Alright so I'm checking the Colorado documents. Archive for those that aren't up to date:
I'll be posting comments and findings here:
>Pages 1 and 2, Cover and Index: Only comment I have about this is that the seal of the State of Colorado is a tinfoil hatter's dreams come true.
On a more serious note I looked up Steven Bennett, to see if that was the first weak link (I know that'd be too on the nose but this is the Dems so I ain't assuming they won't be idiots.) Well my immediate thought is I was probably right but too late, 'cause he already DFEd his twitter,
https://twitter.com/stevenbennettdv so buddy's hiding that's for sure. I also found his Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-bennett-9a855a164 and Zoominfo
https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Steven-Bennett/753277274 which has a nice little chart telling me well holy shit no one looked up this guy before the election but afterward he's been getting traffic, wonder why... It also links me to this 2018 judicial case about ranked choice voting where Bennett shittalked the election officials for not answering his please for gibbs
https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/11/29/for-those-about-to-rank/ he sounds like a massive lolcow to me. But found nothing else.
>Pages 3 and 4. This is the straight up advertisement. And my god. The slime. The mucus. The vile. The utter and complete corporate deconstruction of language into nothing but good sounding yet vacuous bullshit. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH... I can't take it. I need out. I need a break. Oh god.
Ok emu, get yourself out of this. You can do it. Let's go back in. Breathe in. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
Ejem. So yeah, that whole spiel was painful in deepseated ways. But if I pull myself together, I can try and examine some of this.
1-Uniform Voting System. This is what Dominion calls what it does constantly. If you're wondering if it's shady, stop. It's not Dominion's term at all, it's legalese from Colorado's legislation:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/UniformVotingSystem.html that's why they use it. Indeed in deals with other entities, eg:
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Documents/CW2232168 Dominion Final.pdf they instead use their preferred term "Democracy Suite", which they also use in this document multiple times.
2-Democracy Suite: They sure love this term. Seems to be a literal registered trademark of them, and my god they are slimy about it. Just look at their website:
https://www.dominionvoting.com/democracy-suite-ems/
Gives me the shivers. Oh btw love that "CERTIFIED" (Totally not unofficial) seal of the USA Election Assistance Commission. Jesus christ the horror... Oh btw I love how they claim their system makes audits better because it uses AUDITMARK(R). Yeah because that's how law works I'm sure the auditors will absolutely trust the machine to audit itself. After all, it has AUDITMARK(R) and algorithms never, EVER lie, not at all, that's just not a thing. How great that we have an AI to rule us instead of flawed humans. I sure am glad we left behind the democracies of the past with their dishonest tactics. Soylent Green tastes like pork!
This entire webpage is creepy dystopian bullshit to me but honestly it's not that juicy, it's just self inflicted torture with the eventual odd selling point that shouldn't work if the law doesn't have blind faith in them, which it shouldn't.
I then went on to check other info. I found this manual of one of their old versions:
https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/el...2-03-EMS-FunctionalityDescription-5-11-CO.pdf And I also found that in 2019 they tried to strike a contract with texas (probably for this election) and the SoS found their system to be compromised and rejected it as a result:
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-democracy-suite-5.5.pdf So yeah... The issues were known to the USA a year in advance and anyone who used it knew damned well what it was getting into.
Other than that back to pages 3 and 4, it's just very slimy. And the bolded sentences most of all.
This is the power of partnership. One of the most important things that we do as a company is to always listen to our customers needs. Is your customer the state or the politicians? Because they don't have the same needs... And one of them can hire or fire you, the other one can't. I swear half of his discourse sounds like thinly veiled corruption offers. But I've seen enough corporate drivel to know he's probably just quoting his fucking vacuous bullshit advertising manual and not realicing how it sounds because he's a fucking drone. He sure should've scrubbed this sooner not 'cause of any possible info we might add but out of sheer shame at being this bad at his job holy fuck how did they actually strike a deal with this bad an offer?
