Remember NCPAC? I think the Urosevich/Computer Voting/Fundamentalist...

[Junkdrawer]

roots go back to the whole NCPAC roots of the late 70s.

In the late 70s, the personal computer revolution had just begun and computers were seen as something only fairly well-heeled companies could afford. NCPAC (National Conservative Political Action Committee) made the national scene by attacking a large number of the most liberal Senators of the time (Frank Church and George McGovern to name a few). Their MO was split between large media buys and a computerized mail effort run by Richard Viguerie. The latter was noteworthy because conservatives were seen as having a large advantage because of the aggressive use of computers in politics. NCPAC's connection with the emerging Fundamentalist movement (which spawned the Moral Majority) was infamous.

Now we learn that the Urosevich Brothers were initially funded by Howard Ahmanson, a right wing Christian Fundamentalist, in the late 70s. The Urosevich Brothers, Bob and Todd, now pretty much control 80% of the vote counting in this country. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy,_voting_machines

So, this takeover of the computerized voting in this country by "Christian Fundamentalists" all fits into a coherent picture.

[soothsayer]

1. I worked on the same floor as the ncpac offices in rosslyn in the

80's. Saw Robert Redford in person when he was filming the watergate film and visiting ncpac. He's short!

And didn't that dude who was the head of ncpac die of aids? terry someone or other.

Interesting link you've uncovered there, tho. Things that make you go hmmmmm.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Small World. In the mid 80s, I worked for a small consulting company...

that sold Solomon Accounting to NCPAC in DC. Needless to say, they never let us repair their data offsite. When they had a problem, our owner had to go onsite and do everything while they watched.

Oh, and...

Terry Dolan was gay, and he died of AIDS. He died after a short but intense lifetime of ultra-conservative guerrilla theatre, during which he co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) and helped to create the alliance between the Goldwater right and the blue-collar fundamentalists. It was Dolan's complicated life and AIDS-related death that, after considerable hesitation, the Post had featured....


http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ySrM7GE53a8J:nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0203/1743.html+ncpac+fundamentalists&hl=en