Alameda California: Public Records Request, Diebold Voting

[BevHarris]

http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.pdf

Someone may want to use this as a template.

Alameda County, California uses Diebold touch screen machines
Included in the request:

PRAR Questions:
1) Please list the physical locations of all computers used to centrally collect and manage polling data.

2) Please list the names and business contact information (preferably with Email addresses) of the county employees tasked with managing the computer(s) in query #1.

3) Please list an inventory of which Diebold Elections Systems programs (on CD, floppy or other media) are held at county offices. In particular, please list the title of any Diebold CD,
floppy set or similar and where known, the publication date. Whatever you do, don’t throw any away, even if it is “outdated”.

4) Please list a contact person (preferably with Email address) of a person within the Registrar’s office who will be managing the onsite inspection of the computers and Diebold CDs. It is also recommended that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office “high-tech crimes
unit” or similar be informed of this PRAR and brought into the process, including monitoring the on-site inspection.

5) Please identify a person within the Registrar’s office who can be present during the inspection and who knows how to operate the Diebold systems and software. This can be the same person as in query #4, or another.

6) Please state whether or not the Registrar’s office has available standard commercial copies of the “Microsoft Access” database program on a factory CD. It is often included in “MS Office Professional”, so that would do too. IF the Registrar’s office doesn’t have one, please determine if a copy can be borrowed from a trusted source within the county government, such as the Alameda County Sheriff’s office. We need to examine actual vote data, or at least the test data supplied by Diebold, to try and “duplicate the Bev Harris findings” of “doubled books”, a “date diddler utility” and similar. The easiest way to do that is to load MS-Access on the same PC as the Diebold software or a set of old actual vote
data to look for the “double (triple?) set of books” problem.

It is my fervent hope that the county will fully cooperate with this analysis of “actual installed Diebold product” by the public.

[Terwilliger]

1. kick

[ParanoidPat]

2. Great news! Thanks.

Will you be copied on the reply to this request? How long do you believe it will take for the County to reply? I can't wait to see how they respond to this request! :evilgrin:

[HFishbine]

3. Hey Bev

When's the book coming out? (And no, I did not have lunch with your publisher today, so stop saying that.)

[shirlden]

4. kick

n/t :kick:

[hunter]

5. This was a lead story on KGO afternoon news today!

( KGO is the big San Francisco news/talk station, it covers all of Northern California and more... )

Sorry, I couldn't write down the names and details, this is from my sometimes unreliable memory:

They talked to "bay area activist" Jim March about how the Diebold machines could be used to commit voter fraud, and then someone from the Alameda Registrar's office. Her rebuttal of March's claims indicated that she did not understand the issue... she said something like "We use the same security we always have -- the servers that count the votes are in a locked room, and it takes three keys to get inside."

:kick:

[shance]

7. Thanks** She didnt get it and thats whats pretty scary

I mentioned the CVM issue to a high level individual in the DNC and he essentially was CLUELESS, that or he knows the problem but didnt want to address it. This was a couple of weeks ago. I spoke to him 2 days before the New York Times story broke.

Oh, and he also said (2nd Democratic worker to say this to me)that he has heard of all sorts of conspiracy theories floating around. I forwarded the email to individuals that could email it to him. Hope he gets the article and wakes the hell up!

[Gordon25]

16. Not all Dems unaware of issue

You might refer her to this report:
http://www.pimademocrats.org/votingreport/votingintegrity.htm
We now have a state legislator who will introduce the recommended legislative reforms in the next session.
And here's a :toast: to Angry Liberterian Biker Guy Jim March :loveya: Anybody still think one person can't make a difference?
Gordon25

[tom_paine]

6. Kick

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[alfredo]

8. %echo kick

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[papau]

9. one more kick n/t

n/t

[4dog]

10. kick, n/t

[hunter]

11. Oh my, this is rich...

Let me get all the names straight:

Greg Edmonds -- KGO's East Bay Bureau Chief

Elaine Ginnold -- Alameda County Assistant Registrar of Voters

Jim March -- Angry Libertarian Biker Guy

Google away dear hearts, and rememember, we can win if we put up the biggest tent and serve nice cool refreshments. There will be refugees from BushCo all over the place come November 2004.

God I love California!

[oasis]

12. early a.m. boost

:kick:

[punpirate]

13. Should be one additional item in that list....

Since some sources have already identified that some elections officials _have_ downloaded software directly from Diebold, there should be an additional request for any software downloaded _directly_ from Diebold, to include, but not limited to, patches, new executables, installation instructions and modifications to the operating system.

Cheers.

[DUreader]

14. GOOD POINT, Punpirate

[hunter]

15. KGO is still running with this...

Today (Friday) they talked about the smart cards -- how it might be possible for one person to vote multiple times using a smart card made at home.