>Pages 5 and 6. Preliminary Project Schedule: Ok once more I just wanna point out:
"Dominion subscribes to a collaborative management approach, where transparency, frankness, and open communications drive our projects. The key aspects to effective management are planning and control processes. Through experience in several state installations, we have developed comprehensive project plans, and we implement controls to maintain schedules and quality standards."
First of "quality standards"? votes are either right or wrong, vote counting doesn't have a quality slider. But moreover, yeah that's just a symptom of the disease, and the disease is that I swear if I looked at my old project organization and bullshit capitalism legalese notes I would find that exact paragraph down to a T except for the name "dominion". I had a fucking flashback when reading that. This guy, is the worst marketing expert I've had the displeasure to see. He has absolutely no creativity or even will to at least make it look like it's not vague corporate marketing talk to pad out the runtime. I can feel the pain emanating from his soul as he copypastes this shit for the umptieth time. No wonder he sounded like a lolcow he probably hates his job, in fact this kinda attitude is exactly what the project organization course taught us to look out for to identify workers that had been thoroughly demoralized and needed motivation. This man is dead inside.
"In addition to formal monthly and independent corporatereviews, informal dailycontact will help to keep Colorado countiesabreast of all contract and task activities, performance levels, and issues. Open communication between the customer and the PM willallow issues to be raised, addressed, and mitigated. This feedback loop expedites issue resolution and the development of mutually agreed upon mitigation approaches, thus increasingcustomer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle."
He is kind enough to tell us in clear words everyone was in cahoots and there ain't no one that didn't know what was going on though. You know, usually you try to keep people as separate as possible for this kinda shit when it comes to elections, precisely to avoid possible conspiracy. Again I must admit I've seen this protocol before, this is literal textbook client satisfaction shit, just extremely odd finding it in ELECTIONS of all places.
"The State of Colorado requires a comprehensive workplan based on well-established principles of project management. The structure of the plan includeskey milestones, which allow the State of Colorado to see tangible progress."
And I take this as a confession. Not of anything illegal but what I said before, yeah he literally is copypasting project management textbooks, without even an ounce of shame, he is not even trying to hide it, holy shit.
"1)Dominion’s workplan adheres to PMBOK standards and practices.
2)It is developed using MS Project and will be monitored/reported by using MS Project.
3)It is designed with key milestones (clear tangible deliverables) that are designed to mitigate risk to the extent possible.
4)Tasks are focused on accomplishing specific objectives.
5)The work breakdown structure is a logical progression of steps, activities, and subtasks that lead to tangible work products or deliverables.
6)Our plan provides Colorado countieswith visibility into the tasks and schedule.
7)Our plan incorporates Dominion’s prior experience in successfully implementing voting systems.

Our workplan is achievable and will be used to manage specific deadlines. "
Again, TEXTBOOK. "tasks are focused on accomplishing specific objectives", you're not supposed to copypaste that line you dunce that should be obvious! Come on man I've seen this chart before with some names changed. You're not supposed to do this, you're supposed to tell the customer the part that's important to them not the bloody textbook on project management you're making me have second have embarrasment.
Ok so now that I finished my review on these guy's lack of soul, let's get back to this:
>Pages 7 through to 15. This is a very long list of technical shit. I didn't see anything suspicious maybe someone else can comb through it better and find it, but nothing seemed like proof of corruption to me, just a pretty standard boring ass corporate table of mindnumbing nothingness, just like every other business like them loves it. And honestly I'm leaving this here because I can't deal with it anymore. I'll make a part 2 when I can, this has been way more painful than I expected. And I blame whoever caused Steven to have this massive hole where his motivation should be. His lead must be the worst fucking manager in recent history, I cannot imagine having a subordinate THIS broken and not trying to do something about it, and this point not even because of his lack of effort's probable impact on sales, but just because Steve needs a fucking hug and it pains me to see him like this even though I don't know anything about him, god damn.