2-2-06: Embezzler Jeff Dean remote ac...

Author Message   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 3484 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:41 pm:    So much for the "people and procedures" security defense. From Oct. 2004 trial transcript: Attorney: [in Aug. 2000] "What were you doing down in California at that point?" Jeffrey Dean: "I was trying to get the connection -- I was installing computer hardware, printing hardware, and trying to get the computer or the internet connections between a number of California counties and the server in Mountlake Terrace [Dean's Washington offices] operational. "In other words, be able to make the connection between the county and our data center over the internet and to upload and download test data. That's what I was doing." Among the counties: Los Angeles (Conny McCormack); Alameda (Brad Clark, now with Calif. secretary of state's office), and Placer. This testimony took place during civil litigation with former programmer Tae Yon Kim, and the context is installing Vote Remote software in California. Who's Jeffrey Dean? Jeffrey Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts involving sophisticated computer fraud. He spent four years in prison (1991-1995). While he was in prison, his wife obtained absentee ballot processing contracts with King County, Wash. A group of investors from Omaha purchased his brother's business shortly before Jeff Dean got out of prison and he began working at his brother's mail processing plant from prison while on work release. Upon release from prison, Jeff Dean developed the programs that handle mail sorting and counting for PSI Group, as well as the ballot mail processing programs. Regarding computer programming, Dean testified: "I'm proficient in some archaic languages and proficient in visual basic. I have a dangerous working knowledge of postscript." For those who are enthused about mail-in voting: Jeffrey Dean created both the ballot sorting and mailing software and the authentication software used by ballot processor PSI Group and Diebold Election Systems. He also reportedly installed the mail-handling software in Las Vegas, Nev. (Sequoia Voting Systems), Maricopa County, Ariz. (ES&S), and at one point it was running in Snohomish County, Wash. as well. Jeffrey Dean's mail-in voting software has never been certified or examined at all, and it is not required to be certified. For those of you in British Columbia: Testimony indicates that Dean has been networked into your data through a customized traffic ticket "photo radar" program he developed in 1997, ran database applications for, and networked into his Washington offices (and, more recently, into his home in Edmonds, Wash.) None of this proves he did anything dishonest, of course. What we have learned, however, is that he did not entirely reform his ways after being released from prison. In 2004, he was sent back to prison for a few months for making false statements and lying to the courts. Black Box Voting is working through the transcripts, and will provide more information about the hidden hand of Jeffrey Dean in our US election system as it becomes available. Stay tuned for an informative and intimate elections history. Buy some popcorn.   John Howard Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Harmonyguy Post Number: 252 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:44 pm:    Is he still involved with ICBC?   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 3485 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:54 pm:    What we have at the moment are Oct. 2004 transcripts, -- the transcripts refer to Erica being laid off because that line of business was terminated. By the way, they originally had someone inside ICBC facilitating their deal on the photo radar deal. I'm still not finished with the first run-through on these transcripts. One thing doesn't make sense -- Global Election Systems bought the ICBC contract. He says Erica was laid off because that line of business was terminated. But Erica also received $45,000 from the Deans to start "Spectrum Digital" and reportedly sends them $8000 a quarter, which I presume is for the ICBC deal. But if you really want to see something that doesn't make sense, you should see the Deans' real estate transactions. Fortunately, one of our board members is a Realtor and she helped walk me through some of this stuff tonight. We don't have definitive answers yet, but we do see a marked difference between the valuation of their home and the amount of money they were leveraging while mortgaging it. In 2003, for example, I believe it was assessed at $301,000 but they had mortgages on it for $220,000, $375,000, and $60,000. By my calculations, that adds up to $655,000 in mortgages on a $301,000 property. And the next question is: Why mortgage at all? Eighteen months earlier they'd collected a cool $2.8 million from Diebold. We got the real estate documents late this afternoon and have more we need to get tomorrow, so maybe we missed something. Deborah Dean makes reference to using the initial $600,000 payment from Spectrum to pay off a home equity line from the 1990s, but the real estate records we've seen don't substantiate that -- we don't find either a loan in that amount, property valuation that could sustain such a loan, or a payment transaction into a home equity line in that amount or anything like it. There are still a couple lines of inquiry that need to be done on this. We will definitely post the transcripts in their entirety when we have them ready. They contain a lot of information on how Global, Spectrum, and Diebold ended up meshed together.   Kathleen Wynne Moderator Username: Admin_ii Post Number: 198 Registered: 08-2005 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 8:38 am:    John, At the time of Erica Cardas' testimony at this trial, she indicated that she was working as a consultant for ICBC. Don't know if she still is. Kathleen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TRIPLE PROTECTION FOR ELECTION 2006 - STARTING NOW: (1) Use Freedom of Information, public records requests ("All American Paper Chase") (2) Try Dumpster Diving for Democracy (3) Candid America Project - Don't leave home without your camcorder HOW TO DO IT: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/6/6.html

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