E-voting State By State

jcatcw writes "One-third of Americans will use voting machines next week that have never before served in a general election. Computerworld.com provides an overview of e-voting in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia — equipment, systems for voter registration, polling, significant legal challenges to the systems, previous media coverage, links to government watchdog sites, the vendors, technologies and laws that are important to the issue, and a review of 'Hacking Democracy.'"

Comments

our electronic voting works just fine

[schnikies79]

For the 3rd or 4th election we're using electronic machines that read a paper card. The candidates have an arrow pointing towards their name with the center missing, you vote for the candidate by filling in the arrow. It's simple as hell and older people don't seem to have any problems with it. Dunno why everyone wants a touch screen or something similar. There is simply nothing wrong with paper.

The new state law requiring state issued picture ID is a nice touch too.

Oh yea, Harrison Country, Indiana btw.

Re:Voter fraud is nothing new

[LardBrattish]

Er, if you look at the last two presidential elections the amount of fraud is incredible and, indeed, provable (Wikipedia has some nice articles with links to the raw data otherwise try blackboxvoting.org). The scary thing to me (as an outsider) is not the fact that fraud occurs. It's just the fact that the American public seem so utterly apathetic to the fact that democracy has been extinguished.

For example, exit polls are a proven and incredibly accurate way of estimating results. In fact, the only times anywhere in the world ever that they have broken down is when gross electoral fraud has taken place - except in America during the last two presidential elections where the pollsters suddenly and catastrophically failed to conduct an accurate exit poll, but it wasn't due to electoral fraud, oh no.

It seems to have turned into a party political issue where the supporters of the winning party accuse the losers of "whining" when the actual evidence of fraud should scare them more than their opponents because it means that they, the loyal voters have become expendible. They don't need you anymore. They can win the election without you. The president now has the power to declare martial law & he has the machinary (hah!) to deliver the results he wants.

So, 7 November 2006...

[paulthomas]

when I arrive at my polling place and am confronted with an electronic voting machine with no voter-verifiable paper trail, how do I opt out and fill out a paper ballot? Is there a standard procedure that I've been unaware of?

Who else will be trying this?