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12-24-08: An open letter to NIST regarding certification fraud -- From Bev Harris: Many important stories have taken place recently, including the groundbreaking results from the Humboldt County Transparency Project, the findings in the Time Slice Project, and the very troubling death of key witness Mike Connell in an Ohio vote fraud lawsuit. These events are joined by the unfolding voting machine certification fraud story. Black Box Voting will be devoting considerable space to examining the many critical issues in voting rights beginning after the New Year. Unfortunately I am challenged right now with a difficult family emergency, and have had to step back from publishing new articles for a few weeks. I continue to monitor unfolding events and am communicating with other activists behind the scenes, as well as continuing my research. I will resume active reporting in early January. In the mean time, board member Jim March has contributed this important item: A formal letter to NIST regarding voting machine certification fraud. * * * * * AN OPEN LETTER TO NIST RE: CERTIFICATION FRAUD AND WINDOWS CE By Jim March Context and Introduction: America was just treated to the collapse of the largest outright fraud ever perpetrated: 50 billion dollars worth in the Madoff fiasco. For those just tuning in, Madoff claimed to be a normal stock market money manager: you give him money and he was supposed to invest it as he saw fit. As ... More 12-2-2008: TRANSCRIPT - New Hampshire blocking public right to know Below you will find the transcript of a video -- and a link, so you can see for yourself. This video pertains to perhaps THE most important issue in election protection today, the RIGHT TO KNOW. We will continue to run down pointless rabbit holes seeking election reform if we don't focus on the core issues. The truth is, it doesn't matter how secure or how accurate a voting system is, if the public does not have the right to know; every change in election procedures or legislation must be examined through the lens of whether it helps or hurts our right to know. The right to know is built into the founding documents of our nation. It is especially important in the area of elections, because it is through elections that we exercise control over our government. The argumentation for right to know can be framed as follows: - Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. - The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. - We must remain informed so that we may retain control over the instruments of government we have created. - When we lose the ability to control, we lose our sovereignty over our own government and we no longer have a democratic form of government. If "right to know" is not honored in our elections, we do n... More 11-25-08: The mysterious disappearing candidate in Florida A volunteer here, John Howard showed us all how to automate the collection of "time slice" data on Election Night. This information is in the Black Box Voting Tool Kit 2008, pp 47-51. I have been analyzing some of this time slice data and will release a report on some of my observations, probably a few reports. But here's a spreadsheet that shows just how useful the time slice information can be. It produces almost like a "video" of the incoming vote flow. http://www.bbvdocs.org/FL/broward/2008-Nov-FL-Broward-112th-combined.xls (375 KB) The black type is original data. The purple is calculations on the accumulated totals, showing undervotes etc. The green is calculations which split out the data to show what happened in each time segment. Now, what's entertaining about the spreadsheet I've linked above (which is for Broward County, State House Dist 112) is this: It shows 28 time slices, beginning just after the polls close and continuing until Nov. 15. Votes are flowing in, for two candidates -- Rivera and Gaffney -- and write-ins. It shows which votes are Election Day, Early, and Absentee, by precinct, and what time each set is uploaded, as well as the vote totals per candidate, vote category, precinct, and upload time. Notice something very interesting: On Nov. 7 as of 2:47 in the afternoon, all the votes for all candidates disappear. Huh? Then on Nov. 7 as... More 11-2-2008: The Count starts in 48 hours: Instructions for Protect the Count Black Box Voting was asked by YouTube to prepare an easy to follow public education program for Protecting the Count on ELECTION NIGHT and the days that follow. We also collaborated with Videothevote.org and Election Defense Alliance. YouTube has created a Channel called Video Your Vote. The Black Box Voting Protect the Count series contains important information and several video clips never before made public. Please distribute immediately and as widely as you can. EASY INSTRUCTIONS: View the videos that best fit your location, find a buddy, pick an action, do it! 1. Protect the Count - most locations in America(4 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_xFb1sWKU Takes 90 minutes on Election Night. You can even go out after polls have closed. Please also view video # 3, because it shows what to look for to identify tampered poll tapes and the kinds of small errors on tapes that can appear with memory card tampering. Upload any video you take to http://www.videothevote.org - Post link or comments for what you found in the state and jurisdiction at http://www.blackboxvoting.org 2. Protect the Count - Absentee / Central Count (8 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp3rA1XXjw (Applies to 13 states with CENTRALLY COUNTED ballots and/or HEAVY ABSENTEE VOTING) These are the most challenging Protect the Count locations. 