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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 3968
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 5 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 5:53 pm: | 
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This report, quietly released by CBS after an internal investigation into how the election was erroneously called in 2000, gives a minute by minute description. Most chilling was the response to Dan Rather's concerns as to why the network had not pulled back its call for Bush, even after they knew that it was called erroneously, due to minus 16,022 votes uploaded in Volusia County, Florida.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/CBSreport.pdf
When asked when they will pull the bad call for Bush, the president of CBS News, Andrew Heyward, wants to know what Gore is going to do. Gore had been misled into conceding the election to Bush based on the minus 16,022 Volusia County votes, and was in a car just two blocks away from conceding to the nation when he learned that the projected results were bogus.
This report shows that there is no question the election was wrongfully called due to Volusia County. It attributes them to some sort of glitch. It now appears more likely that a Volusia County memory card was tampered with to produce the number of votes needed to call the election for Bush, in hopes that Gore could be induced to concede prematurely.
In fall 2003, we revealed for the first time on this Web site that the real reason for the minus 16,022 votes was a replacement memory card. An internal memo from Diebold's master programmer, Talbot Iredale, points to the uncomfortable fact that there were two memory cards. The first results, the correct results, were uploaded from card #0. The minus 16,022 were uploaded from card #3. No one seems to be able to account for where memory card #3 came from or where it went after the fateful upload.
Here is the Talbot Iredale e-mail:
http://www.bbvdocs.org/FL/volusia/minus-16022/msg00069.html
Here are the earlier messages. Note the cryptic comment from John McLaurin as they try to figure out an explanation to offer auditors: "keeping in mind that the boogie man may me [sic] reading our mail."
http://www.bbvdocs.org/FL/volusia/minus-16022/msg00068.html
Note: The machines are now called Diebold, but were then called Global Election Systems. This is the AccuVote optical scan machine, the version that Harri Hursti hacked in Leon County, Florida on May 26 and Dec. 13, 2005.
The full set of the leaked Diebold e-mails and files here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/7659/9447.html
Note that some of the most sensitive files were pruned out of the e-mails, either before they were leaked or by the individual who leaked them to me. The missing files contain a huge set of Georgia bug references from the "Rob Georgia" era, and the missing files include the original Volusia County minus 16,022 correspondence. Whoever pruned the files probably missed the Talbot Iredale and related correspondence linked above because, as you can see, the subject line had been changed. The missing files are either in the hands of the good guys, or the bad guys (in which case they may have been destroyed). |
Brant Lamb
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Brantl
Post Number: 1682
Registered: 1-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 1:31 pm: |
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It would be nice to know if that precinct had only one ballot scanner, and what the population of the precinct is (does it exceed the positive integer limit of a signed number?) It also would be nice, if this is a multimachine accumulated result, to know if their software that totals the numbers, is using a signed integer or not, and seeing if it "rolls over" the counter (like an odometer with 999,999.99 with one additional 1/10th of a mile goes to all zeroes).
Hard to tell exactly what kind of use created this negative number (which shouldn't ever be allowed to happen in a voting machine, natch). |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 7324
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 1:57 pm: |
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The precinct had only a couple hundred legitimate voters. One scanner.
No multiple precinct machines, GEMS program may have been involved, look in the Florida forum, Glades County for a copy of the GEMS program in use at that time along with real vote databases from Glades County, 2004.
Memory card - Accuvote 1.94 - GEMS
Those are the moving parts. Citizens would like to see no moving parts. |
Brant Lamb
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Brantl
Post Number: 1695
Registered: 1-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, January 7, 2008 - 5:53 am: |
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That pretty much blows all the accidental loopholes out of the situation, then. |
elaine w
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Elaine_w
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2008
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 1:47 pm: |
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Bev, i admire your activism. there is clearly a system of checks & balances that is missing in this system & no accountability, & there seems to be some conflict of interest going on. i'll help if there's anything that can be done. |
Catherine Ansbro
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Catherine_a
Post Number: 4309
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 1:59 pm: |
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Hi Elaine,
The Citizens Tool Kit is a great place to start. There are lots of practical ideas and maybe something there will appeal to you.
Here's a direct link. (It's also on the BBV home page near the upper left.) |
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