Voting: Programmer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit

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" MARI ANDERSON " <itisimari

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:50:05 -0500

[GranniesAgainstGeorge] Voting: Programmer Jeff Dean worked

for chief of White House Plumbers unit

 

 

 

Global Election Systems were used in Daytona Beach FL in the 2000

elections I will never forget that!!! The news anchor the night of

the elections mentioned the voting system came from Vancouver Canada.

Well after a search I found they also had offices in TX. I am from

Whidbey Island WA so I am also familiar with the voting problems in

the past elections in WA. Read this carefully there is a lot of info

here.

 

Granny Mari

 

 

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Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean

was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release

from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the

largest ballot printing contracts in history.

 

In a 2003 deposition, Dean states that he was a scapegoat

who was left holding the bag in a series of unapproved payments

from Culp, Guterson & Grader, one of the most politically connected

law firms in Washington state.

 

One of this firm's partners at the time was Egil " Bud " Krogh,

who headed the White House " plumbers " unit under Richard Nixon.

Krogh ordered the burglary of Pentagon Papers whistleblower

Daniel Ellsberg.

 

Dean claimed that other persons from the firm were involved in

a scheme, and upon discovery of illicit payments (averaging

$14,000/month) he was made to take the blame. Krogh was a

partner at Culp Guterson & Grader during the time period that

Dean was receiving illicit payments of approximately $15,000

per month.

 

Like Jeffrey Dean, Krogh did time in prison -- four months for

Watergate-related crimes. He was disbarred, but after a fight

from a Culp Guterson & Grader attorney, his credentials were

restored. At the time, the firm was called " Culp Dwyer Guterson

& Grader. "

 

'He [Krogh] was hired on the merits of his character, intelligence

and skills as a lawyer,'' said William L. Dwyer, the firm's senior

partner, who had represented Mr. Krogh in his disbarment fight.

Dwyer became a U.S. district judge.

 

DEAN BECOMES A BALLOT PRINTER

 

Shortly after Jeffrey Dean was released from prison a company

owned by his wife (but run by Jeffrey Dean) was awarded one

of the largest ballot-printing contracts in history, with King County,

Washington. In SEC documents, this company (Spectrum Print & Mail

Ltd.) lists assets located in the Seattle area, British Columbia, San

Francisco and in the Norwalk (CA) location that houses the Los Angeles

County Elections Division.

 

DEAN DEVELOPS COMPUTERIZED ELECTION SYSTEMS

 

According to depositions taken in 2003, Jeffrey Dean programmed

the ballot sorting software used to process incoming and outgoing

mail-in ballots; he also developed the Vote Remote software used

to track and authenticate mail-in ballots.

 

Key logs from King County Elections show that Jeffrey Dean was

given intimate access to the GEMS server (Diebold central tabulating

software); internal memos from Diebold refer to an ongoing consulting

arrangement with Dean, and document that he had management

involvement in the touch-screens, the 1.96 version of the optical

scan, the votercard encoder and the Windows CE operating system used

in Diebold voting machines. In addition, during recent litigation Dean

called Peter G. Martin as a witness, indicating that he had worked

closely with Martin, who programmed the new upcoming High Speed

Central Count system.

 

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE DEAN FAMILY

 

Black Box Voting has learned that Jeffrey Dean and his wife Deborah

have recently been ordered into Chapter 7 bankruptcy by a trustee

who become fed up with their " gamesmanship " in recent attempts to

obstruct discovery of their assets.

 

A 25 YEAR HISTORY OF TROUBLE

 

Jeffrey Dean has a 25-year history of financial problems, tax liens

and litigation, going back to a company he formed while working for

Boeing. Though he refers to this company in recent depositions as

" Astec, " its real name was Advanced Systems Technology, Inc.,

a company run by Dean and partner Michael C. Redman. Dean

represents that this company did aircraft design, and says that

he sold it to Raleigh-Durham Aviation in 1980. Legal documents

show that he had a $700,000 tax lien imposed on him in connection

with the " failed business " in 1984, and several creditors filed civil

suits against him in 1979 and 1980.

