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Here's the fraction magic video on YT:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration

Bev Harris

2016

A real-time demo of the most devastating election theft mechanism yet found, with context and explanation. (See also: Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg Business analyzes Fraction Magic in its Cyber Security Segment: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

and Cover Story in Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/20... )

This demonstration uses a real voting system and real vote databases and takes place in seconds across multiple jurisdictions. Over 5000 subcontractors and middlemen have the access to perform this for any or all clients. It can give contract signing authority to whoever the user chooses. All political power can be converted to the hands of a few anonymous subcontractors.

It's a product. It's scaleable. It learns its environment and can adjust to any political environment, any demographic. It runs silently, invisibly, and can produce plausible results that really pass for the real thing.

https://youtu.be/Fob-AGgZn44

>>64003

Fraction Magic – Part 1

con't.

Fractionalized vote:

Instead of “1” the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a whole number.

What fractionalized votes can do:

They allow “weighting” of races.....

GEMS fractionalizes votes in three places:

- The “Summary” vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on Election Night

- The “Statement of Votes Cast”, which provides detailed results by precinct and voting method (ie. Polling, absentee, early, provisional)

- The “undervote” count

Fractionalizing the votes which create the Summary Results allows alteration of Election Night Web results and results sent to the Secretary of State, as well as results available at and local election officials.

Fractionalizing the “Statement of Votes Cast” allows an extraordinary amount of precision, enabling alteration of results by specific voting machine, absentee batch, or precinct. Vote results can be altered for polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods, and can parse out precincts within a mixed batch of early or absentee votes.

Fractionalizing the undervote category allows reallocation of valid votes into undervotes.

Fractions in results reports are not visible.Votes containing decimals are reported as whole numbers unless specifically instructed to reveal decimals (which is not the default setting)....

Source code: Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers are inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been created by accident.

https://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/

>>64013

Key info on development of GEMS is in the section below, #17 - 34; key points are listed below.

Diebold Election Systems/Premier (previously called “Global Election Systems”)

19. Diebold entered the voting machine business with its 2002 acquisition of Global Election Systems, a company whose Senior VP (programmer jeffrey dean) was a CONVICTED FELON who had served time for sophisticated crimes involving "COMPUTER TAMPERING".

20. Global brought on dean shortly before the 2000 election. A few months later, it hired a convicted drug trafficker - who dean met in prison - to oversee punch card printing.

24. Diebold told the AP that dean left the company in 2002.

25. But [Beverly] Harris obtained dean's court file, which included internal Diebold memos showing that dean remained as a Diebold consultant.

26. According to Wired, dean "wrote & maintained...code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes."

27. dean also programmed the GEMS central tabulator system, which counted one third of the votes in 37 states in 2004…….

30. Because elected officials and news organizations never followed up on dean's whereabouts, we can only speculate as to when (if at all) dean's relationship with the company ended.

SO: the person responsible for GEMS was

Jeffrey Dean-

a CONVICTED FELON whose ongoing role remains a mystery.

There is ONE clue that he remained with Diebold a long time:

31. In 2010, Dominion bought Diebold’s intellectual property rights and warehoused equipment.

But ES&S kept some — perhaps even most — of Diebold’s servicing and maintenance contracts, which is where control of elections would mostly come from.

Note the name of the Dominion spokesperson in this article.

[SEAN DEAN- see article]

I do not know if there is a relationship. http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/05/07/10/source-code-firm-dominion-sheds-light-voting-glitch

ARTICLE ATTACHED

SUMMARY of Jeffrey Dean DIG

* developer of GES software that became GEMS

* Global Election Systems (GES) software developed by a guy named Jeffrey Dean around maybe 1999.

* He developed voting software for GES out of accounting software. But probably has many backdoors - because he was also a convicted embezzler/hacker who was hired after a four-year prison sentence.

* By 2001, had become Senior VP of GES and had 1.6m shares of stock (more than anyone else) - right before the company was sold to Diebold.

* Stuck around as a consultant, but always a shadowy figure.

* Supposedly, he later parted ways with Diebold and/or Dominion. No one is sure what became of him.

* But there is a guy named Sean Dean who worked for Dominion in 2010. Same guy?? Nobody knows.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180203174239/https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/updated-attachment-states-have-bought-voting-machines-from-vendors-controlled-and-funded-by-nation-6597e4dd3e70 (For more details, check out #17 - 34)

Sean Dean = Jeffrey Dean?

Looked up patents by Sean Dean.

He has a patent on an adjudication system and Dominion is the assignee:–

BALLOT ADJUDICATION IN VOTING SYSTEMS UTILIZING BALLOT IMAGES

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/sean-dean?page=2

>>64062

King Co elections run by felons....

a decade plus later.....

King Co selects ClearVote/ClearBallot as New Voting System

The new voting system will process ballots five times faster than any other voting system

6-09-2017

BOSTON, MA, July 10, 2017 – Clear Ballot announced today that King County, Washington, which includes the City of Seattle, selected ClearVote™ as its new voting system. King County is the largest jurisdiction in Washington and the 13th largest election jurisdiction in the United States with more than 1.2 million registered voters. The county also is the largest vote-by-mail election jurisdiction.

Since 2012, Clear Ballot has provided the election industry with a modern voting platform that delivers unprecedented security, speed, and transparency. The voting platform includes ClearAudit™, the nation’s first independent, automated audit and ClearVote, a complete, modern voting system. The rapid adoption of both products has made Clear Ballot the fastest-growing election technology provider in the nation. Forty-two percent of registered voters in Washington State will use ClearVote in its August elections. Since becoming certified in Oregon two years ago, 65 percent of registered voters in the state have had their ballots counted on the ClearVote voting system.

....

King County will be the first jurisdiction to use high-performance intelligent scanners from ibml with ClearVote software to process vote-by-mail ballots. The technologies will process ballots five times faster than any other voting system.

“We are excited to update our voting system with the latest technology from Clear Ballot,” said Julie Wise, Director of King County Elections. “ClearVote meets the needs of our growing county and will enable us to process elections with greater efficiency. We’re ready for the future.”

King County’s decision to use the ClearVote system and ibml’s scanners offers a compelling vision for the increasing number of states and counties considering vote-by-mail. King County will set a new bar for election innovation for jurisdictions that want to increase their transparency and efficiency while reducing cost.

Clear Ballot CEO Larry Moore stated, “We are honored to partner with King County to create the highest performing, most transparent voting system in the country. With a sustained ballot scanning capacity of more than 50,000 ballots per hour, the ability to resolve the closest of elections within minutes, and the opportunity to significantly reduce costs through streamlined procedures, King County’s new voting system will be a showcase for every election jurisdiction in the United States.”

About Clear Ballot:

Clear Ballot is the leader in election innovation. Clear Ballot has introduced a new class of tools and a modern approach to voting, with the speed, accuracy and transparency that officials and the voting public have sought for decades. Designed for ease-of-use, Clear Ballot’s browser-based software, used with commercially available scanning hardware, scales to election jurisdictions of all sizes and responds directly to the budgetary realities of counties and municipalities. Boston-based, Clear Ballot was founded by a team of experienced technologists in 2009.

Clear Ballot election technology is certified for use in Oregon, Washington and New York and is also used to conduct audits in Vermont, Florida and Maryland. Clear Ballot and the State of Maryland conducted the nation’s first 100% automated, independent statewide audit for the 2016 Presidential Election.

https://clearballot.com/news/king-county-washington-states-largest-county-selects-clearvote-its-new-voting-system

Who owns Dominion?

Who pulls the strings?

Who's ultimately behind election fraud ALL OVER THE WORLD???

According to initial reports in Nov 2020, Dominion is a "privately-held" concern headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Their US office is in Denver, CO.

[This may no longer be the case, but was true through the 2020 Presidential elections.]

After Dominion was charged with election fraud by Sidney Powell and numerous others, they apparently changed many of their business operations.

So it's important to look at DATES when speaking of ownership, control, current address, etc.

>>64163

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_Securities,_China_branch

UBS Securities Co., Ltd is the investment bank and brokerage firmof the Swiss bank UBS [AG]with offices in many countries, among them China.

Its Chinese arm is a joint-venture according to the restrictions of foreign investments in China, especially in the financial sector. Since 2018, it is a subsidiary of the Swiss bank UBS.

