Bev Harris

Bev Harris
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationsWriter, Activist
Known forFounder of Black Box Voting
Notable workDiscovered the source code of voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems

Bev Harris is an American writer, activist, and founder of Black Box Voting, a national, nonpartisan 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, The Washington Post, Time, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC, as well as by the Associated Press, NPR, and many other mainstream news outlets.

In 2006, HBO released the documentary Hacking Democracy, which follows Bev Harris and Kathleen Wynne, director and associate director of Black Box Voting, respectively. Hacking Democracy was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Long Form Investigative Journalism.