Reply #16: interesting...

[sendero]

... as someone who has worked on similar small-computer systems, I can tell you the scenario depicted by Rob is unsettlingly familiar.

Trying to get machines running on a tight deadline do-or-die is every techs nightmare.

But I'm curious about some stuff. First, the picture painted in the interview is more one of a lot of rampant incompetence than a controlled vote theft. On the other hand, one could make the case that what better way to sneak a black patch onto the systems under the radar than to create a fabricated need to go into "we don't have time for protocol" mode. Would probably be easy to do.

It would be very interesting to know if other states, using the same model machine, had similar last minute problems. Especially states where the outcome of the election was pretty much as predicted by the polling.

Because if the last minute mad dash only happened in the "strange result" states, well, theres another brick in the wall.