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Get the Facts - Links LINKS GENERAL INFORMATION A good website for getting all the fact on DREs, and arguments both pro and con, is at www.procon.org, covers many current controversial issues. One of the issues covered is electronic voting machines, http://www.votingmachinesprocon.org/ VULNERABILITY There have been a number of studies that have shown the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines. Below is a list of a few of them. Princeton Report on the Diebold TS machine was released September 13, 2006 after a four-month study. http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ts-paper.pdf Diebold TSX Evaluation: Security Alert, May 11, 2006 Prepared by Harri Hursti http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board Report (VSTAAB), published February 14, 2006 and available on the California Secretary of States website at: http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems /security_analysis_of_the_diebold_accubasic_interpreter.pdf United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published September 2005 and available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf Brennan Center Report: http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/Usability8-28.pdf COST Initial and ongoing costs of touch screens as compared to Optical Scanners. Polling places only require one optical scanner per polling place verses the need for many DRE machines per polling place Cost Comparison of DRE machines and Optical Scanners in Florida http://www.votersunite.org/info/costcomparisonextended.asp Cost Comparison in North Carolina http://www.ncvoter.net/affordable.html Maryland Governor’s letter regarding estimates vs. actual costs http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/downloads/gillesburgerltr10.pdf Bergen Co. NJ has reported that their Sequoia DRE voting machines required $44,000 worth of electricity for their monthly battery charge last year. The county is now spending $42,000 to install air conditioning in the warehouse where their 1,200 machines are stored. http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTYyNTQwJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg Logic and Accuracy Testing Cost Comparisons http://www.washburnresearch.org/ComparatisonOfTestingCosts_PBOS_to_DRE.htm FAILURES List of Failures of Diebold TSx machines http://www.votersunite.org/info/Dieboldinthenews.pdf ACCESSIBILITY Accessibility issues http://www.votersunite.org/info/accessibility.asp NEWS ARTICLES OF INTEREST The Two Faces of Diebold - Stunning Document Surfaces to Show That America's #1 Voting Machine Manufacturer Hides Security and Operation Flaws from The State of Maryland and the Country http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-abrahams/the-two-faces-of-diebold_b_33138.html Avi Rubin discusses problems with voting machines and his solution from Forbes Magazine. Article is called “Pull The Plug” http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082206B.shtml A Single Person Could Swing An Election - Electronic System's Weaknesses May Be Countered With Audits, Report Suggests. Washington Post Article, June 27, 2006