WATCHING THE COUNT

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BRAD BLOG - LHS Associates, as BBV's Bev Harris points out, programs
"every single voting machine in New Hampshire, Connecticut, almost all
of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine."

[Ken Hajjar, the Director of Sales and Marketing for LHS Associates] is
also the the guy who showed up in Brad Blog comments, at one point last
summer, to let us know we are "totally full of shit" and "deluded. . .
paranoid. . . looney idealogues" to boot. . .

[Hajjar's] impolitic rant here earned him the boot from the Secretary of
State of Connecticut, where he is now barred from working, as guest
blogger Dori Smith pointed out . . .

When Smith asked Hajjar about his admission that he and his company
regularly replace voting machine memory cards (the keys to the kingdom)
at will, in the middle of elections, he told her, "I mean, I don't pay
attention to every little law."

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5537

DORI SMITH, BRAD BLOG - Other LHS staff members we spoke with, including
Mike Carlson and Tom Burge, provided similar comments. They said they
would open machines up during an election and swap memory cards as
needed. This is illegal under Connecticut law and Deputy Secretary Mara
told us she has since informed LHS that such actions were in violation
of Connecticut election laws.

In 2006, as Hajjar argued in favor of their policy to change cards
during elections, I asked him about the laws which govern chain of
custody issues. His response: "I mean, I don't pay attention to every
little law. It's just, it's up to the Registrars. All we are is a
support organization on Election Day".

He said he had three memory cards in the trunk of his car and, in the
event they had to be used, the chain of custody issues wouldn't matter
since, "once you run the [pre-election] test deck through, you're
golden."

HOW TO HACK A VOTING MACHINE IN NH OR ELSEWHERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiaBqwqkXs

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