BBV: A bit more about odd Diebold financial transactions

[BevHarris]

A brief new consumer report on http://www.blackboxvoting.org:

Black Box Voting investigators have obtained copies of Diebold financial ledgers which show some unusual payments and receivables.

The most interesting item on the accounts payable ledger is to Georgia Lottery Services Inc., for approximately $144,000. (Will post document with exact amounts when we return from New York City).

Georgia Lottery Services appears to have nothing whatever to do with the Georgia Lottery. However, this company was listed in an article about pass-through payments (concerning payments to politicians routed through do-nothing corporations) in a 1995 investigation.

Current Georgia corporation documents show that the company was, and still is, owned by Lloyd Baccus, who also handles the medical contract for Fulton County Jails and was an NBA drug doctor.

An article in the Atlanta Constitution dated 11 Jan. 1995, "Democratic chief got payment from firm with GTECH ties" mentions Georgia Lottery Services, Inc. as "one of at least 16 companies in eight states that routinely receive "pass-through" payments from GTECH without performing any work, according to lawyers and witnesses. "

The article says that according to attorney Frank Haddad, "an Atlanta company, Lottery Services of Georgia, is one of several companies that receive pass-through payments without doing work.."

The article pertained to a Bowling Green, Ky. shell company that received $71,000 in brokerage fees from lottery giant GTECH Corp. which was subsequently investigated for making payoffs to Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Edgar Sims Jr.

Another interesting payment is a $2450 payment listed as a "sponsorship payment" to The Election Center, an enigmatic private company that trains elections officials. The Election Center is not a government entity, but has been perhaps the most powerful voice in America touting electronic voting systems. Diebold Elections Systems allocated $500 in June for the National Association of Secretaries of State.

Listed as a receivable is $1250 per month from the "District 8 Republican Committee," but the A.R. report does not specify which state or what the Republican Committee is paying Diebold Election Systems for.

Several large payables are designated for temporary employment agencies, and for suppliers like CardLogix and a supplier of bluetooth wireless apparatus.

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(I'll also edit in the name of that last company; left the document behind in my rush to get to NYC).

God bless you all,

Bev Harris

[Logansquare]

1. Kick for all of the RNC viewers

[feistydem]

2. Isn't that money laundering but with nicer wording?

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Wow. Too Bad We Cant Get Someone To Put That Under

The same kind Of scrutiny Kevin Shelley's Checkbook is being put through right now.

[BevHarris]

4. Hear hear.

They are crucifying him for paying a reasonable amount for legal advice before he ordered groundbreaking reforms to audit the California voting machines (a move which only the Secretary of State has the power to invoke) -- he subsequently ordered those reforms, the county officials took him to court, and he won a resounding victory. The only way those new audits could be stopped then was if the governor blocked the funding.

Oh, that's right. After the California Attorney General launched a blistering investigation which turned up mostly nothing wrong, but a lot of fist shaking (one early revelation is quite bad, though, having to do with a campaign finance violation) -- well, after help from the A.G, the governor then blocked the funds for the voting machine scrutiny, citing doubts about whether Shelley had allocated it fairly.

The investigation that must be completed before releasing the funds to train officials, recruit voters, and monitor machines will be completed in 90 days (after the election). The governor did not block funds from the same source for purchase of new voting machines, however.

Stinks. Peeyoo.

Bev

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Yeah.

I've been trying to raise awareness of this, in my own small corner of California. Circulating an email, that sort of thing. As I read it, fully one third of the funding that is blocked, according to a paragraph tucked away in the latest Chronicle article, is specifically allocated towards Voting Machine Security- Some 6 Million or something. How convenient.

Also, apparently, some county election officials are raising objections, and for the past 2-3 days, at least, the daily flow of Shelley-gate stories in the Chronicle (like the ridiculous "he throws his cell phone and swears alot") have abated.

And the balls of the GOP to go after him for alleged "no bid contracts awarded to friends"!.. Sounds like his only real crime, aside from pissing off the wrong people, was that he was small-time. Real professionals like Cheney never seem to catch any actual heat for that sort of thing.

We're watching, over here. We'll see.

[shance]

13. I'll second the hear hear from California. Double standards abound

Another thanks to you Bev, who is contributing so amazingly much to the campaign of truth***

[harmonyguy]

5. What do Diebold and G-Tech have in common?

Just PM'd the answer to you.

HG

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. PM that to me as well

I am dying to know.

[harmonyguy]

28. Done - sorry I missed you last night ! nt

[JSJ]

6. good stuff!

