Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In order to help get themselves out of a very real PR problem Sequoia Voting Systems has followed their recent “Half Truth” press release with an announcement that they are sending their Advantage voting systems to “Kwaidan Consulting of Houston, Texas.” This is great! Wonderful! Oh wait a minute….Kwaidan Consulting? Just who is Kwaidan Consulting of Houston Texas? They have no website though their domain name is registered. They have no phone number in Houston or Sugar Land, Texas. What expertise does this seemingly fictional Kwaidan Consulting have to review Sequoia’s software? …
- NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems’ Claims About Third Party Reviews and Testing of Its Election Equipment ““ Their Misleading Half-Truths vs. The Facts
https://bradblog.com/?p=5830 - NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems site hacked
http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9899944-57.html - NAtional: Sequoia e-vote audit scrapped (and OMG robots!)
http://blogs.computerworld.com/sequoia_e_vote_audit_scrapped_and_omg_robots - NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Admits To Hackers Attacking Their Website
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Sequoia_Voting_Systems_Admits_To_Hackers_Attacking_Their_Website_15405.html - NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked
https://bradblog.com/?p=5831 - NAtional: Sequoia Threatens Lawsuit Over E-Voting Machine Review
A New Jersey county asked a Princeton professor to conduct an independent review of Sequoia Voting Systems e-voting machines, which the company opposes.
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905157 - NAtional: Voters prefer e-voting, but tech has limits
A recent survey found that voters generally prefer voting machines to paper ballots, but the machines have error rates that can be unacceptably high
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/21/Voters-prefer-e-voting-but-tech-has-limits_1.html - CO: Paper ballot bill up in smoke
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/20/paper-ballot-bill-up-in-smoke/ - CO: Plan to Use Paper Ballots Is Reversed in Colorado
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/politics/21ballot.html - CO: Voting bill dead
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt - CO: Proposal for paper election killed
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/20/032108_1b_voting_bill.html - CO: Clerks’ power killed bill
Unified front spelled doom for measure mandating paper ballots
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8644835 - FL: Palm Beach County voters say goodbye to touch screens
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/news/local/243-palm-beach-county-voters-say-goodbye-touch-screens.php - IA: House approves funds to upgrade voting machines
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/iowa/60fc4f6c18de673386257413000ef6bd.txt - IA: Iowa Citizen Groups Applaud Paper Ballot Legislation
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2793&Itemid=113 - IA: Iowa House approves voting machine plan
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/21/ap-state-ia/d8vhuai01.txt - NJ: Editorial – Bring in the ref
http://www.nj.com/opinion/times/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/120607262373310.xml&coll=5 - NJ: eVoting systems come under fire
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=972 - NJ: Voting Machine Maker Threatens Legal Action Against Auditors
http://www.switched.com/2008/03/21/voting-machine-maker-threatens-legal-action-against-auditors/ - NY: Planned Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of E-Vote Counting
http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/03/ny-planned-lawsuit-challenges.html
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If you can believe this link, Kwaidan translates from Chinese as “ghost story”…
http://nosmokingintheskullcave....s-kwaidan.html
Just sayin’.
Kwaidan is the name of a ghost movie made in Japan in around 1964!
Will you finally be able to put your mind at ease once you are aware that this private electronic computer company will stop at nothing to help steal the next US presidential election?
Desperation tactics…going down. Off topic..Did you think the put options were never cashed in after 9/11? The names of the companies were posted on Canadian internet before national security shut them down.Two excellent websites out of Canada that write info that isn’t on our websites are mohawknationnews and ladybroadoak.blogspot.com. Mohawknationnews has the info up today under Redx breaking news.Native vernacular…. Ladybroadoak is slow but worth the wait.
Loving it John, when do we get to see the expose on msm, oh wait…they’re too scared to do the right thing!
Happy Easter to EVERYONE! Yes, you little suckers included!
That goes out to all my Pagan/Heathen friends too!
How about those chapters Constantine edited out of the Bible? Excuse me.
Personally, I don’t care what your beliefs are, but what you do as a person.
Night night, for this post…LESS RHETORIC MORE ACTION.
It may be worth noting that this company, Kwaidan, is involved in ISO 9000 testing, a manufacturing and process standard having nothing to do with voting or software particularly. But claiming a “certification” is generally enough to fool most people. (and if you have been through one of these certifications you know it’s about providing paperwork, not checking to see that the paperwork makes any sense)
It may also be worth nothing that Kwaidan, as you will see here:
http://www.mireauxms.com/Testim...9/Default.aspx
has worked with mireauxms on certifications before, and that mireauxms has also worked with Hart Intercivic before (and scrolling down on that link you will see a nice thank you from H.I.).
Well it’s nice to know all the voting companies get their certifications in the same places, so if anyone ever checked up on them, it would be a one stop investigation.
