If you have one of those Lou Dobbs E-Voting DVDs, we finally....

[garybeck]

Thanks to some wonderful volunteer work, we finally have a Table of Contents for the Lou Dobbs DVD. For those of you not familiar, this is a "free" DVD with 20 segments from the Lou Dobbs news broadcasts, all focusing on electronic voting. You can read more about it here:

http://www.solarbus.org/election/dvd/




Here is the Table of Contents:

CNN: Democracy at Risk
DVD Volume 1: 6/20 - 9/15


6-20-06
100% of Georgia is voting on Diebold machines.
John Fortuin--Defenders of Democracy- "I've had twenty years of computer programming, and the standards used in financial sector are missing in voting machines."
Conflict of interest -- Georgia Gov. candidate is certifying voting machines.
Donna Rice, Georgians for Verified Voting.

6-26-06
Lack of security for voting machines.
Patti Newton, former San Diego Poll Worker, about taking home voting machines.
Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition

6-27-06
Larry Norden, Brennan Center Task Force: "All three voting systems have significant security, reliabilty and vulnerabilities which pose a real danger to integrity of national and state elections."
Rep. Tom David, R-VA

6-29-06
Machines easy to hack, infect with virus, etc. Brad Friedman, bradblog.com and Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University.

7-11-06
Government can't protect vulnerable machines: hasn't set standards yet. Existing standards are voluntary. "Acceptable Fairlure Rate" too high. Michael Waldman, Brennan Ctr for Justice: Deforest Soaries, Frmr Chrmn, Election Assistance Comm.: Johon Washburn, votetrustusa.


7-12-06
One in every 11 machines may break down on Election Day. Less reliable than ATMs.
John Washburn VoteTrustUSA
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Paul Degregorio, Chrmn Election Assistance Comm.

7-21-06
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R)
"Standards not likely to be fully enforceable until 2010, and that's only in states that choose to adopt them." Boehlert
"Experts testify that virtually every electronic voting study has proven that a voter verified paper trail is the only way to make sure a vote is recorded accurately." Kitty Pilgrim

7-25-06
Sequoia sold to Smartmatic, a Venezuelan company. Vulnerable to hacking. Treasury Dept. in contact with company & "taking it very seriously".
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Dan Wallach, Rice University.

7-26-06
Half of the states are requiring a paper trail. Maryland Governor got a requirement for paper trail, had money in the budget, but was defeated by the state senate.
Linda Lamone, excuses for not requiring a paper trail.

7-27-06
More than half of the voters in Nov. will be voting on electronic machines. An election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on May 2, using machines, was an "unmitigated disaster."
Rep. Stephanie Jones Cards left in machines not counted.
Judge Ronald Adrine Some absentee ballots couldn't be scanned.

7-31-06
Massive programming error in Pottawattamie County, Iowa on June 6, 2006 resulted in the wrong candidate almost winning. The machines miscounted the entire ballot.
Laren Knauss, Pottawattamie County Supervisor
John Washburn, VoteTrustUSA

8-9-06
Diebold defends against charges of hacking.
Marty Kaplan on Huffington Post explains how it can be hacked.

8-14-06
E-Voting Machine Parts on sale on Ebay. Of interest to watchdog groups and hackers.
Warren Stewart, VOTETRUSTUSA
Alan Dechert, Open Voting Foundation--"Number of ways to rig the vote. No tamper seals."

8-15-06
28 states have mandatory rules for paper record. 22 states "holding out". Activists are banding together and suing.
Lowell Finley Voter Action
Garland Favorito, VoterGA.org

8-21-06
Aviel Rubin, author, Johns Hopkins University
--No way voters can verify votes are recorded correctly.
-- No way to count votes in a publicly viewable fashion.
-- Meaningful recounts impossible.
-- Machines must be trusted not to fail.
-- Diebold machines had gross design and programming errors.
--Cannot determine quality of vendors machines because their code is
proprietory.


8-22-06
Testing the machines in Pinealas County, Florida, the results were not satisfactory.
Linda McGeehan, League of Women Voters
David Dill, verifiedvoting.org
Bill Bucolo, Voting Integrity Alliance

8-24-06
Different standards on the machines in different states. California decertified machines; Maryland tried to require a paper trail, but it was rejected by the state senate.
Debra Bowen, CA State Senate
Prof. Dan Wallach, Rice University

9-1-06
Preserving 2004 paper ballots in Ohio.
Cliff Areneback, Voting Rights Attorney
Proposed Federal Standards
Rep. Rush Holt
Tracy Warren, Election Science Institute

9-4-06
Major problems with the machines, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Steve Hertzberg, Election Science Institute
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones

9-13-06
Maryland's primary a "debacle".
Shelley Fudge, TrueVoteMD
"Wasted all this money on machines that can't do a transparent recount. It's pretty embarrassing", Kevin Zeese, Maryland Senate Candidate
Avi Rubin

9-15-06
Princeton University scientists say election integrity cannot be guaranteed with the E-Voting machines.
Edward Felton, Princeton
Activists in CO suing. Paul Hultin, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy