<<http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00199.htm>>
Enter the next set of documents -- the lawyers memos. Out of perhaps 600 pages, about 50 pages were deemed to be of compelling public interest. The most important information on these was provided directly to two gentlemen who had an appointment to meet with Kevin Shelley who was, at that time, out of the state. On Monday, March had provided Dunn's declaration to the secretary of state's office and to the California attorney general. While traveling a few days ago, my plane touched down for about 20 minutes in Oakland while I was on my way to Dallas. I grabbed my cell phone and called Ian Hoffman of the Oakland Trib to tip him off about a set of documents that had become available, and he was keenly interested. He made the correct inquiries to locate a selection of memos. Hoffman printed two articles in the Oakland Tribune and the Tri Valley Herald, on Tuesday this week, detailing the problems exposed by the memos: 1) Diebold's lawyers were planning to lie to the secretary of state by saying the smart card system was commercial off the shelf, and didnt need to be certified. This was in response to a suggested interrogatory I provided for the January voting panel hearing via Jim March. Of course, this system is customized and heavily modified. 2)Diebold's lawyers described absurd answers to the interrogatories, like saying that to get hold of the source code for the TSx might take several months. However, if a software developer is following ISO 9000 standards, or any certification and auditability standards, of course they can lay their hands on their own source code. In a matter of a few minutes, certainly. 3) Diebolds lawyers said they needed to "find out what the secretary of state's office has" especially, if they had documents from the Diebold FTP site. They said they wanted to minimize document production. It so happens that strong evidence of the customized votercard programs was on that FTP site -- at least nine different versions of it. 4) Diebold's lawyers also outlined a number of areas where they had concluded that their client had probably broken the law. 5) They also made patently absurd written responses about the Windows CE system. [Links to PDF copies of selected memos:] Alameda County Agreement Atty fees for 2 months California Elections Code--Countinq of Vo Chart CA Desi COntracts Chart of DESI certified systems 1.18.18 r D McMillian to M Carrel Feb 2004 Discussion RE Windows CE Equip list in CA Diebold COunties Fed Quals and NASED Number Issues Re CA SOS investigation Memo Analyzing Alameda Contract Q and A good stuff SLO Investigation Notes Scott Shaw to D McMillian Scott Shaw to David McMillian ------ <<http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E2095811,00. html>> --- "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." - Diebold Internal Memos
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