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admin
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Username: admin
Post Number: 831
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 8:36 am: | 
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See Black Box Voting Document Archive for dozens of documents about Hart, including User Manuals, Certification information, parts lists, and much more: BBV Document Archive for Hart Intercivic
Hart InterCivic is working to bring governments closer to citizens through complete electronic government (e-government) and election management solutions.
- electronic filing and recording
- hosted public access
- technologies for automating local government processes
Hart InterCivic's eGovernment Solutions Group
Electronic government solutions to:
- manage records
- process documents
- provide public access
- support key public services
Hart Anthem™
Hart InterCivic's modular, fully integrated product suite, speeds the processing and recording of official public records.
Anthem supports:
- indexing
- storage and retrieval
- public access to county records via the Internet
- electronic filing of official documents
Bug list for Anthem product
eSlate Electronic Voting System
- DRE electronic voting machines
- Ballot Now Digital Ballot Imaging System (a fully integrated ballot by mail system)
Owners
According to Michelle Shaffer of Hart Intercivic:
Hart InterCivic's is a privately-owned company and its principal investors are listed below:
- Stratford Capital Partners, L.P. / Stratford
- Equity Partners L.P. Dallas TX
- Triton Ventures Austin, TX
- Texas Growth Fund Austin, TX
- Capstreet Group, LLC Houston, TX
- RES Partners, Ltd. Austin, TX
(Scroll down for affiliations of these entities)
Management Team as of July 2005
- David E. Hart, Chairman
- J. Britt Kauffman, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Ted Simmonds, Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Administration
- Jerry Meadows, Sr. Vice President, Election Solutions Group
- Neil McClure, Vice President & eVoting Strategic Technology Officer
- Scott Flom, eVoting Operations Vice President
- Matt Walker, Vice President, eGovernment Solutions Group
- Phillip Braithwaite, Sales & Marketing Vice President
- John Covell, Print Services Vice President
Partners
- Maximus
(scroll down for more details)
History
(scroll down for details)
Requesting submissions of information and links on the following:
Parent company
Subsidiaries
Board members
lobbyists
Political donations made by this company
Customers
Locations
Contact info
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admin
Board Administrator
Username: admin
Post Number: 951
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:16 am: |
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Statement by Hart Intercivic representative on background checks:
Date: 13 July 2005
"Our company conducts criminal and Social Security background checks on all Hart InterCivic employees and has for over 20 years. This would include our President / CEO, all managers, full and part time employees, contractors, etc. - everyone at Hart InterCivic. A conviction record will not necessarily be a bar to employment at our company as each situation is assessed on a case by case basis."
Thanks to K.A. for writing to Hart Intercivic, eliciting this response, and forwarding it to Black Box Voting. |
admin
Board Administrator
Username: admin
Post Number: 952
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:19 am: |
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Statement from Hart Intercivic about ownership & senior management team:
"Hart InterCivic's is a privately-owned company and its principal investors are listed below:
Stratford Capital Partners, L.P. / Stratford Equity Partners L.P. Dallas TX
Triton Ventures Austin, TX
Texas Growth Fund Austin, TX
Capstreet Group, LLC Houston, TX
RES Partners, Ltd. Austin, TX 78746
You can find bios for our senior management team on our website at
http://www.hartic.com/innerpage.php?pageid=37
Thanks to K.A. for eliciting these responses and forwarding them to Black Box Voting |
admin
Board Administrator
Username: admin
Post Number: 953
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:39 am: |
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History of Hart Intercivic
From Hart Intercivic spokesperson
"Hart InterCivic's history traces back to 1912 and we have been successfully providing election related products to customers in Texas since that time. In addition, we won an Ethics in Business Award in 2002 which you can read about on our website at http://www.hartintercivic.com/innerpage.php?pageid=38
From Chapter 8, Black Box Voting book - "What you won't find on company Web sites" (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf):
The chairman of Hart Intercivic is David Hart, whose family developed Hart Graphics, at one time the largest privately-held commercial printer in Texas.(1) Internet growth and the ease of putting documentation on disks and CD-ROMs reversed the company’s fortunes.
“We began to see, in the later part of the ’90s, a crack in the strategy,” David Hart said. “The presses weren’t staying busy.” In looking for other work to fill the void, “we just ran into a wall. We were singularly unsuccessful.” (2)
And it was here that the comfortable, family-owned company turned into a venture-capital- and government-privatization-driven election vendor.
The finances and managerial control of Hart Graphics were at one time closely controlled by the family, but Hart took a different approach to its election business. They lined up three rounds of venture capital and formed an alliance with a gigantic social-services privatizer.
