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Where's The Voter-verifiable Paper Trail for each ballot cast? 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. 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. 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)

Where's The Voter-verifiable Paper Trail for each ballot cast? 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. 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. 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)

Voting in Victoria - Parliament of Victoria Compulsory voting was adopted in Victoria for Legislative Assembly elections in 1926 and for Legislative Council elections in 1935. This is a method of voting in which voters' ballot papers are completed in secrecy and then placed in a locked box until the close of the poll. If a ballot paper is not completed correctly, or is defaced in any way, it is deemed informal and is not eligible to be counted in the tally of votes. www.parliament.vic.gov.au /vote.html   (1316 words)

Instant Runoff Voting Because in each runoff tally every voter's ballot is counted for the candidate they most prefer among those still in the race, the winner is always the candidate preferred by the true majority. In an instant runoff, voters whose favorite candidate is still in the race have their vote counted for that candidate, just as if they their candidate had made it into a separate runoff election. If not, the last place candidate is defeated, just as in a runoff election, and all ballots are counted again, but this time each ballot cast for the defeated candidate counts for the next choice candidate listed on the ballot. www.polizeros.com /stories/2002/11/08/instantRunoffVoting.html   (1316 words)

Approval Voting Home Page Other methods, such as the Borda Count and those based on the Condorcet tally itself, tend in practice to be vulnerable to "strategic voting". Approval voting is a voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish. Approval voting is used today by various governments and organizations around the world, including its use by the United Nations to elect the secretary-general. bcn.boulder.co.us /government/approvalvote/center.html   (808 words)

everyone counts - Home With almost all of the Okaloosa County school students participating in this secure online vote (from Kindergarten through the 12th Grade) the tally is revealing: results from the county now indicate that President Bush received 77.5 % of the cast �adults� votes. With 3.25 million votes counted so far, George Bush leads John Kerry by 8% in a vote that included students and parents in all 50 states, Washington DC, and over 100 American schools around the world. We have been collecting votes, personal information and student assessment since 1997 on our own hardened Internet system, e3. www.everyonecounts.co.uk   (808 words)

Pagan's Lair No names are collected in this voting booth from our members, only the voting tally. The purpose of a YES vote would be to inform and educate our members and visitors about what has taken place in the past and present in regards to christian and islamic attrocites upon pagans thru out the world. Vote either YES add a series of posts or new webpages in our Pagan Community which list the history and information about the dark history of Christanity, and Islam or NO do NOT. groups.msn.com /PagansLair/thelairpoll.msnw   (808 words)

Voting machine fails inspection CNET News.com If the voting machine's tally doesn't match the operator's count, then the votes on that machine would be thrown out and those voters allowed to recast their ballots. The state announced Monday that it had signed a $55.6 million deal with Diebold for the company to provide Maryland's voting systems. On election day for example, human election workers would count the number of votes cast at each terminal and retain receipts that would tie people to a specific machine (but not to their actual vote). news.com.com /2100-1009_3-5054088.html   (1082 words)

Instant Runoff Voting The tabletop tallies page showed an effective way to get students involved in their own IRV tally. Australians call IRV "Alternative Vote" or "Majority Preferential Voting" and use it to elect their lower house of parliament and the mayors of all their major cities. Thus IRV can strengthen a democracy and is a good step in political evolution. www.accuratedemocracy.com /c_irv.htm   (1332 words)

[EM] a strategic problem and possible remedy for Condorcet-efficient voting methods Given methods like these, groups of voters can sometimes benefit by downranking one of their later preferences who is a sincere Condorcet winner, so that the tally finds no Condorcet winner, and the other method that is reverted to finds one of their earlier preferences as the winner. So I thought that I should try to publish something on voting methods, since that's sort of related to economics, and I don't know as much about other branches of economics. If it is a method where a group of voters reversing the order of options ranked after some candidate B can’t change the result to B under any circumstances, this implies that those rankings can’t be looked at while B is still in consideration. lists.electorama.com /pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-December/011393.html   (1332 words)

Crypto-Gram: December 15, 2000 The goal of any voting system is to establish the intent of the voter, and transfer that intent to the vote counter. And computers are fallible; some of the computer voting machines in this election failed mysteriously and irrecoverably. The paper ballots are the "official" votes and can be used for recounts, and the computer provides a quick initial tally. www.schneier.com /crypto-gram-0012.html   (1332 words)

VotersUnite! 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. 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. www.votersunite.org /article.asp?id=4665   (590 words)

