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What is A Voter-Verified Paper Ballot (VVPB)?
A voter-verified paper ballot (vvpb) is a software independent permanent paper record of a ballot cast on a direct recording electronic (DRE), or touch-screen, voting machine. It permits a voter to review and correct the choices made on the paper before casting a vote that is recorded, filed, and tabulated electronically.
The paper record/ballot is stored under secure conditions and is the official ballot of record in the event of a discrepancy between the paper and electronic records. It is used in random, manual audits to verify the accuracy of electronic voting system results, detect errors in programming or other DRE system failures, and provide a mechanism for software independent recounts and audits in the event of election contests.
Without a voter verified paper ballot and automatic random manual handcounts of that paper, the election results on DREs can not be verified independently of the software used in the system and therefore do not provide the kind of transparency and verifiability essential for democratic voting systems.
Allows voters to inspect individual permanent records of their ballots before they are cast
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Allows for software independent audits and recounts to verify election results
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Protects election accuracy against computer malfunction, human error and tampering
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Accommodates citizens who require alternative languages
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Ensures accessibility for people with disabilities to independent and secret ballot.
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Provides a permanent paper record of each individual's vote that can be audited in the event of election contests
In the Press Article Archives
December 28, 2006
A little gallows humor for the New Year: "The 21 Biggest Technology Mistakes of 2006," by Dan Tynan, PC World
December 20, 2006
Voting officials evaluate paper-trail machines (BOE member, Randy Evans says no to paper ballot)
December 1, 2006
Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned: Paper Systems Should Be Included, Agency Says
By Cameron W. Barr
Washington Post Staff Writer
Page A01
November 28, 2006
Possible HAVA Violation in Georgia's Provisional Balloting
By Joseph Hall, University of California, Berkeley
November 2006
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify direct record electronic (DRE) machines. Draft White Paper (pdf)
November 29, 2006
Feds to Toughen E-Voting Standards? Michael Hickins, Internet News.com
September/October 2006
Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try), Sasha Abramsky, MotherJones
September 14, 2006
"Election board plans electronic voting debate," Carlos Campos, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 13, 2006
Princeton Study: "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine," Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten
September 2, 2006
Touch vote machines take a hit, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Carlos Campos
September 1, 2006
Lou Dobbs Democracy at Risk Series, Topics covered: Ohio ballots to be saved and the Holt Bill
August 30, 2006
No-confidence vote earned by machines, Bobb Barr, Atlanta Journal Constitution
August 23, 2006
"A Deeper Look at ESI's Report of the Discrepancy-Ridden Vote Count on Diebold Touchscreen Voting Systems" VotersUnite
August 23 , 2006
Zogby Poll: "Most of those surveyed— 80%—said they want votes to be counted in front of observers representing the public
August 2006
DRE Analysis for May 2006 Primary
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Election Science Institute (pdf)
July 31, 2006
Worst Ever Security Flaw Found in Diebold TS Voting Machines, Open Voting Foundation, Press Release
July 3, 2006
Critical Security Alert: Unredacted Hursti reports released by Blackbox Voting, reveal details of major security vulnerabilities in the Diebold Election System found by Finish IT security professional Harri Hursti, former CEO of F-Secure.
BBVreportII (pdf)
BBVreportII-supplement (pdf)
June 28, 2006
"A Single Person Could Swing an Election,"Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post, Page A07
June 28, 2006
Study: Fed 'Guidelines' Imperil E-Voting Security, Michael Hickins, internetnews.com
June 27, 2006
JUST RELEASED: "The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting elections in an Electronic World, Executive Summary," Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security, Lawrence Norden, Chair. [pdf file]
June 26, 2006
Transcript of Lou Dobbs Tonight, "Democracy at Risk."
June 26, 2006
Analysis finds e-voting machines vulnerable, Andrea Stone, USA Today
June 26, 2006
Voting System Recommended For Federal Certification by Unqualified Person, by John Gideon
June 22, 2006
"New report shows 17 states at high risk for election results compromised due to electronic voting machine problems." Common Cause, "Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic Voting Machine Debacle."
June 22, 2006
"Democracy at Risk,Our election system is under attack." Lou Dobbs, CNN. View video clips of this groundbreaking series at CAMBER Colorado's website.
