BBV: Press Release of Bev's Press Conference In DC

[JohnGideon]

To: Assignment Desk, Political Reporter, Daybook Editor

Contact: Abbe Waldman Delozier, 512-736-5802; Vickie Karp, 512-775-3737; Bev Harris, 206-335-7747; or Andy Stephenson, 206-778-0524

News Advisory:

Wednesday, Sept. 22. Two press events: 9:30 am (National Press Club, by invitation only; features a surprise and a three-hour head start for TV news) and 12:30 pm EST (The Ballroom at Heldref Publications, open to all journalists, policymakers, and to the public)

Startling demonstrations using real election software proving that any teenager or terrorist with a laptop can create havoc with the election results in November. Or, more onerous: Anyone with an agenda or a profit motive can help themselves to an election with subtlety such that no one will ever know.

1. 9:30 am, The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C., Zenger Room (A small gathering by invitation; if you are a member of Congress or represent one of the networks, call 206-335-7747, 206-778-0524, 512-736-5802 or 512-775-3737 to get on the invite list. Some contact lines congested, keep trying.)

2. 12:30pm, "The Ballroom" at Heldref Publications, 1319 Eighteenth St. NW, Washington, D.C. -- (All press and policymakers; open to the public)

Bev Harris, Executive Director, Black Box Voting -- http://www.BlackBoxVoting.ORG -- will demonstrate a hidden program for vote manipulation, which resides on Diebold's election software. This is a secret feature enabled by a two-digit trigger (not a "bug" or an accidental oversight; it's there on purpose). The Diebold central tabulator system election software will count 50 million votes, approximately 50 percent of the votes in November's election.

Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, computer security expert and editor/author of 12 books including "The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency" Thompson will demonstrate how easily an election can be rigged by implanting a virus.

Jeremiah Akin, independent computer programmer from Riverside, Calif., will demonstrate how to manipulate Sequoia Voting Systems software while an election is in progress.

Andy Stephenson, Associate Director, Black Box Voting, will demonstrate how an unscrupulous person with no computer skills whatsoever can sabotage an election with two mouse clicks.

Surprise feature -- Highly visual TV demo, features something astonishing. This 3 minutes will forever change your perspective on voting security. Trust us on this one.

Two options will be presented as emergency solutions -- by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting; and also by Sharona Merel and Joan Krawitz, Co-founders of the National Ballot Integrity Project Task Force. Inexpensive and doable emergency measures to immediately ensure the integrity of the 2004 vote count, for immediate action. Lowell Finley, attorney from Berkeley, Calif., specializing in election law, will comment about the legal feasibililty of the emergency solutions being presented.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[gristy]

1. kick

:kick:

[RedEagle]

2. Thanks for posting John

Just got back and saw this.

[ret5hd]

6. check your pm's

[SoCalDem]

3. on c-span??? I hope

:)

[Andy_Stephenson]

9. And many other news orgs

We have several confirmations....

Stay tuned we have a special guest coming.

[ParanoidPat]

12. Wish I could be there with you Andy.....

.....are you guys covered for equipment? :)

[Andy_Stephenson]

16. Covered in a Big Way!

wish you could be there as well.


We are in LA right now...the film shoot went well and the editing is underway.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Wooo hoooo!!!!

Good luck guys!

:loveya:

[Senior citizen]

4. kick n/t

[Joanne98]

5. Give it press blast.......

Click create mail doubleclick cc (open book) click bcc copy and paste e-mails into bcc write LTTE

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[Joanne98]

7. Done

I just learned how to do this today so I'm excited....

[RedEagle]

8. Thompson & Aiken rock!

Kick

[in_cog_ni_to]

34. done! n/t

[annabanana]

37. ummm... no CBS addy?

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather: ,
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[Andy_Stephenson]

43. Kick

:kick:

[Ravy]

10. Has someone posted the three minute video???

I would love to see that.