People's Government [zh])[1] established the firm after the financial difficulties of Beijing Securities.[2] UBS and the International Finance Corporation bought a combined 24.99% share of the enterprise in 2007, under the laws governing Sino-foreign joint ventures. COFCO Group and State Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC) also acquired part ownership from China Jianyin Investment.

The firm began operations in May of 2007. It underwrote BYD Company, Pang Da Automobile Trade and other publicly traded companies in their IPO. In 2011, China Guodian acquired the SDIC's 14% stake and China Jianyin Investment sold its remaining 14.01% stake to its parent company, Central Huijin Investment, which was in turn acquired in 2013 by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government [zh]-owned Guangdong Provincial Communication Group [zh].

One year later, UBS increased its stake from 20% to 24.99% by acquiring International Finance Corporation's share.[3]

UBS Securities became a subsidiary of UBS in 2015.[4]

[NOT CORRECT - it was Dec 2018 - look at the cite below]]

The latter company increased its share to 51% by acquiring additional stake from China Guodian and COFCO Group.[5] Beijing Guoxiang Asset Management's stake in UBS Securities is now (as of 2019) owned by sister company Beijing State-owned Assets Management.[6]

References

1 "Beijing Guoxiang Property Management Co., Ltd". Beijing State-owned Assets Management. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.

2 "UBS wins approval for Beijing Securities deal". The Financial Times. 5 April 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

3 "2015 Annual Report" (PDF) (in Chinese). UBS Securities. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

4 "UBS Group AG to Boost Majority Stake to 51% in China JV". Yahoo!. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

5 瑞银成为首家增持内地合资券商股份至51%以实现控股的外资金融机构 (Press release) (in Chinese). UBS Securities. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

6 瑞银证券2019年报公开披露信息及已审财务报表 [2019 Annual Report] (PDF) (Report) (in Chinese). UBS Securities. 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

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#63857 at 2021-06-17 12:40:14 (UTC+1)

QRB General #318: Late Night Noodle Bake Edition

https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/473

[Forwarded from Marco Polo]

https://t.me/marcopolousa/16

mpolo@criptext.com

On 09/26/2019, a paralegal from Chapman & Culler LLP, Soren Schwartz, facilitated and signed a Security Agreement between two foreign entities: Dominion Voting Systems Corporation & Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Canada.

The agreement assigned 18 patents owned by Dominion to HSBC as collateral.

In effect, the intellectual property (IP) in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) in 28 states - used by 40% of U.S. - is now held by a CCP-connected bank whose former work includes money laundering for the Sinaloa cartel.

A registered Democrat, Soren has been an intern for Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). Why would Staple Street Capital LLP, which owns Dominion, retain a recent NYU graduate and paralegal to facilitate an important IP transaction between two multinational companies?

Perhaps his undergraduate thesis, "Underrepresentation of Women in the United States House of Representatives," could explain his unlikely involvement. Marco Polo will find out.

Personal Identifiable Information (Pll)

DOB: 08/15/1997

Employer: Chapman & Cutler LLP

Alma mater: New York University (2019)

Twitter: @sorenschwartz

Instagram: @sorenschwartz

Associated #: 862-216-5667

Associated Email: sschwartz@chapman.com

Associated Address:

655 East 14th Street

New York, NY 10009

If you have seen or spoken to Soren-or know of someone who has-please send tips to mpolo@criptext.com

Marco Polo

mpolo@criptext.com

>>63354

Aug. 2021:

here is the agreement in pdf form

will attach a copy in a separate post.

https://t.me/marcopolousa/17

Astrid Stuckenberger

Dominion in Canada

>>65488, >>65492, >>65494, >>65496,

>>65497 THE SERBIAN SOFTWARE AND THE ELECTION FRAUD IN USA

Nov 16, 2020

https://srbin.info/svet/the-serbian-software-and-the-election-fraud-in-usa/

EXCERPT on Smartmatic, Dominion and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein & Clinton Foundation

In 2009 Dominion has concluded a contract with Smartmatic concerning the elections in the Philippines in 2010 and early elections in 2013. After these elections numerous lawsuits were launched due to allegations of omissions and fraud. Independent review of source codes that were used in Dominion’s machines discovered many problems and quality and security of its software were disputed. The Chairman of Smartmatic isMark Malloch Brown, member of the British House of Lords and former Vice-President of the World Bank. He was also United Nations Deputy Secretary-General in 2006 and UK Minister (2007–2009).

However, the most interesting thing about Malloch Brown is the fact that he is one of more important officials of Soros’s network. Cooperation between these two goes way back, even since the war in the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993-1994). Malloch Brown was the Vice-President of the most important Soros’s organizations – the Quantum Fund and the Open Society Foundations and now he is a member of the Global Board. He is also one of the people most responsible for the creating of the infamous International Crisis Group and he is a member of its Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Thanks to Soros, Dominion’s voting machines are being used in the elections to the European Parliament since 2014. Dominion’s servers in which all of the data are stored are located in Frankfurt, wherein is also the head office of the European Central Bank. Dominion shares an office floor in Toronto with the Tides Foundation which is connected to George Soros (Dominion Voting Systems Shares Floor Space With Soros Group, Partnered With Soros’ Friendgroup-partnered-with-soros-friend).

Next to its associations with George Soros, Dominion Voting Systems has numerous connections to the Democratic Party in the USA. The company hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, a lobbying firm. One of the directors of this lobbying firm is Nadeam Elshami, former chief of staff to Democratic Leader and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Elshami is officially registered as a lobbyist for Dominion.

Another well-known Democrat who is connected to this election software is Richard Blum, husband of influential United States Senator Dianne Feinstein who has been a US Senator since 1992. According to the allegations made by lawyer Sidney Powell, Blum is a majority shareholder in a company that produced voting software that were used in the elections. Mainstream media have tried to deny these allegations by claiming that the only company in which Blum has made any investments is Avid which deals with graphic and video software. However, this is not exactly true. Avid did produce software that were used in these elections, including the elections in the state of Michigan. Avid advertises its own election software called LeaderPlus Election Management system and Blum is one of its investors – Blum i Avid

It is worth mentioning that Blum has lucrative financial affairs with China as well as ties to Chinese Communist Party which goes a long way to explain some of his wife’s political agenda and her voting policy in the Senate. This influential political couple was also connected to human organ trafficking. The use of the video software in elections can be best observed in reports made by American mainstream media which use this video applications to follow the election process. Take a look at this video and notice how, during the process of entering new results, the number of votes that were cast for Trump is decreasing. Not the percentage, but the number of votes! This video is constantly being censored and removed from YouTube and social networks.

The Clinton Foundation is also connected to Dominion Voting Systems. In 2014 Dominion has made a donation to The Clinton Foundation to be used for the DELIAN Project.

>>68672

HERE IS THE SAUCE FOR HART INTERCIVIC DIG

- This is a more formatted version of anon's excellent dig from >>>/qresearch/11652967

- More on HART from another anon: >>>/qresearch/11653232

https://pastebin.com/X9Bacyf6

HART InterCivic DIG

Semi-Quick Run Down (supporting evidence and images/screenshots will be dumped):

- Hart InterCivic is responsible for a large chunk of the voting machines in the USA (Dominion, ES&S & Hart make up ~90%) – but Hart is found in the most impacted counties (EG – OAKLAND, MI) (Sourced)

- They have had a troubled past (Romney/Rove, Failed Security Measures, Fucked Up Elections because of their tech ‘flipping votes’ [see all of the history posted here below this QRD]) (Sourced)

- The same gentleman in charge of tech since 2012 (Jim Canter) has seen countless investigations/lawsuits due to his machines ‘swapping votes’ in elections against the top-of-ticket candidate (Sourced)

- In July 2019, they had a major shakeup in ownership after Katelyn Love (AG – NC) asked for them to disclose their ownership model. This disclosed H.I.G Capital as a ~80% owner and Gregg L Burt as ~10.5% owner (Sourced)

Uh-oh – that’s a ‘trade secret’ – PANIC

- Shortly afterwards, a series of company shakeups moves CEO Philip Braithwaite up to the BOD, being replaced by Julie MATHIS, and hiring Sam Derheimer (Sourced)

- The company then mysteriously is dropped from H.I.G’s listing within its portfolio (Sourced)

- The company then scrubs its website presence and goes into anonymous mode (remember this) (Sourced)

- There is now no defined ownership of the company, and no display of leadership/board members or investors (Sourced)

