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Chinese Coders Deep In Michigan Election Software Company
2022-08-23
[KANEKOAsubstack] A deep dive into a Michigan election company's patents, employees, domain registrations, and internet archives reveals an alarming Chinese connection.

Konnech Inc., a U.S. software company based out of East Lansing, Michigan, helps manage the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Although, the American technology company, which was founded in 2002, is used by the U.S. Department of Defense and 'thousands of election offices across North America', Konnech Inc., previously built a ‘communication platform’ called ChineseBrief.com for the Confucius Institute.

Furthermore, many of the company’s software engineers and employees graduated from Chinese universities such as Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing Language and Culture University, China Agricultural University, and HuaZhong University of Science and Technology.

For instance, Eugene Yu, the CEO of Konnech Inc., graduated from Zhejiang University in Zhejiang, China, with a bachelors degree in 1982 before receiving his MBA from Wake Forest University in 1988.

Moreover, in Queensland, Australia’s 2020 elections, “count reporting problems on election night” were partly the result of “a new computer system not being tested as planned because ‘coding resources’ were locked down in Wuhan”, according to the digital news company InQueensland.

In fact, these Wuhan coding resources led to four members of the Queensland Parliament — MP Crandon, MP Lister, MP Simpson, and MP Robinson — asking the Queensland Premier on July 15, 2020, why Konnech was given the contract to produce the software administering Queensland’s elections using “China based coders”?

MP Robinson asked, “Can the Premier guarantee that Konnech, Inc. does not have a connection to the Chinese Communist Party through its China based subsidiary Jinhua Konnech Inc.?”

And that is where today’s story begins.

JINHUA KONNECH INC.
Consider that a patent application was filed in China for a system of “network voting of absent electorates” by Jinhua Konnech Inc. on February 4, 2015, for an inventor named Shao Guojun (邵国君).

The rights of that patent were then transferred on October 7, 2015, from Jinhua Konnech Inc. to Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co., Ltd. (金华鸿正科技有限公司), a Chinese election technology company, which was also founded in 2015.
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Posted by:NoMoreBS

#4  /\ "No good" for cheating on a large scale.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-23 17:23  

#3  Explain again why paper ballots are no good?
Posted by: AlanC   2022-08-23 15:03  

#2  If you think about it, nefarious foreigners of all varieties would most likely support the election of the least competent candidates. It’s simply a coincidence that those are most commonly democrats.
Posted by: Griter Slash1619   2022-08-23 13:57  

#1  This is one of the many reasons why I wasn't worried when Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan. Pelosi and Biden are so badly corrupted by the Chinese communists that she would never do anything they didn't want her to do. It was all for show to make it look like they're not corrupted.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-08-23 12:33  

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