[Zinfandel]

11. Fuuuuck! Stealing? Isn't it par for the course....Now what?

Rove? The Fascist are in your cubord....yet, no one ever answers the very simple question...when they steal it again...what will we do?

[Andy_Stephenson]

23. Flee to Canada?

:shrug:

That is one course of action.

Myself...I will continue to fight.

[loudsue]

13. Holy Moly!!! This is GREAT!!!

:yourock: This is SOOOOOO kewl! :yourock:

O8) Many many prayers for the continued success and safety of the BBV Patriots!! O8)

If we get our Democracy back, we have you guys to thank for it!! :loveya:

I can't wait to see/hear the results of this!! ROCK THE HOUSE, BEV, ANDY & CREW!!!

:kick::kick::kick::kick:

[DubyaSux]

15. Well gee...

...I hope she brought up the pesky pop up advertisements and the brag screen at the end of your voting session that states "People who voted like you have purchased Al Franken's book on Amazon.com."

Please, who the heck would let someone in with their own laptop to alter an election? If crap is THAT easy, why not just report a bogus number instead of having to go through all the complications to create a new one. Why not just make one up?

And where's this 6 lines of VBS code you guys are ready to release?

Is this the OpenRecordset crap and changing field data (i.e rs.Fields("VotesForTheOtherGuy" = 1000000000) as if that would really work? Or is the dbo.ExecuteImmediate "Update VoteTotals SET VoteForTheOtherGuy = 1000000000?

C'mon..I want to see what you're hanging your hat on. I need a good laugh.

[RedEagle]

17. Guess you'll have to wait for the press conference

Meanwhile:

Voter verified paper ballots +

Robust auditing of elections +

Keeping track of the information =

Statistics on how accurate the machines/programs that count our elections are.

Overvotes and undervotes don't concern accuracy of the entire ballot. Undervotes can and are sometimes, intentional- just not usually in a Presidential race.

You'd think the companies that market the voting contraptions would welcome information on which system was more accurate and provided the most ability to audit- which requires two, independent sources. That should be considered a wonderful marketing advantage.

Why is our vote treated with less respect than a purchase or lotto ticket? The only difference is that the evidence of our choices must be left in a ballot box to protect vote secrecy and to conduct audits of the election.

Call it a warrantee- proof of the execution of a transaction, witnessed and approved by the person involved, in a medium that provides an independent source, cannot be so easily manipulated, and is witnessed by the voter.

Why is it that every grocery store in the country can print evidence of the transaction, but this is deemed impossible or impractical for voting? Why the rush to apply encryption to bad programming? So we have even less chance of ascertaining if the system worked or not?

Chads were the ruse in the 2000 election. What had to be avoided at all costs was a recount of the optical scan ballots- not the reports the optical scan can print out, but the actual, voter filled out, ballots.

Total electronic voting = two ways to mess with elections:
The central count
The touch screens

What a back up system!

[annabanana]

18. kick............................nn/t

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[TrogL]

32. I've seen some of Diebold's code

There's definitely problems.

And no, it's not that simple.

[Cheswick2.0]

38. Why do you hate democracy?

Why do you object to making sure everyone's vote counts?

[BevHarris]

39. Gosh, I hope any real opposition uses arguments as weak as yours

...I hope she brought up the pesky pop up advertisements and the brag screen at the end of your voting session that states "People who voted like you have purchased Al Franken's book on Amazon.com."

Huh? http://www.blackboxvoting.org is our web site and it has no popup ads or brag screens.

Please, who the heck would let someone in with their own laptop to alter an election?

Actually, 6 days ago in King County they let Andy Stephenson in with his own laptop. He was tooling around on it for hours. We were sitting in a room with four computers, all with live Internet connections, usually which had no supervision, and the room was dark. They were bringing a disk from the GEMS central tabulator in to these computers, popping it in, then taking it back and putting it back into the central tabulator. You tell me: Is that not a damn hazardous security procedure?

