Help Black Box Voting Examine ES&S Software

Gottesser writes, "Bev Harris of Black Box Voting has asked for the help of the Slashdot community. She would like people to take a look at ES&S's central tabulator software and start reporting on their impressions of it. This is a past release of the software but it is similar to the applications in production. Sorry, no source code." Read on for Bev's request and pointers to the code repositories. Update 23:38 GMT by SM Bev has confirmed that blackbox1.org is indeed owned by BlackBoxVoting making both a comment in the discussion and a post on the front page of blackboxvoting.org to help assuage reader fear/doubt.

From Bev:

"ES&S 'Unity' central tabulator software.

Software stash: three zip files --
http://www.blackbox1.org/ems.zip
http://www.blackbox1.org/un5.zip
http://www.blackbox1.org/Unity.zip

User Manuals for ES&S software can be found here:
http://www.bbvforum s.org/forums/messages/2197/2864.html

This is the ES&S central tabulator software, the ES&S counterpart to the Diebold GEMS central tabulator software. No source code, sorry, and no software for the precinct machines. This is reportedly one generation back, but from what I'm told has significant similarities to the new stuff. I would appreciate it if you can provide me with feedback on your impressions after looking at it. You may want to Slashdot it or whatever.

Best,

Bev Harris
Founder
Black Box Voting

Comments

Open that source up!

[wiz31337]

Having the Slashdot community look at front-end of the software is not going to do much good. We can tell you that the buttons look bad, or text is too hard to read. Beyond that, we can't tell you where the exact problems are. Open up your source code and let us poke around a little bit, and then we'll show you where your real problems are hiding.

If BlackBox is worried about people saving a list of exploits for a zero-day attack they can put their software through a strict accreditation process before they reveal their final release.

Dont Help BBV

[jeramybsmith]

There are legitimate evoting orgs out there. Help one of them. DemocratUnderground exposed Bev Harris as a phony a long time ago. Her people regularly astroturf here. Here is some of Bev Harris' latest kookery. Find a legitimate evoting org and help them instead.

By the way: the scientific community has been complicit in cover-ups of the truth, and makes errors -- as you just did when you asserted that VoteHere code did not need to be stolen because it was public, without doing your homework on the dates or running a simple media search. RABA technologies head Michael Wertheimer withheld crucial information from his report, supposedly because he was told to by Diebold lobbyists and people in Lamone's office. Scientists have yet to acknowledge the very real and continuing issues with GEMS, WinEDS and the other central tabulating programs. To say that Black Box Voting has a "reputation" for making assertions is an elitist bit pushed by the scientists and their followers. You just made an assertion, about VoteHere. The scientists have made several incorrect assertions -- at one point, one of the very well known ones tried to get Hursti to CHANGE HIS REPORT so as not to expose an incorrect assertion this guy had been making.

YOU FAIL iT

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus Up The ggodbye...she had another troubled