(Bev Harris) Activist: E-Voting to Be a 'Train Wreck'

[maddezmom]

Activist: E-Voting to Be a 'Train Wreck'




By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Ambushing registrars and tracking down executives at their homes and offices, a literary publicist has uncovered conflicts of interests and security flaws inside the companies that make electronic ballot machines.



Searching the Web and poring over newspaper clippings, Bev Harris has unearthed obscure arrest records, ties to conservative political groups and other embarrassing secrets of senior executives at voting companies.


Her conclusion: there will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida's hanging chad debacle of 2000.


"We have a train wreck that's definitely going to happen," Harris said. "We have conflict of interest, we've taken the checks and balances away, and we know the votes are already being miscounted fairly frequently. This is going to be huge.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=548&ncid=696&e=5&u=/ap/20040709/ap_on_el_ge/profile_e_voting_gadfly

KUDOS to Bev!!! :) and don't forget to rate the article.

[MasonJar]

1. What can we do? We want to help.

[maddezmom]

2. here's a link to her site :)

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[AndyTiedye]

3. She has a 501c3 you can donate to

and write it off your taxes.

[SpiralHawk]

4. One wee thing you can do; follow the Yahoo link

And rate the story a 5. Many more people will see it that way. The people have a right to know.

Megathanks, Bev H.

[lakeguy]

5. voted-up to 4.93

this e-voting crap is going to turn the election into a joke! i actually emailed a woman called Deborah Wright because she said that a paper receipt would be over three feet long. after i asked nicely, she sent me the "three foot long" receipt and it was less than two inches wide! plus there was way too much white space. i told her i'd make it fit on one page for her and send it back. i'm going to my friends house tonight to scan it and send it back. what a joke...three feet my ass! these people will say anything to not have a paper trail. utterly amazing!:mad:

[maddezmom]

6. kick for Bev

:kick:

[Rebellious Republican]

7. Its current average rating is 3.93 with 70 vote(s).

:kick:

[maddezmom]

11. need more readers and voters

:)

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Bu$h is counting on election day

turning into a disaster. That's why they've done nothing to change most of the problematic election laws that were a problem 4 years ago. Has a matter of fact, they have made things much worse, by installing electronic voting systems that are totally unreliable.

You think the 2000 fiasco was fun? Trust me, we ain't seen nothing yet.

[psychopomp]

9. kick

kick
current average rating is 3.66 with 92 vote(s)

[BadGimp]

10. I have $1,000 that says Bush WILL win in Nov

And that the culprit wil be these machines.

But of course we will have no way to prove it.

Bev Harris is not Chicken Little. She is the canary in the coal mines of US electoral integrity and one of our last best hopes to preserve our Democracy.