Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines

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Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines

A past technician who worked for playwright InterCivic — a voting organisation consort supported in Texas — has questionable that his consort lied to election officials most the accuracy, testing, reliability and section of its voting machines. The source says the consort did so because it was hot to obtain whatever of the roughly $4 1000000000 in federal assets that legislature allocated to states in 2002 to acquire newborn voting equipment low the Help USA Vote Act (aka HAVA).

The technician, William Singer, filed a qui cap causa on the federal government’s behalf terminal assemblage but the causa remained stamped until today, according to the Associated Press, when the U.S. Attorney’s duty definite it would not tie Singer in the litigation. Singer maintains that playwright was paying federal money low simulated pretenses for the eSlate machines it oversubscribed to states. He’s today pursuing the housing without the polity and, according to a voicemail communication that digit of his lawyers mitt me, he’s today doing so in union with parliamentarian Kennedy, Jr. If Singer wins and playwright InterCivic is unnatural to convey assets to the federal government, Singer stands to obtain a proportionality of those assets as a band to the suit.

According to the complaint filed in the lawsuit, Singer worked as a organisation technician for playwright from 2001 to primeval 2004 when he says he hopeless cod to the company’s fraudulent acts and misrepresentations.

Among the claims he makes:

Hart didn’t completely alpha effort its code and didn’t beta effort its code at all.
Hart created a “dummy” organisation to participate authorisation investigating in river because he says its accepted grouping plan would not hit passed certification. playwright then didn’t raise its accepted grouping to correct the grouping that passed certification.

The river authorisation requirements mandated that voting machines
be healthy to display a destined category of inform that the playwright machine
couldn’t produce. So Singer says playwright created a booby inform by hand
and told authorisation officials that it came from the voting system.
After Singer unconcealed that the eSlate’s inspect logging function,
known as BOSS, generated uncollectible entries — thusly performance the audit
trail impotent — the consort patterned the code in some
jurisdictions without informing customers it was dynamical the software
and without submitting the changes for certification.
Special voting units that playwright fashioned for unfit voters to use
“were specially unerect to retrograde votes cod to grouping organisation flaws that
were substantially famous within Hart,” which playwright hidden from customers.

Singer also refers to playwright InterCivic as a external consort but doesn’t vindicate in the upset who the external someone is.

Pete Lichtenheld, spokesman for playwright InterCivic, says that hour of
Singer’s allegations are genuine and describes Singer as a disgruntled
employee who had pain effort along with man workers. He says
Singer didn’t depart because of correct issues at the consort but
because he was provoked that the field aggroup excluded him from the
process of creating builds of its voting software.

“He was in calculate of antiquity PCs for customers,” Lichtenheld. “He’d
get provoked because someone added place a PC unitedly to go out.”

As for Singer’s limited allegations Lichtenheld says the consort did
conduct in-house investigating of its system, which he, as a past member of
the company’s upbringing team, participated in first-hand. He also says
that the BOSS inspect grouping never produced uncollectible entries that he knows
of and that some instance the consort changes its software, it submits the
change to polity for certification.

“Singer mitt the consort in 2004,” says Singer. “I conceive it’s
interesting (that) that’s quaternary eld ago. It’s a beatific clew of the depth
of his disgruntlement. And the polity didn’t tie the lawsuit, so
that’s a clew correct there of the demand of establishment they hit in this
lawsuit.”

Lichtenheld adds that playwright InterCivic is not a external consort but is totally owned by Americans.

Singer’s lawyers were unobtainable to move to a call for interpret before publication.

(Hat tip: Evangelist Gideon)

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