Whistleblower Lawsuits In The News | Hart InterCivic Voting Machines Lawsuit Unsealed
According to Wired in ” Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied To Election Officials About Reliability Of Machines,” whistleblower William Singer, filed a false claims act qui tam lawsuit on the federal government’s behalf last year which was recently unsealed by the court and made public.
The whistleblower is a former technician who worked for a voting machine company based in Texas called Hart InterCivic.
The qui tam plaintiff alleged that the company lied to election officials about the accuracy, testing, reliability and security of its voting machinesin order to obtain approximately $4 billion dollars in federal government funds that Congress allocated to states in 2002 to buy new voting equipment under the Help America Vote Act (i.e., HAVA).
