Who Owns the Top 3 E-Voting Companies

The Top three E-Voting companies in the U.S. are ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia. Who owns the top three E-Voting
companies that count well over 80% of the votes cast in U.S. elections?

Meet the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Ted. Their respective companies, Diebold (recently renamed Premier) and ES&S, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80% of all votes cast
in U.S. elections. With the August 3, 2007 decertification of a large portion of Diebold E-Voting equipment by
Deborah Bowen, the California Secretatry of State, after completion of a Top-to-Bottom Review of the E-Voting
systems currently in use in California, that percentage should be smaller in 2008.

Who owns Sequoia, the private company that counts a large number of the remaining votes cast in the U.S.?
We know that it is owned by a privately held corporation called SMARTMATIC, but beyond that, no one is quite
sure who owns or runs the company.

There is one more Electronic Voting Systems company that is smaller than the top three but still important
because it counts almost all of the remaining 20% votes cast in our nation's elections. The fourth and smallest E-Voting company now counting our votes in the U.S. is Hart Inter Civic and now (May 2008) it is attempting a hostile takeover of Sequoia (see above). If the takeover attempt is successful, there will still be three
voting machine companies counting almost all of the votes cast in U.S. election, but it will be three companies all owned by outspoken right wing Republican supporters. These companies insist on counting all votes secretly, without public oversight and they insist on providing election results without verification. To this day, they have the support of the republicans in congress for their right to provide election results without oversight or verification through paper ballots and audits.

Hart Inter Civic was a relatively small regional printing company with longstanding ties to Texas state government until 1999, when it got a cash infusion of over $40 million, which turned it into a national
player in the electronic voting machine industry. When you read who was part of this huge investment,
it becomes clear that long time Republican supportes and a Texas billionaire who was part of a group that raised a total of $515,000 for Bush campaigns through the year 2000, according to Common Cause, were representative of Hart Inter Civic investors. Hart Inter Civic is supported by strikingly partisan
names.