A deep dive into a Michigan election company's patents, employees, domain registrations, and internet archives reveals an alarming Chinese connection.
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U.S. Election Company Connected To Chinese Companies, Coders, and Patents
A deep dive into a Michigan election company's patents, employees, domain registrations, and internet archives reveals an alarming Chinese connection.
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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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https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/CN-104618378-A
https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/CN-104618378-A
Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co.
金华鸿正科技有限公司
Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co. is a hardware and software provider for China’s National People's Congress (NPC).Hongzheng Technology builds technology including mobile applications for more than 400 NPC clients in more than 20 provinces across China.
Hongzheng Tech. is also partnered with Lenovo, Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile and has branch offices in Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan among other places, according to the company’s website.
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Patents Connect Konnech To Hongzheng Tech.
Shao Guojun (邵国君), Yu Jun (于君), and Yu Lin (于林) are three of seven initial investors in Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co.Interestingly, two of the seven equity holders have the last name Yu.
Yu Lin initially owned 99.4%, Shao Guojun owned 0.1%, and Yu Jun owned 0.1%.
Incredibly, on April 18, 2012, Shao Guojun and Yu Jun co-applied for a U.S. patent with none other than Konnech Inc. and Eugene Yu.
Meaning Shao Guojun not only turns up on a 2012 patent with Eugene Yu and Konnech Inc. in the United States, but his name also appears on a Chinese voting technology patent transferred from Jinhua Konnech Inc. to Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co. in 2015.
As mentioned, Hongzheng Tech. actively builds hardware and software for China's National People's Congress and is partnered with Lenovo, Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile.
After Shao Guojun (邵国君) worked as a "technical manager" at Konnech Inc., where he designed their system architecture, he went on to become a "Senior Architect" at Huawei, where he worked on the Chinese telecom giant's cloud platform architecture.
Konnech's software, including its election worker management system, is used to administer elections in Australia, Canada, and the United Sates.
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