e Voting

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e Voting

• Josh Gold

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The Impetus

• Florida recount
• 36 days

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Funding

• The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
• Authorized 4 billion in federal spending
• Help disabled vote
• doesnt mandate states use all computer machines
  till after 2006

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Problems with HAVA

• FEC Complaints
• lack of a requirement that vote tallies be
  independently auditable
• the allowance non-inspected trade-secret code
• Less oversight than Vegas slot machines

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Controversy

• Internal leaked memo from Diebold CEO Walden
  O'Del promising Bush the election
• Cracking the Code
• Hacking into VoteHere Inc Computer system
• California Gubernatorial recall

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Electronic or Paper?

• Nevada only state that mandated a paper trail for
  e ballots in 2004 election

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Verification

• Mercuri Method (Rebecca Mercuri)
• "voter verified paper ballot" (VVPB)
• assures ability for independent audit
• Vs.
• "voter verifiable audit trail" (VVAT)
• self-auditing relies on electronic record, not
  proven

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The Sky Did Not Fall

• Predictions of rigging
• Fears machines would crash
• Electronic voting machines made up less than 6
  percent of the 27,500 incidents

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Manufacturers

•          Avante International Technology, Inc.
•          AccuPoll VVPB
•          Accenture
•          Cardamation
•          Election.com
•          Election Systems and Software
•          DFM Associates

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Manufacturers cont.

•      Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
•          Hart Intercivic
•          Peripheral Dynamics
•          Safevote
•          Sequoia Pacific Systems
•          Smartmatic
•          TruVote International, Inc
•          VoteHere.net,
•          Voting Technologies International

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The AccuVote-TS

• Built by Diebold
• Designed like an ATM machine
• Electronically transmitted to network hub
• Voters insert a smart card and make their choices
  by touching an area on the computer screen.

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The Avante Vote Trakker

• Unique Automatically produces a paper printout
  of the voters' choice
• Votes also written onto internal flash memory
  card
• Votes burnt onto a cd-rom for later being counted

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The AVC Edge and the AVC Advantage

• The Edge uses a touch screen
• The Advantage uses a matrix of touch-sensitive
  switches to record votes.
• Votes saved on flash memory card
• Both made by Sequoia

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The Hart InterCivic eSlate 3000

• Uses a select wheel to scroll through the choice
  of candidates
• Connects to a booth which activates the machine
  for each voter and stores the votes.

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2004 Election

• 33-43 voters cast e ballots
• 14-17 Punch cards
• 34-45 optical ballots

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Global Applications

• Venezuela
• Chavez Recall
• Smartmatic Corp.
• Australia
• Open Software
• Company Software Improvements

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The Future

• Paperless Balloting?
• Internet Balloting?
• In 2000 the U.S. DoDefense spent 6.2M so that 84
  voters could cast ballots via the internet
• SERVE project for military personnel and overseas
  citizens
• initially targeted to be used in 2004
  Presidential election

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Works Cited

• www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3666898.stm
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3970837.stm
• http//news.com.com/Moree-votingglitchessurface
  /2100-1002_3-5440809.html
• http//www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

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Works Cited cont.

• http//www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
• http//www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.htm
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