ChoicePoint/Ashcroft compiling data on Venezuelan voters (Palast)

[scottxyz]

Justice offered up to $67 million, of our taxpayer money, to ChoicePoint in a no-bid deal, for computer profiles with private information on every citizen of half a dozen nations. ... ChoicePoint's menu offered records on Venezuelans, Brazilians, Nicaraguans, Mexicans and Argentines.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=358&row=0

So now our taxpayer dollars are paying to disenfranchise voters not just in Florida but in foreign countries as well?

[SoCalDem]

1. They are all dirty..and they are all connected..

Tales From the Grassy Knoll
Text by EVA SION
http://tabletnewspaper.com/politics/77_tftgk.html

MORE ELECTORAL SHENANIGANS


“Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall establish a program under which... A State shall... replace punch card voting systems or lever voting systems (as the case may be) in qualifying precincts within that State with a voting system (by purchase, lease, or such other arrangement as may be appropriate) that (A) does not use punch cards or levers.” –The Help America Vote Act of 2002

“ committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to next year.” –William Weld, CEO of Diebold, Inc.

Devoted readers of TFTGK will no doubt recall my recent piece on the ultra-Christian, ultra-right ownership of two of the three largest electronic vote counting companies in the nation, Diebold and ES&S and their dubious ties to the Bush administration. Well, more connections keep popping up, tying in the third largest purveyor of vote counting machinery, Sequoia Systems, Inc. and more links to the über-reactionary Council on National Policy.

This is a disturbing trend.

Electronic (computer) voting systems are now required by law in the US and are rapidly being exported throughout the world through such organizations as the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) – a company that oversaw recent elections in Brazil, Venezuela and Haiti – and whose founder F. Clifton White was a central figure in the Iran/Contra scandal of the 1980’s. These efforts are funded with taxpayer money through the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID, both quasi-governmental organizations that have been linked not only to Iran/Contra but (not so surprisingly) to the international drug trade as well.

Sequoia Systems is 20% owned by Madison Dearborn Partners, an equity leverage firm that in the last few years has joined partnerships on several occasions (in acquisitions worth several billion dollars) with the infamous Carlyle group, which has well documented ties to Bushes Jr. and Sr., Dick Cheney and the family of Osama Bin Laden. In fact Carlyle and Madison Dearborn, as of July of this year, joined together to buy the Williams Energy Group (WEG). Williams Energy is not only the largest manager of petroleum pipelines on the Eastern Seaboard but was also the central player in the California energy “crisis” that precipitated the downfall of (Bush connected) Enron and Anderson Accounting.

On the board of Williams Energy, now owned by a firm with familial ties to the Bush junta, is a man named Harold W. Andersen who happens to be a major investor in World Companies, Inc. the primary shareholder of vote-counting giant ES&S. Small world huh? Interestingly enough, Sequoia also bought out the optical scanner portion of a company called Business Records Corporation in a deal with ES&S to avoid an anti-trust suit with the Feds. Business Records Corporation was the owner of the databases leased to ChoicePoint USA, the firm that was at the heart of the Election 2000 Florida “purge” lists that denied up to 90,000 people their right to vote and became the basis for the party-line Supreme Court vote that catapulted W. to power.

The Bush connections don’t stop there. Leading the field of Internet-based voting are the venerable firms of Accenture and VoteHere. Accenture up until recently was a wholly owned subsidiary of the aforementioned Anderson Accounting, but now on its own, is the primary recipient of the Federal contracts to provide vote services for the US military and Americans overseas — in conjunction with the Halliburton Corporation, formerly run by Dick Cheney. (Strangely, Accenture has also been awarded contracts to provide airport security under the new Department of Homeland Security and to redesign the IRS website.) Second in line for this lucrative election market is VoteHere, based in our very own Bellevue, run by a man named Bill Owens. Mr. Owens used to be the senior military advisor to Dick Cheney and Frank Carlucci, CEO of the Carlyle Group. Amazing how these people keep it in the family.

Accenture (go figure) is not even on the list of accredited vote-gathering companies published by the Federal government. Nor is it on the widely discredited, but semi-official list provided by the National Association of State Election Directors. The only list that it does show up on is the one provided by the IFES. The current chairman of the IFES is William J. Hybl, appointed by Bush as senior advisor to the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Hybl is also the CEO of the El Pomar Foundation, which recently provided $4 Million dollars to the Focus on the Family Foundation and is a charter member of the Council on National Policy along with Harold Ahmanson, the man who founded ES&S.

