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Facts and Research to Reveal the Paper Trail Myth
Hello, my name is Chris Myers and I am frustrated by the lack of common sense in the debate with electronic voting machines. For some reason, people are blindly saying that paper is the only way to guarantee security. With a little digging, you will find the arguments proponents of paper trails use are not actual solutions to the security issues, but create more potential problems with the voting machines and the paper they produce. This site is a first way to bring some logic back into the debate. The resources you will see here are solid resources, not spun summaries of news paper articles. I can be contacted by phone at 419-822-6758 or by e-mail at papermyth@plumbrook.com . Have a good resource? If so, send it to me by e-mail. I am sure that when you investigate the facts, you will realize current electronic voting machines are the most secure and reliable voting systems we have, and adding paper to voting machines is not the solution.
I am adding to this site daily, so stop back for recent updates. See below for recent news. Old articles and news are right and you can also browse articles, links, and news by topic through the links on the left
If you are interested in helping out, please contact me.
Thanks,
Chris Myers
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Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate
WASHINGTON--Democratic senators on Wednesday made another push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential election.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year, she called for enacting such changes by 2008.
Or you can read between the lines and say maybe they saw it not to be such a good option and don't want to tell people this right now.
Read the entire article here
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Posted by chris_myers on Saturday, July 28 @ 08:00:00 EDT (96 reads)
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Problems with paper trails?
Huh? I can't believe it!
TRENTON -- Computer scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have found problems with systems meant to provide paper trails for electronic voting machines.
Read the story here
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Posted by chris_myers on Friday, July 27 @ 22:12:10 EDT (84 reads)
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Man who destroyed touch-screen voting machine is convicted
They are coming out of the woodwork...sounds just like the other sites out there.
""I was obligated to destroy it to the best of my ability," Young told Judge William E. Ford."
" Allentown Patrolman Edward Zucal testified that Young said that using electronic voting machines was a way for Republicans to alter the outcome of elections to overthrow Democrats. Young thought Diebold machines in particular had been programmed to commit voting fraud by Republicans, the police officer said.
Zucal said Young asked him to seize the machine and remove the memory card so that votes could not be counted.
The judge noted that the Rolling Stone article contained no references to party conspiracies.
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Read the story here
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Posted by chris_myers on Friday, July 27 @ 22:05:57 EDT (88 reads)
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Test finds flaws in paper-backup voting
According to the report, which contained exit interviews with 450 voters, 89.4 percent said they were confident in the accuracy and security of the system.
But the report also found that 86.9 percent expressed confidence in the existing touch-screen machines without the paper backup.
Handel said a measly 2.5 percent increase in voter confidence hardly justifies spending up to $80 million to replace the current system with paper backups.
Beyond the question of whether such a slight increase in confidence is worth the investment, the report turned up a host of problems with the paper system, including paper jams.
Also, checking the paper for accuracy slowed voters down, no big deal in a low-turnout municipal election but a potential headache if the machines were used in a major statewide or presidential contest.
Read the entire Gwinnett Daily Post article here
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Posted by chris_myers on Sunday, April 22 @ 12:09:57 EDT (97 reads)
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Florida House panel rejects money for voting machine paper trail
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist’s fellow Republicans on a House council rejected Friday his idea of buying voting machines that leave a paper trail, not just an electronic record, before approving a proposed $70 billion budget for the next fiscal year.
Democrats, a minority in both legislative chambers, offered budget amendments that would have at least begun replacing paperless touch-screens used in 15 of Florida’s 67 counties with optical scan voting machines. Both were defeated on straight party-line votes in the Policy and Budget Council.
The Senate’s proposed budget (SB 2800) also lacks voting machine money, but the chairwoman of that chamber’s Fiscal Policy Committee has offered assurances a “bill pot” of unallocated dollars could be tapped if separate legislation is passed to require a paper record.
Read the entire Naples News article here
Note: Let's hope they don't fall victim to the fear. Put the money and the resources into the voting workers and things will be better.
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Posted by chris_myers on Saturday, March 31 @ 22:16:23 EDT (112 reads)
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FL Voting machines worked - Audit results
Voting machines worked - Audit suggests ballot design might have muddled Sarasota results
The voting machines used in Sarasota's disputed congressional election worked properly despite an unusually high number of blank ballots and widespread complaints that votes were lost, Florida officials said Friday.
After conducting a test election and inspecting the computer codes running the touch-screen-voting machines, a state audit concluded that "there is no evidence that the results are in error."
The audit, however, suggested ballot design might have led to voter confusion in the race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings.
"I am confident that the race in Sarasota County was fair and accurate," said Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Republican.
Click here to read the entire Orlando Sentinel article
Note: There are many people holding this case up as an example of why we should not have the machines. Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story....
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Posted by chris_myers on Sunday, March 11 @ 12:52:52 EDT (111 reads)
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Holt's HR 811, A Deceptive Boondoggle -- 10 Blunders to Fix
Bruce O'Dell proves that even moderate legislation is not good enough. Looks like only good old fashioned paper will do the trick. I thought that was sooo yesterday...
It seems like the latest trend with DRE machines is to scheme up the best Hollywood scenario and then market it as like it can realistically happen.
