Posted on 01/16/2005 8:44:04 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
BEV HARRIS HAS tangled with election bigwigs around the country. Now the Renton resident is claiming that there are local examples of lax security, too—at the KC Department of Records, Elections, and Licensing Services. She says the elections office has John Elder, a convicted drug dealer, printing ballots and Jeff Dean, a 23-count embezzler, programming software.
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Dean Logan, the King County Director of Records and Elections, confirms that Elder is in a supervisory position with Diebold, which prints and sorts the county’s absentee ballots, but he says Elder’s criminal history is not an issue.
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In 1990, Dean was convicted of first-degree theft in King County for 23 counts of embezzlement of more than $385,000 from a law firm, where he was “a computer systems and accountant consultant,” . . . The crimes and their cover-up involved a high degree of sophistication and planning in the use and alteration of records in the computerized accounting system that defendant maintained for the victim. . . . ”
Before his release, Dean told prison officials he had secured employment with Postal Services of Washington, in Seattle, which today is known as PSI. For years, the company has sorted and aggregated mail for clients, including ballots for King County Records and Elections.
... 1995 - general manager for Spectrum Print and Mail Services ..... In 1998, Spectrum won the contract to print ballots for King County’s new optical-scan voting system, which is in use today. By 1999, Dean was also the point man for implementation of a new software system to manage voter registration in King County.
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....John Elder, the general manager of the Election Services Division of Diebold Election Systems in Everett, who oversees many aspects of absentee ballots in King County: printing, mailing, and sorting after voters return them.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattleweekly.com ...
Me too. But it's understandable, it's a very poorly written article, and there's enough Deans involved to choke a horse.
Or throw an election, whatever...
BTT!!!!!
Absolutely not! You should continue finding instances of fraud, but do your own investigation...DO NOT TRUST BEV HARRIS!!
In 1990, Dean was convicted of first-degree theft in King County for 23 counts of embezzlement of more than $385,000 from a law firm, where he was “a computer systems and accountant consultant,” according to Superior Court records. Dean’s thefts at the law firm, the records state, “occurred over a 2 1/2 -year period of time . . . The crimes and their cover-up involved a high degree of sophistication and planning in the use and alteration of records in the computerized accounting system that defendant maintained for the victim. . . . ”This fact--stated not by Harris, but by George Howland--appears to have been acknowledged by everyone involved, including Dean himself.
You started out by saying, "Please do not fall for the latest Bev Harris scam!"
But the facts are clear, quite independently of who Bev Harris is.
"In 1990, Dean was convicted of first-degree theft in King County for 23 counts of embezzlement of more than $385,000..."
"Dean served just under four years for his crime and was released in 1995."
I have no idea what the normal sentence is for embezzlement, but thinking about this a bit more, it seems like just under 4 years isn't very much for 23 counts of embezzlement (of course, that could have just been due to the fact that he probable had a liberal KC/Seattle judge). I do find it curious that he's been involved with something to do w KC ballots since he was released.
I'm not questioning whether Dean is a felon or not. That seems to be a matter of public record. Just trying to warn FReepers not to get involved with Bev Harris and blackboxvoting.com.
Absolutely
Bev Harris lives in RENTON? Figures...
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