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	BLACK BOX VOTING HAS EMPOWERED THE VOTER
		Black Box Voting knows an informed citizenry would demand that this cancer be confronted and excised before another election is held and has chosen to bypass the officials and go direct to the voters.
		Black Box Voting’s team discovered several security hazards so critical they immediately notified both national and local election officials of their existence prior to issuing a formal report.
		Black Box Voting has now revealed to us the insidious nature of this disease that attacks our very right to choose who shall govern us; now we need to demand the immediate removal of this cancer from our nation.
	www.wheresthepaper.org /BBVsDeclarationOfIndependence.htm (757 words)

	FOXNews.com - Touchscreen Hack Effort Called 'Monkey Business' - You Decide 2004
		In the minute-long video produced by Black Box Voting (search), Baxter the chimp is shown deleting the audit log that is supposed to keep track of changes in the Diebold central tabulator, the computer and program that keeps track of county vote totals.
		Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris said the demonstration shows that the system — which will be used in more than 30 states, including Maryland — is dangerously inadequate when it comes to stopping election fraud.
		The entire voting record can be deleted by choosing "reset the election" on a drop-down menu, he said, or a hacker can destroy a tabulator's ability to recognize ballots by un-selecting three checkboxes on a program control panel.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,133214,00.html (923 words)

	Prison Planet.com: Do You Have the Knowledge to Escape? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		David Allen, publisher of Black Box Voting www.flboxvoting.com attended this meeting, which was a private teleconference among voting industry insiders that was supposed to be secret.
		A recent report that showed touch-screen voting machines could be vulnerable to hackers spurred the National Association of Secretaries of State, a majority of whose members are in charge of their states' elections, to consider whether the standards for the machines should be beefed up to prevent tampering.
		Punch-card voting equipment still in use in nine Arizona counties will be replaced with optical scanners under a new contract awarded by the state to an Ohio company.
	www.prisonplanet.com /archive_vote_fraud.html (749 words)

	Black Box Voting (BatesLine)
		Black Box Voting: Any voting system in which the mechanism for recording and/or tabulating the vote are hidden from the voter, and/or the mechanism lacks a tangible record of the vote cast.
		Oklahoma's voting problems have to do with who is allowed to cast a ballot, like the recent Tulsa City Council primaries in which hundreds of voters were given a primary ballot for the wrong party.
		If touchscreen voting is used it should produce some sort of marked paper, which the voter can examine and verify that it reflects his intent.
	www.batesline.com /archives/000571.html (365 words)

	AlterNet: Inside the Black Box
		Ostensibly, electronic voting is an election-reform issue in which activists' concerns reflect the general belief that voting is sacrosanct and should be protected at all cost.
		Black Box Voting is the term used to describe any voting system in which the mechanism recording the vote is hidden and there is no concrete record of the vote cast.
		Verified Voting NM members acknowledge litigation has been discussed, but thus far they have mostly focused their efforts on outreach: a February press conference, letters to the media and public officials and meetings with election officials throughout the state.
	www.alternet.org /story/19226 (3526 words)

	Black Box Voting Report on Diebold Voting Machine Test
		Black Box Voting, demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be changed on the
		The results were then uploaded from the optical scan voting machine into the GEMS central tabulator, a step cited by Diebold as a protection against memory card hacking.
		According to Public Records obtained by Black Box Voting, Diebold has promulgated misrepresentations about both the Hursti Hack and another kind of hack by Dr. Herbert Thompson to secretaries of state, and to as many as 800 state and local elections officials.
	www.ejfi.org /Voting/Voting-42.htm (779 words)

	Black Box Voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Box Voting signifies voting (usually on electronic systems that don't print paper ballots) which reports a result without allowing proper verification or auditability of the votes and totals.
		He served on the NC Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting, which drafted the toughest anti-electronic voting machine bill in the U.S. The bill was signed into law in 2005 and was instrumental in Diebold's withdrawal from North Carolina as a vendor of voting machines.
		Black Box Voting: Death of a patriot,Bob Fitrakis, [5] (Describes the untimely March, 2004 death of an influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Box_Voting (712 words)

	SIVACRACY.NET: Update from Black Box Voting
		In that e-mail response, you indicated that the Secretary of State would afford Black Box Voting an opportunity to demonstrate the vulnerabilities with the Diebold AccuVote-Os, based on the exploits outlined in the Hursti report.
		Black Box Voting recommends that testers should have the same level of access, time, and supervision as San Diego poll workers in the July 26, 2005 election.
		It is the position of Black Box Voting that the vendor should not control the testing of this system.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/siva/archives/002510.html (879 words)

