Bev Harris
@BevHarrisWrites
A history - some of which has never been published before:
The setup for mass mail balloting started in Washington state in 1985 with a plan to turn Washington blue.
At that time Republicans were very good at their mail ballot game, but absentee voting was restricted.
The Democrats effort to achieve dominance in absentee voting involved a software guy named Jeffrey Dean, who specialized in accounting software, and his brother Neil Dean, who mobilized temp workers and had a mail sorting operation.
The plan was interrupted when Jeff Dean was sentenced to prison for embezzlement from his politically connected employer.
SPECTRUM PRINT & MAIL (ballots)
As soon as he was released from prison, some unknown entity financed Jeff Dean for his own ballot printing company, to the tune of a couple million $. He was immediately given the contract to handle ballot printing for King County WA, and his brother handled mail sorting for absentees, plus provided election workers through his temp firm.
Meanwhile, embezzler Jeff got 24 hour keycard access to King County elections with total god-level admin access to both their voter registration system and their central tabulation.
Jeff hired his prison buddy, narcotics trafficker John Elder, to help run the ballot printing. Sometimes they left bags of ballot overages on the curb for night pickup.
JEFF DEAN BUYS GLOBAL ELECTION SYSTEMS
Even though he had made no attempt to pay court ordered restitution of over $300k, somehow Jeff Dean had enough financing to purchase Global Election Systems, a manufacturer of optical scan machines, DRE touchscreens, and the GEMS central tabulator.
DOUBLE SET OF BOOKS
Within weeks of purchase, Jeff Dean had ordered programmers to create a unique architecture featuring a double set of books in the central tabulator. This is interesting timing, because he had been visiting then-Los Angeles County registrar Conny McCormack to set up her central tabulation system.
California had just enacted a law requiring a hand count audit of one-half percent of its precincts. The GEMS double set of books enabled a crooked election to pass a hand count spot check:
- vote totals for each voting machine for each precinct fed into its Microsoft Access database, in two identical tables.
- when you run a results report it pulls from one of the tables.
- by entering a "-1" in a specific field, the vote data in the two tables decouple from each other.
- when doing a spot check audit (or any RLA) the precinct you are auditing will pull from a true table even if the actual data being summed up in the other table, the total, is false.
I traced this specific design to Jeffrey Dean. As a financial accounting programmer, he understood the importance of a double set of books to defeat audits.
My sources told me Jeff Dean wasn't a great programmer, but he did do the architecture specifications.
VOTE REMOTE
He brought in programmers to create "Vote Remote" which was an automated signature comparison program, with ways to set matching tolerance as loose or tight as needed for any group of ballots.
His brother Neil was working on sophisticated mail processing and sorting. Jeff did some of the programming for Neil.
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