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Breaking News
There will be a press conference held tomorrow, Dec. 16th, by Bev Harris, of blackboxvoting.org, who has posted the following message on
her website. Stay tuned for something that she says promises to be more newsworthy than the security flaws with Diebold. Go to
http://www.blackboxvoting.org to watch for more developments on this breaking story...
Sunday Dec 14, 2003
PRESS CONFERENCE
NEWS CONFERENCE - BREAKING - Voting Systems Security Concerns Rise to New Level
Press Conference in Seattle at 2 p.m. Tuesday December 16
16 DEC 2003, Seattle WA — This is of national interest. A new security concern has surfaced which may eclipse the software holes in the
Diebold voting system found by Johns Hopkins and Rice University scientists in July. Bev Harris, author of “Black Box Voting” and Andy
Stephenson, democratic candidate for Washington secretary of state, have uncovered new holes in the electoral system in King County and in
as many as 14 additional states.
These security breaches affect both the optical scan systems (fill-in-the-dot or draw-the-line) and touch screen voting systems, and may also
indicate significant security problems with absentee voting procedures.
At the Tuesday press conference, Harris and Stephenson will distribute a packet of documents to support their allegations. Whereas electronic
voting concerns have focused on complex issues like cryptographic security and computer source code, the new security flaws uncovered by
Harris and Stephenson are more serious and also easier to explain. Because the subject matter is sensitive, reporters will want copies of the
original documents to substantiate the allegations, and these will be released at the news conference.
The news conference will be held in Seattle at 2 p.m. in a location to be disclosed Monday morning on the front page of this
BlackBoxVoting.org.
“This information is significant enough to merit a trip to Seattle for members of the press who don’t live here,” says Harris. It affects four
counties in Washington State and locations in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Maryland
and Virginia.
“What we have are two intertwined security breaches which deserve immediate attention from the U.S. Congress,” says Stephenson. “We
need to address procedural safeguards as soon as possible to put a halt to these problems and prevent them from ever happening again.”
A 20-page dossier will provide the specific U.S. locations affected, as well as the details on multiple security breaches which may have
compromised the integrity of at least two dozen elections.
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Watch for details on location here. Will be posted by noon Monday, Dec. 15.