I found this email (below) in my inbox this morning.
I thought I’d post it out here for now; I could cross-post at dkos, but my stuff there hardly gets a ripple, so I haven’t yet.
Not sure what else to do with this at present… (Minor snips from me to — hopefully — improve readability.)
Anyway. Kathy Dopp calls it her birthday present to the US!….
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Fellow Patriots & Colleagues,
Happy July 4th.
My birthday present to the U.S. is here:
http://uscountvotes.net/docs_other/dopp/AdviceReDiebolds.pdf
I worked on it for four days, full-time+ but this paper is really the culmination of a couple of years of research. It is specific to Utah, but can be revised it for general use, upon request.
Please give it to your local city and county attorneys, city councils, county councils or commissioners and election officials, and press, in
any state or county that is threatened by Diebold or Sequoia DRE touch-screen voting machines (& somewhat less so by ES&S DRE touch-screens because ES&S has demonstrated a method to count its paper rolls and provides an open source system for counting its paper rolls which are slightly more substantial than Diebold’s).
New York state, Ohio, California and some other states are now threatened by the adoption of DRE touch-screen voting machines with systems which have no demonstrated method of independently counting vote
counts to recover from errors, electronic failures or vote embezzlement.
I hope anyone who is threatened by possible adoption of Diebold or Sequoia touch-screen voting machines can make use of this paper’s outline and some of its content. (both Sequoia & Diebold use an OS which
needs constant upgrades to maintain security and neither vendor has, to my knowledge demonstrated any system for independently counting its paper rolls)
http://uscountvotes.net/docs_other/dopp/AdviceReDiebolds.pdf
Happy Birthday U.S.
BTW, we had a terrific Election Assessment Hearing in Houston, and were able to speak to Dr. Pastor, of the Carter/Baker Election Commission. Some in our group attended the Cater/Baker commission the next day and
spoke personally to Carter and the Commission, and all our testimony was turned over to the Carter/Baker commission. We also need writers to help create an executive summary of it.
…would really appreciate your reviewing it to see if you can detect errors or find better ways to state anything in it.
Ron Baiman is USCV’s new VP. USCV needs to add new board members and are looking for a Board member who would like to lead project management or pr and marketing materials development.
I presented USCV’s new recommendations, written with help from Ron Baiman, for routinely independently auditing the paper ballots in every election and our recommendations for releasing data:
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/
and
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/
(I can’t believe I’m the same person who, as a girl, would read 20 books for an assignment and could not write one page afterwards. I’m getting way too prolific.)
BTW, Ron Baiman and I still need statisticians and mathematicians to read our revised working paper on exit polls:
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/USCV_exit_poll_analysis.pdf
…as far as Ron and I can tell, we’ve corrected all our errors.
Regards,
Kathy Dopp
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Our goal is to use the data to detect irregular vote counts worthy of investigation/ in time for candidates of any party to challenge the results.
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