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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2152
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 3 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 5:04 pm: | 
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Threats, lies and videotape: These photocopied documents can provide attorneys with hours of fun.
Threat letter to Ion Sancho
http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/threat-letter.pdf
(pdf file, 287 KB)
Threat letter from Diebold to Ion Sancho, sent by Diebold to other election officials all over the country to warn them not to look under the hood. In this document, Diebold admits that insiders can tamper undetected.
Letter from Diebold's Senior Director of Customer Service to Arizona Secretary of State
http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/AZ-sos-moreland.pdf
(pdf file, 629 KB)
Contains various whoppers and technological impossibilities.
Plain Vanilla letter
http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/plainvanillaDiebold.pdf
(pdf file, 255 KB)
This could be called the "headless horseman of damage control" ...it arrived from Diebold in the mailboxes of election officials in state after state, but has nary a header, letterhead, logo, signature or name.
The Attitude Letter
http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/attitude-letter.pdf
(pdf file, 206 KB)
Some public officials apparently didn't read the job description before applying for the position of elections director. We received a few notes like this, but most public officials were helpful and really quite wonderful.
(What about the video?)
Coming soon, folks! |
Catherine Ansbro
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Catherine_a
Post Number: 1007
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 1:31 am: |
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It's easy to see that letters such as these would be very convincing to election officials. How many of them would have the confidence to refute the technical assertions made so confidently in these letters from Diebold, a Secretary of State, etc.? Not many, if any.
They are incredibly intimidating, and would make it really uncomfortable for someone to take a stand against them.
The writers of these letters seem to be getting into very dangerous water with their smearing of BBV. They seem confident that everyone will roll over and play dead.
Or maybe they just plan on doing enough PR damage via election officials that BBV's name will be mud and therefore nothing from BBV will be taken seriously. Additionally, election officials could show this material to the media, giving the media confidence that the Diebold position is the correct one, and not to pay attention to info coming out of BBV.
Regardless of their inaccuracy the pieces of correspondence are very damaging to BBV, and it seems clear that this was their systematic purpose.
Has BBV gotten many inquiries to question the accuracy of the reassurances and technical information coming from Diebold? Have election officers/boards started to wake up yet to the fact that they have a very big problem on their hands because of the technical deficiencies of the equipment their vendors have falsely assured them is okay?
Do election officials/boards have complete confidence in their being at no personal risk of liability through their inaction and/or false assurances?
And what about Diebold? They must have very deep pockets for their legal team, to allow such kind of blatantly false statements to go out. They must be trusting that their PR damage-limitation exercise will do the trick. And/or they must trust that they can corrupt the legal system enough to avoid any major judgments against them. Or they must assume that their legal resources can use delaying tactics to make others give up or to wait till election reform groups run out of money. |
John Washburn
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Johnwashburn
Post Number: 125
Registered: 04-2005
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 3:24 pm: |
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I love the phrase: NO EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS in the document: Letter to AZ SoS.
The statement is true, but deceptive.
It is true there are no MACHINE EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS on the memory cards. What is on the memory cards are interpreted ABASIC scripts. The ABASIC scripts are parsed into TOKENS. The BASIC tokens are then passed to a MACHINE EXECUTABLE PROGRAM called the ABASIC interpreter. The BASIC intereter then executed a series of machine level instructions at the behest of the token.
So the ABASIC script is not itself a MACHINE EXECUTABLE, but when run through the (built-in) interpreter, the script can do nearly any function a MACHINE EXECUTABLE could.
This is equivalent to saying Microsoft macros in Excel or MS word are safe because the macros are not MACHINE EXECUTABLES. This is preposterous. I can write a MS Excel macro which will instruct the macro interpreter (VBA, Visual Basic for Applications) to delete files at the behest of the text in the macro script.
As I said the statement is true, but deceptive. Bill Clinton would love this guy's use of the English language.
In Liberty,
John Washburn
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 2167
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 6:16 am: |
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They mastered the use of parsing words, but they also told a couple whoppers. Particularly in the Steve Moreland letter to the Arizona Secretary of state. When combined with the lies told to the California Secretary of State and the lies told to the Georgia Secretary of State, a clear pattern emerges. It may be just a matter of time before Diebold is hit with a RICO suit. |
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