Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

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Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

By Wayne Madsen

Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html
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November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.
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The money to rig the election in favor of Bush reportedly came from an entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to support both Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.

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1. Accenture, Halliburton, and Osan Ltm

Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting of Enron bankruptcy fame)
According to a February 2003 article published in Newsday by Mark Harrington, in "a letter sent to a select group of well-heeled Election.com investors January 21, the online voting and voter registration company disclosed that the investment group Osan Ltd. paid $1.2 million to acquire 20 million preferred shares to control 51.6 percent of the voting power."


http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=_dyn%5Cdynamicpressrelease_189.xml
2000

As part of the firm's growing eDemocracy program, Accenture recently introduced a suite of transition services designed to aid presidents, governors, and other newly elected or appointed government executives. These services help new officials meet the challenges presented in the short time that exists between the election and taking office to fill key management positions, establish management structures, communicate their progress to the public and set policy. Moreover, last July, Accenture helped the Republican Host Committee in Philadelphia create the first eConvention, bringing gavel-to-gavel proceedings via the Internet to the homes and offices of dot-com delegates.

A Team Effort
www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=industries\resources\energy\case\ener_halliburton.xml

In 2000, the relationship between Accenture and Halliburton evolved from pure outsourcing to a co-sourcing arrangement. Halliburton’s ERP Solutions Team is an integrated team made up of both Accenture consultants and Halliburton employees, with shared responsibility and accountability. Halliburton thus leverages Accenture’s experience and global network while developing skills in its own employees and further reducing costs.

2004
http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=industries%5Cgovernment%5Cgove_democ.xml


Accenture E-democracy Services is wholly dedicated to delivering comprehensive election services to election agencies around the world and to helping them achieve high performance.Accenture eDemocracy Services has the experience to help election agencies prepare to manage every election successfully. With the full strength and resources of Accenture’s global organization, Accenture eDemocracy Services can help you quickly apply leading industry practices in customer relationship management, program management, technology and strategy.

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Today, Accenture continues to provide global support for Halliburton’s applications including SAP, Siebel, Data Warehousing and other point solutions for health, safety and environment applications. The firm is involved in all major phases of Halliburton’s SAP efforts, including a systems upgrade and deployment to the acquired Dresser Industries’ business lines, which will add about 4,000 end-users.

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2. Why Accenture

http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=industries%5Cgovernment%5Cgove_democ.xml


Why Accenture

We have a proven track record of delivering strategic planning, election reform program management, elections systems management, state-wide voter registration systems solutions, voting system implementation services and transformational outsourcing services and solutions to local, state and national governments around the world.
Next: Specific Services

Specific Services

* Strategic planning—Helping agencies navigate the complexities of planning for long-term election solutions.
* Election systems management and voter registration—Leveraging our knowledge capital from election solutions implementations worldwide.
* Program management—Helping to mitigate risks by managing the implementation of complex, mission-critical solutions.
* Fulfillment—Understanding and addressing all of the issues that jurisdictions must get right—voter systems, poll worker training and education, performance tracking and reporting.

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4. Accenture Signs Agreement with Aradyme

Accenture Signs Subcontractor Agreement with Aradyme for State of Kansas Voter Registration Solution

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, Nov 23, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
-- This agreement was previously disclosed in an 8-K corporate
EDGAR filing on November 3, 2004. In order to effectively
communicate with Aradyme's international investors, management
elected to release this news via wire service.

Aradyme Corporation (ADYE), a next generation database company, today calls attention to an agreement Aradyme has signed with Accenture LLP (ACN), a global integration services company in the voter registration space, to supply data migration services for the delivery of voter registration and election management solutions to the State of Kansas.

From EDGAR Form 8-K

. . . According to the terms of the agreement, Aradyme will help collect and provide the data extraction, transformation and loading solution needed to consolidate Kansas' 105 disparate county voter registration databases into a single, statewide system. Aradyme's extraction, transformation and loading services, which are made possible because of Aradyme's underlying dynamic database technology, are provided as part of Accenture's Election Services Management(TM) product.

