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Wisconsin aftermath: Voters have good reason "not" to believe Scott Walker won election... [View all]
Last edited Mon Jul 23, 2012, 02:36 AM - Edit history (1)
The above audio was not recorded very loud... even with my computer amplified speakers, I have to turn the volume way up to hear it... so if you can not hear it, turn up your volume...
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Meet control central... Wisconsin votes from 3000 machines tallyed in Minesota
above documentary.
400,000 votes still missing from WI state data (Bev Harris )
Just the facts... http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/81631.html?1302494155
Black Box Voting: WISCONSIN VOTE SPREAD 29,207? 7,500? Or 6,744?
Meet Command Central, the uncertified out of state People in Charge of many of Wisconsin Voting Machines
Meet the women in charge
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This is the woman who has control over the programming of 3,000 voting machines in 46 districts in the State of Wisconsin.
Regardless of her achievements, whenever anyone is given the sole responsibility to program our voting machines, we are placing the vitality of our entire democracy in their hands.
Forty-six Wisconsin counties and 3,000 voting machines are being controlled by a two-person company operating out of a strip mall in Minnesota.
By law, voting machines must be publicly tested prior to every election. A Programmable Read Only Memory (P.R.O.M.) pack or cartridge is used to reprogram the machines with the details of the current election. Clerks receive two PROM packs from Command Central: A PRE-LAT, which is used a week or so before the election for the public test, and an Official pack used on Election Day. Whoever programs the PROM packs has the ability to inject all the machines with a virus that will flip votes only on Election Day. With two different PROM packs in play, its easy to see how public tests could be flawless and the machines could still flip votes Election Day.
In his report of his experience with the November 2010 gubernatorial election for Scott Walker, John Washburn, an election integrity investigator and professional software tester for almost 20 years, states, I have been to dozens of voting system test sessions and have never seen any of this faux testing actually test the voting system software correctly. This is the professional opinion of a software tester testing software since 1994.
Washburn also filed an open records request with Command Central to examine the PROM packs from the July 15, 2011 recall election in wards 1-4 in Fox Point. When they responded that it would cost him $450, Washburn filed a complaint alleging that Command Central LLC wasnt cooperative in responding to the open records request.
Command Central Makes Its MoveA Shady Deal With WI County Clerks
Last September, Election Integrity investigators discovered that unbeknownst to average citizens of Wisconsin, Command Central sent those 46 districts an offer: trade out your old Optech Insight Scanner for two DRE Touch Screen models, at no charge. The Optech machine is the one that paper ballots are fed through to read and register the votes.
While these machines are also susceptible to hacking (see Rep. Pridemore explain how to game the machine) in the case of a recount, it is possible to physically monitor the paper ballots as they are fed through the machine to see if they match the machine totals.
With DRE Touch Screens, however, ones vote could be flipped and one would never know because there is no receipt or paper trail voters receive to confirm their vote was counted as voted. All that is left is a paper tape that shows votes and vote totals. If the machine is hacked, those totals have no other verifiable trail to confirm the results.
And yet according to John Washburn, this swap-out two-for-one offer violates the statutes issued by the GAB for State approved system as described on the Government Accountability Boards website that requires the inclusion of an Optech Insight Scanner.
On January 13, 2012, Washburn emailed the GAB about this situation. When he did not receive an answer, he submitted an Open Records request to the GAB, with no reply. On May 2, he submitted another, again to no response. On May 4, he turned the case over to Dane County Attorney, and on May 14 he kicked it up to the Department of Justice.
Why is Command Central offering free machines? Why does the GAB not respond? Will the Department of Justice respond in time to help protect our June 5th recall elections?
Are these the tough questions (tough decisions Walker's out of state Koch money had a hand in) the clerks were being trained to answer?
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http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/04/400000-votes-still-missing-from-wi-state-data-bev-harris/
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Wisconsin aftermath: Voters have good reason "not" to believe Scott Walker won election... [View all]
itsrigged
Jul 2012
OP
I did not know that. But he made a big effort to post all of this. I second your welcome.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#2
This is a great post, thanks. I'm not aware of whatever it was that Bev Harris did...
Scuba
Jul 2012
#3
Thanks... neither was I nor have they been specific on just what it was she did do that was so bad..
itsrigged
Jul 2012
#5