OK DU here is the project I am working on....I am looking for

[Andy_Stephenson]

mutual funds...retirement funds...companies, anyone that invests in the following list of companies:

Diebold
ES&S
Sequoia
Hart Intercivic
Danaher
Triad
Advanced Voting Solutions
Shoup
Accenture
Avante

Thanks in advance for your help in this.

Andy

[Zan_of_Texas]

1. Triad and Hart are privately owned.

But Hart has venture capitalist investors. I've done a bunch of research on that, Andy.

Sequoia is owned by a British firm.

I'll check Diebold in a minute.

Anybody who wants a primer on the amazing "dots" of machine companies, check

Lynn Landes:
"Voting Systems Organizations and Companies,"
Extensive Notes
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. What I am looking for are

mutual fund and corporate investors..

[Mistwell]

38. No way to find it out for private companies

There is now way to find out investors in privately held companies. So, Triad is right out.

[Zan_of_Texas]

5. Here ya go.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=DBD

Here are the major individual holders and institutional holders of Diebold stock.

You can get the symbol for any other American stock and plug that in to find them too.

(Consider this your get-well card.....)

[Zan_of_Texas]

6. Here's Accenture.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=ACN

Accenture Ltd. is based in Bermuda, has offices in over a hundred countries.

Formerly part of Arthur Andersen, I think it split off in the early 1990s.

[Zan_of_Texas]

8. Sequoia

from Lynn Landes site, which I referenced above.

Sequoia's parent company is based in Britain

Ownership:
85% De La Rue www.delarue.com

15% Jefferson Smurfit Group based in Ireland
http://www.smurfit.ie/
/ source: http://moneyextra.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200205290701145655W.html

Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Partners has received antitrust approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed acquisition of Jefferson Smurfit Group PLC..http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2002/07/15/daily68.html Madison Dearborn Partners ("one of the largest and most experienced private equity investment firms, lots of communication stuff - http://www.mdcp.com/portfolio.asp ) has ownership stakes in Milnot Holding Corp. http://www.milnot.com/ and Outsourcing Solutions Inc.

http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2001/05/07/daily28.html in St. Louis. Jefferson Smurfit Corp., the American division of Ireland-based Jefferson Smurfit Group PLC holding company, was based in St. Louis prior to its 1998 merger with Stone Container Corp. The merged company became Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. based in Chicago. Jefferson Smurfit holds about 29.5 percent of Smurfit-Stone. Jefferson Smurfit (NYSE: JS) is one of the largest manufacturers of container board and corrugated containers and recycles wastepaper in about 600 facilities worldwide.

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. Ok now then since DeLarue owns

85%...I guess I need De LA Rue's investors.

But I am going back to bed for the time being.

I need some rest

[Amaryllis]

47. Here's more. Anyone have time to check these? I don't right now:

Check these threads for leads. Can anyone help? I don't have time now:
Message:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=318855
And here's some links to Delarue:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss//duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x320052

[Horse with no Name]

2. you better lie down and get some rest

those are Dr's orders! Hope you are feeling better.:)

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. I am

just needed to get this started.

It is important.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Avante (hope this is what you are looking for)

Applied Innovation
Applied Innovation is a manufacturer of data communications equipment used by telecommunications service providers. Avanté improved Applied Innovation's communications speed and helped them reduce production interruptions.

Corporate Governance - Highlights

Primary IR Contact
Valerie Brodie
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Epicor Software Corporation
Phone: (949) 585-EPIC
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]


Transfer Agent
Mellon Shareholder Services
400 S. Hope Street
4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071



Accountants
Deloitte & Touche
695 Town Center Drive
Suite 1200
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-7188

http://www.epicor.com/www/company/corporateprofile

Major Offices Irvine, CA; San Diego, CA; Portland, OR; Minneapolis, MN; Burlington, MA; Parsippany, NJ; Dallas, TX; Bracknell, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Toronto, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; Sydney, Australia; Singapore; Hong Kong, China; Munich, Germany; Monterrey, Mexico; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. For a complete list of offices, see our Corporate Locations Listing.

http://ir.epicor.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=86140&p=IROL-secToc&TOC=aHR0cDovL2NjYm4uMTBrd2l6YXJkLmNvbS94bWwvY29udGVudHMueG1sP2lwYWdlPTI3ODE0NDgmcmVwbz10ZW5r

[Emit]

61. Horse with no Name, I'm not sure that's the right Avante...

Could be, but I can't tell for sure. I followed the Applied Innovation/Avante/Epicor/Platinum Software, etc. connection and it seems that "Avante" is a name for their software---not necessarily the same Avante International Technology, Inc ( a sister Company of AI Technology, Inc.) that introduced vote-trakker. I could be wrong. Anyway, here's info on Avante--not much about investors, stock, etc. But it might be helpful to others in terms of identifying which company Andy is researching.

Avante (sister company A. I. Technology, Inc.) home page:
http://www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/
______________________________________________________________

http://news.surfwax.com/telecom/files/Audit_Trail.html
<<snip>>
In photos: Security experts, vendors face off on e-voting May 08, 2004
" Kevin Chung, founder and CEO of Avante International Technology, said his company developed a voter-verifiable paper system not because of security concerns, but primarily to confirm to the voters how their votes were counted and that they were counted correctly. "However, if voting systems are to be used, voter-verifiable paper audit trail is the only reasonable means to assure security," said Chung. "It helps to expose all errors or tampering during and after the ballot has... (ComputerWorld)
<<snip>>
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.nj.com/business/times/index.ssf?/base/business-1/1106647522324611.xml
<<snip>>
Competition, delays put Avante at a disadvantage
Thursday, January 27, 2005
By CARLY ROTHMAN
WEST WINDSOR - Kevin Chung once expected speedy success for his invention - an electronic voting machine that guards against computer error with paper copies of every vote.
But Chung has not sold a single Vote-Trakker since his company, West Windsor's Avante Technologies, unveiled it in 2001.

Chung blames his slow start on the competition's extremely entrenched position. Despite his struggles, he still thinks his easy-to-use technology - and the security of paper backups on every machine - will triumph. "The difficulty of cracking into the business is far, far worse than I thought," said Chung, who co-owns Avante and its sister company AI Technologies with his wife, Cynthia Chu. Avante has produced security-related technology for two decades, but Chung decided to branch out into electronic voting machines during the vote-counting controversy of 2000.
"In the beginning it was a labor of love," he said, "We tried to solve the election problem, which technically we did."
The voting machine industry principally is dominated by three long-established companies: Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems and Software (ES&S), and Sequoia Voting Systems.
Each has operated for more than 10 years and each has sold thousands of voting machines.

All three companies have benefited from the problem-ridden election of 2000, which pressured many state and county governments to accelerate plans for buying electronic machines...
<<snip>>
...Although Avante says its machine is certified by 15 states, these certifications came too late for many districts seeking to replace their old machines in time for the 2004 elections. In contrast, Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia had their certifications and business contacts in place and were able to sell large numbers of machines during these past few years. The Vote-Trakker was certified too late to be considered by Mercer County, which purchased 600 AVC Advantage machines from Sequoia late in 2003...
<<snip>>

While the AVC Advantage was in use in several New Jersey counties by the spring of 2002, the Vote-Trakker had not been purchased by a single state or county nationwide. Despite his limited success so far, Chung remains optimistic about the future success of the Vote-Trakker. The Vote-Trakkers were well-received after tests in Sacramento County, Calif., and several Connecticut counties.
Outspoken support for the voter-verifiable paper audit trail has companies such as Sequoia scrambling to retrofit older machines with printer technology. Chung points out that his machine comes ready-equipped to provide these receipts...
<<snip>>

__________________________________________________________________
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2003/01/21/National/HighTech.Voting.Raises.Questions-343233.shtml

Avante International Technology Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has been developing smart-card technology since 1995. It now has a patent pending for its Vote-Trakker system, which the company says is a voter-verifiable election system with real-time paper audit trails. Vote-Trakker was the first DRE touch-screen voting machine used in the state of California that incorporated a real-time, voter-verifiable printed ballot image. It made its debut in Sacramento County for the 2002 midterm election.

But Avante researcher James Minadeo agrees with Mercuri that illicit code and hacking are a threat to computerized voting. "Any system in the world can be hacked at some point," he admits.
_____________________________________________________________________
http://www.techexpo.com/firms/aitech.html
A. I. Technology, Inc.

