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	DRE voting machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fundamental challenge with DRE voting machines is the re-count of votes to verify that the hardware/software involved performed its task correctly.
		Rebecca Mercuri has written a report on the basic voter verifiable ballot system, in which she corrects the problem by having the voting machine print a paper ballot or receipt that is verified by the voter before being dropped into a ballot box.
		DRE voting systems are often favored because they can incorporate assistive technologies for handicapped people, allowing them to vote without forfeting the anonymity of their vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DRE_voting_machine (1053 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		The movement for the use of the voting machine, especially in states with numerous presidential electors, largely paralleled that for the adoption of the presidential short ballot (the form that omits the names of the electors, showing only names of candidates for president and vice president).
		With the lever voting machine, the mechanical counters that record the action of the levers (votes) must be inspected and set at 000 before the polls open; then the machine adds the votes as they are cast.
		These devices, or apparatuses, are not true voting machines because they merely hold a paper ballot and enable the voter to record his or her choices by means of a punch (pointed object) applied to the card's surface at the spot indicated for casting a vote.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0406930-00&templatename=/article/article.html (1403 words)

	Bill Analysis - 126th General Assembly
		Requires the Secretary of State, if certification of any DRE voting machine that was certified for use on January 1, 2005, is withdrawn, to reimburse a county that was using that type of voting machine for certain costs.
		Requires a DRE voting machine that a county purchased, rented, or otherwise acquired before January 1, 2005, to include a voter verified paper audit trail at the earliest available opportunity when it is technologically and economically feasible, instead of (as currently required) on and after the first federal election that occurs after January 1, 2006.
		Operating the replacement voting machines, marking devices, or automatic tabulating equipment for a period of four years after their acquisition if the costs of that operation exceed the county's estimated costs, for the same period, of operating its DRE voting machines whose certification is withdrawn.
	lsc.state.oh.us /analyses/analysis126.nsf/c68a7e88e02f43a985256dad004e48aa/d2fbed57659399a785256fbe004d2f39?OpenDocument (615 words)

	ipedia.com: Electronic voting Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Voting is done for many reasons and in many situations, ranging from determining the next garden club officers to determining the next leader of a country.
		Indian voting machines use a two-piece system with a balloting unit presenting the voter with a button (momentary switch) for each choice connected by a cable to an electronic ballot box.
		DRE voting systems are often favored because they can incorporate assistive technologies for handicapped people, allowing them to vote without involving another person in the process.
	www.ipedia.com /electronic_voting.html (1565 words)

	Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Groups such as the Verified Voting Foundation support VVPAT in the short term as paper seems to be the only medium that addresses all these issues, but they see requiring paper in the long term as not being technology neutral and not adequately allowing for innovation in VVAT technology.
		Attaching printers to Touchscreen or DRE electronic voting machines, which print paper receipts and store these with the machine.
		In punch card voting systems, the paper ballot marked by the voter via the machine can be counted manually.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/VVAT (387 words)

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		This indicates to the voter that the DRE voting device will record a vote for all candidates whose lights are on and provides the voter the opportunity to quickly review their selections before executing their ballot by pressing the vote button.
		Machine Accessibility and Polling Place Availability Increasing the overall size of existing full face DRE voting devices to provide for the viewing window, paper supply and depository for receipts would have a detrimental impact upon machine accessibility and polling place availability in major urban areas like Philadelphia.
		Conclusion The existing full face DRE voting devices have been adequately tested, extensively used, and have proven through years of use to be durable, reliable, accurate and efficient in recording, storing, and reporting votes as cast by electors.
	www.dos.state.pa.us /election_reform/lib/election_reform/Philadelphia_City_Commissioners_Office_Report_on_Proposed_Ballot_Receipts.doc (9182 words)

	VotersUnite!
		The machine the county would most likely choose for that purpose is the Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine, more commonly known as the touch-screen voting machine.
		Although only one DRE machine must be placed in each precinct, all the 10-year-old voting machines in Muscatine County's 27 precincts, nearly 100 of them in all, must also be replaced because their manufacturers will not recertify the old machines.
		Soule hopes to have machines that will tally ballots at each polling site and will leave a "paper trail." She is concerned that if there is a power outage or some other problem during the day, votes would be lost and there would be no way to verify them with the new equipment.
	www.votersunite.org /article.asp?id=4665 (590 words)

