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Following is an installment of Web Watch, a periodic review of online resources prepared by the BNA Library's Laura Gordon-Murnane. For government, industry, and academic links on other timely topics, as well as electronic voting, visit the Web Watch Reading Room online at http://www.bna.com/webwatch.
Congressional Research Service
Via Electronic Privacy Information Center, Election Reform and Electronic Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues, http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/crsreport.pdf
Federal Election Commission
Help America Vote Act, http://fecweb1.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm; Developing a User-Centered Voting System, http://www.fec.gov/pdf/usability_guides/developing.pdf; Usability Testing of Voting Systems, http://www.fec.gov/pdf/usability_guides/usability.pdf; Procuring a User-Centered Voting System, http://www.fec.gov/pdf/usability_guides/procuring.pdf.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems, Symposium, Dec. 10, 2003, http://vote.nist.gov/agenda.html; Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems, Papers and Position Statements on Voting, http://vote.nist.gov/posstatementurls.html.
National Science Foundation
Via Findlaw National Science Foundation, Report on the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda, March 2001, http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/voting/nsfe-voterprt.pdf.
California Secretary of State
Position Paper and Directives Regarding the Deployment of DRE Voting Systems in California, Nov. 21, 2003, http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/ks_dre_papers/ks_ts_response_policy_paper.pdf.
Maryland
Risk Assessment Report, Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System and Processes, Sept. 2, 2003, http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/dbm_search/technology/toc_voting_system_report/votingsystemreportfinal.pdf; Appendix B: Security Statements From the Rubin Report & State of Maryland Controls, http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/dbm_search/technology/toc_voting_system_report/votingsystemreportappb.pdf.
Ohio Secretary of State
PMP DRE Technical Security Assessment, Dec. 2, 2003, http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/hava/files/compuwarePress.pdf; Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) Technical Security Assessment Report, Nov. 21, 2003, http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/hava/files/compuware.pdf.
California Voter Foundation
Voting Technologies: Part of the Solution, or Part of the Problem? Forum for Newly Elected Women Legislators, sponsored by the Center for American Women and Politics, Nov. 20, 2003, http://www.calvoter.org/votingtech/dcremarks.html; CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project: A Preliminary Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment, http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Evoting/CalTech_MIT_Report_Version2.pdf.
Diebold
Checks and Balances in Elections Equipment and Procedures Prevent Alleged Fraud Scenarios, Diebold Election Systems, http://www2.diebold.com/checksandbalances.pdf.
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Case Archive, http://www.eff.org/Legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/; Analysis of an Electronic Voting System from researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice University, http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030724_evote_research_report.pdf; Security Researchers Discover Huge Flaws in E-voting System, http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030723_eff_pr.php.
University of Maryland
Usability Review of the Diebold DRE System for Four Counties in the State of Maryland, http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/voting/umd-dre-report.pdf.
Mercuri, Rebecca
Critique of “Analysis of an Electronic Voting System,” July 24, 2003, http://www.notablesoftware.com/Papers/critique.html; The FEC Proposed Voting Systems Standard Update, A Detailed Comment submitted to the Federal Election Commission Sept. 10, 2001, in accordance with Federal Register FEC Notice 2001-9, Vol. 66, No. 132, http://www.notablesoftware.com/Papers/FECRM.html.
Swarthmore College
Diebold Memos, http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/scdc/diebold/.
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