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Election Reform The Open Voting Consortium

Elections are important Voting is how we ultimately control.our government Many elections are decided by just a.few votes We need to have confidence in our elections to have confidence in our own government

Basic Requirements of fair elections part 1 Simple for voters and poll workers Easy to use for all including most disabled and non english speakers Relatively inexpensive Well integrated with poll books and voting tabulation equipment to give accurate and quick results

Basic Requirements of fair elections part 2 Accurately reflect the voters intent Preserve privacy, anonymity and confidentiality Independent audit trail Compliance with Federal, State and local laws/regulations

The problem of invisible votes No audit trail. Black box software Incompetence and fraud

How did this happen? The 2000 elections, hanging and pregnant chad in Florida DRE's promoted by private vendors and naieve government officials HAVA

Technology models studied ATM's Cash registers slot machines

Solutions Certified open source software running on standard PC's Computer generated paper ballots as the actual votes Back up audit trail of electronic ballot images