"the Governor, whom most Wisconsinites do not trust nor approve of has the ability to dip his hand

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in elections to some extent. Despite every precaution ever made to make it impossible for any partisan interest to influence elections, we come to a point where this may be exactly the case. We demanded a statement stating what involvement the DOA has in elections software and who writes the software, among other things. We demanded this statement by 1PM today, September 6, 2011. We went to the DOA at 2:30, met by six police officers in the lobby. They handed CJ and I an envelope with the statement we had requested copied verbatim as follows: CJ and Jeremy;

I am responding to your note from last week. I believe your questions stemmed from a Q&A with Kevin Kennedy as to whether the Government Accountability Board (GAB) has the in-house ability to evaluate the code in electronic voting equipment. Kevin’s response was no, but that in the event the GAB did decide to evaluate the code, GAB could use experts at the Department of Administration (DOA), the University of Wisconsin or outside consultants to assist them. DOA is only working on the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) and other in-house applications – not voting equipment. There is no connection between SVRS and voting equipment. Voting equipment programming is the responsibility of local election officials, who either rely on their IT staff or hire a vendor to do it.

Christopher P. Schoenherr
Office of the Secretary
Department of Administration


We didn’t get a single question answered really. We were asking about elections software, not necessarily the equipment programming itself. As you will also see he uses the term “other in-house applications” which we would assume include the software Kathy Nickolaus, the Waukesha County Clerk uses for compiling election results. While this does not answer our questions by any means and in no way shows the DOA cannot influence elections, we did decide that it left more questions and therefore we decided to respond with further questions. Our response is as follows.





First, I would like to thank you for your timely response to our questions.
We were extremely pleased to have our concerns addressed, however we have a
couple of additional concerns. We were under the impression after viewing
the Kevin Kennedy Q&A that the GAB contracted with the DOA in order to write
the software used in Kathy Nickolaus’ election software. If this is true we
would like to make a public records request for that software at this time.
If that is not the case we would like to know what agency would be able to
provide us with a public copy of that software. We would also like to know
exactly what “other in-house applications,” alludes to. We would also like
to know why, if the DOA is only working on the SVRS, which has no connection
to the voting software, does the DOA have staff on hand capable of reading
the election software. Thank you again for your swift reply and for helping
us try to untangle how our elections are held. It is of the utmost
importance to us to try to figure out how to best include the public and
make sure our elections work and are as transparent as possible and your
assistance is extremely appreciated."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/07/wisconsin-wire-update-on-governor-office-writing-election-software-two-recalls-stolen/


I'm looking forward to this public record request... I think they have 30 days to respond...

[Scuba]

1. Thank you for your rigorous pursuit of this critical issue. n/t

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3. Most people don't know that our current Secretary of the Dept. of Admin is on ALEC Payroll...

At some point the conversation veered to Mike Huebsch, Secretary of the Department of Administration, former GOP leader in the state, and former ALEC State Chair. In fact, we recently released his campaign finance report (released meaning drew attention to, it is public information) where he was paid by ALEC.

As the conversation continued, someone eventually brought up that Kevin Kennedy mentioned the Department of Administration in the seminar. Very few people, in fact, know that this office is the second most powerful in the state (second to Governors). They run practically every state department and partisan governors appoint the Secretary or head of the office. I went home and searched and searched, then realized that a fellow protester had taken video of the session. I watched the entire session and there it was: Kevin Kennedy says that the GAB does not have software developers and uses the DOA for that with elections code. But wait a second the famous election software that Kathy Nickolaus, the Waukesha County Clerk who had an incident of either gross negligence or election fraud that flipped the Supreme Court Race for David Prosser (the Republican), was written by the GAB as previously reported by the GAB, right? Guess the GAB was less than honest as Kevin clearly said, they have no developers on board so contract with the GAB.http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/31/wisconsin-wire-new-break-in-election-integrity-revealed-protesters-demand-explanation/

[AndyTiedye]

2. They Do This in Every State They Control. They Control 27 States

…with 270 electoral votes.

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4. You don't happen to have a link to those states do you?

[Sonney2020]

5. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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6. “The citizens deserve to know to what extent the DOA works on our election systems and software.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/31/wisconsin-wire-new-break-in-election-integrity-revealed-protesters-demand-explanation/