[Zan_of_Texas]

7. GTech?!?! Greg Palast just did a story on GTech, Dubya, and TANG

TANG (Texas Air National Guard)

Still Unreported: The Pay-off in Bush Air Guard Fix

Saturday, August 28, 2004
by Greg Palast
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=365&row=0

In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh from voting to send other men’s sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in a very special affirmative action program, the ‘champagne’ unit of the Texas Air National Guard. There, Top Gun fighter pilot George Dubya was assigned the dangerous job of protecting Houston from Vietcong air attack. This week, former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes of Texas 'fessed up to pulling the strings to keep Little George out of the jungle. "I got a young man named George W. Bush into the Texas Air Guard - and I'm ashamed."

<SNIP> Just after Bush's election, Barnes' client GTech Corp., due to allegations of corruption, was about to lose its license to print money: its contract to run the Texas state lottery. Barnes, says the Justice Department document, made a call to the newly elected governor's office and saved GTech's state contract. The letter said, "Governor Bush ... made a deal with Ben Barnes not to rebid (the GTech lottery contract) because Barnes could confirm that Bush had lied during the '94 campaign."

In that close race, Bush denied the fix was in to keep him out of 'Nam, and the US media stopped asking questions. What did the victorious Governor Bush's office do for Barnes? According to the tipster, "Barnes agreed never to confirm the story (of the draft dodging) and the governor talked to the chair of the lottery two days later and she then agreed to support letting GTech keep the contract without a bid."

And so it came to pass that the governor's commission reversed itself and gave GTech the billion dollar deal without a bid. The happy client paid Barnes, the keeper of Governor Bush’s secret, a fee of over $23 million. Barnes, not surprisingly, denies that Bush took care of his client in return for Barnes’ silence. However, confronted with the evidence, the former Lt. Governor now admits to helping the young George stay out of Vietnam.

<MORE>

[Wind Dancer]

9. I was just about to post that.

Amazing.

[Eloriel]

8. Lloyd Baccus

He's a psychiatrist. Served aas an expert witness on 2 GA cases (click thru):

http://www.juryverdicts.com/experts/ba1.html

Also listed somewhere in this American Society of Addiction Medicine newsletter from 1997:
http://www.asam.org/news/news7.htm

Here's a google search for him MINUS NBA:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Lloyd+Baccus%22+-NBA&btnG=Search

This is the ONLY link that has anything like Georgia Lottery Services:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XeViu5KIiMwJ:www.101-best-online-casinos.com/s_georgia_lottery_1.shtml+%22Georgia+Lottery+Services%22&hl=en

And the google search page for GA Lottery Services:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Georgia%20Lottery%20Services%22

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Since it's Georgia

I want to see connections to traitorous Zell Miller! Seriously!

[EST]

15. You bring up a point that has continued to cause much

discomfort. We know for an obvious fact ol' Zell's ostensible reasons for switching his allegiance just don't hold water. Then what is the REAL reason?
Is this a step closer?

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. Well, he's basically been STEALING Dems money

and for what? To give the Keynote at the RNC convention? There has to be something behind this.

[EST]

22. Ol' Zell has quite a history, especially as Georgia's governor,

of being, at least by some lights, an honest politician. (I fully realize the essential irony implicit in such an oxymoron) Other than a change in brain chemistry, the most tempting and logical explanation, what would provoke such a move on his part? He's been at the public trough long enough to have stolen (ahem-been awarded) a sufficient amount to insure his future needs and those of his immediate family will be met. He's retiring from public office.He is old enough 'til it should be obvious to him that there ain't a whole lot of races still to be won, or alternate futures to be experienced. He says the party has moved left while he's remained steadfast. There may be some mild evidence of that, but if there is, it is so tiny that it should not provoke such radical behavior on his part. Paul Begala has very high regard for him and feels the appellation of "Zig-Zag" Zell was unearned. Of course, he was the one who gave Begala his first major speech writing job, and, as I understand it, brought him to Washington.

Could it be that he has some progeny to install for his own private nepotism requirements, and he is more aware than most of the reach of the many tentacled multipus of the neocons? Has he hooked up with God and been gifted with such foresight that he can see embracing of the minotaur as the only option for assuring the safety of the republic?

Somehow, with my experience of the small-minded perversity of most political thought, I can't ascribe any such high moral values to him. Can anyone help us out, here? I tend to subscribe to the theory that he's just friggin' nuts and in his dotage may be trying to accomplish some obscure goal that may never become obvious to the rest of us. Give us a clue, if you can!

[Boredtodeath]

27. Here's your Zell connection

That practice drew criticism imperiling GTECH's contract renewal in Georgia when it was disclosed that the company was paying a former Kentucky state treasurer with ties to Georgia Gov. Zell Miller for a lobbying job.

Google Cache Document from June 1998

[AP]

14. bluetooth, eh? Can't wait to see where that one goes.

