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	Voting machine - SourceWatch
		Electronic voting machines have been installed in several states in response to a federal mandate.
		Furthermore, the programming of the voting machines is secret, or at least it was until Diebold's source code was discovered on an insecure ftp server and analysed by independent experts.
		Parallel concerns were raised in India where the entire country was shifted to a single voting machine technology vended by companies close to the ruling party.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Voting_machine (1200 words)

	Douglas W. Jones Illustrated Voting Machine History
		In the late 19th century, many early developers of voting machines continued to interpret laws requiring that election be by ballot as the requirement that elections be carried out by the use of little balls, so many early voting machines operated by depositing small balls in the appropriate containers as each voter cast a vote.
		The lever voting machines of the mid 20th century included interlocks to prevent a voter from overvoting -- that is, voting for more than one candidate in a race, and the voting booths that were integral to the machines offered what most voters considered excellent privacy.
		The Electrovote 2000 voting machine sold by Fidlar-Doubleday (formerly Fidlar and Chambers) is a wedge shaped affair, basically an IBM PC compatable with a touch screen, packaged for voting, with a secure case that prevents keyboard or mouse from being plugged in while it is in the polling place.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/pictures (6753 words)

	State: Voting machine faults ignored
		The machines recorded cases in which no vote was cast, known as undervotes, at a higher rate than some other machines.
		The machines, however, have stirred controversy in recent months among Democrats who complain that they do not leave a paper trail that can be used in manual recounts.
		With optical scan voting, Tokaji said, some voters may have deliberately chosen to leave their ballots blank, but felt pressured to select a candidate when their ballots were spit back by mechanical card readers or when a poll worker instructed them that they had made a mistake.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/07/21/State/Voting_machine_faults.shtml (746 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)

	Voting Machines - Vote Tampering in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her stories on voting machines are based not on her politics but on serious, in-depth investigative reporting.
		It is therefore crucial that voting equipment provide a voter-verifiable audit trail, by which we mean a permanent record of each vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter before the vote is submitted, and is difficult or impossible to alter after it has been checked.
		Voting machines should not be purchased or used unless they provide a voter-verifiable audit trail; when such machines are already in use, they should be replaced or modified to provide a voter-verifiable audit trail.
	www.whoseflorida.com /voting_machines.htm (10131 words)

	Black Box Voting: Ballot - Tampering in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chairs of North Carolina's electronic voting committee have said they expect to end up recommending the use of voting machines that include a paper ballot that can be examined afterward to correct errors.
		Gerbel said the machine is not confusing for voters, but explained that a pop-up window has been added to the electronic display in Michigan to tell voters who pick a straight-party ticket that they can skip ahead to the nonpartisan races.
		Because of human and machine errors in Carteret County - the "human" error being that elections officials were misinformed about the storage space of their machines - more than 4,000 electronically filed early votes were lost in the 2004 general election.
	www.blackboxvoting.com (2634 words)

	Voting Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Feb 10: Voting machines must include a verifiable paper trail and audit capability in time for the 2006 elections, according to a bill introduced this week in Congress.
		Voting by machine, absentee, early, Internet, e-mail, phone, fax, central "counting" facility, or carrier pigeon is an invitation to undetectable system failure and vote fraud.
		The accuracy of voting machines is often correlated with the number of overvotes and undervotes it records.
	www.ecotalk.org /VotingSecurity.htm (7147 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: The Voting Machine Jackpot
		Though the notion that the voting machine industry would use a purportedly educational conference as its forum to lobby state and federal officials is startling, it is only the latest front in the industry's campaign to earn as much federal money as it can with as few complications as possible.
		The groundwork for the voting machine industry's path toward a lucrative federal giveaway was laid in the immediate aftermath of the 2000 Florida recount debacle, when punch-card voting systems were blamed for throwing the results of the presidential election into doubt.
		With one of the country's foremost regulators of state election officials squarely in the camp of the voting machine industry, if voting machine reform is to take place, the onus is now on congress.
	www.alternet.org /election04/19660 (2041 words)

	Electronic Voting Machine
		In all earlier elections you have, as a voter, casted your vote to your favourite candidate by putting the stamp against his/her name and then folding the ballot paper as per a prescribed method before putting it in the Ballot box.
		When the user presses the button, his vote is registered in the control unit and the number of votes for the respective candidates is calculated automatically.
		After the hour fixed for the close of the poll and the last voter has recorded his vote, the EVM is closed so that no further recording of votes in the machine is possible.
	www.rajasthan.net /election/guide/evm.htm (725 words)

