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The paper deals with Harnack inequalities for uniformly elliptic operators and sums of squares of smooth vector fields. Precisely, let \(\mu\) be a signed Radon measure on a domain \(X\subset {\mathbb R}^d,\) \(d\geq 1,\) with Green function \(G_X\) and assume that the potential \(G_X^{1_B|\mu|}\) is bounded for every ball \(B\subset X.\) Set \(d_{\mu^\pm}(x)=\lim\sup_{y\to x} G_X^{1_B\mu^\pm}(y)-G_X^{1_B\mu^\pm}(x),\) \(x\in B,\) \(\overline B\subset X.\) Then, if \(U\) is a domain in \(X\) admitting a positive \(\mu\)-harmonic function which is locally bounded and not identically zero, then Harnack inequalities hold for positive \(\mu\)-harmonic functions on \(U\) and every \(\mu\)-harmonic function on \(U\) is locally bounded. In particular, Harnack inequalities always hold as long as \(d_{\mu^-}\leq \gamma<1.\)