This email proves they knew
One more interesting thing to note: the AccuVote knows that it has dropped the ballot. So the question has always been, should we increment the card counter, and should we log the event. Currently we do neither. There are two schools here. One says we should notify the voter, log it, add a dropped ballot counter, send an incident report to the secretary of state, etc etc. The other is to increment the counter and send the voter on their ignorantly blissful way. Right now we kind of split the difference.
Note - I'm sorry I got away from posting my "best evidence, best presentation" on the disinformation campaign currently taking place, that made Jeff Fisher believe things that are not true - but when I discovered a cache' of emails from Global Election Systems, the company that made GEMS, and became part of Diebold, I had to see what I could find.
Link to all internal emails for November 2001
NOTE - By changing the date in the above link, you can view emails from other months - for example, change 200111 to 200210 to view October 2002.
"Currently we do neither...send the voter on their ignorantly blissful way..." Just incredible!
It's quite clear from this internal email that Global Election Systems knew that their machines dropped votes, and looked the other way. The nest email I uncovered proves that there were problems with "W194" which must be some version of their software:
194w has problems - what if they intentionally put this is Dem strongholds?
Ian,
Since customers aren't looking for this to happen, and it is infrequent, I think all we are going to prove is that it's happening in more places than we know about. Marin is running 1.94w. Gwinnett, Brevard, Savanah. I'm sure if we inquired we'd get alot of folks who think this is happening. Then again, unless someone can show it happening repeatedly, how would they prove it...
There are also emails that talk about hacked versions of software - I am not a computer programmer, so I cannot be sure of the meaning here, but they sure look suspicious!
"Pima is going to use a hacked 1.11 for their upcomming election"
"We can of course run the hacked version in El Paso; however, doing so without even why the election was unset is courting disaster."
I have to get back to work - I'll check out other emails when I get home and see if there is anything else there.
John