Joseph T. Tallone, Director of Business Development
P.O. Box 3081
70 Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08550-1012
USA
Phone: [phone], Ext. 121
Fax: [phone]
Avante International Technology, Inc ( a Company of AI Technology, Inc. ) has pioneered the use of Smart Tag/Card technology for access control, time attendance, and debit applications since 1995. Avante has also developed special patent pending technologies in automated data capturing. These systems are: LEADS-TRAKKER for Trade-Show leads resulting from attendees at exhibitors booths; SMART-TRAKKER for Inventory Control Management--Luggage and Cargo Control, --Shipping/Receiving and other automatic data capturing, --Access Control and Time-Attendance management. The Avante VOTE-TRAKKER, an Electronic Touch-Screen voting machine: Provides a tangible Receipt with a randomly generated tracking number. Undervotes are completely eliminated, along with all other residual vote problems.
AI Technology provides adhesive and thermal transfer material for electronic assembly. The adhesives are electrically and/or thermally conductive. The adhesives are available as epoxy or thermoplastic. The materials are available in paste or film formats. AI Technology's diversity extends to Electromagnetic shielding materials. Dicing and Grinding Tapes for semiconductor processing are now offered, providing significant improvements over the competition: greater release properties, tighter peel strengths, non-contaminating without adhesive transfer onto chips.
___________________________________________________________________
http://www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/nased_press_release.htm
<<Snip>>
The VOTE-TRAKKER™ underwent rigorous testing at both Wyle Laboratories and Ciber Inc. Both companies provided valuable feedback to the Avante development team. The next step is for each state to review this certification and to follow their particular procedure to certify at the state level. Avante representatives will be applying to the states for this state level certification.
Avante International Technology, Inc. is a sister company of A.I. Technology, Inc. headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Avante has been developing various smart card applications since 1995. The applications cover various industries including security, military, medical, trade shows, and medical. The Avante main site is at www.avantetech.com.
<<snip>>
__________________________________________________________

Misc. info here discussing defense contractors/vote machine cos.:

http://mcwahtdesign.com/election-2004-6b.htm

[FogerRox]

66. Deloitte & Touche--this name keeps poppin up--SAIC and ES&S

& Accenture use them---Andy see your older post for that info--

About at this point in the thread--
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=325327&mesg_id=328239

I know that its not what U R asking 4 but--dont know where this stuff will take you

[Andy_Stephenson]

9. OK back to bed I go.

I have reached the limit...

I will chcek in later this afternoon.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Diebold - Retirement Funds w/ Diebold holdings

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/mstar/FundLookup?symbol=ARTMX&report=4

Morningstar: Retirement Diebold in top 10 holdings

http://www.nystrs.org/main/library/equity.pdf

New York Teacher’s Retirement Fund…Diebold - $16mm

http://www.sptrfa.org/publications/annual2004.pdf

St Paul’s Teacher’s - Diebold $528k

http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s71903/s7-19-03-432.pdf

State of NY Retirement - Diebold $72mm

[Wilms]

13. Petition to divest??? n/t

[Alizaryn]

34. It was awhile ago that I looked at Accenture but I believe they were

investors in the Texas growth fund until recently also.

[helderheid]

12. Let's do the research for him

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. California Retirement -- Diebold 135,200 shares

CALPERS holds 135,200 shares ($7,148,024) shares of Diebold

CALPERS has a "Monitoring List" of those companies they are monitoring for problems. But list confidential...



ARNOLD OUSTING CONSUMER ADVOCATE FROM CAL PENSION FUND
LA TIMES:
The head of the California Public Employees' Retirement System said Monday that he was being ousted from the board of the nation's largest public pension fund, where his efforts to use its $177-billion investment portfolio to push an array of corporate reforms have roused the ire of business interests.
Sean Harrigan, president of CalPERS since early 2003, is a union official who serves on the pension fund's panel as the representative of the state Personnel Board. He said he had been told that a majority of his fellow Personnel Board members would vote Wednesday to replace him when his CalPERS term expires early next year.
CalPERS controls the retirement funds of 1.4 million state employees and retirees. Investing its huge pool of money gives the fund clout as it uses its big ownership stakes in companies to influence their behavior and advance causes such as reining in executive pay.
Harrigan accused members of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration of lobbying to have him removed... Harrigan has sought tough investment standards for financial institutions, led efforts to sue to recover losses from bonds issued by Enron Corp. and pushed for the resignation of New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso. In recent weeks, the CalPERS board adopted a policy endorsed by him of voting against corporate directors who allow excessive executive pay...
...Under his leadership, the fund earned a 23.3% return in 2003 and gained 4.6% in the first nine months of this year, when the stock market struggled... <*>
Harrigan's foes claimed he spent too much time in activism causing the fund to suffer, but the numbers prove them wrong. Of course, being business leaders they believe in Arthur Andersen numbers not real numbers. Which points to the reason why the US is headed for a financial crisis, led by the impending currency crash, capitalism is no longer rational it is simply to crush anything that stands in its way no matter what the long term cost. That's why Bush is the perfect CEO for Amerika Inc.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:_jPFC8TfUfEJ:www.cosmiciguana.com/archives/2004_11.html+retirement+funds+with+diebold+holdings&hl=en

[EFerrari]

39. So, they got rid of Shelley and Harrigan within a week of each other.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. BTW, Advanced Voting Systems was formerly known as Shoup

[jdog]

16. diebold major holders:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=DBD

[luaptifer]

17. Searching SEC filings for Company inof

perhaps someone has already gotten here but because i gotta run, thought i'd point others to SEC's EDGAR

i don't know if 13-F is the only one required to indicate holdings but if you look at this page, you can see if there are others.

Form Types Used for Electronic Filing on EDGAR
http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms/edgform.htm

Sec form Form 13F

Quarterly reports filed by institutional managers
13F Holdings Report
Initial filing
Amendments
13F Notice Report
Initial filing
Amendments
13F Combination Report
Initial filing
Amendments

and this is the interface for searching EDGAR for company info:

EDGAR Company Search
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

while this is the page listing available search possibilities

Search the EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

For detailed descriptions of the different ways you can search EDGAR, please read our Quick EDGAR Tutorial. Some commercial websites also provide useful company information tools based on SEC filings. Click here for more information.


General-Purpose Searches
Companies & Other Filers
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Find companies (or mutual funds) and associated filings


Latest Filings
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View the most recent, real-time filings as they are processed by the SEC


Historical EDGAR Archives
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Enter a keyword or phrase to search all header information (including addresses)


Special-Purpose Searches
CIK Lookup
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Look up the unique Central Index Key (CIK ) number for companies and other filers


Current Events Analysis
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Retrieve filings made on EDGAR during the previous week


Mutual Fund Prospectuses
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Retrieve prospectuses and other "485" forms for a specified mutual fund (now using updated search)


Mutual Fund Proxy Voting
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Retrieve annual reports of proxy voting records ("N-PX" filings) for a specified mutual fund

[jdog]

18. Accenture:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=ACN

[Zan_of_Texas]

21. Already posted Accenture - same info as in post #6

[jdog]

22. Whoops! sorry. n/t

[jdog]

19. Not sure if this is the Danaher - - is it?

From their web site:

<snip>

Summary
Danaher, a diversified technology leader, designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services with strong brand names and significant market positions. Driven by strong core values and a foundation provided by the Danaher Business System, Danaher's associates are pursuing a focused strategy aimed at creating a Premier Global Enterprise.

<snip>

[McCamy Taylor]

20. Richard Armitage was on Board of Directors Database Technologies

They did the flawed felons list for Brother Jeb for the 2000 Election in Florida. I always thought it fishy that an Iran Contra figures company helped * steal the White House and then the same Iran Contra figure got a job in the White HOuse.

Database Technology quickly changed its name to ChoicePoint and got tons of US govt contract work, too.

I know it isnt on your list, but if you are trying to prove an administration connection to election companies and fraud, here is one.

http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/constantine/part9.htm

[Emit]

26. Interesting, and this about Accenture...

Not sure that it relates to what Andy is looking for, but I found it interesting nonetheless:

http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=aboutus%5Cgovernance%5Cdirectors%5Cmoody_stuart.xml
<<snip>>
Mark Moody-Stuart, a member of Accenture's board of directors since October 2001, is chairman of Anglo American plc, a global mining and natural resources company. From 1998-2001 Sir Moody-Stuart was chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies. He was also chairman The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company from 1997 to 2001, after having served six years as both managing director of Shell Transport and managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. He remains on the board. He is also a Director of HSBC Holdings plc, a Governor of Nuffield Hospitals and a Vice President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy in 2000 and 2001.
<<snip>>
http://www.globalreporting.org/bios/moodystuart.asp
<<snip>>
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies from 1998-2001, having been appointed a managing director in 1991. He was also chairman of the UK parent, The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company from 1997 to 2001. He remains on the board. He is a Director of HSBC Holdings plc., and of Accenture. He is a Governor of Nuffield Hospitals and President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy in 2000 and 2001 and is currently the Chairman of Business Action for Sustainable Development. He is a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Council for the Global Compact, and an honourary Fellow of St John's College Cambridge. Sir Mark Moody-Stuart became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St George in June 2000.
<<snip>>

Member of Trilateral Commission:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/Bilderberg/THE_TRILATERAL_COMMISSION_2002/the_trilateral_commission_2002.html

http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2004/03/4199.shtml

http://www.americanfreepress.net/04_16_02/Trilat_2002/trilat_2002.html

[Emit]

27. More on Moody-Stuart/Accenture

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/10/43275.html

<<snip>>
Moody Stuart was arriving at a panel discussion in St James Church in Piccadilly, when two protestors accosted him, one wielding a cream pie and the other a tub of 'greenwash'. The protestors hastily dispatched their loads before running off into the night chuckling heartily. The protestors, calling themselves the Greenwash Guerrillas, accused Moody Stuart of 'greenwashing' big business. (Greenwash is the use of misleading information by corporations, that makes them appear to be socially and environmentally responsible in the face of alarming evidence to the contrary). The protestors were angry at the way that Moody Stuart and his business colleagues had thwarted efforts to achieve binding regulation of corporations at the Earth Summit.

