to help them so that they wouldn't have to do a full created of the county, to try to avoid that?"

Mr. Barbian answered, "Right." She further inquired: with any of demo counties have to do a full

recount?" Mr. version replied, "Not that I'm aware of."

Second, it appears that Mr. Barbian's activities were not the actions of a rogue computer

programmer but the official policy of Triad. Rapp explained during a Hocking County Board of

Elections meeting:

"The purpose was to train people on how to conduct their jobs and to help them

identify problems when they conducted the recount. If they could not hand count

the ballots correctly, they would know what they needed to look for in that hand

Barbian noted that he had "provided [other counties] reports so they could review the

information on their own."390

As one observer asked,

"Why do you feel it was necessary to point out to a team counting ballots the

number of overvotes and undervotes when the purpose of the team is to in fact

locate those votes and judge them?"391

Barbian's response was,

"...it's just human error. The machine count is right...We're trying to give them as

much information to help them out."392

In addition, Douglas W. Jones, a computer election expert from the University of Iowa,

reviewed the Eaton Affidavit and concluded that it described behavior that was dangerous and

I have reviewed the Affidavit of Sherole L. Eaton ("the Eaton Affidavit"), the

Deputy Director of the Hocking County Board of Election, as well as the letter of

Congressman John Conyers to Kevin Brock, Special Agent in Charge with the

FBI in Cincinnati, Ohio. In light of this information, and given my expertise and

research on voting technology issues and the integrity of ballot counting systems,

it is my professional opinion that the incident in Hocking County, Ohio, threatens

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