Bev Harris/BlackBoxVoting press conference

[tom bldr <tom_bldr@xxxxxxxxx>]

This news is apparently SO big, SO juicy... it'll have
to wait for tomorrow's press conference. So let's
hurry up and wait, folks!  -Tom Rategan

from http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

NEWS CONFERENCE - BREAKING - Voting Systems Security
Concerns Rise to New Level 
Press Conference in Seattle at 2 p.m. Tuesday December
16 - at Seattle Labor Temple - 2800 First Ave. -
Seattle 
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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