Problems with Voting System Standards Furthermore, the more recent precinct count systems offer the option of detecting overvotes and other ballot problems before the voter leaves the polling place, thus allowing the voter to correct the problem instead of leaving it uncorrected or leaving it to the judgement of the tally team during a hand recount. The newest voting technology uses direct-recording electronic voting machines. There is the possibility that vote counters might surreptitiously mark or punch ballots (a carefully trimmed fingernail or a bit of pencil lead under the fingernail is all it takes), so we insist on the rule that all ballots be handled in plain sight by people with freshly manicured fingernails. www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/congress.html   (590 words)

Instant Runoff Voting - VeggieBoards In the event that no candidate is selected with a basic majority, second-choice votes from eliminated candidates are included in the tally. The other approach I could see is a simple weighted approach, where 3 candidates are chosen on order of preference, and allotted points accordingly: In an election, you select several candidates based on your order of preference. www.veggieboards.com /boards/showthread.php?t=14616   (807 words)

Why War? Analysis: Black Box Voting Blues When a voter votes, he or she has no way of knowing whether the vote is recorded.” After you punch the buttons to choose your candidates, you may get a final screen that reflects your choices—but there’s no way to tell that those choices are the ones that ultimately get reported in the final tally. Critics of verifiable voting do have a point when they note that the printouts are susceptible to some of the same kinds of tricks once played with paper ballots. This supplements electronic voting systems with a print-out that affirms the voter’s choices. www.why-war.com /news/2003/11/03/blackbox.html   (913 words)

Block Party - A Half-Life 2 Modification I might be able to update this post later with the final tally, but Block Party was winning the entire time the Round 2 ballot was open. Round 1 of the name voting, lasting one month, is finished. The winner so far is "Block Party," but two write-ins received many votes, so we have added one of them to the second round ballot. www.blockpartymod.com   (712 words)

Farrell, Chapter 1 Electoral laws are the family of rules governing the process of elections: from the calling of the election, through the stages of candidate nomination, party campaigning and voting, and right up to the stage of counting votes and determining the actual election result. For instance, Douglas Amy (1993: 44) refers to a case in the 1990 House of Representatives election in Texas where the Democrats won ten of the fourteen congressional seats despite the fact that the Republicans had virtually the same vote: the vote tally was Democrats, 1,083,351, Republicans, 1,080,788. Before proceeding to an analysis of the different electoral systems, it is necessary to deal with two issues central to the study of electoral systems: (1) the issue of representation, and (2) the attempts to, as it were, artificially' influence the effects of electoral systems. janda.org /c24/Readings/Farrell/Farrell1.htm   (3473 words)

ZNet Electoral Politics Electoral Vote Challenge Meets Venomous Response in Congress Entitled Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio, the report recommends that Congress challenge results of the electoral tally, charging that the electors from the state of Ohio were unlawfully appointed by embattled Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell. The handful of Democrats who acknowledged the voter disenfranchisement made clear that while Ohio may have been under the most scrutiny and may have seen some of the worst election irregularities, the state was but an example of voting problems throughout the nation. The Senate voted 74-1, with Sen. Boxer maintaining her objection, while in the House, the vote was 267-31 in favor of certifying the Ohio outcome. www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=6979   (1826 words)

Unknown News Gillespie's implication that the final tally was correct, but the exit polls were wrong implies that our voting process is flawless and the people building our voting machines are nonpartisan and only interested in seeing a fair election. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the seriousness of the widespread problems we have with our voting systems or the highly compromised partisans running our voting machine companies knows a truly fair election is not possible. Having a so-called security-conscious voting machine manufacturer store sensitive files on an unprotected public web site, allowing anonymous access, was bad enough, but when I saw what was in the files my hair turned gray. www.unknownnews.net /comvot.html   (1826 words)

AAAS - Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law In other discussions, the term is also used to refer to the systems that count the votes which are almost always electronic except in the case of paper ballots and lever systems, although even votes counted using these voting systems are often entered into computers for the final tally. Although most of the discussion about voting technologies now centers on electronic voting systems and their security vulnerabilities, it is important to remember that national attention to voting systems began with the issue of accuracy in the 2000 election in Florida where there were no electronic systems used to capture people's votes. In some discussions, the term refers to the actual voting device on which people record their vote which I will call the voting (or vote recording) system. www.aaas.org /spp/sfrl/projects/evoting/brady.shtml   (1826 words)

MyDD :: Wrap up of "Stop U.S. Vote Rigging Now!": San Jose, Sat. Mar 26th The voting machine in the OVC proposal is basically just a printer that also records a backup tally of the votes that can be used to audit and double-check the counting of the actual ballots. There was a little controversy in the form of a couple of folks who were paper-only voting advocates trying to start a debate which was inappropriate at that point and place. Between Alan and Jim March (of BlackBoxVoting.org) they defined "Open Voting" as transparent, verifiable, electronic voting with open source software, fully logged chain-of-custody of all votes (meaning recorded names of every single person who has takes any administrative action on the voting machines, tabulators or ballots). www.mydd.com /story/2005/3/28/12545/6795   (707 words)