"But... how will we know there are no wireless capabilities in the voting equipment, other than by trusting the vendor? As one excellent study has pointed out, it is by no means difficult to conceal a long-range wireless receiver within a chip inside a voting machine. Sounds far fetched? Such a custom chip would not only be relatively inexpensive to fabricate, it would be almost impossible to detect, and would, of course, provide an essentially unlimited return on investment."
Read the entire article here
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Posted by chris_myers on Thursday, February 22 @ 21:33:36 EST (109 reads)
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Feds OK pair of e-voting test labs
"With these two voting system test labs on board, we will begin the process of testing voting equipment to ensure that these systems meet all of the requirements to ensure accurate and reliable elections," EAC chairwoman Donetta Davidson said in a statement.
The two labs had already been recommended last month by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which said it determined after a "comprehensive technical evaluation" that the labs were qualified to test the equipment. The EAC said it then did an "independent review" that focused on non-technical issues, such as the labs' conflict-of-interest policies, organizational structure and record-keeping practices.
Read the entire CNET.com article here
Note: Testing is good
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Posted by chris_myers on Thursday, February 22 @ 21:26:42 EST (116 reads)
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E-voting controversy overcasts its success
The ruptured election is the most glaring example of e-voting failure at a time when the technology is under fire in the court of public opinion. Politicians, researchers, commentators, voters’ rights groups and bloggers have all railed on e-voting in the wake of the scandal. But other studies, from equally credible sources, show something lost in the shuffle of the Florida election scandal: widespread improvements in vote counting.
Good Op Ed piece and great observation
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Posted by chris_myers on Tuesday, February 20 @ 23:16:44 EST (117 reads)
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Democrats sue over electronic voting machines
"When a voter chooses a straight party ticket and then continues to vote for individual candidates of that same political party ... the eSlate machine actually records that as a no vote," Texas Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie said.
Read the entire News 8 article here.
Note: It sounds like this is a testing problem which will occur with any voting system that is not tested properly.
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Posted by chris_myers on Tuesday, February 20 @ 22:43:03 EST (130 reads)
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Old Articles
| Thursday, February 15 | | · | Paper Trail Difficult To Blaze |
| Tuesday, February 13 | | · | Millender-McDonald urges election reform |
| Monday, February 12 | | · | Groups Call for E-Voting Paper Trail Legislation |
| Sunday, January 21 | | · | Dump the touch screens? Problems won't go away |
| Wednesday, November 08 | | · | Overhauled voting systems pass first big test |
| Thursday, October 26 | | · | Glitches cited in early voting |
| Sunday, June 25 | | · | WOWP Groups - We Only Want Paper |
| · | Group questions electronic voting system |
| · | Group questions electronic voting system |
| Wednesday, May 17 | | · | Counties dealing with ballot problems |
| · | Seniors React to Voting |
| Sunday, April 30 | | · | NY Slow to Pull the Lever: State Debates the Implementation of New Voting Machin |
| Saturday, April 29 | | · | Old and new news |
| · | Houston Texas: Most voters give the system a thumbs up |
| · | Texas: So far, so good for e-voting machines |
| Friday, April 28 | | · | Ehrlich backs calls for leasing scanners this fall to use with paper ballots |
| · | Why paper is trouble, my experience. |
| · | Paperless Voting is Easy. Democracy is Hard. |
| · | Diebold CEO to polish image |
| · | Senate to vote on paper trail for ballot machines |
| · | Voting machine ruling to be issued today |
| · | E-voting: paper trail versus transparency |
| · | Activists Urge California To Not Use Diebold Voting Machines |
| · | E-Vote Guidelines Need Work |
| Saturday, February 11 | | · | Getting back into the swing of things. |
| Monday, August 15 | | · | Clark says he's confident in Diebold voting machines |
| Friday, August 12 | | · | Let us use paper-again |
| Wednesday, August 10 | | · | There will be no paper jams |
| · | Paper in Venezuela does not help |
| · | The Case for Optical Scan Voting Technology |
| · | Computers won't get a vote of confidence |
| · | Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics |
| · | Vote verification a matter of trust |
| Sunday, July 24 | | · | US e-voting proponents say no to paper trails |
| · | Senators question e-voting paper trail |
| Sunday, June 12 | | · | Push to replace voting machines spurs confusion |
| Saturday, June 11 | | · | New York slows to embrace new voting machines |
| Thursday, June 09 | | · | Lawmakers reject idea of uniform state voting machine |
| Wednesday, June 08 | | · | County ready to go with UniLects |
| Sunday, June 05 | | · | Some Electronic Voting Machine Debate |
| Friday, June 03 | | · | A pinball performance |
| Monday, May 30 | | · | MIKE: SCRAP PAPER TRAIL FOR VOTE BOOTHS |
| Saturday, May 28 | | · | Voting system change in Dade likely |
| · | Hamilton Co. joins voting machine suit |
| · | History Repeating itself |
| Sunday, April 17 | | · | Pandering to paranoia |
| Monday, April 11 | | · | Bev Harris or Dudley is banned from Democratic Underground (Huh?) |
| Sunday, April 10 | | · | Proof Paper can't be trusted |
| · | Printer fails to satisfy e-vote activists |
| Saturday, April 09 | | · | Lively Discussion |
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