Reply #61: One thought had the hair on my arms stick up

[jimmynochad]

I was wondering of this Diebold thing is a set up by Diebold and or GA. Are they waiting for the official release of the book to say "We never release a patch for GA elections, we had old software that did fail and now we are recertifying for next election." In the Santa Clara report, Diebold claims to have had touch screen problems in GA but they could not fix the problem in time for the election because the fix was not certified. The Santa Clara report is on the county server somewhere i am told, i have a paper copy only.

I know you have witnesses but even they could be set up someway.

Asked a programmer friend about using Access and he said something that no one has mentioned that I have read, sorry if it was...

Access does not require information in tables that are linked to be deleted in a particular order. What I mean is that while one is creating a ballot, say you make a Governor Contest with four candidates. Then for any reason, you want to delete the Governor Contest (maybe because it was improperly assigned - all legitimate reasons). You delete the Governor Contest, but in Access you do not have to delete the candidate names first. This could mean extra info that may foul up the program. For a database like SQL, you would have to work back and delete the candidates first before the overall contest name can be deleted.

As far as my qualifications to post this kind of stuff, here is my resume in the Reader's Digest form:

- Lived for 27 years in the shadows of Washington D.C.
- Parent works for NSA for over 34 years (where I get my security info).
- Know all the players mentioned in this sage save for the Rob GA guy and Spillane (although I think I met him once). Know Doug, Shawn(I am surprised he did not answer CA - he did have back surgery recently so maybe he was out and the others took it as junk mail??), Jim D., Radke, Van Pelt, Cox, Hoyer, Rush, Ney, Chet, Brit, Craft, some ESS guys, Deborah Seiler, Kathyrn Ferg., Penelope at FEC, Dill, Mercuri, Neumann, Kim A. and it goes on....
- I have yet to meet or talk with Bev but almost did once.
- I am not an election official.
- Have read all of HAVA, FEC std 1990, 2002, and at least the state laws of 25 states.
- Have very little programming skills other than learning Fortran and Basic in the 80's.
- Have followed almost every article on voting machines and every patent and published patent application on voting machines.

No cheating, Bev, or BBV admins...