Ross Graber Consulting

This post is an ongoing collection of articles, surveys, and research about electronic voting.

General, non-partisan references:

• The National Campaign for Fair Elections also covers the electronic voting issue.
• The EFF has a great page dedicated to the subject.
• The New York Times Magazine has a great summary article.

General, partisan references:

• Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org is the authority on the challenges surrounding electronic voting.

Specific references by recognized, non-partisan experts:

• The Ohio Secretary of State recently issued the EVEREST report which also found numerous critical flaws in electronic voting systems.
• The California Secretary of State sponsored a “top to bottom” review of electronic voting and decided to decertify several models.
• The Colorado Secretary of state followed suit and decertified the voting machines on 12/18/07.
• One of the most respected security experts, Bruce Schneier, posted an insightful article about electronic voting.
• An AP article documenting the conviction of election workers for rigging the 2004 Ohio recount.

Specific, partisan references:

I don’t endorse the conclusions reached by the materials below, though I do find the information to be thought provoking. While the impact of the systematic weaknesses in voting systems is hotly debated and quickly devolves into conspiracy theories, the fact that they are inexcusably weak is not contested.

• Youtube has a controversial video of a programmer giving testimony that he designed a program to “fix” elections.
• The Washington Post summarized a controversial book by Professor Steve Freeman that compares the security and regulation over slot machines to electronic voting systems.
• Rolling Stone Magazine published two articles by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about electronic voting.