Reports

Report: Is America Ready To Vote?

By Luther Weeks on October 16, 2008

Verified Voting, Common Cause, and the Brennan Center for Justice released a major report today: <press release> <report> Is America Ready to Vote? State Preparations for Voting Machine Problems in 2008 States Get Mixed Reviews on Readiness for Voting Machine Problems — Citing Improvements, Election Experts Call for Backup Measures to Secure the Vote on […]

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Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits

By Luther Weeks on September 15, 2008

(Full disclosure: I contributed to, participated in reviewing, and editing this document) Released today at a press conference in Alexandria, VA, after many months of work: http://www.electionaudits.org/files/best%20practices%20final_0.pdf These principles were written to guide the design of high-quality post- election audits. They were developed by an ad hoc group comprising many stakeholders, including election officials, public […]

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Missing UCONN report: Is voter pre-election info on Registrars hindered?

By Luther Weeks on September 8, 2008

Recommend diary on MyLeftNutmeg. <read> The 2nd comment on the diary is mine.

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Caught Between The Glitches and The Gotyas

By Luther Weeks on August 29, 2008

We have been covering a significant report by VotersUnite.org, Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections. , the report summarizes the bind Connecticut and other states are in: Violations of Federal Law Leave States in a Double Bind. The federal government fails to meet its HAVA deadlines for giving guidance to the states on […]

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The Outsourced State

By Luther Weeks on August 27, 2008

Last week we covered a significant report by VotersUnite.org, Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections. The report describes the multiple ways that states have become dependent on vendors for elections, how Federal laws and actions have placed election officials in an impossible bind, how arrogant vendors take advantage of the situation, that elections […]

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via Outsourcing: Democracy is Lost

By Luther Weeks on August 23, 2008

A report this week from VotersUnite.org describes the devastating damage caused by outsourcing our elections and giving over complete control to vendors: Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections A VotersUnite report on the current situation and how to reclaim elecitons — in 2008 and beyond The report comes with an Executive Summary A […]

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EVEREST Reports Devistating

By Luther Weeks on August 17, 2008

Earlier I had promised more on the USENIX/ACCURATE Conference in San Jose. In addition to the panels, the presentations on the Ohio EVEREST studies provided information that we have not covered here at CTVotersCount.org. Released in mid December, following the California Top-To-Bottom review the Ohio reports have gotten less attention by many, including me. Two […]

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French Study: More Errors With Electronic Voting

By Luther Weeks on July 12, 2008

ComputerWorld article on French study <read> There were discrepancies between the number of signatures and the number of votes at around 29.8% of polling stations studied using electronic voting machines, compared with just 5.3% of those using paper ballots, and those discrepancies were larger in the stations using voting machines, Enguehard found. It’s unlikely that […]

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Revised November Audit Report – Suffers From Legendary Computing Problem

By Luther Weeks on May 23, 2008

Earlier this week Dr. Alex Shvartsman of UConn sent us a revised, Version 2, of the Statistical Analysis of the Post Election Audit Data, November 2007 Elections <read> This report is based on the added investigations of the discrepancies reported in the initial audit data reported in the Observation Coalition Report <read> followed by the […]

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Science Says We Have A Problem. Can The System Answer?

By Luther Weeks on May 8, 2008

Is requiring that a vote be overturned in cases where the evidence shows over a 95% chance that the election system failed the voters and democracy a radical solution? When should there be a re-vote? Or simply overturn an election? Two important articles in the spring issue of CHANCE, from the American Statistical Association present […]

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