High Alert: the election can still be rigged
By Jon Rappoport
I'm reposting this piece because, amazingly, the vote-rigging
system it describes has not gotten widespread attention. The system can
be used across the entire US.
As we know, there are a number of ways to rig an election. Bev Harris, at blackboxvoting.org, is exploring a specific "cheat sheet" that has vast implications for the Trump vs. Hillary contest.
It's a vote-counting system called GEMS.
I urge you to dive into her multi-part series, Fraction Magic. Here are key Harris quotes. They're all shockers:
"Our testing [of GEMS] shows that one vote can be counted 25 times,
another only one one-thousandth of a time, effectively converting some
votes to zero."
"This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS
election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all
votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a
fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can
be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by
pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute votes. This
tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are
standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized
vote feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass
procedures, and can be applied across large jurisdictions in less than
60 seconds."
"GEMS vote-counting systems are and have been operated under five
trade names: Global Election Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Premier
Election Systems, Dominion Voting Systems, and Election Systems &
Software, in addition to a number of private regional subcontractors. At
the time of this writing, this system is used statewide in Alaska,
Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont, and
for counties in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
and Wyoming. It is also used in Canada."
"Instead of '1' the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a whole number."
"Weighting a race [through the use of GEMS] removes the principle
of 'one person-one vote' to allow some votes to be counted as less than
one or more than one. Regardless of what the real votes are, candidates
can receive a set percentage of votes. Results can be controlled. For
example, Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the votes, Candidate B 51%,
and Candidate C the rest."
"All evidence that [rigged] fractional values ever existed [in the
GEMS system] can be removed instantly even from the underlying database
using a setting in the GEMS data tables, in which case even instructing
GEMS to show the [rigged] decimals will fail to reveal they were used."
"Source code: Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead
of whole numbers [i.e., rigging] are inserted multiple times in the
GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been created by
accident."
A contact who, so far, apparently wishes to remain anonymous states the following about the history of the GEMS system:
"The Fractional vote [rigging] portion traces directly to Jeffrey W. Dean,
whose wife was primary stockholder of the company that developed GEMS.
He ran the company but was prohibited from handling money or checks due
to a criminal conviction for computer fraud, for which he spent 4 years
in prison. Almost immediately after being released from prison he was
granted intimate access to elections data and large government contracts
for ballot printing and ballot processing."
I see no effort on the part of the federal government, state
governments, or the mainstream press to investigate the GEMS system or
respond to Bev Harris' extensive analysis.
It's not as if media outlets are unaware of her. From shesource.org, here is an excerpt from her bio:
"Harris has been referred to as 'the godmother' of the election
reform movement. (Boston Globe). Vanity Fair magazine credits her with
founding the movement to reform electronic voting. Time Magazine calls
her book, Black Box Voting, 'the bible' of
electronic voting... Harris's investigations have led some to call her
the 'Erin Brockovich of elections.' (Salon.com)... Harris has supervised
five 'hack demonstrations' in the field, using real voting machines.
These have been covered by the Associated Press, the Washington Post,
and in formal reports by the United States General Accounting Office..."
So far, her analysis of GEMS seems to be labeled "too hot to
handle." Press outlets prefer to report the slinging of mud from both
Presidential candidates' camps. Meanwhile, the actual results of the
coming elections-including Congressional races-appear to be up for
grabs, depending on who controls GEMS.
Update: From what I understand, each state government appoints a
"consultant" to manage GEMS on election night. That person would be
capable of rigging the vote.
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