Reply #171: I guess that explains Bevs motives....

[ParanoidPat]

.....but what about the rest of us? :shrug:

Can you please tell me why my friends and I have been working 16 or more hours a day on this. Can you explain why we put ourselves at risk of being considered 'terrorists' who are trying to undermine the electoral process in this country? Would you let us all know what we stand to gain from all of this other than the knowledge that our votes will count in the next election? :shrug:

All I am is a screen name on a web site. Nobody knows who the hell I am and they sure don't know the others involved in what we're doing. We are NOT in any way associated with Bevs group. With any luck NO ONE will ever know who we are and that's just fine with us. :)

So I ask again, What's our motive? Why would we lie about something that is actively being looked at by others and soon be exposed?

On occasion when they think they've found something they may ask us to verify what they are seeing. Those requests are made in the broadest possible terms. We're simply asked things like, "what do you think of this routine?". First we check the documentation to see what the intended function is 'per the Diebold manual'. Only then do we look at the source code and 'follow the logic' of how the hardware will respond to what the software is asking it to do. We then relay our concerns back to them. Only after we have described our assessment of the situation do they tell us if we're in agreement on interpretation of the logic path. So far we've found no evidence that their people are misinterpreting the logic flow. :)

I can equate the voting system to a 'high tech' chess game. Only in this game the board is on multiple levels and is a mile square with thousands of pieces! It takes a team of players to see what's going on on all the levels and from every angle of the board. The difference between how we're playing the game and how Diebold plays it is simple.

Diebold holds their game in private, behind closed doors with only invited players. Then they invite us to bet on the outcome. They don't allow us to see how the game is actually played, they only give us a book of rules and swear they played by them. We only get to see the outcome of the game after it's over. They only show us the final position of the pieces. You are forbidden to watch the game in progress. If the game is questioned, they go back behind closed doors and replay the game. When the doors reopen, even if all the pieces are not in the same final position, they declare the same outcome and victory for one side.

We just took the game and opened it to the public. Anyone can play and anyone can see for themselves how the moves are made. The best part about how we play the game is that in the end everyone wins. :bounce:

So umm, what's my motive? :evilgrin: