Materials List – Why Minorities Benefit from Paper Ballots/Optical Scanners

2/27/07

1. Photos - PBOS pollsite

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/PBOSpollsiteBW200KB.pdf

2. Basic info

a. Overview of political process - http://www.wheresthepaper.org/OverviewFeb27.htm

b. New voting machines for NY -

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NewVotingMachinesForNY.doc

3. Big problems

a. Long voter wait lines - http://www.wheresthepaper.org/PeakHoursWaitTimeReport.pdf

b. High cost, initial and recurring - http://www.wheresthepaper.org/ny.html#costReports

c. Privatization of public elections – PEF Resolution..

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/PEF_opscan_res1_proofed4_1.htm

d. Targetted disenfranchisement of minorities

(1) Wrong Time for an E-vote Glitch - Evidence that minority ballots can be handled

“differently" – http://www.wheresthepaper.org/WrongTimeForAnEvoteGlitch.htm

(2) New Mexico – 2 DREs accounted for 8% Hispanic and Native American undervotes

http://www.votersunite.org/info/NM_UVbyMachineandEthnicity.pdf

(3) New Mexico undervote rate plummets after switch from DREs to paper ballots

http://www.votersunite.org/info/NM_UVbyBallotTypeandEthnicity.pdf

(4) Parallel Testing Program, Findings (lost votes on Spanish ballots, pages 24-27)

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/Limited_Parallel_Testing_Findings.pdf

4. Computers - as "trustworthy” as the people who make and use them

FBI Computer Crime Survey of 2005 – 87% had “security incidents,” 64% lost money

(the incident was not trivial), and 44% had intrusions from within their organization.

http://houston.fbi.gov/pressrel/2006/ho011906.htm

5. Voting Machine Industry – a record of failure

a. E-Voting Failures in Nov 2006 -

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/E-VotingIn2006Mid-Term.pdf

b. Watchdog Group finds 100,000 errors in one election in one county

www.wheresthepaper.org/YahooNews060223WatchdogGroupQuestions2004FlaVote.htm

c. ES&S - the Midas Touch in Reverse -

http://www.votersunite.org/info/ESSMidasinreverse.asp

6. Accessibility

The most accessible equipment now and for the foreseeable future is PBOS -- Noel Runyan,

“Improving Access to Voting” Report on technology for accessible voting systems -

http://www.voteraction.org/reports/improving_access.pdf

7. Voters with non-English languages in NYC

English Proficiency and the Eligible Voter Pool, Population Division of the NYC

Department of City Planning (warning, the file is almost 2 MB)

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/BOE_EngProficiency.pdf

8. Editorial Endorsements

http://www.nyvv.org/reports/EditorialEndorsements.pdf

9. Optical scanners can be diagnosed and fixed when they malfunction

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCBOEScanRpt030515.pdf

10. Where to start

a. Take a position

Resolutions passed by NY organizations - www.wheresthepaper.org/ny.html#OrgReso

b. Tell everyone, and subscribe to email news sources to keep informed

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/KeepEvotingOutOfNYBadGood.htm

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