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Black Box Voting - What's going on with California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson?
It looks like he wanted to make a media splash about testing voting machines to see if they could be hacked, then, as with all the wmd stories, let reality play out differently and the news stories correcting the situation will only come out later, buried and unseen by most. Remember, this is the guy who was INSTALLED after the witch hunt (headed up by the Chronicle) forced out Kevin Shelley, who tried to put in security measures against vote fraud.
What's going on with California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson?
- He asks Black Box Voting to do a test, but tells the press he's asked Finnish security expert Harri Hursti to do it, before he formally invites Hursti or obtains any agreement from Hursti to do the test;
- He gives Black Box Voting a Nov. 30 deadline, then tells the press he has no idea where the Nov. 30 date came from.
- He asks Black Box Voting to confirm they intend to do the test, they confirm. BBV never hears from the sec. state's office again.
- The participants in the test learn by reading in the newspaper that the test has been delayed (18 hours before it is scheduled to begin).
- In a related matter, while on the radio this week McPherson's office could not answer the simplest of questions about what transpired at a Nov. 21 Diebold hearing.
Here's the correspondence trail -- judge for yourself:
- He asks Black Box Voting to do a test, but tells the press he's asked Finnish security expert Harri Hursti to do it, before he formally invites Hursti or obtains any agreement from Hursti to do the test;
- He gives Black Box Voting a Nov. 30 deadline, then tells the press he has no idea where the Nov. 30 date came from.
- He asks Black Box Voting to confirm they intend to do the test, they confirm. BBV never hears from the sec. state's office again.
- The participants in the test learn by reading in the newspaper that the test has been delayed (18 hours before it is scheduled to begin).
- In a related matter, while on the radio this week McPherson's office could not answer the simplest of questions about what transpired at a Nov. 21 Diebold hearing.
Here's the correspondence trail -- judge for yourself:
For more information:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1...
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