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Author Message   Jim March Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Jimmarch Post Number: 142 Registered: 01-2005 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 5:26 pm:        This is mostly connected with the hunt for TSx serial numbers in places where they've been recently installed. This will be cross-referenced with the serial numbers of TSxes that were pulled out from areas where they were kicked out - and used machines were possibly put back on the market to be sold as new. ------------- BLACK BOX VOTING 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 Renton, WA 98055 (425) 793-1030 April 6th 2006 Public Records Request #040606A Responding agency: Utah Lt. Governor’s Office Attn: Ashlee Cutler Utah State Capitol Complex East Office Building, Suite E325 PO Box 142220 Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-2220 This is a request for information and documents relating to Utah’s dealings with Diebold Elections Systems Inc. (“DESI”). We request these documents in electronic form where possible, and can exchange same in e-mail for our mutual convenience. Please remit any such documents, or a cost estimation for same to the address above, or e-mail the cost/time-to-prepare letter to this e-mail address: records@blackboxvoting.org 1) We request copies of all memos, correspondence, e-mails and the like between your office and DESI going back one year. 2) Any list of Diebold machines installed in Utah, as a paper record or (preferably) electronic database. This list should include, at a minimum, the serial numbers of each machine and where they went (by county or other local elections agency). Additionally, if this database includes any “changelog” information or notes on the problems noted during state and/or local acceptance testing, that would be particularly valuable. Please note: we have reason to believe that Utah took delivery of used systems, some of which may have failed in state-level testing anywhere. Our purpose in making this request is to cross-reference this data against serial number lists from other states and we would hope your office would welcome this opportunity to detect potential fraud. 3) We are aware of Diebold systems which were delivered to you that did not have the correct serial number in software (“on screen”) to match the external “serial number sticker”. In such cases the software serial number was revised to match the chassis identification. We request all documents relating to this change, showing the serial numbers involved, the changelogs and the names of the personnel making the change (whether state, local or Diebold employees). 4) Any documents in which Diebold declared any voting system or system component sold to any Utah state or local agency to be used equipment rather than new. 5) Any documents from your office showing that any voting machine vendors other than Diebold are certified for current sales in Utah and are HAVA compliant. You may call me at our office number to discuss this matter: 425-793-1030. Thank you for your kind attention, Jim March Staffer/investigator, Black Box Voting Inc. --------------- BLACK BOX VOTING 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 Renton, WA 98055 (425) 793-1030 April 6th 2006 Public Records Request #040606B Responding agency: Baltimore County Board of Elections 106 Bloomsbury Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21228 This is a request for information and documents relating to your county’s dealings with Diebold Elections Systems Inc. (“DESI”). We request these documents in electronic form where possible, and can exchange same in e-mail for our mutual convenience. Please remit any such documents, or a cost estimation for same to the address above, or e-mail the cost/time-to-prepare letter to this e-mail address: records@blackboxvoting.org 1) We request copies of all memos, correspondence, e-mails and the like between your office and DESI going back one year. 2) Any list of Diebold “TSx” touchscreen voting machines installed in Baltimore County, as a paper record or (preferably) electronic database. This list should include, at a minimum, the serial numbers of each machine and where they went (by county or other local elections agency). Additionally, if this database includes any “changelog” information or notes on the problems noted during state and/or local acceptance testing, that would be particularly valuable. Please note: we have reason to believe that some recent Diebold TSx customers took delivery of used systems, some of which may have failed in state-level testing anywhere. Our purpose in making this request is to cross-reference this data against serial number lists from other states and we would hope your office would welcome this opportunity to detect potential fraud. 3) We are aware of Diebold systems which were recently delivered to customers that did not have the correct serial number in software (“on screen”) to match the external “serial number sticker”. In such cases the software serial number was revised to match the chassis identification. We request all documents relating to this change, showing the serial numbers involved, the changelogs and the names of the personnel making the change (whether state, local or Diebold employees). 