Boulder County Must Read: BradBlog: Hart Intercivic whistle blower alleges criminal fraud

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, if this is true, it's pretty damning, this guy was apparently a  
"technical specialist" for Hart and now works in Tarrant County,  
Texas' elections office, where they just had a major failure of their  
Hart system last week. Do we have any investigative reporters left in  
Boulder who can look into this? Maybe this is more like a law  
enforcement detective effort? Isn't part of Hart's company based  
here? Maybe asking for that refund isn't such a bad idea after all? -Joe


http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002542.htm

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"A review of several notarized letters sent by Singer to officials in  
both Texas and Ohio in 2004 warned of fraudulent activities, buggy  
software and hardware, dysfunctional testing and development  
procedures, unsecured working environments and possible criminal  
behavior by both Hart InterCivic and Election Workers in both states."

[...]

The letter to Blackwell includes several other remarkable passages  
including descriptions of what he "believed to be criminal fraud."  
Here's one such passage:

"I have been fervently hoping that Hart would decide to step forward  
and do the right thing; to break the industries habit of silence and  
concealment, and admit to wrongdoing and apologize for their mistakes.
...
Had this been a handful of rare incidents, where the repercussions  
were indeed minor, I could have continued to believe that Hart as a  
company was doing the right thing. I eventually left Hart Intercivic  
because it became clear to me that the company's silence had little  
to do with "rare" incidents but instead revealed a number of  
potentially serious problems which appeared to be systematically  
hidden or ignored largely for the sake of corporate profits. While at  
Hart I had evidence of what I believed to be criminal fraud, extreme  
negligence, and a distinct and troubling pattern of failure to uphold  
the public trust both in violations of the spirit of its contracts,  
but also in concealing problems in an industry which so crucially  
represents the public interest."

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