Joe W. Forehand Chairman & CEO Accenture

Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation

Dina Dublon Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Karl-Heinz Flöther Group Chief Executive—Financial Services Operating Group Accenture

Joel P. Friedman Partner, Corporate Development Accenture

William D. Green Chief Operating Officer—Client Services and Country Managing Director, United States Accenture

Stephan A. James Chief Operating Officer—Capabilities Accenture

Robert I. Lipp Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Travelers Property Casualty

Blythe McGarvie President Leadership for International Finance & Enterprises, LLC

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Former Chairman Royal Dutch/Shell Group

Masakatsu Mori Chairman Accenture Japan

Wulf von Schimmelmann Chief Executive Officer Deutsche Postbank AG

Carlos Vidal Country Managing Director—Spain and Managing Partner—Financial Services, South Europe Accenture

Jackson L. Wilson, Jr. Chief Executive—Business Process Outsourcing Accenture

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Former Chairman

Royal Dutch/Shell Group

Mark Moody-Stuart, a member of Accenture's board of directors since October 2001, was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies from 1998-2001. He was also chairman The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company from 1997 to 2001, after having served six years as both managing director of Shell Transport and managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. He remains on the board. He is also a Director of HSBC Holdings plc, a Governor of Nuffield Hospitals and a Vice President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy in 2000 and 2001.

Following a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, Mark Moody-Stuart's entire working life has been with Shell, largely working in countries outside of Europe. Early practical experience gained in Spain, Oman, Brunei and Australia was in 1976 focused on to the major challenge of leading Shell's teams in exploring the U.K. North Sea—at a time when the fields in the northern North Sea were coming on stream and new exploration plays were developing.

Thereafter, he left exploration for more general management, working in Africa, Europe and Asia. As Shell's most senior representative in Turkey and Malaysia, he was involved in developing Shell's businesses in those countries, working with national governments to initiate a number of major projects. In 1990 Mark Moody-Stuart returned to Europe, to The Hague, to take up the position of co-ordinator of Shell's exploration and production operations outside North America.

Mark Moody-Stuart was born in Antigua, West Indies. He and his wife Judy have been married for over 35 years. They have three sons and a daughter. All family members are keen sailors.

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St George in June 2000. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of Petroleum, which also awarded him the Cadman Medal in 2001. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Chemical Engineers and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

About EDS

"...Founded in 1962 as Electronic Data Systems Corporation, EDS is the provider of choice for clients looking to extract maximum returns on their IT investments. As the world’s largest outsourcing services company, EDS is built on a heritage of delivery excellence, industry knowledge, a world-class technical infrastructure and the expertise of its people..."

Board of Directors Among their members are James A. Baker III (Senior Partner, Baker Botts LLP), Michael H. Jordan (ex- CBS Corporation, Chairman of Brookings Institution, former McKinsey & Company), Ray l. Hunt (CSIS-Member, Hunt Oil Company, recently involved in the delayed Peru Pipeline Loans project), Fred Hassan (chief executive officer of Pharmacia Corporation, who created HomelandHealth.com in October 2001), Jeffrey M. Heller (former Dallas Medicare Central Support group)

Executive Vice President is Robert H. Swan, former executive vice president and chief financial officer for TRW Inc., now a part of Northrop Grumman.

ex-GFP Member Roxanne crashed Voting Machine-Meeting

Flashback -From Florida to Twin Towers

After DBT Online (the company that was involved in the Florida Voting Controversy) had been aquired by Choice Point, Choice Point became once again helpful for the U.S. Government:

"...Government agencies rely on ChoicePoint to help complete their most difficult tasks – using ChoicePoint’s DNA laboratory to identify victims of the World Trade Center attacks; using data to help the Maryland State Police identify and locate the DC snipers..." (Source: Choicepoint)

Note: Also involved in the DNA Analysis of the 9/11 Twin Tower Victims is Craig Venter's company Myriad Genetics.

Flashback:

GregPalast.com

"...Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.)

A portion of the list, which was compiled for Florida by DBT Online, can be seen for the first time here; DBT, a company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service. .."

Senior Management of Choice Point:

Derek V. Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer , has "served as ChoicePoint’s CEO since the company went public in 1997".

