Some things you should know about DREs
(Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines)
Compiled by LeagueIssues.org
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The Open Letter to Kay Maxwell requesting the League to retract its opposition to
a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail
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Voter Verified Paper Ballot Flyer for the LWV Convention
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Dr. Barbara Simons' Response to Maxwell's EAC Address
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Dr. Barbara Simons' Response to LWVUS Q&A
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Please help educate the League of Women Voters from Bev Harris'
BlackBoxVoting.org
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Mythbreakers - Information for Registrars of Voters
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Steve Chessin's answers to questions on LWV topics
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A tutorial on how to count paper ballots by Teresa Hommel
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The text of the Hopkins Report on the Diebold Systems by Avi Rubin et al,
Analysis of an Electronic Voting System in PDF format.
The California Secretary of State's Directives for the Deployment of DRE Voting
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The California Secretary of State's Draft Standards for Paper Audit Trail
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A letter from a disabled voter, urging security.
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Lloyd Leonard, lobbyist for the League, testifying for the disabled
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Informational Sources
Verified Voting New Mexico
www.vvnm.org maintains a list of some of the problems
with DREs.
The mythbreakers document put out by Voters Unite!,
http://www.VotersUnite.org,
has some particularly
well-documented recent examples (probably not as far back as 2000.)
Also, Bev Harris' website Black Box Voting,
http://www.blackboxvoting.org,
has the complete text of her book on-line. It is
also available in paperback at Plan Nine Publishing, Amazon.com etc