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Following are links to pertinent documentation, designed to offer ready reference to members of the Fourth Estate.
VoteAllegheny stands behind each document on our Documents page, but we make no representations nor warranties concerning the availability of documentation accessed through our Links page.
Some of both brands of links appear below.
External Links for Reference:
Princeton University
Security Analysis of the Diebold TS, September 2006
Brennan
Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law – report and The Truth About Voter Fraud, by Justin Levitt.
“Will the Election Be Stolen?”
article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rolling Stone magazine, October 6,
2006, and “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” by
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rolling Stone magazine, July 2006
Election Assistance Commission, Comments on Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
Software Review and Security Analysis of the ES&S iVotronic 8.0.1.2 Voting Machine Firmware, for the Florida Department of State, February 23, 2007
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
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.
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,
from EVT '08.
CNN Report, Voting problems in several swing states, September 18, 2008.
HDNet - Dan Rather Reports: "The Trouble With Touch Screens"
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.
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.
Current VoteAllegheny Documents.
VoteAllegheny Media Advisory, dated September 2, 2008, concerning Allegheny County Council's resolution that the Board of Elections should meet to implement software verification.
VoteAllegheny Media Advisory, dated September 8, 2008, concerning lack of certainty that our votes will be counted correctly, some reasons we should all be concerned, and Allegheny County Council's resolution that the Board of Elections should meet to implement software verification.
VoteAllegheny iVotronic Software Verification Protocol: Allegheny County Proposals, dated September 28, 2008.
VoteAllegheny Press Release, dated September 30, 2008, concerning VoteAllegheny's iVotronic Software Verification Protocol: Allegheny County Proposals.
VoteAllegheny Press Release, dated October 21, 2008, concerning the software verification contracted for by Allegheny County on the iVotronic Firmware, prior to VoteAllegheny's scrutiny of the results. We are most happy with the County's understanding and initiative, but not yet satisfied with the product.
VoteAllegheny and PA Verified Voting Report on Allegheny County iVotronic Firmware Verification, December 22, 2008, by David A. Eckhardt, Ph.D., and Kami Vaniea. Dated March 22, 2009.
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