The working relationship of Accenture and Aradyme with the State of Kansas is expected to continue through the third quarter of 2005.

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3. Today's update by Madsen

More on the buying of electoral fraud by the Bush campaign

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

November 26, 2004—Additional information on the buying of vote riggers with Saudi and former Enron funds has been obtained. The epicenter for the vote rigging operation is Dallas, Texas, and the operation may involve retired FBI agents who used a well-established "good ole boy" network to arrange for access to polling precincts by electronic voting machine technicians who took advantage of various November 2 security "lockdowns" to illegally alter the tabulation of votes in favor of Bush. Some of the retired agents may have used courtesy credentials issued upon retirement to fool unsuspecting polling place workers.

The cost of the operation was estimated at $29 million with the money sent via a circuitous network of offshore trust companies and shell activities. This reporter has obtained a copy of a bank check for $29,600,000 that was allegedly sent to cover the cost of the Texas-based vote rigging operation. The check is dated October 22, 2004, and was made payable to "Five Star Investment Ltd.," a trust said to have long connections to Saudi-funded operations in Texas and around the world. The payer is identified as "Equity Financial Trust," a Houston-based "brass plate" and post office box entity tied to offshore Cook Islands "folding tent" accounts used to hide away profits amassed by the former Enron as well as Saudi financiers.

On October 6, 2004, some two weeks before Equity Financial Trust transferred the money to Five Star Investment Ltd., the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions for Canada listed Equity Financial Trust, along with Bankers Financial and Security Trust, Falcon Financial and Trust, and Unity Virtual Trust Group as "unauthorized financial institutions." In fact, the check for $29.6 million, which is marked "Not to exceed fifty million dollars," is drawn on the Laurentian Bank of Canada's Toronto branch. Its serial number is 317675450 3 and the bank number is 23-97/1020. The bank instrument is issued by Integrated Payment Systems, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado, and Bank One, NA, Denver, Colorado.

It is noteworthy that a number of companies operated by past Bush campaign contributor Pierre Falcone, under criminal investigation in France for weapons smuggling in Angola, are called "Falcon." Several non-governmental organizations, including Global Witness, have tied Falcone to questionable Halliburton activities when Vice President Dick Cheney headed the firm.

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112604Madsen/112604madsen.html


Discussion here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x81645

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[robbedvoter]

6. Thanks. "Follow the money" shouldn't be all that absurd

On a forum that entertained for weeks "no plane at Pentagon" it seems to me fishy that an article tracing payment for fraud is sneered at.


The cost of the operation was estimated at $29 million with the money sent via a circuitous network of offshore trust companies and shell activities. This reporter has obtained a copy of a bank check for $29,600,000 that was allegedly sent to cover the cost of the Texas-based vote rigging operation. The check is dated October 22, 2004, and was made payable to "Five Star Investment Ltd.," a trust said to have long connections to Saudi-funded operations in Texas and around the world. The payer is identified as "Equity Financial Trust," a Houston-based "brass plate" and post office box entity tied to offshore Cook Islands "folding tent" accounts used to hide away profits amassed by the former Enron as well as Saudi financiers.

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7. It's the DNC doing the sneering. It's all so cozy. PUKE (ED)

Edited to add: Elections.com formerly Osan Ltm (Osan Investment is located inside Yemen.) now a part of Accenture eDemocracy

http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=1172

To run the election, the Michigan Democrats hired a private contractor, Election Services Corporation (ESC) of Garden City, N.Y. Because the state party had decided on a caucus instead of a primary, the Michigan secretary of state was not involved.
ESC is a 6-month-old company that coalesced around portions of Election.com, which conducted the March 2000 Arizona primary. Other Election.com assets were purchased by Accenture, which had planned to run the Pentagon's balloting system, called Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment.

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By a 23-to-2 vote last November, the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee said Michigan could proceed with its caucus, despite objections that it would negatively affect poor and minority voters and be subject to fraud.

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