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"The core of our American democracy is the right to vote. Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter. And I think what we're encountering is a pivotal moment in our democracy where all of that is being called into question." ( more here)
Kevin Shelley, former
California Sec. of State
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| Residual Votes Attributable to Technology
by Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III, MIT, The Journal of Politics
Abstract: We examine the relative performance of voting technologies by studying presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial election returns across hundreds of counties in the United States from 1988 to 2000. Relying on a fixed effects regression applied to an unbalanced panel of
counties, we find that in presidential elections, traditional paper ballots produce the lowest rates of uncounted votes (i.e. “residual votes”), followed by optically scanned ballots, mechanical lever machines, direct register electronic machines (DREs), and punch cards. In gubernatorial and senatorial races, paper, optical scan ballots, and DREs are significantly better in minimizing the residual vote rate than mechanical lever machines and punch cards. If all jurisdictions in the U.S. that used punch cards in 2000 had used optically scanned ballots instead, we estimate that approximately 500,000 more votes would have been attributed to presidential candidates nationwide. |
| Election Observation Mission Final Report
OSCE / ODIHR
March 31st, 2005
In response to an invitation from the Government of the United States of America, the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) conducted an Election Observation Mission to the November 2004 elections.
A number of issues were identified, particularly in the context of the ongoing electoral reform process, which merit further consideration. |
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