	E-Voting: The Deafening Silence of Democracy Dying
		The purpose of this voting exercise was to demonstrate to me the power that corporations now have to control the entire voting process from the capture of my vote, to recording it, all the way through the counting process.
		If the voting machine had captured my voting selections into a physical form that I could then verify and that I also knew, and this is the important part, that I also knew would be used to count my vote and would also be used in a recount if that were required.
		The voting machine sat there silently, without even the soft hum of a fan to remind me that it was a computer.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0304-11.htm (1187 words)

	Why do we need voter-verified paper ballots in 2004
		So many voting machine problems occurred in Hinds County (MS) in November 2003 that the Mississippi Senate had to declare the election invalid and schedule a new one in February 2004.
		While voter-verified paper ballots will not solve all of the problems with electronic voting machines, they are essential to represent the intent of the voter for the purposes of recounts and audits.
		Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada), who wrote this section of HAVA, says that a VVPB was the intention, but voting machine vendors and some election officials assert that this requirement is met by the end-of-day totals and "ballot images".
	www.leagueissues.org /cdrom/other/VVPBflyer.htm (1291 words)

	Eye on Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is no voting device, or system, in existence and use that can verify to the voter, through issuance of a ballot receipt, that their ballot will be accurately counted and reported.
		The existing full face DRE voting devices have been adequately tested, extensive used, and have proven through years of use to be durable, reliable, accurate and efficient in recording, storing, and reporting votes as cast by electors.
		Again, the existing full face DRE voting devices have been adequately tested, extensively used in other juridictions, and have proven through the years to be durable, reliable, accurate and efficient in recording, storing, and reporting votes as cast by electors.
	www.seventy.org /electioninfo/Philadelphia_City_Commissioners_Office_Report_on_Proposed.htm (8474 words)

	Where's The Voter-verifiable Paper Trail for each ballot cast?
		Voting machines are in the news because the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) offered billions of dollars to the states to replace old lever-type and punched-card voting equipment with new systems.
		In many counties, tally sheets were not required to be posted in the precinct at the close of voting, ballots and precinct tally sheets were not guarded under multipartisan observation after the close of the election day, and counties have refused to comply with FOIL requests in an open and forthcoming manner.
		Elections using computerized voting machines must be 100% accurate because if the master copy of the original software causes only a single vote per machine to be changed, many election outcomes can be changed.
	www.wheresthepaper.org (3064 words)

	EPIC's Public Information Requests to States on DRE Voting Technology
		With no independent means for voters to verify that their vote is counted as cast a proactive approach already begun by many activists around the nation ask probing questions of policymakers and decision makers about paperless DRE voting technology.
		The method of testing paperless DRE voting machines has not been released to the public, but it is known that the process allows for the inclusion of secret code and the use of commercial software products without certification.
		DRE makers such as Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S refuse to make their software code available to the public to assess, nor are they willing to publicize the kind of testing they perform.
	www.epic.org /privacy/voting/foia (1579 words)

	VENEZUELA’S ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES
		In Connecticut, the secretary of the state is responsible for approving and purchasing voting machines.
		Beginning July 1, 2007, the DREs also must (1) ensure accessibility to blind or visually impaired individuals by providing each elector with an audio description, if desired, of their voter record in addition to an audio description of the electronic summary screen and (2) comply with any additional accessibility standards the secretary adopts through regulations.
		State law further requires voting machines to be accurate, efficient, afford secrecy, and maintain a specified ballot layout.
	www.cga.ct.gov /2005/rpt/2005-R-0546.htm (560 words)

	AVC Edge- Sequoia Voting Systems
		Votes are immediately confirmed on-screen with green check marks, a selections can be reviewed at a glance by using the Review Button.
		It also displays the public and protective counter, that is, a count of all votes made on machine during an election as well as the total votes cast in the lifetime of the machine.
		Machines within a precinct can be accumulated onto one cartridge and the totals for the precinct printed at the polling site.
	www.sequoiavote.com /bAVCEdge.php (1433 words)

