Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2009
Publication Title
America Votes! A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights [Supplement]
Keywords
Help America Vote Act, digital voting, voting technology, Election Assistance Commission, election law
Abstract
This chapter reviews the 2008 field performance and the scientific assessments of both voting systems and the statewide voter-registration databases. The federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) mandated each of these technologies. Despite definitive scientific studies that documented grave security deficiencies that can cause voting systems to produce inaccurate vote tallies and “winners” who actually had fewer votes, these systems continue to be deployed. The Chapter traces the regrettable decisions on election technologies to a poorly designed regulatory structure and staffing, which continue to underweight and misunderstand security issues in election technologies.
Repository Citation
Candice Hoke and David Jefferson, Voting and Registration Technology Issues: Lessons from 2008, in America Votes! A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights [Supplement] 37-64 (B. E. Griffith, ed., American Bar Association, 2008)