- Pete Lichtenheld and Jim Canter developing a new machine for 2019 sales cycle which has cellular modems inside, allowing connection to internet (illegal) improving upon previous designs (Sourced)

- 4 “Hart” related companies show up on a patent (Hart Intermediate Holding Company, Inc is one of those patent holders) along with a Ukrainian based development team leader – Gregg L Burt remains on a few boards…… (Sourced)

- At the same time as the sales cycle, the company is then shifted into WOFE status by a foreign based ‘security’ business (Chelsea / Hart International - Hart international is one of the largest security contracting firms in the world. Owns Chelsea Group and Hart Intermediate) with their own ambitions and candidate preferences (BIDEN). This occurs via Gregg L Burt’s C PA (Hart +C PA) (Sourced)

- Sales cycle is now in full-swing for 2020 election

- Larry Norden is the leader of pushing ‘election security’ at Brennan Group (Sourced)

- Larry just so happens to be good buddies with Sam and a whole host of EAC officials (retired and current) (Sourced)

- Hart manages to land a ton of key contracts in these heavily contested areas of the 2020 election''' because of ‘special discounts’ and EAC support + brennan policy recommendations (sam derheimer + Larry pushing this on ‘friends’ and politicians) (Sourced)

- A ton of counties were unable to certify the new machine specs as designed before the election''', per records (illegal AF) (Sourced)

- Elections happen; Look up results from Hart-districts

- Dr. Shiva releases the algo video (lightbulb which spurred all of this research) (Sourced)

- H.I.G is a Clinton foundation donor in 2020 (shhiiiiiiiiiit)

YOU ARE HERE

The pieces and data/intel is there to connect how these machines operate, who wanted to fix the election, how they did it and why.

PAGE 1 of 3

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Remaining questions:

1. Which counties recently required changes to their Verity Voting Software prior to the 2020 election? Like Alleghany County: https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Hart%20Intercivic%20Verity%20voting%202.3.3/Hart%20Verity%20Voting%202.3.3%20%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%20final%20with%20signature%20for%20web.pdf)

2. Why and how did Hart Group use Gregg L Burt’s C AG2 firm and Phillip W. Braithwaite use Gilbert PC Law to develop shell companies/transfers of ownership to Hart Group and then R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd?

3. How many counties are currently running non-approved or non-tested Verity software with their Hart Voting Machines?

4. Why the fuck are foreign companies influencing our elections so hard?

Key Players:

* Julie Mathis – CEO as of 2019

* Phillip Braithwaite – Previous CEO; now CHAIRMAN of the BOD

* Jim Canter – CTO as of 2012

* Pete Lichtenheld – SVP of CUSTOMER success (knows systems inside & out) as of 2001

* Lawrence Norden – Brennan Center exec pushing for the adoption of the tech

* Gregg L. Burt – former CEO & BOD president. May be the leader of the shell companies

[moved sauce to end]

Now you faggots can pay me back for last night with some help digging into those docs and into the questions here:

1. Which counties recently required changes to their Verity Voting Software prior to the 2020 election?

2. How many counties are currently running non-approved or non-tested Verity software with their Hart Voting Machines?

3. Why and how did Hart Group use Gregg L Burt’s C AG2 firm and Phillip W. Braithwaite use Gilbert PC Law to develop shell companies/transfers of ownership to Hart Group and then R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd?

4. Why the fuck are foreign companies influencing our elections so hard?

https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/certified-voting-systems

https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/system-certification-process

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Main links so far:

https://icitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ICIT-Analysis-Hacking-Elections-is-Easy-Part-Two.pdf

http://www.stancounty.com/bos/agenda/2019/20190910/DIS03.pdf

San Francisco:

https://sfelections.sfgov.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/20150828_Hart.pdf

Idaho:

https://www.co.bonneville.id.us/images/PDF/Commissioner/Exhibits/2013%20Exhibits/Exhibit_157-13_Book_31_Page_406.pdf

Michigan:

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/071B7700128_Hart_Sch_B_and_C_556895_7.pdf

Colorado:

https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/RFI/proposals/HartColoradoUVSProposal.pdf

http://ouraycountyco.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2661/E-4—License-Agreement-Renewal-with-Hart-InterCivic

Ohio:

https://boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/pdf_boe/en-US/2019/Tabulation/Hart%20Survey%20Response%202018_ALL.pdf

New Hampshire:

https://sos.nh.gov/media/zklcrgei/hartcivic-response-to-nh-questionnaire.pdf

CA:

http://www.sierracounty.ca.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/7364?fileID=7214

Pennsylvania:

https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Hart%20Intercivic%20Verity%20voting%202.3.3/Hart%20Verity%20Voting%202.3.3%20%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%20final%20with%20signature%20for%20web.pdf

https://www.alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/Allegheny_Home/Dept-Content/Elections/Docs/FINAL_Voting%20Systems%20Evaluation%20Committee%20Report_08-19-19.pdf

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>>69174

"Clear" Voting Systems - July 2021 DIG from Qresear.ch

"clearballot" - 30 results, 6 are from original MNR dig.

Qresearch digs:

#11569589 #14771 Nov 11 2020

- WAnon found digg on illegal voting machines used by State of WAnon

- they're used for mail-in voting

- clearballot is used for vote counting in King County (Seattle), and likely other states. Vote rigging is highly likely, given that ever since the State of Washington went to 'all mail-in-ballots' in 2005, there has never been a Republican governor in that time. It's all been Democrats, and the same with the Attorney General.

>>>/comms/28112

there was a 'writ of mandamus' (an order to correct the chain of custody for voting) filed back in 2018.against Kim Wyman, the Secretary of State for the State of Washington.

Kim Wyman is a Deep State Operative, having been in the 'Aspen Institute' (A George Soros' funded organization)

#11573228 at 2020-11-10 #14776

All of Clear Ballot's certified products operate on a closed and isolated wired network, never attached to modems, the Internet, WiFi, or Bluetooth.Network traffic is encrypted using algorithms recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

First red flag for me here: NIST? same guys who think two buildings each a quarter of a mile high will merely collapse into their own footsteps?

Clear Ballot's visual verification technology provides election officials with the ability to validate voter intent and digitally adjudicate unreadable ballots by highlighting discrepancies and stray marks, including overvotes and undervotes.

2nd red flag: provides election officials with the ability to validate voter intent and digitally adjudicate

I still cannot find their voting tabulation method. I suppose one would have to inquire and that, too, I suspect is by design.

But hey, what do I know?

#11573272 at 2020-11-10 #14776

Could not find any board of directors....These folk seem real dicey.

#11580789 at 2020-11-10 #14785

survey in Contra Costa Co (Ca) - compares Dominion Voting Systems , ES&S, clearballot and Hart

http://64.166.146.245/docs/2018/BOS/20180206_1051/32486_Staff%20Report%20Voting%20Systems_120817%20complete.pdf

#11606308 at 2020-11-12 #14818 MARK MALLOCH-BROWN Globalist, Satanist? Edition

>Dominion software configuration

I would think would be controlling Clarity elections software

Here is what appears be Clarity elections software administrator manual for counties.

I think this is the Clarity Elections group that managed 28 states count / elections. Not 100% but looks solid has all the code variables in the appendix.

Clear Design Administrators Guide

https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/systemsDocumentation/clearballot/ClearDesign/ClearDesignAdministratorsGuide-r.pdf

July 2021: YES - ClearDesign is DEFINITELY part of ClearBallot group

Clarity is now owned by Service Point Solutions"

Service Point Solutions (Paragon) announces acquisition ofScytl:

Service Point Solutions, a company quoted in the Spanish Stock Exchange and part of Paragon group, announced today the acquisition of Scytl, a Barcelona based company leader in digital voting and electoral modernization. The acquisition also includes Civiciti, the citizen participation platform launched by the software company in 2016, and Scytl subsidiaries in USA, Canada, Australia, France and Greece. This acquisition unveils Paragon's group strategy to position Service Point Solutions as a pan-european platform for high-growth digital business.

