Votergate: The Russian Connection, part I: Kantorovich (updated)

Votergate: The Russian Connection, part I: Kantorovich (updated)

by JamBoi

Fri Dec 17th, 2004 at 17:42:50 PST
(Updated w/ new link at bottom) Rumors have it that the programmers and techs that actually did the Votergate programming on the Diebold and other voting machines were Russian expatriates.  In this series we'll explore this possibility. This quote from a 2002 article:
"As far as we know, some guy from Russia could be controlling the outcome of computerized elections in the United States."
:: JamBoi's diary :: Published on Monday, September 16, 2002 by CommonDreams.org

Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control
by Lynn Landes
(snip)
"As far as we know, some guy from Russia could be controlling the outcome of computerized elections in the United States."
(snip)
In fact, Vikant Corp., a Chicago-area company owned by Alex Kantarovich, formerly of Minsk, Belorussia (also known as White Russia, formerly U.S.S.R.), supplies the all-important 'control cards' to Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the world's largest election management company, writes reporter Christopher Bollyn. According to ES&S, they have "handled more than 40,000 of the world's most important events and elections. ES&S systems have counted approximately 60% of the U.S. national vote for the past four presidential elections. In the U.S. 2000 general election, ES&S systems counted over 100 million ballots."

Getting back to Kantarovich, he would not disclose where the control cards are made, except they aren't made in America, writes Bollyn. Nor would he discuss his previous employment. Bollyn says he got some not-too-thinly-veiled threats from Kantarovich.
Kantarovich sounds more like the Russian mafia, than a legitimate businessman.
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That's just great. Now, we could possibly have both the Russian mafia and the U.S. mafia involved in our elections.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm


New link re: Kantorovich: