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That was then. This is now: Black Box Voting 2.0

2006. 2016. 2021. As you can see, we're still in the same boat. We've revamped this site for 2021. BlackBoxVoting 2.0 will combine legacy research from Bev Harris, who developed the original BlackBoxVoting.org in 2003, with current work by a growing citizen talent pool. The site is now jointly administered by Bennie Smith, a computer programmer and  election commissioner for…
Bev Harris
January 6, 2021
RESEARCHROLE MODELS

Stream ‘Hacking Democracy’ – now on Amazon Video

The Emmy-nominated HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy, has recently been made available for streaming on Amazon Video. Most people don't realize that the producers of this film are independent filmmakers from Great Britain -- they dug deep into their own pockets, and credit cards, to produce a film that was so controversial it was not at all certain whether it would…
Bev Harris
October 31, 2016
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The truth about exit polls and vote counts: 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary

Guest Author: Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.: 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 inaccurate, and the official results are true and…
Bev Harris
July 19, 2016
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What Constitutes an Election Audit

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,…
Bev Harris
July 19, 2016
COMPANIESELECTIONS INDUSTRYMAKE AND MODELRESEARCH

Fraction Magic – Part 6: Execution Capacity

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…
Bev Harris
June 14, 2016
COMPANIESELECTIONS INDUSTRYMAKE AND MODELRESEARCH

Fraction Magic – Part 1: Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers

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…
Bev Harris
May 12, 2016
COMPANIESELECTIONS INDUSTRYMAKE AND MODELRESEARCH

Fraction Magic — Part 2: Context, Background, Deeper, Worse

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.…
Bev Harris
May 12, 2016
COMPANIESELECTIONS INDUSTRYMAKE AND MODELRESEARCH

Fraction Magic – Part 4: Presidential race in an entire state switched in four seconds

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…
Bev Harris
May 12, 2016
COMPANIESELECTIONS INDUSTRYMAKE AND MODELRESEARCH

Fraction Magic — Part 5: Masters of the Universe

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…
Bev Harris
May 12, 2016