	The case against voting machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Citizens are fed up with fl box elections, and are mustering up evidence of improper behavior that will swing the pendulum back in the direction it belongs.
		BBV's Jim March urged them to fight for the right to obtain the Diebold GEMS database, which Diebold had until then been asserting proprietary rights over.
		Black Box Voting advised McKinney to seek the troubleshooter and pollworker logs.
	www.theinquirer.net /default.aspx?article=34978 (754 words)

	blackboxwatchdog.com \| consumer protection for election activists, officials and voters
		Although the Black Box attempt ultimately failed, sources familiar with the situation indicated that the state may be attempting to determine whether it should consider pressing felony election tampering charges against members of the organization.
		On Thursday, June 16 the California Voting Systems and Procedures Panel (VSPP) convened to consider the certification of revised voting systems from Diebold Election Systems and Election Systems and Software, as well to listen to public comments from a couple of hundred angry activists.
		In a controversial statement yesterday on the Free Republic message board, the Executive Director of Black Box Voting strongly implied that fraud was perpetrated in King County, WA and may have ultimately cost Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi the election
	blackboxwatchdog.com (1233 words)

	Black Box Voting \| Seven Generational Ruminations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A citizen activist group investigating the credibility of elections in the U.S.A. Black Box Voting investigates election problems, communicates the problems to the citizenry, and teaches citizens how to manage their own government -- which means teaching citizens how to identify elections problems and providing citizens with the tools to oversee elections.
		Black Box Voting takes the position that being a citizen means taking an active role in government oversight.
		Elections procedures must be fair, they must be inclusive, they must prevent voter disenfranchisement, they must protect each individual's vote by reducing the ability to tamper or miscount.
	www.7gen.com /website/black-box-voting/1989 (194 words)

	Black Box Voting Update
		Black Box Voting has learned that the payments are going through a small corporation called ACG Group LLC, formed by two Democrats and a Republican.
		Black Box Voting will present evidence of new violations of California law, and is urging a moratorium on new spending and decertification of Diebold in the state of California.
		Black Box Voting has identified a problem with security which occurs if a single Diebold touch-screen is added to optical-scan (paper based) locations.
	www.mikehersh.com /Black_Box_Voting_Update.shtml (932 words)

	Scoop: Voting Machines Blasted by Scientists
		Dill's statement on electronic voting has gained the endorsement of several hundred computer scientists who agreed, even before the problems were found in the Diebold system, that electronic voting is inherently unsafe.
		It is therefore crucial that voting equipment provide a voter-verifiable audit trail, by which we mean a permanent record of each vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter before the vote is submitted, and is difficult or impossible to alter after it has been checked.
		Voting machines should not be purchased or used unless they provide a voter-verifiable audit trail; when such machines are already in use, they should be replaced or modified to provide a voter-verifiable audit trail.
	www.votefraud.org /hacked_by_author_Bev_Harris.htm (2154 words)

	Questions Raised About Electoral Reform Donations \| blackboxwatchdog.com
		Harris' own admission, Black Box Voting appears to have been intimately involved in the initial setup of the Help America Recount organization as an alternate means of soliciting funds for the express purpose of conducting activities outside of the ones allowed to her BBV organization by the IRS.
		Audit the Vote is a national network of organizations and individuals working to ensure that your right to vote is protected and that your vote is accurately recorded.
		BBV is included because we did consider her an ally at the time.
	blackboxwatchdog.com /node/4 (3574 words)

	Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century By Bev Harris
		Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century By Bev Harris
		"Black Box Voting" is the book that resulted from her investigations into the voting industry.
		What she learned was that modern-day voting systems are run by private for-profit corporations, rely on a few cronies for oversight, using a certification system so fundamentally flawed that it allows machines to miscount and lose votes, with hidden back doors that enable "end runs" around the voting system.
	www.prisonplanet.tv /articles/december2004/111204blackbox.htm (259 words)

	USATODAY.com - Voting process too important to leave to technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Depending on where you live, you may have stuck a piece of paper in box, or thrown a little mechanical lever, or punched a hole in a card.
		Electronic voting machines, it turns out, may or may not be counting your votes properly, if at all.
		Detractors — and there are more and more of them — call it "fl box voting." You assume the machine's software is counting the votes correctly, but there's no way to know.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2003-12-05-kantor_x.htm (961 words)

	CoolAqua: Black Box Voting
		While we have heard about ongoing voter fraud and hacked electronic voting machines in many states, one we haven't heard too much about is the possibility of hacked elections in Alaska.
		In the case of the Alaska vote, the recorded vote for George Bush at the district level was 292268 votes, but after being tabulated, was adjusted down to 190889 votes.
		In other words, the vote at the district level was 153% of the vote that was finally tabulated.
	coolaqua.blogs.com /coolaqua/black_box_voting/index.html (400 words)

