These important documents and many more were obtained by a California
citizen, Joan Quinn, as part of an effort to safeguard the 2006 Election by
shedding sunlight on the certification and testing process. If you think
the documents obtained by Joan Quinn are important, and you'd like to get
involved in gathering evidence to protect Election 2006, please write
privately to crew (at) blackboxvoting.org - include your location and we'll
send you individualized instructions to obtain strategic documents.
NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS?
While voting machine examiners like Southworth, who examined the GEMS
software, and Jim Dearman, who has run the Wyle testing that examined the
Diebold optical scan firmware, will be hard-pressed to explain themselves
to the California Senate Elections Committee, the other examiners -- Steve
Freeman and David Jefferson -- might be able to explain their silence by
pointing to nondisclosure agreements.
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/17717.html
Black Box Voting has received reports that the nondisclosure agreements
(NDAs) signed by state voting system examiners prohibit them from telling
what they know.
These NDAs are apparently being executed directly between the state voting
system examiner and vendors like Diebold. A response from the Calif.
Secretary of State to a BBV records request states that the secretary of
state does not have a copy of the NDAs between voting system examiners
(paid by the Sec. State's office) and the voting system vendors.
But there's another problem: Nondisclosure agreements do not explain why
California examiners recommended GEMS and the interpreter and the Diebold
memory card design for certification. Even if they withheld what they knew
from the public (a questionable practice, when being paid by public funds),
they didn't have to recommend certification.
WHERE R & G AND DID THEY TAKE ANY DOCUMENTS WHEN THEY FOLDED UP SHOP?
To add to the murkiness, the contractor the secretary of state's office
paid for some of Jefferson's work, R & G Associates LLC, has now vacated
its offices, disconnected its phones, and shut down its Web site. The
documents obtained by Joan Quinn show invoices to the state of California
from R & G for over $1 million. When Black Box Voting investigator Jim
March showed up at the R&G office on their most recent corporate filing,
they'd vacated the premises. Yet R&G work agreements obtained by Joan Quinn
seem to indicate they were contracted with the state of California through
2006.
Next questions: Did R & G have any documents, contracts, invoices, reports,
computer files, or anything else related to work done by the voting machine
examiners? If so, where are those documents now?
ANOTHER NO-SHOW FOR THE HEARINGS
Documents related to certification, requested by Bowen's office of
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson. As of Friday, she reportedly had not
received any response McPherson, and the delay in production of these
records violates the time limits in California public records law.
THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO NEED TO RECEIVE SUBPOENAS:
- Shawn Southworth (Ciber)
- Jim Dearman (Wyle)
- Steve Freeman (California voting system examiner)
- David Jefferson (California voting system technical advisor)
- Talbot Iredale (Diebold Election Systems chief engineer)
- Ken Clark (Diebold Election Systems GEMS designer)
- Guy Lancaster (Co-Designer of the Diebold optical scan system)
- Jeffrey Dean (worked on the GEMS system and the mail-in voting systems
which
interface with GEMS)
- Tom Wilkie (NASED voting systems certification, has moved up to EAC)
- R. Doug Lewis (The Election Center, involved with selecting the ITAs, ran
interference for the ITAs for 10 years)
===================================
Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
citizen, Joan Quinn, as part of an effort to safeguard the 2006 Election by
shedding sunlight on the certification and testing process. If you think
the documents obtained by Joan Quinn are important, and you'd like to get
involved in gathering evidence to protect Election 2006, please write
privately to crew (at) blackboxvoting.org - include your location and we'll
send you individualized instructions to obtain strategic documents.
NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS?
While voting machine examiners like Southworth, who examined the GEMS
software, and Jim Dearman, who has run the Wyle testing that examined the
Diebold optical scan firmware, will be hard-pressed to explain themselves
to the California Senate Elections Committee, the other examiners -- Steve
Freeman and David Jefferson -- might be able to explain their silence by
pointing to nondisclosure agreements.
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/17717.html
(NDAs) signed by state voting system examiners prohibit them from telling
what they know.
These NDAs are apparently being executed directly between the state voting
system examiner and vendors like Diebold. A response from the Calif.
Secretary of State to a BBV records request states that the secretary of
state does not have a copy of the NDAs between voting system examiners
(paid by the Sec. State's office) and the voting system vendors.
But there's another problem: Nondisclosure agreements do not explain why
California examiners recommended GEMS and the interpreter and the Diebold
memory card design for certification. Even if they withheld what they knew
from the public (a questionable practice, when being paid by public funds),
they didn't have to recommend certification.
WHERE R & G AND DID THEY TAKE ANY DOCUMENTS WHEN THEY FOLDED UP SHOP?
To add to the murkiness, the contractor the secretary of state's office
paid for some of Jefferson's work, R & G Associates LLC, has now vacated
its offices, disconnected its phones, and shut down its Web site. The
documents obtained by Joan Quinn show invoices to the state of California
from R & G for over $1 million. When Black Box Voting investigator Jim
March showed up at the R&G office on their most recent corporate filing,
they'd vacated the premises. Yet R&G work agreements obtained by Joan Quinn
seem to indicate they were contracted with the state of California through
2006.
Next questions: Did R & G have any documents, contracts, invoices, reports,
computer files, or anything else related to work done by the voting machine
examiners? If so, where are those documents now?
ANOTHER NO-SHOW FOR THE HEARINGS
Documents related to certification, requested by Bowen's office of
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson. As of Friday, she reportedly had not
received any response McPherson, and the delay in production of these
records violates the time limits in California public records law.
THE LIST OF PEOPLE WHO NEED TO RECEIVE SUBPOENAS:
- Shawn Southworth (Ciber)
- Jim Dearman (Wyle)
- Steve Freeman (California voting system examiner)
- David Jefferson (California voting system technical advisor)
- Talbot Iredale (Diebold Election Systems chief engineer)
- Ken Clark (Diebold Election Systems GEMS designer)
- Guy Lancaster (Co-Designer of the Diebold optical scan system)
- Jeffrey Dean (worked on the GEMS system and the mail-in voting systems
which
interface with GEMS)
- Tom Wilkie (NASED voting systems certification, has moved up to EAC)
- R. Doug Lewis (The Election Center, involved with selecting the ITAs, ran
interference for the ITAs for 10 years)
===================================
Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
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