I saw this comment in kaczmar2's diary from Motley that has me more than curious about the safety and integrity of the Ohio vote. So far, nobody commented on it, so I'm posting it here because I didn't want it to get buried.
Ran across this.. (1+ / 0-)
Any idea on the validity of it?
http://www.freepress.org/....
by MotleyC on Thu Nov 01, 2012 at 01:16:19 PM PDT
Here's the gist of it:
Will "experimental" software patches affect the Ohio vote?
by Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello
October 31, 2012
Why did the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's office, in an end run around Ohio election law, have "experimental" software patches installed on vote counting tabulators in up to 39 Ohio counties? Voting rights activists are concerned that these uncertified and untested software patches may alter the election results.
During the 2004 presidential election, the Free Press reported that election officials observed technicians from the ES&S voting machine company and Triad computer maintenance company installing uncertified and untested software patches on voting machines in 44 Ohio counties prior to the election. Software patches are usually installed to "update" or change existing software. These software patch updates were considered suspect by election protection activists, in light of all the voting machine anomalies found during the 2004 election in Ohio.
The Free Press has learned that Election Systems and Solutions (ES&S) installed the software patches that will affect 4,041,056 registered voters, including those in metropolitan Columbus and Cleveland.
A call to the Ohio Secretary of State's office concerning the software patches was not returned by publication deadline.
Can someone with code/software/programing knowledge shed some light on this? Is this a "conspiracy theory" or is this real?
I'm not trying to concern troll, okay? I would just like to know if there's any truth to this.
5:04 PM PT: Here's a link to Husted's vendor contract with Election Systems & Software. It's a PDF file. Free Press claims they had to go "through other channels" because they said Husted's public record's officer, Chris Shea stonewalled them.