Reply #132: I do

[KTM]

I carry a tool bag, and my laptop bag.. but I also have been known to travel with VERY heavy pockets (and the trunk of my car is a wealth of spare parts.)

Yes, if I knew what I was working on, I'd carry spares - ESPECIALLY on ancient crap like this... never gonna find parts for it at the local PC store !

No offense, but MOST of this sory is plausible.. heavy pockets, bad CMOS battery, lost BIOS settings, whacked HD parameters - all believable.

To me, the issue is WHY was ANYONE allowed to work on the machines AFTER the election, without reps from all effected parties watching ? Isnt that the law for recount procedures ? Isnt that the same thing they locked down data for in other parts of Ohio ?

Nobody should have been allowed to touch any voting machine after the election - it should be viewed the same as having access to paper bllots, voter rolls, etc. The law was broken by allowing the tech to work on the machine - if not, if the law has a provision for technicians to fix the machines, it should be amended.

Maybe in the next election we need our own techs onsite as well.. it is SO easy to fool people who are non-technical.. a little BS, some technobabble, most non-techs will turn around and let you do your thing. Even moderately technical people are easily fooled by a confident bit of geek-speak. I used to work with a guy who had a good tech job, had gotten some certs.. but he simply didnt have a clue what he was talking about... he'd spout a little cloud of confusing geek-speak, and everyone thought he knew what he was talking about (unless a REAL uber geek such as myself happened to be there, then I would always demonstrate how he literally had no clue... but he always managed to get people to believe him if you didnt SHOW them how he was wrong.)