"David Dill is a conspiracy theorist"

[Amaryllis]

Arkansas Times

Overcoming the election absurdity

Doug Smith
Updated: 6/1/2006

Because of election problems in the first-primary elections Tuesday, May 23, Secretary of State Charlie Daniels says he’ll hire a consultant to study the state’s $15 million contract with the company that supplied most of the state’s new election systems “to see what we should do so this won’t happen again,” and he’ll appoint a blue-ribbon committee to consider the consultant’s report and make recommendations to Daniels, the state’s top election official. The possibilities include some sort of financial penalties against the company, Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb., Daniels said Friday.

While most of the state seemed to have no major problems in voting and tabulating votes with the new systems required by federal law, a few counties did, and one of them was Pulaski, the state’s largest. A harried Susan Inman, Pulaski County director of elections, said it was “absurd that we are in this situation because of this poor programming product that this company has provided … ”

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And yet another situation may be developing. Election-reform activists are disrespectful of the consultant Daniels plans to hire to study the state contract with ES&S. The consultant is Glenn Newkirk, president of InfoSentry, a company based in Raleigh, N.C. Lisa Burks of Conway, an activist, said in an e-mail that “Newkirk is NOT a computer scientist. He has a political science background.” She passed along an article by David L. Dill, a professor of computer science at Stanford University, that was sharply critical of Newkirk, who has done consulting work around the country.

Despite the complaints of people like Dill, Newkirk is “respected in the community,” Daniels said. Newkirk has worked for Daniels before. He evaluated the two bids the state received last year to provide new election systems, to see that they matched the state’s specifications in its invitation for bids.

Dill is a “conspiracy theorist,” Daniels said, and he and others like him are “totally opposed to all touch-screen machines.” Newkirk has defended touch-screen machines. Opponents of the machines say they’re too easily rigged and don’t have the transparency needed to uncover the rigging. But, Daniels said, the federal law requires that touch-screen machines be made available in every county, and he must comply. Forty-seven Arkansas counties chose to use touch-screen machines exclusively, he said.

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[orwell]

1. Other conspiracy theorists...

...everyone that wants you to believe the official 9/11 story AND
...everyone who doesn't...

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. SOS has Glenn Newkirk to examine the machines?

Does Glenn Newkirk have a computer science degree?

Mr. Newkirk is President of InfoSENTRY, a consultancy organization.
He is anti paper and pro DRE.

“InfoSENTRY designs and administers performance and load tests, stress tests, user acceptance tests, security assessments, and business continuity tests on large systems throughout the US and Europe.”

He is paid for his services in testing these systems.

Newkirk - is a Certified Software Project Manager (CSPM) and a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP).

BA in Political Science and History, Ph.D Candidate in 1972. According to his resume, he didn't finish his phD.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidacy (ABD). Graduate School of International Studies, University of
Denver, Denver, CO. Advanced to Candidacy upon completion of comprehensive examinations in three areas. (1969-1972).

B.A. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. Degree in Political Science (With
Honors) and History. (Phi Beta Kappa) (1969).



Additional Courses:


Implementing PAS 56—An Emerging Standard. Survive. London, UK. October,
2005.

Business Continuity Plan Management. Institute for Business Continuity Training.
Washington, D.C. November, 2002.

Network Vulnerability Assessments. Computer Security Institute. San Francisco, CA. June, 2000.

Computer Forensics. Computer Security Institute. Chicago, IL. November 1998.

Disaster Recovery for Local Area Networks. Disaster Recovery Institute. Orlando, FL. September, 1998.

Windows NT 4.0 Security. The Learning Tree. Washington, D.C. November, 1997.

ISO9000 Management. Excel Training. Boston, MA. July, 1997.

Disaster Recovery Planning: Insuring Business Continuity. American Management
Association. Monterey, CA. December, 1996.

Strategic Information Systems Planning. American Management Association.
Washington, D.C. December, 1996.

Business Impact Analysis. Disaster Recovery Institute. Denver, CO. May, 1995.

Disaster Recovery for Local Area Networks. Data-Tech Institute. Denver, CO.
February, 1994.

Software Testing: An Integrated Approach. U.S. Professional Development Institute. Rockville, MD. March, 1993.

Disaster Recovery Planning. Disaster Recovery Institute, St. Louis, MO. February,
1992.

Decision Support Systems and Executive Support Systems. Decision Support
Technology, Inc., Cambridge, MA. April, 1990.

SAS Language. SAS Institute, Washington, D.C. January, 1990.

Data Processing Executive Institute--Large Systems. International Business
Machines, San Jose, CA. January, 1988.

Local Area Networks. Control Data Corporation Institute of Advanced Technology, Rockville, MD. October, 1985.

Programming on the HP3000. Hewlett-Packard Corp., Denver, CO. Fall, 1978.

National Security Education Seminar. New York University National Security
Institute, Colorado Springs, CO. Summer, 1974.

National Defense Education Act East European Language Institute, Denver, CO.
Intensive study of Russian and Czech languages. (1971, 1973)



ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Denver (1974-
1977).

Acting Assistant Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of
Denver, Denver, Colorado (1975-1976).

Download Glenn Newkirk's resume here
http://triadblogs.com/uploads/NCVoter_Resume_Newkirk_20051215.pdf