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(From Bev Harris): Jim Soper, a California citizen, has been taking a closer look at the appointment of Alice P. Miller to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the organization that has effectively -- and for the first time in history -- centralized power over elections, putting it into the hands of a tiny group of political appointees. His research uncovered important information, and upon my request, he has been so kind as to guest blog his findings here. ALICE MILLER AND THE EAC: A PAUCITY OF INTEGRITY Guest blogged for Black Box Voting by Jim Soper The EAC has announced the appointment of Ms. Alice P. Miller as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). In 2003, the Washington DC Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) wrote a (redacted) report ( www.DcWatch.com/govern/ig030522.htm ) of an investigation into the unethical behavior of, among others, Ms. Alice P. Miller, Executive Director of the ironically named DC Board of Elections and Ethics. It states that Ms. Miller colluded with others to, in effect, unilaterally grant herself and a colleague $12,000 raises, and that she drafted fraudulent memos to do so. To quote the OIG's summary of the report: "1. Scheme to obtain unlawful pay raises and backpay. After the BOEE General Counsel received a pay raise (from $109,515 to $121,406) based on recently enacted legislation designed to ensure retention of practicing attorneys in the District government, OCF/BOEE proposed legislation that would permit raises to the Director of OCF by removing the statutory cap. That draft legislation did not move forward. Because the salary of the OCF Director is capped at the highest step of DS-16 of the District's Excepted Service Schedule ($109,515), attempts to process such a raise through normal channels would have been rejected by the Office of Personnel unless the cap was removed. For this reason, the technical assistance of a computer security technician employed by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was enlisted to make the salary changes directly to the District's computerized payroll system. This change to the electronic payroll system unlawfully effectuated the raise by circumventing the administrative safeguards that ensure that employees receive appropriate salaries." "2.Employees misled Chairman Wilson. In order to convince Chairman Wilson that the pay raises were permissible (both prospectively and retroactively), the Executive Director of BOEE [Ms.Miller], w... More 5-6-08: Cancelled or changed, there's a whole lotta shuffling going on w. IN database Yesterday, we reported that according to Indiana's own figures, 1.1 million voter registrations had been cancelled, one-quarter of a million of those in just two counties. Another researcher, Steve Rosenfeld, began tracking back through data from the Election Assistance Commission, finding that the cancellation quantities didn't jive with the numbers you'd expect. According to Rosenfeld, after talking with the office of the Indiana Secretary of State the explanation is that "cancelled" does not mean "cancelled registrations" it means "changes" to registrations. IF TRUE, THIS RAISES ANOTHER CONCERN Because Indiana is implementing an ID requirement, and this will require that voters name and address match when the voter registration database is compared with their ID, an unscrupulous data entry person would no longer need to PURGE registrations in order to knock people off the voting rolls. All that's required is CHANGING the registration slightly, to introduce typos. Many locations are now enamored of using "electronic pollbooks" instead of the paper printouts. We all know what happens when you enter a name with a typo: The computer says "can't find". Try it. Use any computer program you have, and enter your name with a typo. Then do a search for your name. If I typo "Ben Harris" and search for "Bev Harris" I won't find it. Now, with the paper pollbooks, a pollworker might see that it's a typo, if my address is the same. Whether they accept that Bev Harris is Ben Harris is open to how flexible they feel at the moment. With electronic pollbooks, they may not find the typo-name at all. And if an unscrupulous political hack enters "changes" or "updates" that introduce a typo into the address, or name and address, it may be impossible to find you at all. Example: I alter "Bev Harris" to make it read "Ben Harris" and then change "973 SW 43rd St" to "793 SW 43rd". Gone. Poof. Some say the problems with the Florida 2000 election have now been codified into federal law nationwide. In terms of the now-mandatory statewide voter lists, that's true. These centralized records allow changes to be introduced from either your county or the state, and a single person can cook the list. When you add voter ID into the mix, it allows very subtle attacks that will produce mismatches. Mark my words, the new watchword for 2008 will be "human error." Add "human error" to the term "computer glitch" for meaningless and unacceptable terms that introduce voter dis... More
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