. VP was a convicted embezzler whose crimes involved COMPUTER TAMPERING. 2/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/17/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy/
Diebold’s CEO was a wealthy George W. Bush donor (a member of Bush’s Rangers & Pioneers) who in 2003 promised to deliver the key battleground state of Ohio to Bush. 3/ https://www.recorderonline.com/diebold-bars-top-execs-from-making-political-contributions/article_6b1066e0-83ab-5dff-8229-2ef28a69b77f.html
Diebold’s other executives donated EXCLUSIVELY to the Republican party in 2003. 4/ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/machine-politics-in-the-digital-age.html?referringSource=articleShare
In 2004, Ohio’s Republican Secty of State, Ken Blackwell, was also a member of the Bush campaign. He hired Republican operatives (Mike Connell & Jeff Averbeck) to re-route Ohio’s 04 results thru Smartech in TN. I wrote about this here. 5/ https://link.medium.com/TsRVEIY7nbb
In August 04, the DHS issued a Cyber Security Bulletin re: Diebold’s “GEMS” central tabulator, stating that “a vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could [allow] a local or REMOTE authenticated user [to] modify votes.” 6/ https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/archives/bulletins/SB04-252
After Bush supposedly “won” Ohio, Republican operatives corrupted the recount by handing out cheat sheets and remotely accessing county central tabulators, which aggregate precinct totals. I wrote about that here & link to the House Judiciary report. 7/ https://link.medium.com/EKolUws8nbb
As confirmed here, Diebold regularly sold equipment that allowed remote access to the county tabulators. Despite prior denials, ES&S sold systems containing remote access software from 2000-2006. It now claims it’s been removed, but won’t say when. 8/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
ES&S was founded with money from the families of two Religious Right activists who belonged to a secretive networking group called the Council for National Policy, as I explain here. Recent CNP members include Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, etc. 9/ https://link.medium.com/TdISV708nbb
Republican Chuck Hagel was chairman of ES&S from 1992 until 1996 when he resigned to run for Senator of Nebraska and defied the polls to win by 15 points. 10/ https://link.medium.com/HPYwrYk9nbb
ES&S is controlled by the McCarthy Group, a private equity firm. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-news/2019/07/whos-behind-voting-machine-makers-money-of-unclear-origins/ 11/
Mike McCarthy is chairman of the McCarthy Group. 12/ https://omaha.com/news/education/mike-mccarthy-will-lead-creighton-board-of-trustees/article_594c994a-ecf9-5586-a17f-261dbf8d7896.html
Mike McCarthy was Chuck Hagel’s (R) campaign treasurer, as discovered and reported by @BevHarrisWrites. 13/ https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00044/republicans-make-the-us-elections-voting-machines.htm
ES&S’s VP of system security, Chris Wlaschin, is on Twitter. He mostly follows the Trumps and right-wing propagandists like Sean Hannity, Diamond & Silk, Dana Loesch, Tucker Carlson, Breitbart, OANN, Kimberly Guilfoyle, etc. h/t @carrier_dove 14/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285262896096661504.html 14/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285262896096661504.html 14/
During the 2008 presidential election, Rove was defending a lawsuit alleging that he had orchestrated theft of the 2004 election via the re-routing of Ohio’s results through Smartech in TN. I wrote about that here. 15/ https://link.medium.com/nCGg9cYfobb
Smartech also hosted the Bush administrations’ and other Republican leaders’ emails. Russia hacked Smartech in 2015. 16/ https://www.wired.com/2017/01/russia-hacked-older-republican-emails-fbi-director-says/
In 2009, ES&S made its relation ship with Diebold official by acquiring Diebold, a move that gave it control of 70% of the US election equipment market, per the DOJ. 17/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-key-divestiture-election-systems-softwarepremier-election
18/ As noted above, it was Chuck Schumer, who asked the DOJ to break up ES&S/Diebold, a merger that had effectively given Republicans control of 70% of the US election equipment market. https://www.rules.senate.gov/news/minority-news/schumer-applauds-justice-dept-for-requiring-es-and-s-to-sell-off-voting-machine-unit-purchased-from-diebold-last-year
19/ I accidentally broke this thread in the middle by duplicating numbers around post 17 or 18. Ugh. I can’t seem to fix it except with this unroll. You can start at post 18 and go through the end which is lost 33. Sorry! https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327335339145318400.html