	PCWorld.com - Can You Hack the Vote? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mercuri suggests electronic voting machines be hacked during their preelection testing, so officials will abandon them before an actual election.
		Mercuri says the likeliest e-voting fraud would involve unauthorized remote access to voting machines, when a hacker manipulates results; or backdoor access to voting systems by workers with approved access but their own agenda.
		For example, in April California banned the use of touch-screen voting machines in a handful of counties until it could be proven the systems are secure and bug-free.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,117261,00.asp (669 words)

	Put Trust on Paper - 11/8/2004 - Design News - CA478165 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Critics concede that DRE voting machines offer faster tallying, but they also argue that recording and counting errors are hard to detect since data are saved digitally in closed-source, proprietary encryption on the hard drive, Flash memory, or a CD.
		With VVPATs, "you feel like [your vote is] being counted because of the visual check of the paper," said Harvey Bordett, an industrial engineer who attended the October event and cast several demo votes using the showcased DRE voting machines.
		Meanwhile, makers of DRE voting machines continue to follow the standard and certification guidelines dated 2002 by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, to address voting logic, accuracy, security, user interface, audit records, and records retention.
	www.designnews.com /article/CA478165.html?industryid=22204 (1375 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Why e-voting is a non-starter
		DRE systems were available to over a fifth of people voting in the 2002 US congressional elections.
		In order to vote, each person had to insert a special card, but the system did not check that the same person was not voting many times.
		There is still talk of online voting in the next general election, and of moving away from paper ballots entirely in the future.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3095705.stm (862 words)

	VotersUnite!
		The rules are simple: Shamos chooses a specific direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine and lends it to the challenger for one month, during which he or she can tamper with it however they please.
		The Diebold machines were introduced in four Maryland counties in the 2002 elections and were employed in every precinct in the state (with the exception of Baltimore City) in the 2004 Primary.
		It is likely that, throughout his course, Shamos will substantiate his belief that electronic voting is not only secure, but that, if not tampered with, the Diebold-type machines are the most precise system of ballot counting.
	www.votersunite.org /article.asp?id=2757 (479 words)

	EFF: E-voting
		Approximately one-third of the votes cast in November were cast on electronic voting machines.
		Maryland voters filed this case in state court in April 2004 to decertify Diebold touchscreen voting machines and require that the machines not be used until they comply with various security measures.
		National Committee for Voting Integrity - "The National Committee for Voting Integrity was established to promote voter-verified balloting and to preserve privacy protections for elections in the United States.
	www.eff.org /Activism/E-voting (2101 words)

	Voting Equipment Combinations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To have a voting system meet requirements for accessibility and voter error correction in the polling site, counties are likely to consider the types of voting equipment depicted here.
		A Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) is a computerized voting machine that gives voters various ways to cast their ballot.
		The DRE then records the data into its memory and has the ability to print out the results.
	www.sos.state.ia.us /elections/hava/Equipment/EquipComb.html (367 words)

	Digital Chads: E-Voting Errors Almost Inevitable
		For Fairfax, 10 out of the 1,000 touch-screen DRE (direct recording electronic) voting machines failed on election day in 2003, and were then repaired and returned to the polls—all without security checks.
		It was both a fitting and an ironic place to hold the event—the Help America Vote Act, passed in the wake of the 2000 debacle in Florida, placed NIST in charge of overseeing the testing and certification of e-voting systems.
		Diebold, the most controversial of DRE voting machine vendors, has been widely excoriated for its chief executive's pledge to deliver Ohio to the Republican party.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1699421,00.asp (1319 words)

	Diebold Election Systems - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bob Urosevich, the first CEO of Diebold Election Systems was also the founder of ESandS, a competing voting machine company now owned by the McCarthy Group.
		In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
		Julie Carr Smyth, Voting Machine Controversy (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm), Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 28, 2003: "The head (Walden O'Dell) of a company (Diebold Inc.) vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is 'committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.'"
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Diebold_Election_Systems (1544 words)

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