Election Management Systems Tutorials

[Wilms]

Introduction

Twenty Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong With Ohio's Election
A Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf

The US Commission on Civil Rights
Election Reform: An Analysis of Proposals and the Commission’s Recommendations for Improving America’s Election Systems
http://www.usccr.gov

Lynn Landes
Technical Issues and (No Federally Mandated) Standards (last edited March 22, 2004)
http://www.workablepeace.org/voting/eco.htm

Glossary for Voting Systems
http://www.eac.gov/voting_glossary.asp

Overview of Voting Technologies - Verified Voting
http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5135

Voting Technology Vendors, Information Sheets, and Manuals - Verified Voting
http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?list=type&type=63


VVPAT/VVPB

Gary Beckwith explores the significant difference between VVPAT and VVPB
Election bills still allow unverified e-voting:
Understanding the difference between paper ballots and paper audit trails
http://www.solarbus.org/election/articles/0313-ballots.shtml

Paper Trails Aren't Good Enough, Count The Ballots
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00127.htm

How a Voter Verified Paper Trail Works
http://www.truevotemd.org/Resources/How_a_VVPT_Works.pdf

Guidelines For Counting Paper Ballots
http://www.ballotintegrity.org/EM2004CountingGuidelines.pdf

Democracy Spoiled: National, State, and County Disparities in Disfranchisement Through Uncounted Ballots
The Civil Rights Project (CRP) - Harvard University
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/electoral_reform/residual_ballot.php

Minimum Accountability Procedures for Optical Scan Voting Systems
http://www.ballotintegrity.org/OSprocedures.htm


Ballot Design/Voting Technology

Election Law@Moritz: Ballot Design Papers and Presentations on Voting Technology and Election Reform
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/equipment_ballot.html

David C. Kimball: Examples of Ballot Features That May Reduce Unrecorded Votes
http://www.umsl.edu/~kimballd/ballots.htm

David C. Kimball: Summary Tables on Voting Technology and Residual Vote Rates
http://www.umsl.edu/~kimballd/rtables.pdf

Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment
The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~voting/CalTech_MIT_Report_Version2.pdf

Summary Tables on Voting Technology and Residual Vote Rates - David C. Kimball
http://www.umsl.edu/~kimballd/rtables.pdf

The History of Voting Machines
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm

Aspects of Voting Systems - WorldHistory.com
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/V/Voting-system.htm

Characteristics of Contemporary Voting Machines (Survey)
http://www.capc.umd.edu/rpts/md_evote_ContempVotingMach.pdf

International Foundation for Election Systems: Election Technology Survey
http://tech.dd.ifes.org/index.html


Electronic Voting Issues

Electronic Voting in Brief - VotersUnite
http://www.votersunite.org/info/ElectronicVotingInBrief.pdf

MythBreakers2 - VotersUnite
http://www.votersunite.org/MB2.pdf

A Brief Primer on Electronic Voting Equipment -TrueVoteCT:
http://www.truevotect.org/technology.html

Operating Cost Comparison for Different Types of Voting Systems
http://www.votersunite.org/info/costcomparison.asp

Advantages of Paper Ballot/ Precinct Based Optical Scan Voting Systems
Over Electronic Touch Screen Voting Machines
http://www.nyvv.org/paperballotVsDRE.htm

ElectionLine.org 2004 Briefing: Securing the Vote
http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/pdf/EB7_new.pdf

Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine
http://gnosis.cx/publish/voting/privacy-electronic-voting.pdf

Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying - National Bureau of Standards
http://www.itl.nist.gov/lab/specpubs/500-158.htm

Cost Comparison of Voting Equipment for New York State - New Yorkers for Verified Voting
Touch-Screen DRE with VVPB Printer vs. Precinct Based Optical Scan + Ballot Marking Device
http://nyvv.org/paperballotCostsMain.htm

Analysis of Acquisition Costs of DRE and Precinct Based Optical Scan Voting Equipment for New York State
http://nyvv.org/doc/AcquisitionCostDREvOptScanNYS.pdf

