Athan Gibbs

Athan Gibbs (activist)
Died	2004
Cause of death	car crash
Nationality	US
Interests	• Diebold • voting machines
US businessman who designed a a voting machine where the voter has an opportunity to verify that their vote has been received, recorded and counted. Died in suspicious car crash.

Athan Gibbs was a US businessman who designed a a voting machine where the voter has an opportunity to verify that their vote has been received, recorded and counted.

TruVote

After the 2000 United States presidential election, Gibbs spent about three years and roughly $2 million — including thousands of dollars from his own bank account — to develop and market the electronic vote-casting system. TruVote allows voters to touch their candidates' names on a computer screen and receive receipts of their vote at the end of the process. They can then go to a Web site, punch in their voter validation number and make sure their vote was recorded.

In an interview with Bob Fitrakis Gibbs suggested that one should look into the “people behind the other machines.” He offered that “Diebold and ES&S are real interesting and all Republicans. If you’re an investigative reporter go ahead and investigate. You’ll find some interesting material.” The interview led to Fitrakis showing that some of the same right-wing individuals who backed the CIA’s covert actions and overthrowing of democratic elections in the Third World in the 1980s are now involved in privatized touch screen voting.

Death

"Mr. Gibbs was killed about 10:30 a.m. Friday in a car crash on Interstate 65 near Eighth Avenue North as he drove from his north Nashville home to his downtown office at Tennessee State University's Business Incubation Center.

Metro police said Mr. Gibbs lost control of his Chevy Blazer after he cut in front of an 18-wheeler and the two vehicles collided. The Blazer rolled several times in the southbound lanes, went over the retaining."

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