(1) Austin American-Statesman, 28 February 2001; “Times of change at Hart; Founder reflects on end of an era for Austin institution”
(2) – Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, 28 February 2001; “Austin, Texas, Graphics Company to Close after 89 Years in Business” |
admin
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Username: admin
Post Number: 954
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:48 am: |
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Hart Intercivic owners / venture capital firms
From Chapter 8, Black Box Voting book - "What you won't find on company Web sites" (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf):
For initial funding, Hart went to Triton Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Triton Energy, a firm that primarily exploits oil fields in Colombia. Triton, in turn, is a subsidiary of Amerada Hess.(1)
The $3.5 million awarded by Triton in 1999 didn’t last long, but the Help America Vote Act, with its massive allocation of federal money, hovered just over the horizon. In October 2000, Hart picked up $32.5 million more from five sources. 45 In 2002, it raised another $7.5 million. (2)
RES Partners, which invested in Hart’s second and third rounds, is an entity that represents Richard Salwen, retired Dell Computer Corporation vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, who had also worked with Perot Systems and EDS. Salwen is a heavy contributor to George W. Bush and the Republican Party. (3)
Hart’s most politically charged investor is an arm of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, which was founded and is chaired by Tom Hicks. Hicks bought the Texas Rangers in 1999, making George W. Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Tom Hicks and his investment company are invested in Hart Intercivic through Stratford Capital. They are also heavily invested in Clear Channel Communications, the controversial radio-raider that muscled a thousand U.S. radio outlets into a
more conservative message. (4)
(1) – Hoover’s Company Profiles, 11 March 2002; Triton Energy Limited.
(2) – InformationWeek, 2 October 2000; “Cost Of Compliance”
(3) – Austin Business Journal, 8 November 2001; “Investors cast $7.5M vote for Hart InterCivic.”
(4) – CN group web site http://www.thecapitalnetwork.com/advisory.php# and http://www.OpenSecrets.org
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admin
Board Administrator
Username: admin
Post Number: 955
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7:50 am: |
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Partners
From Chapter 8, Black Box Voting book - "What you won't find on company Web sites" (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf):
In Orange County, California, and in the state of Ohio, Hart Intercivic entered into a joint enterprise called Maximus/Hart-InterCivic/DFM Associates, led by Maximus Inc.
Maximus Inc. is a gigantic privatizer of social services. It cuts deals with state governments to handle child-support collections, implement welfare-to-work and oversee managed care and HMO programs.
A Wisconsin legislative audit report found that Maximus spent more than $400,000 of state money on unauthorized expenses and found $1.6 million that Maximus couldn’t properly document. These
unauthorized expenses included a party for staff members at a posh Lake Geneva resort; $23,637 for “fanny packs” to promote the company, with the bills sent to the state; and entertainment of staff and clients by actress Melba Moore. Maximus settled for $1 million. (1)}
Maximus jumped into the smart-card business and soon afterward entered the elections industry through an alliance with Hart Intercivic.
(1) – Global Energy Business, 1 August 2001; “CAES: Ready for prime time” 34 Vol. 3, No. 4”
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/corp_profiles/public_service_gats_pdfs/maximus.p df |
cleanbean
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: cleanbean
Post Number: 49
Registered: 01-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:23 pm: |
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Tom Hicks, the biggest investor in Maximus/HartIntercivic, whose voting machines are used in Orange County, bought the Rangers from Bush for many millions more than was paid for the team a few years before by the soon-to-be governor and president, thus in effect financing his various political campaigns. Until recently, Hicks has had an office at the Longworth Building in D.C. close to GOP allies.
http://electioncentral.blog-city.com/on_the_mcpherson_confirmation.htm |
catherine_a
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: catherine_a
Post Number: 471
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 2:53 am: |
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This just shows how hard it is to get rid of under-the-table campaign contributions. Even if campaigns were publicly funded, you'd practically have to go through a candidate's finances with a fine-tooth comb to discover things like this.
Or, does public campaign financing make extra expenditure unnecessary? Is it easier to police? |
admin
Board Administrator
Username: admin
Post Number: 1055
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 8:37 am: |
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Well smack me in the head with a dense fog. I never connected the Hicks venture with indirect campaign financing. It is always portrayed in the media as "making George W. Bush a millionaire" -- implying he stuck the money in his pocket and kept it. But did he put any of his own money into campaigns?
Hicks had some other questionable dealings, with a large pension fund in Texas (UTIMCO?) and there were questions from some about whether then-GOVERNOR Bush had been doling out favors to Hicks in connection with that.
(News Bulletin: Politics IS the art of doing favors) Financial favors that go into personal pockets, and especially favors like "delivering an election" are not supposed to be included in that.
-- Bev |
BBV Admin
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3114
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006 - 6:52 pm: |
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hart gets security upgrade from Symantec
(contributed by e-mail from Jody Holder)
Executive summary
Hart InterCivic, Inc. engaged @stake, recently acquired by Symantec™ to be integrated into Symantec Consulting Services, as part of its efforts to raise the level of security provided by the eSlate electronic voting system.
Symantec @stake consultants advised Hart in making significant changes to the latest version of the eSlate system code and the Hart development process. The enhancements to the overall eSlate design and implementation aim to provide a consistent and robust security level across the system. Hart has applied Symantec’s @stake Secure Development Lifecycle to its software engineering process to elevate security to a key driver in the ongoing development of the eSlate voting system.
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