	Black Box Voting \| media girl (mediagirl.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Voting was delayed for 30 minutes or more at some Broward County precincts, where electronic ballots were mixed up and, in one case, a poll worker unintentionally wiped the electronic ballot activators....
		Never mind that the boxes can be hacked in under a minute.
		If you don't vote, it will be that much harder to get these insecure machines running secret code investigated and removed from our elections process.
	www.mediagirl.org /tags/black-box-voting (666 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: A Legitimate Recount Effort in Ohio
		An effort led by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy is underway in Ohio to conduct a statewide recount.
		Efforts to launch an official statewide recount of the Ohio presidential vote are underway.
		Questions such as what happened to people who did not vote – because they never received notifications after registering by mail, or because of long lines and too few voting machines in their precincts, may not get addressed, as a recount is a formal procedure where local election officials redo the count.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20494/blackboxvoting.org (1027 words)

	PC World - Group Questions E-Voting Security
		Members of Black Box Voting outlined what they call serious flaws in Diebold's voting machines during a presentation in Washington, D.C. this week.
		Black Box Voting contends that Diebold's Global Elections Management System election management and tabulation computer software contain security flaws that would allow a hacker to change vote totals through a hole in the Microsoft Access database.
		The voting ledger on the Diebold machines containing official vote tallies would not be compromised in the Black Box Voting scenario, Bear says.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,117911,00.asp (629 words)

	Verified Voting Foundation : More problems arise with 'black-box voting'
		Florida is the poster child of the voting fiasco, thanks to the poorly designed paper ballots that caused all the ruckus in 2000.
		But electronic voting machines in Broward County recorded 134 "undervotes" (a person comes to vote but doesn't actually cast one — not a likely scenario, since there was only the one contest on the ballot).
		Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter.
	www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org /article.php?id=2307 (1484 words)

	theBlatantTruth: Black Box Voting
		The measure would require all voting machines to produce an actual paper record by 2004 that voters can view to check the accuracy of their votes and that election officials can use to verify votes in the event of a computer malfunction, hacking, or other irregularity.
		For these new computerized voting systems, neither source code nor the results of any third-party certification analyses have been available for the general population to study, because vendors claim that secrecy is a necessary requirement to keep their systems secure.
		Yesterday, technicians and programmers for Diebold Election Systems, the company that supplied every single voting machine for the surprising 2002 results in the state of Georgia, the company that is preparing to convert the state of Maryland to its no-paper-trail computerized voting, admitted to a file-sharing system that amounts to a colossal security flaw.
	blatanttruth.org /vote.php (1914 words)

	Black Box Voting Update on Diebold - JREGrassroots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wynne was a citizen volunteer then - she is now a full-time investigator for Black Box Voting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) consumer protection group for elections.
		Black Box Voting has identified a $144,000 payable to "Lottery Services of Georgia," which was one of 16 companies found to have received "pass-through" payments from GTECH in a 1995 probe.
		A hand-written note asks why voting machines originally sold to Canada were re-sold as "new," tracing serial numbers to Mendocino County and LHS (a company that services Diebold accounts in New England).
	www.jregrassroots.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=15617 (1279 words)

	Why War? Analysis: Black Box Voting Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When a voter votes, he or she has no way of knowing whether the vote is recorded.” After you punch the buttons to choose your candidates, you may get a final screen that reflects your choices—but there’s no way to tell that those choices are the ones that ultimately get reported in the final tally.
		Walden O’Dell, the CEO of Diebold, is a major fund-raiser for the Bush re-election campaign who recently wrote to contributors that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president next year.” (He later clarified that he wasn’t talking about rigging the machines.
		Critics of verifiable voting do have a point when they note that the printouts are susceptible to some of the same kinds of tricks once played with paper ballots.
	www.why-war.com /news/2003/11/03/blackbox.html (887 words)

	Boing Boing: Blackboxvoting.org files "largest FOIA action in history"
		Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history.
		Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships.
		Among the first requests sent to counties (with all kinds of voting systems -- optical scan, touch-screen, and punch card) is a formal records request for internal audit logs, polling place results slips, modem transmission logs, and computer trouble slips.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/11/03/blackboxvotingorg_fi.html (227 words)

	Two voting companies & two brothers will count 80 percent of U.S. election using both scanners & touchscreens
		Although there is no known certification process that will protect against vote rigging or technical failure, it is a requirement of most, if not all, states.
		But, that will not be an effective way to discover or deter vote fraud or technical failure, particularly in a national election where one vote per machine will probably be enough to swing a race.
		ESandS claims that they have tabulated "56 percent of the U.S. national vote for the past four presidential elections", while a Diebold spokesperson told this writer that the company processed about 35 percent of U.S. electronic vote count in 2002.
	www.onlinejournal.com /evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html (842 words)

	White Box Vs Black Box Voting Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They are 'fl boxes' that we are expected to trust and they are administered by a single party.
		Electronic voting as any legally binding data processing should definately be done with decentralized and super user free operating systems which tollerate intrusion and byzantine failures.
		I thought it was reasonable to post the article, since the pitfalls of 'Black Box' electronic voting are in the news right now.
	www.advogato.org /article/684.html (1009 words)

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