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by Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n
August 1, 2016<\/p>\n
As we know, there are a number of ways to rig an election. Bev Harris, at\u00a0blackboxvoting.org<\/a>, is exploring a specific \u201ccheat sheet\u201d that has vast implications for the Trump vs. Hillary contest.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a vote-counting system called GEMS.<\/p>\n I urge you to dive into her multi-part series, Fraction Magic<\/em> (Part-1 here<\/a>). Here are key Harris quotes. They\u2019re all shockers:<\/p>\n \u201cOur 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGEMS 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cInstead of \u20181\u2019 the vote is allowed to be 1\/2, or 1+7\/8, or any other value that is not a whole number.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWeighting a race [through the use of GEMS] removes the principle of \u2018one person-one vote\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSource 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.\u201d<\/p>\n A contact who, so far, apparently wishes to remain anonymous states the following about the history of the GEMS system:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Fractional vote [rigging] portion traces directly to Jeffrey W. Dean<\/a>, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n 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\u2019 extensive analysis.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not as if media outlets are unaware of her. From shesource.org, here is an excerpt from her bio<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cHarris has been referred to as \u2018the godmother\u2019 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<\/em><\/a>, \u2018the bible\u2019 of electronic voting\u2026 Harris\u2019s investigations have led some to call her the \u2018Erin Brockovich of elections.\u2019 (Salon.com)\u2026 Harris has supervised five \u2018hack demonstrations\u2019 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n So far, her analysis of GEMS seems to be labeled \u201ctoo hot to handle.\u201d Press outlets prefer to report the slinging of mud from both Presidential candidates\u2019 camps. Meanwhile, the actual results of the coming elections\u2014including Congressional races\u2014appear to be up for grabs, depending on who controls GEMS.<\/p>\n
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