As mentioned before, the paperback version is leaner, meaner and more comprehensive, in fewer pages.
David Allen has the new chapters online (except an appendix, which contains several dozen more documented miscounts)
Go grab what you haven't seen yet, but also consider participating in an upcoming public education program. I want to get this book into the hands of every single member of congress, plus every state legislator, every county elections official in the United States. Will be working on the details of that this weekend with David Allen, and hope you will assist by sponsoring copies into the hands of those who can make a difference.
The whole thing has gone through a rewrite, and some material is entirely new. You can find the new chapters at either
http://www.blackboxvoting.org (the activism site) or
http://www.blackboxvoting.com (news and commentary site)
Here's what's in it:
Introhttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_intro.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_intro.pdfChapter 1: I will vote
And no one's gonna stop me
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-1.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-1.pdf(This is personal. It chronicles a five-generation fight for the right to vote by my African-American husband's family, culminating in Black Box Voting)
Chapter 2: Can we trust these machines?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-2.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-2.pdf(Pared down; contains about 60 documented voting machine miscounts. I pulled a whole bunch of miscounts that flipped elections to the front, added more commentary and shoved about 40 of the miscounts into an appendix, which is not yet online but is in the printed book)
Chapter 3: Why we need disclosure of owners
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-3.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-3.pdf(mostly the same; Chuck Hagel, poster boy for conflict of interest)
Chapter 4: A brief history of vote-rigging
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-4.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-4.pdf(same as earlier online version, pulled into its own chapter. How to rig paper ballots systems, lever machines, punch cards...)
Chapter 5: Cyber Boss Tweed: 21st Century ballot-tampering techniques
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-5.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-5.pdf(same as earlier online version, trimmed down a bit)
Chapter 6: Who's beholden to whom?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-6.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-6.pdf(NEW intro to the money interests, incestuous hiring, and (same as before) the broken certification system, R. Doug Lewis and Shawn Southworth.)
Chapter 7: Why vote?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-7.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-7.pdf(Was old chapter 1. What the founding fathers had in mind; thoughtful piece ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Leo Strauss, and a call to action)
Chapter 8: Company histories: What you won't find on the company Web sites.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-8.pdf(
ALL NEW. Stuff you probably haven't seen on ES&S, Sequoia, VoteHere, Hart Intercivic, election.com, Diebold. Thanks to DU's nostamj for creating the organizational charts in this chapter)
Chapter 9: First public look ever into a secret voting system
(same as earlier version, trimmed. Discovery of the Diebold FTP site and what was on it)
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-9.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-9.pdfChapter 10: Who's minding the store? A free press? Public officials? Anyone?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-10.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-10.pdf(same as earlier version, trimmed.)
Chapter 11: Rob-Georgia - noun or verb?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-11.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-11.pdf(same as earlier version, trimmed. The explosive interview with Rob Behler, showing that Georgia certified an illegal election and that just one man, Talbot Iredale, may have had his hands on as many as one million votes in November 2002)
Chapter 12: Open source exam
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-12.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-12.pdf(rewritten earlier version, more explanation for those who are not technical.
The original Democratic Underground investigation into the Diebold files, the first ever public examination, led directly to the public posting of the files in New Zealand, and to the Hopkins/Rice report, which was written up in the New York Times. Also includes the Access hack report, synopsis of Hopkins/Rice report, and commentary on SAIC report)
Chapter 13: Security Breaches
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-13.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-13.pdf(Substantially tightened up, one NEW section. Contains the San Luis Obispo mystery vote tally with a new conclusion, the Marin County cell phone vote transfer, the Volusia County bombshell that shows the erroneous call for Bush in 2000 was due to bogus vote upload on a Diebold/Global Election Systems machine, and (NEW) the biggest security breach of all, the discovery that five programmers in Vancouver put unexamined software into machines in at least 10 states)
Chapter 14: A modest proposal: Everybody out of the pool
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-14.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-14.pdf(First part is NEW, contains the discovery that an embezzler had access to the most sensitive parts of our voting system; summarizes what we are fighting for as activists)
Chapter 15: Practical activism
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-15.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-15.pdf(same as before, trimmed, contains how-to activism ideas, a wonderful set of slogans and artwork provided by
participants here at Democratic Underground, led by nostamj, and examples of what individuals -- like you -- have done to make an impact)
Chapter 16: The men behind the curtain
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-16.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_chapter-16.pdf(Same as before. Contains the notes and observations of Black Box Voting publisher David Allen when he slipped into a meeting of the voting vendors with the ITAA, which has now set up a lobbying group exactly as you will see in this chapter. Basically, shows that HAVA was enacted to create profits, and the the manufacturers decided what our voting system would be and, in this meeting, are arranging for a public relations campaign to tell us how much we like it)
Footnotes
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_footnotes.pdfhttp://www.blackboxvoting.com/bbv_footnotes.pdf(all footnotes for the whole book are separated into this section)
Enjoy.
Bev Harris
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