Electronic Voting Machines Project

Electronic Voting Machines Project

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Note - We consider these articles, reports and other resources thought-provoking and worth reading. Our recommendation does not imply that we necessarily agree with all the perspectives presented, nor does it imply that we have checked the articles for factual accuracy.

Articles and reports discussing problems with electronic voting machines:

Voter News Service: What Went Wrong?
Larry Barrett , Baseline Magazine, January 13, 2003
and Sideshow's essay linking to this.

Hagel’s ethics filings pose disclosure issue
Alexander Bolton, TheHill.com, January 29, 2003

E-voting flaws risk ballot fraud
Alan Boyle, MSNBC, July 24, 2003

The Results Are in and the Winner Is . . . or Maybe Not
Adam Cohen, New York Times, February 29, 2004
"Defeated candidates who think they were robbed are nothing new in American politics. But modern technology is creating a whole new generation of conspiracy theories — easy to imagine and, unless we're careful, impossible to disprove. The nation is rushing to adopt electronic voting, but there is a disturbing amount of evidence that, at least in its current form, it is overly vulnerable to electoral mischief."

Vote Fraud in America
James J. Condit, Jr., 1996

Area Democrats say early votes miscounted, Court hearing delayed as meeting planned on touch-screen problems
Dallas News, October 22, 2002

Paranoid party rights
Matthew Engel, The Guardian, February 12, 2003

Computer ballot outfit perverts Senate race, theorist says.
Thomas C Greene, The Register.
Also read the reply from Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting

Who makes the vote-counting machines?
Bev Harris, Talion.com

If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines
Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, January 31, 2003

Which Corporation Owns Your Vote
Thom Hartmann, AlterNet, March 6, 2003

Hack the Vote
Paul Krugman, New York Times, December 2, 2003
"Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey, who has introduced a bill requiring that digital voting machines leave a paper trail and that their software be available for public inspection, is occasionally told that systems lacking these safeguards haven't caused problems. "How do you know?" he asks."

How We Lost The Vote - How To Get It Back Again
Lynn Landes, UN Observer & International Report, September 10, 2003

Lynn Landes' analysis of the 2002 Elections
Lynn Landes, November 8, 2002

The Nightmare Scenario Is Here - Computer Voting With No Paper Trail
Lynn Landes, Common Dreams, August 5, 2002

To Register Doubts, Press Here
Sam Lubell, New York Times, May 15, 2003

An open invitation to election fraud
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, September 23, 2003
"Not only is the country's leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year."

Hacking democracy?
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, February 20, 2003

Voting into the void
New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, November 5, 2002

A Paper Trail for Voters
New York Times Editorial, December 8, 2003
"The most reasonable answer is to require that the machines be equipped with printers that will produce what Representative Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, calls a "parallel paper record" of the vote. That makes sense to us. Like deeds, diplomas and other vital public documents, the nation's votes still need to be preserved somewhere on paper."

Paperless Voting Machines Under Fire
Newsday, Feb. 25, 2003

Diebold - The face of modern ballot tampering
Faun Otter, undated

Can we trust the vote count anywhere? In any race? In any election?
Thomas Penn, Online Journal, November 14, 2002

Safeguarding the Vote
Doug Pibel, Yes Magazine, Summer, 2003

Scientists question electronic voting
San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2003

Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say
John Schwartz, New York Times, July 24, 2003

Computerized Balloting is Taking Over Elections In Maryland--But Can We Trust the Results?
Van Smith, Baltimore City Paper, December 11, 2002

How to Rig a Touch Screen Voting Machine
Bill Sterner, All Hat No Cattle, November 9, 2002

Votescam in the Electronic Age
The Texas Observer, December 20, 2002

American Coup: Mid-Term Election Polls vs Actuals
Alastair Thompson, November 12, 2002

New computerized voting machines are vulnerable to tampering
Uncommon Denominator, Commonweal Institute's Newsletter, February, 2003

The Real Scandal Is the Voting Machines Themselves
Jonathan Vankin, New York Press, December 14, 2000

Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting
Kim Zetter, Wired News, November 3, 2003


Resources for studying the electronic voting machines issue, websites devoted to the issue, collections of links, etc.:

 

Election Assessment Hearing Report - The Election Assessment Project, a professional effort to evaluate American electoral procedures and recommend improvements, has issued a preliminary report of its June 29, 2005 hearing that draws extensively on Commonweal Institute research and commentary. It offers an array of findings and recommendations, concluding that "left uncorrected, broken election processes can undermine confidence not just in the election processes - they can undermine confidence in the government processes themselves."

Verified Voting.org

Black Box Voting - Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century
- a website dedicated to this issue.

Electronic Voting
contains many links to websites and stories about this issue.
Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D.

The Secretive World of Voting Machines
Lynn Landes, website and links to articles, other websites

Computer-Related Elections
Peter Neumann's personal website with links to articles, papers, other websites

Election Fraud Additional Resources
Cronus Connection

Electionline.org
The Election Reform Information Project

Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project

Voting Machines: Vote Tampering in the 21st Century
WhoseFlorida

Election Guardians
Election Guardians is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to restore and institutionalize a voting system in the State of California that is free of fraud and manipulation.

Election 2002: The Case for Voting Machine Fraud
A collection of links to articles and resources
Benedict@Large

Voting Technology
California Voter Foundation

Voter Fraud 2002: Death Stalks America's Democracy
(Includes a collection of links.)
Warren Gammel , Gay Today, November 18, 2002



Note - We consider these articles, reports and other resources thought-provoking and worth reading. Our recommendation does not imply that we necessarily agree with all the perspectives presented, nor does it imply that we have checked the articles for factual accuracy.

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