GETS FORMER SEQUOIA CO. VP NAMED AS ADVISER TO U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
by John Charlton
The homepage of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (click image to access)
(Dec. 21, 2009) — Earlier this month, Obama made
his first official move to corrupt and undermine the 2010 elections.
The move
consisted in the little noticed appointment of a technical adviser to
the
Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) of the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission (EAC).
The importance of the appointment was explained
at The Brad Blog
last
Monday.
The Official Press Release of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission read as follows:
U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
1225 New York Ave. NW – Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
For Immediate Release
December 11, 2009
Contact:
Jeannie Layson
Sarah Litton
(202) 566-3100
New Technical and Scientific Experts Appointed to EAC’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee
WASHINGTON- The U.S. Election
Assistance Commission (EAC) today announced the appointment of four new
technical and scientific experts to its Technical Guidelines Development
Committee (TGDC), which is charged under the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA) with
assisting EAC in developing federal voluntary voting system guidelines
that are
used to test and certify voting systems.
The following new members
were appointed jointly by EAC and the National Institute of Standards
and
Technology (NIST):
Thereupon it lists a series of advisers appointed, among whom is:
Edwin B. Smith, III,
vice president of compliance and certification at Dominion Voting
Systems. Before joining Dominion Voting Systems, Mr. Smith was
vice
president of manufacturing, compliance, quality and certification at
Sequoia
Voting Systems. He also served as the operations manager at Hart
InterCivic and
the senior director of operations at K*TEC Electronics. He holds a
Master of
Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of
Science
in engineering technology from Texas A&M.
Both Sequoia Voting Systems and Dominion Voting Systems have been at the
center of infamous voting irregularities in different elections across
the
country, according to Brad Friedman’s article on the subject, which appeared in the
Gouverneur Times
at the end of November.
At his Blog, Brad Friedman explains who Edwin B. Smith is:
Smith is the guy who, after years of paying a crackpot contractor named Mike Gibbons to do this and that for Sequoia
with
loads of federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) tax-payer cash, assigned
him to do
an “independent” analysis of Sequoia’s touch-screen machines after they failed in NJ’s 2008 Super
Tuesday
election. That was just after Smith had sent a letter threatening two Princeton
computer
scientists with legal action “to stop any infringement of our
intellectual
properties, including any non-compliant analysis,” if they performed the
actually independent analysis of the machines as they were tasked
by NJ election officials to do. (Additional outrage/irony
shortly
thereafter uncovered by The
BRAD
BLOG: Sequoia didn’t even own the Intellectual Property rights
to the
machines in question. Rather, the IP rights were, and are still to our
knowledge, owned by Smartmatic, a Venezuelan firm tied to Hugo Chavez.
Sequoia
lied to both federal investigators and state election officials about
that
relationship.)After The BRAD BLOG exposed who Smith’s friend Mike Gibbons actually was — a
Sequoia
insider, as well as a drunk and a philanderer with an obnoxious Facebook
page
seeking a “well endowed blond nymphomaniac,” only to change the page
after we’d
outed him to feature a photo of him and George Bush Sr. and a professed
love of
Jesus Christ instead — Gibbons was fired. (He would be found dead a few
months
later, the actual cause of which we’ve never been able to ascertain.)Smith was severely reprimanded at Sequoia for the embarrassing incident, and has now been rewarded by moving on to
Dominion, which
is in partnership with his old friends at Sequoia to supply the new, failed
e-voting systems recently deployed, disastrously, for the first time
in last
November’s election — the one where the results of the NY-23 Special
Election
for U.S. House will now forever be in question. The Sequoia/Dominion
contract to
supply faulty, secret vote counting machines to NY-23 is worth some $20
million
federal tax-payer dollars.
The Post & Email notes that the other
appointees to the Technical Committee have qualified liberal
connections: Iowa
State Elections Commission and the University of Columbia. Neither are
experts
in computer software, or the forensic investigation of computer hacking.
A copy of the official Commission’s Press Release
can be read at Brad’s blog. The Commission describes itself and its
importance
in overseeing the counting of votes in elections across the country,
thus:
The EAC is an independent commission created by the Help America Vote Act. The EAC serves as a national clearinghouse
and
resource of information regarding election administration. It is charged
with
administering payments to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA
requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and
accrediting
voting system test laboratories and certifying voting equipment. It is
also
charged with developing and maintaining a national mail voter
registration form.
The three EAC commissioners are Gineen Beach, chair; Gracia Hillman,
vice chair;
and Donetta Davidson. There is one vacancy on the commission.
The appointment makes the commission much more
able to “assist” the 2010 Elections, but not in the sense you and I mean
by the
word “assist.”
UPDATE: See the Comments Section for an important notice on this article.
Finally, you can read the exchange between the
president of Sequoia Voting Systems and Brad Friedman in the comments section of the article he wrote at the
Gouverneur
Times.
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