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Bellevue-based election-security company VoteHere has settled a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said he was fired because he'd complained that the company's software was riddled with security defects.
Neither side would say whether Daniel Spillane, the software engineer, received a payment in the settlement.
"We have resolved the matter to our mutual satisfaction and have agreed that we are in pursuit of many of the same goals for election reform," Spillane's attorney, Stan Lippmann, said.
VoteHere manages online elections and markets software intended to verify the accuracy of electronic voting machines. The privately held company, founded in 1996, has shifted its focus in the past two years from producing electronic-balloting systems to selling software to manufacturers of electronic voting machines. As questions have grown in recent months about the integrity of electronic voting, critics have proposed that voting machines print paper ballots that could be used in manual recounts.
Instead, VoteHere is developing software that would allow voters to verify that their vote was correctly recorded and counted on election night. The company has struck a deal with one of the major electronic-voting companies, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., to put its verification software into Sequoia machines next year.
********and basically........this explains why Mr. Spillane seems to have gotten a bit 'cold' about the whole BBV stuff a few months back. He will probably be very well off for life.........turncoats..they are EVERYWHERE!
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