MORE Shenanigans from Madison Wisconsin, GAB, and DOA

[MadisonMike]

PROTESTERS DEMAND STATEMENT FROM DOA, REFUSE TO LEAVE

Madison, August 31, 2011: Since February the protests at the Capitol have been almost always at the Capitol. Today that all changed. At approximately 1:00 PM organizers Jeremy Ryan and CJ Terrell went to the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Administration to request a statement in response to Kevin Kennedy's comments in a video found here:

http://nicknicemadison.blogspot.com/2011/08/doa-sit-in-press-release-83111.html?spref=fb

(in between 13-14 mins Kevin Kennedy admits that the GAB has no software programmers capable of reading the code used in election machine software and contracts with the DOA.)

At around 4:30 they returned, followed by several other concerned citizens and refused to leave until receiving an official statement.

In the statement left at the office, they asked for information on which counties had election software written by the DOA and who the people were writing the software. By watching the entire video you draw two conclusions. One, some counties use software from the vendor others the DOA and two, the software written for Kathy Nickolaus which was formerly thought to be written by GAB was actually written by DOA.

“Mike Huebsch is the Secretary of the DOA. He is also former GOP leader and ALEC leader. It doesn’t take a PHd to see the conflict of interest in allowing any department run by such a highly partisan official anywhere near our election systems or software.” Said Ryan who is also Executive Director of Defending Wisconsin PAC. “The citizens deserve to know to what extent the DOA works on our election systems and software. It saddens me to see how far downhill our elections will go. But elections are the cornerstone of our Democracy and that is why we are not leaving until we get our answers.”

The organizers state that they are not asking for much, simply a statement acknowledging or disputing the involvement that was referred to by Kevin Kennedy or they will not leave. To date, this would be the first time in which the Department of Administration has been a target of a sit-in.

[a kennedy]

1. Yo, welcome MadisonMike.....

how did you hear about DU??? just asking..... and thanks for the info.

[MadisonMike]

3. Been a long time...

Been a long time lurker, I think it was in 2004 when I started lurking, during the Dean/Kerry campaign :) I dont post much, only when I feel compelled to, but thank you :) I plan on contributing as soon as I can afford it :)
I love this site, and get most of my news here

[Scuba]

2. Thanks for posting and welcome to DU. Here's more on our GAB...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1262693



Here's Jeremy Ryan at a protest last spring.

[MadisonMike]

4. yep yep

A lot of people either love him or hate him. I've gotten to know him a bit through the protests and facebook, met a few times, and think he's a good guy who brings issues to the front and does things others are scared of doing
and thanks for the welcome :hi:

[Scuba]

5. Yep, he's a good guy fighting the good fight. When I learned our GAB had outsourced...

...the running of our elections to Accenture I knew they were dirty. Kevin Kennedy lobbied FOR using Diebold / ESS systems. Enough said.

[a kennedy]

6. and I am NOT related to that kennedy......

:blush: even though I am "a kennedy".

[MadisonMike]

7. hah

I figured as much :)