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I explain precinct vote tapes below.
E-vote precinct machines: Precincts have poll booths usually connected to one of two booth controllers. The booth controllers can have up to ten voting machines plugged into them. At the end of the evening in e-vote precincts the election judges print paper poll tapes that are the record of the votes in all the races for that booth controller. These tapes have the totals for each candidate in each election. The tapes look much like receipt tapes you get from grocery stores.
The machines called booth controllers are taken to central locations after closing procedures at the precincts. At these central locations all voting materials are turned in. There modems send the results from memory cards in the controllers to tabulators on PCs that count the electronic votes. The paper tapes from the machines are back-ups, paper trials that are usually not used.
If you wanted to commit massive illicit vote fraud the vote tabulator software on the PCs is the easiest place. Another place is modifying the memory cards from the controllers but you have hundreds or thousands of them. Changing the memory cards after the controllers are turned in might be easier than before the election and less likely to be caught if there is some kind of test, for example only a few people vote on one machine and you know how they voted. The original paper trails from the controllers could reveal modifications in either the tabulator results or the memory cards after they left the precinct.
There should be no changes from a precinct printed controller paper trail after the election. It is also, of course, a felony violation of federal law to change the votes or even throw away most of the election materials
ADDED - How the vote could be hacked at the tabulating software in less than two minutes leaving no evidence. Many states do not use Diebold for their voting machines but use their vote tabulating software. Who is this liberal conspiracy theorist? A self described Republican, who makes his living as a "white hat" security hacker. He was shocked he so easily hacked Diebold's system, and states he'd be surprised if this election wasn't hacked. There was evidence by a missing audit trail that an election was recently hacked.
Another audit log incident occurred during the Washington State primary just six weeks ago. Two interesting events took place here:In addition, no less than 5 of Diebold's developers are convicted felons, including their Senior Vice President. Topping the list are his twenty-three counts of felony Theft in the First Degree. His crime - planting backdoors in computer software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection.
1) all entries are absent from the audit log between 9:52 pm and 1:31 am. This includes records of summary reports being printed during that time frame, which is something that is always logged by the system, and shows up when they are printed before and after that block of time. Here is the audit log: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/auditlog.PDF
2) Here are copies of the 5 sets of summary reports printed off during that missing time period, complete with timestamps showing that they were printed during that block of time and signed by the elections chief, Dean Logan.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/resultspages.PDF
Can anybody guess what it means when you are missing audit logs for a specific block of time, and known events took place that should be reflected in the logs?
LATEST Breaking, cautiously and uninformatively, into their real local newspaper. I have a PR contact list - should I alert NBC, Amy Goodman, or AP to the story? How about Drudge?
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