Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines

[kster]

By Kim Zetter March 27, 2008

A former technician who worked for Hart InterCivic -- a voting machine company based in Texas -- has alleged that his company lied to election officials about the accuracy, testing, reliability and security of its voting machines. The whistleblower says the company did so because it was eager to obtain some of the approximately $4 billion in federal funds that Congress allocated to states in 2002 to purchase new voting equipment under the Help America Vote Act (aka HAVA).

The technician, William Singer, filed a qui tam lawsuit on the federal government's behalf last year but the lawsuit remained sealed until today, according to the Associated Press, when the U.S. Attorney's office decided it would not join Singer in the litigation. Singer maintains that Hart was paid federal money under false pretenses for the eSlate machines it sold to states. He's now pursuing the case without the government and, according to a voicemail message that one of his lawyers left me, he's now doing so in conjunction with Robert Kennedy, Jr. If Singer wins and Hart InterCivic is forced to return funds to the federal government, Singer stands to obtain a percentage of those funds as a party to the suit.

According to the complaint filed in the lawsuit, Singer worked as a computer technician for Hart from 2001 to early 2004 when he says he resigned due to the company's fraudulent acts and misrepresentations.

Among the claims he makes:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-v.html

[BillORightsMan]

1. BradBlog has it covered

I've been waiting for this Qui Tam to be unsealed for a long time.
Repeated attempts contacting Ring of Fire Radio for comment have been met with the stock
"We cannot coment on a sealed lawsuit"
But as I recall Mike Pap first spoke of this back then saying (paraphrasing)
"I can't wait to sit across the table with Blackwell"

We all thought Pap meant "DIEBOLD" !




EXCLUSIVE: Federal Fraud Complaint Against Voting Machine Company Unsealed

After Two Years, the Qui Tam Suit Against Hart InterCivic, Brought by Whistleblower William Singer with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio, May Proceed After DoJ Declines to Join Case
Download the Full Complaint here...

:patriot:

[rumpel]

2. DoJ did not join...

figures.