Was TRIAD testing out new Total Election Management System?

[many a good man]

Photo of headquarters of Triad Government Systems. From the Xenia Economic Growth Corporation :



BLURB

In addition to the ballot tabulation program, TRIAD GSI offers a Total Election Management System, which includes a complete Voter Information System. As TRIAD DSI propels into the future, they continue to strive to expand the capabilities of their software programs using the wealth of knowledge that comes from experience, and support of customers with a determination for excellence.

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INFERENCE

Cheryl A Bellucci, allegedly the daughter of TRIAD's founder, posted some questions between January and September this year on a forum for computer programmers that may give insight to the project she was developing for this year's election. TRIAD has been in the tabulation business for 25 years but only since 2000 has it expanded into "Total Election Management." If we can assume that Ms. Belluci's questions to the Visual FoxPro (VFP) programmers' forum, www.foxite.com, are related to TRIAD's new election software, we can conjecture about how the program is meant to function.

We can infer that the objective of the FoxPro program is to connect to remote machines and process in parallel large amounts of data. Her goal was to get VFP to run multiple processes so it can both read from and write to multiple databases at the same time. It is entirely conceivable that it could connect to these databases (on the central tabulator at each polling place) through a modem bank.

QUESTIONS

I wonder if TRIAD was contracted with the BOE for tabulation only, or if it was for the more expanded "total election management" service. I would really like to see the results of the security audit it must have underwent. Was the code frozen following certification? What methods of validation and auditing were agreed to?


BACKGROUND

TRIAD is the company whose technician illegally tampered with a tabulator in front of witnesses. The company claimed it had to modify the program specially for the recount so it would only count the votes for the presidential race, instead of tallying all races on the ballot.

Folks, computers can add numbers really fast; there's no reason in the world they would have realistically needed to modify their program...The tabulator was powered down and I bet you the tech had to replace the modem so it could receive instructions to "un-rig" itself. By Ohio law only 3% of the ballots at each pre-appointed precinct had to be hand counted. If that small stack of 3% of the ballots matched the tabulator's total, no further recount is mandatory.

There's something fishy in the county of Delaware...