See full details here.

https://www.scytl.com/en/news/

[July 2021: We know that votes from Dominion were sent to Scytl - so both Clarity and Scytl are owned by Service Point Solutions/PARAGON.Who in the hell are THEY??]

same poster/same bread #11606372

poster notices link to ClearBallot - which was used in BUCKS CO, PA. It's on their index page (or was). Mentions ClearBallot's "browser-based technology"....CBS News highlighted the partnership between Bucks County and Clear Ballot.

same bread #11606600

King County Washinton (seattle)

https://clearballot.com/case-studies/king-county

Multnomah County

https://clearballot.com/case-studies/multnomah-county

Pierce County Washington

https://clearballot.com/case-studies/pierce-county

'Snohomish County Washington

https://clearballot.com/case-studies/snohomish-county

[THESE ARE CASE STUDIES - available on Qresear.ch] - King Co is here: #11747538]

Stress is on EFFICIENCY, not SECURITY

#11818853 stuff on PA voter certification

https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/clearballot/ClearVote%201.5%20Secretarys%20certification%20report%2

#11872179 2020-12-02 #14154

Dig onEdwin Barkley Smith, a Central Character in Election Fraud

DIG ATTACHED BELOW

>>69174

>>69181

from Qresear.ch & wearethene.ws

https://wearethene.ws/notable/175787

#11872179 at 2020-12-02 18:43:37 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #15154: Call Now Operators are Standing By Edition

>>11868141PB Notable

Edwin Barkley Smith is a Central Character in Election Fraud

OP Anon's dig is very incomplete, and misleading in this respect when he said:

>ed smith with the same phone number runs a cyber corona virus web site called NCTA

https://www.ntca.org/member-services/coronavirus-resource-center/solution-providers/ppe-providers

If OP Anon had bothered to scroll down on the ntca web page, he would have seen that Ed Smith is the contact person of Smartmatic which uses and recommends NTCA PPE products. Other than a recommendation for their products, Smartmatic has nothing to do

with NTCA.

[REALLY????]

Okay, with that out of the way, the phone number 720-849-1775 is a Mead, Colorado number, with Edwin Barkley Smith the user. He lives with his wife Diane Wooley Smith at an address there, and his CV is as follows:

Edwin Smith was an software engineer for Rockwell before he was hired by Sequoia Voting Systems Dec. 4, 2010, then served in subsequent positions in other companies of that same group, Dominion, Clear Ballot, and Smartmatic. Presumably, which hat he wears just depends on which subsidiary was contracted to what State or County.

These companies are all the same, just the names have changed; perhaps they even submitted competitive bids to States/Counties to give a luster of legitimacy to the selection process.

His duties as Quality Control and Certification mean he ensures that the clients get the best product for their needs, which in this case, mean they get the election results they want.

The address given asClear Ballot Group, 7 Water St, Boston, MA is a mail drop; the address is a business called Global Pack Ship, and 7 Water St, Suite 7 is the drop, not a physical address for Clear Ballot Group.

The Clear Ballot Group says that their DUNS number is 833087401, but Dun and Bradstreet never heard of the company, at least by that name. Anons are invited to dig into this, I can't find anything else beyond that number, whether it's fake, or under another name.

'''In sum,Edwin Barkley Smith is a VIP in this election fuckery, has IT skills needed to perform fuckery, and likely liable for fraud perpetrated on the SoS of Washington, misrepresenting what company is contracting to the State of Washington, as Clear Ballot

Group is a shell company fronting, via a mail drop in Boston, for Smartmatic/Dominion/Sequoia.'''

No doubt the SoS of Washington, Kim Dobbs Wyman knows all this, but maybe gets a kickback for employing Clear Ballot Group.

Interestingly,;;; Kim's previous job before SoS was Manager of the Thurston County, Washington Voter Registration Office;;;, kinda like the DS in Washington State picked her to run for SoS because of her past associations and skills. She knows how to game the system.

I recommend Anons dig into the clearballot.com website, it's hilarious with it's bragging about how transparent and effective it is at producing good election results.CEO Bob Hoyt, BTW - dig into him

>>69183

Edwin Barkley Smith, cont.

LINKED IN

US Global Services Director at Smartmatic

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-smith-785a791

Describes a specific project in which he has been involved:

Los Angeles Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project.

About:

I've never shied away from a challenge. In mid-2018 I left a good job where I stood atop the intersection of the development community and the sales/service/finance community (a place at a start up that I truly enjoyed, learned a lot, and was well respected) to join the most innovative, challenging, and largest elections project in the history of the United States: the Los Angeles Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) project. At a baseline value of $212 million with additions of over $80 million, VSAP exceeds anything done before at the County level of US elections by 10X. You should read about it at https://vsap.lavote.net/. I took over as Service Delivery Manager on the project. Although this meant that I was assigned management of the Help Desk, aspects of the Implementation and other areas of accountability, what it really meant is that I got to dive into a number of project areas, roll up my sleeves and spend the days leading up to the election working as anything from an electronic pollbook programmer, a parking lot attendant for 300 vans and trucks, and a roving voting machine technician. The hours were long, 4:30 AM to 11:30 PM was the norm for weeks, but I was exactly where I was meant to be. …and I was able to juggle my Service Delivery “assigned duties” while dealing with those election preparation emergencies.

People tell me that my restless desire to “get dirty”, to walk the shop floor daily and get to know the people and process, along with an innate ability to exude calmness in the face of ugly situations are some of my strengths. My ability to explain to laypersons deep technical and business concepts is also a strength. Getting the job done with no excuses while encouraging others to thrive, make mistakes, and always maintain their dignity and spirit is important to me. The type of persons I find most valuable: someone who focuses on accountability, communicates 360, is trainable, and does not engage in political, diffusive, or divisive efforts. Every company and its people have a finite amount of energy. Focusing that energy is key to success. Mentoring others is also important; and I am proud of how many people I have worked with over the years who continue to stay in touch.

Most of my experience has been at smaller companies or new divisions of larger companies. I have helped all to find a place in the market, knock out incumbents, differentiate their offerings and exceed in getting more than their fair share of those markets.

>>69189

So Smartmatic led the Cali vote certification process?

That sounds spiffy, doesn't it?

There's so much more to dig on here, many unanswered questions remain.

>>74883

this is an election fraud thread, not an anti-jew thread

will be deleted, move it or lose it

>>64167

>>75797

BIG POST BELOW

Devolution series has been documented by many, including Praying Medic. Here he gives link to all the articles in the entire series.

Article 5 is all about election fraud - and how all the corrupt voting companies have representation on CISA - the support "govt" group that said this famous statement:

== "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election

Just who helped to generate that statement?

THE VERY COMPANIES WHICH PERPETRATED THE FRAUD.

>>75844

Following the 2020 election, Chris Krebs of CISA issued a statement saying the election was the most safe and secure in history. Oddly, this letter, from the government agency in charge of election security, was co-authored by several voting machine manufacturers, who it turns out, sit on the board of advisers for CISA. How did this arrangement happen? Article 5 provides the answer.

https://t.me/praying_medic/3554

Relevant part of Article 5:

Summary of article:

When CISA was created in 2018, an Election Infrastructure Subsector Coordinating Council was created - the EISCC. Made up of members of the private sector, not the govt. What does this mean?

Turns out the INFRASTRUCTURE = companies that make voting systems like DOMINION and SMARTMATIC:

"the members of the EISCC are the actual election infrastructure owners and operators, and they handle the physical security along with the cybersecurity through their own “voluntary actions”."

"They “coordinate with the DHS to develop, recommend, and review sector-wide plans, procedures, and effective practices in support of infrastructure protection, including training, education, and implementation”. They also “make recommendations to appropriate authorities to mitigate impediments to effective critical infrastructure security”."

At the end of the article is a discussion all about Staple St Capital/UBS Securities LLC (Chinese subsidiary of UBS from Switzerland).

THE FOXES SMARTMATIC, DOMINION, CLEARBALLOT ARE GUARDING THE HENHOUSE BIGTIME.

>>63984

>>75844

>>75845

>>75846

>>75848

QRB election fraud thread focuses on the central role of GEMS system in 'launching' election fraud has never come out.

Here's a summary:

GEMS odyssey started in King Co WA (Seattle) with convicted embezzler (just released from prison) Jeffrey Dean somehow holding a highly responsible position in King Co elections around 1999 - bout the same time he developed GEMS for GES, which later became Diebold/Premier which was later sold to Dominion.

GEMS is the system Bev Harris identified in 2016 as behind FRACTIONALIZED VOTING

By around 2001, Dean was VP in GES and had more stock than anyone else. After the sale to Diebold, he faded into the background but was widely suspected of continuing to serve as a 'consultant.'

