On a now-deleted website for the Chinese election company, Jinhua Yulian Network Technology Co., the statement above was written by Eugene Yu, the Founder & CEO of Konnech Inc., a U.S. election company based out of East Lansing, Michigan.
Yu, who graduated from Zhejiang University in 1982 before receiving his MBA from Wake Forest University in 1988, founded Michigan’s Konnech Inc. on March 20, 2002, registering the domain “www.konnech.com” one month later.
On November 29, 2005, the Michigan CEO whose Chinese name is Jianwei Yu (于建伟), founded his Chinese election company Jinhua Yulian Network Technology Co. in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China.
On February 25, 2006, Yu registered the website “www.yu-lian.cn” for his Chinese election company to his American election company’s email address “[email protected]”.
In a 2013 archived version of his Chinese website, Yu praised the vision of the former Chinese President “Comrade Jiang Zemin” as he wrote in Chinese:
On a website page labeled “Success Stories”, Yu listed in Chinese; “Election Management Solutions, Detroit”, “Election Volunteer Management System”, “Election District Point Management System”, “Election Warehouse Management System”, and lastly, “US Overseas Voter Election Management System”, a program in which he managed voting for U.S. citizens and military service members residing overseas.
Yu, who previously redirected traffic from his Chinese election company’s website “www.yu-lian.cn” to his American election company’s website “www.konnech.com”, even prominently featured the same banner image on top of both sites.
My investigation into Eugene Yu and Konnech Inc. began two weeks ago after Catherine Englebrecht of TrueTheVote and Gregg Phillips of OPSEC organized an event on Saturday, August 13th in Arizona called “the Pit”.
During that event, they revealed that they had been part of a year-long investigation into Konnech with federal law enforcement after discovering a Konnech server’s IP address switched locations between Zhejiang, China, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Independent tech journalist, Cognitive Carbon, who attended the Arizona event wrote:
In my own investigation, I was able to use Linkedin profiles, Facebook posts, domain registrations, internet archives, company patents, and Chinese search engines among other open-source tools to string together a disturbing connection between Konnech Inc. and two Chinese election companies — Jinhua Yulian Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co., Ltd.
Subsequently, I wrote about the connections between these companies and their two founders — Eugene Yu and Lin Yu — in three articles and numerous social media posts over the last two weeks:
U.S. Election Software Company Previously Built Confucius Institute ‘Communication Platform’
U.S. Election Company Connected To Chinese Companies, Coders, and Patents
U.S. Election Company Previously Registered Chinese Election Company’s Website
These articles document how Konnech Inc. has been hiring Chinese coders for their “branch in Jinhua, Zhejiang” since at least 2005, how the American company built a “communication platform” for the Confucius Institute in 2006, how Australian Parliament Members complained about Konnech’s Chinese coders during their 2020 election, and how one of the Chinese companies named Hongzheng Technology — after being founded by Lin Yu on April 13, 2015, and registered to Eugene Yu’s Michigan website on July 31, 2015 — has been building voting technology for China’s National People’s Congress in partnership with Lenovo, Huawei, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile.
Yesterday, an independent journalist named, Digger Sleuth — who published this monumental article on August 16th which laid the foundation for my Chinese research — discovered the archived version of Eugene Yu’s “www.yu-lian.cn”.
Incredibly, in the copyright featured at the bottom, Eugene Yu mixed an American site he registered “reddatesoft.com” with Lin Yu’s Chinese company “Jinhua Red Date Software Co.” on his Chinese election company’s website “www.yu-lian.cn” which was registered to his American election company’s email address “[email protected]”.
Perfectly linking a voting technology company currently used in Australia, Canada, and the United States — through Konnech Inc., Eugene Yu, Yulian Network Co., Lin Yu, Red Date Software Co., and Hongzheng Technology Co. — to a Chinese Communist Party election company partnered with China’s largest telecom giants in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China.
To summarize, Eugene Yu registered the Yulian Network business under his Chinese name Jianwei Yu.
The Hongzheng Technology business, an election company partnered with Lenovo, Huawei, China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China’s National People’s Congress was registered to Lin Yu.
The websites for Yulian Network and Hongzheng Technology were both registered to Eugene Yu’s Konnech email addresses, “[email protected]” and “[email protected]”.
Lin Yu worked as a supervisor for Eugene Yu at Yulian Network from 2014 until 2019.
Furthermore, Lin Yu’s Jinhua Red Date Software Co. was prominently featured on the footer of Eugene Yu’s Chinese election website “www.yu-lian.cn”.
On “www.yu-lian.cn”, the Michigan CEO openly praised “Comrade Jiang Zemin” and the “Chinese Communist Party” stating that his company’s principle is “political tasks first and economic benefits of enterprises second” before listing “Election Management Solutions, Detroit” and “US Overseas Voters” as his “Success Stories”.
Incredibly, despite all of this information sitting on the internet, Eugene Yu still currently provides voting technology at the heart of elections to Australia, Canada, and the United States.
What’s more, according to Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips, the FBI’s Washington D.C. office is now attempting to cover up this national security crisis, rather than investigating why Chinese nationals partnered with Chinese telecom giants are programming U.S. election software.
KanekoaTheGreat is an investigative journalist who covers censored topics. This article was originally published on substack.