Posted on 01/17/2012 10:09:34 AM PST by STARWISE
In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world's dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA's dominant election results reporting company.
When you view your local or state election results on the Internet, on portals which often appear to be owned by the county elections division, in over 525 US jurisdictions you are actually redirected to a private corporate site controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name ClarityElections.com.
The good news is that this firm promptly reports precinct-level detail in downloadable spreadsheet format.
As reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in 2008, the bad news is that this centralizes one middleman access point for over 525 jurisdictions in AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, KY, MI, KS, IL, IN, NC, NM, MN, NY, SC, TX, UT, WA. And growing.
As local election results funnel through SOE's servers (typically before they reach the public elsewhere), those who run the computer servers for SOE essentially get "first look" at results and the ability to immediately and privately examine vote details throughout the USA.
In 2004, many Americans were justifiably concerned when, days before the presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell redirected Ohio election night results through the Tennessee-based server for several national Republican Party operations.
This is worse: This redirects results reporting to a centralized privately held server which is not just for Ohio, but national; not just USA-based, but global.
A mitigation against fraud by SOE insiders has been the separation of voting machine systems from the SOE results reports. Because most US jurisdictions require posting evidence of results from each voting machine at the precinct, public citizens can organize to examine these results to compare with SOE results. Black Box Voting spearheaded a national citizen action to videotape / photograph these poll tapes in 2008.
With the merger of SOE and SCYTL, that won't work (if SCYTL's voting system is used). When there are two truly independent sources of information, the public can perform its own "audit" by matching one number against the other.
These two independent sources, however, will now be merged into one single source: an Internet voting system controlled by SCYTL, with a results reporting system also controlled by SCYTL.
With SCYTL internet voting, there will be no ballots. No physical evidence. No chain of custody. No way for the public to authenticate who actually cast the votes, chain of custody, or the count.
SCYTL is moving into or already running elections in: the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, India and Australia.
SCYTL is based in Barcelona; its funding comes from international venture capital funds including Nauta Capital, Balderton Capital and Spinnaker.
Here is the link to the press release regarding SYCTL's acquisition of SOE
Online voting technology company SCYTL is acquiring SOE Software, a maker of election management software. Terms of the deal were not released. Barcelona-based SCYTL is backed by venture funds Nauta Capital, Balderton Capital and Spinnaker. SOE Software is based in Tampa, Fla.
PRESS RELEASE
SCYTL, the global leader in secure electronic voting technologies, announced today the acquisition of 100% of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. The integration of these two software companies creates the industry leader in the election software market with a full range of solutions covering from Internet voting to election night reporting and online pollworker training, and a strong market presence worldwide.
SCYTL is currently the worldwide leader in the Internet voting space and the acquisition of SOE Software, with its Clarity election management software suite, significantly expands SCYTLs product portfolio beyond electronic voting. Furthermore, SOE Softwares strong US presence with 900 jurisdictions as customers in 26 states, including 14 state-wide customers, complements very effectively SCYTLs customer base in the United States and internationally with customers in over 20 different countries across 5 continents, including France, Spain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, India and Australia.
We are very excited about joining forces with SOE Software because their solutions can address the needs for more efficiency and transparency in elections in many of the countries where we are currently working, said Pere Valles, SCYTLs CEO. The high degree of customer satisfaction achieved by SOE Software in the United States demonstrates that their solutions and customer service are very effective in meeting those needs.
This integration of our companies will allow us to offer even greater levels of service and functionality to both our existing US customer base as well as new domestic and international customers by being able to expand our existing product functionality on a global scale, said Marc Fratello, CEO of SOE Software. SCYTLs position as an industry leader along with SOE Softwares core competencies and customer base will provide significant capabilities to the elections marketplace.
ABOUT SCYTL
SCYTL is a technology company specializing in the development of secure electronic voting and election modernization solutions. Based in Barcelona and with offices in Baltimore, Toronto, New Delhi, Athens, Kiev and Singapore, SCYTLs solutions have been used in public elections by governments from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, India and Australia.
