"Victims were told by perpetrators . . . that they were cutting off their hands as punishment for using their hands in the 1996 vote." (Sierra Leone war amputees learn to vote with their feet)
Bev HarrisNovember 27, 2013
A news director for Bighorn Radio Network, who reported on some troubling programming problems with local voting machines during the 2012 general election, was arrested a few months later on charges that he had voted as a felon; He had been convicted for burglary in 1993 in another state and had served out a suspended sentence and probation. Twenty years…
Bev HarrisJune 24, 2013
"As the lines of authority with the government erode, so too do traditional authority structures . . . eventually all that is left to hold society together is that someday it may be your day to get yours." -- Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria Corruption is the abuse of public office for private or political gain. Electoral corruption is interference with the…
Bev HarrisJune 13, 2013
While going through Black Box Voting archived materials from 2002-2013, I found several old items for which the links are now dead. When possible, I've tried to locate working links; in the case below, now I've got questions. The original link led to notes from the Minutes of the Proceedings, Board of County Commissioners, for Laramie County Wyoming, which are…
Bev HarrisApril 17, 2013
Alabama refused to provide a current voter list to the state Democratic Party unless they paid $28,000 for a DVD, an item worth which costs at most $5. At the time, Pennsylvania - a state with a larger population - charged $20 for the same thing. New Hampshire charged just $25. The voter list provides public accountability as to who…
Bev HarrisSeptember 25, 2008
Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, a group of Wyoming citizens in Sheridan County chose to examine ballots for the 2006 US House race. Use of "right to know" laws for public authentication of ballot counts provides a useful, though not definitive way to evaluate vote count integrity. The difference between a public hand count through FOIA requests and…
Bev HarrisJanuary 24, 2007
A careful reading of the Casper Star-Tribune's detailed reporting, below, provides a pretty good guess as to what was really going on. Carbon County and Laramie County reported very similar problems: When trying to upload precinct results the transmission balked. A closer look, using the Verifier tool at VerifiedVoting.org, shows that both Carbon and Laramie counties were using Diebold systems,…
Bev HarrisNovember 9, 2006
The problem identified below shows up in other Wyoming locations, and also can affect absentee votes in any other location if jurisdictions send folded ballots. The Natrona County clerk's office says the folded absentee ballots may delay the count, but won't affect the count. That is not necessarily true. Folded absentee ballots have been found in other states to produce…
Bev HarrisNovember 8, 2006
Wyoming bought electronic voting machines in 2006, funded by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Archived from the Billings Gazette, published Aug. 21, 2006: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Voters in several Wyoming counties will find new and unfamiliar voting machines when they go to the polls for Tuesday's primary election. Laramie County Clerk Debra Lathrop said voters in her county will…
Bev HarrisAugust 21, 2006