for the Democratic Primaries vs. the Republican ones. I think if people do something about their votes counting it will be a wipe-out. If not? who knows.
Tell Congress: Pass Emergency Bill for Secure Elections in 2008
Now is your best chance to to help make the 2008 Presidential election verifiable. Please ask your members of Congress to co-sponsor the "Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008”, Representative Rush Holt's bill to provide emergency funding for paper ballots voting systems and random hand counted audits of the November elections.
The Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act offers states or counties reimbursement for purchasing paper ballot systems in time for the November elections, and reimbursement for conducting random hand-counted audits of the November election results.
The bill would offer money only for the most reliable voting systems: those that use voter-marked paper ballots, with accessible ballot-marking devices to serve voters with disabilities. By offering crucial funding, Congress can empower state and county officials to do the right thing in time for November.
Rep. Holt's bill could not be more timely. As the Presidential primary season unfolds, 14 states will use paperless electronic system in their primaries, either as the statewide system, or as the system used in many counties.
It doesn't have to be this way in November. Urge your Representative to cosponsor the Confidence in Voting Act. Take action now: please send the letter below (or feel free to edit as you see fit). Thank you
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/199/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22334Find out the voting systems used across your state:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/while your there drop an email to your Secretary of State.
Read some studies:
http://www.votetrustusa.org/pdfs/Diebold%20Folder/uconn-report-os.pdfSecurity Assessment of the Diebold Optical Scan Voting Terminal
UConn VoTeR Center and Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Connecticut
THE MACHINERY OF DEMOCRACY: PROTECTING ELECTIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC WORLD
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
AT NYU SCHOOL OF LAW
http://brennan.3cdn.net/a56eba8edf74e9e12e_r2m6b86s2.pdfSecurity Analysis of the Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter
University of California, Berkeley
February 14, 2006
http://www.votetrustusa.org/pdfs/California_Folder/DieboldReport.pdfMachine-Assisted Election Auditing
*Center for Information Technology Policy and Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
†Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/Optical Scan Ballot Design
Douglas W. Jones
Sept 15, 2005
http://vote.nist.gov/threats/papers/optical_scan_ballot_design.pdf