PAPERS AND POSITION STATEMENTS ON VOTING

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1. League of Women Voters position on DREs:
http://www.lwv.org/join/elections/hava_dre.html 

2. American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) position on The Use of Technology as Related to Voting and Elections Reform Legislation:
http://www.aarp.org/Articles/a2003-08-12-usetechnology.html

3. Common Cause position on Election reform:
http://www.commoncause.org/action/action.cfm?topicid=6

4. Congressional Research Service Report on Election Reform and Electronic
Voting Systems (DREs): Analysis of Security Issues:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/crsreport.pdf

5. Roy G. Saltman: Auditability of Non-Ballot, Poll-Site Voting Systems:
http://vote.nist.gov/pospapers/Saltman-AuditabilityofDREs(Revised)2003.pdf

6. National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
Statement on Security of Voting Systems:
http://www.nass.org/electioninfo/votingsecurity_9.15.03.pdf

7. July 2001 Report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project:
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html

8. University of Maryland Center for American Politics and Citizenship: Study of Voting Technology and Ballot Design:
http://vote.nist.gov/pospapers/Marylandposition.pdf

9. Avi Rubin: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System:
http://www.avirubin.com/vote/

10. USACM Policy Brief: E-Voting Technology and Standards:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm

11. California Association of Clerks & Election Officials position statement on paper verifiable audit requirement:
http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/pdf/CACEO%2011-21-03.pdf

12. Federal Elections Commission Voting Systems Performance and Test Standards: An Overview:
http://vote.nist.gov/pospapers/Overview.pdf

13. National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): Voting in America:
Final Report of the NCSL Elections Reform Task Force:
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/electref0801.htm

14. Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Voting: What Is and What Could Be:
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html

15. AccuPoll Electronic Voting System:
http://www.accupoll.com

16. California Ad Hoc Touch Screen Task Force Report:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/taskforce_report.htm

17. Jim Adler, VoteHere, Inc.: Election Confidence -- what it is and how to achieve it:
http://www.votehere.net/nist.htm

18. VoterMarch: VoterMarch Position on Accessibility and Integrity in DREs:
http://votingrights.net/vvat

19. Douglas Jones: Why trustworthy voting systems require institutionalized distrust:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/nist2003.html

20. Al Kolwicz, Citizens for Accurate Mail Ballot Election Results (CAMBER):
http://www.users.qwest.net/~alkolwicz/letter_120403.htm

21. American Association of People With Disabilities: Policy Statement on Voter Verified Paper Ballots:
http://www.aapd-dc.org/dvpmain/elreform/aapdballots.html

22. David Chaum: Secret-Ballot Receipts and Transparent Integrity:
http://www.vreceipt.com/

23. Peter Zelchenko: The Voting Experience:
http://chinet.com/~pete/Article_11-11-03.rtf

24. Gregg Vanderheiden, Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: Accessible Voting:
http://trace.wisc.edu/voting/

25. Neal McBurnett: Disclosure of Software for Voting Systems:
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/elections/disclosure.html

26. Marc Strassman, Etopia Open Source Election Systems: How the EAC Can Spend Its Money Most Helpfully:
http://63.206.28.66/pages/vn/vn32.html

27. Congressional Research Service Report: Internet Voting: Issues and Legislation:
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/government/gov-41.cfm

28. Congressional Research Service Report: Voting Technologies in the United States: Overview and Issues for Congress:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/reports/rl30773.pdf

29. Eric A. Smith, Hot Damn! Design, charter member, Open Voting Consortium: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal: Why the LWV is wrong on E-Voting:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/reports/rl30773.pdf

30. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights:
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=18481