Doug C. Curling, President

Former Equifax's Insurance Services

Steven W. Surbaugh

former Arthur Andersen

David E. Trine

former audit manager with Arthur Andersen LLP

Newsday February 27, 2003

"...Election.com, a struggling Garden City start-up scheduled to provide online absentee ballots for U.S. military personnel in the 2004 federal election, has quietly sold controlling power to an investment group with ties to unnamed Saudi nationals, according to company correspondence.

In a letter sent to a select group of well-heeled Election.com investors Jan. 21, the online voting and voter registration company disclosed that the investment group Osan Ltd. paid $1.2 million to acquire 20 million preferred shares to control 51.6 percent of the voting power.

In a Newsday interview in October, Charles Smith, a representative of Osan who sits on Election.com's board, declined to name the Saudi Arabian investors with a stake in the company, other than to say they were "passive" and part of a larger group that included Americans and Europeans. Smith didn't return phone calls yesterday..."

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Cathy Cox: Georgia Secretary of State
Sonny Perdue: Georgia Governor

So Cathy Cox accepts the challenge of Roxanne Jekot to demonstrate how to hack the Georgia voting system. News article

"Roxanne: If I brought a team of computer professionals to you and demonstrated how to hack an election you would be happy to set that up?"

"Yes."
"Bring it on."
"The chances she can do this are a billion to one."

Posted at 1:21:17 AM EDT by BevHarris

This is an inside look you might be interested in, if you've been following the information about the secret meeting last Friday (scroll down, if you missed it)

Pertaining to Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Accenture and EDS being the driving forces behind the HAVA bill which requires purchase of new electronic voting machines and registration systems:

From an insider: "Former EDS people run Accupoll. So there is at least one company in this ESTF group (Election Systems Task Force, driving force behind HAVA) that also wants a paper audit trail.

"(Defense contractor) Diversified Dynamics is effectively out of the voting machine business. I have not seen them at one show in two years. Their driving force was Tom Davis who is trying to get into the electronic paper business for test taking (like the SAT). SAIC never really developed the DD machine. It was some retired engineer in Philly that had worked for Northrop or SAIC (can't remember which). (It was SAIC)

"All of these companies are not just defense contractors. Accenture has many non-defense related government contracts. So do all of the rest. What they were shopping around for was partners with the smaller voting machine companies who need to have a partner to handle a voting machine contract. The Avante's and Accupoll's and Truvote's of the voting world all have "big brother (not in an Orwellian way)" partners that can foot the financial bill to bid on these contracts. If anyone of them win a statewide contract (on the order of $50-150 mill), a big partner has to finance the deal.

"If I gave any of you out there this kind of contract for a product that has up front costs of 45%, can you foot the $50 mill up front to buy the parts? Guess what? When you deliver the parts, you still may not get paid in full until two years later. What small startup company can carry this load? That is why Global (which was in debt up to its ears) sold to Diebold. That is why Jefferson Smurfit got rid of Sequoia. That is why ESS was for sale. That is why Hart needs Maximus to win any bids.

"I think Lockheed's angle is the smart cards for voter registration and photo ids and finger prints.

"If you want to bring down the BBV industry to its knees, you have to point out how the election officials were snowed into not following the rules for running elections.

"Keep focusing on the security issues. The story is there. The companies feel the pressure. I would like to find one company or even one person worth over a $1billion that has no skeletons in their closet.

"I just have been in the bowels of all levels of government and I just don't see secret groups planning the long range strategies that sometimes fly out here. I don't believe people are that smart and that long range thinking to pull off these strategies.

"The ITAA was found because they were the only national lobbying group that could get this PR campaign started quickly that also has some election industry lobbying experience. No one has reported on the Florida meeting of the Election Center. This is where the discussion got going.

"My truly deep dark inside feeling is that the bottom line is that the election officials themselves will turn out to be the ones responsible for trying to push BBV. They just want easy, simple, and no blame being sent back to them. So many election officials have retired since 2000 in fear that they too will be the center of attention.

"Not one election official, save maybe Warren Slocum and Ernie Hawkins will tell you that they want the voter to have the ability to verify that they are doing their jobs correctly. It scares the heck out of them. With no uniform national standard for voting laws, each state hides behind its own laws making it difficult to find out who is to blame.

