BNA's Web Watch - Electronic Voting (September 2006)

Pending Legislation
H.R. 550 Status ||| Status and Summary H.R. 550 ||| Congressional Record Search – Electronic Voting
Title: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper record or hard copy under title III of such Act, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] (introduced 2/2/2005) Latest Major Action: 2/2/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

H.R. 278 Status ||| Status and Summary H.R. 278
Title: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voting systems to produce a verifiable paper record of each vote cast and to ensure the security of electronic data, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep King, Steve [IA-5] (introduced 1/6/2005) Cosponsors (29) Latest Major Action: 1/6/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Congressional Hearings
Committee on Science and Committee on House Administration– Joint Hearing Voting Machines: Will the New Standards and Guidelines Help Prevent Future Problems? (July 19, 2006) Hearing Charter

Opening Statements
Chairman Boehlert
Chairmann Ehlers

Witness Testimony
Ms. Donetta Davidson
Dr. William Jeffrey
Ms. Mary Kiffmeyer
Ms. Linda Lamone
Mr. John Groh
Dr. David Wagner
Webcast
Archived Webcast

June 8, 2006
Oversight Hearing of the Election Assistance Commission
Hearings
Election Assistance Commission tells committee of progress
Archived Hearing Webcast

Opening Statements
Chairman Vernon J. Ehlers

Witness Testimonies
Paul DeGregorio, Ray Martinez III, Donetta Davidson, Gracia Hillman

Congressional Research Reports
Elections Reform: Overview And Issues (07/10/2006)
Election Reform: The Help America Vote Act and Issues for Congress (06/27/2006) Federal Voluntary Voting System Guidelines: FAQs (01/11/2006)

Government Accountability Office
GAO, Elections: The Nation’s Evolving Election System as Reflected in the November 2004 General Election, GAO-06-450 (Washington, D.C.: June 6, 2006).

GAO, Elections: 2005 Survey of State Election Officials, (June 6, 2006); and GAO, Elections: 2005 Survey of Local Election Jurisdictions, (June 6, 2006)

GAO, Elections: Absentee Voting Assistance to Military and Overseas Citizens Increased for the 2004 General Election, but Challenges Remain, GAO-06-521 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 7, 2006).

Nongovernment Organizations

A Black Box Voting Project
Diebold TSx Evaluation SECURITY ALERT: May 11, 2006 Critical Security Issues with Diebold TSx Prepared by: Harri Hursti

Brennan Center's Task Force on Voting System Security
The Machinery Of Democracy: Protecting Elections in An Electronic World

Executive Summary (June 27, 2006) ||| Full Text Report (August 8, 2006)

Common Cause
Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic Voting Machine Debacle (PDF); Common Cause (June 2006)

Electiononline.org
Holding Form: Voter Registration 2006 (July 2006)

Election Reform: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why 2000-2006 (February 2006)

Election Science Institute
ESI Report for Cuyahoga County Investigation

Diebold Election Systems Letter and Response to ESI Report (PDF)

ESI Memorandum to Ohio Election Officials

IBM Center for The Business of Government
The Next Big Election Challenge: Developing Electronic Data Transaction Standards for Election Administration (PDF) R. Michael Alvarez (California Institute of Technology) and Thad E. Hall (University of Utah), (JULY 2005)

Justice Talking (Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania and National Public Radio)
Federal Election Reform (May 2006)
Transcript ||| Listen to Program ||| MP3 version

Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research and the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland
A Study of Vote Verification Technologies for the Maryland State Board of Elections: Executive Summary (February 2006)

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Roy Saltman, "Independent Verification: Essential Action to Assure Integrity in the Voting Process." (August 22, 2006)

Voting Technology Project A multi-disciplinary, collaborative project of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted? R. Michael Alvarez, Morgan Llewellyn
Caltech Thad E. Hall University of Utah (VTP WORKING PAPER #49 July 2006)

Zogby Poll
New Zogby Poll: It’s Nearly Unanimous Voters Insist On Right To Observe Vote Counting Plus Other Findings From This Unique Poll By Michael Collins
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