3. Protect the Count - New England / New Hampshi... More 10-16-08: New results middleman spotted - FL, KS, IL, CA, CO, NC, SC, NY, NM, TX The following locations are using software and, in some cases, hosting voter registration data and results on the servers that belong to a Florida company called SOE Software: (CA) Contra Costa, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, Shasta, Ventura; (CO) Arapahoe; (FL) Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Pasco, Palm Beach, St. Lucie; (IL) DuPage, McHenry, Lake; (KS) Johnson; (NC) North Carolina Board of Elections; (NM) Dona Ana, (NY) New York State Board of Elections; (SC) South Carolina State Election Commission; (TX) Dallas, Tarrant, Williamson. The Tampa, Florida firm produces the "Clarity" software suite used with Hart Intercivic and also announced an alliance with Diebold to integrate its software. Here is the company Web site: http://www.soesoftware.com/customers.html By backtracking the Arapahoe County, Colorado Web site "arapahoevotes.com" you will eventually wind up at ClarityElections.com, a site owned by SOE Software: http://arapahoe-co.connect.clarityelections.com/ According to domain and server ownership records from WhoIs, this site is NOT owned by Arapahoe County, but instead by Tampa's SOE Software. Further checking will show you that the Florida company hosts data from the voter registration database for Arapahoe County: http://arapahoe-co.connect.clarityelections.com/PrecinctFinder.aspx There are approximately 5,000 elections jurisdictions ... More 10-8-08: ELECTION ALERT - Avoid the 'Straight Party' vote stealing trap You may have read about this, and Black Box Voting has sent an ELECTION ALERT about this. Here are the details and what to do about it: THE PROBLEM: "Straight party voting" on voting machines is revealing a bad pattern of miscounting and omitting your vote, especially if you are a Democrat. Most recently (Oct. 2008), a firm called Automated Election Services was found to have mis-coded the system in heavily Democratic Santa Fe County, New Mexico such that straight party voters would not have the presidential vote counted. Straight party voting is allowed in 15 states. Basically, it means that you can take a shortcut to actually looking at who you are voting for and instead just select a party preference. Then the voting machine makes your candidate choices, supposedly for the party you requested. Additional details follow, but first: PROTECT THE COUNT 1) NEVER CHOOSE THE STRAIGHT PARTY VOTE OPTION, because it alerts the computer as to your party preference and allows software code to trigger whatever function the programmer has designed. 2) SEND THIS INFORMATION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, blog it, root n' toot it out there to get the word out. 3) ESPECIALLY GET THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, which have straight party voting options: - Alabama - Indiana - Iowa - Kentucky - Michigan - New Mexico - North Carolina - Oklahoma -... More 9-21-08: Excruciating issues with voter list database By Bev Harris THE TWO HALVES OF HAVA The second half of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, perhaps more accurately termed the "Help Yourself to America's Vote Act") is just now kicking into play nationwide. THE FIRST HALF OF HAVA strong-armed local elections jurisdictions into buying tamper-friendly voting machines. THE SECOND HALF OF HAVA involves nationwide implementation of mandated, centralized tamper-friendly voter list databases at the state level. WITH COMPUTERS, 'FIXES' CAN CAUSE NEW THINGS TO BREAK The news coming out of Wisconsin provides a good illustration for how to break a system by fixing it. Wisconsin engaged the services of Accenture to develop its centralized statewide voter database. Records obtained by Black Box Voting in 2006 revealed significant problems with the database in the midst of the November general election. Just days before the election, emergency troubleshooting was being performed, and days after the election, the system was shut down for repairs: [] [] [] Now, you may think "That was in 2006, why worry in 2008?" Now look again at the dates. Major issues were being resolved Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, right before the election, and these records didn't come to light until AFTER the election. Wisconsin was using the system in 2006; many other states will use the statewide databases for the first time in 2008. (Scroll to the... More
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