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Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group, Inc. - New Information about Paul Craft and Kate McGregor

By Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition

June 23, 2006

Florida Fair Elections Coalition has obtained the employment records for Paul Craft and Kate McGregor from the Florida Division of Elections (DoE). These employment records include disturbing information about the lack of credentials for both Craft and McGregor, two of the three partners in Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group, Inc., a private consulting firm that is in the powerful position of advising states (including California, Illinois and Maryland) about the accuracy, security, certification and purchases of their voting systems.

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Paul Craft

Until his resignation from the Florida Division of Elections (DoE), effective November 30, 2005, Paul Craft was Chief of Florida’s Bureau of Voting Systems Certification. He continues to be one of 8 members of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) Voting Systems Board and one of 3 members of the Technical Sub-Committee of that board. He is also a member of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) for voting system standards for National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST).

We believe it is a conflict of interest for Craft to have a private consulting firm and to remain a member of the NASED Voting Systems Board, which puts its stamp of approval on voting systems, and on the TGDC Committee. (Many states require a system to be NASED approved before those systems can be purchased or used in any election). Craft is in the position of approving testing by the so-called Independent Testing Authorities (ITAs) which are paid to do the testing of voting systems by the voting system companies themselves. The ITAs have shown on a number of occasions that their first loyalty is to the voting machine vendors.

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Kate McGregor

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Notably, McGregor’s MCF Group resumé states that she was a partner in “Creative Computer Consultants” for 71/2 years (from March 1994 to December 2001) in Tallahassee, Florida. However, her DoE employment records state that during this entire period and longer (from December 1992 through September 2002) she was working as the Manager of the Leon Pub, a bar in Leon County. She lists her job duties at the pub as serving customers, preparing product orders, preparing tax returns and maintaining accounts payable. Additionally, we have been unable to find any record or history of "Creative Computer Consultants" ever having existed in Tallahassee, Florida.

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http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1421&Itemid=26

should be working in a circus side show, what freaks!

Anyone can create a fake organization and give themselves a title.

Hey, look at me - I am a consultant!

I don't have any academic background, but I will say what you need
me to say in my report.

Just pay me!!!

Oh, and "burp". Nice touch. LOL

:toast:

& So is Wilms...............