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Protecting Elections in an Electronic World
Academy Chicago Publishers
February 2007
On Sale: February 1, 2007
200 pages
ISBN: 0897335538
EAN: 9780897335539
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The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University
convened a high-level task force of voting experts from
government, academia and the private sector to
systematically analyze vulnerabilities in electronic voting
systems used across the country. In this ground-breaking
book, a crack team of technical experts concentrates on
three main types of electronic voting systems: Direct
Recording Electronic (DRE), Direct Recording Electronic with
Voter Verified Paper Trail (DRE w/VVPT), and Precinct Count
Optical Scan (PCOS). All three voting systems are shown to
have significant security and reliability risks. This book not only systematically identifies 120 potential
threats to voting technology, but it offers specific
remedies and countermeasures that election officials can
employ to make these attacks more difficult to perform. This is an eye-opening account not only of the hazards of
electronic voting in the 21st century, but a level-headed
approach for dealing with real and potential threats to
democratic elections. A second part of this crucial report, entitled "Cast Out,"
deals with voter repression. It enumerates the many ways
voters are deprived of their electoral rights by those who
are determined to use the reforms of the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) as "an opportunity to restrict rather than
enhance the franchise." An examination of these techniques
reveals how manipulation of our electoral system can
actually disenfranchise more Americans than any of the
mechanical voting machine failures we see on Election Day.
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