1. e Voting
Josh Gold

2. The Impetus
Florida recount
36 days

3. 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

4. Problems with HAVA FEC Complaints:
lack of a requirement that vote tallies be independently auditable
the allowance non-inspected trade-secret code
Less oversight than Vegas slot machines

5. 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

6. Electronic or Paper?
Nevada only state that mandated a paper trail for e ballots in 2004 election

7. 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

8. 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

9. Manufacturers Avante International Technology, Inc. AccuPoll ~VVPB
         Accenture
         Cardamation
         Election.com
         Election Systems and Software
         DFM Associates

10. Manufacturers cont. Diebold Election Systems, Inc. Hart Intercivic
         Peripheral Dynamics
         Safevote
         Sequoia Pacific Systems
         Smartmatic
         TruVote International, Inc
         VoteHere.net,
         Voting Technologies International

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 2004 Election 33-43% voters cast e ballots 14-17% Punch cards
34-45% optical ballots

16. Global Applications Venezuela Australia Chavez Recall Smartmatic Corp.
Open Software
Company: Software Improvements

17. 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

18. Works Cited www.aitechnology.com/votetrakker2/

19. Works Cited cont. http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html