From Bev Harris’s voting machine investigation website topic articles:
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The truth about exit polls and vote counts: 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary
By Bev Harris | ACTIONS, RESEARCH | No Comments
Guest Author: Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.: [Updated July 20 to include full detail report] It has been widely noted that the unadjusted CNN exit polls for the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, in many states, are at variance with the official results. Some believe the exit polls are accurate, and the official results are fraudulent. Others believe the exit polls are…
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July 19, 2016
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What Constitutes an Election Audit
By Bev Harris | ACTIONS, RESEARCH, ROLE MODELS | No Comments
Guest Author – Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.: Ohio citizens conducted, under my direction, a genuine audit of the 2004 presidential election. This was no mere “spot check” of randomly selected precincts, and no mere “recount” of the same ballots previously run through the electronic tabulators. We learned to ask for everything: ballots, poll books, voter signature books, ballot accounting charts,…
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July 19, 2016
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Fraction Magic – Part 6: Execution Capacity
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | 2 Comments
6 – Middlemen, Inside Access and Manipulation – A fractional voting framework is treacherous because it can be scaled to run across multiple jurisdictions very quickly. False results precisely mimic known patterns to appear plausible. In the demonstration we performed, Smith’s one-size-fits-all utility showed that a person without any programming skills at all could seize control of election results in…
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June 14, 2016
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Fraction Magic – Part 1: Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | No Comments
1 – Summary – This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by pre-setting…
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May 12, 2016
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Fraction Magic — Part 2: Context, Background, Deeper, Worse
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | No Comments
2 — Totals dropping mid-count; poll tapes don’t match; missing single-votes like round-off errors; e-mails from programmers; and voters being personally “weighted” for unequal value — In August 2014 Bennie Smith was approached by a number of candidates who insisted that their elections had been stolen. He disagreed with the group and offered to look into how the system works….
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May 12, 2016
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Fraction Magic – Part 3: Proof of code
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | No Comments
3 – Programming to treat votes as decimals – The term “DOUBLE” means to store and process numbers with “double precision floating points” – in other words, to enable large numbers of decimal values. In contrast, the term “INT” instructs the program to treat numbers as whole integers. Source Code: Below are clips from GEMS source code showing that it…
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May 12, 2016
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Fraction Magic – Part 4: Presidential race in an entire state switched in four seconds
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | No Comments
4 – Proof of Concept: Election Night Results – We used the GEMS fractional vote feature to alter an actual statewide vote database, rewriting all the polling place votes in the state of Alaska for the 2004 presidential election to change the outcome. This database was obtained by the Alaska Democratic Party in 2006 pursuant to a court order. Below is…
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May 12, 2016
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Fraction Magic — Part 5: Masters of the Universe
By Bev Harris | COMPANIES, ELECTIONS INDUSTRY, MAKE AND MODEL, RESEARCH | No Comments
5 – Precision control to weight results – Using the GEMS “double” configuration, users can control election results using amazingly accurate vote percentages. We demonstrate this by assigning vote percentages using a children’s letter-number cipher. A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. For example, H=8 and A=1 so 81.8181% is “hahaha.” We helped Bush/Cheney dominate Alaska’s Cheney Lakes, assigning 38.514525% of the votes, spelling…
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May 12, 2016
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About Chain of Custody
By Bev Harris | Uncategorized | No Comments
Elections chain of custody refers to physical and electronic evidence controls for: – who can vote – who did vote – actual ballots as marked by each voter, and – evidence transfer and storage Dispute resolution (recounts or litigation) and law enforcement measures need authentic evidentiary records. Proper accounting requires chain of custody measures, which auditors use to assess information…
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February 14, 2016
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NEW: Watch this section grow – Directories
ACCOUNTABILITY
— CHAIN OF CUSTODY
— ELECTION RECORDS
—— Records: ALTERED
—— Records: INACCURATE
—— Records: POLL TAPES
— ENFORCEMENT
— LAWS, RULES
— TRANSPARENCY
ACTIONS
— ROLE MODELS
— ADVOCACY
— ORGANIZING
— RESEARCH
— TECHNOLOGY
— ELECTION OBSERVATION
— MEDIA COVERAGE
BALLOTS
— BALLOT A PUBLIC RECORD
— BALLOT IMAGES
— BALLOT INCORRECT
— BALLOT IRREGULARITIES
— BALLOT MAILING
— BALLOT PRINTING
— BALLOT TAMPERING
— BALLOT TRACKING
— SECRET BALLOT
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
— DARK MONEY
— VIOLATIONS
CANDIDATES
— RIGHT TO RUN
— WRITE-IN CANDIDACY
— WHAT TO LOOK FOR
— WHAT TO ASK FOR
ELECTION COSTS
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
— RECOUNTS
— LITIGATION
DISTRICTING
ELECTIONS INDUSTRY
— COMPANIES
— HISTORY
— MAKE & MODEL
— PURCHASING
VOTING
- VOTING CATEGORIES:
-— ABSENTEE VOTING
-— EARLY VOTING
-— PROVISIONAL VOTING
-— POLLING PLACE VOTING
-— WRITE-IN VOTES
- VOTING COUNTS:
-— CENTRAL COUNT
-— PRECINCT COUNT
- VOTING MACHINES:
-— PROBLEMS
-— TECHNICAL INFORMATION
-— TYPES
VOTER LISTS
— VOTER REGISTRATION
— VOTER CHECK-IN
— PARTICIPATION RECORDS
— LIST MAINTENANCE
PLACES
PEOPLE
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Recent Posts
The truth about exit polls and vote counts: 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary
What Constitutes an Election Audit
Fraction Magic – Part 6: Execution Capacity
Fraction Magic – Part 1: Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
Fraction Magic — Part 2: Context, Background, Deeper, Worse
Fraction Magic – Part 3: Proof of code
Fraction Magic – Part 4: Presidential race in an entire state switched in four seconds
Fraction Magic — Part 5: Masters of the Universe
About Chain of Custody
Caucus Integrity 2016
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Concerning Vote Machine vulnerability for hacker vote count tampering, slowing or disabling electronic vote systems all together:
DEFCON August 2016 Agenda
Topic:
Trust, But Verify: Auditing Proprietary Digital Recording Election Systems
Robert J. Hansen, Researcher, ACCURATE
Abstract:
In 2006 the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) rid the country of lever voting machines and punchcard ballots, and gave the states enormous budgets for buying electronic voting machines. What’s still unresolved is how these electronic voting machines are going to be audited. Trying to keep track of many different vendors, each of which has many different machines, is like getting lost in a funhouse hall of mirrors. Yet, there is good news. The National Science Foundation has established a research group for electronic voting, ACCURATE. In this presentation, an ACCURATE researcher will start talking about the thorny problem of making sure voting machines are playing fair. Existing technologies, both proprietary and open source, will be criticized; and new technologies will be presented.
Bio:
Robert J. Hansen has a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Cornell College, 1998. Master of Computer Science, the University of Iowa, 2006. Chief Security Geek for Yomu Inc., 2000. Cryptographic Engineer for PGP Security, 2000-2001. Student at the University of Iowa pursuing a Ph.D. in computer security, 2002-present.
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-speakers.html
Was going to post an August article and found this thread. Just bumping it along.