Reply #280: Pat, sorry to bust your bubble... [View All]

press gig in Austin, everyone else was sitting at home bitching. Tell us again how Bev was "dragging down the effort" while she's the one out there in Texas doing something while you all sit at home and bitch? :shrug:

I was in Raleigh yesterday as part of the same nationwide rally Bev was:

http://vevo.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/map.php?state=North%20Carolina

I gave a talk with Sen Kinaird and Rep. Insko who have introduced a moratorium bill in the NC General Assembly on the purchase of BBV's (which I was asked to advise on) and to appoint a panel to address the question of VVPB.

I have also spoken before the John Locke Foundation and the Patrick Henry Society.

I am quite capable, as are MANY people here, of thinking and acting without Bev's "guidance".

This is not "The Bev Harris Show(tm)" (All rights reserved)

Who was it that searched and found the Diebold software to begin with?

Please read Bev's own words. She did indeed find the site (while pursuing a line of inquiry I suggested), but had to call me to ask what she had found. She did not understand what the site was until I explained it to her. She has good luck and good instincts, but she still had to ask someone else what she had found.

Who was it that received the Diebold memos and made them public?

That would be me.

Watch "Invisible Ballots" and hear Bev herself explain that the memos were sent to me. Now, here is the really funny part. Bev was DEAD SET AGAINST me getting and reading the memos. She was CONVINCED is was a "Diebold honey trap" designed to discredit her. When she found out I was going to get the memos, she threatened to call her lawyer to break the contract to disassociate herself from me in order to "protect herself". She even accused ME of hacking Diebold for the memos (a compliment, since I am not a hacker of that caliber, but then, maybe not, Diebold wasn't exactly Fort Knox).

Bev did publicize them, but indirectly. She leaked them to others who had the guts to post them. If you recall she only linked to such sites.

So, to be clear, I didn't publicize them, but I did accept them from the leaker, incurring Bev's wrath and abuse at the time. When she realized that they had also been leaked to a Wired! reporter who might publicize them, she beat them to the punch by leaking them to the folks who posted them.

Who's servers were shut down due to DMCA complaints?

I addressed this issue earlier. If Bev had not gone off on wild conspiratorial tangents, the server would have been down ONE DAY.

Who lost their research when the server was shut down?

Bev "lost" nothing. Nothing was impounded, or copied as far as I could see from the logs. As Bev has the logs, she can provide proof to the contrary if disagrees. Again, total hyperbole.

Who has been dealing with the Secret Service over this issue?

Well now, I can't address this one. But since Bev won't give "Agent Mike's" last name, I have a lot of questions about that.

The above doesn't in any way detract from Bev's efforts, but it does show that Bev's attempt to portray my efforts as "minor" is simply not true. Her denigration of my work (and completely ignore others)has been part of her campaign to claim sole credit for this movement.

Don't beleive me? Go read the AP profile Rachel Konrad wrote.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-07-06-bevharris-profile_x.htm

Anybody want to dissect the inaccuracies in that article?

I invite those of you who provided assistance with other parts of the book to speak up as well.