VVPB
Guidelines for Ensuring Fair and Accurate Elections
This concise summary regarding recommended election procedures is based on the Commonweal Institute's testimony at the Election Assessment Hearings in Houston, TX, on June 29, 2005. The testimony itself was developed by Dennis Paull and Katherine Forrest.
View the summary.
The Preliminary Report of Findings: Vloice of Election Customer Surveys, was published on September 22, 2005, at http://www.ElectionAssessment.org.
Computerized Voting Machines Vulnerable to Tampering
Huge amorphous stories tend to wend their way into the mainstream press slowly, if at all. This one is no exception. The core of the story is straightforward: new computerized voting machines are vulnerable to tampering. The details and the implications become much more murky and complex: Who owns the companies that manufacture the voting machines? What are the technical issues involved? What does the law say? How can ordinary citizens best assert their rights to have their votes counted fairly and accurately?
