Reply #38: We need to pull together all of the background research.....

[ParanoidPat]

.....from every source out there detailing the people involved and the meetings they attended along with the public testimony they gave. Boil it all down to a time-line of key players and events.

Formation of the Election Center
Takeover by R. Doug Lewis
Founding of NASED
Founding of NASS
Formation of ITA
Shawn Southworth
HAVA
Jim Dixon
AAPD
Cynthia Waddell
ICDRI
Kay J. Maxwell
National League of Woman Voters

(Meanwhile, across town....)

American Information Systems / Bob and Todd Urosevich
ES&S / Todd Urosevich
Chuck Hagel
Global Election Systems
Diebold / Bob Urosevich
Walden O'Dell
W.R. 'Tim' Timkin
Sequoia Voting Systems
De La Rue plc
VoteHere

Stick everything, names, places, documentation, everything on one long time line and then scan across it.

The story tells itself. :evilgrin:

Anyone have a

BIG

calender that goes back about a dozen years? :shrug:

Seriously, this issue has been stealthily progressing for quite a long time. We now find ourselves caught in a 'prefect storm' if you will, of circumstances set in motion years ago.
The very people charged with protecting our elections have all been fed the same lines of BS at meeting after meeting until they've adopted those lines as their own. Key people from a number of national organizations have all come out against 'paper ballots' for the most trivial of reasons, Claiming to speak for "millions of people" when, upon closer inspection, we find they speak only for themselves or a small group within the main group. The voting machine vendors have formed their own lobby with a PR firm whose main goal is to "change the perception of the problem".

So what one thing ties all of this together?

(Hint) He's the single most important, most influential, and most unknown individual in American electoral history.

Who is R. DOUG LEWIS?

From the very beginning, in meeting after meeting, right through the tele-conference where he more or less announced that he was going to work for them. Doug was there, testifying, 'advising', planting the seeds, taking donations. There's a ton of supporting documentation available in the forms of published meeting agendas, transcripts of public testimony, press releases and articles to tie R. Doug Lewis to just about anyone.

But who the hell is he?

Then again you knew all this already. This was the question you posed in one of the very first BBV threads I responded to. :)
Thanks for the excellent education. ;-)