[E-voting] coming updates to bbv

[Catherine Ansbro]

This is to whet your appetite about what is coming to the BBV 
website.  Isn't our Irish vote counting system related to what's used in 
the USA?  (I know they are both based on MS Access on a PC.)  In any case, 
the kinds of documentation will give us useful examples of additional 
things to consider for ICTE's website.  FOIA is Freedom of Information Act.

Catherine
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Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 01:42 pm:   	
Thanks to everyone who contributed expertise, participation in the Black 
Box Voting Forum Workspace, and funds to make this possible.

Thanks especially to Black Box Voting "Eagle" Pat Vesely and Black Box 
Voting director Jim March, who helped to figure out how to best convert 
FOIA documents to the Internet. Black Box Voting has arranged to purchase a 
high-speed document scanner that is networked into our computer system and 
can convert paper documents to .pdf and .txt files, and transfer them to 
the network so we can upload them.

The BBVdocs.org archives will contain source material and FOIA documents.

Featured in the archive:

- Voting system user manuals, software, bug reports and certification documents

- The complete repository of the Diebold memos, including items that have 
not been released yet.

- Many items from the original Diebold FTP site, including items that have 
not yet been subjected to open source examination.

- Items from Sequioa, ES&S, and Hart Intercivic, available for public 
review for the first time.

- Previously unpublished correspondence between key election officials.

- Election audit logs and results

- Full text of election-related lawsuits

- Original source materials from Black Box Voting book

- Original full transcripts of interviews with key elections officials

- Items of interest to the history of the voting integrity movement

We will be populating the archives daily. Look for many new items this 
week, commencing with information on the Diebold optical scan system, which 
will apparently be proposed for the state of Ohio by Kenneth Blackwell.

In order to protect our public interest site from an abusive DMCA action, 
which Diebold did last year, we have filed pre-emptive DMCA 
counternotifications which prohibit the takedown, and force manufacturers 
to take us to court in order to block distribution of the materials.

Thanks very much for your interest, support, and participation in taking 
back our electoral system.

Bev Harris
Executive Director
Black Box Voting