Of great concern is that the "Top to Bottom Review" team for this system was not the same team that was involved in the previous TTBR. In this case the team was subcontractors for a company called "Freeman, Craft, McGregor Group" (FCMG).

It is inexplicable why this company gets any contracts to do voting system certification work. Stephen V. Freeman and Paul Craft were both members of the failed NASED Voting Systems Technical Panel that qualified every failing voting system that is presently being used nation-wide. Freeman was in large part responsible for the Sequoia VVPAT being qualified by NASED before testing was completed in 2004.

Paul Craft has no qualifications except that he managed to work his way into a position of being the voting systems certification director for the state of Florida. He did this with no computer sciences background. In fact, his degree is in Restaurant and Hotel Management.

Kate McGregor was a tavern hostess who worked her way up to managing taverns. Craft gave her a job in the Florida SoS office and now she is an expert in voting system certification.

These people were originally hired by ex-SOS McPherson to test and certify voting machines for the state of California. They gave the rubber stamp to everything they saw except a low-tech voting system for voters with disabilities, Vote-PAD. They unfairly and inappropriately tested and recommended against certification of that system. Bowen has, unfortunately, refused to reconsider that testing even though evidence and testimony has been given that the testing was biased and unacceptable anywhere but in California.

A continuing tie between FCMG and California may undo much of the good work accomplished by Secretary Bowen.

"the possibility that the hackable system may be used to vote on a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative to divide California's 2008 electoral vote by Congressional District which could be on the Primary Election ballot next February."

That is a straight up nightmare.

And if memory serves me, at one point in time California used electronic voting machines to vote for more electronic voting machines. (Or the increased funding thereof.) I used to have the links to this information, but have long since lost that. Not sure if anyone else caught it. I maybe said something about voting for electronic voting machines on electronic voting machines in the past Bradblog, but frankly I been pretty skitzy here lately, this stuff can drive you nuts at times if you really care about about your country or these issues, if your the type that just hears it then goes off shopping, or watching tv, I guess ya sleep well at night, but in the end the nightmare will reach you as well, as some of these folks are finally being woke from their sleep rather brutally when it does happen.

Actions have consequences, no amount of Karl Rove re-writing history will change that.

John #1, what I would like to know is who originally hired all these assclowns in the first place, like who hired Freeman to the SOS Florida office ?
Who hired Southworth ?, Lewis ?, Coggins ?, and the list goes on.
Whose payroll were they on before they slipped into the electioneering racket ?
Me thinks it was something to do with politics of the "R" persuasion.
Were they all in the military before their previous jobs ?
Maybe it was innocently a random thing (but I doubt that)
Just some shit I would like to know to find a common connection somehow.

This is a HUGE issue.

We know close to 100% of anomalies on e-vote machines favor Republicans. We know the history of e-vote machines, that Republican money financed the creation of the e-vote companies. And, we know Republicans were using dirty tricks to get enough signatures to get this on the ballot. We know Rudy Giuliani's campaign is behind this ballot initiative, don't know if you saw that article. And we know a Republican now in jail, Bob Ney, authored the legislation to install e-vote machines in the first place. And, finally, if this does get on the ballot, e-vote machines will be used to vote on this initiative.

You can kiss the 2008 presidential election goodbye and ever having a non-Republican president! And meet our new 2008 president, President Rudy Giuliani!

This is the most important "surprise" issue, that isn't getting the attention it deserves.