2000

Right before the 2000 elections, In September 2000, Global bought a company owned by convicted felon Jeffrey Dean and made him senior vice president.

Global bought convicted felon Dean’s company for $4 million and an SEC filing (obtained by Bev Harris) shows that, after his release from prison, Dean became the largest shareholder of Global (Diebold precursor)

Global hired a convicted cocaine trafficker, John Elder (who met Dean in prison), to oversee punch card printing in several states. Punch cards can be “rigged” by cutting them so that the “chads” are more or less difficult to dislodge.