On Wednesday September 19th, 2012, at the Union League Club in Chicago, Defend the Vote, an Illinois-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower citizens to protect the integrity of elections, held a news conference to announce a project with Argonne National Laboratory to evaluate the election security of Chicago and Suburban Cook Country’s elections systems. This project is generously funded by Jack Roeser, Chairman and founder of Otto Engineering and Publisher of Champion News.
Speaking at the press conference was Jack Roeser, Dr Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, and Manager of the Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at Argonne National Laboratory, Republican Cook County Chairman Aaron Del Mar, and Defend the Vote Director Sharon Meroni.
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