Resources

These websites are good places to begin your own research on this topic. (Note: for more sources, use the hyperlinks in my talk slides.)

Voting and Elections

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/

Voting and Elections materials by Douglas W. Jones, Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa. Professor Jones has served on election boards, and has both theoretical and practical expertise in this area. In addition to a lot of material about electronic voting, he's posted some very interesting information about the history of voting and voting technologies.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/

Machine Politics, a regularly updated archive of stories on electronic voting from Wired News.

Legislation

http://fecweb1.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

Federal Election Commission's website on the Help America Vote Act of 2002

http://holt.house.gov/issues2.cfm?id=5996

Press release for the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (New Jersey).

The text of the bill: HR 2239. Senate version is S 1980, sponsored by Sen. Robert Graham (Florida).

Verified Voting

http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

These Electronic Voting web pages are posted by the inventor of Voter Verified Balloting, Rebecca Mercuri.

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Verified Voting Campaign to Demand Verifiable Election Results

Activism

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century. Founded by Bev Harris, a discoverer of the infamous Diebold FTP site, this website contains reports of Harris's investigative research, chapters of her book, and links to related websites. It also serves as an on-line forum for activism around the electronic voting issue.

http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/

Electronic Frontier Foundation E-Voting Archive

New York

http://www.elections.state.ny.us/

New York State Board of Elections website. Links to HAVA compliance documents are prominently posted on the homepage.

http://www.nypirg.org/goodgov/hava/

The New York Public Interest Research Group's New York State Citizen's Coalition on HAVA.

Paranoid or Just Cautious?

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/834

Bob Fitrakis on “Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy”, from The Free Press (Columbus, OH).

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=1

The transcript (with a link to streaming video) of a report by investigative journalist Greg Palast. It concerns an inquiry into problems with the voter rolls in Florida in the 2000 Presidential election, and was originally broadcast on the BBC.

http://www.bushflash.com/gta.html

This link takes you to a flash animation, “Grand Theft America”, which covers the main points of Greg Palast's investigation (link above). (The title is a good indication of the political point of view of the animation's creators.)

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