Black box voting : ballot tampering in the 21st century

Author Bev Harris is the 52-year old grandma who found 40,000 secret voting machine files on the Web, which have now been studied by computer scientists all over the world. ''Black Box Voting'' is the book that resulted from her investigations into the voting industry. What she learned was that modern-day voting systems are run by private for-profit corporations, rely on a few cronies for oversight, using a certification system so fundamentally flawed that it allows machines to miscount and lose votes, with hidden back doors that enable ''end runs'' around the voting system. Find out why your vote might not count -- and what to do about it! Dedication 3 Intro 5 Table of Contents 6 Chapter 1 - I will Vote 7 Chapter 2 - Can We Trust These Machines? 10 Chapter 3 - Why We Need Disclosure of Owners 32 Chapter 4 - A Brief History of Vote Rigging 39 Chapter 5 - Cyber-Boss Tweed 43 Chapter 6 - Who's Beholden to Whom 53 Chapter 7 - Why Vote? 63 Chapter 8 - Company Information 69 Chapter 9 - The First Public Look - Ever 91 Chapter 10 - Who's Minding the Store 119 Chapter 11 - Noun and Verb 129 Chapter 12 - Open Source Exam 144 Chapter 13 - Security Breaches 170 Chapter 14 - A Modest Proposal 198 Chapter 15 - Practical Activism 207 Chapter 16 - Pay No Attention to The Men Behind The Curtain 223 Acknowledgements 240 Appendix A 241 Footnotes 248 Index 262 "Anthony Dudly, a mulatto from Lee's Mill, North Carolina, believed that he was undereducated."