election-law_gl-digest Monday, July 16 2001 Volume 01 : Number 044
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:33:53 -0700
From: "Rick Hasen" <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu>
Subject: Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project report
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The Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project released its report and
recommendations today related to voting technology in light of the
Florida controversy. The report may be accessed at the following link:
http://vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html
Rick
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<td rowspan="2" width="170" align="left" valign="top"> <p> </p><p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Caltech</b></font>
</p><p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.caltech.edu/president/">David
Baltimore</a><br>
<a href="http://masada.hss.caltech.edu/%7Erma/althome.html">R. Michael
Alvarez</a><br>
<a href="http://www.design.caltech.edu/">Erik Antonsson</a><br>
<a href="http://www.paradise.caltech.edu/bruck.html">Jehoshua Bruck</a>
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<a href="http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Etrp/trp.html">Thomas Palfrey</a>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>MIT</b></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/president/communications/profile.html">Charles
Vest<br>
</a><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2000/ansolabehere.html">Stephen
Ansolabehere</a><br>
<a href="http://mit.edu/sgraves/www/">Stephen Graves</a><br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2000/negroponte.html">Nicholas
Negroponte</a><br>
<a href="http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/%7Erivest/">Ronald Rivest</a><br>
<a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/People/faculty.html">Ted Selker<br>
</a><a href="http://me.mit.edu/people/slocum.html">Alex Slocum</a><a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/People/faculty.html">
</a><br>
<a href="http://mit.edu/cstewart/www/">Charles Stewart</a></font></p>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>July
2001 Report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project<br>
<i><font size="+1" color="#FF0000">Voting - What Is, What Could Be</font></i></b></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><a href="july01/fast_facts.pdf">Fast
Facts</a> (pdf)</font></b></font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="july01/July01_VTP_%20Voting_Report_Entire.pdf">Full
Report</a> (95 pages, pdf, 2,847KB)<br>
<a href="july01/July01_VTP_%20Voting_Report_Part1.pdf">Part I</a>
(12 pages, pdf, 1,125KB)<br>
</b></font><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><a href="july01/July01_VTP_%20Voting_Report_Part2.pdf">Part
II</a> <b>(44 pages, pdf, 1,195KB)</b><br>
<a href="july01/July01_VTP_%20Voting_Report_Part3.pdf">Part III</a>
<b>(39 pages, pdf, 658KB)</b></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Tear
Outs (pdf)<br>
<a href="july01/Ballots.pdf">Ballots that Contribute to Residual Votes</a><br>
<br>
<a href="july01/Best_Practices.pdf">Best Practices in Managing Voter
Registration</a><br>
<br>
<a href="july01/Lost_Votes.pdf">4 to 6 Million Lost Votes</a><br>
<br>
<a href="july01/Map3.pdf">Map: Voting Equipments Used by Counties,
1999 </a> <br>
<br>
<a href="july01/Residual_Votes.pdf">Residual Votes As a Percent of
All Ballots Cast (1988 - 2000)</a></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Biographies
of VTP Team (pdf)<br>
<a href="july01/bios_A.pdf">Bios-A</a><br>
<a href="july01/bios_B-P.pdf">Bios-B-P</a><br>
<a href="july01/bios_R-Z.pdf">Bios-P-Z</a></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3/30/2001,
Revised and Expanded Report:<br>
</font></b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b><font size="+1">A
Preliminary Assessment of the Reliability of Existing Voting Equipment</font><br>
(<a href="http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Evoting/CalTech_MIT_Report_Version2.pdf">full
report</a>, pdf) (<a href="http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Evoting/Executive%20Summary.March30.pdf">abstract</a>,
pdf) </b></font> </p>
<b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2/1/2001,
<font color="#666666">A Preliminary Assessment of the Reliability of
Existing Voting Equipment</font> (this has been superceded by the revised
version, links above)</font></b>
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