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California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's Top-To-Bottom Review Decisions Concerning Voting Systems which were certified for use in California in March 2007

YouTube Hill District Malfunctioning Voter Machines, Part 1, posted November 6, 2007, by PittsburghDemocracy

YouTube Hill District Malfunctioning Voter Machines, Part 2, posted November 6, 2007, by PittsburghDemocracy

EVEREST Voting System Review, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State, December 2007

Website for Uncounted the Movie

New York Times Magazine article "Can You Count on Voting Machines?" by Clive Thompson, January 6, 2008. Includes a photo of Allegheny County's warehouse and information from Pittsburgh.

BradBlog entry of July 24, 2008, "Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Note 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney." PLEASE NOTE: This article may be somewhat partisan; VoteAllegheny remains nonpartisan.

DemocraticUnderground.com interview with Stephen Spoonamore on Voting Machine Fraud, August 19, 2008. Also from RoveCybergate.com. PLEASE NOTE: This article may be somewhat partisan; VoteAllegheny remains nonpartisan.

The Washington Post, August 21, 2008: Diebold is now admitting that they've had a critical programming bug for years that can drop votes and that it was missed in inspections.

Shortened versions (academic-paper style) of reports by the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State teams:
Paper on Security Evaluation of ES&S Voting Machines and Election Management System, by Adam Aviv Pavol Černý, Sandy Clark, Eric Cronin, Gaurav Shah, Micah Sherr, and Matt Blaze; and
Paper on Systemic Issues in the Hart InterCivic and Premier Voting Systems: Reflections on Project EVEREST, by Kevin Butler, William Enck, Harri Hursti, Stephen McLaughlin, Patrick Traynor, and Patrick McDaniel;
from EVT '08.

CNN Report, Voting problems in several swing states, September 18, 2008.

YouTube: "Turdblossom's Insider's Guide to Swinging Elections," September 2008. Also, Turdblossom's "Count Me In!" webpage. PLEASE NOTE: This article may be somewhat partisan; VoteAllegheny remains nonpartisan.

YouTube: "Insecurities and Inaccuracies of the Sequoia AVC Advantage 12.00H DRE Voting Machine," September 2008. By Andrew W. Appel (Princeton University), Maia Ginsburg (Princeton University), Harri Hursti, Brian W. Kernighan (Princeton University), Christopher D. Richards (Princeton University), and Gang Tan (Lehigh University).

Oregon Voter Rights Coalition: "Jackson County Experiences Unexplained Ballot-count Problems in 2006 Election," November 10, 2006. Jackson County, Oregon - the computer system reportedly moved votes from one race to another.

You Tube: Various interviews with Stephen Spoonamore.

The Online NewsHour (PBS - transcript): "Election Officials Grapple With Voting Irregularities in New Mexico."

Humboldt County (California) Election Transparency Project: Report on failure in GEMS tabulation system, causing Premier Election Systems (formerly Diebold) to admit shortcomings. Originally posted 12/4/2008, with updates added to same webpage.

HDNet - Dan Rather Reports: "The Trouble With Touch Screens"

AlterNet report: "Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify." December 22, 2008. PLEASE NOTE: This article may be somewhat partisan; VoteAllegheny remains nonpartisan.

Deutschland Bundesverfassungsgericht: Federal Constitutional Court – Press office, Press release no. 19/2009 of 3 March 2009, Judgment of 3 March 2009 – 2 BvC 3/07 and 2 BvC 4/07 Use of voting computers in 2005 Bundestag election unconstitutional.

Salina Journal: "'Vote flipping' was not unexpected," report on iVotronics in Salina, Kansas, April 10, 2009.

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