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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.
Diebold TSX
Evaluation: Security Alert, May 11, 2006 Prepared by Harri Hursti
Voting
Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board Report (VSTAAB),
United States
Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published September
2005 and available at 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
Cost
Comparison in North Carolina
Maryland
Governors letter regarding estimates vs. actual costs 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
ACCESSIBILITY
Accessibility issues
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
Avi Rubin
discusses problems with voting machines and his solution from Forbes
Magazine. Article is called Pull The Plug
A Single
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