Residual Votes Attributable to Technology: An Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment
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Author(s)
Alvarez, Michael
Ansolabehere, Stephen
Antonsson, Erik
Bruck, Jehoshua
Graves, Steven
Palfrey, Thomas
Negroponte, Nicholas Peter
Rivest, Ronald L.
Selker, Ted
Slocum, Alexander H.
Date Issued
March 30, 2001
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;2
Abstract
American elections are conducted using a hodge-podge of different voting technologies: paper ballots, lever machines, punch cards, optically scanned ballots, and electronic machines. And the technologies we use change frequently. Over the last two decades, counties have moved away from paper ballots and lever machines and toward optically scanned ballots and electronic machines. The changes have not occurred from a concerted initiative, but from local experimentation. Some local governments have even opted to go back to the older methods of paper and levers.
Subjects
Voting equipment
Voting technology reliability
Residual votes
Overvotes
Undervotes
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