BuzzFlash > News Analysis > GOP Wants to End Exit Polls Gillespie's implication that the final tally was correct, but the exit polls were wrong implies that our voting process is flawless and the people building our voting machines are nonpartisan and only interested in seeing a fair election. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the seriousness of the widespread problems we have with our voting systems or the highly compromised partisans running our voting machine companies knows a truly fair election is not possible. RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie wants to eliminate exit polls because he says they're not accurate, implying that the final vote was unquestionably correct. www.buzzflash.com /analysis/04/11/ana04027.html   (619 words)

portland imc - 2004.10.31 - The Presidency has been HACKED, hacker covert op in place via Diebold machines Since 1,000+ of Diebold's 'GEMS' software systems are currently used in electronic voting machines in 37 states--each of which will count up to two million votes at once--questions can be raised as to the vulnerability and accuracy of Tuesday's presidential vote tally--let alone Senate, House and local races. Vanity Fair said Diebold wiped clean the machines used to tally Georgia's upset votes, raising questions as to whether the company was covering up evidence of election tampering. Election industry officials say their voting systems are secure because they are protected by passwords and tamperproof audit logs; but Harris says the passwords can easily be bypassed and the audit logs can be changed--even without the county election supervisor knowing about it. portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/10/301469.shtml   (4065 words)

Archinect : News : DS+R vs SM+H DRAW !!! The recount has proven that the winning vote tally was too close to call.” Spangler vows that the LVHRD Foundation will amend its voting process to make for fair and smoother elections in the future. According to LVHRD co-founder Matt Spangler, “The voting process was marred by the size of crowd and the frenzied request for voting ballots. Alcohol and the long stressful night, coupled with the impassioned supporters of both parties and the unproven collection and tallying system provided a questionable outcome. www.archinect.com /news/article.php?id=13022_0_24_0_M   (674 words)

Miriam Kornblith In the 2004 regional elections 1727 tally sheets for both positions were not counted, 912 (53%) of which came form touch-screen voting machines. Since the 1998 elections in Venezuela, when automized elections were introduced in the country, the amount of tally sheets that remained uncounted for this kind of election had never reached such a high percentage as 4.44%. Based on official data form the National Electoral Council (CNE) the paper shows that 4.44% of the tally sheets for electing Governors were not counted as well as 2.06% for electing Majors. www.nd.edu /~kellogg/news/mkornblith.html   (291 words)

Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Official results confirm election outcome in gov's race; offer glimpse at protest votes Voting machines in at least one community, Goffstown, did experience problems during Tuesday night's count, forcing election officials in the town to count ballots by hand. CONCORD, N.H. Official results of Tuesday's primary elections showed voter turnout was dismal in New Hampshire and illustrated how several thousand voters offered voting booth protests. Official results of Tuesday's primary elections showed voter turnout was dismal in New Hampshire and illustrated how several thousand voters offered voting booth protests. www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/09/15/official_results_confirm_election_outcome_in_govs_race_offer_glimpse_at_protest_votes   (381 words)

Borda count - Electowiki A procedure for finding the Condorcet winner of a Borda count tally is called Nanson's method or Instant Borda runoff. Donald G. Saari created a mathematical framework for evaluating positional methods in which he showed that Borda count has fewer opportunities for strategic voting than other positional methods, such as plurality voting or anti-plurality voting, e.g.; "vote for two", "vote for three", etc. It does not satisfy the Condorcet criterion, the Independence of irrelevant alternatives criterion, or the Independence of Clones criterion. wiki.electorama.com /wiki/Borda_count   (2005 words)

Workshop on Condorcet's Rule Pairwise Tournament Voting (PTV) meets Condorcet's criterion for a voting rule: If one option can win majorities over each of the others, then the voting rule should enact that policy. The IRV chart does let you click through the tally steps. The Condorcet chart could show each 1 on 1 comparison, with a line drawn between the two, showing which voters are on which candidate's side. www.accuratedemocracy.com /a_cw_irv.htm   (2005 words)

Discovering Democracy - Links - States and Territories Electoral Information It includes pages on enrolment, nominations and candidates, voting, special electors, parliamentary terms, optional preferential voting, electoral boundaries, the tally room, etc. There is a complete section detailing the 1998 General Election which includes a list of all candidates, the election timetable and the election results in detail or summary form. In 1973 the 'Constitution and Electoral Act Amendment Act' reduced the age of candidates for the Legislative Council from 30 to 18 years of age and removed all voting restrictions. Since 1994, the Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission is required to release a draft proposal for a redistribution and the public are able to forward submissions to the Commissioners for consideration prior to the final determination being gazetted. www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/otheroptions/elect.htm   (2079 words)

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