Round and round, what comes around goes around.

Love, Eva

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and then there is THIS connection..accenture(ArthurAnderson accounting) and choicepoint..

arthur anderson of the Enron debacle..

connectiona all around.:(

excite - money and investing
... SEBL, Siebel Systems, 27-Feb-03, 9:10 AM. ACN, Accenture, 27-Feb-03, 9:10 AM. MPS,
MPS Group, 27-Feb-03, 9:45 AM. ... CEN, Ceridian, 27-Feb-03, 12:05 PM. CPS, ChoicePoint,
Inc. ...
excite.ccbn.com/conferencedetail. asp?client=excite&event=685492 - 44k - Cached - Similar pages

Accenture Honored as Microsoft's 2004 Global Services Partner of ...
... News. Accenture Survey Identifies Seven Steps to Enhance Outsourcing Success 27 July
2004, 09 ... CHOICEPOINT INC FILES FORM 4 (CPS) 28 July 2004, 12:09pm ET , EDGAR ...
finance.lycos.com/qc/news/ story.aspx?symbols=NYSE:ACN&story=200407141615_BWR__BW5607 - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

The 2004 Technology Innovation Award
... AGL Resources; Thornton Muir, ServiceCentral Technologies; Curtis W. Robb, Delta
Technology, Inc.; Ron Stewart, Accenture; Lauren Waits, ChoicePoint.
www.techbridge.org/techaward/index.asp - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

VARBusiness | After the Pain, the Payoff
... and CEO at ChoicePoint, which anticipates core revenue growth to be in the 13 percent
to 17 percent range. Over at behemoth Accenture, operating income was down ...
www.varbusiness.com/sections/ news/dailyarchives.asp?articleid=50334 - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

New from the DoD and Accenture: "eDemocracy" || kuro5hin.org
... Mainly Denial of Service attacks on Accenture's web server ... think our services will
expand across the country." -- Martin L. Fagan, ChoicePoint Vice-President. ...
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/16/121542/183 - 84k - Cached - Similar pages

CPS: Industry: Business Services for CHOICEPOINT - Yahoo! Finance
... Automatic Data Processing Inc, ADP, 41.83, +1.80%, 24.70B, 26.76. Accenture
Ltd, ACN, 24.71, +1.85%, 22.90B, 21.14. ... ChoicePoint Inc, CPS, 41.68, +0.80%,
3.68B, 30.03. ...
finance.yahoo.com/q/in?s=CPS - 36k - Cached - Similar pages

Fair Elections: One Person Can Make a Huge Difference
... ES&S, Sequoia, Accenture (partner of Halliburton) and ChoicePoint Inc are the only
companies in the US that service the voter registration data bases in each ...
www.fairelections.us/article.php?id=104 - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

MSN Money - Jubak's Journal
... Choicepoint also works with government agencies -- the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration
and the ... Accenture (ACN, news, msgs) has been selected as the prime ...
moneycentral.msn.com/content/P88293.asp - 36k - Cached - Similar pages

MSN Money - Jubak's Journal
... Choicepoint also works with government agencies -- the FBI, Drug Enforcement
Administration and the ... Accenture (ACN, news, msgs) has been selected as the prime ...
moneycentral.msn.com/content/P88293.asp?Printer - 24k - Cached - Similar pages

Washington Technology Technology Reports
... Sponsored by: Anthro, ChoicePoint, Dell, Computer Associates, CyberGuard, Dorian
Software Creations, Gateway, Harris, Hewlett ... Sponsors: Accenture, CSC, Rational ...
www.washingtontechnology.com/ad_sup/ - 39k - Aug 13, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

[T Bone]

2. It's Your Money

I think that is what Bush says about the money we pay in taxes, correct? This is how he and ashcroft use it.

[4morewars]

3. Close the School of the Americas !!!

Learn more here:

http://www.soaw.org/new/

[bobthedrummer]

4. SOA funding was quietly approved recently

:grr:

[4morewars]

5. I know it

That is why we will be at the gates of Ft. Benning again this November !!!