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FRACTIONAL COUNTS
By June 2001 Jeff had a new design specification for the central tabulator: fractional counts and a weighted race function. This allows a preset allocation of votes by assigning a percentage of each vote, which can be less than or more than one.
This appeared to be a requirement for acquisition of the merged Global Elections and ballot print & mail firm. Jeff Dean was the largest stockholder in both (put in wife's name because he still owed restitution on his embezzlement).
By 2001, Global Election Systems was basically insolvent. Two days after completing the commit on the new fractional count feature, Diebold issued a large bridge loan to Global Elections.
DIEBOLD ACQUIRES GLOBAL ELECTIONS
Diebold acquired Global in Jan. 2022. Using the trade name Diebold, but with the elections division operating as a stand-alone, "Diebold" sold its first major deal, a statewide voting system buy by the state of Georgia.
In the mean time, Jeff Dean and partner John Elder were running around California signing up customers for Vote Remote and a planned expansion of vote by mail.
ESCAPE FROM FINANCIAL PREDICAMENTS
I started writing about Jeff Dean in 2003. His convicted felon past got too hot to handle so Diebold put him at arms length with a lucrative consulting agreement.
I got his story into The Associated Press, which snowballed into a court order to cough up the $300k restitution. But Jeff shielded the millions he made on the Diebold acquisition claiming it all belonged to his wife.
In 2004, one of his Vote Remote programmers sued him for a piece of the Diebold $$ Jeff had promised him.
The programmer, Tae Kim, won, but Jeff and wife declared bankruptcy while also somehow funding acquisition of a plush ranch in Idaho and bankrolling son into ownership of a nearby RV resort.
Through 2006 they were tied up in bankruptcy fraud investigations.
Brother Neil's firm was acquired by Pitney Bowes, which quickly lined up several patents for signature comparison, vote by mail processing, ballot envelope design, and ballot tracking software.
By this time most of Washington State was vote by mail, all of Oregon, and it was vastly expanded in Colorado, California, and many other states.
Former drug trafficker/ballot printer John Elder went into a private consulting business helping with vote by mail and also petition signature matching.
By 2011, with vote by mail getting into full swing, Jeff Dean sat atop his hilltop ranch, horses running around, and (according to a neighbor I interviewed) "surrounded by empty vodka bottles in a room full of servers."
She had no idea what he was doing with the servers.
Jeff Dean is quite old now and probably out of the elections industry he helped launch.
He managed to reverse the judgment against him by Tae Kim and got extricated from bankruptcy.
All in all, Jeff Dean seemed to have a lot of help getting out of his financial problems.
In his depositions, he explained it was unfair to take the rap for embezzlement, claiming that certain partners at the firm had been compensating him under the table for a project that couldn't be discussed. When other partners found out, he took the fall and the firm split up.
The firm handled business for King County and the Washington State Democrats. Among its partners was Egil "Bud" Krogh, previously head of the Watergate Plumbers unit under Richard Nixon.
The shadowy bankrolling of Jeff's ballot printing plant while he was on work release from prison, his extraordinary on site access to King County voting software, and his intimate involvement with every facet of what became modern election systems nationwide, has always had me wondering if he had 3-letter agency friends.
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