Bev Harris's BlackBoxVoting Finds Voting Scan Machines Hackable

[Zorra]

By Matthew Cardinale
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Whereas Touch Screen voting machines have received the most attention, she asserts, Optical Scanning Machines pose as much cause for concern based on recent findings.
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"This is really the most important thing," Harris said. "Yes we can hack the poll tapes . But what we've learned is there is a 'built-in' that provides the mechanism to hack any election on the poll tapes in the Diebold Optical Scan System
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"It's probably not an accident," Harris said, "because you can look back through the source code to see that went through some programming contortions to keep this thing there. It had to have been expensive for them, frankly."
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"Everybody is like, oh, paper ballots, we can check them if we need to, but that's not a true statement. That's the big distraction." Harris cites a number of cases where recounts of the actual ballots were not allowed by state officials.

http://www.opednews.com/cardinale_060505_hackable_voting_machines.htm

There is only one reason, with the exception of use by some disabled folks, that we are being forced to vote with electronic voting machines.

The reason is so that corporations can fix elections without getting caught, and ensure that elected representatives favorable to corporate interests maintain a majority in Congress and a stranglehold on the Presidency.

Paper and pen balloting based on the Canadian voting system is the voting system that we need to implement in the US.

Electronic voting in any form is nothing but a RW scam.

[saracat]

1. And we are to believe anything by Bev Harris why?

It isn't as though she has been truthful previously.

[teryang]

2. There's a naked allegation

Where has she gone wrong?

[saracat]

3. Do a search. She is persona non grata at DU since money

was taken under suspicious circumstances and various allegarions ensued. She cannot post here.She threatened suit to DU and many have been taken advantage by her. Randy Rhodesi another of her victims. Do a search.

[hiley]

4. The Bev Harris story for newbies and those who have forgotten

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=340188&mesg_id=340188

[EFerrari]

5. We don't have the bandwidth. n/t

[dweller]

6. the jury of her peers have spoken

trial date to be announced soon.

dp

[EFerrari]

8. The trial has been suspended due to self-immolation.

Which in this case, was probably the kindest solution.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Not ot mention that she in actively consorting with Freepers

and egging them on to launch attacks against Andy Stephenson and myself.

Spend a little time reading:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x340188

[GettysbergII]

7. Interesting article. Lets see what follows

[eridani]

10. This particular project of hers actually produced something

The results are on an official Supervisor of Elections webpage. Not that that's an excuse for making claims about Volusia county and not backing them up with evidence, or any of the other stuff she's pulled.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/006422.html
http://www.leonfl.org/elect/SpecialReport.htm

In January of this year Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho was contacted by representatives of Black Box Voting .org, a non-partisan elections advocacy group, to see if their computer experts could successfully circumvent the security of the Leon County voting system. Supervisor Sancho agreed to this proposal and in three separate attempts over a four month period, computer experts Dr. Herbert Thompson and Harri Hursti visited the Leon County Elections Office in their efforts to penetrate the county voting tabulation equipment and alter election data.

Granted the same access as an employee of our office, it was possible to enter the computer, alter election results, and exit the system without leaving any physical record of this action. It was also demonstrated that false information or instructions could be placed on a memory card (the device used to program the individual voting machines and record the voter’s votes) and create false results or election reports.

Finally, the ultimate insurance that Leon County’s votes are counted correctly resides in the paper ballots of the voters themselves. If the public or election official has any question over the results of an election, a hand count of the optical paper ballot provides the truth. No internal manipulation of any computer or memory card can alter the votes on these paper ballots.

Based upon the data developed out of this exercise it is the opinion of the Leon County Supervisor of Elections that any effort to limit or remove the manual examination of paper ballots to confirm the correctness of election results is not in the public interest.