<<snip>>
Utter Hypocrisy
While Moody-Stuart was at the Earth Summit preaching the benefits of a voluntary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility, several of the companies of which he is a director were busy proving just how unrealistic this is.

Moody Stuart is Director of the following companies:
· Shell
Despite professing to be concerned about climate change and to be investing in renewable energy, Shell has not ceased, or scaled back, its oil exploration and production activities. In fact the company intends to increase oil and gas extraction by 5 per-cent year on year and is so far on target.

In addition, Shell is one of the oil companies that the United Nations has accused of being complicit in the killing and displacement by the government of Sudan of thousands of civilians living around the country's oil fields.

· HSBC
Continuing the Sudan theme, HSBC has recently helped issue new European bonds for oil companies with massive investments in Sudan. The company is also currently the target of a Friends of the Earth campaign for its financing of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). APP is the biggest pulp producer in Asia and is responsible for destroying a large area of Indonesian rainforest.

· Accenture
Moody Stuart is also on the board of Bermuda tax-haven-based Accenture. The company's clients include such socially responsible companies as TotalFinaElf, which supports the brutal military dictatorship in Burma, and Sara Lee, which caused the deaths of 21 people last year by selling Listeria infected hotdogs.

· Anglo American
This company has a long history of exploitation of African labour and has recently faced criticism regarding its planned operations in Peru and alleged pollution in Zambia. The company, which was a pillar of apartheid South Africa, has left behind a legacy of billions of dollars of damage to the environment and communities around Johannesburg itself, the site of the Earth Summit.

Regardless of whether Moody-Stuart actually believes his own rhetoric, its net effect on the Earth Summit has been the same - its complete sabotage. The most dangerous man in the world? - Quite possibly.

<<snip>>

[Emit]

28. Economic, Political, Social Profiles Accenture

More interesting stuff here:
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/corp_profiles/public_service_gats/corp_profile_ps_accenture.html#Anchor-31887

Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)

<<snip>>
Accenture is the new name for Andersen Consulting, which broke away from Arthur Andersen in 2000, after a longstanding feud. The change to Accenture was the fastest, most expensive re-branding effort in history as everything was changed to fit the new logo in a matter of days. It is Arthur Andersen that is in so much legal trouble for allowing Enron to cook their books and destroying Enron's documents as Enron collapsed. While Accenture states that because it is no longer tied to Andersen it is not implicated in the Andersen/Enron scandal, the Wall Street Journal reported that Accenture might have some legal exposure to the Enron scandal, especially if Accenture had anything to do with consulting for Enron's 'special-purpose entities' which were among the main players in Enron's collapse.
<<snip>>

Stakeholder Profile

Top Institutional Holders Shares
Value (as of 06/09/03)
Reported

Wellington Management Company, Llp 37,026,399 $653,145,678 31-Mar-03
Ariel Capital Management, Inc. 11,760,878 $207,461,887 31-Mar-03
Massachusetts Financial Services Co - Other 8,903,097 $157,050,631 31-Mar-03
Levin (John A.) and Company, Inc. 8,648,078 $152,552,095 31-Mar-03
Dresdner Rcm Global Investors LLC 8,430,409 $148,712,414 31-Mar-03
Institutional Capital Corporation 7,676,980 $135,421,927 31-Mar-03
Janus Capital Management, LLC 6,313,510 $111,370,316 31-Mar-03
Price (T.Rowe) Associates 6,128,600 $108,108,504 31-Mar-03
Nordea Investment Management Bank Denmark A/S 5,022,943 $88,604,714 31-Mar-03
Lazard Asset Management LLC 4,997,011 $88,147,274 31-Mar-03

http://biz.yahoo.com/hd/a/acn.html June 10, 2003>

<<snip>>
Edited to add this:

July 2002 - Accenture was awarded a five-year multi million dollar contract by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of State to build and manage a centralized voter registration and election management system.
http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enwebandxd=_dyn/dynamicpressrelease_516.xml

[McCamy Taylor]

54. ChpicePoint STILL CantGet It Right, They were hacked and data stolen

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/

Read about how private consumer info on you and me has been stolen by criminals thanks to the incompentence (or criminal negligence?) of these bozos.

:mad:

[Catchawave]

23. Source Watch - Diebold

Hope there's some good info here:


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diebold

[GettysbergII]

24. Seen this a couple places

http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=printstory&i...

Major investors in ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia are defense contractors Northrup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Electronic Data Systems and Accenture.

[Emit]

25. GettysbergII, that link doesn't work n/t

[GettysbergII]

29. Doh! Thanks, Emit. Here's the correct link.

http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=printstory&id=8564&cat=2

[coffeenap]

30. Best wishes--emailed you a few choice finds nt

[Emit]

31. Hart Intercivic

http://www.hartintercivic.com/about/investors.html

[Emit]

32. Hart InterCivic...another investor

<<snip>>
David Hart, chairman of Hart InterCivic, said that because of the business he's in he doesn't contribute. A major investor in Hart InterCivic is Tom Hicks's investment firm, Stratford Capital Partners. Hicks was in the group of investors who bought the Texas Rangers from Bush and others for nearly three times their investment in it. Hicks has also been a lavish donor to Bush campaigns.
<<snip>>
http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=197

Edited to add link

[Emit]

33. Hart InterCivic more on Hicks, et. al. as investor

<<snip>>
One such machine is manufactured by Hart Intercivic . These machines are used in only four counties in Texas...four out of two hundred and fifty four. The 10th Congressional District stretches from Travis County to Harris County. Would you believe that Hart Intercivic machines are used in Travis and Harris counties? That's right, 80% of the voters in the district Michael McCaul is running in will be voting on Hart Intercivic machines. So what is wrong with that? Perhaps nothing. However, it should be noted that Tom Hicks, vise-chairman of Clear Channel Communications, is a major investor in Hart Intercivic by way of Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst , an investment company that controls Stratford Capital Partners.
<<snip>>

http://www.burntorangereport.com/archives/001100.html

[Emit]

35. More on Hart InterCivic investors

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/11/04/daily52.html
<<snip>>
InterCivic's investors.
Hart InterCivic produces electronic voting machines and document management software.
Other investors are Austin-based RES Partners Ltd., Austin-based TGF Management Corp.'s Texas Growth Fund, Houston-based CapStreet Group LLC and Dallas-based Stratford Capital Partners LP.
In September 2000, Hart InterCivic received second-round funding of $32.5 million.
Kilcrease says that with recent passage of a $3.9 billion federal measure to update voting equipment nationwide, the market for that equipment is huge. States must match the federal funding, putting the potential market at $8 billion in the near future, Kilcrease says.
<<snip>>

http://www.publicaccountability.org/election.html
<<snip>>
HART INTERCIVIC
Hart Intercivic voting machines are in use in California, Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio and Virginia.23 The Texas-based company grew out of a family-run commercial printing business. Hart Intercivic was spun off from Hart Graphics in 1999.
• Four of Hart Intercivic's five major investors are clients of Vinson & Elkins, a Houston law firm that ranks among the five largest political donors to George W. Bush.24 Vinson & Elkins counts Hart Intercivic investors Stratford Capital, Texas Growth Fund, Triton and the Capstreet Group as clients.
• Stratford Capital is a major investor in Hart Intercivic. Stratford is an offshoot of Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, chaired by leading Bush patron Tom Hicks.25
• Tom Hicks, a leading Hart Intercivic Investor, purchased the Texas Rangers from George W. Bush. According to researcher Charles Lewis, "Hicks and the firm's employees rank nineteenth as Bush's career patrons, having given him at least $233,000. But in 1998, Hicks helped provide Bush with an even greater windfall: he bought the Texas Rangers for $250,000,000, three times what Bush and his partners had paid ten years earlier.… cut from the proceeds of the sale was $14.9 million, nearly a 25-fold return on his investment."26
• Hicks benefited enormously during George W. Bush's term as Texas Governor. According to the non-profit Texans for Public Justice, "Tom Hicks heads the corporate raider firm Hicks Muse Tate & Furst (Bush's No. 4 career patron). Hicks Muse long wanted to tap the $13-billion University of Texas (UT) endowment for its takeover deals. As Bush assumed office in '95, Hicks was confirmed as a University of Texas Regent and hired lobbyists to push a bill creating the UT Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO). With Hicks as its first chair, UTIMCO began doling out contracts to private investment firms to manage portions of the endowment. A scandal blew up when the media discovered that UTIMCO awarded many of these lucrative contracts to firms tied to Hicks and Bush—including one that former President Bush reportedly owns a piece of. The UTIMCO board doling out these contracts included Clear Channel Chair L. Lowry Mays and the Pioneers Tom Loeffler, A.W. Riter, and A. R. Sanchez. Ed Bass and Pioneer Charles Wyly owned two firms that landed some of these contracts."27
• Hicks sold AMFM, a media company, to Clear Channel and obtained a position on the Clear Channel Board of Directors.28
• The Texas Growth Fund, a venture capital firm run with money from two large public pension funds, is another major investor in Hart Intercivic tied to George W. Bush. The Growth Fund works with UTIMCO, formerly chaired by Tom Hicks. The Fund's major investment in Hart came in the summer of 2000, while George W. Bush was Texas governor. The Growth Fund is the only state-run private equity fund in the United States.29
• Hart InterCivic's other investors include Texas-based Triton Ventures and CapStreet Group LLC.30
• The family of Frederick R. Lummis, a founder of CapStreet Group. and a Director at Hart Intercivic, is closely associated with the family of Bush lawyer James Baker III. The Baker and Lummis families have operated at the pinnacle of Houston society for several generations. Both families are major patrons of Rice University and have representatives on the Rice Board of Trustees. William Lummis and James Baker III were law partners together at Andrews, Kurth in Houston for many years. Both currently sit on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Center. The Lummis family inherited a substantial portion of the Howard Hughes fortune.
• Fred Lummis gave $2,000 to George W. Bush in 2004 and $1,000 in 2000. His wife gave an additional $1000 in 2000.31
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http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive/093004/newsspin.html
<<snip>>
While Boulder citizens and election officials hash out details of its new e-democracy, one clear winner has already emerged: the state of Texas. The Texas Growth Fund, a key financial backer of Hart InterCivic, is a $577-million investment fund collected from public pensions and endowments for private investment. The fund, created by the Texas Legislature in 1986 and approved by the state’s voters in 1987, has come under fire in recent years for its history of poor investment returns.
An exception was the fund’s investment into an Arlington, Va., intelligence information start-up, Veridian Inc., which generated a $73.5-million profit for Texans. In 1995, fund managers sank $3 million into Veridian and another $20 million in 1999, taking from the Teachers Retirement System, one the four funds that contributes to Texas Growth Fund coffers. Texans cashed in when, at the height of the homeland security boom in 2003, the company was sold to General Dynamics Inc., a top U.S. defense contractor, for $1.5 billion.
While mixing public payrolls with private investment is law in Texas, Boulderites may wonder how their tax dollars got caught up in the mix. When Hart bought Lafayette, Colo.-based World Wide Elections Systems from Neil McClure in 1999, Hart became a local enterprise.
<<snip>>

