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WHO TO TRUST?
Flooded machines: Will Johnson County make the right choice?
(Watch List: These locations have been selected for extra scrutiny due to past problems and anomalies)
7-03-2008: Johnson County Indiana - Who can you trust? In a nutshell: Johnson County's voting machines were ruined in a flood. Johnson County is seeking additional money, forked over by the taxpayers of course, to lease new voting machines and provide services for November.
THREE FIRMS HAVE BID FOR THE CONTRACT
The contract appears to be for equipment by Election Systems & Software ("ES&S").
One of the firms submitting a proposal is ES&S. Note that ES&S generally subcontracts voting machine services out to secondary companies.
Another firm that bid for the Johnson County contract is called "ATM Diagnostics LLC". Black Box Voting has been researching this firm, and we find it to be an unacceptably secretive company with a web site that is a credibility buster: http://www.atmdiagnostics.com
Yes, that's right. As of the time this is being posted, it's blank. The only information about this firm is on this page: http://www.atmdiagnostics.com/contact.htm
As you can see, this contains no names, not even a phone number. The only other thing this company seems to do is sell a device to increase service billings for automotive repair shops. You can see that information by Googling "atmdiagnostics". ATM Diagnostics has paid to get a privacy protection on its Web domain name, stripping out the names of the owners and their contact information, a somewhat unusual procedure. It is a Limited Liability Corporation, which means information on its partners is not necessarily available even in corporate filings. It's corporate filing contains only the name of a lawyer in Peoria Illinois, most likely an attorney who stands in as registered agent for many corporations. Its address leads to a commercial address for several businesses, perhaps a public mailbox facility or an el-cheapo office where one secretary handles multiple businesses.
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6-24-08 - Colorado Clerk forbids voting by secret ballot (From BBV admin): Following is a short series of blogs and responses from the Boulder County Clerk regarding the surprisingly widespread new practice of using "Snoop-Friendly" ballots -- that is, ballots containing unique identifiers which can compromise political privacy.
COLORADO CLERK FORBIDS VOTING BY SECRET BALLOT
By Al Kolwicz ColoradoVoterGroup.blogspot.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:54 AM To: Hillary Hall [Boulder County Clerk & Recorder] Subject: Anonymous ballots
Hi Hillary,
Yesterday, at the Public Demonstration, HART demonstrated how to set up ballots with no unique identifiers (not digits or bar code). They set the bar code value to a constant of "0".
Also, they demonstrated how to set up the ballot with a removable ballot stub. The stub can contain a serial number. They indicated that this is a very commonly used form of ballot. HART produces these ballots.
We recommend that Boulder County use ballots with serial numbers recorded on removable stubs. This will comply with the Colorado Constitution, Article VII section 8, and will provide the audit trail needed for ballot integrity.
Can we count on Boulder County to use ballots with serial numbers recorded on removable stubs for the 2008 elections?
Thanks
Al
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From: Hall, Hillary [Boulder County Clerk & Recorder] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:00 AM To: Al Kolwicz [Trustee, Colorado Voter Group] Subject: RE: Anonymous ballots
Al,
After reviewing the system and how it functions. We will be using the system as it has been designed. While it MAY be able to use the system without bar codes for the primary, we must use the bar codes for the general. Therefore, we will be using the system as it has been designed.
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