Reply #147: Triad Techs WERE putting software on machines from floppies for...

[demodonkey]

this recount. I heard this directly from at least one Board of Elections officer in Ohio with my own ears.

This recount was just for Presidential race. The Ohio law says you are not supposed to count any other races. Rather than just print out what the original software as used on election day prints out (and disregard anything but the Presidential results), Blackwell ordered that the counties have special software put on every machine to stop all other races (other than President) from being counted or printed out in any way.

Ohio law makes tampering with election materials and computers illegal, but notice how this sort of conflicts with the above law and of course Blackwell sides with changing the software....

Anyway this gave the Triad techs (and some indy techs) total legitimate access to be installing software onto the tabulating computers from floppies before the recount. Who knows what all else they could have installed or uninstalled?

And also software used in the recount was NOT the same software used in the original election.