Shelby Cty admitted that they installed an invalid voter list in Election Day electronic poll books, altering WHO CAN VOTE.The list said 1000s of people could not vote because they had already voted,even though they had not voted.They withheld the list of WHO DID VOTE until ordered by the court to produce it.When consultants analyzed the list,they found names missing for 3,221 votes counted in the final certified results.

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Consultants examining the Aug. 5 Shelby County election found 3,221
more votes than voters on documents provided by Shelby County
elections officials pursuant to a court order.

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Most voterless votes were found in large Republican precincts, a
non-random distribution.

The inspection team sought and obtained documents in connection with a lawsuit filed by ten defeated candidates over irregularities in the
election.

FOUR KINDS OF INFORMATION ARE NEEDED TO AUTHENTICATE AN ELECTION:
1. Who can vote (the voter list)
2. Who did vote (the list of participating voters)
3. Were votes cast the real ones (chain of custody)
4. Was the counting accurate (public verification of the count)

Shelby County admitted that they installed an invalid voter list in
Election Day electronic poll books, altering #1 (WHO CAN VOTE). The
list said thousands of people could not vote because they had already
voted, even though they had not voted.

Shelby County withheld the list of WHO DID VOTE (#2 ) until ordered by the court to produce it. When consultants analyzed the list of who did vote, they found names missing for 3,221 votes counted in the final certified results.

Shelby County computer logs show uploaded invisible data from 16
polling places the day before the polls opened. The premature uploads
were done out of public view, and no testing procedure or work order
record matches documents the uploads of invisible votes into the
central tally machine, raising questions on WHETHER VOTES COUNTED WERE
THE REAL ONES(#3).

#4, COUNTING OF THE VOTE: Shelby County declined to provide precinct results after the election and even after they certified the results; Elections Administrator Richard Holden stated in front of a court reporter on Aug. 16 that it was not possible to produce them, a
misrepresentation to the court, but the inspection team discovered
copies of precinct results reports sitting on Shelby County computers.
The results had been there since Aug. 6. Shelby County precinct
results ("Statement of Votes Cast" or "SOVC") do not match the list of
participating voters.

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A meeting is being held tonight, Thursday Sept. 16, for all citizens
and the media to hear details on the evidence. Shelby County Voter
Protection meeting: 6:00 pm at Morning Star Holiness Church - 3161
Park Ave Memphis TN 38111-3043

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Shelby County's certified "SOVC" results show 85,290 votes cast at
polls (not early votes, or absentee votes, but Election Day polling
place votes. But Shelby County's Participating Voter List shows only
82,069 voters who cast votes at polls.

Also, in at least five locations containing phantom votes -- votes
without voters -- Shelby County had performed secret uploads from
voting machines the day before the election.

PRECINCT: COR09

The heavily Republican COR09 precinct, location HOPE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH shows just 20 people who voted at the polling place, but the
certified "SOVC" results counted 619 votes. This is a discrepancy of
599 votes.

PHOTOS: PHANTOM VOTES IN CORDOVA
[cor09 pvlSM.png]
[cor09 sovc.png]

The pictures above show the Shelby County Participating Voter list,
with 10 absentee votes and 20 At Polls votes. Superimposed over this
is a photo of Shelby County's certified results, which show 619 At
Polls votes.

Poster logs from Shelby County -- obtained only after a representative
of the court appeared at Shelby County elections to order compliance,
which was refused (causing the court to seal and sequester the logs
"in the bosom of the court") -- when eventually released, show two
voting machine uploads on August 4 from the COR09 precinct. Here is
one of the uploads:

PHOTO:
[posterlog COR09.png]

THE DETECTIVE WORK: How do we know this was August 4?

The number 1280915949 is a Unix time stamp. You can convert Unix time stamps by entering a formula, or by going to the Internet and using any online converter, like this:

PHOTO: UNIX TIME STAMP CONVERTER
[Unix time stamp.png]
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm

But can we be sure they were uploading something from a voting
machine? AccuVote-TS is the touchscreen voting machine brand used in Shelby County polling places.

Vote uploads are logged in two places. In addition to the poster log
entry above, the following entry appears in the audit log inside a
hidden, off-the-books database Shelby County was required to provide
to us:

PHOTO: GEMS AUDIT LOG EARLY VOTING MACHINE UPLOAD
[cor09 gems audit logSM.png]

How do we know "VCenter 389" is precinct COR09? A table in the Shelby County elections database cracks the code for GEMS vote center numbers. From VCenter table: [mdb cor09.png]

COR09 Hope Presbyterian Church, Sequence # 389, is the ID number used by the Diebold GEMS software to identify the COR09 location. The database audit log converts the Unix date. As you can see, the
date/time stamps in the two logs match exactly.