 

By 1982, Dean was a contractor for Culp, Guterson & Grader. Assets

began accumulating under his wife's names. When Dean divorced

his first wife and married wife #2, Lorimay, she began accumulating

real estate under an entity called " JAL Investments Inc. " This entity

and its real estate was transferred to Dean's third wife, Deborah M.

[Pederson] Dean.

 

These efforts failed when it was revealed that over $180,000 of

inappropriately received funds were spent on Deborah Dean's house,

and that Deborah had been cashing checks as large as $10,000 at a

time from the illicit funds.

 

Although she was involved in litigation over restitution issues,

Deborah Dean was not prosecuted in the thefts from Culp, Guterson

& Grader.

 

Jeffrey Dean entered an Alford Plea admitting to 23 felony counts,

and was ordered to appear at the Shelton Correctional facility to

begin his incarceration. Instead, he failed to show up and went to

Oregon, where he apparently lived under a different name. Bench

warrants were issued and he went to prison.

 

Meanwhile, wife Deborah began " Spectrum Print & Mail Ltd. "

According to depositions, this firm was mostly delivering newspapers

to contract deals like the Washington ferries.

 

Shortly after Jeffrey Dean got out of prison, however, Spectrum

Print & Mail got into ballot printing and designing software for

elections.

 

This ballot printing plant, using software Dean claims to have

developed, handles ballot printing and mail-ballot processing for

counties like King County (WA) and Los Angeles County, Fresno

County, San Diego County, Alameda County (CA), and for the state

of Georgia and many other locations.

 

The Deans were rewarded for Jeffrey Dean's ballot printing and

election software programming work in a $4 million buyout by

Global Election Systems shortly before election 2000. The Deans

became the largest stockholders of Global Election Systems, and

Jeffrey Dean took a position on the board of directors.

 

In January 2002, Diebold Inc. purchased Global Election Systems.

Oddly, in a 2003 deposition, Jeffrey Dean claims that his contact with

Global was always Pat Green -- but Green is a Diebold employee, not

a Global Election Systems employee. Yet Diebold claims it hasn't

worked with Jeffrey Dean.

 

The Dean's ballot printing company was acquired by Diebold in the

Global Election Systems acquisition.

 

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

 

The Vote Remote software and the absentee ballot processing

software developed by Jeffrey Dean was never submitted for

certification, has not been examined by anyone, and due to

technicalities in the certification regulations, is not subject to

certification. Several counties have recently announced plans to force

voters into all mail-in voting, including King County, Jeffrey Dean's

first elections client.

 

Exactly what Jeffrey Dean was doing to the GEMS database

program, what " oversight " he was providing to the touch-screen

technology purchased by Diebold, and what expertise he provided

for the votercard encoder, the optical scan 1.96 series, and the

upcoming High Speed Central Count are not publicly known at this time.

 

DIEBOLD CLAIMS MERIT FURTHER SCRUTINY

 

Diebold claims that it did not work with Jeffrey Dean after acquiring

Global Election Systems in 2002. However, the Dean depositions

reveal that in May and June 2002, during the time the " rob-georgia "

patch was created, Jeffrey Dean was called back to do consulting

for Diebold. The Deans have been accused of obstructiveness and

evasion by attorneys seeking to recover funds in a pending bankruptcy

case. Specifically, when asked to identify monies paid by or due from

Diebold Election Systems, they omitted answers.

 

YA'LL COME BACK NOW: DOCUMENTATION GOING UP SHORTLY

 

Depositions, documents, and supporting documentation will be

posted on the Black Box Voting Web site this week. These documents

include depositions, bankruptcy papers, criminal court records, SEC

documents and civil litigation records.

 

Jeffrey Dean prison records:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/14323.html

 

by Black Box Voting investigators Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and

Jim March, with assistance from Black Box Voting members Pat Vesely

and John Howard.

 

NEW Citizen research & investigations section now available:

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/17141/17141.html

 

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expenses for two trips to Canada to review Canadian public

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