[Tfug] OT: how a technical analysis of an election actually works...

Zack Williams zdwzdw at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 08:00:16 MST 2012


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As there was some interest in a previous discussion, I've finished analyzing
> the 3/13/2012 Flagstaff mayoral race based on public records access.  This
> where the Sandisk Cruzer U3 showed up.  I wrote the records request for a
> candidate up there, he filed it, Emailed the results, I spend a couple days
> chewing on it.

This is wacky - do they not have some system level auditing turned on
beyond the event log?  Aren't there Common Criteria tools turned on on
a system like this, that track what's happening on a system in fine
grained detail?

> PS: if anybody wants the source public records files to check my work I'll
> be happy to provide.

Are these considered private?  You couldn't just dump them somewhere
like github?

- Zack




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