Voting Techology
Ballot Secrecy Keeps Voting Technology at Bay | Scientific American
Republicans during Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will use a technology recognizable to Washington and Lincoln to make their choices Posted at Scientific American: Voters in the recent Iowa caucuses and Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will rely on paper ballots as they have for generations. In the very next primary on January 21, South Carolinians will... »
Dismissed Venango County Pennsylvania Election Board Files Appeal | VotePA
Attorney Charles A. Pascal, Jr., has filed a Motion For Reconsideration on behalf of members of the specially appointed Venango County Election Board. The filing was made this afternoon in response to President Judge Oliver J. Lobaugh's order dismissing the Board yesterday. Citing ongoing investigations into serious voting machine problems reported during the May... »
How Voting Equipment Varies in the U.S.
The following article was posted at Digital Communities on October 24 2011. Pamela Smith and the Verified Voting Foundation (VVF) are on a mission — in her words — "to safeguard elections in the digital age." In an earlier time, she said, ballot boxes were inspected the morning before voting began then were padlocked. Voters... »
Maryland Report – Scanners Cost Less than DREs
A new study commissioned by the state of Maryland has just taken a close look at the relative cost of optical-scan paper-ballot voting systems compared with electronic touch-screen systems, and found that optical-scan paper-ballot systems are less expensive . These findings are timely and important not only for Maryland, but for other states as... »
Paper vs. Electronic Voting in Houston
Originally posted at Freedom-to-Tinker and the Computing@Rice blog at the Houston Chronicle. Back in late August, Harris County (Houston)’s warehouse with all 10,000 of our voting machines, burned to the ground. As I blogged at the time, our county decided to spend roughly $14 million of its $40 million insurance settlement on purchasing replacement... »
PBS Video: Ballot Boxing – The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines
This video was broadcast on PBS and is posted online here. On Tuesday, one in six voters will be casting their ballots using touch screen technology. Largely in reaction to the Bush-Gore Florida debacle, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act. It was designed in part to mandate new, up-to-date voting machines that would... »
Voting Machine Expert Offers Insights on North Carolina “Vote-Flipping”
Douglas Jones is a voting technology expert on the computer science faculty at the University of Iowa who has done extensive study of the ES&S iVotronic direct recording voting machine. In this interview he offers his insights on reports of straight-party voting problems on iVotronics in multiple North Carolina counties. Q: Are you familiar... »
USA Today: A Decade After Florida Fiasco, Voting Remains a Hodgepodge
This oped appeared in USA Today October 29, 2010. Call it the Board of Elections’ prayer: Let the weather be clear, let the turnout be heavy and let everyone who wins, win big. The desire for clear-cut victories reflects election officials’ awareness that razor-tight races magnify the foul-ups at the polls — late openings,... »
Comprehensive Map of US Voting Equipment Released
Voter-marked paper ballots dominate among U.S. voting methods, but one fourth of voters still depend on unverifiable equipment. Verified Voting has released a new version of the Verifier, a map of voting technology used throughout the United States and territories, along with a statistical summary of voting technology that States will use this November. The Verifier... »
Thoughts on the New York Primary
Despite the impressions received from media reports, the September 14th primary was not the first time that New Yorkers voted on paper ballots and scanners. In the 2009 off-year election, 47 counties in upstate New York used the new systems as part of a pilot program. This trial run taught participants valuable lessons, and... »
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