HiThere
The point is that there is no such company. They simply don’t exist. There is a Mike Gibbons of Kwaidan Consulting and the domain is registered to a Margaret Gibbons. The phone number with the domain registry does not answer or go to voice mail, there is neither a Mike or Margaret listed as living in the Houston area. Computer scientists in Houston have never heard of Mike Gibbons or Kwaidan.
Man, I gotta get to a shrink! I thought that screen name was “Hit Here”. 😛
Hillary PLEASE try to help save your Country by giving up your selfish agenda. You are continuing to enable the NeoCons…
Republicans Plan Double-Whammy
[snip]
“This holiday weekend, elite political circles will be charged with talk of a Republican “Double Whammy”, the internal nomenclature for a top secret plan to deliver the White House to the hand-picked candidate of the Bush-Cheney junta.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/in...&aid=8412
and…George Galloway talking about war with Iran. (I love this guy)
That’s what I saw too 99, so maybe you do need one 😛
I saw Brad on Moyers last night
Moyers
about the 6:20 mark on the part one Moyers link and you’ll see him
I saw him too on Friday night. Looks like a sterling fellow…. 😉
Whomever or whatever they are or are not, if they certify eVoting machines, Shawn “Mysto Man” Southworth is their man.
Just did a search on Kwaidan and found the name of Mike Gibbons. He apparently has a myspace page at: Mike Gibbons.
“Mike Gibbons (Kwaidan Consulting Services; Sugar Land, Texas)… Male 50 years old… Mike has 0 friends.”
Jon
Jon
Thanks. That myspace page is different than the one he had up just yesterday. In that one he had a shirtless picture of some friend named “Starbuck”. He also talked about dreams of buxom blonds or something of that sort. It was not a personal webpage that was anything to be proud of.
Now suddenly he has a picture of him (I guess it’s him) shaking hands with Bush I and talk about being part of a ministry and being Catholic, etc.
I suspect that early in the week there will suddenly be a Kwaidan Consulting webpage.
Thanks. I also got name of a wife for a ‘Mike Gibbons’ in his area (Margaret A) and also another relative, perhaps a child?, named Raymond Michael Gibbons. (I’m guessing ‘child’ because of the middle name — I was raised Catholic and my middle name came from my father’s middle name.) I didn’t pay for a commercial report, though.
I had noted that the date of last update on the page was today, by the way, and wondered what had been changing. I hope you have a copy of the old page or that one of the archive sites may. I printed a copy of this one so that I could compare with future ones, already.
Buxom blondes is certainly not someting a 50 year old should be going on about in their myspace page. At his age (I’m 51, myself) he should know a little better than that — especially, if he was running a consulting business with personal aspirations powerful enough to place himself in the middle of taking on all this ruckus in NJ. The picture with Bush only points this up, further, as I cannot imagine someone “working the system” well enough to get photographed like that then at the same time going on in a myspace page about busty blondes. One kind of ruins the value of the other, you know?
I’ve been consulting most of my adult life, self-employed, and although I can be pretty dumb at times I’m not quite all that careless. For someone struggling to work in high profile politics, even just as a technician, that kind of carelessness is hard to come by! And it will NOT help his clients any.
It all makes me wonder just how they found him or knew about him in the first place (the association pathway will tell us a great deal — such as the reasons why he was selected.) That picture and what was going on at the time to cause it to be taken would be a good starting place.
Jon
Make sure to take screenshots and save pages when investigating things like this on the internet. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Of course, sometimes special interests go too far. It becomes impossible for them to delete what they did. E.G., Kelvin Mace at Democratic Underground. He became so devoted to smearing Bev Harris, that he is stuck with what he and the others tried to accomplish.
Good find Jon, I think if you look at the testimonials here I think you’ll find that this outfit did Hart Intercivic and might have pushed Sequoia his way.
The connection appears RNC to me.
Why is Gibbons writing fake testimonials for that other outfit anyway?
Sorry to be OT folks, but I need to address Phil on a couple levels.
Well here I am again Phil, with another disclaimer so my thoughts aren’t misconstrued. I hope people don’t think I have a superiority complex cuz I believe in Christ. I have a humble belief. Although, I do see much of that mindset in existence today. You know, I have lots of friends of many other religions, an often laugh and sometimes cry about the loss of Christian adherence to their basic tenants. I write casually, so when I made reference to my heathen friends, it was jokingly! Anyway, here is my Easter meditation:
Remember
Free will no one can give or take
Money is just a form of energy
The neglect or ignorance of responsibility
that seems to come with it’s accumulation
Can push you toward or away from
True Light
at the center of ALL our souls.
Oh yeah Phil, have you ever seen what Shaolin Priests can do with their chi? I believe this little grasshopper saw a PBS piece on it that affirmed my eyewitness observations.
I’ll leave you with this song and web site, but all his music is really worth a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e41ak57juT0
http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/listen.php