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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Audits, Recounts, Paper Trail. All mission-critical systems must have strong auditing procedures. Current audits are too weak, especially with absentee ballots. Recounts are too expensive, hence way too rare. They should be free if the race is moderately close. Ideally, we need to be 99% confident that the decision represented by the vote count reflects the will of the voters. Counties should post computer and human-readable detailed precinct reports. Governments sh...
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CountedAsCast.com ( Monitoring )
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Michelle Gabriel's Monitoring Electronic Voting Systems in California. V 22, 10/08) : MS Word. This document describes what to look for when monitoring electronic voting machines and processes involved in the counting of the voting. Election Verification Exit Poll. Citizens' Election Verification Poll. BlackBoxVoting's Citizen Tool Kits. Monitor Local Elections and Procedures. Sample poll watching form for LA but helpful anywhere : PDF. 147 KB), MS Word. Date: Sat, ...
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CountedAsCast.com ( Index )
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Crooked COO of EAC). Bowen, Secretary Debra. Bowen 06 campaign videos. California Secretary of State. California Voting Systems Review, 7/07. CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project. Direct Recording Electronic voting machines). DRE's and California Law. Elections Code, California. EqualiVote assistive voting device. German Court Press Release. Help America Vote Act (HAVA). History of election fraud. Law, California Elections. Law, US, (HAVA, VVSG). Mail, vote by.
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CountedAsCast.com ( FAQs )
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Machines. Why can't we trust voting machines? The difference is in the auditing. Banking systems undergo much more auditing, and when you use an ATM machine, you get a paper receipt. Because your vote must be secret, a voting machine does not give your a receipt, so it's harder to check. We audit even slot machines. More carefully than voting machines. Then there's this article : ATM Reprogrammed to Give Out 4 Times More Money. There's been no vote stealing. Claimin...
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CountedAsCast.com ( Costs )
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. DRAFT: This page is a draft! The taxpayers] "already bought the system. At this point they are just closing the barn door. Let's just hope that as a company we are smart enough to charge out the yin if they try to change the rules now ." (Diebold email). Over 3 to 5 years, Optical Scan systems cost 60% of DRE (Diebold-like systems) - NY, CONN, FLA, MD. Companies raise prices on captive customers (Maryland example). Facts about Ballot Printing Costs. For further info...
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CountedAsCast.com ( California )
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California Top To Bottom Review. In 2007, Secretary of State had the University of California conduct a top to bottom review of three voting systems used in the state. The results were devastating :. The red teams demonstrated that the security mechanisms provided for all systems analyzed were inadequate to ensure accuracy and integrity of the election results and of the systems that provide those results.". You can find links. Of the red team reports, source code reviews, accessibility report, commentary.
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Issues : First Principles. Voting is a non-partisan issue. That concerns every American. Every American must be able to exercise their right to vote. And to have that vote counted as cast. Every essential step of the voting process must be checkable. In the words of Ronald Reagan, " Trust, but verify. Nobody, and no machine. Should be conducting elections in secret. See also: Secretary of State Debra Bowen's Voter's Bill of Rights. System that is seriously broken.
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CountedAsCast.com ( USA )
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. The author of CountedAsCast supports the 2009 Holt bill (H.R. 2894). You can read this essay, Towards Open Elections. To find out why. Search For Current And Past Bills. Http:/ Thomas.Loc.gov. Help America Vote Act. An outline and info : www.Election-Reform.org/laws/hava.html. EAC Web page : www.eac.gov/about/help-america-vote-act. FEC Web page : www.FEC.gov/hava/hava.htm. PDF : http:/ Ss.Ca.gov/elections/hava.pdf. According to the EAC). A Voting Law Reference.
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. News : www.VotersUnite.org/news.asp. News : www.VoteTrustUsa.org. News : www.BbvForums.org/forums/messages/8/8.html. News : www.BradBlog.com. News : www.Scoop.co.nz. VoteTrustUSA Weekly newsletter (subscribe) : www.VoteTrustUsa.org/subscribe.html. BBV Investigative Reporting : www.BlackBoxVoting.org. EDA important issues : www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org/blog/eda. ElectionIntegrity blog : www.ElectionIntegrity.org. BBVcom's blog : www.BlackBoxVoting.com. Executive S...
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One Person. One Vote. Counted As Cast. Voting machine companies should understand that they are as much in the integrity business as the vote counting business. Yet they do not behave as such, and bring some elections officials into this culture of corruption. The case of Diebold is the best known, but not the only example:. When Diebold Elections Systems was Global Election Systems it was run by three crooks. Who were convicted of stock fraud. Global hired a convicted cocaine trafficker. Such as the Cay...
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