A
Spanish Company Known As Scytl Will Be Reporting
Election Results For Hundreds Of U.S. Jurisdictions On
Election Day
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Do you know who is going to
be counting the votes on Election Day 2012? Most Americans never even
think about this. Most Americans just assume that their votes will count
and that the government will ensure that the counting process is done honestly
and fairly. But is this really the case? Sadly, the vast majority
of people never take the time to "look behind the curtain" to see how
things really work. If they did, they might find themselves extremely
upset about what they would find. The integrity of our voting process is
of the utmost importance. If we do not have the ballot box, then what
avenues for changing our government do we have left? Unfortunately, the
integrity of our elections has been called into question quite a few times in
recent years, and now a Spanish company known as Scytl
will be involved in reporting election results for hundreds of jurisdictions
across the United States this upcoming election day. Will those election
results be accurate?
It is absolutely amazing that a
foreign company has been able to gain such control over the reporting of
election results in the
You would think that there would be a
law against this sort of thing, but apparently there is not.
So how did this all come about?
Well, the story starts with a company
called SOE Software.
SOE Software was founded in 2002 and
has been involved in reporting election results in 25 U.S. states....
Founded
in 2002, SOE Software (SOE) has been working in 25 states to provide election
management tools that include online pollworker
training and election night reporting solutions to over 900 state and local
election jurisdictions.
SOE Software was purchased by a
company based in Barcelona,
This combination of the two companies
has produced a giant firm. Scytl now has a dominant market position
in the election software market....
With
the acquisition of SOE Software, Scytl is now the
industry leader in the election software market with a full range of solutions
that cover the whole election process and include secure online ballot
delivery, Internet voting, electronic pollbooks,
election night reporting, and online pollworker
training.
Scytl will be involved in reporting election results
in more
In fact, the new combined company
will be involved in reporting the election results in 30 U.S. states....
The
combined organization is the largest pure election software company in the
So exactly how does all of this work?
Why should we be concerned about what
Scytl does with our votes?
Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org has studied voting systems
in the
In
a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world’s
dominant Internet voting company has purchased the
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
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
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.
So should we trust that whatever
election results Scytl gives us are accurate?
Of course not.
The truth is that there have been all
sorts of questions about the integrity of Scytl
voting systems. The following example comes from a recent article posted on westernjournalism.com....
The
American advocacy group Project Vote has concluded that SCYTL’s
internet voting system is vulnerable to attack from the outside AND the
inside, a situation which could result in “…an election that does not
accurately reflect the will of the voters…” Talk about having a flair for
understatement!
There have also been very serious
questions about SOE Software. Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org says
that there have been major problems with SOE Software election results in the
past....
In
Broward County FL, the results reported by Scytl-owned
SOE Software in 2008 showed an entire candidate, who was winning, disappear
into vapor in the middle of the count, and in Hillsborough County FL and Dallas
County TX, votes that had been reported began to disappear.
So now we have a combination of SOE
Software and Scytl. Considering the questions
that have surrounded both firms in the past, it is easy to see why so many
voting activists are deeply concerned.
There are a lot of rumors floating
around the Internet that George Soros is at least a part owner of Scytl, but so far nobody has come forward with any solid
evidence of this.
According to Scytl,
the primary investors in the company are Balderton
Capital, Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR. It is
not known at this time whether George Soros has an ownership stake in any of
those venture capital firms.
In any event, it is deeply troubling
that a Spanish company will have control over the reporting of election results
from hundreds of jurisdictions in the
Hopefully there will be no problems
and the election results will be 100% honest and accurate.
But what if they are not?
