Bev Harris
Bev Harris is the executive director of Black Box Voting Inc., an advocacy group opposed to electronic voting methods based on non open-source code. She popularized the term Black Box Voting.
She first gained national prominence in 2002 when she discovered that Senator Hagel of Nebraska owned a large share of ES&S, a major voting machine manufacturer of the machines that counted the majority of votes in Nebraska. In 2003, She discovered the source code of another voting machine manufacturer, Diebold. Researchers at Rice University and Johns Hopkins University studied the programs she had obtained and found weaknesses in it which made it unreliable, and which afforded opportunities for abuse, such as multiple voting by an individual or changing the vote totals. Diebold efficials and state election officials disputed the findings.[1][2]
Her work to expose security weaknesses in electronic voting systems is featured in an HBO documentary, "Hacking Democracy."
Bev Harris' web site:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
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