Meanwhile, in King Co, they went with one of the first all-mail in ballot systems in 2008: one by a company called ClearBallot/ClearVote;. Tried to dig on it last Nov, didn't get far, very little info to be had. But recently, discovered a contact for ClearBallot - which appears to be a shell company - works fulltime for Smartmatic:

Edwin Barkley Smith.

He played a big role in LA elections thru Los Angeles Voting Solutions for All People along with 200 other Smartmatic employees.

Smartmatic "LED THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS IN CALIFORNIA."

Smith also serves on the Elections Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council of the Department of Homeland Security representing Smartmatic =CISA.

You know - the one that said "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election

See previous posts in this thread for links.

RON

Just learned that conan james hayes the actual hard drives from Mesa Co Clerk. Must be returned.

This is from his lawyer - who supposedly got it from Tina.

Tina says otherwise. She's going to call lawyer (hers? his?)

next few post are 'pickups' from the past month

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There is so much material....

Here is a list of POSTS that are relevant to election fraud.

I may be able to list KEY POSTS more fully but if not here is at least a list that can be retrieved directly if still on the catalog OR from the archive if they have fallen off it. (see right side top of Catalog)

ELECTION FRAUD THREAD

>>78468 Jovan Pulitzer: "I'M NOT even dropping the BIG BOMBS YET"

>>78655, >>78657, >>78660, >>78663, >>78674 CM spells out how AZ criminals are going down

>>78857, >>78862, >>78873, >>78903 New CMs on election whistleblower/booting BIOS from remote source via PXE

>>79093, >>79094 Dr. Shiva Discovers Existence of the Secretive Long Fuse Report

>>79248 (You) FINAL LIST OF STATE CHATS - Election Audits

>>80200, >>80201, >>80205, >>80208 Carlyle Group sold by co-founder/non-exec BoD: $234m-Aug 3/ D’Aniello

>>>/qresearch/14296217 WARNING FOR AMERICANS & THE WORLD W/ EXEC. PRODUCER OF ABSOLUTE PROOF & ABSOLUTE PERIL, MARY FANNING

>>80522 Bobby Piton is running for US Senate (IL)

>>81068, >>81073 Waldron outing UBS Securities as being China controlled.

>>81247, >>81248, >>81251 Son of Bolsonaro, fraud being exposed

>>81207, >>81209 NH: the lie, the truth

>>81415 Dominion Voting Systems Sues Newsmax and One America News for Airing Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium

>>81477 Dr Frank - we have forensic images of some election machines

>>81484, >>81491 Dominion’s Legal Counsel Stephen Shackelford

>>81532 (You) @JovanHPulitzer #youtube deplatformed me for doing live play by play commentary regarding Mike's Cyber Symposium

>>81611 (You) GEMS is the Key

>>81689, >>81691 Dr. SHIVA with Mike on now

>>81709 Mesa County Colorado Recorder confirmed active erasure of evidence from Dominion systems, but by Dominion not her office./made a forensic copy before/proof beyond PCAP

>>81715 Interviewing Colonel Phil Waldron

>>81731, >>81732 Draza destroying FL data on symposium….

>>81814 (You) Lindell Symposium: They’re Destroying the Evidence

>>81815 (You) Gen. Flynn: Mike Lindell is a national hero

>>81816 (You) 22 minute video from Lindell Symposium on Election Fraud

OVERVIEW & UPDATES on DOMINION OWNERSHIP

see posts below

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haha

Who's behind election fraud ALL OVER THE WORLD???

Whoever controls the election systems

Who OWNS the systems, starting w/Dominion?

>>64161 from Lin Wood in Nov 2020: Chain of ownership

Steve Feinberg /Cerberus

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Staple Street

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Dominion

SEC doc shows that Staple St Capital offered to issue (apparently DID issue) $400mil in stock to UBS Securities LLC on Oct 8, 2020

SEE https://tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities/

That would give UBS Securities LLC a stake in Dominion.

How big?

Depends on worth of UBS Sec LLC. So we don't know the %.

Swiss mega-bank UBS AG is the parent company. It owns two very similar sounding divisions:

UBS Sec LLC is a division of UBS AG based in NYC.

UBS Sec Ltd based in mainland China.

Why so similar? Confusing (maybe ON PURPOSE).

Fact-checker cited by USA Today said the claim that China owns part of Dominion is false.

Claims apparently comes from Alex Jones but was picked up by Lin Wood. Fact checker says Lynn got confused between the two companies called UBS:'''

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/23/fact-check-dominion-voting-systems-foreign-investment-claim-false/4038654001/

But fact checker apparently ignores this article written more than a month earlier, which shows that UBS New York and UBS Beijing HAD HIGH LEVEL OFFICERS/EMPLOYEES IN COMMON:

1 - three out of four board directors were Chinese nationals. One of them, Ye Xiang, also served on board of the other subsidiary, UBS Securities Co. Ltd (based in Beijing). He also worked for China’s central bank.

2 - UBS received a special, fully-licensed status in China, which is rarely given to foreign banks.

3 - The deal broker was none other than Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan, who has a reputation as a finance specialist in the Chinese government.

On top of all that, a day before Lin Wood’s tweet, 12 out of 15 UBS board members quit their positions.

Among them was Ye Xiang. Another most recent individual to walk away was Cheng Yixun, a financial expert from Chinese’s Thousand Talents Program* and the ex-CEO of Beijing-based UBS Securities Co. Ltd. Interestingly, the Thousand Talents Program has been widely covered by the US media as a security threat to America’s national interests.'' (see Wikipedia for more on TTP.)

Things don’t end there, as Dominion itself had Chinese insiders.

Among them is Andy Huang, the Dominion’s Core Infrastructure Manager of Information Technology. Andy previously worked for China Telecom, from 1998 to 2002. Needless to say, such vital companies are tightly controlled by the Chinese government.

https://tokenist.com/what-we-know-dominion-voting-systems-and-ubs-securities/ (published DEC & 2020)

BOTTOM LINE: BOTH UBS DIVISIONS ARE TECHNICALLY CONTROLLED BY UBS AG in Switzerland.

Looks like it is the "hidden hand" behind the curtain.

UPDATED FLOW CHART (Aug 2021)

Steve Feinberg /Cerberus (Carlyle Group background)

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Staple Street and UBS AG (via their subsidiary, UBS Securities LLC NYC - $400mil)

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Dominion

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OTHER LOOSE ENDS RE DOMINION OWNERSHIP:

1.If we assume that (a) NY-based UBS Securities LLC is China-influenced/controlled and (b) it now has a $400mil chunk of Dominion as of Oct 8 2020, what's the split between UBS LLC and UBS AG?

>>64161 Lin Wood thought the split was 75%/25% in favor of China

>>64163 But since Dec 1, 2018, the split is 49%/51%

Almost NO ONE researching this stuff has paid attn to the fact that UBS AG owns 51% NOT 25%

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/china-deal_ubs-secures-majority-stake-in-a-china-securities-joint-venture/44587188

THIS IS IMPORTANT INFO.

2. Question: Why would China give UBS AG controlling interest?

Possibilities:

a. For OPTICS. Makes China look less controlling (only has 49%) - but a wise friend pointed out that, as a country, China has enough clout that the "49%" doesn't really matter.

b. For OPTICS. So that after the election was stolen, if they got caught, they could still say a SWISS BANK has controlling interest, NOT CHINA__.

c. UBS AG is the real influencer, the 'hidden hand'. CS as a habit of revealing themselves with obscure clues - this could be one of them.

3. We still don't know the split between Staple Street and UBS AG:

How much ownership does Staple Street retain? Is $400mil 100% of Dominion or 0%? Or somewhere in between?

Whatever the answer, it's obvious that UBS AG obviously plays a HUGE ROLE here.

What are they doing and why are they being deceptive (changing out Chinese directors in UBS NYC after the election?)

Who REALLY controls Dominion?

Is it CHINA - - - or SWITZERLAND??

Who really controls UBS AG? see >>64167, https://t.me/marcopolousa/16

a country or a cabal?

