Quick Study: Voting Machines (page 3 of 3)

Helpful Links



www.itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting
Watch graduate students at Princeton demonstrate how to rig a touch-screen voting machine to flip votes (record the opposite candidate) in less than one minute using a screwdriver, a filing cabinet key, and a memory card from a digital camera. Also available on YouTube as 'Diebold Hacked!"

www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier  
Find out what kind of machine you'll be voting on in November with this clickable, color-coded map, dubbed The Verifier. Worried? Scroll down for election officials' names and contact information.
 
www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures
A visual history of U.S. ballots and voting equipment. Website of Associate Professor Douglas W. Jones at the University of Iowa.     

http://www.electionline.org/
Nonpartisan center monitors and analyzes election reform. Roundups of news stories, plus state-by-state blogs on upcoming elections.
 
www.fvap.gov/services/evoting.html
Federal Voting Assistance Program

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
Sassy anti-DRE site boasts a “best and worst places to vote” map (losers: Texas and Pennsylvania), plus a sign-up sheet for people willing to hand-count votes in a pinch. Download its Black Box Voting Book.
 
http://www.votersunite.org/info/failuresbystate.asp
The ultimate back-to-paper site. Don't miss the list of voting machine meltdowns, listed by state and cross-referenced by vendor.
   
www.hd.net/transcript.html?air_master_id=A4755
“The Trouble with Touch Screens,” Dan Rather Reports transcript.


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