Advantages of Paper Ballot / Precinct Based Optical Scan Voting Systems Over Electronic Touch Screen Voting Machines - New Yorkers for Verified Voting
http://nyvv.org/doc/AdvantagesPaperBallots.pdf


Accessibility

American Counsel of the Blind: Accessible Voting Fact Sheet
http://web.archive.org/web/20021230074436/acb.org/washington/accessible-fact02.html

GAO - 2001 - Voters With Disabilities: Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02107.pdf

ADA Standards for Accessible Design - US Department of Justice: July 1994
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/stdspdf.htm

ADA Checklist for Polling Places - US Department of Justice: February 2004
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/votingck.htm

International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES): ElectionAccess.org
http://www.electionaccess.org

Accessible Ballot Templates
http://www.electionaccess.org/Bp/Ballot_Templates.htm


Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Usability Guides:

Developing a User-Centered Voting System
http://www.eac.gov/docs/developing.pdf

Procuring a User-Centered Voting System
http://www.eac.gov/docs/procuring.pdf

Usability Testing of Voting Systems
http://www.eac.gov/docs/usability.pdf

Human Factors Report: Improving the Usability and Accessibility of Voting Systems and Products
http://www.eac.gov/docs/NIST%20HF%20Reportdated%20wcoverletter.pdf


Federal Standards Commissions

Federal Election Commission: Help America Vote Act of 2002
http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA)
http://vote.nist.gov

National Software Reference Library
NSRL and Voting System Software
http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/vote.html

Federal Election Commission: Voting System Standards/Guidelines
http://www.eac.gov/election_resources/vss.html

Election Assistance Commission: Voting Standards
http://www.eac.gov/voting_standards.asp?format=none

Best Practices in Administration, Management and Security in Voting Systems and Provisional Voting:
A Tool Kit for Election Administrators and Stakeholders: Issue One
http://www.eac.gov/bp/index1.asp


Non-Governmental Standards Organizations

Election Center: An International Association of Election and Voter Registration Officials
http://www.electioncenter.org

National Association of State Election Directors (NASED): Voting System Certification
http://www.nased.org/certification.htm


Independent Testing Authority (NASED Certified)

Ciber
http://www.ciber.com/index_var.cfm?pageid=/services_solutions/stategov/main.cfm?id=govboth-testing

SysTest Labs
http://www.systest.com/services/ita/index.htm

Wyle Laboratories
http://www.wylelabs.com


Academia

Voting System Performance Rating (VSPR)
http://www.vspr.org

Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
http://www.vote.caltech.edu

Voting Systems Institute (VSI)
http://www.votinginstitute.org

IEEE Voting Equipment Standards - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Project 1583
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1583

The National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI)
http://votingintegrity.org

International Federation for Election Systems - US Election Reform http://www.ifes.org/searchable/ifes_site/new_initiatives/US_elections.htm

Ace Project: Elections and Technology Index
http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/et/index.htm

Ace Project: Administration and Cost of Elections Project
http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/index.htm

United Nations: Electoral Assistance Division
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ead/eadhome

The Carter Center
http://www.cartercenter.org


Researchers

Lorie Cranor
http://lorrie.cranor.org/voting

Chuck Herrin
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevotedemo.htm

David C. Kimball: Papers and Presentations on Voting Technology and Election Reform
http://www.umsl.edu/~kimballd/dk_vote.htm

Lynn Landes
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm

Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D.
http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html

Avi Rubin
http://avirubin.com/vote


College Courses

Voting and Elections: Douglas W. Jones
The University of Iowa - Department of Computer Science
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting

Carnegie Mellon - Computation, Organization, and Society: Electronic Voting Course
http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/program/courses/tcr17-803

Electoral Studies An International Journal on Voting and Electoral Systems and Strategy
http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci/hclarke/es


Manufacturer Directories

International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES): Buyer's Guide to Election Suppliers
http://www.ifesbuyersguide.org/browse.php?Type=e

Verified Voting: Established Vendors of Computerized Vote Tabulation Systems
http://verifiedvoting.org/article.php?list=type&type=63


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