Thursday, February 16, 2006
Why do we need 100% auditablility support for voting counts?
Why should Americans care about possible 2004 vote miscounts? The 2004 election is over. It’s old news. The only reason for rehashing prior elections is to ensure that our votes are counted the way voters intend in the future. Should Americans trust that our votes are counted accurately; or is wholesale electronic election tampering occurring? How could the evidence of vote tampering be hidden? Are the future of
democracy and U.S. elections at stake? The U.S. press has dismissed exit polls as surprisingly inaccurate in the 2004 presidential election when exit polls conflicted with official vote counts. Were exit polls wrong or were vote counts altered?
On February 14, 2006, the National Election Data Archive, a group of volunteer mathematicians and statisticians, released a report asking that new measures be taken immediately in order to assure the integrity of future U.S. election results. Their new report discusses why current measures to ensure vote count accuracy, such as testing and certification, are inadequate; discusses how evidence of vote miscounts are hidden by current election reporting procedures; and recommends independent vote count audits, public detailed election data monitoring, and public exit poll data.
Two documents provide deep insights into the lessons learned from Ohio, 2004.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb346936.htm
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf
democracy and U.S. elections at stake? The U.S. press has dismissed exit polls as surprisingly inaccurate in the 2004 presidential election when exit polls conflicted with official vote counts. Were exit polls wrong or were vote counts altered?
On February 14, 2006, the National Election Data Archive, a group of volunteer mathematicians and statisticians, released a report asking that new measures be taken immediately in order to assure the integrity of future U.S. election results. Their new report discusses why current measures to ensure vote count accuracy, such as testing and certification, are inadequate; discusses how evidence of vote miscounts are hidden by current election reporting procedures; and recommends independent vote count audits, public detailed election data monitoring, and public exit poll data.
Two documents provide deep insights into the lessons learned from Ohio, 2004.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb346936.htm
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
OASIS approves EML 4.0 as standard
OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Election Markup Language (EML) version 4.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, EML enables the secure interchange of information between electronic voting systems, software, and services.
This marks a significant step forward in the development of open standards for voting systems.
This marks a significant step forward in the development of open standards for voting systems.
