[ale] Its over. Maybe

[Jim Popovitch]

OK, I see where this is coming from and going to.  Basically, according
to a few, because there is a Republican in the White House nobody
anywhere else (except possibly in Boston)  can be trusted.  That is just
too shallow of a mindset for me to accept.

A LOT of light has been cast in this thread, unfortunately little of it
has to with the integrity of electronic voting systems.

-Jim P. 

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 17:13 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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