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If ever there was a time to fully implement the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act, it is now! Unfortunately, some Republican lawmakers in Tennessee don't want verifiable voting, and have been taking steps to prevent paper ballot machines, and therefore confirmable auditing from being installed.
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Citizen-gathered evidence shows an increasing likelihood of electoral fraudTuesday, October 10th, 2006
It’s going to be up to us to make the case. We can’t solve a problem if we refuse to look. Citizens are fed up with black box elections, and are mustering up evidence of improper behavior that will swing the pendulum back in the direction it belongs.
Examples of the astonishing evidence uncovered by candidates and extraordinary citizens follows.
At first, we proved that the machines “theoretically’ could be tampered with. Then, in experiments in Leon County and Emery County, citizen-led investigations machines could ACTUALLY be tampered with.
At first, public records requests from Black Box Voting and others proved that election results were not authenticatable using available audit records. And now, Black Box Voting and citizens are coming up with audit records that show strong indications of improper behavior.
Be aware that we are not going to see a Perry Mason moment. Proof of corruption will be incremental, but it will come.
In 2006, your job will be to embark on the biggest citizen evidence-gathering expedition in history, to take this past the tipping point and achieve real change. Nothing will do but a reversal of the pendulum, back to citizen ownership and oversight of our own government and its electoral processes.
Let’s take a look now at some of the evidence citizens — and Black Box Voting — are uncovering:
1. Memphis: Candidates in Memphis asked Black Box Voting for help securing public records from the Aug. 3, 2006 election. Black Box Voting recommended getting a copy of the Diebold GEMS database, along with the Windows event log. What we found shocked us: The sheer number of legal and security violations in the event log were horrifying, and it also showed that Shelby County — or someone — was accessing the file during the middle of a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting this.
- A remote access program called PC Anywhere was found resident in the system- Evidence of insertion of an encrypted Lexar Jump Drive was present- Evidence of attempts to alter or write HTML files (used to report results) was present- Apparently without a firewall, the GEMS system was opened up to the County Network- A prohibited program, Microsoft Access, which makes editing the election chimpanzee-easy, was installed on the system AND USED shortly after the election.
To read more about Memphis, click here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/44242.html
The following is only part of what is posted at the above link;
2) On 8/7/06 somebody loaded a complete copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2000. This would include the MS-Access program long known as the simplest way to edit the contents of a Diebold central vote database (and banned for use in elections in virtually all jurisdictions nationwide). 3) On 8/22/06 for a period of over an hour -- and during a time period for which a Temporary Restraining Order was in effect -- somebody attempted to edit HTML data files. The only significant HTML files on a Diebold main server are vote total reports. The only reason any trace was left was because the HTML editing tools failed to load – they either broke somehow or weren’t loaded correctly. Either way, it suggests that somebody may have been hand-editing vote total reports, and that’s potentially very significant. For example: GEMS creates reports of vote tallies throughout election night, in either HTML or PDF formats. An editor for PDF data is included on the GEMS main server as shipped by Diebold, and HTML editors are easy to get. Those tally reports could be easily edited on election night, shifting the apparent vote totals, and then the main GEMS database could be hand-edited to match the false reports across most of the day after the election, to be illicitly uploaded via the password-protected Jumpdrive.
A Final Shelby County Fact (based on election official depositions): 4) At 6:30pm on election day, the GEMS main server was cross-connected to the main county computer network, which in turn has a cross-connection to the main Internet. They did this to allow uploading results from four regional elections offices across the county. To be clear, it appears that results were modemed in to the regional stations from the precincts. The regional stations were reportedly connected to the county network. It is impossible to overstate the seriousness of this security violation. This practice is flat banned in California and many other states, and may or may not be illegal in Tennessee...we’re checking on that. As a practical matter, this allowed anybody sitting at a county PC to get to and manipulate the central vote tabulator database. With this final insult, it can be plainly stated that this wasn’t an election. It was a hacking contest, open to whoever was most efficient and motivated to alter vote totals. The number of potential vote fraud perpetrators was literally enormous. Regardless of whether or not vote manipulation was caught and proven, no possible perpetrator could be caught. It's hard to explain these violations of both law and known standard security practices in election processing. Win or lose, candidates Shep Wilbun, Sondra Becton, Vernon Johnson and Otis Jackson have performed a valuable service for their community in exposing some of the most irregular and illegal electronic voting procedures in America today. Nobody else in the Tennessee elections process did their jobs except for these four candidates and a handful of citizen supporters and researchers. These candidates performed another exceptional service when they went to court and obtained the most recent GEMS database to date. You can download it here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/44189.html It should be noted that this is NOT the election night database. We were not allowed to take a copy of that. This is, however, represented to be a real and final version of the Shelby County elections database.