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-12-19/pols_feature2.html
<<snip>>
In Austin, the state's investments include Classic Cable, which shows old movies, and Hart InterCivic, formerly the printer Hart Graphics, which has morphed, with TGF's help, into one of three main national manufacturers of electronic voting equipment. Another recent venture is a helicopter-ambulance service started by a former high-ranking Nixon administration official.
Profits (or lack thereof) aside, it is TGF's investment in Hart InterCivic which may be the most problematic. A recent New York Times story reported that some observers accuse the three electronic voting vendors -- now doing a brisk business in the wake of the debacle in the Florida recount of the 2000 presidential election -- of being too closely tied to the Republican Party. A Hart InterCivic spokesman describes those charges as "rubbish." Perhaps. But the fact remains that Hart InterCivic is partially owned by the state of Texas -- which itself is currently wholly owned by the Republican Party.
<<snip>>

http://www.themacobserver.com/stockwatch/2001/06/04.1.shtml
<<snip>>
Dell has announced a new joint project with a company called Hart InterCivic, Inc. The two companies are working on developing a computerized voting system to replace all of the outdated punch card, bubble, tabulating vote-a-matic systems that were behind the Florida election debacle. A successful product could mean big money to both companies. With Dell branded boxes, election boards all across our great country would snap up their voting solutions like it was 1999. That might be a good thing for the company as Ken Popovich is saying that PC sales won't rebound. Dell chugged 1.5% higher today.
<<snip>>


http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:alR3G8tzyowJ:www.vinson-elkins.com/pdf/resources/texasventure2002.pdf+Investors+Hart+Intercivic&hl=en


http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/du/Btx-hart-interciv_maximus.RJz-_DSH.html
<<snip>>
The MAXIMUS/Hart Team successfully conducted elections in Ashtabula, Hamilton and Portage Counties on August 5th using the eSlate System. Exit surveys completed by more than 2,000 voters in the three counties reported that more than 96% of voters found the eSlate System easy to use. The eSlate System was also successfully used in Ohio's Cuyahoga County during elections held in May 2002 and the eSlate's Ballot Now(tm) paper ballot-on-demand application was used very effectively in Lucas County, Ohio, for absentee voting during the May 2003 elections.
The eSlate's unique PrecisionVote(tm) design offers election officials and voters accuracy, security and durability. The eSlate System is easy for election workers because of its light weight (just 7.7 pounds with battery backup) and built-in polling place management features. The system requires no special storage or maintenance, and has been nationally recognized for its accessibility to voters with disabilities.
"We are pleased that the merits of our eSlate System and our superior team have been recognized by the State of Ohio," said David Hart, Hart InterCivic's Chairman. "We are looking forward to supplying Ohio's Counties with a secure, accurate and accessible voting system that will provide the lowest total cost of ownership in the voting industry today," said Hart.
The team of MAXIMUS and Hart InterCivic was recently awarded the electronic voting system contract for the County of Orange, Calif. Orange County is the fifth-largest county in the United States. Hart InterCivic has also installed the eSlate System in counties of varying sizes including Harris County, Texas, the nation's third-largest county and the largest single jurisdiction to fully implement electronic voting.
About MAXIMUS
MAXIMUS Inc. (NYSE:MMS) was founded in 1975 with the mission of "Helping Government Serve the People." With more than 5,500 experienced professionals and revenues reaching over $500 million last year, MAXIMUS is one of the largest firms in the nation dedicated to Federal, State and local levels of government. MAXIMUS has provided services to the Federal government, every state, and every major city and county in the nation. The Company has served all 88 counties within the State of Ohio, as well as numerous Ohio state agencies. The MAXIMUS Center for Election Solutions has assembled a team of partners and experts in election management, program management, training, outreach, software development and technical support to pursue the entire spectrum of election processes.
<<snip>>

http://blogsforblackwell.blogspot.com/2004/11/challengers-blackwell-vib.html
<<snip>>
On September 30, Blackwell announced that another change required fixing, although this time the error was a conflict-of-interest on the part of SAIC (San Diego), which was one of the companies, formerly contracted to perform security reviews on the machines. During a routine procedure, designed to vet out self-serving parties, SAIC revealed to Blackwell's office that its venture capital subsidiary has committed $5 million for investment in a venture capital fund currently holding a 12 percent interest in Hart Intercivic. Hart is an Ohio HAVA qualified vendor. While SAIC’s subsidiary is a passive investor in the venture capital fund, therefore having no role in Hart's management, operations, or investments, SAIC's fully-diluted ownership interest of less than 2 percent of Hart Intercivic (with a net worth more than 250 million dollars) disqualifies SAIC from assisting in the security inquiries.

Blackwell's office then qualified Detroit-based Compuware corporation to perform the security reviews. The review process examined the computer's source code, scrutinized the potential for hacking into the machines' hard drives, and sought to know if each voting machine had points of failure.
<<snip>>

http://www.hartintercivic.com/news/press_releases.asp?id=97
<<snip>>
Hart InterCivic Joins Accenture, VeriSign and Others in Department of Defense Contract Award

Accenture-Led Team of Election and Technology Experts Developing Pilot System for the Federal Voting Assistance Program SERVE Project will Enable Secure and Timely Voting by Absentee Uniformed Services Members and US Citizens Overseas
<<snip>>
(I think this joint adventure was halted-Emit)

http://www.bringohiohome.com/archive/2005_02_01_archive.html
<<snip>>
A Texas company that makes computerized voting systems is suing Ohio's chief elections officer.

The suit by Austin-based Hart Intercivic claims Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell unfairly excluded the company from the opportunity to provide voting machines to Ohio.
<<snip>>

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache: 7gsvoZ6RtjQJ:www.vcbuzz.com/new/vc.cgi%3Fcobrand%3Dbuzz-html%26company%3D16658+Investors+Hart+Intercivic&hl=en

(Note: I had to put a space between the ":" and the "7" in this http address because it kept showing up as a DU emoticon--this is a cached link--can't click on it like this but you can type it in--hope that all makes sense! Anyway, here's the link to the website, but I couldn't access these specific articles there, so I used the cached info--Emit)

http://www.internetnews.com/new/vc.cgi?cobrand=buzz-html&searchdb=company&searchfield=we&searchstring=1037336400

<<snip>>

13-NOV-02 Hart InterCivic receives $7.5M
Software Company Hart InterCivic Gets $7.5 Million Third Round

AUSITN, TX - Hart InterCivic Inc., provider of electronic voting machines and document management software, has received $7.5 million in its third round funding led by Triton Ventures LLC. Other investors such as RES Partners Ltd., Texas Growth Fund, CapStreet Group LLC and Stratford Capital Partners LP all contributed in this latest financing. Proceeds will be used for business growth expansion.
VC Firms: CapStreet Group LLC
RES Partners
Stratford Capital
Texas Growth Fund
Triton Venture Management LLC
<<snip>>

