DuPage County Illinois Signed “Anti-Transparency Contract” with Dominion Voting Systems

DuPage County Illinois Signed “Anti-Transparency Contract” with Dominion Voting Systems – Company Pushed County to Resist Release of Information
Date: January 28, 2021Author: Nwo Report  




Source: Jim Hoft
What was this about?
Dominion Voting Systems signed an anti-transparency contract with DuPage County Illinois. Dominon encouraged DuPage County to resist release of information on their voting systems.
Illinois Leaks reported:
When people are denied public records they routinely reach out to us for assistance and more often than not, we are able to request the same records and we get them. When this happens it is an indicator of a problem because if we are able to get those records, so too should others.
The DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek and her Chief Deputy Scott Mackay signed a contract with Dominion Voting Systems Inc. on January 24, 2020. After a copy of that contract was requested by an individual and denied, we were asked to assist in getting the same records. Our Freedom of Information Act request was granted and we find the Dominion Voting Systems encouragements to avoid transparency very troubling.
From the Contract:

• 8. Customer shall take any and all action necessary or appropriate to assert all applicable or potentially applicable exemptions from disclosure under the FOIA Statute and take all other legally permissible steps to resist disclosure of the Information including, without limitation, commencement or defense of any legal actions related to such disclosure. In the event Customer receives a request for Information under the FOIA Statute, Customer shall inform Dominion of such request within ten (10) days of Customer’s knowledge or such shorter period as necessary under the FOIA Statute to avoid prejudice to Dominion’s ability to oppose disclosure, Dominion shall use its best efforts to assist and support Customer’s exercise of any statutory exemption in denying a records request under the Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140/1 et seq.). In the event that Customer becomes subject to fines, costs or fees pursuant to Section 11 of the Freedom of Information Act (5 ICLS 140/11) relying upon Dominion’s claim that the information requested is exempt, Dominion shall indemnify Customer for those fines, fees and costs, notwithstanding any other provisions In this agreement. In the event Customer is required by court order to disclose any of the Information, Customer shall give written notice to Dominion at the earlier as soon as reasonably practical after tile imposition of such an order.
  

There are exemptions under FOIA regarding trade secrets and we understand such exemptions and their applicability to certain information.  However, the language in this contract focuses on encouraging, in fact, instructing the County that they “shall” take any and all action necessary or appropriate to assert “potentially applicable exemptions from disclosure” and to take all other legally permissible steps to resist disclosure of the information.
Read the rest here.


https://nworeport.me/2021/01/28/dupage-county-illinois-signed-anti-transparency-contract-with-dominion-voting-systems-company-pushed-county-to-resist-release-of-information/

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