Unfortunately you can't cut and paste the content out of these memos - it turns to garbage... but this one deals with advice to Diebold on how to deal with the State of California's request to produce documents.
It is more than clear from this document that Diebold's lawyers were doing all they could to obstruct this discovery process. The memo states among other things that they want to figure out what the state already has via the original FTP site screw up so as not to get caught out.
They also talk about the "smoking gun" request, opining that their client "may need to obtain emails, if possible, regarding state certification of uncertified software. We need to devise a plan to locate responsive documents to this request."
...You have a point though.. and I am under instructions to improve the design and look of this page. In my defence it is the FLAGRANT USE OF CAPITALS when they are inapropriate that is SYMPTOMATIC of the geocities brigade... not the use of capitals per se. In our case we use capitals, small capitals, to denote outside links and stories... I think that stylistically this is not bad.
And before you start pushing the P button too hard. The fact is that unless websites like ours had given this story a run - you would not have been discussing this here and now. In fact you would still be paying millions of dollars to these space cowboys to provide you with crap software that probably hasn't been counting your votes correctly.
Many of the holes in the software we have found are old... possibly more than a decade old... it is not just the DRE's that have problems.
And for those seeking a quick link to the real oil it is here..
Bev Harris: Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines Bev Harris: Electronic Voting Machines Blasted by Scientists, Hacked by Author
Bev Harris's Latest - Diebold Rebuttals Don't Stand Up
&
Sludge Report #154 - Bigger Than Watergate!
This particular bit of secret source is of course no longer particularly secret.
See...
A Very American Coup... Here at Scoop where we broke this story we are seeking to get the word out about this page which will carry our ongoing work on the subject. Please have a squizz.
And if you look carefully you will find the link to where the secret source remains online and downloadable...
Finally... online media buffs Check out our appeal to the online independent media related to this story.
A followup story on the Voting machine scoop.
Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00078.htm
This story fillis in a few details left out of the first couple of volleys. It shows that Diebold is in the habit of lying about its systems to election supervisors. Quoting people working on the Georgia election system rollout it shows that the FTP site discussed in yesterday's scoop was being used extensively in the run-up to the 2002 mid-term election. Finally it illustrates that "quality control" and "testing" are dirty words at Diebold Elections Systems.
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It is interesting to have a look at what these guys want back... So far the Tribune has only touched the surface of these documents.
Included in the set of links at the Bev Harris story linked in the original post is a particularly damning memo
This One
Unfortunately you can't cut and paste the content out of these memos - it turns to garbage... but this one deals with advice to Diebold on how to deal with the State of California's request to produce documents.
It is more than clear from this document that Diebold's lawyers were doing all they could to obstruct this discovery process. The memo states among other things that they want to figure out what the state already has via the original FTP site screw up so as not to get caught out.
They also talk about the "smoking gun" request, opining that their client "may need to obtain emails, if possible, regarding state certification of uncertified software. We need to devise a plan to locate responsive documents to this request."
What do you reckon this means...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00199 .htm
As related by Bev Harris and purveyed to you today by Scoop.co.nz (Via DU) who broke the original Diebold story.
I have followed your advice and stuck a set of links to the real oil at the top of the page on my Scoop blog/magazine/whatever.
...You have a point though.. and I am under instructions to improve the design and look of this page. In my defence it is the FLAGRANT USE OF CAPITALS when they are inapropriate that is SYMPTOMATIC of the geocities brigade... not the use of capitals per se. In our case we use capitals, small capitals, to denote outside links and stories... I think that stylistically this is not bad. And before you start pushing the P button too hard. The fact is that unless websites like ours had given this story a run - you would not have been discussing this here and now. In fact you would still be paying millions of dollars to these space cowboys to provide you with crap software that probably hasn't been counting your votes correctly. Many of the holes in the software we have found are old... possibly more than a decade old... it is not just the DRE's that have problems. And for those seeking a quick link to the real oil it is here.. Bev Harris: Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines Bev Harris: Electronic Voting Machines Blasted by Scientists, Hacked by Author Bev Harris's Latest - Diebold Rebuttals Don't Stand Up & Sludge Report #154 - Bigger Than Watergate!
Go to Google, type "ROTK Trailer" into the box and click the "I am feeling lucky" button.
This particular bit of secret source is of course no longer particularly secret. See... A Very American Coup... Here at Scoop where we broke this story we are seeking to get the word out about this page which will carry our ongoing work on the subject. Please have a squizz. And if you look carefully you will find the link to where the secret source remains online and downloadable... Finally... online media buffs Check out our appeal to the online independent media related to this story.
A followup story on the Voting machine scoop. Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00078 .htm
This story fillis in a few details left out of the first couple of volleys. It shows that Diebold is in the habit of lying about its systems to election supervisors. Quoting people working on the Georgia election system rollout it shows that the FTP site discussed in yesterday's scoop was being used extensively in the run-up to the 2002 mid-term election. Finally it illustrates that "quality control" and "testing" are dirty words at Diebold Elections Systems.