4) Any documents in which Diebold declared any voting system or system component sold to your agency as used equipment rather than new. You may call me at our office number to discuss this matter: 425-793-1030. Thank you for your kind attention, Jim March Staffer/investigator, Black Box Voting Inc. ----------------- BLACK BOX VOTING 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 Renton, WA 98055 (425) 793-1030 April 6th 2006 Public Records Request #040606C Responding agency: Cuyahoga County Board of Elections 2925 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44115 This is a request for information and documents relating to your county’s dealings with Diebold Elections Systems Inc. (“DESI”). We request these documents in electronic form where possible, and can exchange same in e-mail for our mutual convenience. Please remit any such documents, or a cost estimation for same to the address above, or e-mail the cost/time-to-prepare letter to this e-mail address: records@blackboxvoting.org 1) We request copies of all memos, correspondence, e-mails and the like between your office and DESI going back one year. 2) Any list of Diebold “TSx” touchscreen voting machines installed in Cuyahoga County, as a paper record or (preferably) electronic database. This list should include, at a minimum, the serial numbers of each machine and where they went (by county or other local elections agency). Additionally, if this database includes any “changelog” information or notes on the problems noted during state and/or local acceptance testing, that would be particularly valuable. Please note: we have reason to believe that some recent Diebold TSx customers took delivery of used systems, some of which may have failed in state-level testing anywhere. Our purpose in making this request is to cross-reference this data against serial number lists from other states and we would hope your office would welcome this opportunity to detect potential fraud. 3) We are aware of Diebold systems which were recently delivered to customers that did not have the correct serial number in software (“on screen”) to match the external “serial number sticker”. In such cases the software serial number was revised to match the chassis identification. We request all documents relating to this change, showing the serial numbers involved, the changelogs and the names of the personnel making the change (whether state, local or Diebold employees). 4) Any documents in which Diebold declared any voting system or system component sold to your agency as used equipment rather than new. You may call me at our office number to discuss this matter: 425-793-1030. Thank you for your kind attention, Jim March Staffer/investigator, Black Box Voting Inc. --------------- BLACK BOX VOTING 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 Renton, WA 98055 (425) 793-1030 April 6th 2006 Public Records Request #040606D Responding agency: Lowndes County Elections Department P.O. Box 31 Columbus 39703 This is a request for information and documents relating to your county’s dealings with Diebold Elections Systems Inc. (“DESI”). We request these documents in electronic form where possible, and can exchange same in e-mail for our mutual convenience. Please remit any such documents, or a cost estimation for same to the address above, or e-mail the cost/time-to-prepare letter to this e-mail address: records@blackboxvoting.org 1) We request copies of all memos, correspondence, e-mails and the like between your office and DESI going back one year. 2) Any list of Diebold “TSx” touchscreen voting machines installed in Lowndes County, as a paper record or (preferably) electronic database. This list should include, at a minimum, the serial numbers of each machine and where they went (by county or other local elections agency). Additionally, if this database includes any “changelog” information or notes on the problems noted during state and/or local acceptance testing, that would be particularly valuable. Please note: we have reason to believe that some recent Diebold TSx customers took delivery of used systems, some of which may have failed in state-level testing anywhere. Our purpose in making this request is to cross-reference this data against serial number lists from other states and we would hope your office would welcome this opportunity to detect potential fraud. 3) We are aware of Diebold systems which were recently delivered to customers that did not have the correct serial number in software (“on screen”) to match the external “serial number sticker”. In such cases the software serial number was revised to match the chassis identification. We request all documents relating to this change, showing the serial numbers involved, the changelogs and the names of the personnel making the change (whether state, local or Diebold employees). 4) Any documents in which Diebold declared any voting system or system component sold to your agency as used equipment rather than new. You may call me at our office number to discuss this matter: 425-793-1030. Thank you for your kind attention, Jim March Staffer/investigator, Black Box Voting Inc. ---------------- BLACK BOX VOTING 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 Renton, WA 98055 (425) 793-1030 April 6th 2006 Public Records Request #040606E Responding agency: Pike County Elections Department P.O. Drawer 31 Magnolia 39652 This is a request for information and documents relating to your county’s dealings with Diebold Elections Systems Inc. (“DESI”). We request these documents in electronic form where possible, and can exchange same in e-mail for our mutual convenience. Please remit any such documents, or a cost estimation for same to the address above, or e-mail the cost/time-to-prepare letter to