BradBlog: Terms of 'Independent' (FL-13) State Run Audit, Source Code Review Dictated by ES&S

[Wilms]

BREAKING FL-13: NEW UNDISCLOSED LETTER OF AGREEMENT FROM ES&S TO STATE UNEARTHED!

Brad Friedman

3/24/2007

The private voting machine company which manufactured the touch-screen hardware and software used during Sarasota, Florida's contested District 13 Congressional election between Christine Jennings (D) and Vern Buchanan (R) sent a letter in December of 2006 to David Drury, the chief of the state's Bureau of Voting Systems Certification, dictating the terms of the state-run audit convened to investigate the causes for massive undervote rate which seems to have tipped the election.

The extraordinary 3-page letter (posted in full at the end of this article) from Electronic Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) Vice President, Steven Pearson, is described as an "agreement" and instructs Drury on what may and may not be disclosed in the state's final audit report regarding the investigation.

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4321


Give the LBN Post a shove.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2780497

[bleever]

1. It's like the bank lost your deposit, and it's your burden to find the point

in their complex system where it happened. Otherwise, it's NO DICE.

And, you can't talk to anyone in the system. So shut up.

[kster]

2. Good news, We, ES&S can keep counting your votes in secret

We found this letter that proves that it was ALL, the election workers fault YEAH YEAH

THATS THE TICKET!!

[Contrite]

3. Oh, I see.

They carefully avoid the possibility that someone could have swapped out the memory cards, or that the touch screens could have been calibrated to not record votes unless a fingertip pressed the selection for several seconds.

They focus on the SOFTWARE (the burden of proof is on the investigator to prove something in the software which cannot even be reviewed because it is "proprietary"). And they state that it is ASSUMED that security was not breeched--which is the NUMBER ONE problem here--that security was probably definitely breeched but if they assume otherwise, how does one go about showing it?

And, they get to review the entire report and submit their OWN "commentary" (or interpretation or excuse).

[kster]

4. BOTTOM LINE, If they (THE Politicians) are able to convince us

that everything is A-OK. then. they (the Politicians) can proceed ahead with their secret vote counting machines.

We always thought that we had to explain all of this to every American, BUT, the People that know what these BALLOT COUNTING HACKS are doing, FAR OUT NUMBER the Politicians,


AND THEY (THE POLITICIANS) KNOW IT!!

[Contrite]

5. Yes, and it is becoming more obvious.

Despite the multitude of efforts to explain it to them, they remain willfully (or seemingly) ignorant.