Reply #11: Back to Cox.

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For those who've supported her, not hard to see why -- she's a smooth operator.

But ever ask yourself why she has fought so hard to keep paper ballots off the Diebold Election System, defeating our efforts for the past 3 legislative sessions and thereby leaving Georgia's voting system unauditable?

Ever wonder why she didn't decertify Diebold like Kevin Shelley did in California, after finding out that they put unauthorized patches on the system just before the 2002 election? Why she made excuses for them? Why she let them get away with it? Why she let them get away with not training poll workers on creating ballot definition files in 2002, so that Diebold ended up getting that job (ballot definition files are a good insertion point for a Trojan Horse, according to the Brennan Report (http://www.brennancenter.org/).

Ever wonder why she had election law changed after Diebold came to town so that it takes a court order to count paper ballots in GA?

And then there's the matter of the fact that she probably knew that the system wasn't secure before the 2004 election because the gov. asked the Georgia Technology Authority to look into security on the machines, they brought in ISS, and ISS said the system wasn't secure and couldn't be secured in time for the 2004 election.

But no one from her office or the election division bothered to tell the public.

And then there's the matter of her amendment to the Diebold contract to upgrade the software for security reasons immediately AFTER that election, in December 2004. The contract includes them erasing the old software and loading the new -- which just happened to leave them useless for forensics if anyone had managed to get a lawsuit going?

A bit hard to make excuses for that behavior, but guess she thinks that people don't care enough to be paying attention and she can just talk her way out of everything.