this e-mail address: records@blackboxvoting.org 1) We request copies of all memos, correspondence, e-mails and the like between your office and DESI going back one year. 2) Any list of Diebold “TSx” touchscreen voting machines installed in Baltimore County, as a paper record or (preferably) electronic database. This list should include, at a minimum, the serial numbers of each machine and where they went (by county or other local elections agency). Additionally, if this database includes any “changelog” information or notes on the problems noted during state and/or local acceptance testing, that would be particularly valuable. Please note: we have reason to believe that some recent Diebold TSx customers took delivery of used systems, some of which may have failed in state-level testing anywhere. Our purpose in making this request is to cross-reference this data against serial number lists from other states and we would hope your office would welcome this opportunity to detect potential fraud. 3) We are aware of Diebold systems which were recently delivered to customers that did not have the correct serial number in software (“on screen”) to match the external “serial number sticker”. In such cases the software serial number was revised to match the chassis identification. We request all documents relating to this change, showing the serial numbers involved, the changelogs and the names of the personnel making the change (whether state, local or Diebold employees). 4) Any documents in which Diebold declared any voting system or system component sold to your agency as used equipment rather than new. You may call me at our office number to discuss this matter: 425-793-1030. Thank you for your kind attention, Jim March Staffer/investigator, Black Box Voting Inc.   Denise Zollman Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Azadvocate Post Number: 28 Registered: 01-2006 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 10:29 pm:        I'm sure you'll post responses, and thank you for your work on this. Since AZ just ordered $11M of the Diebold TSx's, it'd be interesting to do a cross-reference.   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 3993 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 1 (A keeper?) Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 11:18 pm:        Agreed, Denise, and we'll add a similar records request for your state. And thank you, citizens of the USA! With the help of some media attention and Jody Holder's public records perseverance, it seems that the serial numbers in Solano County have somehow materialized! He is getting those numbers shortly. Thanks to Kathy Dopp of Utah, we have now got an answer (which needs to be confirmed with serial numbers with a public records request) -- Kathy Dopp has communicated with an elections official in Utah, who in turn communicated with the Solano County Registrar of Voters (formerly Diebold sales rep), who told her that Diebold sold Solano's used machines to Johnson County, Kansas. The Utah elections official called Johnson County, who confirmed that they bought the used Solano County machines. Question is, do the Johnson County taxpayers know the machines had been used. The Johnson County Elections Commissioner at the time was Connie Schmidt, who (like Mischelle Townsend, who stepped down as elections registrar and is now a consultant) was among the first in the U.S. to get paperless touch-screens. Schmidt has acted as somewhat of a shill for Diebold paperless touch-screens for several years. After helping Diebold rearrange its inventory through the stooge county, Schmidt stepped down as an elections official and became a consultant. The number of machines from Solano isn't an exact match to the number that were provided to Johnson, but that will all come out in the wash with the info on the serial numbers. There was no mention in news accounts that the TSx machines brought into Johnson County were used, so we'll do a quick records request for the minutes of the meetings to see how the public was made aware of the fact $1.6 million of their tax money was spent on used machines which had been decertified in the state where they were used. By the way, Diebold may have been happy to get the older touch-screens rotated back into inventory. It looks to us like the CPU on the TS machines is no longer manufactured. In fact, that may have contributed to the need to design the TSx in the first place -- a new CPU requires that a new motherboard be designed. Diebold probably appreciates the old Johnson County machines so they can service the 22,000 machines in Georgia and the machines in Maryland. TS-R6 motherboards have become obsolete. We still have hundreds of used machines' serial numbers unaccounted for, but will post what we learn here as it comes in.   Bruce Sims Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Ubetchaiam Post Number: 721 Registered: 06-2005 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 1 (A keeper?) Posted on Friday, April 7, 2006 - 3:50 pm:        You 'should' also add San Diego to this effort given the 10,200 machines stored that have been continually moved in and out of storage since Shelley decertified them. Wouldn't surprise me that some are showing up elsewhere. Just a suggestion.   Bev Harris Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 4001 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Friday, April 7, 2006 - 7:35 pm:        Oh, yes, the California Counties will get the request.

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