4. Another strange thing: the $400mil transaction on Oct 8, 2020 was unusual - a "one-and-done" transaction, completed very quickly during a pandemic. Mostly likely scenario: ONE entity did the financing. IF SO, WHO IS IT?

https://www.buyoutsinsider.com/ex-carlyle-cerberus-execs-shop-staple-street-holds-one-and-done-close-on-fund-iii/

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ownership-of-dominion-draws-scrutiny-after-unusual-fundraising_3618603.html

https://www.theepochtimes.com/unusual-fundraising-behind-dominion-ownership_3621206.html

5. Last, on 09/26/2019, a paralegal from Chapman & Culler LLP, Soren Schwartz,facilitated and signed a Security Agreement between Dominion Voting Systems Corporation & Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Canada. The agreement assigned 18 patents owned by Dominion to HSBC as collateral. see >>64347

Dominion is a Canadian company - looks like HSBC is too? Has a Canadian address:

4th floor, 70 York Street

Toronto, CA M5J 1S9

Dominion is also located in Toronto.....wonder if they are neighbors

What's this Canadian bank? And how much is its collateral worth?

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>>86007

Just a quick q for ya

Switzerland has been the banking masters of the world for centuries

seems to me theY have let China in rather than taking over, China op might be US, theY are cleaning up the freedom/rights mess for bankers and profiting from it handsomely but I still think the Swiss bankers are in charge and whoever/whatever P is

D this when you're done reading it

just an impression when reading

flow is very nice, top to bottom

>>86368

Swiss bankers and "P"

hard part would be digging on swiss bank

that's a real "don't look here" place

>>64167 SO WHO CONTROLS UBS AG?

>nice flow

that's why it takes so long

material so convoluted, only way is to take it completely apart so it's accurate

and even then no way to know 100%

but close i hope

fixed all the USB > UBS

>>86388

fuck you you're DEAD

Global reported

>>86502

>>86008

Dominion/HSBC dig

HSBC

Second largest bank in EU.

Owns 18 Dominion patents. So it's got a LOT of clout over that company.

It's COLLETERAL - but for what?

Findings so far:

1. Established in 1865 to finance the OPIUM TRADE after first opium war.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was founded by Thomas Sutherland in the then-British colony of British Hong Kong on 3 March 1865, and in Shanghai a month later, benefiting from the start of trading into China, includingopium trading(wikipedia).

2. Went to London during WW2. But China bank did swell even after CCP took over China - lots of expansion between 1953 - 1980 and after. (wikipedia)

Cultural Revolution? No problem! (wonder how they pulled that off at a time when anything capitalist was getting destroyed....)

'''3. Now has branches in countries all over the world. HSBC Holdings is centered in London with branches all over the world, including China and Canada. Second largest bank in Europe. (wikipedia)

4. Has had problems with money laundering in the past.

July 3, 2013: British bank helped move money for drug traffickers and countries subject to U.S. sanctions

"When announcing the charges last year, the government called HSBC's actions 'stunning failures of oversight — and worse...The record of dysfunction that prevailed at HSBC for many years was astonishing',the Justice Department said at the time."

Obvious this bank is TOTALLY CORRUPT.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hsbc-s-1-9b-money-laundering-settlement-approved-by-judge-1.1377272

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-230696/

5. NOW: Totally pushing AGENDA 2020. see website - next post.'''

Climage change fanatics who want to help their clients follow suit.

https:'//'www.hsbc.com/who-we-are/our-climate-strategy

OPIUM TRADE > FINANCING CCP DURING EARLY YEARS > FINANCING DRUG TRADE > FINANCING DOMINION USING 18 PATENTS AS COLLATERAL

THIS BANK CONTROLS 18 CRITICAL DOMINION PATENTS - AND THUS MANY US ELECTIONS

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>>86504

Recent news on HSBC

first article is on the branch of HSBC Canada (the one holding the Dominion patents as collateral).

second article is on HSBC Holdings (umbrella out of London).

HSBC Canada posts best quarterly results since 2018

8-3-21

- HSBC cemented its position as a leading international bank operating in Canada with strong second quarter results.

- The banking group posted increases in both revenue and profits before taxes as customer activity increased amid an improving outlook for the global economy.

- Total operating income for the quarter was $547m, up $45m or 9.0% and $1,076m for the half-year, up $28m or 2.7%.

- “Our results this quarter are the best since the third quarter of 2018 – with an improved economic outlook and the resilience of our customers leading to improved profits across all three business lines,” commented Linda Seymour, president and CEO of HSBC Canada.

https://www.wealthprofessional.ca/news/industry-news/hsbc-canada-posts-best-quarterly-results-since-2018/358598

ALEX BRUMMER: HSBC is banking on an Asian miracle as it retreats from Europe and the US

2 August 2021

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9853435/ALEX-BRUMMER-HSBC-banking-Asian-miracle.html

Recent report on HSBC status.

Some might question HSBC’s retreat from continental Europe and the United States at a moment when economies are fizzing as they bounce back from Covid-19. It might also seem an inappropriate moment to focus on its core markets in Hong Kong and China at a time of deteriorating diplomatic and economic relations with Washington and London. Nevertheless, the clue is in the bank’s name, the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. This has seen the franchise survive the opium wars, chairman Mao, Tiananmen Square and much more.

The bank is vulnerable to regulatory foul-ups after its troubles with money laundering in the past, and new scandal could endanger its US banking licence. That would be a disaster as it is the main conduit for dollar transfers between Hong Kong and New York.

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https://archive.ph/wip/chT2I

Archive of thread so far

>>86835

NO GRAPHICS

>>89634

The drumbeat of bad news has never stopped.

This year, researchers have found more security flaws, and another version of the software was leaked. In Maryland, Diebold allegedly knew that some of its machines had defective motherboards but did not replace them for a year. Both candidates for governor there advised their supporters to vote via absentee ballot rather than use Diebold machines.

Rolling Stone published an article alleging that Diebold helped deliver Georgia to the GOP (Diebold calls the story "fiction"). The company is an unwitting star in a new HBO documentary called "Hacking Democracy." Oh, and the SEC is investigating accounting irregularities.

Deep in a corporate nightmare, Diebold is wondering how to shake itself awake. After all, this is a 147-year-old company once headed by Eliot Ness, the storied crime fighter. Internally there is little doubt that the company rues the day it stepped out of its comfort zone and into the maw of electoral politics.

Selling political equipment to politicians is an ugly business - and thanks to lawsuits, lobbying expenses and public relations consultants, the profit margins have been stingy too. (The voting division, which accounts for just 5 percent of the $3 billion company's revenue, only started making money last year.)

But after a close look at Diebold and its operations, it's hard to see the company as evil. Naive? Yes. Ignorant? Sure. Stupid? Sometimes. "We didn't know a whole lot about the elections business when we went into it, "admits Swidarski. "Here we are, a bunch of banking folks thinking making voting machines would be similar to making ATMs. We've learned some pretty painful lessons."

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_A history of success__

A cow, a lantern, and a straw-filled barn made Charles Diebold (pronounced DEE-bold) a household name in the banking world. It was the night of Oct. 8, 1871, when, as legend has it, the Great Chicago Fire started in Mrs. O'Leary's cowshed. When 878 Diebold safes survived with their contents unharmed, business took off.

Canton became known as "Little Germany," thanks to the thousands of immigrants who flocked to work in the Diebold factories. (German immigrants arriving in New York reportedly only had to say "Diebold" for directions to Canton-bound trains.)

By the beginning of the 20th century, the company was making jails, trapdoors for gallows, and padded cells for asylums. During World War II it made armor plating for tanks and airplanes. Then, in the 1960s, the company bet its future on a speculative technology: automated teller machines.

Diebold quickly became a global market leader. But it stayed intensely Midwestern, content to manufacture its machines locally and allow companies like IBM (Charts) to distribute them overseas.

In the mid-1990s, however, when rival NCR (Charts) passed it to become the market leader, Diebold changed tactics and took control of its worldwide distribution (today its share is 30 percent). The company began buying up suppliers around the world, including a Brazilian ATM maker, Procomp Amazonia, in October 1999.

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Entering the political sphere

Around the same time, the Brazilian government was looking to fully automate its election system. Procomp got the $106 million contract - Diebold's largest ever - to make 186,000 identical electronic voting machines for the 2000 election.

At the exact same time that Florida's officials were haggling over butterfly ballots, Brazil's were congratulating themselves on a clean and tidy result.

Emboldened by Diebold's success in Brazil, CEO Walden O'Dell set out to ensure that the company got a serious piece of the U.S. elections business.

The first problem was that the Brazilian machines weren't sophisticated enough for the U.S. market and couldn't be certified quickly. So O'Dell needed to buy a company to get into the market for the 2002 midterm elections.

In June 2001, Diebold announced it was acquiring Global Electronic Systems, based in McKinney, Texas, for about $30 million. Global was a $7 million operation that made most of its money printing ballots for its optical-scan reading machine. Its touch-screen system, the Accu-Vote-TS, wasn't a big seller.

