Transcript Document 7577668
e Voting
Josh Gold
The Impetus
• Florida recount • 36 days
Funding
• The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) – Authorized 4 billion in federal spending – Help disabled vote – doesn ’ t mandate states use all computer machines till after 2006
Problems with HAVA
• FEC Complaints: – l ack of a requirement that vote tallies be independently auditable – the allowance non-inspected trade-secret code – Less oversight than Vegas slot machines
Controversy
• Internal leaked memo from Diebold CEO Walden O'Del promising Bush the election • Cracking the Code • Hacking into VoteHere Inc Computer system • California Gubernatorial recall
Electronic or Paper?
• Nevada only state that mandated a paper trail for e ballots in 2004 election
Verification
• Mercuri Method (Rebecca Mercuri) • "voter verified paper ballot" (VVPB) – assures ability for independent audit • Vs.
• "voter verifiable audit trail" (VVAT) – self-auditing: relies on electronic record, not proven
The Sky Did Not Fall
• Predictions of rigging • Fears machines would crash • Electronic voting machines made up less than 6 percent of the 27,500 incidents
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Manufacturers
Avante International Technology, Inc.
AccuPoll ~VVPB Accenture Cardamation Election.com
Election Systems and Software DFM Associates
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Manufacturers cont.
Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Hart Intercivic Peripheral Dynamics Safevote Sequoia Pacific Systems Smartmatic TruVote International, Inc VoteHere.net, Voting Technologies International
The AccuVote-TS
• Built by Diebold • Designed like an ATM machine • Electronically transmitted to network hub • Voters insert a smart card and make their choices by touching an area on the computer screen.
The Avante Vote Trakker
• Unique: Automatically produces a paper printout of the voters' choice • Votes also written onto internal flash memory card • Votes burnt onto a cd-rom for later being counted
The AVC Edge and the AVC Advantage
• The Edge uses a touch screen • The Advantage uses a matrix of touch sensitive switches to record votes.
• Votes saved on flash memory card • Both made by Sequoia
The Hart InterCivic eSlate 3000
• Uses a select wheel to scroll through the choice of candidates • Connects to a booth which activates the machine for each voter and stores the votes.
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2004 Election
33-43% voters cast e ballots 14-17% Punch cards 34-45% optical ballots
Global Applications
• Venezuela • Chavez Recall • Smartmatic Corp.
• Australia • Open Software • Company: Software Improvements
The Future
• Paperless Balloting? • Internet Balloting?
– In 2000 the U.S. DoDefense spent $6.2M so that 84 voters could cast ballots via the internet – SERVE project for military personnel and overseas citizens • initially targeted to be used in 2004 Presidential election
Works Cited
• www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/ • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3666898.stm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3970837.stm
• http://news.com.com/More+e voting+glitches+surface/2100-1002_3 5440809.html
• http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
Works Cited cont.
• http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
• http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61 045,00.html