Educational Resources on Internet, Email and Fax Voting
Download the e-packet which includes testimony from leading computer scientists about electronic ballot transmission and articles from mainstream media.
Maddening chain of email, querying the status of the Diebold failure discovered in Humboldt County, CA, illustrates the EAC's continued protection of e-voting vendors, at the expense of the voters
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
"It is through the Constitution that we control the reins of government and insure that it remains the protector of individual, unalienable Rights - i.e., the servant of the People.
View Entire Article HereHouse Bill 1624 authorizing the Washington Secretary of State, Sam Reed, to begin a pilot internet voting program has died in the House because of the significant financial impact the program would have on counties and individual taxpayers that was not reflected in the original fiscal note. House Committee members became aware of the actual price tag of the program after local voting integrity activists sent documentation on the real costs of internet voting programs in other states. Thanks to John Gideon and Ellen Theisen of Voters Unite for their hard work in creating awareness and taking action on HB 1624. Voter Action will continue to monitor and advocate against internet voting legislation being proposed across the country.
A New Threat to the Integrity of Our Elections: Washington State Weighs the Introduction of Internet Voting
Proposed internet voting legislation in Washington state raises questions about the security of online voting systems.
On the surface it sounds like a terrific idea: Let members of the armed forces serving abroad and state residents living in foreign lands, vote via the Internet so that their ballots can be tabulated in a timely fashion.
While experts reported that the November elections went off with hardly a hitch, questions are being raised about whether all of the hundreds of thousands of military voters serving abroad were able to cast their ballots with the rest of the country.
This issue arose during the 2008 election when the U.S. Department of Justice sued Virginia, contending that the state mailed its overseas ballots too late for service members to receive and return them in time to be counted.
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