Reply #80: Doug Jones: ". .replacing a dead battery . . . no need to patch anything"

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http://rawstory.com/exclusives/programmer5_1215.php

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

In an affidavit filed along with the Cobb-Badnarik-Kerry filing that added recount tampering to their lawsuit, Professor of Computer Science Douglas Jones asserts that Triad Election Systems' visits to local Board of Elections compromises the credibility and integrity of the Ohio recount.

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15. The Eaton Affidavit states that the representative stated that he could "put a patch on and fix it." This assertion, and its wording, are both troubling. The reported justification for working on th voting machine in th first place was a dead battery. If one is simply replacing a dead battery on a voting machine, there is no need to patch anything; "patching" suggests that there is a more serious problem with the machine than merely a dead battery, particularly in light of the pending recount. In general, the word "patch" used in the context of computer systems refers to changes to the software, . . .

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