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	STATE OF ALABAMA
		In central count systems, challenged ballots shall be counted by hand after the central count poll officials at the central count location have been closed the polls.
		In precinct count systems, challenged ballots shall be counted by hand by the precinct poll officials at the precincts and the results shall be handwritten on the tape printed by the precinct ballot counter which contains the totals.
		After the count, the ballots of each precinct shall be sealed in a separate envelope or box which shall be labeled with the name of the precinct, the date of the election, the type of ballots and the total number contained therein.
	www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us /docs/evc/1evc.htm (7248 words)

	Democracy Under Stress
		The antique Vote-O-Matic punch-card voting systems in use in Broward and Palm Beach counties, where the canvassing boards are recounting ballots, have been associated for 25 years with inaccuracies caused by slipping card feeds and "hanging chads," which are tiny scraps of punched-out vote holes that do not fully detach from the vote card.
		In effect, the Bush campaign has declared that computer vote counting precludes citizens' recounting their own ballots in the third of the country where the rickety, often error-prone Vote-O-Matic machines are used in elections.
		In this system, voters punch out holes beside candidates' names on a card, and the card is passed through a card reader that shoots light through the holes and counts up the votes--that is, the points of light coming through the holes--for each candidate.
	notablesoftware.com /Press/Dugger1.html (1428 words)

	Fw: CPSR Answers Computer-Based Voting Technology Questions
		The ballot is counted by feeding it, short-side first, into a > reader.
		People cannot count cards as > quickly as a card reader, but a card reader is much more limited than a > person in how it can handle and read a card.
		Each polling place would have a "manual" backup system on > site, for when the network connections or computers fail (as they surely > will) or when a voter is simply unable to understand how to use the > computer.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/internetworkers/2000-November/002033.html (2138 words)

	CPSR Answers Voting Technology Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		People cannot count cards as quickly as a card reader, but a card reader is much more limited than a person in how it can handle and read a card.
		If people voted from home, it would be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to assure that those who vote are who they say they are.
		Voting from home could destroy the sense of shared civic responsibility and pride that most people clearly feel when they go to an actual polling place to vote.
	archive.cpsr.net /issues/voting_answers.html (1764 words)

	Electronic Voting and the Enron-ization of American Democracy, Kenneth Farrall
		DRE systems as they are in use today have a number of important security issues that dramatically increase possible vectors for tampering and have been shown to be less reliable than paper ballots and marksense systems.
		Voting machine vendors who which to have there systems "qualified" for use are first expected to contact the Federal Election Commission for the latest version of the Federal Voting Systems Standards (FVSS).
		Voting systems which have been "qualified" by NASED ITAs must then be "certified" for use in their respective states.
	www.asc.upenn.edu /usr/kfarrall/evote/electronicvoting.html (8486 words)

	Vote counting system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There exist various methods through which the ballots cast at an election may be counted, prior to applying a voting system to obtain one or more winners.
		Voting data and ballot images are recorded in memory components.
		The system may also provide a means for transmitting individual ballots or vote totals to a central location for consolidating and reporting results from precincts at the central location.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vote_counting_systems (241 words)

	VotersUnite!
		CODY - Computerized systems will be counting every vote in Wyoming by the November 2006 general election, but voters in Park County will hardly notice the difference when they go to the polls.
		She said computer voting equipment will assist election workers by helping them more easily ensure that each voter is given the correct ballot.
		New equipment will also assist voters who may have forgotten to vote for a specific ballot measure or have voted improperly - for instance, by calling a voter's attention to an "undervote," as when only one candidate was ed from a pool from which three could be chosen.
	www.votersunite.org /article.asp?id=6180 (660 words)

	VotersUnite!
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting activists on Wednesday enlisted computer experts, a trained monkey and a man on a hunger strike in a last-minute pitch to convince officials to improve the security of electronic vote-counting systems.
		But a far greater threat is posed by the software used to tabulate votes on the county level, which counts not only electronic votes but those cast using traditional paper-based methods, Harris and others said.
		Experts showed ways they could alter vote totals without a password, record a vote for one candidate as a vote for another, or simply erase the vote totals completely.
	www.votersunite.org /article.asp?id=2876 (551 words)

	Network America, center for Vote Fraud Investigation, fair and honest elections, and the Pro-Life Precinct Project The ...
		Variations of method are possible, but the elements of physical ballots which are counted and posted at the precinct before the ballots leave each precinct are essential to insure a fair and honest count.
		To add insult to injury, the votes were counted away from the watchful eye of the entire electorate and the press.
		The computer voting machines do not have to do anything complicated at all; they simply must be able to register votes for the correct candidate or party or proposal, tabulate them, count them up, and deliver arithmetically correct additions....
	www.networkamerica.org /greatest.htm (2903 words)

