Help for Concerned California Voters
By Bev Harris, Oct 6, 2003

Real-time reports of voters'
Experiences in California

Black Box Voting is sponsoring instant reporting of voting rights violations and other problems at http://www.bbvreport.org/. California voters can submit voting experiences immediately at this site. For unusual or egregious problems, the BBV team contacts the media to direct them to the scene of the action.

Californians who have concerns or trouble voting can post to the new BBV Reports web site, part of BlackBoxVoting. This site will remain online until a final resolution is reached. Voters can post problems and discuss voting experiences in real time, and we will have a media arm to send camera crews or notify news reporters if anything is reported (and checked out) that shows voters' rights are being abridged.

Sponsored by Black Box Voting: Instant
Reporting at http://www.bbvreport.org

For a list of documented examples where the voting machines miscounted in real elections (often flipping the decision to the wrong candidate, even when the election was not particularly close) download the Chapter 2 report on the http://www.bbvreport.org/ page. For an inside look at the voting machines manufactured by Diebold, download the Chapter 7 report. 

The BlackBoxVoting.com and .org sites have been harassed recently; should the web address above fail, go to the backup site: http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ for more information.

Contact: David Allen, 336-454-7766 with questions or to set up interviews with Black Box Voting author Bev Harris.

This site will go live at 6 p.m. California time tomorrow (Monday) and will remain online until a final resolution is reached. Voters can post problems and discuss voting experiences in real time, and we will have a media arm to send camera crews or notify news reporters if anything is reported (and checked out) that shows voters' rights are being abridged.

Paranoid Pat, I understand, will have a camera crew in Alameda County and some reporters have called me requesting tips as well.

This is not just a reporting site for electronic voting: If you arrive at the polls, and you are registered, but they can't find your registration; if you are impeded in voting in some way; if you see protests, or hear an interesting conversation to help us take the pulse of America on the voting issue, report it.

A word for whoever seems to want to hack out our web sites all the time: When you pulled the dirty tricks that took out BlackBoxVoting.com on Friday, a reporter for a major news outlet was on the site. All it does is draw attention to the issue. I've been fielding press calls all weekend, and new Black Box activists are volunteering all over the place.

And a brief announcement: Chapter 7 is my favorite so far, but it was a mess -- some of the graphics kept corrupting the file, pulling text apart, dropping some text, sticking things in the wrong places. It took most of the day to diagnose the problem (my publishing software imported and upgraded into Plan Nine's publishing software exported into PDF, combined with too many graphics.)

Chapter 7 is simplified, cleaner and a very good read. You can find it at http://www.blackboxvoting.com/ or http://www.talion.com/blackboxvoting.org.htm.

Now, spread the word to your Californian contacts: Report any and all concerns and anomalies, starting 6 p.m. California time (9 p.m. Eastern) tomorrow, Monday and hop in to see how it's going during Election Day.

http://www.bbvreport.org/
The splash page up tomorrow morning, the site goes live tomorrow 6 p.m.

Bev Harris
Black Box Voting

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