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Bev Harris is executive director of Black Box Voting, Inc. an advocacy group committed to restoring citizen oversight to elections.

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SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Detroit - Criminal investigation requested for elections violations Black Box Voting calling for Detroit elections officials to be removed. Let's watch Detroit carefully, because today's request to prosecute election violations may help with a rotten elections culture elsewhere in the USA. Ex-candidate Tom Barrow has filed a formal request for investigation along with stunning documentation of chain of custody breach in the recent Detroit mayoral election.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 1, 2010
Straight scoop on tons of races up for grabs in Tuesday election Don't believe what you hear right now on who will control congress, because it is still very much up in the air. Not only do we not have any idea how the computer programming really affects vote counts with many different locations, vendors and IT guys, but going by the polls alone there are really a TON of very close races.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 16, 2008
New results middleman spotted - FL, KS, IL, CA, CO, NC, SC, NY, NM, TX New election results private middleman spotted for 25 counties in 10 states
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 19, 2009
Let's Get Off the Hamster Wheel The media has given the impression that Germany banned e-voting due to bugs or security issues. Not so: The ban was based on human rights violations, which represents spectacular progress for the US voting rights groups who believe computerized, secret vote counting violates inalienable rights.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 15, 2011
Colo. Election Clerks at War with the Public Colorado has some of the most shocking local election administrators in the nation. This long-standing problem is reaching broader public awareness through an unseemly situation in tiny Saguache County.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 18, 2008
NH Recount Update: Ballot boxes found slit; NH stops putting ballots in vault BBV has been doing a chain of custody exam for the NH Primary's recount.On Wednesday night,EDA's Sally Castleman mentioned a troubling observation:After following the ballots back to the ballot vault following Wednesday's recount,she had the opportunity to enter the ballot vault,& noticed what looked like cuts,or slits,in the side of many ballot boxes.A significant departure from the normal chain of custody path occurred...
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 21, 2008
Construction workers discover their secret ballot invaded A construction worker who lives in a small cabin in the woods discovered that his ballot, with his votes on it, is being tracked.
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 7, 2011
15,000 Voters Left Off 2008 Voter List In Shelby Co. Tennessee 20% of All 18-year Olds Omitted -- Data Entry Failure for Last-Minute Registration Forms to Blame
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 7, 2010
QUESTIONABLE LEADERSHIP ON WORLD DEMOCRACY - Does the US want a back door into other nation's elections? Tidier than involvement in a coup, and less expensive than investing in enough propaganda to thwart a democratic election, e-voting has now proven to provide the opportunity for a "Plan B." If desired. In case it's necessary.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The mysterious disappearing candidate in Florida This article shows how to use "time slice" data to view vote information as it flows in during the election. One unusual set of time slices led to more questions, about a disappearing candidate.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 17, 2007
HBO film on secret vote counting gets Emmy nomination
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 17, 2010
BBV 2010: WHAT TO DO ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS Here are suggestions for effective actions everyone can take, whether you live in Massachusetts or not, to help protect the truthfulness of Tuesday's Massachusetts senate special election.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 28, 2011
THE INVISIBLE HAND: CASE STUDY IN STRIPPING AWAY ELECTION RIGHTS New questions on election transparency have surfaced in New Hampshire, where the powerful First-In-The-Nation presidential primary will take place in 2012. If New Hampshire is to have its thumb on the scale in presidential politics, transparency needs to be an absolute requirement. In a bizarre chain of events, nontransparency was entered surreptitiously into a New Hampshire statute in 2003.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Connecticut Election Audit: 'Ridiculous, Unacceptable, Unconscionable' Connecticut released an "audit" (not really an audit) on May 12, 2009 -- more than six months after the Nov. 2008 election, and long past any possibility of rectifying errors, if found. Yet even this belated "audit" was procedurally flawed, and even this flawed belated "audit" uncovered "ridiculous, unacceptable, unconscionable" problems.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 7, 2009
BREAKING: Front lines report from AZ election fraud investigation Update on a live investigation into possible election tampering on a $2 billion transportation bond ballot issue in Pima County, Arizona, by Jim March as he views the hand count investigation.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 9, 2009
Black Box Voting: Santa Barbara lawsuit would set dangerous precedents An elections contest has been filed in Santa Barbara County (Calif) which -- if it succeeds -- would open the door for harassment, mass disenfranchisement, and election tampering using poison pills.
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 18, 2008
On the ground in NH: Recount Update The upshot: The ballots we had videotaped in the van being transported, which arrived intact without slits, were not taken to the vault and were not kept in a location requiring keycard access last night (except that entering the building itself requires a keycard)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 12, 2009
Here's do-it-yourself letter & cautionary note re: Diebold/ES&S senate antitrust hearing Here is a copy of the letter BLACK BOX VOTING has sent to every senator on the committee, and a downloadable do-it-yourself letter in Word format so you can edit and customize to your own liking and send your own, plus all the addresses, fax numbers and phone numbers.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Aspen's Slippery Slopes: Constitutional rights violation, denial of crucial public records During post-election jockeying between mayor-elect Ireland and former candidate Marilyn Marks, a voting rights conflict of national importance was exposed. When the City chose to deny a crucial open records request by Marks, she filed a lawsuit to compel compliance with Colorado Open Records Laws.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 4, 2009
"Where the hell are our ballots?" Ballots in an apparently rigged election are scheduled to be recounted; they were secretly moved to a new location by the Arizona Attorney General, but no one seems to be able to find out where, or learn anything about the chain of custody.

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