	VotingMachineCompanies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This equipment differs from other types of vote tabulation equipment in several respects, most notably in its use of paper ballots, and is viewed by many state and local governments to be the preferred way to record votes accurately.
		Officers of Philadelphia-based Shoup Voting Machine Co. were indicted for allegedly bribing politicians in Tampa, Fla. in 1971, according to published reports.
		Aug 18, 03: Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold...
	www.ecotalk.org /VotingMachineCompanies.htm (8805 words)

	Seeing The Forest - a Weblog of Politics
		A computerized voting machine that shows your votes on a display screen only and records your votes internally is like a clerk using a handheld calculator.
		The solution for the voting machine is essentially the same: You show a printed copy of the ballot for the voter to confirm; if there's a discrepancy, the voting machine can be shut down.
		Answer: Because good touch-screen machines make the voting easier, prevent invalid votes and confusion (like Palm Beach Jews voting for Buchanan), report reliable counts to computers at headquarters so the election is over in a few hours, and the paper trail ballots they print out are uniform, evenly marked, valif, and verified by the voter.
	seetheforest.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_seetheforest_archive.html (8252 words)

	Voting-Machine Risks
		The machine is housed in an impact and moisture-resistant case, shielded from EMI, and protected by battery back-up in the event of power loss.
		Yet the city intends to award SP the $60,000,000 contract anyway, giving them 18 months to satisfy the RFP and deliver a dozen machines for preliminary testing (the remainder to be phased in over a period of six years).
		One might think that the election of our government officials would be a matter that should be covered by the Computer Security Act of 1987, but voting machines, being procured by the states and municipalities (not by the Federal government) do not fall under the auspices of this law, which needs to be broadened.
	www.notablesoftware.com /Papers/vmrisks.html (726 words)

	Voting machine fails inspection \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Using an earlier version of the source code that powers machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems, the security experts--three from Johns Hopkins University and a colleague from Rice University--performed an audit and found numerous security holes.
		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).
		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.
	news.com.com /2100-1009_3-5054088.html (1082 words)

	secure voting machine
		in the booth and is wiped after the voting ends and the machine is shut...
		machines are secure and accurate enough to justify expensive federal and...
		Voting Machines Vote Tampering in the 21st Century
	secure-voting-machine-3.c-program.com /e-vote.html (2349 words)

	Diebold Voting Machine Owner Committed To Give Votes To Bush in 2004
		COLUMBUS - The head of a company 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."
		The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election.
		Blackwell said he stands by the process used for selecting voting machine vendors as fair, thorough and impartial.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0828-08.htm (816 words)

	VerifiedVoting.org : Index
		The public must also know the results are accurate, which can only be achieved if conduct of the election is sufficiently transparent that candidates, the press, and the general public can satisfy themselves that no errors or cheating have occurred.
		Voters have no means to confirm that that the machines have recorded their votes correctly, nor will they have any assurance of that their votes won't be changed later.
		Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter.
	www.verifiedvoting.org (459 words)

	EVM2003
		A worldwide group of scientists, engineers, political scientists, legal scholars, and voting-rights activists are working on developing a PC based voting machines that will be easier to use, more secure, cheaper, and provide greater democratic transparency than commercially available voting machines.
		Votes collected at precincts are canvassed (aggregated) at higher levels.
		The larger study will include not only the development of voting machine software, but all software necessary for election administration, and an Election Rules Database that will document all election rules in effect in all jurisdictions in the United States.
	evm2003.sourceforge.net (705 words)

	Welcome To Diebold Election Systems
		Secretary of State Cox: New Data Shows Voting Accuracy Soared in 2004 Presidential Contest in Georgia
		Over 75,000 Diebold electronic voting stations are being used in locations across the United States to assist voters in exercising their most fundamental constitutional right: The right to vote.
		Diebold is at the forefront in providing high-quality, secure direct recording electronic (DRE) voting solutions to jurisdictions of all sizes, along with a comprehensive service and elections support capability that’s unmatched on a global scale.
	www.diebold.com /dieboldes (225 words)

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