If you're not doing this, you're missing one of the BEST fraud fighters!

[Amaryllis]

Well, you guys, I finally did what I wish I'd done a few months ago. I read Voters Unite's excellent
Mythbreakers: Facts About Electronic Elections
Essential Information for Those Entrusted with Making Decisions
about Election Systems in the United States

I'd skimmed it before, and sent the link to people.I know many of you are familiar with this doc, but if, like me, you hadn't got around to actually reading it, and haven't got around to getting it into the hands of your election officials, read this, especially if you are one who has been asking yourself what you can do about election fraud.

I knew that DREs were the least secure and most expensive method of voting, and had other problems, but what I hadn't fully realized is that they are also pieces of junk (to put it in polite terms). They are the least reliable, the most troublesome in terms of malfunctioning, not starting, stopping when they shouldn't, and doing a lot of other bizarre things that completely mess up elections; they require more poll workers than any other system, and more extensive training of pollworkers, and more maintainance...I could go on and on.

The cost alone speaks to election officials. There are excellent cost breakdowns and comparisons of different voting systems.

There are a number of HAVA compliant options that are superior in every way for disabled voters which are detailed. Many people, even here on DU, think DREs are the only option for the disabled! NOT.

This is a well researched and highly credible document. I am going to involve my reform group in getting this into the hands of every single official even remotely connected with elections in my state. We already have paper ballots, but are poised to buy DREs for disabled voters. I want to keep this cancer out of my state

This document doesn't address tabulators as much as I'd like, but for states considering which voting system to buy, it's great. You can always supplement with Chuck Herrin's power point presentation to NC legislators with the hack-the-tabulator demo.
( http://www.chuckherrin.com/ComputersVoteTabulation.pdf
or
access from here: http://www.chuckherrin.com/main.htm )

http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/mythbreakerssecondedition.pdf
Mythbreakers link

link to John Gideon's thread on Mythbreakers (John is Information Manager at VotersUnite.Org):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=292271&mesg_id=292271