Trusted Logic Voting (TLV)

Following on from an extensive five-month investigation by the VRI's (Voting Research Institute) research and investigative team grave problems in the administration of Ohio's voting system during the November 2004 election have been identified. More than 1 in 4 voters in Ohio faced problems at the polls, including illegal requests for identification, long lines, poorly trained election officials, and more. There were also dramatic disparities in voting conditions among different races; African Americans waited nearly three times as long on average as whites to vote.

The report is also very critical of DRE voting systems (section VII) while offering viable alternatives and making good suggestions for more openness in the the voting process, including internet posting of election tallying (section VIII).

The idea of using blogs to track and report precinct voting is attractive. Posts can be made secure, and javascripting can automatically locate totals and produce results. The whole then becones distributed via RSS automatically.

For the full report see: http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/06/democracy_at_ri.php