Electronic Voting

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1. What is Electronic voting? An Overview of the Possibilities and Procedures

• How E-Voting will work Kevin Bosner, Howstuffworks 
• Electronic Elections  Helger Lipmaa, Cybernetica
• The Future of electronic elections Stanford.edu 
• E-Voting Standards USACM Policy Brief 

2. The Existing System and an Impetus for a Change in the Way We Vote

• Voting Technologies in the United States Eric A. Fischer, Congressional Research Service 
• A 'modern' democracy that can't count votes CNN- LA Times 
• Rights Panel to review Fla. voting Washington Post 
• Americans support voting upgrades Dibya Sarkar, FCW 
• Voting After Florida: No Easy Answers Lorrie Faith Cranor
• Electronic Voting Technology: Can We Be Spared a Repeat of Election 2000? Robert Bellinger

3. Dangers Associated with Electronic voting

• MIT-Caltech study votes for paper ballots, levers, scanning devices MIT
• Report says E-Voting is unsafe Lynn Burke, Wired
• E-voting -- prospects and problems Douglas W. Jones, Free Republic
• Electronic Voting - Evaluating the Threat Michael Ian Shamos, CPSR
• Let's not rush into electronic voting Dan Gillmor, Mercury News Online
• Electronic voting systems face obstacles to adoption Patrick Thibodeau, CNN
• Internet and Electronic Voting Dave Farber & Peter G. Neumann, The Risks Digest 
• Computerized Voting - No Standards and a Lot of Questions Ron Newman Statement on Electronic Voting Rebecca Mercuri

4. Legal Issues

• The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 United States Department of Justice 
• The FEC Proposed Voting Systems Standard Update Dr. Rebecca Mercuri
• House report on Dieboldt software flaws House.gov 
• Company Releases VHTi Reference Source Code Dennis Kucinch, VoteHere 

5. Planning for the Future - The Proponents View

• The case for electronic voting Farhad Manjoo, Wired
• Electronic voting system certified for use in colorado elections Hart Intercivic
• Electronic voting system a success in presidential election Trials Hart Intercivic
• MIT, Caltech join forces to develop reliable, uniform US voting machine MIT
• Experts: E-voting could have prevented U.S. election confusion Rick Perera, Brian Fonseca, Martyn Williams and Terho Uimonen, CNN
• Commentary: Electronic voting likely to emerge a winner Christopher Baum CNET 
• Electronic Voting: Computerized polls may save money, protect privacy Lorrie Faith Cranor
• Australia moves to E-voting Kim Zetter, Wired 

6. Related Sites (Electronic voting providers)

• Hart Intercivic
• Guardian Voting Systems MTI MTI specializes in state of the art, electronic voting systems
• Sequoia  

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