26-SEP-00 Hart InterCivic receives $32.5M

Hart InterCivic Receives $32.5 Million in Venture Funding

AUSTIN, Texas -- Election and e-government solutions provider Hart Information Services changed its name to Hart InterCivic, and raised $32.5 million in venture funding. This second round funding was led by Texas Growth Fund Management Corp. Other investors include Triton Ventures, RES Partners, Summit Capital and Stratford Capital. Stephen Soileau, principal of the Texas Growth Fund, Fredrick R. Lummis, principal and managing director of Summit Capital, and Scott Collier, managing director of Triton Ventures, will join Hart InterCivic's board of directors. Hart InterCivic's election solutions group produces the eSlate system, which allows election officials to offer the public a paperless method of voting.
VC Firms: RES Partners
Stratford Capital
Summit Capital Group
Texas Growth Fund
Triton Venture Management LLC
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http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:HYhDix8QYwEJ:www.nasvf.org/web/allpress.nsf/c529ec6d5b24e2b486255f880053ea9f/7c4e2042658f7cd686256e3f004de336%3FOpenDocument+Investors+Hart+Intercivic&hl=en
<snip>
The Texas Growth Fund, the state venture capital fund that has invested nearly $400 million in companies with operations in Texas, might be nearing the end of its life.
<snip>
In Austin, the fund was an early investor in electronic-voting company Hart InterCivic Inc. and Internet-based financial services firm Funds- Xpress Financial Networks Inc.
More recently, the Texas Growth Fund has moved into heavier things. In July, the fund paid $77 million for the ready-mixed concrete operations in Texas and Arkansas of British building company Hanson PLC. The fund acquired 63 concrete plants in the deal, which serve parts of Texas and Arkansas.
Hart InterCivic spokesman Bill Stotesbery said the fund, which has invested in Hart three times, provided the company needed cash, but also "important guidance."
"They constantly maintained an emphasis on the bottom line and profitability in order to ensure that Hart will be a viable business long after the growth fund's investment is repaid," he said.
<<snip>>

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:qUIopey_AAkJ:sanjose.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2004/03/22/daily16.html+Investors+Hart+Intercivic&hl=en
<<snip>>
Hart InterCivic obtains Travis County document deal
Austin-based Hart InterCivic Inc. has landed a $137,199 contract from Travis County for a system used to record and organize electronically all the property documents processed by the county.
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http://www.ventureeconomics.com/vec/stats/2002q2/cong_TX_10.html
<<snip>>
MoneyTree Venture Capital Profile for Texas 10th Congressional District

[Zan_of_Texas]

49. wow, emit. Nice work!

I'll bet you did that in just about 10 minutes, right?

Nope. Bet not.

You found something I had missed.

This is a good, recent reference for the whole area of who owns what in the voting machine industry:

The Public Accountability Initiative:
"Partisanship and Conflicts of Interest in the Electronic Voting Industry,"
http://www.publicaccountability.org/election.html

[Emit]

62. Zan_of_Texas...

Yeah, 10 minutes--hee, hee, hee! :)

Just had some extra time on my hands and thought I'd try to help out. I agree, that was a good reference that I, too, had not seen before. It had some good info.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

67. Hart Intercivic partners with Symantec

E-Slates creator, Hart InterCivic of Austin, has teamed with Symantec, one of the world-wide leaders in computer security.

"Voting system security has been a hot button topic over the past two years. So it's something people are very concerned about and focused on. That's another reason we want to do everything possible to have the most secure product on the market," Shafer said....

Hart InterCivic officials say none of the security improvements will interfere with the ease of use of the machines.

The new, security improvement software will be installed on all of the county's E-Slate machines sometime this year.

(http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=2837974&nav=0s3dVRKM)

these machines are junk by the way. One NC County switched from optical scanners in 2000 to the paperless Hart Intercivic E-Slates, and their undervote rate jumped 40 to 150% (based on contest) over undervote rate in 2000.

[Wilms]

36. kick n/t

[Mistwell]

37. Diebold

Diebold

Legend for data: Institution Current Position Net Chg in Position Mkt. Cap % of Outs. Shares % of Portfolio Report Date

FMR CORP 7,381,763 -2,945,087 411,385,652 10.334% 0.075% 09/30/2004

FIRST MANHATTAN CO 3,218,393 -262,472 179,361,042 4.506% 1.930% 12/31/2004

ARTISAN PARTNERS LTD PARTNERSHIP 3,052,000 665,000 146,038,200 4.257% 0.920% 09/30/2004

PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ 2,588,587 6,350 144,261,954 3.624% 0.103% 09/30/2004

BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS NA /CA/ 1,940,200 102,928 108,127,346 2.716% 0.019% 09/30/2004

A I M MANAGEMENT GROUP INC /DE/ 1,689,154 534,303 94,136,552 2.365% 0.145% 09/30/2004

FRANKLIN RESOURCES ASSET MANAGEMENT 1,481,042 25,055 82,538,471 2.073% 0.146% 09/30/2004

PIONEER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC 1,367,495 346,366 76,210,496 1.914% 0.271% 12/31/2004

BROOKSIDE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC 1,334,600 -174,300 63,860,610 1.861% 2.123% 09/30/2004

STATE STREET CORP 998,417 1,968 55,641,779 1.398% 0.012% 09/30/2004

ALLIANCE-EQUITABLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT 966,981 70,572 53,889,851 1.354% 0.024% 09/30/2004

VANGUARD GROUP INC 952,266 38,547 53,069,784 1.333% 0.017% 12/31/2004

FIFTH THIRD BANCORP 885,971 418,287 49,375,164 1.240% 0.363% 12/31/2004

U S TRUST CORP /NY 838,393 51,601 46,723,642 1.174% 0.114% 09/30/2004

BANK ONE CORP 804,585 -177,952 42,803,922 1.126% 0.123% 09/30/2004

TRANSAMERICA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC 772,150 10,000 41,572,556 1.081% 0.273% 12/31/2004

CRAMER ROSENTHAL MCGLYNN LLC 750,925 363,575 39,949,210 1.051% 0.726% 09/30/2004

WM ADVISORS INC/WA 628,200 20,500 33,822,288 0.879% 0.410% 12/31/2004

SMITH BARNEY ASSET MANAGEMENT 591,528 4,350 32,965,855 0.828% 0.021% 09/30/2004

RCM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC 541,850 376,850 30,197,301 0.759% 0.136% 09/30/2004

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC 525,297 342,152 27,945,800 0.735% 0.152% 09/30/2004

OPPENHEIMER CAPITAL 509,800 18,300 24,393,930 0.711% 0.157% 09/30/2004

TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS 491,000 -42,000 26,435,440 0.687% 0.044% 12/31/2004

NORTHERN TRUST CORP 482,863 -4,107 26,909,955 0.676% 0.014% 09/30/2004

BOSTON TRUST & INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CO 480,413 1,025 25,865,436 0.673% 1.085% 12/31/2004

CULLEN FROST BANKERS INC 461,489 17,273 24,846,568 0.646% 1.111% 12/31/2004

INVESTMENT COUNSELORS OF MARYLAND LLC 438,450 8,000 23,606,148 0.614% 0.870% 12/31/2004

WESTFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO LLC 419,200 73,700 20,058,720 0.585% 0.304% 09/30/2004

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM 414,957 -9,200 23,125,554 0.581% 0.038% 09/30/2004

MELLON BANK NA ASSET MANAGEMENT 394,583 11,369 21,990,111 0.552% 0.023% 09/30/2004

TIAA CREF INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC 386,577 -28,062 21,543,936 0.541% 0.018% 12/31/2004

DARUMA ASSET MANAGEMENT INC /NY 376,400 -12,600 17,577,880 0.525% 2.156% 09/30/2004

SEGALL BRYANT & HAMILL 354,488 354,488 16,962,251 0.494% 0.723% 09/30/2004

SUNTRUST BANKS INC 344,635 126,165 19,206,509 0.482% 0.065% 09/30/2004

ROYCE & ASSOCIATES LLC 323,700 -54,400 17,428,008 0.453% 0.090% 12/31/2004

NEW YORK STATE COMMON RETIREMENT FUND 313,730 -154,100 16,891,223 0.439% 0.030% 12/31/2004

KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION/OH 287,522 -46,588 13,757,928 0.401% 0.048% 06/30/2004

NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM 277,100 -4,400 14,741,720 0.388% 0.032% 09/30/2004

JOHNSTON ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP 272,023 26,850 13,364,490 0.375% 3.413% 03/31/2004

AMERICAN EXPRESS FINANCIAL CORP 262,100 -250,685 14,606,833 0.367% 0.022% 09/30/2004

SAFECO CORP 255,000 -25,300 14,211,150 0.357% 1.338% 12/31/2004

OPTIMUM INVESTMENT ADVISORS 237,655 68,580 12,643,246 0.333% 1.454% 09/30/2004

CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM 227,861 1,200 12,698,694 0.319% 0.025% 09/30/2004

BAHL & GAYNOR INC 219,093 63,979 11,795,967 0.307% 0.506% 12/31/2004

STRONG CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC ET AL 214,500 214,400 11,548,680 0.300% 0.071% 12/31/2004

DEUTSCHE BANK AG 213,367 33,331 11,890,943 0.299% 0.009% 09/30/2004

BANK OF AMERICA CORP 207,997 8,554 11,591,673 0.291% 0.016% 12/31/2004

BANKNORTH INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP 198,947 -11,262 11,087,316 0.279% 0.501% 12/31/2004

HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK 194,695 -8,481 10,850,352 0.273% 0.315% 12/31/2004

STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF FLORIDA RETIREMENT SYSTEM 194,184 15,648 10,454,867 0.272% 0.026% 12/31/2004

[Emit]

40. Mistwell, do you have a link for this info? n/t

[Mistwell]

45. No

I cannot offer a link. I got it through eTrade researching, and you need an account there to do it. If anyone has an eTrade account, just look up Diebold and then use the research tools and click on institutional investors and you will find it there.

