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Jonathan Simon, a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, is a member of the Bar of Massachusetts. He is also a Chiropractic Physician and directs the clinic Hands-On Health Associates in Cambridge.

As a result of his prior experience as a political survey research analyst for Peter D. Hart Research Associates in Washington, Dr. Simon became an early advocate for an exit poll-based electoral "burglar alarm" system, independent of media and corporate control, to detect computerized vote shifting in Election 2004. In the absence of such a system, he was nevertheless able to capture and analyze critical official exit poll data briefly posted on the web prior to its election-night disappearance, data which served as an initial basis for questioning the validity of Election 2004. He has subsequently focused on developing election forensics protocols appropriate to the new technology of computerized voting systems.

Dr. Simon is a co-founder of the Election Defense Alliance (www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org), a national coordinating body for citizen electoral integrity groups and individuals. He also has worked closely with several other election integrity organizations. He has authored or coauthored numerous papers addressing statistical anomalies and other evidence of computerized election fraud, including most recently with Bruce O'Dell Landslide Denied: Exit Polls vs. Vote Count 2006 http://electiondefensealliance.org/landslide_denied_exit_polls_vs_vote_count_2006, presenting powerful evidence and analysis of systemic tabulation fraud, and (with O'Dell, Dale Tavris, and Josh Mitteldorf) Fingerprints of Election Theft: Were Competitive Contests Targeted? http://electiondefensealliance.org/fingerprints_election_theft , exposing the pattern of manipulation. He has also collaborated with O'Dell in the development of an effective handcount sampling protocol, Universal Ballot Sampling (UBS), to be deployed as a check mechanism where computerized vote tabulation is used.

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Monday, November 21, 2011
The Occupy Movement, Rigged Elections, and the Bastille Line
If our democracy is to be saved from generations of oppression or bloody revolution, an end must come to rigged elections. The only way that is going to happen is by replacing our secret and corrupted computerized vote counting with publicly observable human vote counting. It's time to OCCUPY ELECTIONS, to storm not the Bastille but county and town clerks' offices with signed commitments to work as vote counters and observers

Thursday, November 18, 2010
Preliminary election assessment from Election Defense Alliance
(3 comments) There are signs that real-time calibrating of votes needed to "win" targeted races is becoming easier, and the vote processing infrastructure to enable such exploits proliferating. EDA is attempting to investigate these developments, which make it possible to steal more elections while stealing fewer votes, leaving barely a numerical footprint.

Monday, June 9, 2008
The Democratic Primaries 2008: Managing Electoral Dynamics Via Covert Vote-Count Manipulation
(19 comments) We present evidence of manipulation of the results of the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination contest, through . . . covert means targeted at the electronic vote tabulation process itself. The effect has been to prolong the nomination battle and sharpen its negativity, boosting McCain and making plausible his "victory" in November through continued exploitation of the security vulnerabilities in American voting systems.

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Election Forum: Election Integrity vs. HR 550
I have long cautioned that Congress was a poor place to look for serious electoral reform ("if it works, it won't pass; if it passes, it won't work") and I don't believe that the shift in party control, particularly with Hoyer at the helm, does much if anything to change this equation. (Ed. note: this piece was in response to a letter from another voting activist.)

Monday, October 9, 2006
Independent Exit Polls (IEP) 2006: The EDA Plan and How You Can Help
Our democracy is very near the point of no return: the 2006 midterm elections are a crucial turning point. If we are to have any exit polls as safeguards, it will be because you understand, as do we, that nothing less than our democracy is at stake. Please act now.