Dueling e-voting press-conferences

By Cory Doctorow at 11:24 pm Tuesday, Nov 2

The electronic voting people threw a bizarre press-conference yesterday, explaining how this election proves that electronic voting really works (despite all evidence to the contrary). EFF and the Verified Voter Foundation responded with a press-confernece of its own, in which the dangers of electronic voting are carefully and thoroughly spelled out. Click the link below to get at the audio for both conferences.

1.) problems including "touchy" touch-screen machines -- e.g., machines that "light up" for the wrong candidate in the summary screen; machines failing and polling officials running out out paper ballots, as they did in New Orleans; and Sequoia machines showing a "default" choice that voters must correct;

2.) which states appear to have had the most trouble and how to analyze the reports from the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS);

3.) how to understand the elections data gathered on Election Day in the context of past elections; and

4.) why a paper audit trail may be the best solution for some of the problems that are coming up, especially as we head into vote tallying later this evening.

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