An Israeli Defense Company Counting Iowa’s Votes? Not Precisely…
The widely circulated article “The Israeli Defense Company That Tallies the Iowa Caucus” may be a poison pill of sorts. It makes the claim that the firm, Voxeo, that did the final count of Iowa caucus votes during 2004, was bought by the Israeli defense contractor Elron Electronics. This ownership link may be a false claim according to a colleague:
I’m familiar with Voxeo; however, it doesn’t appear that Voxeo is
owned by Elron, though it’s true that the CEO, J Taylor, did sell his
earlier company to Elron. Chris Bollyn dropped the ball here, unless he can
prove that Voxeo is owned by Elron, which doesn’t;t appear to be the case.
Not that there aren’t many other reasons to be suspicious of the tally but this particular “link” is likely to be used to discredit legitimate suspicions if it is indeed a false link.
Posted by Dan York on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:08 | #
James,
Thank you for being one of the few who did some basic fact checking before merely reposting the article. We certainly appreciated it. As you note, we are NOT owned by an Israeli defense firm. We have now posted to our blog about this issue:
http://blogs.voxeo.com/voxeotalks/2008/01/04/voxeo-owned-by-employees-controlled-by-your-web-applications-not-israel-elron-or-aliens-from-area-51/
Thank you,
Dan (a Voxeo employee)