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Bev Harris is an American writer, activist, and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., a national nonpartisan, nonprofit elections watchdog group. She helped popularize the term Black Box Voting, while authoring a book of that title. Original investigative work by Harris has been featured in the ''New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', ''Time Magazine'', CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC, as well as by the Associated Press, NPR, and many other mainstream news outlets. ==Diebold Investigation== In 2003, she discovered the source code of voting machine manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, which now operates under the name Premier Election Systems. After examining these files, Harris wrote an article on July 8, 2003 detailing how to bypass passwords and manipulate election results on the Diebold GEMS central tally system.〔("Inside a U.S. Vote Counting Program" July 8 2003, by Bev Harris )〕 The information in Harris's article was subsequently confirmed by internal memos written by Diebold's own engineers.〔("End-run the database" October 18, 2001 )〕 Researchers at Rice University and Johns Hopkins University also studied the programs she obtained and found security weaknesses which afforded opportunities for abuse〔(Analysis of an Electronic Voting System, May, 2004 )〕 Diebold officials and state election officials disputed the findings of the Rice and Johns Hopkins researchers.〔 〕〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bev Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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