"We know that on Nov. 4, voting systems will fail somewhere," says Lawrence Norden, director of voting technology at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "There is no perfect system. All of these systems have problems." Full Story »
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USA Today taps what has been one of the top voter concerns in this thorough and well written report on voting equipment. Good context, examples and background on the hasty attempts to upgrade technology. The author does a fine job identifying ballot issues and machine malfunction as real problems that are not isolated. The "What could go wrong" section at the end is especially helpful. Recommended.
I'm pleased to say that I've voted in every election, including local elections, since I turned 18 and I've never had to use a Diebold machine. The voting technology my college used in its student government elections was more sophisticated and reliable. I have yet to have it demonstrated to me that electronic voting is any safer or more accurate than paper.
Excellent overview of how recent upgrades to states' voting equipment could introduce new problems, despite the the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which was designed to improve the voting process. Good factual evidence, extensive graphs, multiple sources and helpful context about this important issue.
Good read. This is an in-depth narrative of the various technologies that will be used in next week's election. It's well sourced with voting rights experts and voting officials, and paints a fair picture of the challenges, and attempts at reform.
A really well-done story that shows the context for changes in voting equipment and processes, the experiences with those changes, and what we might expect in the coming election. This is a good overview of the many other articles I've read.
I have to agree with the election officials quoted in the piece who say we threw money at the problems without much thought or research--and created new issues in the process.
A comprehensive look at the voting methods currently used, how those methods have changed (and why), and what might go wrong.
The USA Today article is somewhat dismissive of the many problems with voting systems. That suggests either superficial research, or an agenda. Machine qualification tests have failed, have been manufacturer self-adminstered, and falsified. Software code in voting machines and vote counting machines are corporate secrets, and have been shown to be easily hackable. Voting data has been shown to be accessable from uncontrolled computers. Machine maintenance is performed by unregulated private corporation "experts," not election boards. Voting machine companies benefited because the republican owners of the companies conned congress into believing they were a solution. In many ways, it sounds like execution of the Shock ... More »
Local citizens need to take back oversight to ensure validity of the vote. Paper ballots are a necessity. Software in voting machines and vote counting machines needs to be open and public. Random count audits should be mandatory. Election official offices should be non-partisan, and include computer savvy as a job requirement. (Osgood in Washington) The ACORN investigation is a Republican fraud to detract attention from their vote caging and voter suppression strategy. Conspiracy ... More »
“The touch screens were perfect. We never had any scandals,” Merriman says, even without a paper trail. More »
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