Help America Vote Act
History
Lobbyists
Public interest groups
Substantial George Soros financial influence
- People for the American Way
- Common Cause
- American Civil Liberties Union
- League of Women Voters (implicated for election rigging in Votescam)
- American Jewish Committee
- Hadassah
- American Association for Retired Persons
- Public Citizen
- American Network of Community Options and Resources
- Constitution Project
- Open Society Policy Center
Labor unions
Substantial George Soros financial influence
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Laborers International Union of North America
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- United Auto Workers
- American Federation of Teachers
- AFL-CIO
- UNITE (Industrial & Textile employees)
Minority rights groups
- NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
- National Council of La Raza
- Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Disability rights groups
- American Foundation for the Blind
- The ARC of the United States
- National Disability Rights Network
- Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
- United Cerebral Palsy Association
County governments
- Riverside County CA (location of the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture; Michael Vu's mentor Mischelle Townsend was registrar here)
- San Diego County CA (conducted an illegal audit in the 2016 California primary under the leadership of Michael Vu)
- Ventura County CA
- Miami-Dade County FL (site of rigged 1970 election in Votescam)
Industry vendors
Private sector lobbyists
- Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs
- US Business & Industry Council
- Association of Technology Act Projects
Election Systems Task Force
Main article: Election Systems Task Force
Controversies
Lack of paper trail
[Bev Harris suggests that VoteHere was behind a last-minute kill of a paper trail requirement in HAVA...]
Abramoff lobbying scandal
Main article: Jack Abramoff
See also
References
External links
- Account of an industry meeting
- Brad Friedman, "The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud", 2006/01/10 - connects Bob Ney to Diebold lobbyists; discusses the promise by Jack Abramoff and Ney to put a Tigua casino provision in HAVA which they never fulfilled; also covers Ney's suppression of paper trails in HAVA and his phony voter fraud hearings
- Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill by Bob Ney, p.139: Ney's account of the HAVA process
- Black Box Voting, "Who Cooked This Turkey?", 2005/11/29
- 2001 congressional hearing transcript unearthed by Black Box Voting (has Duke Cunningham)
- Ron Thornburgh, "Media Release: Midwest Election Officials Conference", 2001/12/07 - has Bob Ney giving a keynote speech sponsored by ES&S; other events sponsored by Global Election Systems, Fidlar Doubleday, Sequoia, VoteHere, Accenture, election.com, and more
- 107th Congress 2d Session, report 107-810: "REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DURING THE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS", 2003/01/02 - a 2001/05/17 committee hearing on voting technology included William F. Welsh II from ES&S and Ralph Munro from VoteHere
- Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting by Avi Rubin (first-hand account of e-voting adoption)
New York lobbying
- New York Times, "Vote Machine Replacement Lags, Despite Age", 2003/10/20 - article about HAVA upgrade lobbying in New York, including the $12,500/month payments to Greenberg Traurig by Diebold, whose lobbyists are "Robert Harding, former deputy mayor under Rudolph W. Giuliani, and John Mascialino, a lawyer and former first deputy commissioner of a city agency charged with buying equipment and supplies under Mr. Giuliani"
- Common Cause chart of vendor payments in NY
- New York HAVA bill S6207
- North County Public Radio, "Common Cause/NY Tallies Lobby Spending of Voting Vendors as NY Continues to Debate HAVA Implementation", 2004/12/20
Amendment efforts
- Committee on House Administration, "HAVA authors oppose federal legislation to require "paper trail"", 2004/03/04 (PDF copy)
- EIR, "Debates Rage in Congress On HAVA Computer Vote Act", 2004/03/19
- Committee on House Administration, "Ney Points to Growing Evidence of HAVA’s Success", 2005/02/15
- 109th Congress 2d Session, serial 109-56: "VOTING MACHINES: WILL THE NEW STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES HELP PREVENT FUTURE PROBLEMS?", 2006/07/19 - involves Bob Ney; calls Linda Lamone to testify; discusses VoteHere products
