"Election Guides for Geeks"

Sat Sep 25 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Link: http://news.com.com/E-voting critics report new flaws/2100-1028_3-5378199.html

(Note the quick reference guides are licensed under a generous Creative Commons Attribution license... feel free to remix, repurpose, reporpoise or whatever tickles you pink.)

Work that I'm doing with the EFF, VVF and AFU just got a plug by Declan of C|Net:

Also on Wednesday, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation released a kind of election guide for geeks. Complete with photographs of the most popular models of e-voting machines, it lists their known flaws and problems that people have had with them in the past.

"The more people know about the voting machines they'll be using, the better prepared they'll be on election day." EFF staff attorney Matt Zimmerman said in a statement.

The EFF also released a bit on them:

EFF Releases Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides

San Francisco, CA - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation released the results of research conducted jointly with the Verified Voting Foundation and American Families United into the strengths and weaknesses of the most popular models of e-voting machines. Organized into one-page quick reference guides, this research gives users critical information about widely deployed machines such as the Diebold Accuvote TS and the ESS iVotronic. In the guides, EFF takes users through a step-by-step process for using each model properly, and lists problems people have had with the machines in past elections. The voting machine quick reference guides represent one of the nation's first Consumer Reports-style analyses of several different types of e-voting machines.

"It's extremely important that people vote, despite any concerns that they have about new voting machines," said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "The more people know about the voting machines they'll be using, the better prepared they'll be on election day." It's estimated that one-third of the country will be using e-voting machines in the upcoming Presidential Election.