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Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software
Gottesser writes with this excerpt from Bev Harris's Black Box Voting: "I have found and posted the actual voter list software used widely throughout the USA (TN, WI, PA, CO, KS...) for Accenture voter registration and voter histories. I located the files on a magnetic backup tape of the hard drive of a county elections IT employee, part of a 120-gig set of discovery files. The Accenture voter registration / voter history software is highly problematic, and has been reported switching voter parties in Colorado, and losing voter histories in Tennessee. Although it is now widely known that Accenture voter list software gets it wrong, just WHY the program misreports voter information so often has never been explained. I am hoping that by releasing this software to the public, it may shed light on what's really going on with our voter registration systems. I also posted a Tennessee file with work orders and release notes which shows the Accenture software has a history of tripling votes in certain ('random') voter histories, going back to 2004. Except it is not random: Other files I discovered prove it is with primarily suburban Republican precincts that votes are somehow being recorded twice and sometimes three times for certain voters in the voter history report, and this didn't just happen in 2004; it also happened in the 2008 presidential primary and in May and August 2010, and according to election commission notes in Shelby County, also in the 2012 presidential primary. Computer buffs, have at it. Much source code exists within the structure because it is built on MS Access. I do not read source code, though I can see some structural problems with the software (for example, it allows political party ID to be set differently from one precinct to another)."
Thanks. Your wikipedia quotation is UNSOURCED and therefore invalid. For all I know you grabbed the quote from Alex Jones & he pulled it from his anus? Try to find a REPUTABLE source to backup your claims. Thanks.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
That's probably because the Democrats are too busy registering illegal aliens, dead people, having unions bus in people from out of state and having poll workers "finding" boxes of ballots in their personal vehicle trunks 3 days AFTER the election to think about software.
My guess is that the mod who modded this down knows very little about voting systems. I used to think that Bev Harris was the god of all things voting. I started doing research on various different voting systems and I discovered that - and I know how crazy this sounds - technology can actually be used to improve the integrity of election results. So I went to the forums at BBV and asked what they thought of a few different systems I'd found. They immediately pointed out how these systems were not perfect. I then pointed out that the problems they stated were also present when hand counting, to which I also received no response. I then started browsing around the forum and I found many people before me had been down the same path with Bev and the others at BBV. I contacted the others and they told me independently that they felt Bev's issues with the improved systems were contrived and had given up and moved on with their lives. You may not like to hear this, but it's true: Bev Harris profits from a corrupt system, and, at least on the surface, appears to prefer things continue the way they are.