Nothing was a big seller then. The elections business was populated by a couple dozen private firms that often literally sold equipment out of the back of their cars. That's because their customers were poor.

U.S. elections are intensely local affairs, run by more than 3,000 separate counties. Buying new equipment was a luxury. If county commissioners had to choose between filling a pothole or buying new voting equipment, the pothole invariably won.

That all changed when Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002. With it came $3.9 billion in grants for states to replace punch-card and mechanical-lever machines and to set up statewide voter lists.

Local election officials soon found themselves inundated by high-powered lobbyists. "I don't think those election boards had ever seen as many dinners out," says Paul Tipps, a prominent Democrat who lobbied for Diebold in Ohio.

With its main rivals - Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems and Omaha, Neb.-based Election Systems & Software - making inroads in Florida, Diebold targeted other states. In March 2002, just two months after it completed its purchase of Global, Maryland put in a $13 million order to equip four counties with touch-screen machines. In May, Georgia signed a $54 million contract to buy 20,000 Diebold machines.

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Early warning signs

After the takeover, the big contracts meant big problems. Diebold had let the Global operation alone, but it just couldn't keep up. Orders were lost, manufacturing fell behind schedule, the technical staff was overwhelmed.

Recalls Swidarski, the unit lacked "the wherewithal really to know how to manage a business. They were doing complex rollouts without the depth or breadth or skill set to deal with what they were going to do."

The same could be said of the customers. Election administrators were often unsophisticated county employees who had been in the job forever. "If we work with Bank of America and they want to roll out 1,000 ATMs, they'll have 25 professional project managers," says Swidarski. "You go to a meeting at a county and you're looking at two people."

It didn't help that Global's touch-screen system, the AccuVote-TS, was flawed from the start. It had purchased the technology from a small company called I-Mark, whose founders had designed it as an unattended voting terminal that could be used in places like shopping malls or supermarkets. "The only problem was they weren't looking at security," says Douglas Jones, a computer science professor at University of Iowa who has been testing voting machines since 1994.

Not quite the only problem. Because there was little demand for touch-screen systems before 2001, Global hadn't spent much on software development. (Jones thinks they needed to start over.)

So the system voters used in 2002 was bug-ridden. Diebold machines crashed early and often, and there was insufficient trained staff to cope with the inevitable problems. (One problem: "vote hopping," where, due to an uncalibrated touch screen, pressing one candidate counted the one next to it.) Even so, after the election, press accounts largely glossed over the problems as isolated hiccups. Orders continued to roll in. And then things fell apart.

Until recently, hardly anyone gave a thought to the mechanics of voting. Even fewer thought about hackers. But in the wake of 2000, the mechanics of voting became politicized.

One key moment came when Bev Harris heard her suburban Seattle county was considering switching to electronic touch-screen machines. Curious, she started trawling the Internet for information - and late one night in January 2003, she discovered a cache of files on an unprotected Diebold server. In it were e-mails between programmers discussing the system's problems.

"Distributing this software is extremely dangerous," a programmer wrote in 2001. "Our smart-card format has absolutely no security, so if someone were to get a copy of this software and a reader, they could stand at the ballot station and quietly burn new voters cards all day.... I can see the cover of USA Today in my head. Consider everyone warned." (Diebold says the problem was fixed before the 2002 elections.)

Digging further, Harris found a version of the company's secret software that ran the machines. She passed it to Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Within an hour, Rubin says, he discovered that the software's encryption system was one "everyone knew was broken since 1998." That same day, he found that the administrative password to all the machines was the same: 1-1-1-1.

"It looked like an experimental student project," Rubin says. "If it was my student's project, they would have gotten an F." His report, which came out two days after Maryland had awarded Diebold a $56 million contract for 11,000 touch-screen machines, galvanized those who had always been suspicious of electronic voting.

The company pointed out in a 27-page retort that the software wasn't in use and that there were checks and balances to prevent fraud. The response didn't satisfy the skeptics; an avalanche of criticism - some of it thoughtful, some of it wacko - began to bear down.

In 2004, California decertified Diebold machines and joined a civil lawsuit filed by Bev Harris that alleged Diebold lied when it said its equipment had been federally certified. The company admitted no guilt but agreed to settle, paying California $2.6 million.

At the same time, it continued to have manufacturing problems, once shutting down production because the touch-screen machines were malfunctioning. (It took a year to replace the defective motherboards.)

Changing gears

Soon, Swidarski, then a senior marketing executive in the ATM unit, took over the elections business. "The board understands, as best anyone can, the volatile nature of the business/media and that politics are involved," Swidarski wrote in an e-mail to his deputies in the elections division. "However, the board cannot understand how the [Secretary of State] of [California] indicates that we have lied, misled, and withheld information."

Swidarski fired many Global staff and brought in a new boss from Canton, Dave Byrd, to run the business. The voting unit began to operate more smoothly, grossing $150 million in 2005 and making a small profit.

In December 2005, the board pushed O'Dell out and named Swidarski CEO. Just as he did with the elections business, Swidarski cleaned house: Only two of the seven top executives he inherited are still at Diebold today.

Swidarski is cut from a different cloth than his predecessor. O'Dell liked deals and was frankly bored by ATMs; he loved being known as one of Bush's Pioneers - generous Republican donors. A former senior executive with Emerson Electric, O'Dell's top priority was to make the numbers.

Swidarski, by contrast, is more focused on the customers than he is on Wall Street. (He refuses to give quarterly earnings guidance.) A former marketing executive at PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, he is straightforward and unpretentious. In his short tenure as CEO, he has changed the mood at Canton. "This place is dramatically different from a year ago," says CFO Kevin Krakora, "almost night and day."

Smart Business 100, Swidarski's $100 million plan to cut costs and increase customer service, is beginning to show dividends. Since fading to less than $35 in September 2005, Diebold's stock is now at $42. Profits dropped 41 percent last year, but were still a healthy $161 million on $2.6 billion of revenue.

Diebold looks set to beat those numbers this year. "The new management team," says Gil Luria, a research analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, "seems to be on top of what they really need to do to turn around the company." Krakora puts it simply, "This company prints cash."

Dubious voting

But its voting machines continue to attract scorn. In August, Edward Felten, a computer-science professor at Princeton University, got his hands on a Diebold machine similar to those still used in Georgia. With the help of two graduate students, he posted a video online that showed him infiltrating and installing a virus in what appears to be less than a minute.

Felten found that the key to the lock protecting the memory card, which is used to both update the software and record votes, was one commonly used in office furniture and even hotel minibars. Once the door to the slot was open, he could slip in a virus-infested memory card and alter votes. "We were completely floored by how easy it was," Felten says.

Diebold disputes the accuracy, integrity and plausibility of the Princeton study, pointing out that Felten's team used an old machine with two-year-old software not in use today. Plus, the team had four months to figure it all out.

"The report all but ignores physical security and election procedures," says Mark Radke, marketing director of Diebold Election Systems. "Every local jurisdiction secures its voting machines - every voting machine, not just electronic machines. Electronic machines are secured with security tape and numbered security seals that would reveal any sign of tampering."

Therein lies the rub, says Michael Shamos, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has been testing election equipment since 1980.

"Diebold doesn't fully get it about security," he says. "Their position every time somebody raises the prospect of insider manipulation of elections is, 'Are you telling me you think that these election officials would commit a felony?' And the answer is, 'Yes, that's what we're saying. They might commit a felony, and what is your system doing to prevent them?'"

Even so, Shamos doesn't completely buy the Princeton study. "What Felten found wasn't a bug in the software," he says. "It was a deliberate feature that comes from the need to be able to update the machines quickly."

Felten, he says, makes it seem like anyone with a memory card could go into a Diebold machine, root around and swing an election. Shamos points out that since the machines aren't networked, a virus would have to be tailored to the ballot and inserted into each machine one wanted to manipulate. That's a lot more work - and a lot more opportunities to screw up - than it looks like on video.

A national rollout of almost any product is bound to have glitches. But when elections depend upon the product in a country whose politics are scarred by distrust, there is little tolerance for error.

The problem critics had with the early touch-screen systems was the lack of a tangible way - such as the kind of receipt consumers get at ATM machines - to verify results. (Oddly, few made this complaint about lever machines.)

