Bev Harris
Andy Stephenson to Lecture at SCC April 21, 2004
Harris, author of Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century, began writing on the subject of electronic voting machines in October, 2002. She spent over 2,000 hours researching voting machines and interviewed hundreds of witnesses, including many election officials and even voting machine programmers who work directly for the firms that build the machines. During the course of writing Black Box Voting, Harris discovered that one of the largest voting machine companies, Diebold Election Systems, had committed a massive security breach, leaving thousands of sensitive voting system program files on an unprotected web site.
Harris’ investigative journalism has since been cited in The New York Times (three times) and on CBS, FOX News and CNN. Her book, Black Box Voting, has triggered a national investigation and activism movement to restore clean, trustworthy voting systems.