Re: OT Schwarzenegger Attempting To Rig California Voting Machines
- From: dxAce <dxAce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:54:54 -0500
David wrote:
> - permission to reprint, with link to http://blackboxvoting.org -
>
> UPDATE ON CALIFORNIA DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE "HACK" TESTING
>
> Letter faxed and mailed Dec. 9, 2005
> To: California Secretary of State, Bruce McDannold, cc: Bruce
> McPherson
> From: John S. Baker, Atty at Law, Dorsey & Whitney So. Cal. Office
>
> ?I represent Black Box Voting, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit
> 501c(3)
> corporation. On June 16, 2005, Black Box Voting sent a request to
> examine the Diebold Election Systems component: the programmed
> ?electronic ballad box? memory cards used in optical scan and touch
> screen voting systems (?Component?). This request was made pursuant
> to California Elections Code Section 19202 (?19202 Request?), which
> provides:
>
> ANY PERSON OR CORPORATION OWNING OR BEING INTERESTED IN ANY
> VOTING SYSTEM OR PART OF A VOTING SYSTEM MAY APPLY TO THE
> SECRETARY OF STATE TO EXAMINE IT AND REPORT ON ITS ACCURACY
> AND EFFICIENCY TO FULFILL TIS PURPOSE. THE SECRETARY OF STATE
> SHALL COMPLETE HIS EXAMINATION WITHOUT UNDUE DELAY.
>
>
> ?In the 19202 Request, Black Box Voting asked that the Component be
> evaluated for five possible flaws with respect to: the latest optical
> scan
> systems (firm wear 1.96.4); the paperless touch screen, as used in
> Alameda
> County on November 2, 2004; the new TSx system proposed for
> certification;
> and any older optical scan model still in use in California. A copy
> of the 19202
> Request is attached for your convenience.
>
> ?Even though Section 19202 requires the Secretary of State to complete
> his
> or her examination without ?undue delay?, Black Box Voting did not
> receive
> a response to its Request until Saturday, November 19, 2005. In that
> response, you indicated that the Secretary of State would afford Black
> Box
> Voting an opportunity to demonstrate the vulnerabilities with the
> Diebold
> AccuVote-Os, based on the exploits outlined in the Hursti report. You
> also
> stated that Diebold agreed to make their equipment and their staff
> available
> for such tests on November 30, 2005, at the California Secretary of
> State?s
> office, 1500 11th Street, Sacramento. In connection with your
> response,
> you attached a document that provided the ?actual protocol and
> conditions?
> (?Protocols?) for the proposed test.
>
> ?Unfortunately, the Protocols, which were written by Diebold, were
> seriously flawed, because they contemplated testing equipment that
> was specifically hand-picked by Diebold, rather than randomly sampling
> voting machines that were currently in existence and being utilized.
> The
> proposed test system (Optical Scan terminal 1.96.6) was of a type that
> had
> not been certified or used in California and was not an item requested
> for
> examination in my client?s 19202 request. However, my clients would
> be
> willing to evaluate this item, but only in addition to the requested
> items. The
> test also contemplated that Diebold would control all of the
> conditions,
> despite the fact that it had a vested interest in the outcome of the
> test and
> would stand to lose millions of dollars if the test showed flaws in
> the voting
> systems created by Diebold. My clients have other concerns with the
> initial
> test protocols; for example the time limits were listed as ?required?
> but were
> left blank. We can discuss these issues once a proper dialog on these
> issues
> is established. A copy of your response and the Protocols are
> attached as
> Exhibit 2.
>
> ?On November 22, 2005, less than two business days after you sent your
> response, you sent an e-mail at 5:11 p.m. stating that if Black Box
> Voting
> would like to participate in the test it would have to respond by
> 10:00 a.m.
> the following morning. You also said that the time of the test would
> be moved
> from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A true and correct copy of your November
> 22, 2005
> response is attached as Exhibit 3.
>
> ?Less than three hours after receiving your November 22 e-mail, Black
> Box
> Voting responded by suggesting that the Protocols be changed by
> selecting
> machines from certain County election offices which have not shown a
> bias
> for Diebold. Unfortunately, you have never responded to this
> correspondence
> or permitted the inspection, despite Black Box Voting?s reasonable
> request under
> California Election Code Section 19202. As such, the Secretary of
> State has
> clearly violated Section 19202.
>
> ?Accordingly, please contact me upon receipt of this letter as to
> whether
> the Secretary of State will allow Black Box Voting?s 19202 Inspection
> and,
> if so, which Protocols he is agreeable to. If we do not receive a
> response
> to this letter by December 16, 2005, Black Box Voting will be forced
> to pursue
> other available legal remedies.?
>
> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
> END OF ATTORNEY LETTER
> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
>
> From Black Box Voting:
>
> AT ISSUE
> Procedures to be negotiated include:
>
> 1) The secrecy provisions written by Diebold -- Black Box Voting takes
> the
> position that all facets of the test should be open to the public and
> to the media
>
> 2) Access and time limits -- Diebold wrote that a time limit would be
> set but
> did not specify whether it would be 30 seconds or two weeks. Diebold
> left
> a "blank" after the time limit item
>
> Diebold involvement in writing procedures sent to Black Box Voting by
> Calif.
> Secretary of state:
>
> The California Secretary of State provided written testing procedures
> to
> Black Box Voting in the form of a Word Document.
>
> A review of the "properties" feature on this electronic document
> reveals that
> it was written by Steve Pelletier of Diebold Election Systems, then
> sent to
> Black Box Voting from the Secretary of State's office as the Secretary
> of State's
> proposed testing protocols.
>
> It is the position of Black Box Voting that the vendor should not be
> involved in
> nor control the testing of this system.
>
> * * * END * * *Black Box Voting
>
> ,
Hey, dumbfuck, just how do you get "Schwarzenegger Attempting To Rig California
Voting Machines" out of that?
Go take your meds, dumbass 'tard boy.
LMFAO at the stem.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
.
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