"I call all of the Californians to call their Registrar of voters and ask them when their logic and accuracy test is being performed for the recall election. Ask all the counties that use electronic machines when are they performing this test on all of their machines.

"It will take over 25 YEARS 24/7 for one person to test all of the voting machines in Riverside County. They need to have then over 900 people to realistically do the test before the election. Haven't seen too many want ads in Riverside for these testers. All of the other counties with paper have the same problem except their counts are measured in weeks, not years. Ask why is the approved CA procedure manual for Sequoia DREs only 17 pages long? How can this cover their machine and the hundreds of pages of CA law?

"Trying to play six degrees of SAIC will not get you to the true culprit in my opinion - the elections officials. They do not do their homework. They get wined and dined and snowed all the time. They are told outright lies and accept it without checking the facts. I think these people spend more time researching movie reviews than looking at voting machine RFPs.

"Doug Lewis certified TruVote and Avante (with Accupoll close behind) so technically he can say he put his stamp on these systems.

"ITAA just does what the money tells them to say. They are not opposed to anything. They just are playing up to what they perceive as their potential clients needs.

"The real problem the vendors have is that Wyle is very slow. Jim Dearman's group is small and can't accommodate quick turn work. If they have another area to go to, they can certify faster. The irony is that they have complained for years and this mess gives them a reason to certify themselves. Also, the HAVA money has not funded NIST to set up the standards so there is a state of limbo for the vendors.

"Other vendors are opposed because several of the smaller companies have patents pending that will bring the big guys to their knees. Sequoia has to provide the paper trail for free in Santa Clara. All you have to do is get Shelley or the County Supervisors to want it. Once this county does it all of the others will follow. ESS is hurting for business in CA so they hired Lou Dedier (who knows the Avante system well) and Slocum had Lou design a paper record version.

"Jim Adler (VoteHere) is a crytographer. He only knows those kind of people (defense industry financiers) so it would make sense that he would scrounge money from that community. If Jim Adler was a former football player, then John Elway and Dan Marino would have been investors.

"JimmyNoChad" (a voting company guy)

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Interesting, don't you think? It still doesn't come anywhere near excusing the SAIC conflict of interest when it acts as "independent" evaluator of Diebold, since SAIC has ties to VoteHere and the lobbyist proposing to whitewash the whole deal.

It still doesn't address the conflict of interest in groups like Accenture, Northrop-Grumman, and EDS forming the driving force behind HAVA, with the support and encouragement of The Election Center, and then turning around and selling their own systems with the money they just persuaded Congress to spend.

And I don't really buy the idea that you need a weapons manufacturer to make smart cards as a backup for getting a big order. Making smart cards for an order of 22,000 machines would not bankrupt even a little guy.

Concerns Over ‘Serious Flaws’ in Electronic Voting Prompt New Examination by Members of Congress

"...A recently published study documenting a host of security flaws in a leading touch-screen voting system has caused elections officials across the United States to question the use of electronic voting machines..."

Exclusive to American Free Press

By Christopher Bollyn

Despite inherent and increasingly blatant security risks, Internet voting companies are steadily gaining control over the U.S. electoral system and American civic life. The risk to democracy is very real.

"The voter has absolutely no control over the vote cast once it leaves his own computer system," writes Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, one of the nation's leading experts in computer voting technology. "He cannot check whether it has been subverted on the way to the count...(there are) problems with all forms of remote voting include the dangers of coercion, vote selling and impersonation. The Internet introduces additional authentication issues."

In the wake of recent voting machine fraud and assorted scandals, Internet voting - the most vulnerable technology to election fraud - is flying under the radar. That may not be an accident.

Neither the Federal Election Commission (FEC) nor the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) publicly lists one of the largest Internet voting providers, Bermuda-based Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting of Arthur Andersen/Enron fame). This omission is alarming. Accenture's first major contract in this arena will be to count the online military vote for the Department of Defense (DOD) in the upcoming 2004 presidential election.

Also, there are no mandatory, or voluntary, government/industry standards that specifically address Internet voting technology. Even the federal standards that apply to other voting systems, are outmoded and voluntary. There is no federal government authority over the elections industry. State regulations and certification hinged on industry guidelines and industry-appointed certifiers. This is an industry that is basically self-regulating

Please read the full story at EcoTalk

Voting machine controversy

By Julie Carr Smyth

Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.