Yes, folks, there is voting fraud in the US, and it is being done by Republicans in Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and elsewhere.
Black Box Voting, which investigates electronic election fraud, e-mailed this announcement to its members:
BBV JUST POSTED: ACTUAL ACCENTURE VOTER LIST SOFTWARE
Now those who can read the MS Access database code are going to tell us just how bad this smoking gun is. Felony investigations and prosecutions should follow. Unless, of course, Republican administrations in states practicing voter suppression are sufficiently corrupt that they will never prosecute electoral crimes by Republican officials. Florida 2000, anybody? So we will need DoJ to step in under the Voting Rights Act, as it is doing to roll back voter suppression in Florida and Arizona.
Note that this is not the code from the voting machines, which has often been found to be incompetent and illegal. it is the code that manages voter rolls, including registration status and voter history. Known problems include switching party affiliations, losing voting records so that voters can be dropped from the rolls, and adding spurious records in Republican districts.
Disclosure: I am a founding member of the Open Voting Consortium, which has created a Free/Open Source software system for elections, consisting of ballot printers, verification stations, and software for counting the votes (canvassing). Our design is unlike Direct Recording Election machines (DRES) which cannot be audited or even meaningfully recounted. In our system paper is primary. But unlike ballots filled out by hand, we can prevent many types of voter error, such as overvoting or incorrect marking, and we can also provide extra electronic security measures to make it impossible to add, remove, or alter paper ballots without detection.
We plan to put this system into the Sugar education software for One Laptop Per Child, thus allowing millions of children to learn how to administer elections, including auditing of results. I will Diary more on this soon.
Permission to republish granted [by BBV]
Bev Harris of Black Box Voting writes:
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).
Here's the download link
Disappearing Voters in Tennessee
As a followup on our last story: The issue of 11,000 disappearing voter histories in Tennessee has now been assigned to a special master for investigation, and the state of Tennessee has officially announced that it has halted further voter purges.
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