Bob Urosevich

Robert J. Bob Urosevich [http://www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=2861 THE STATE OF GEORGIA AWARDS NATION'S LARGEST VOTING CONTRACT TO DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS] , Diebold Inc. press release. May 3, 2002 ] has been a noted member of the election systems industry since the 1970s, founding and operating numerous companies that supply voting systems to the majority of United States.

Election industry

Urosevich founded American Information Systems (now know as Election Systems & Software) in 1979 and served as president until 1992. In 1995 Urosevich started I-Mark Systems Inc. which produced touchscreen voting systems and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and New Business Development. In 1997 I-Mark was aquired by Global Election Systems and by 2000 was named President and Chief Operating Officer. [http://www.thinkswiss.org/documents/ThinkSwiss_Profiles%20Delegation%20Template%20for%20Website_V_2_0.pdf Profiles of the Swiss Delegation for the Workshop and Presentations on E-Voting] ] In 2002 Global Election Systems was aquired by Diebold, Inc. and the name was changed to Diebold Election Systems, Inc. with Urosevich serving as President

In November 2006 Mr. Urosevich was named "Managing Director Scytl Americas" for Spanish Internet voting company Scytl.Scytl was formed as a spin-off from a research group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona which was funded by the Spanish Government's Ministry of Science and Technolog. [ [http://www.scytl.com/eng/acerca.htm About Scytl] ]

Georgia 2002 election

On July 17, 2008 Stephen Spoonamore, a longtime Republican operative, [ [http://www.alternet.org/democracy/94895/republican_computer_security_expert_explains_why_electronic_voting_can_never_be_trusted/ Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted, Says GOP Computer Security Expert] ] made the claim that had "fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections." Spoonamore is "the founder and until recently the CEO of Cybrinth LLC, an information technology policy and security firm that serves Fortune 100 companies." He claims that Diebold Election Systems Inc. President Bob Urosevich personally installed a computer patch on voting machines in two counties in Georgia, and that the patch did not fix the problem it was supposed to fix. [ [http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Cybersecurity_expert_raises_allegations_of_2004_0717.html GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election] , The Raw Story] Reports have indicated that then Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox did not know the patch was installed until after the election. [ [http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_Georgia_was_warned_of_0730.html Documents show Georgia's Secretary of State knew of Diebold patch] , The Raw Story]

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