[ale] Its over. Maybe

[Jeff Hubbs]

Er, if I may, at the risk of tossing gasoline on a fire...

SAIC is a major contractor to numerous Federal Government agencies,
which are now and at least for the next four long years under the
control of Republican appointees.  You don't have to look very deep to
see on what side SAIC's bread gets buttered.  I consider SAIC as a
corporate entity to be about as independent as Halliburton.  

I doubt that SAIC just up and volunteered time and materials to do this
review, implying that I assume someone paid them to do it.  Without
seeing the statement of work on that contract, I don't know just how
constrained they were or how fair and reasonable their study was.  

SAIC's also a pretty big outfit and I'm sure they're full of both total
slap-down geniuses and flaming ignoramuses; any idea which crew worked
on this?

- Jeff

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:39, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:07 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Please show me where I gave you the impression that I needed to see the 
> > code?  My original post on this:
> > 
> > "I'd still like to be able to verify that my vote was counted properly.
> > You can not do this without a paper trail and review of the source code
> > by an external non-partisan entity."
> > 
> > Which says that a non-partisan entity should review the source code.
> 
> The independent review has occurred (SAIC did it), and you still aren't
> happy.  Therefore I drew the conclusion that you will never be happy
> until you have personally done all the analysis. 
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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