[Jo March]

41. Ummm...aren't you supposed to be resting??

;)

Don't make me come out there!!!

[Shredr]

42. Yeah, that's what I was going to say

How are you feeling?

[garybeck]

43. Andy are you working with Velvet Revolution on this?

I know the good folks at VR are working on this too. Do you know what the status is? I can't wait to help publicize the divestiture campaign.

but you need rest

[lonestarnot]

44. Andy... Are you doing ok? n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. He's been at the hospital having tests...and sees the doc this afternoon.

Andy will know more later today.

[lonestarnot]

48. OK... I will watch for post. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

50. Here it is...he apparently has gallstones.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x326551

[lonestarnot]

51. another thread says he has hepatitis Poor Andy...

[coffeenap]

55. Not hep.--talked to him yesterday, gallstones

He sounds good and says he can work on his projects a few hours each day at this point. (It was GREAT to hear his voice!!)

[Carolab]

52. ES&S

Voting machines are sold in the US in much the same way as other government contracts: through intensive lobbying, wining and dining. At a recent national conference of clerks, election officials and treasurers in Denver, attendees were treated to black-tie dinners and other perks, including free expensive briefcases stamped with Sequoia's company logo alongside the association's own symbol.
Sequoia's southern regional sales manager, Phil Foster, has already been indicted in Louisiana for "conspiracy to commit money laundering and malfeasance." The charges were dropped in exchange for his testimony against Louisiana's state commissioner of elections.
Similarly, the Arkansas secretary of state, Bill McCuen, pleaded guilty to taking bribes and kickbacks involving a precursor company to ES&S; the voting machine company executive who testified against him in exchange for immunity is now an ES&S vice-president.

The big three touchscreen companies are all heavyweight Republican donors, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into party coffers in the past few years.

Early financers of American Information Systems, a company later merged into ES&S, were also prominent supporters of the Chalcedon Foundation, an organization that espouses theocratic governance according to a literal reading of the Bible (and advocating capital punishment for blasphemy and homosexuality).< P> The chief executive of American Information Systems in the early ‘90s was Chuck Hagel, who went on to become the first Republican in 24 years to be elected to the Nebraska Senate- winning by a record landslide of votes registered and counted by his own voter machine company. Hagel was cheered on by the Omaha World-Herald- a big investor in ES&S. Hagel repeats this performance in 2002.

[Carolab]

53. A good summary here

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11811

Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: the corporate lines--even the bloodlines--of these "competitors" are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold--whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state's votes to Bush next year--the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful.

Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the "Christian Reconstructionist" movement, an extremist faction that openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, with the imposition of strict Christian dominion, placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere under Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for non-Christians, stoning of sinners and--we kid you not--slavery, "one of the most beneficent of Biblical laws." As the movement's leader--and Ahmanson's fellow CNP member--R.J. Rushdoony puts it: "The Christian should therefore not fear laws in support of Christian social goals just because they interfere with personal freedom."

Ahmanson also holds a major stake in ES&S, where he's joined by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. Before his ascension to high office, Hagel was CEO of an earlier ES&S incarnation. Thus, when he ran for the Senate, his own company counted the votes. Needless to say, his initial victory was reported as "an amazing upset." Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the parent company of ES&S. In Florida, Jeb Bush's first choice for a running mate in his 1998 gubernatorial race was ES&S lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a mint installing the machines that counted Jeb's votes.

Sequoia also has a colorful history, most recently in Louisiana, where it was the center of a massive corruption case that sent top state officials to jail for bribery, most of it funneled through Mob-connected front firms. Sequoia executives were also indicted, but escaped trial after giving immunized testimony against state officials. The company's corporate parent is the UK communications and printing firm De La Rue, which even as we speak is churning out the colonial currency notes for the new Iraq, courtesy of a hefty Coalition contract. De La Rue, in turn, is owned by the private equity firm Madison Dearborn--a partner of the Carlyle Group, where George Bush I makes millions trolling the world for war pork, privatizations and sweetheart deals with government insiders.

Investigations by Bev Harris, Thom Hartmann and many others have forced some of these concerns about computer voting into the edge of the mainstream. Maryland, for example, was so worried about its fat new contract with Diebold that it hired another company to vet the software: SAIC. On the surface, this seems a bit like asking Pepsi to certify the taste of Coke, as top SAIC executives have now spun off into the vote-counting game. These include former CEO Admiral Bill Owens--former military aide to Dick Cheney and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci--and ex-CIA director Robert Gates, of Iran-Contra fame. Another SAIC executive, David Kay, has been hired by the Bushists to "find" Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction. SAIC's long history of fraud charges and security lapses in its electronic systems hasn't prevented it from becoming one of the largest contractors for the Pentagon and the CIA--and it will doubtless pose little obstacle to its entrance into election engineering.

The mad rush to install unverifiable computer voting is driven by the Help America Vote Act, signed by Bush last year. The chief lobbying group pushing for HAVA was a consortium of arms dealers--those disinterested corporate citizens--including Northop-Grumman and Lockheed-Martin. The bill also mandates that all states adopt the computerized "voter purge" system used by Florida's Jeb Bush to eliminate 91,000 eligible black voters from the rolls in November 2000. This was done by a private firm, the Republican-run ChoicePoint Inc., which delivered a list of supposedly "ineligible" voters--identified by race--to Florida officials. ChoicePoint was supposed to help local officials correct any mistakes, but despite taking several million dollars for this task, they somehow neglected to do it. Now Bush's HAVA requires that all states conduct similar operations--and no points for guessing which Republican-run private firm is gobbling up the lion's share of those contracts. (This gives a whole new meaning to the term "whitewash").

The unelected Bush Regime now controls the government, the military, the judiciary--and the machinery of democracy itself. Absent some unlikely great awakening by the co-opted dullards of the corporate media, next November the last shreds of a genuine American republic will disappear--at the push of a button.

[FogerRox]

56. Andy I sent Brad some info wed night--here is a bit of a summary

This was the line of research I was following wed night that I sent to Brad.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x327399


Edgars is a great search tool.

Source for info below---Million Dollar Directory, D&B (FOrmerly known as Dun & Bradstrret) Copyright 2004-----
Also-
De La Rue Cash systems is a subsiderary of Rue De La Systems Americas

Seqoia is a Subsid. of De La Rue PLC, England.

SCIA:accountants- Deloitte & Touche LLP--as is ES&S, whose bank is 1st National bank of Omaha, Inc. Omaha.

Ive been going over some of Lyn Landes info and trying to get hardcopy sources for the same info--

[FogerRox]

57. Danaher--SEC Filings for 2o04

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000313616&owner=include

Heres Avanti--
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=Avante&CIK=&filenum=&State=&SIC=&owner=include&action=getcompany

Shoup--I not sure if this what is needed:
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=Shoup+&CIK=&filenum=&State=&SIC=&owner=include&action=getcompany

Here Accenture LTD-
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001134538&owner=include

A taste of the 1st file listed for Accenture--

ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000913414-05-000040
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13G
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1
FILED AS OF DATE: 20050214
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050215

SUBJECT COMPANY:

COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ACCENTURE LTD
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001134538
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC <7389>
IRS NUMBER: 000000000
FISCAL YEAR END: 0831

FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-78067
FILM NUMBER: 05614693

BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: CANON
STREET 2: 22 VICTORIA STREET, HAMILTON
CITY: HAMILTON
STATE: D0
ZIP: HM12

FILED BY:

COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS NA /CA/
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000913414
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: UNKNOWN SIC - 0000 <0000>
IRS NUMBER: 943112180
STATE OF INCORPORATION: CA
FISCAL YEAR END: 1231

FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: SC 13G

BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 45 FREMONT ST 17TH FL
CITY: SAN FRANCISCO
STATE: CA
ZIP: 94105
BUSINESS PHONE: [phone]

MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 45 FREMONT ST
CITY: SAN FRANCISCO
STATE: CA
ZIP: 94105

FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BZW BARCLAYS GLOBAL INVESTORS NA
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960311

FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: WELLS FARGO INSTITUTIONAL TRUST CO
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960226
</SEC-HEADER>

[Emit]

58. Here's a bit more on ES&S...

http://www.insightmag.com/news/2003/01/21/National/HighTech.Voting.Raises.Questions-343233.shtml

<<snip>>
ES&S is a subsidiary of the McCarthy group, a private Omaha merchant banking organization founded in 1986. U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has come under scrutiny because of his associations with ES&S and McCarthy, in which he still owns shares.

