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Scytl was acquired by Service Point Solutions, part of Paragon Group
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M&A 22 October 2020
Scytl, a Barcelona, Spain- based company provider of digital voting and electoral modernization tech, announced that it was acquired by Service Point Solutions, a company quoted in the Spanish Stock Exchange and part of Paragon group.
FInancial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition also includes Civiciti, the citizen participation platform launched by Scytl in 2016, and the subsidiaries from USA, Canada, Australia, France and Greece.
As part of its integration into the Paragon group, the company will be renamed Scytl Election Technologies.
Scytl, founded in 2001 and led by CEO Silvia Caparrós, is a developer of secure online voting and election modernization software. Its technology has been successfully used by more than 30 countries around the world and is entering the private elections market as well. Scytl has a very strong presence in the United States, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Spain.
Scytl was backed by professional investors including Nauta Capital, Vulcan Capital and Balderton Capital, which funded the company with EUR 5 million ($5.6M) in 2019.
Paragon Group continues next stage in its evolution and repositions to become Grenadier Holdings. "Grenadier Holdings was formed through the evolution of the former Paragon Group into a series of investment holdings...130+ year heritage in delivering critical business services including customer communications, contactless smart technologies, and print & packaging related services."
Paragon ID now 100% owned by Grenadier Holdings Ltd. | Grenadier Holdings (grenadier-holdings.com)
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e-Voting Company Could Intercept and Change Ballots Without a Trace I Truthout
The Free Press has previously reported, Scytl, a
Barcelona based e-voting company will be counting
votes in 26 states. They will be doing so through
something called the Federal Overseas Voting Program or
FVAP. FVAP is a program designed to allow military
personnel and other overseas Americans to vote in their home
districts seamlessly through electronically delivered absentee
ballots.
Intercepting and changing these ballots, as well as voting
electronically on behalf of service people that have no idea
such a thing is happening, is something that Scytl is uniquely
positioned to do because of their cellphone spyware sister
company, CarrierIQ These stolen votes, distributed
throughout jurisdictions across the country, could become a
critical component of any scheme to defraud the 2012
presidential election. By means of changing a relatively small
number of votes, and laundering those stolen votes in the
correct places, the net effect would be a near silent theft.
The Columbus Dispatch reported on Sunday, October 21 that
in Ohio, "The campaign of Republican Mitt Romney plans to
station Election Day Task Force members to record the name
of every voter who walks through the door and feed it to a
'national command center' database in Boston as part of an
unprecedented high-tech get-out-the-vote effort."
Sources at Smartech, the company responsible for stealing the
election in Ohio in 2004, revealed to Free Press journalist Jill
Simpson that the next man in the middle attack would be
launched by Scyd from its US headquarters, a location in
suburban Virginia that was formerly owned by its managing
director, Hugh Gallagher, and seems to serve as his private
home. We believe it was Hugh who watched from the
windows as our investigators photographed the home.
Scyd is not the only election related business that has been run
out of Mr. Gallagher's seemingly crowded residence. Since
2004, some shell company called Election Training Inc. has
called some part of Mr. Gallagher's S-bedroom home its
headquarters. A phone records check on Election Training's
number yielded us something called Election Systems
Acquisitions and Management, also at the same address,
allegedly founded in 2002 but listing Scyd as its website. Scyd
entered the US elections market on January 11, 2012, when it
announced its acquisition of Tampa based SOE software.
SOE software is election management software that specializes
in internet voting and election results reporting in 900
jurisdictions in 26 states. What exactly Elections Systems
Acquisitions and Management did for the decade preceding
this event is at best obscure.
On September 28th, the day after the Free Press published the
address and photo of Scyd headquarters, their vice president
for media relations and governmental affairs, Michelle Shafer
(See (why are legal scholars dismissing election fraud?:!
Manufactured skepticism and exit polls of Austin Texas, filed
an official change of address form with the United States
Election Assistance Commission. In just 24 hours, in the
middle of a presidential election, Scytl USA miraculously
relocated to Baltimore, Maryland.
Scytl's new address is a virtual office at 00 Pratt Street inl
Baltimor, purchased cheap. A quick web search determined
more than a dozen other companies, including three law
offices, a parking garage company and a web marketing firm
are all crammed into the same suite at that location, making it
perhaps a more cramped facility than Hugh Gallagher's
basement. Our investigators determined this on a visit there
where they found no-one willing to talk about Scytl at that
location, nor willing to discuss the kind of virtual office
services offered. Perhaps the staff necessary for counting the
votes of America's 2.6 million servicemen and women had not
had a chance to relocate from Hugh Gallagher's couch (maybe
they were in his garage?) to Baltimore.
Scytl is also going through with its plans to promote lnternet
Voting and has additional plans to allow voting from
smartphones.
Were the centerpiece of American democracy not involved,
this whole episode would be farcical. Since certain federal laws
are involved, both the first fake location and its subsequent
movement may constitute fraud. Election law requires that
companies manufacturing election products list their address
with the EAC, which is why Michelle Shafer seemed to be in
such a hurry to cover their tracks. In moving themselves
officially from one virtual office to another, she may have
covered one alleged fraud with another.
Scyd, through SOE software has an office in Tampa. Why the
Gallagher residence, rather than SO E's existing facility, was
selected as Scyd's main United State's office is somewhat
unclear to us. A visit there by our investigators found them on
the 5th floor of an office building with 17 other companies.
Although they appear to actually have an actual office, it is
unclear to us how all their employees could work there. It is
also unclear why this location was not listed as Scyd's national
headquarters in the first place or why the sudden change of
address they undertook after our scrutiny did not take place to
their Tampa location where they actually do have an office and
employees as opposed to Baltimore, where it seems they do
not.
Scyd is not the only phantom voting company the Free Press
has investigated physically. In future articles we will detail the
obscure locations, low employee head counts, improbable
square footage and oppressive security designed to ward off
public scrutiny we have found at every location.
During this election, the people serving overseas in America's
armed forces will cast virtual absentee ballots. These ballots
will be processed by a company that is based in Barcelona,
owned by one British and two Spanish private banks ( one of
which has an office in New York), has a subsidiary in Tampa,
but otherwise exists alternately in a private residence in
suburban Virginia or in a desk drawer in Baltimore's inner
harbor. This is virtual faith based voting taken to a new level of
refinement.