SCYTL is a portfolio company of leading international VC funds Nauta Capital, Balderton Capital and Spinnaker. More information is available at www.scytl.com .
ABOUT SOE SOFTWARE
SOE Software, based in Tampa, has developed Clarity, a suite of 8 software modules that allow election authorities to be more efficient and transparent in their management of elections and in their communications with citizens and media.
Over 900 jurisdictions in 26 states across the United States, including 14 state-wide customers, currently use SOE Software solutions in their electoral processes. More information is available at www.soesoftware.com.
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My head hurts ....
..What next?????
This is the New World Order. Control the elections, control the world. The crooked criminals in congress are unwilling to do anything to protect the vote, they are too busy sucking up as much as they can for themselves. Truly sad.
Bad link for press release for SOE
Here’s the correct link:
SCYTL Acquires SOE Software, Becoming the Leading Election Software Provider
ES&S and Scytl Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide BALLOTsafe - a Military and Overseas Electronic Voting Solution
Mon May 2, 2011 9:45am EDT
ES&S and Scytl Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide BALLOTsafe - a Military and Overseas Electronic Voting Solution
Excerpt:
Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) and Scytl today announced a strategic alliance that will provide for BALLOTsafe, a fully integrated online ballot delivery and marking system that will afford military, overseas, absentee and disabled voters the opportunity to cast ballots in a timely, secure and reliable manner.
By combining the market proven election leadership of ES&S with the secure cryptographic online platform pioneered by Scytl, this alliance allows states and local jurisdictions the ability to seamlessly and effortlessly integrate the ballot creation process with the ballot delivery process making BALLOTsafe the leader in voting technology for military, overseas, absentee and disabled voters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/idUS114440+02-May-2011+BW20110502
Boris Bazhanov’s Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary, published in 1992 near the end of Chapter Five, reads as follows:
“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this who will count the votes, and how.”
Yep!!!
Spinnaker (SCYTL)
http://www.rivaygarcia.es/en/private_equity/companies/spinnaker_scr
NAUTA CAPITAL
http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/nauta-capital
BALDERTON CAPITAL
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SOE SOFTWARE
SCYTL
Clarity Elections links
I keep thinking about the voting “results” founded in Honduran communist president Manuel Zelaya’s briefcase - for an election that never happened.
I wonder how that happened..... Specifically through what election results tabulation company...
And
BALDERTON CAPITOL (U.K.) - Investor In SCYTL!!! out of the UK. Check out the leaders of Balderton capitol include people who held high level positions at Goldman Sachs.
Just How Corrupt Will The United States Voting System Be In 2012?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVS5TIppad8
Recipe for Vote Fraud: Global Internet Voting Firm Buys U.S. Election Results Reporting Firm
OK. Here goes again. We are a Banana Republic.
I find it interesting that “Dr. Riera” the founder of SCYTL died at age 36 in March of 2006. I also find it interesting that I can’t find anymore about “Dr. Riera” than just that which is on the about the founder page that states his name was “Dr. Riera”, and bits, and pieces about his education in Barcelona Spain. This guy is about as blank as Obama, and the information about SCYTL strikes me as hype.
Perhaps others could find out more.
http://www.scytl.com/en/about-the-founder-s-17.html
And I was worried about Acorn. Ha!
:-(
That’ll be good, we need international observers, this cuts out the need for that by having all the outcomes predetermined in Venezuela, the 57 states, and/or China and Russia. Thanks STARWISE.
https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/press-2009-Media-Releases-Power-to-MOVE
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voting-systems/pdf/ESS4002v2TestReport.pdf
"Voter Action" letter to NIST Technical Guidelines Development Committee re: overseas voting
http://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/upload/2010-07-06VoterActionLetter2TGDC.pdf
ping
GLOBAL INTERNET VOTING FIRM BUYS U.S. ELECTION RESULTS REPORTING FIRM
With SCYTL internet voting, there will be no ballots. No physical evidence. No chain of custody. No way for the public to authenticate who actually cast the votes, chain of custody, or the count.
. . . . Article, and # 11 , # 17 , # 18 .
Thanks tutstar. Whatever happened to the Venezuela voting machines?
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