Dategrity Corp. (new name for VoteHer...

Author Message   Admin Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 1402 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 5:07 am:        Products: According to the New York Post, May 21 2005, "VoteHere Inc. ... is pushing to sell voting machines without paper trails." Also: Mail-in Ballot Tracker™, an audit solution to provide the first ever ability to track individual ballots while protecting voter privacy. Parent company: Dategrity Corporation Subsidiaries VoteHere is now a division of Dategrity VoteHere, a supplier of election audit and verification technology, announced that it will expand into the broader security market, focusing specifically on data integrity and privacy. The company, now called Dategrity Corp., named Steve Wood as CEO. VoteHere continues as a division of Dategrity and Jim Adler will continue to lead the election business as president, along with Brian O'Connor, vice president of business development. Wood and Adler will serve on Dategrity's board of directors, along with the remainder of the current VoteHere board. This announced May 9, 2005. Key People Steve Wood - CEO (a key original Microsoft person, former head of MacCaw Cellular and Cellular Services) Jim Adler - President of the VoteHere division Andy Neff - Chief Scientist Partners Northwest Venture Associates (completed a new $4.2 million round of financing recently -- this firm also invested in Cellular Services while it was run by current Dategrity CEO Steve Wood. Directors Ralph Munro - former secretary of state, Washington state Robert M. Gates - Gates is President of Texas A&M University. He was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1991 to 1993. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Gates served as Assistant to the President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and Deputy National Security Advisor. Dr. Gates was Dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University (1999-2001). Dr. Gates also is a Trustee of the Forum for International Policy. Bob Wolfe - A partner with Northwest Venture Associates and a director of VoteHere Steve Wood Jim Adler Former Relationships - Avi Rubin, who now heads the NSF-funded "ACCURATE" project, was formerly on the advisory board for VoteHere and was listed as a supporter of VoteHere in Diebold notes (http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/votehere.pdf) - David Dill, with the NSF-funded "ACCURATE" project, heads the Verified Voting Foundation, a lobbying group, hosted the VoteHere crypto vote verification information on his VerifiedVoting.org Web site. The original owner of the Web site "VerifiedVoting.com" was VoteHere. Lobbyists - Mirram Global represents VoteHere in New York. Mirram Global's partners include Roberto Ramirez, an influential political consultant. Ramirez has a $120,000- a-year lobbying contract with VoteHere, according to the New York Post (May 11 05) Location - Bellevue, Washington Requesting submissions of information and links on the following: Political donations made by this company Customers Contact info   Admin Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 1403 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 5:11 am:        Company press release: BELLEVUE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 31, 2005 -- VoteHere®, a division of Dategrity Corp., a leading supplier of election audit and verification technology, today announced the availability of Mail-in Ballot Tracker™, an audit solution to provide the first ever ability to track individual ballots while protecting voter privacy. Adding to its audit solutions for e-voting systems, the VoteHere Mail-in Ballot Tracker audit solution integrates seamlessly into any absentee mail processing system. Until now, ballot tracking was limited to tracking batches of ballots in order to protect ballot secrecy. As a result, election officials have lacked the audit tools to account for each ballot individually, leading to high-profile controversies in New York State, Washington State and elsewhere. VoteHere's Mail-in Ballot Tracker can track every ballot while completely protecting voter privacy. VoteHere can deliver this unique capability because of its patented VHTi technology, which enables comprehensive audit and data tracking, while protecting the integrity and privacy of individual data records. VoteHere's software source code is published on the company's website for public examination for unparalleled transparency and confidence. "In this era where elections are so closely scrutinized, it is critical that our dedicated elections officials have the best audit tools to handle such scrutiny," said Jim Adler, founder and president of VoteHere. "Mail-in Ballot Tracker provides this vital audit tool." Mail-in balloting is on the rise, especially on the west coast with Washington State voting 70% by mail, California voting 40% by mail, and Oregon voting 100% by mail. Earlier this year, the Washington State Legislature authorized counties to switch to voting exclusively by mail. Furthermore, this legislation encourages the use of ballot tracking audit technology to "determine if mail ballots were received and counted." Only VoteHere's Mail-in Ballot Tracker meets the intent of this law while protecting voter privacy. About VoteHere, a division of Dategrity Corp. Founded in 1998, VoteHere, a division of Dategrity Corp., is the industry leader in election audit and verification technology. VoteHere's patented technology has been used in more than 90 elections throughout the United States and Europe for more than 50 worldwide clients and partners, reaching nearly 13 million voters. VoteHere provides election officials with the same standards of verifiable accuracy as banking, e-commerce, credit cards, express shipping and other types of transactions people trust every day. For more information please visit www.votehere.com . For more information about Dategrity Corp., please visit www.dategritycorp.com . Dategrity, VoteHere, Mail-in Ballot Tracker, and VHTi are trademarks of Dategrity Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification or reference purposes only, with no intent to infringe on copyrights. Pam Miller The KMC Group for Dategrity 425.450.9965 pamm@kmcgroup.com And, from Seattle Times editorial June 10 2005: "A Bellevue company, VoteHere, has software that traces each ballot from when it's issued to when it's counted. It's like how FedEx tracks packages. You could electronically follow your own ballot, ensuring it gets counted."

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