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Oct 29, 03: Sequoia Voting Systems: appears to be the second largest voting machine company, accounting for about 1/3 of the voting machine market.
As of May 2002, Sequoia was purchased by Great Britain's De La Rue from Ireland's Jefferson Smurfit Group, who retain a 15% share. (this link is from 2004. Doesn't work now, but article can be found online with google -
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61014,00.html)
Smurfit was just bought by Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity investment firm.
De La Rue owns 20% of the Great Britain's national lottery.
The British-owned company's corporate parent is private equity firm Madison Dearborn -- a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush I makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and sweetheart deals with government insiders."(Ciccone Calcografica is a) subsidiary of De la Rue producing passports for the Mexican government. De La Rue now own the US Sequoia computerised voting systems company, part owned by Carlyle group partner, US investment firm Madison Dearborn who took over Jefferson Smurfit's share of Sequoia."
http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_drugs/doc3057.html (can find this in Wayback archives)
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Re: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) involvement in voting machines (Sequoia, Diebold etc.), controlling the internet (Network Solutions) and training foreign militaries.
SAIC is the contractor that set up global communications for the U.S. military. One of SAIC’s prime clients is DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the Department of Defense), which recently employed five-time convicted felon Admiral Poindexter, an associate of Inman’s going back to Iran-Contra. Poindexter was forced to resign over his involvement with PAM, a “terrorism futures market” DARPA project which predicted assassinations, terrorism and other events in the Middle East.
His earlier controversial program, TIA, or the Total Information Awareness Program (see TIA), was set up to spy on Americans. It involved data mining and creating large information databases on Americans and is now being used to track citizens. Another abandoned DARPA project, which has now been revived, is Lifelog, a controversial project to archive almost everything about a person, and every aspect of a person’s life is fair game.
http://www.sfbayview.com/092904/nuclearweapons2092904.shtmlOn a webpage of Diversified Dynamics (recently purchased by Northrop Grumman), a 1998 legal notice states, "Diversified Dynamics has brought the election process to the technological level of the new millennium by designing the world's most advanced electronic vote recording and election management system. We were supported in this effort by the engineering and software capabilities of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a world leader in systems development and integration."
Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) gave a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to review the Diebold Election System's software in preparation for elections in Maryland.
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Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where it was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state officials to jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms. In 1995 the Security and Exchange Commission filed charges against four employees of Sequoia, alleging that they inflated revenue and pre-tax profits. In 1999 the Justice Department filed federal charges against employees of Sequoia alleging that during a 10-year period $8 million in bribes were paid out. Louisiana's Commissioner of Elections Jerry Fowler had run up some big gambling debts in Atlantic City, according to reporter Daniel Hopsicker. In all, 22 people were indicted, 9 plead guilty. Fowler went to jail, but Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci of New Jersey got one year of home detention. Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving immunized testimony against state officials.
From article by Daniel Hopsicker
November 24 2004-Venice,FL
http://www.madcowprod.com/11242004.html"(In respect to Sequoia there is) clear and convincing evidence that the company has been run, perhaps for decades, as a Continuing Criminal Enterprise specializing in blatant and widespread bribery of public officials, with numerous felony convictions, Mob ties, and a history replete with stories of threats, coercion..."
Sample cases -
1) Sequoia attempted bribery at a luncheon hosted by Salvatore Reale, a Gambino underboss who later pled guilty to racketeering, New York City
2) Company’s founder, Lloyd A. Dixon Jr. indicted by federal grand jury for bribing Buffalo election officials
3) Company fined nearly $50,000 for bribing Texas and Arkansas officials
4) Next owner of Sequoia Pacific, financier Louis Wolfson became convicted of bribing the only Supreme Court Justice ever forced to resign in disgrace
5) Louisiana’s Commissioner of Elections Jerry Fowler convicted of taking as much as ten million dollars over a period of a decade from Sequoia’s Southeast Representative, a man named Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci, from New Jersey
6) US Attorneys refused or unable to "confirm or deny" if Ricci was connected to organised crime.
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