Hagel has been forthcoming and public about his business-interest ties with the election-product manufacturer. According to a fact sheet provided by Hagel's staff, prior to his November 1996 election to the U.S. Senate, he served as president of McCarthy and Co., a private investment-banking firm, and as an interim chairman of American Information Systems Inc. (AIS), an election-software company in which McCarthy and Co. owns an interest. AIS since has been renamed ES&S. Moreover, McCarthy and Co. Chief Executive Officer Michael McCarthy was the treasurer of Hagel's re-election campaign. Hagel is on record as having disclosed that he still holds $1 million to $5 million in McCarthy stock. Despite his full disclosure the connection continues to make the senator a target for dyspeptic critics who claim to see an unethical conflict between being a vote seeker and being part owner of the vote-counting machinery.

The company fact sheet points out that Hagel resigned his brief chairmanship of AIS two weeks before announcing his candidacy for the Senate at the end of March 1995. The following January, he resigned from his position as president of McCarthy and Co. Furthermore, the fact sheet notes that his hometown newspaper also is a substantial investor in ES&S. "Neither Sen. Hagel, McCarthy and Co., nor the Omaha World-Herald has failed to disclose its relationship with AIS or ES&S," it states. "The information is both documented and public."
<<snip>>

[FogerRox]

59. ES&S---more

Business & Company Resource Center

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Election Systems and Software Inc.

11208 John Galt Blvd.
Omaha, Nebraska
68137
United States
Tel: [phone]
USA [phone]
Fax: USA [phone]


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Business
Manufacturing: Manufactures election equipment and software


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SIC Codes
3579 - Office Machines, Not Elsewhere Classified
7372 - Prepackaged Software

NAICS Codes
333313 - Office Machinery Manufacturing
511210 - Software Publishers

Annual Sales
$137.00 M Sales, Estimate

Employees
150, Company Information

Sales/Employees
$913,333.00

Year Founded
1979

Fiscal Year
Dec 31, 2003

Features
Private Company, Headquarters Location

URL
http://www.essvote.com

Toll Free Telephone Number
USA [phone]


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Officers

Tom O'Brien - Chief Financial Officer
Beverly Cavanaugh - Director of Human Resources
Gary Crump - Vice President
Ken Carbullido - Senior Vice President
John Groh - Senior Vice President
Steve Bolton - Vice President
Richard Jablonski - Vice President, Finance


Document Number
DC556432

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and then there is--AIS
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Business & Company Resource Center

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American Information Systems Inc.

161 N Clark,13th Fl.
Chicago, Illinois
60601
United States
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


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Business
Commercial Art & Graphic Design


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SIC Codes
7336 - Commercial Art & Graphic Design
7371 - Computer Programming Services

NAICS Codes
541430 - Graphic Design Services
541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Features
Private Company, Headquarters Location

URL
http://www.ais.net

Email Address
[email protected]


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Document Number
DC857609



AIS purchased BRC to become ES&S--and yet the address is the same as Accenture LTD



(c) 2005 by The Gale Group, Inc.


Gale is a Thomson Corporation Company.

(c) 2005 by The Gale Group, Inc.


Gale is a Thomson Corporation Company.

[FogerRox]

60. Hart Intercivic

Business & Company Resource Center

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Hart InterCivic Inc.
15500 Wells Port Dr.
Austin, Texas
78728

PO Box 80649
Austin, Texas
78708
United States
Tel: [phone]
USA [phone]
Fax: USA [phone]


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Business
Manufacturing: Manufactures manifold business forms


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SIC Codes
2761 - Manifold Business Forms

NAICS Codes
323116 - Manifold Business Form Printing

Annual Sales
$34.10 M Sales, Estimate

Employees
95, Company Information

Sales/Employees
$358,947.00

Year Founded
1978

Fiscal Year
Dec 31, 2003

Features
Private Company, Headquarters Location

URL
http://www.hartic.com

Toll Free Telephone Number
USA [phone]


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Officers
J Kauffman - President
Ted Simmonds - Chief Financial Officer
David Hart - Chairman of the Board


Document Number
DC540844



(c) 2005 by The Gale Group, Inc.


Gale is a Thomson Corporation Company.
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Then we have Mr Ahmanson famed Rapture right guy,---


Business & Company Resource Center

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Washington Mutual Inc. (WM)

1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 1500
Seattle, Washington
98101
United States
Tel: [phone]
[phone]
Fax: [phone]


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Business
Finance: Bank holding company for state-chartered savings and loans.

Variant Names
PNC Mortgage Securities Corp. - Merger 2001/01/01
Fleet Mortgage Group - Merger
New American Holdings Inc. - Merger
Keystone Holdings Inc. - Merger 1997/10/01
Summit Bancorp Inc. (Bellevue, Washington) - Merger 1994/11/15
PNC Mortgage Bank N.A. - Merger 2001/01/01
Pacific First Financial Corp. - Merger
Great Western Financial Corp. - Merger 1997/07/01
H.F. Ahmanson and Co . - Merger 1998/11/17
American Savings and Loan Association - Merger
Great Western Bank F.S.B. - Merger
Bank United Corp. - Merger 2001/02/09
Fleet Mortgage Corp. - Acquisition
Long Beach Financial Corp. - Merger 1999/12/31
WaMu - Does Business as Name
Fleet Mortgage Corp. - Merger 2001/06/01
Dime Bancorp Inc. - Acquisition 2001/11/28
HomeSide Lending Inc. - Acquisition 2002/10/01
BNKU Holdings Inc. - Merger
Dime Savings Bank of New York F.S.B. - Merger
PNC Mortgage Corporation of America - Merger
Fleet Real Estate Mortgage - Merger
Ahmanson Commercial Development Co. - Merger



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Auditors
Deloitte and Touche LLP

SIC Codes
6035 - Savings Institutions Federal Chartered
6712 - Bank Holding Companies

NAICS Codes
551111 - Offices of Bank Holding Companies
522120 - Savings Institutions

Annual Sales
$307,918.00 M Total assets, Company Press Release

Employees
63,720, Company Press Release

Sales/Employees
$4,832,360.00

Year Founded
1889

Fiscal Year
Dec 31, 2004

SMSA Code
7600 - Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA

Features
Public Company, Headquarters Location

Stock Exch
NYSE

Ticker
WM

URL
http://www.wamu.com

Toll Free Telephone Number
[phone]


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Officers
Kerry Killinger - Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board
Thomas W. Casey - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Debora Horvath - Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Daryl D. David - Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Craig E. Tall - Vice Chairman of the Board
Tony Meola - Executive Vice President
Todd Baker - Executive Vice President
Lewis E. Love Jr. - Senior Vice President
Benson Porter - Senior Vice President
Rob Miles - Senior Vice President, Controller
Eilizabeth A. Sanders - Director
William G. Reed Jr. - Director
Mary E. Pugh - Director
Margaret Osmer McQuade - Director
Michael K. Murphy - Director
Phillip D. Matthews - Director
Stephen E. Frank - Director
Anne V. Farrell - Director
Steve Rotella - President and Chief Operating Officer
Taj Bindra - Executive Vice President, Finance
Alan Magelby - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Willis B. Wood Jr. - Director
James H. Stever - Director
William D. Schulte - Director
Douglas P. Beighle - Director
Bill Ehrlich - Executive Vice President
David Beck - Executive Vice President
William A. Longbrake - Vice Chairman of the Board
James G. Vanasek - Executive Vice President
Craig J. Chapman - President
Fay L. Chapman - Head of Legal Department


Document Number
DC349143



(c) 2005 by The Gale Group, Inc.


Gale is a Thomson Corporation Company.

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So WAash MU has the same Accountants as SCIA and ES&S

That may not be what you aare looking for Andy BUT It may be something

[Carolab]

63. Venezuela's CNE director Jorge Rodriguez said Groh is deceitful

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8475588.htm

Posted on Tue, Apr. 20, 2004


No Chávez recall vote coming, official said

BY RICHARD BRAND

Miami Herald


CARACAS - An executive of an Omaha firm that sold voting machines to Venezuela says a top electoral official asked him during a meeting last year whether his company worked for the CIA and predicted there would be no recall referendum against leftist President Hugo Chávez.

''There was a certain amount of paranoia,'' recalled John Groh, president of the international division of Election Systems and Software (ES&S), of the October meeting in a Manhattan hotel room.

The meeting was with Jorge Rodríguez, considered the most pro-Chávez and influential member of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council's five-person board of directors.

''I took an hour explaining to him that we were not part of the CIA, that I didn't have a military background,'' Groh told The Herald.

'We said that we understand you have an election coming up where there will be a presidential referendum, and . . . Rodríguez said, `That election will never take place,' '' Groh said.

The electoral council, with three pro-Chávez directors and two who favor the opposition, has temporarily dismissed one million of the 3 million signatures the opposition collected demanding a recall vote on Chávez.

At the time of the meeting, ES&S was seeking a $20 million contract to dust off the 7,500 ES&S Model 100 optical scanners, which read paper ballots, that the firm sold to Venezuela for the 1998 elections.

Instead, the electoral council awarded most of a $91 million contract in February to Boca Raton-based Smartmatic Corp., a tiny company whose touch-screen voting machine has never been used in an election anywhere.

''Smartmatic came out of the blue,'' Groh said in a telephone interview from Omaha. ``It's a very small, very new, storefront business that should never be considered for a project of this size.''