The final certified results for COR09 showed 599 more votes than
voters. This is a serious anomaly which merits meticulous examination, which must include the audit log from machine serial number 246297 (from whence uploads reported as two different voting machines took place). An examination of the memory card data is also needed. Shelby County has refused to provide the audit log data from any of the machines and has yet to provide the memory card data.

PRECINCT: COL09

In heavily Republican COL09 precinct, location NEW SHELBY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, Shelby's participating voter list shows 409 polling place voters, but the certified "SOVC" results show 442 polling place votes, a 33-vote discrepancy consisting almost entirely of Republican votes.

PHOTOS: PHANTOM VOTES IN COLLIERSVILLE
[col09 pvlSM.png]
[col09 sovc002.png]

On Aug. 4, logs revealed two voting machine uploads from Precinct
COL09; identified as machine #1 and #2, serial numbers again were
reported as identical. The next day, 33 phantom votes appeared in
COL09.

PRECINCT: GER11

At the heavily Republican GER11 precinct, voted at GERMANTOWN FIRE STATION NO. 2, the Participating Voter List shows 714 "At Poll" voters but their results SOVC shows they counted 873. That's 159 phantom votes.

PHOTOS: PHANTOM VOTES IN GERMANTOWN
[ger11 pvlSM.png]
[ger11 sovc.png]

On Aug. 4, two voting machine uploads were performed from GER11, again representing machine #1 and machine #2, again representing that both machines had the same serial number.

PRECINCT: LOC00

The LOC00 precinct, location SHELBY FOREST BAPTIST ACTIVITY BLDG, showed only 273 voters on the PVL voter list, but 370 votes were counted, a discrepancy of 97.

PHOTOS: PHANTOM VOTES AT LOC00 PRECINCT
[loc00 pvlSM.png]
[loc00 sovc.png]

The day before the election, LOC00 showed two voting machine uploads, this time showing different serial numbers for voting machine #1 and voting machine #2.

The next day, LOC00 reported 97 phantom votes.

PRECINCT FOR02:

At the FOR02 precinct, location SOUTHWIND ELEM SCHOOL (GYM), the voter list PVL shows 275 AP voters.

PHOTO: FOR02 PRECINCT
[FOR02 pvl1SM.png]
As you can see, 304 more voters are shown in the voter list PVL for
FOR02 in a second set of names:

PHOTO: SECOND SET OF FOR02 VOTERS
[FOR02 pvl002SM.png]

The voter list PVL for FOR02, 275 + 304 voters, sums up to 579 voters
but the SOVC results report that 597 votes were counted in FOR02.

PHOTO: PHANTOM VOTES AT FOR02

[FOR02 sovc.png]

The discrepancy shows 18 votes without voters, even after two sets of
polling place voters are entered into the PVL. This is a particularly
interesting discrepancy because it is consistent with a manual
override typo. Someone wrote 579 as 597 in the vote database, a common transposition when you manually enter a number but not the kind of thing a computer will do when it adds up numbers.

The day before the election, the poster log shows uploads from FOR02,
but these uploads are OMITTED on the GEMS audit log, indicating either that the audit log was tampered with or that there is yet another off-the-books database somewhere.

A memory card with a piece of tape stuck on it that said "FOR02" was
observed out on a table in the Shelby County Elections Warehouse on
Aug. 12, unsealed and unattended.

PHOTO: FOR02 MEMORY CARD SEEN ON TABLE UNSECURED, MASKING TAPE STUCK
ON FOR ID
[Memory Card on Table Close--upSM.png]
photo by George Monger

PHOTO: NORMAL MEMORY CARD
[ger06 mem card.png]

Many precincts showed phantom votes for a total of 3,221 more votes
than voters. About 16 locations have been identified which had Aug. 4
uploads, spread out in at least two poster logs housed on two
different computers, some showing vote uploads and others reporting
"no ballots". There is a correlation but not a one-to-one match
between premature uploads and the phantom votes.

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Bev Harris has eight years of field experience examining election
records and procedures. She is the author of Black Box Voting, and
founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit public education organization
Black Box Voting Inc.; Harris's forensic work was featured in the
Emmy-nominated HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" and has been
covered by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Associated Press,
and all major television networks. Susan Pynchon assisted with
research for this report. She founded Florida Fair Elections Coalition
(FFEC), a voting rights organization, and its educational arm Florida
Fair Elections Center, in 2004. Among other accomplishments, Pynchon
initiated a forensic investigation of the failed 2006 Sarasota
election and contributed to reports on the exceptionally high
undervotes on ES&S iVotronic touchscreens. Pynchon's New Hampshire
field work for the 2008 presidential primary helped produce important
statewide election reforms. In 2008, Pynchon was a recipient of the
prestigious Nelson Poynter Award for protecting Florida voting rights.

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Authors Website: http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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