Voting Technology

League of Women Voters^®
of South Carolina

Aternative Voting Technologies. Election Audits. Op-Eds in South Carolina Newspapers. Interview with SCSEC. News Release. LWVSC Positions and Briefs on Voting Technology. Background and Action on Voting Technology Issues.

Aternative Voting Technologies

The LWVSC has organized a task force on alternative voting technologies. Further information can be found here.

Election Audits

Auditing a DRE-based Election in South Carolina

Op-Eds in South Carolina Newspapers

Another Op-Ed in The State (16 July 2010): Voting Machines 'buggy, unstable, exploitable'
LWVSC Op-Ed in The State (27 June 2010): Voting Machines Deserve Second Look

What's New: LWVSC Interview with State Election Officials

The LWVSC recently had an interview with Marci Andino, executive director of the South Carolina State Elections Commission. A report on that meeting can be found here.

News Release 1/21/08

League of Women Voters Calls on State Elections Commission to Address Voting System Problems -- press release

LWVSC Positions and Briefs on Voting Technology

LWVSC Brief on Voting Technology: Election Audits.
LWVSC Brief on Transparency in Government.
The LWVSC has adopted a position paper on election technology and voting machines.

Background and Action on Voting Technology Issues

The white paper, Unsafe for Any Ballot Count: A Computer Scientist's Look at the ES&S iVotronic in Light of Reports from Ohio, California, and Florida, was prepared for LWVSC following the publication in December 2007 of the report by the Secretary of State of Ohio.
LWVSC has published a Letter to the Editor, Vote in the Presidential Primaries, in major newspapers in South Carolina.
The report from Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner can be found here.
The report to the Florida Secretary of State can be found here.
The report from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen can be found here. (Note that the California report does not address the iVotronic voting machine used in South Carolina, but that many of the issues raised in Ohio and in Florida are issues raised in California about other voting machines.)
The draft report written for the National Institute of Standards and Technology regarding "software independence" in voting machines. (Warning: this is a technical paper.)
Another draft report to NIST on software independence. (Warning: this is also a technical paper.)

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