Posted on 10/05/2022 10:38:11 AM PDT by bitt
Konnech Inc has various products deployed within the U.S. Election Systems and abroad. Some products have to do with oversea voting under UOCAVA provisions, and other products help disabled voters vote without going to a polling location. These products are often connected to the internet via smartphone applications utilizing cloud services that connect to the hardware. Konnech has deployed phone applications for over a decade while most of the public was still learning how to use their smartphones. Konnech has contracts with countless counties all over the United States, deploying their products to this day.
Konnech has many products that connect to the internet, but we will focus on PollChief, an Election Worker Management System (EMS). PollChief helps manage the poll workers, polling locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Smart Phone Application first surfaced in Hillsborough County, FL, on September 29, 2011.
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Konnech offered many products in their early days before entering the Election world, including automated voicemail systems within school districts to notify parents of weather delays and language learning tools to help teach children and foreign exchange students. One city, in particular, has always given Konnech a shot.
The City of Detroit has long advocated for Konnech products from the beginning. IBM purchased ten telephone systems with voice mail features from Konnech’ for Detroit Public Schools in 2002, and in 2004 Konnech began polling surveys for the City of Detroit. The Detroit Public School system also expanded its use of the SchoolBrief (an app web portal to 16 of their 250 schools in 2006. This expanded pilot project covers three high schools, five middle schools, and eight elementary schools. This information regarding their products is available on archived versions of Konnech’s website. I will detail the connections between Konnech and the City of Detroit at another time.
Who gave the green light for Konnech’s ABVote? Detroit.
The original smartphone app that was deployed was named the “UOCAVA M” app created by Konnech and was released on July 4th, 2013, supported by The City of Detroit, Michigan, years prior.
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long but factual
Creates an invasive database of election workers in the USA.
Connected to China.
OA doesn’t appear to hang together. For examples it says
Using Pollchief, an Election Worker can receive text messages and GPS coordinates from a Super Administrator down to a specific longitude and latitude via geofencing; this is done through a product called XORA, owned by Verizon and utilized on Konnech’s EMS system as a Field Force Manager.
Field Force Manager is a workforce management solution that encompasses everything from mobile timesheets and barcode scanning to remote scheduling and geofencing. It provides the visibility needed to drive efficiency in the field and the data required to streamline processes for all types of organizations.
XORA initially filed for the Patent and was approved, later assigned to ClickSoftware INC, which has close ties with China.
Clicksoftware handled telecommunications for the 2008 Beijing Olympics assisting the China Netcom Group Corporation (CNC).
The above is pretty weak sauce, since —
ClickSoftware Acquires Workforce Management Specialist Xora
By Nathan Eddy -February 20, 2014
Based in Mountain View, California, Xora provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for companies looking to improve productivity and efficiency of an increasingly mobile workforce.
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ClickSoftware
ClickSoftware is an American technology company which offers automated mobile workforce management and service optimization solutions for enterprise and small businesses, both for mobile and in-house resources.[2] Since 2020, it has been a subsidiary of Salesforce.
Other than innuendo and implied guilt by association, there doesn’t appear to be a case for Chinese involvement. The Xora founder is Indian and the ClickSoftware CEO is Israeli by ethnicity. Typical Silicon Valley startups now rolled up into Salesforce.
“Other than innuendo and implied guilt by association, there doesn’t appear to be a case for Chinese involvement”
Other than the spy arrested in LA recently? Who owns the Pollchief company?
N00b Troll says what?
Or are you just a glowie?
Perhaps you can explain to us how the three images at the end of the OA demonstrate that any information was stored in China?
While it is true that the 75.75.210.128/25 subnet is in Lansing, MI and the 101.64.0.0/13 subnet belongs to China Unicom, I don’t see anything that shows an interconnection. Port 443/tcp is just the well known TCP port used for HTTPS.
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