BBV: Buzzflash interviews Bev Harris

[Dudley_DUright]

What remains the greatest threat to democracy in the 2004 election?

Some would argue that it may be the ability of the companies who manufacture and maintain electronic voting machines to elect a candidate through reprogrammed software – or maybe a third party who could hack the vote counting software and change the tally.

At first, dismissed as the paranoid delusions of a few diehard researchers, a growing number of states are researching these accusations -- among others -- and discovering that many of the concerns are valid. On December 3, the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" reported that, "Ohio's sweeping review of electronic voting machines turned up so many potential security flaws in the systems that the state's top elections official has called off deploying them in March" .

When we first interviewed Bev Harris , a pioneer in exposing the dangerous potential for election manipulation that electronic voting machines pose, she wanted to ensure that BuzzFlash didn't make her into a hero. Harris wrote us a long e-mail detailing many of the people who have tirelessly worked to bring this issue to the point that it is now being seriously addressed. And Harris is right: dozens of patriotic Americans have endured a lot of skepticism and legal threats for working to ensure that elective democracy works.

Nonetheless, Harris, a resident of Washington State, has been the most visible writer and spokesperson on the issue.

BuzzFlash is pleased to return to her for a December 2003 update on the battle over electronic voting.

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[pistoff democrat]

1. Aw, you beat me to it!

I was just about to post this, so


:kick:

[grannylib]

2. Way to go, Bev, and also all the DUers who have been flooding

your representatives' e-mail boxes, fax and phone lines with this issue!
Don't let up now...keep the pressure on!!