Who knows at this point, the documentation states the process of creating the election files could be done by the Dominion or the customer, so we could start there.
The #1 problem I have is both the SLI and Pro V&V audits were supposed to check the hash of all configuration files to make sure they were the correct/approved version. This is yet another example of those "audits" being anything but. They were a rubber stamp of their own shoddy work.
The #2 problem is, in their own instructions, the entire contents of the "C
VS" directory is supposed to be deleted when creating an election product.
Quote:
Before you begin:
If there are any other files or folders present in "C:\DVS", delete them before
proceeding. Perform the steps outlined in the section12.4 "Preparing
ImageCast Central Election Files for the ImageCast Central Workstation".
Copy the contents of the "ICC Election Files" folder prepared in the previous step
into the "C:\DVS". If you will be using multiple projects on one ICC workstation,
then you might want to create subfolders with project names in order to
differentiate between them.
You have to create an election project for each election, so this isn't something where the same data is used in different elections. While some of the stuff like districts, counties, etc may be the same, it also has info about candidates, ballot configuration, etc.
I would like to hear how they (1) upgraded the system, (2) created the election project, (3) copied the files, and (4) ended up with election files with the same names, most being 5.5-B but two being 5.5. Possible? Yes, but it is a windows system and you would get an alert that you are trying to copy over a file that already exists.
Finally, there are bricks/blocks of test ballots that are to be run through each tabulator which are supposed to trigger valid ballots and anomalies. This process should have caught the fact that the ballots after a bad QR code were not being counted.
If this is actually a bug and not a feature, they are picking up people at the gas station to write code. It is insane their installers don't check the versions before installing. It is crazy how much money States have paid for this crap....and it is most certainly crap.