[EST]

16. 'Lo again Bev,

Your pursuit of slippery windmills is, again, a delight and an inspiration to us all. Are the system fixes, slimy grips, and interlocking corruption so vast that, even as you succeed in penetrating the various malodorous lairs, your path just closes behind you and your attempts to clean up the filth become exercises in futility? How do you envision our support of your efforts so that you can actually have an effect? What can we tiny people do to help?

[shance]

18. Rev, we are ALL tiny people.

To measure as tiny and large contributes to that good ole caste system that right now is kicking our nation's butt.

I think the sooner we realize we all have a place in this contribution, to realize our abilities, and most importantly the knowledge we all need to work together as the same size, the better. Of course, there are those that will make highly significant contributions. What we often forget is, from whence we all came.

We don't get 'there' without everyone working together. I am grateful to every single DUer and gutsy American who has worked on this, taken risks, and given of themselves to make this electronic voting an issue. I have never seen such an amazing group of minds in action. It has been a sight to behold to see such a team of minds and union. Let's continue to move this forward for as long as it takes to instill FAIR elections.

****

[ParanoidPat]

19. Get thee to your polling place to bare witness..........

.......honest people make for honest elections! :evilgrin:

[EST]

21. Chuckle-hey, PP, I assume the double entendre is intentional.

Yes, I have volunteered, already, thanks.

[stickdog]

20. Does GTECH = Georgia Tech, Bev?

If so, don't forget that our old friend Professor Brit Williams reached the pinnacle of his career at the GTRI (Georgia Tech Research Institute).

http://www.itl.nist.gov/lab/specpubs/500-158.htm

Britain Williams, Chief, Computer Technology and Applications Division, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Georgia Tech Research Institute, who we are (basically government labs):

http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/who/index.html

[BevHarris]

29. What about this guy -- I haven't had time to look him up yet

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER & SECRETARY of the lottery corporation, per corporate docs -- TIMOTHY CRIM 4075 LAND O LAKES DR.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30342

Nope, GTECH is not related to Georgia Tech.

By the way, it is not the Diebold Inc. division that lists this as a payable. It is specifically the elections division. The only legit thing I've been able to dig up about the firm is that it claimed, when being investigated in connection with GTech, that it went around and serviced machines.

[harmonyguy]

31. Info on this guy....

Bev/Andy - check your pm.
HG

[cthrumatrix]

23. Again, we have zero media on the story of the year...I wonder why

[stickdog]

24. About Lloyd Baccus

Fulton County Prison scandal:

http://onnidan.net/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=001804;p=0

Baccus' company's website:

http://www.cmha-atlanta.com

Baccus' Biography:

http://www.cmha-atlanta.com/page4.html

Baccus' company profile:

http://www.cmha-atlanta.com/page2.html

Dr. Baccus is well-known and respected in Atlanta; not just in his own field, but also the community in general. he has, among many honors and appreciations, received a proclamation from former mayor Maynard Jackson.

Baccus' wife's name is Sandra/Sandy Chandler/Baccus.

About Comprehesive Medical Associates (formerly Correctional
Mental Health Associates):

http://www.schr.org/prisonsjails/newspaper%20articles/Fulton/news_fulton.ajc.01.htm

Judge tours spruced-up jail

By Bill Rankin
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
October 25, 2000

After taking a personally guided tour Tuesday of the Fulton County Jail, a federal judge who ordered sweeping changes there appeared pleased with improved conditions.

With Sheriff Jackie Barrett and chief jailer Caudell Jones always close by his side, U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob gave the jail an almost two-hour inspection. Accompanied by his law clerks and court-appointed monitor, Shoob visited numerous housing units, the kitchen, the mental health unit and the medical wing of the once badly overcrowded facility.

Shoob liked what he saw and what he heard. "The sheriff has done a remarkable job, so far," he said, walking down a hallway from one housing unit to another.

For more than a year, Shoob has presided over a lawsuit filed by the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights on behalf of HIV-positive inmates who said they were not receiving adequate care. In January, he approved a settlement between the Southern Center and the jail that provided for monitoring and health care improvements. In August, he prodded the county into extending the medical care contract with the jail's new provider, Comprehensive Medical Associates Inc. of Atlanta.


The Baccus' collect art:

http://www.mhanksgallery.com/biobeas.html

http://www.mhanksgallery.com/biohanks.html

[stickdog]

25. This is a good bet for District 8.

http://www.d8azgop.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1

They just hosted the honorable Karl Rove:

http://www.d8azgop.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1

[tom_paine]

26. kick

Yeh, in Florida and CA, many suspicious and stinky activities.

[bearfan454]

30. kick till I get back home later