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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 9430
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 11:06 am: | 
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This post will no doubt produce howls of objection for the vendors that read it. Black Box Voting is encouraging all individuals with a technical background to search and apply for temporary tech support jobs for the November 2008 election.
Hiring is underway for temporary technicians to help with voting machines this fall. As described in the new report by VotersUnite.org, which you can learn more about here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/7659/77682.html
Vendor dependence is undermining the structure of US elections. We want to see You, the People, enter into the vendor mix directly.
Here is some information on how to find voting machine technician positions:
Temporary election tech support jobs have been spotted on hotjobs.com, rollouts.com, and local tech temp firms like (in 2006) DecisionOne. The tech services firm may be a subcontractor for the big four voting machine companies. Sometimes you'll find the positions advertised by your local county.
In a presidential election year, voting machine vendors will need thousands of technicians staffed around the country. For example, anywhere that Election Systems & Software has a machine, they are under contract to provide an on-site support tech. Hart Intercivic, Premier (Diebold), and Sequoia also use Election Day support technicians.
Sites like Rollouts.com have you register in their E-tech database. They search for techs based on skill set and area. There isn't much in the way of a skill set needed for the election projects.
Black Box Voting encourages anyone interested in safeguarding the process to register at technical recruiting sites and apply for any election-related projects.
Consider asking for time off on your full time job to do this. This November, there may be no better way to watch the behind-the-scenes process than to be a stagehand, so to speak.
It is not the vendor, and not the government, that has the right to elections information, it is the PUBLIC. Citizens have inalienable rights to sovereignty over the government they created and pay for. These rights cannot be honored without mechanisms to see all information related to elections, and ultimately, to have control processes that honor citizen sovereignty.
That said, it ain't gonna happen this November. Therefore it is entirely appropriate, patriotic, and important, for citizens to apply for temporary positions as voting machine technicians to provide inside public oversight for the process.
There will be nondisclosure agreements, which are inappropriate. There may also be issues that arise which the public clearly has a right to know. When that happens, a decision must be made. Tricky terrain, and it depends on what you see, but there are always ways to report important issues if they endanger the public good. |
Mark Michaels
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Mark_michaels
Post Number: 47
Registered: 1-2008
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 12:07 pm: |
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I encourage citizens interested in the vote tabulation process to apply. If an applicant sincerely wishes to facilitate an accurate vote count, then my former employer will welcome him or her to the Election Support Team. |
V. Kurt Bellman
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Formerelecdir
Post Number: 2782
Registered: 4-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 7:39 am: |
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It is ALSO possible (and that is my prediction) that the more technically inclined "skeptics" know about what actually goes on and the more they view the whole "system", not just as a singular black box, the MORE confidence they will have that elections are honestly, if somewhat shabbily, run.
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http://kurtspeak.blogspot.com
(some relevant to subjects here, most not)
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Bob Fleischer
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Rjf7r
Post Number: 181
Registered: 9-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 2:47 pm: |
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Non-disclosure agreements are HIGHLY likely if you are an employee or contractor of a private firm; also, there is the threat of suit if "proprietary" information is disclosed (which is one more reason why public information must not be made "proprietary" through the use of such systems). |
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