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		Voting on the DRE, you never know, despite what the touch-screen says, whether the computer is counting your vote as you think you are casting it or, either by error or fraud, it is giving it to another candidate.
		Among the thirty-one other states with DRE voting systems in some of their jurisdictions, as of early summer legislatures in five had rejected requiring the paper trail, another nine were considering such a requirement and seventeen had no such proposal before them.
		Noting that all counties that have rushed to purchase DRE voting systems also have paper-ballot systems in place to handle absentee voters, motor-voters and emergency ballots for when the system breaks down, she suggests mothballing the DREs and using paper ballots.
	work.colum.edu /~amiller/votes-stealit.htm (4884 words)

	ANNALS OF DEMOCRACY : Counting Votes by Ronnie Dugger
		The computerized punch-card voting system is "a barrier to exercise of the franchise," and causes "technological disenfranchisement," Neil Heighberger, the dean of the College of Social Sciences at Xavier University, in Cincinnati, concluded in a recent study he made of the subject.
		After systems that use computer punch cards as ballots have counted the votes, manual recounts of the holes in the punch cards can be demanded, provided the cards have not yet been destroyed by local officials-as is permitted by most local laws after a specified period of time.
		In mark-sense systems, which are also called "optical-scan," computers employing light or electrical conductivity count votes that have been cast on ballots with pencils or markers.
	www.newsgarden.org /columns/dugger.shtml (12109 words)

	The Real Scandal Is the Voting Machines Themselves
		There is absolutely nothing to ensure that the vote that registers on the screen is the vote that gets recorded on the cartridge, or that the vote that is recorded on the cartridge is the vote that prints out on paper.
		Since computers were first used to count votes in the early 1960s, there have been dozens of instances of computer error in elections.
		It recorded votes for both the Republican and Democratic candidates in the county freeholder’s race, but simply wiped out all votes for their respective runningmates.
	www.commondreams.org /views/121400-108.htm (2315 words)

	Approval Voting Home Page
		Approval voting is a voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish.
		It concludes that the most reliable systems for meeting the "Condorcet" and "maximum social utility" criteria are approval voting and the Instant Runoff Vote (also know as Preferential Voting) and traditional runoff methods.
		Other methods, such as the Borda Count and those based on the Condorcet tally itself, tend in practice to be vulnerable to "strategic voting".
	bcn.boulder.co.us /government/approvalvote (808 words)

	How to Rig an Election (Morgana's Observatory) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night.
		Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
		Incorrect vote totals were discovered in six races, three of them contested, leaving county election officials scrambling to make sure the unofficial results were accurate.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/electrig.htm (3052 words)

	Washington Free Press - #81 May/June 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The voting booth allows you to cast your vote freely, and to, if necessary, even lie to the boss or political hack that is pressuring you to cast your vote a certain way.
		Instead, decisions on how vote counting machines are managed, maintained, allocated, set and operated are the factors that result in different rates of lost votes for different races of voters, even within the same county.
		Central counting systems, including those used for mail-only voting, give elected officials power to fiddle with the machines in order to shave down the votes of disfavored precincts or groups.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /81/voteByMail.shtml (1264 words)

	Computerized Election Fraud in America: A Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A vote cast but not counted is meaningless.
		counted in public are the easiest system to protect and monitor.
		vote rigging for decades, to their mutual benefit.
	www.votescam.com /abriefhistory.php (4077 words)

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		CPSR has been studying Vote-O-Matic-type vote counting systems for more than 10 years.
		Each hole in the card represents a vote for one candidate (or in favor or against a ballot measure).
		Each polling place would have a "manual" backup system on site, for when the network connections or computers fail (as they surely will) or when a voter is simply unable to understand how to use the computer.--Susan Envoy, Managing Director, CSPR (email: evoy@cpsr.org)
	www.seattle24x7.com /iconfess/iconfess.htm (1038 words)

	VoteScam Continues - Foreign Ownership Of Vote Counting Processes In The US
		This type of glib, yet unreassuring, response to serious questions seems to be the standard among defenders of the current computer voting system..
		When I called Teresa Nagel of Lassen County, California on behalf of candidate Dick Murphy regarding the recent Super Tuesday election (more on that soon), she told me that that county uses a Sequoia Pacific program to ìcountî the vote.
		or perhaps she and the rest of the sorry lot should be indicted for overseeing the subversion of our most precious civil process --- the act of voting in the elections which determine our future, and our childrenís future.
	www.rense.com /politics6/votescam1.htm (796 words)

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