If crap is THAT easy, why not just report a bogus number instead of having to go through all the complications to create a new one.

That's been done too. Prairie County, Arkansas May 18 primary.

And where's this 6 lines of VBS code you guys are ready to release?

Uh, you might want to check the credentials of Hugh Thompson before you ridicule. At 28 years old, he's basically the smartest guy in the room. (Any room).

I need a good laugh.

You'll have one when you see the surprise demo. Unless you work for Diebold, in which case you'll have an aneurism.

Thanks for playing,

Bev Harris

[nodehopper]

52. thanks Bev

I forwarded your press release to my boss is getting someone to videotape the press conference and he's made sure Lenny Charles (of INN Report) and Amy Goodman know about it so hopefully they can do something with it on their programs...this needs as much exposure as possible ASAP, thank you so much for your amazing work on this.

[never cry wolf]

19. Get on the high diving board

Jump real high, tuck into cannonball postion and make a BIG splash!

Awesome guys, go kick some ass for democracy!

[RedEagle]

20. Please contact your Senators and Representatives in D.C.

Send them the press release and ask them to attend this conference. Many times they will not read mail that is not from their constituents, so please do this ASAP.


If you have a risk, you take care of it.

If you have a risk, you generate a way to insure the information is maintained, a voter verified paper ballot.

You create a way to audit the system. Otherwise, you might was well label this "Enron" style voting.

[RedEagle]

21. How About a Demo for Pelosi, Kennedy, ....

Kick!

[leftchick]

26. Will Do RE!

thanks for the reminder.

[annabanana]

36. YES.. invite your CongressCritters...............................n/t

[rhite5]

25. Thank you so much, Bev, Andy, John, RedEagle, and everyone else

who have brought this exposure this far! Against enormous (and amazing) odds.

Saving our democracy depends on saving our ability to vote and have our votes accurately counted.

It is that simple!

[RedEagle]

27. Back Up

Get Congress to get up off their chairs and see for themselves.

See my post above. It's a lot more effective to have people from their states make this request.

Get going DU, you know what you have to do.

[RedEagle]

28. Kick

[kimchi]

29. Kick. n/t

[annabanana]

31. I want my reps in that ballroom

So I'm kickin' to Monday

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. I just emailed Dick Durbin

I asked him to attend and sent the press release. I will call his office in the morning to follow up. I HOPE he attends!

This is awesome...I cannot wait to watch this on Wednesday.

Good luck Bev and Andy! Thank you so much for all your efforts.

[juajen]

35. I am in awe of all you wonderful people have done

Let's hope our Washington bureaucrats take notice.

:kick: :kick:

[napi21]

40. I just checked the cspan site, and there's nothing there about this.

I wonder if they will air the coverage later this evening? How can we find out?

[antigop]

41. Is there a link somewhere to the press release?

I don't want to send the URL of the above DU post to my local paper. Is there a link to an OFFICIAL press release that I can send?

Thanks.

[antigop]

42. Is there a link somewhere to the press release?

I don't want to send the URL of the above DU post to my local paper. Is there a link to an OFFICIAL press release that I can send?

Thanks.

[RedEagle]

44. Try This....

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=36432

[annabanana]

45. Kick... and write your REPS!

Where is MoveOn on this? or ACT up?
:kick:

[crispini]

46. When will C-SPAN coverage be confirmed?

I would like to call my local county elections board (users of ES&S voting machines) and direct them to watch C-SPAN.

[crispini]

47. Never mind...

just re-read the press-release and found out it will focus on Diebold. However, maybe I should call them anyway and let them know?

[crispini]

48. Wrote everybody.

Kick.

[Andy_Stephenson]

49. Kick

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[annabanana]

50. It's tomorrow folks.

last chance to notify your congresspeople!!

kick

[RedEagle]

51. A Reminder

Kick!