By Clive Thompson, The New York Times Magazine
Jane Platten gestured, bleary-eyed, into the secure room filled with voting
machines. It was 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, and she had been working for 22 hours
straight. "I guess we've seen how technology can affect an election," she
said. The electronic voting machines in Cleveland were causing trouble
again.
Note: Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota was a co-sponsor and the host organization for this national audit summit - the first of its kind.
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As they prepare to spend millions of dollars in re-election campaigns, members of Congress should be asking themselves “Do I want to be Christine Jennings?”
By Warren Stewart, VerifiedVoting.org
“It is my hope that Congress will address this issue in the near future. Our democracy is too important to ignore this issue any longer.”
, Verified Voting
Dan Rather Reports - The Trouble with Touch Screens - Watch Video
Transcripts & Documents from the report
Random Post Election-Audits of Paper Records and Machines Essential to Ensuring Integrity of the Vote
Through the American Statistical Association’s Science and Public Affairs Advisory Committee and special interest group on volunteerism, a number of statisticians are working to improve the accuracy of elections. What follows is a summary of the role of statistics in elections. Work is ongoing to address these points in detail.
David Marker, John Gardenier, and Arlene Ash
President's Invited Column for Amstat.org
By Ian Urbina, The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 10 — A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times.
Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate.
