The three major U.S.
voting systems that the Brennan
Center task force report
discusses are:
1. DRE voting systems (touchscreens without paper),
2. DRE voting systems with VVPT (voter verifiable paper trail), and
3. Precinct-based Optical Scan voting systems
The Brennan Center Press Release has now been reported in dozens of major
nationwide and international news articles. State newspapers in places
like Utah have yet to inform their citizens
with the exception of Ohio , Massachusettes,
and Washington DC . Even the very conservative
Washington Times reported on the security threat to U.S. voting systems. Here is
the list of newspapers which have now reported on this with links to all these
articles available here:
Press
As reported in Germany 's "Short News":
US Count Votes' National
Election Data Archive statisticians are thrilled to see that the
recommendations that we made first over a year ago for independent vote count
audits are now being widely recommended by numerous other organizations.
Here are two papers describing how independent audits can be conducted and why
they work:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Paper_Audits.pdf
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Paper_Audits.pdf
Now, because the vast majority of US Voting Systems are not
audited and are wide open to innocent error and tampering, the National
Election Data Archive project needs immediate assistance raising funds to
complete its other recommendation to ensure that only properly elected
candidates are sworn into office following elections - A National Election Data
Archive. Funds are needed for big legal projects, programming projects,
and administration so that we can effectively monitor election results and warn
candidates using mathematical detection methods, whenever vote counts contain
probable errors before they concede.
Please help us preserve our U.S. democratic elections, the core
of our civilization: http://electionarchive.org
On 6/28/06, Kathy Dopp <kathy.dopp@gmail.com> wrote:
The Brennan Center report THE MACHINERY OF
DEMOCRACY: PROTECTING ELECTIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC WORLD BRENNAN CENTER TASK
FORCE ON VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY, press release and contact information:
http://www.brennancenter.org/presscenter/releases_2006/pressrelease_2006_0627.html
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Kathy Dopp
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