Though about half of the touch-screen systems in use today provide an audit trail that voters can see, that presents its own problems, such as installing the paper or keeping it from jamming.

What really gets the critics going, though, is the possibility of stealing or "editing" votes by the bundle, either in a specific precinct or, worse, by hacking into a central database. As William "Boss" Tweed, who effectively ran New York City in the mid-1800s, once noted, "The ballots made no result; the counters made the result."

Diebold's critics say that is the problem. But for all the sound and fury swirling around the company, there has not been a single confirmed incident of tampering with a Diebold or any other electronic machine; it's much more difficult to write a computer virus than to tinker with a ballot box. (Ah, say the critics, but prove it hasn't happened.)

So what's the prediction for this election? The primaries were a mixed bag. One big story was that Florida was not a story, but there were problems elsewhere, from poll workers unable to boot up the machines, to transmission problems, to unexpected screen freezes.

"History shows us it always takes at least three good-sized elections before we have any new system down," says Doug Lewis, the executive director of the Election Center, an organization that represents and trains local election administrators. "It would be a miracle if there weren't problems in this election."

As for Diebold, Swidarski is questioning whether the election business "fits into our product portfolio." He says he'll make a decision within the next three months. But it says something that the company recently ordered the name "Diebold" removed from the front of the voting equipment. Why? A spokesman would only say, "It was a strategic decision on the part of the corporation."

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>>64062

JEFFREY DEAN'S AMAZING HISTORY

Bev Harris article from 2006 details Dean's history LONG BEFORE he went to jail for embezzlement.

originally from General thread: >>82507, >>82519 JEFFREY DEAN / GEMS DIGG - ongoing

Programmer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit

by Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and John Howard

January 26, 2006

Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the largest ballot printing contracts in history.

In a 2003 deposition, Dean states that he was a scapegoat who was left holding the bag in a series of unapproved payments from Culp, Guterson & Grader, one of the most politically connected law firms in Washington state.

One of this firm's partners at the time was Egil "Bud" Krogh, who headed the White House "plumbers" unit under Richard Nixon. Krogh ordered the burglary of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Dean claimed that other persons from the firm were involved in a scheme, and upon discovery of illicit payments (averaging $14,000/month) he was made to take the blame. Krogh was a partner at Culp Guterson & Grader during the time period that Dean was receiving illicit payments of approximately $15,000 per month.

Like Jeffrey Dean, Krogh did time in prison -- four months for Watergate-related crimes. He was disbarred, but after a fight from a Culp Guterson & Grader attorney, his credentials were restored. At the time, the firm was called "Culp Dwyer Guterson & Grader."

'He [Krogh] was hired on the merits of his character, intelligence and skills as a lawyer,'' said William L. Dwyer, the firm's senior partner, who had represented Mr. Krogh in his disbarment fight. Dwyer became a U.S. district judge.

DEAN BECOMES A BALLOT PRINTER

Shortly after Jeffrey Dean was released from prison a company owned by his wife (but run by Jeffrey Dean)was awarded one of the largest ballot-printing contracts in history, with King County, Washington.In SEC documents, this company (Spectrum Print & Mail Ltd.) lists assets located in the Seattle area, British Columbia, San Francisco and in the Norwalk (CA) location that houses the Los Angeles County Elections Division.

DEAN DEVELOPS COMPUTERIZED ELECTION SYSTEMS

According to depositions taken in 2003, Jeffrey Dean programmed the ballot sorting software used to process incoming and outgoing mail-in ballots; he also developed the Vote Remote software used to track and authenticate mail-in ballots.

Key logs from King County Elections show that Jeffrey Dean was given intimate access to the GEMS server== (Diebold central tabulating software); internal memos from Diebold refer to an ongoing consulting arrangement with Dean, and document that he had management involvement in the touch-screens, the 1.96 version of the optical scan, the votercard encoder and the Windows CE operating system used in Diebold voting machines. In addition, during recent litigation Dean called Peter G. Martin as a witness, indicating that he had worked closely with Martin, who programmed the new upcoming High Speed Central Count system.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE DEAN FAMILY

Black Box Voting has learned that Jeffrey Dean and his wife Deborah have recently been ordered into Chapter 7 bankruptcy by a trustee who become fed up with their "gamesmanship" in recent attempts to obstruct discovery of their assets.

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A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF TROUBLE

Jeffrey Dean has a 25-year history of financial problems, tax liens and litigation, going back to a company he formed while working for Boeing. Though he refers to this company in recent depositions as "Astec," its real name was Advanced Systems Technology, Inc., a company run by Dean and partner Michael C. Redman. Dean represents that this company did aircraft design, and says that he sold it to Raleigh-Durham Aviation in 1980. Legal documents show that he had a $700,000 tax lien imposed on him in connection with the "failed business" in 1984, and several creditors filed civil suits against him in 1979 and 1980.

By 1982, Dean was a contractor for Culp, Guterson & Grader. Assets began accumulating under his wife's names. When Dean divorced his first wife and married wife #2, Lorimay, she began accumulating real estate under an entity called "JAL Investments Inc." This entity and its real estate was transferred to Dean's third wife, Deborah M. [Pederson] Dean.

These efforts failed when it was revealed that over $180,000 of inappropriately received funds were spent on Deborah Dean's house, and that Deborah had been cashing checks as large as $10,000 at a time from the illicit funds.

Although she was involved in litigation over restitution issues, Deborah Dean was not prosecuted in the thefts from Culp, Guterson & Grader.

Jeffrey Dean entered an Alford Plea admitting to 23 felony counts, and was ordered to appear at the Shelton Correctional facility to begin his incarceration. Instead, he failed to show up and went to Oregon, where he apparently lived under a different name. Bench warrants were issued and he went to prison.

Meanwhile, wife Deborah began "Spectrum Print & Mail Ltd." According to depositions, this firm was mostly delivering newspapers to contract deals like the Washington ferries.

Shortly after Jeffrey Dean got out of prison, however, Spectrum Print & Mail got into ballot printing and designing software for elections.

This ballot printing plant, using software Dean claims to have developed, handles ballot printing and mail-ballot processing for counties like King County (WA) and Los Angeles County, Fresno County, San Diego County, Alameda County (CA), and for the state of Georgia and many other locations.

The Deans were rewarded for Jeffrey Dean's ballot printing and election software programming work in a $4 million buyout by Global Election Systems shortly before election 2000. The Deans became the largest stockholders of Global Election Systems, and Jeffrey Dean took a position on the board of directors.

In January 2002, Diebold Inc. purchased Global Election Systems. Oddly, in a 2003 deposition, Jeffrey Dean claims that his contact with Global was always Pat Green -- but Green is a Diebold employee, not a Global Election Systems employee. Yet Diebold claims it hasn't worked with Jeffrey Dean.

The Dean's ballot printing company was acquired by Diebold in the Global Election Systems acquisition.

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WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

The Vote Remote software and the absentee ballot processing software developed by Jeffrey Dean was never submitted for certification, has not been examined by anyone, and due to technicalities i n the certification regulations, is not subject to certification. Several counties have recently announced plans to force voters into all mail-in voting, including King County, Jeffrey Dean's first elections client.

Exactly what Jeffrey Dean was doing to the GEMS database program, what "oversight" he was providing to the touch-screen technology purchased by Diebold, and what expertise he provided for the votercard encoder, the optical scan 1.96 series, and the upcoming High Speed Central Count are not publicly known at this time.

DIEBOLD CLAIMS MERIT FURTHER SCRUTINY

Diebold claims that it did not work with Jeffrey Dean after acquiring Global Election Systems in 2002. However, the Dean depositions reveal that in May and June 2002, during the time the "rob-georgia" patch was created, Jeffrey Dean was called back to do consulting for Diebold. The Deans have been accused of obstructiveness and evasion by attorneys seeking to recover funds in a pending bankruptcy case. Specifically, when asked to identify monies paid by or due from Diebold Election Systems, they omitted answers.

Depositions, documents, and supporting documentation will be posted on the Black Box Voting Web site this week. These documents include depositions, bankruptcy papers, criminal court records, SEC documents and civil litigation records.

Jeffrey Dean prison records:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/14323.html

by Black Box Voting investigators Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and Jim March, with assistance from Black Box Voting members Pat Vesely and John Howard.

NEW Citizen research & investigations section now available: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/17141/17141... (you must register and log in to use this)

https://freepress.org/article/programmer-jeff-dean-worked-chief-white-house-plumbers-unit

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