An increasing number of Americans have become concerned with whether or not electronic machines accurately record and count votes.
To require voter-verified permanent paper ballots and increase voter confidence and accessibility, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida have sponsored virtually identical bills that are intended to correct some of the significant, if unintended consequences of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Kathy Dopp, President of National Election Data Archive, recently met with Congressional staff in Washington DC to recommend changes to the proposed federal election integrity bills - statistically valid election audits and public access to election
records necessary for citizen oversight.
Election officials in most states have not subjected election results to independent outside audits – manual counts of randomly-selected voter-verified paper ballots. Regardless of the voting system used to cast or count votes, a routine audit procedure is necessary to check electronic vote counts by visual inspections of paper ballots.
Tiered election audits are audits which manually count more precincts in close races. When a race is close, a small number of miscounted votes can alter the outcome and a robust audit is needed to find miscounts which could be hidden in a few precincts. While there are several identified concerns with the Holt and Nelson bills, Ms Dopp and NEDA have released a report "Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity", evaluating the sufficiency of the Holt and Nelson audit provisions, as shown in the table.
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The full report "Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity" can be found at:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/TierElectionAuditEval.pdf
The press release in pdf format with chart and table can be found at:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/press/Release-ElectionAuditEval-200703.pdf
People are urged to contact their U.S. Senators and Representative to ask for sufficient nationwide audits of federal elections to protect all U.S. House and Senate races.
See http://senate.gov
and
http://house.gov
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections
Subscribe to announcements by emailing election-subscribe@uscountvotes.org
Please donate or volunteer.
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day", wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816.
To require voter-verified permanent paper ballots and increase voter confidence and accessibility, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida have sponsored virtually identical bills that are intended to correct some of the significant, if unintended consequences of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Kathy Dopp, President of National Election Data Archive, recently met with Congressional staff in Washington DC to recommend changes to the proposed federal election integrity bills - statistically valid election audits and public access to election
records necessary for citizen oversight.
Election officials in most states have not subjected election results to independent outside audits – manual counts of randomly-selected voter-verified paper ballots. Regardless of the voting system used to cast or count votes, a routine audit procedure is necessary to check electronic vote counts by visual inspections of paper ballots.
Tiered election audits are audits which manually count more precincts in close races. When a race is close, a small number of miscounted votes can alter the outcome and a robust audit is needed to find miscounts which could be hidden in a few precincts. While there are several identified concerns with the Holt and Nelson bills, Ms Dopp and NEDA have released a report "Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity", evaluating the sufficiency of the Holt and Nelson audit provisions, as shown in the table.
...
The full report "Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity" can be found at:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/TierElectionAuditEval.pdf
The press release in pdf format with chart and table can be found at:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/press/Release-ElectionAuditEval-200703.pdf
People are urged to contact their U.S. Senators and Representative to ask for sufficient nationwide audits of federal elections to protect all U.S. House and Senate races.
See http://senate.gov
and
http://house.gov
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections
Subscribe to announcements by emailing election-subscribe@uscountvotes.org
Please donate or volunteer.
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day", wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816.