Reply #8: Yes, absolutely. There are definitely two ways to take this memo [View All]

[BevHarris]

As I wrote, "You cannot tell if the "consequences" they are talking about are for Kevin Shelley or for themselves, and likewise, you can't tell if the "investigating" they are doing is of Shelley or themselves. "

I don't have a scanner and the ability to .pdf it and Andy isn't home now. The context of the rest of the memo isn't much clearer, but them investigating themselves is likely ... but also, I do know what happened just before they let Urosevich go, and it had to do with a security breach (of which we were the beneficiary).

The rest of the memo, which we will post when we get a chance, has stuff like this...

"I explained our deteriorating financial position..."

Some stuff on that. Info on how the main corporation is having to make up for the loss on the elections division. One sentence that does bode well:

"In the meantime, the board is giving us a chance to clean up our messes, get the organization in order, act/behave like we are part $2.4 billion entity not a$10 million start-up, and above all, act ethically. That is not a lot given the situation we have put the corporation in."

But then it goes on to say,

"However, the culture of this company is not changing fast enough."

I believe the proof will be in the pudding when we see how they handle the ballot printing. That is a situation that they well knew might melt down, back in June. Even then, they knew they might not be able to hit the deadlines, which are hard deadlines and the law requires certain drop dates.

According to our sources, they could not completely fulfill the King County drop date, which was Wednesday. They were short by something like 40,000 ballots. We've done public records requests to find out.

In the past, a lot of fibs and bullshit happened when they missed their drop dates. They've got something like triple the amount they normally have to produce, and the evidence of whether they've changed their corporate culture, or still continue to oversell and undeliver, lying their way out, will come from how they handle the ballot printing in the next few weeks.

Bev