June 21, 2006
Election Reform Victory in Arizona, by Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA
June 20, 2006
Transcript of Lou Dobbs Tonight, "Democracy at Risk: "DOBBS: Serious questions about electronic voting machines are threatening to undermine confidence in our electoral system. All voters in the State of Georgia will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines this year. But watchdog groups say election officials can't verify the accuracy of the count and can't conduct a proper recount. Those groups say our democracy is at risk. Kitty Pilgrim reports."
June 19, 2006
No Basis for Confidence in Primary Elections Says California Election Protection Network
Debating the Bugs of High-Tech Voting, Test of Software in Machines Renews Security Concerns, Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post, P. A15
"In California, David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who consults with the state on its elections, said he was "stunned when he found out" about the vulnerability identified in the Utah test and agreed with the "frequently expressed opinion that this is the worst vulnerability that we have ever seen."
May 30, 2006
"Election Officials Rely on Private Firms," Elise Ackerman, Mercury News
May 29, 2006
Will your Vote Count in 2006? by Steven Levy. "When you're using a paperless voting system, there is no security," says Stanford's David Dill, Newsweek
May 24, 2006
Lawyer blasts voting machines
Star-Ledger, Robert Schwaneberg
May 24, 2006
Group Calls for Georgia Secretary of State to Step Down
Liz Flynn, WTOC11, Savannah, GA
May 12, 2006
Experts Agree: 'It's the Most Serious Security Breach Ever Discovered in a Voting System" 3 States Issue Mitigation Plans, Georgia Ignores The 'Black Hole'
Diebold's Deliberate Security Vulnerability, John Gideon, VoteTrustUSA
May 12, 2006
New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems, New York Times, Monica Davey
May 11, 2006
The money pit: Diebold vs America. Online Journal, Denis Wright
May 10, 2006
Voting glitch said to be 'dangerous,' Inside Bay Area, Ian Hoffman
April 26, 2006
Why Did the EAC Replace the Final Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) With Another Document?
April 6, 2006
With voting machine company now bankrupt, CEO speaks out: No vendor "has a system that voters can trust"!
March 30, 2006
Voting System Purchases and the Help America Vote Act by Pamela Smith and Robert Kibrick
March 30, 2006
Hacker hits Georgia state database via hole in security software : Confidential information on more than 570,000 people exposed, Computerworld [Note: the GTA was asked by Gov. Purdue in May 2005 to look into the "security" of the Diebold voting system implementation in Ga. They also were the agency that conducted the RFP (pdf) for the statewide voting system in February 2002.]
March 30, 2006
What A Recent Report of California Computer Scientists Tells Us About The Vulnerability of Diebold's Voting Machines by Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition
March 30, 2006
"Faith-Based Voting:
Without procedural integrity, you have nothing," by ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Tribune Media Services
March 28, 2006
Low-tech solution: We don't need Diebold DREs to enable the disabled to vote independently: Port Ludlow inventor helps disabled vote in private
March 26, 2006
Look for the similarities to Diebold Georgia-style electronic voting: Chicago Ballot Chaos
March 26, 2006
Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors: After Official's Criticism About Security, Three Firms Reject Bid for Voting Machines
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post
March 25, 2006
Florida County Supervisor Draws Criticism, CBS News
March 19, 2006
How to Steal An Election: "It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine....
March 1, 2006
"Do You Know How Your Vote Will Be Counted?" by Warren Stewart
February 19, 2006
Voting Systems Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court
February 18 , 2006
Diebold in California: Who's Responsible?
February 17 , 2006
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter: Summary by David Wagner, David Jefferson and Matt Bishop
February 16, 2006
Elections chief questions use of electronic voting
February 15, 2006
Maryland: Governor Ehrlich's Letter to State Board of Elections
January 26, 2006
An Open Letter to Georgia's Secretary of State
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January 21, 2006
The Harri Hursti Hack and Its Importance to the Nation
August 26, 2005
The Election Center:
The Fox Guarding
the Hen House, Joyce McCloy, Coordinator, N.C. Coalition for Verifiable Voting
August 15, 2005
NSF awards $800,000 grant for electronic voting research project
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