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HomeMy WebLinkAbout38-Public Comments Handout In reference to your article, E-vote Venders Hand Over Software, I know Scott Konopasek, the Registrar of Voters in San Bernardino personally. I live in San Bernardino County and have been a witness to how their system has run as an observer and candidate in several elections. First of all, San Bernardino county does not have a reputation for skilled, intelligent and uncorruptable officials so I had some serious concerns when the county hired him in the first place. From personal contact, I can state Scott Konopasek is one of the best and brightest employees working for San Bernardino County government. I also believe that he wants to do the right thing in this election for San Bernardino County but I seriously doubt that National Security concerns and agendas will not dictate the results of elections November 2, 2004 for this county and the entire country for that matter. This last statement obviously needs an ex.plaination so here goes. Although not stated publicly, this government has used their role in protecting state secrets from disclosure in the public sector and foreign governments as a reason to regulate (corrupt) the results of elections in America. This same agenda is used to finance the subversion of elections by our intelligence community allover the world, whenever possible, when it promotes our percieved "National Interests". Here is one obvious example where this authority must be in place. A foreign power (We will use a wealthy oil producing nation, with questionable loyalties as an example) attempts to gather strategic intelligence by backing a congressional candidate through front companies and infiltrating their election staff with intelligence personell. If that candidate gets elected, that well trained intelliegence officer will have access to intimate knowledge of any projects in that Congressional district, intimate knowledge of committee research related to committees the congressman may serve on and second source access to most security issues addressed by the Congress. The use of examples like the one stated above, gave the existing power structure the security clearances to build the mechanisms into our electorial system to subvert the election process. Unfortunately, while there are a few legitimate motives for subverting election results in the name of "National Security" once those mechanisms were in place corruption and vested interests played a critical role in institutionalizing the process. What I'm stating here is " The congress, presidents and elected officials will come and go but our intelligence community, bureaucracies, NGOs and powerful institutions have controlled the process for so long that honest elections with verifiable and auditable election results are not an acceptable option. What this means in simple english is that these voting machines are hackable because the power structure has the option to hack the results if those results threaten their special interests. That the controls placed into the election process as an institution are more about inappropriate access and obedience to regulated elections than legitimizing the results. I seriously doubt that Scott Konopasek has the power to effectively attack corruption associated the electorial process in this county because the strings attached to the process would probably turn into a rope and hang him if he did. That being said?. I <lid obtain a copy of the voter disk for this election to see if many of the errors associated with sloppy data management before Scott came to work in San Benrardino County had been corrected. I am glad to say that tJte vo~ng disks, this time around appear far more accurate than for past elections. Unfortunately, Diebold has bought out the company that handled the Database management for San Benrardino County in January of2001 I have no doubt that this will lead to significant problems on Nov. 2 in the county. The most accurate assessment of the 2004 election, is simply, BLACK OPS VOTING WITH CIA SOFIW ARE. Of course, the CIA does not have the power to run this operation own their own, but you can bet your ass that this 2004 election is a nationally networked operation and CIA assets are not on the sidelines. . -, ,. .",._~. ,.,"".......~.??;~-,'.l Entered into Record It ;; / / r:""I\r.iI/CmvDevCms Mtl: /1 / 10 '-f ..... I\Ch~ r~ Ihil,lIda Item (31 ~~ City Clerk/COC Secy City of San Bernardino