[Emit]

64. More on ES&S

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00044.htm

<<snip>>

Election Systems & Software was formed by a merger of American Information Systems (AIS), a huge election company featuring several Republican owners, and Business Records Corp., part of Cronus Industries, in turn partially owned by a member of the Hunt oil family of Texas.
World Companies, Inc.: This is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald. It is a holding company with substantial ownership in Election Systems & Software, and it also controls World Marketing Inc., which operates gigantic databases and mammoth direct marketing companies. Election Systems & Software is also involved in voter registration services, and no one has questioned whether there is a conflict of interest with voter registration activity and access to the nation's largest databases containing race, political affiliations and other demographics. Questionable associations and relationships throughout this conglomerate abound. One person with shares in the World Companies Inc. is Harold W. Andersen, who is on the board of directors for The Williams Companies — yes, that Williams Energy, recently exposed by CBS for creating a sham energy crisis in California. CBS cites tapes, now sealed by the government, that prove Williams Energy turned off the juice, faking an energy shortage.

<<snip>>

And, should you have any doubt about the objectivity of the Omaha World-Herald, just look at its archive article publicizing stock picks (01/01/1989): the newspaper cites analyst's recommendations for about 20 stocks, among them: Valmont (whose chairman and CEO, William F. Welsh II, is now chairman and CEO and shareholder of Election Systems & Software, whose part-owner is the Omaha World-Herald); FirsTier Financial, whose CEO, P. E. Esping went down to Texas to become chairman and CEO of Business Records Corp, which later merged into Election Systems & Software. The paper cites another recommendation of FirsTier based on the involvement of Walter Scott, chairman of Peter Kiewit & Sons, but fails to mention that Peter Kiewit was the publisher and major shareholder of the Omaha World-Herald for two decades; the article recommends Val-Com, Inc, owned by Valmont, run by the CEO who is now the Election Systems & Software CEO; it goes on to recommend Cronus Industries (who owned Business Records Corp., which was purchased by the Omaha World-Herald's subsidiary and merged into Election Systems & Software); and for good measure, a plug is thrown in for Parker Drilling, a subsidiary of The Williams Companies that shared directors with the CIA, The George Bush School of Government, and Halliburton. The article cites no good reason to buy Parker Drilling, endorsing it simply as a good "speculative buy."

<<snip>>

Here's more information on how Election Systems & Software came about, and who owns it:
From a 1996 article in The Omaha World-Herald:
"An Omaha company would become the nation's No. 1 ballot counter in a planned $59.3 million combination with a Dallas-based competitor...
+++
"BRC is headed by a former Omahan, P.E. "Bill" Esping, who was a founder of First Data Resources.
+++
"Under the agreement, American Information Systems would acquire the election division of Business Records. Both companies sell election counting and voter registration equipment and services based on optical scanners and paper ballots marked with pencils.
+++
"Of the purchase price, $35 million would be in cash, $17.5 million in a note and the rest in stock of American Information, giving BRC about 20 percent ownership of the Omaha company. Stock owned by American Information employees would account for an additional 10 percent with the remaining 70 percent owned by a partnership of the Omaha World-Herald Co. and the McCarthy Group, an Omaha investment banking company. American Information's share of the U.S. election automation market would increase to more than 50 percent..."
<<snip>>

Now, note that the above article says "the remaining 70 percent is owned by a partnership of the Omaha World-Herald Co. and the McCarthy Group. But who owns the McCarthy Group (besides Republican operative Michael R. McCarthy)? World Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Co., is a primary investor in the McCarthy Group. Round and round we go.
<<snip>>

[FogerRox]

65. Unfortunatly Sourcing becomes an Issue--Find something in a News paper -

fine--but what are the reporters sources--SO the need here is to take the article and re-source it.

[Emit]

68. More on Diebold...

Diebold:

Company Profile
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is an independent corporation responsible for investing the fund’s assets and administering the pensions of Ontario’s 155,000 elementary and secondary school teachers and 97,000 retired teachers.


http://www.otpp.com/web/proxyvot.nsf/web/DieboldInc.4222004

http://www.otpp.com/web/proxyvot.nsf/web/DieboldInc.4242003

This was dated 2004---O’Dell was a nominee to Board Of Directors of Ontarios Teachers’ Pension Plan—there is still a vacancy—don’t know who was elected:

<<snip>>
A proposal to elect the following nominees to the Board of Directors: 1) L.V. Bockius, III; 2) C.M. Connor; 3) R.L. Crandall; 4) E.C. Evans; 5) G.S. Fitzgerald; 6) P.B. Lassiter; 7) J.N. Lauer; 8) W. F. Massy; 9) W.W. O'Dell; 10) E.J. Roorda; 11) W.R. Timken, Jr; 12) H.D.G. Wallace.
<<snip>>
____________________________________________________________________
Lots of info here, too much to copy, with balance sheets, statements of shareholders' equity, etc:

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Lq_joD6GJsMJ:www.otpp.com/web/proxydocs.nsf/web/DieboldInc.4222004AnnualReport/%24FILE/DBD-10k.htm+34-0183970+IRS&hl=en


<<snip>>
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
________________________________________
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
Form 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003
<<snip>>
Table of Contents

PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Income
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Independent Auditors’ Report
Report of Management
Forward-Looking Statement Disclosure
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
ITEM 9A. DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EX-21 Subsidiaries
EX-23 Consent of Independent Auditors
EX-24 Power of Attorney
EX-31.1 302 CEO Certification
EX-31.2 302 CFO Certification
EX-32.1 906 CEO Certification
EX-32.2 906 CFO Certification

<<snip>>
(a) General Development
The company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio in August, 1876, succeeding a proprietorship established in 1859 and is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of automated self-service transaction systems, electronic and physical security products, election systems and software. The company specializes in technology that empowers people worldwide to access services when, where and how they may choose. In 2002, the company acquired Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (DESI), a manufacturer and supplier of elections systems and support, to mark its launch into the election systems market. In 2003, the company made several small but strategic acquisitions, mainly in the security systems and services market.
All of the acquisitions are accounted for as purchase business combinations and, accordingly, the purchase price has been allocated to identifiable tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed for each acquisition, based upon their respective fair values, with the excess allocated to goodwill.
The company paid a combination of $4,840 in company stock and $10,611, net of cash acquired, in 2003 for the following:
• In November 2003, the company acquired Licent Information Technology (LIT), its sales and service distributor in Taiwan since 1999. LIT was integrated within the operations of the company’s Diebold Pacific Limited branch office in Taiwan.

• In September 2003, the company acquired Cardinal Brothers Manufacturing & Operations, Pty. Ltd. Based in Victoria, Australia, Cardinal had been the company’s business partner since 1999 in manufacturing the rising screen technology for financial institutions and government authorities. This acquisition was integrated into Diebold Australia, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary.

• In September 2003, the company acquired Vangren Technology, Pty. Ltd. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Vangren specializes in the sales, service and installation of electronic security solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand. Upon acquisition, Vangren became a wholly owned subsidiary of Diebold Australia, Pty. Ltd.

• In June 2003, the company acquired QSI Security, Inc., a specialized integrator and installer of security equipment to customers based in the northeastern region of the United States. This acquisition has been integrated into the company’s Diebold North America security solutions group.

• In May 2003, the company acquired the remaining 50 percent equity of Diebold HMA Private Ltd., held by HMA Data Systems Private Ltd., headquartered in Chennai, India. After the acquisition, this joint-venture sales and service organization became a wholly owned subsidiary of the company and the headquarters was moved to Mumbai, India.

• In January 2003, the company acquired Data Information Management Systems, Inc. (DIMS), one of the largest voter registration systems companies in the United States. DIMS was integrated within DESI.
The results of these acquisitions were included in the operating results of the company for the year ended December 31, 2003 and are not material.
(b) Financial Information about Operating Segments
The company’s segments are comprised of its three main sales channels: Diebold North America (DNA), Diebold International (DI) and Election Systems and Other. The DNA segment sells financial and retail systems, and also services financial, retail and medical systems in the United States and Canada. The DI segment sells and services financial and retail systems over the remainder of the globe. The Election Systems and Other segment includes the operating results of DESI beginning in 2002, as well as corporate administrative costs. Also included in this segment are the results of the MedSelect business, which was sold in July 2001 as a part of the company’s realignment plan. A reconciliation of segment customer revenues to Consolidated Net Sales and of segment operating contribution to Consolidated Operating Profit is contained in Note 17 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

<<snip>>

...A number of individuals and groups have raised challenges recently in the media and elsewhere regarding the reliability and security of the automated election tabulation products and services provided by DESI. The parties making these challenges oppose the use of technology in the electoral process generally and, specifically, have taken actions to publicize what they view as significant flaws in DESI’s election management software and firmware. Among other efforts, these parties have established web sites and web logs devoted to disseminating information damaging to DESI’s reputation and its products. They have filed a number of open-records act requests in various states for copies of contracts with DESI and/or DESI’s software. They have also posted on the internet portions of DESI’s software source code and private communications among DESI’s programmers, which were originally obtained by a hacker from an internal FTP site maintained by DESI...
<<snip>>