From: Clifford D. Tatum
Assistant Director - Legal Affairs
State Elections Division
2 MLK Jr. Drive, Suite 1104
Atlanta, Georgia  30334
Office: 404-657-5352; Fax: 404-651-9531

Our office has received your request under the Georgia Open Records Act,
O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 regarding electronic voting information.  

Please find outlined below a response relative to each item requested.
Public records matching the description of your request do not exist for
each of the categories you have identified.  However, for the categories
in which records do exist, the documents will be made available for
inspection or copying at a mutually convenient time.  

In response to your first category, we have determined that no records
exist regarding a change to software used by the voting system.

The request was:
> 1. According to state law, any changes in the voting machine software
> (GEMS and Windows) require documentation in writing. I would like to
> get copies of any such documentation.

In response to your second category, we have determined that no records
exist in the Secretary of State’s office regarding a certification
letter from the lab certifying the version of software used on Election
Day.  

The request was:
> 2.  A copy of the actual certification  letter from the lab (certifying
> the version of the software which was used on election day) as well as
> any related memos, letters, etc.

But, in the Washington Post, Dr. Brit Williams says:

He also said that Georgia's patch was checked before it was installed
and did not affect the tallying of votes. And no one, he said, could
reprogram Georgia's terminals by inserting a cartridge.

And previously:

Barnes (Michael Barnes, of the Georgia Secretary of State Elections
Division): "That FTP site did not affect us in any way shape or form
because we did not do any file transferring from it. None of the servers
ever connected so no one could have transferred files from it. No files
were transferred relating to state elections." 

According to Salon.com, Diebold Election Systems, now denies that a
program patch was ever applied to the Georgia voting machines: "We have
analyzed that situation and have no indication of that happening at
all."