Essential Election Integrity Documents
Submitted by DavidLarson on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 20:50.
Compiled by Joe Richey for Coloradans for Voting Integrity, March 2009,
updated for Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, July 2009
I. ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
A. COLORADO
Colorado State Election Law
Title 1: Elections
http://www.elections.colorado.gov/WWW/default/Clerks%20Corner/Title%201%20-%202008%20FINAL.pdf
Election Rules of the Colorado Secretary of State, June 30, 2009
http://www.elections.colorado.gov/WWW/default/Rule%20Making/2009/notice_rulemaking_elections_06_30_09.pdf
Colorado Election Reform Commission Report, March 1, 2009
http://voteraction.org/files/Letter%20from%20Senator%20Gordon%20with%20Watermark.pdf
Sixty-Sixth General Assembly State of Colorado, Final Report of the 2007 Voter Choice Task Force, March 2008
http://fairvote.org/irv/voterchoicereport.pdf
B. NATIONAL
Latest Holt Bill, titled Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2009
111th Congress, 2009-2010, H.R. 2894
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2894Issues in Election Administration Policy Brief Number 13, Vote by Mail and Absentee Voting, Project Vote, Washington, DC, and Little Rock, AR:
http://projectvote.org/fileadmin/ProjectVote/Policy_Briefs/PB13-Vote_by_Mail.pdf
Nelson Hastings and Andrew Regenscheid, A Threat Analysis on UOCAVA Voting Systems, NISTIR 7551, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2008:
http://www.vote.nist.gov/uocava-threatanalysis-final.pdfCalifornia Internet Voting Task Force, Technical Committee Recommendations. California Secretary of State:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ivote/California Secretary of State Debra Brown: See DRE decertification documents
served to Sequoia, Hart Civic, ES & S, and Diebold:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htmNational Institute of Standards and Technology
Voluntary Voting System Guidelines Recommendations to
the Election Assistance Commission:
http://vote.nist.gov/VVSG-0807/Final-TGDC-VVSG-08312007.pdf
C. AUDITS AND OTHER STANDARDS
Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits
http://electionaudits.org/principles.htmlFeds to Toughen E-Voting Standards? By Michael Hickins (November 29, 2006):
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3646231Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law,
POST-ELECTION AUDITS: RESTORING TRUST IN ELECTIONS,
Lawrence Norden, Aaron Burstein, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, and Margaret Chen, 2007:
https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/8747/7Post-Election%20Audits-%20Restoring%20Trust%20in%20Elections.pdf?sequence=1Kathy Dopp, How Many to Audit,
http://noleakybuckets.org/howmany.htmlHow Big Should an Election Audit Be?: Fixed Rate Audits Do Not Work For Elections
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paperaudits/ElectinonAuditEstimator.doc
Kathy Dopp (kathy@electionarchive.org) January 17, 2007Kathy Dopp/National Election Data Archive: Post-Election Vote Count Audit
A Short Legislative & Administrative Proposal
http://electionmathematics.org//ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Vote-Count-Audit-Bill-2009.pdfRon Baiman, Ph.D., Kathy Dopp/National Election Data Archive: History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of Election Auditing Fundamentals
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdfKathy Dopp, Barbara Bellows—TerraNova, Richard C. Johnson, Erik Falor, Danny Swarzman, Joseph Holder, David Webber, Ellen Brodsky (plus remarks from Ed Felton, Steve Freeman, & Charlie Strauss):
Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf
II. ESSENTIAL ACADEMIC DOCS
Jennifer Nou, Privatizing Democracy : Promoting Election Integrity Through Procurement Contracts, Yale Law Journal (2009), volume 118 , issue 4 , p. 744-793.
http://yalelawjournal.org/images/pdfs/757.pdfLawrence Norden, Better Ballots, Brennan Center for Justice, 2008
Lawrence Norden, The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost, 2007
http://www.brennancenter.org/dynamic/subpages/download_file_38150.pdfLawrence Norden, The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World, Brennan Center for Justice, 2007
William Poundstone, Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (And What We Can Do About It), Hill and Wang, 2008
Director, National Campaign for Fair Elections, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jonah Goldman, Hearing: Voter Registration: Assessing Current Problems, Wednesday, March 11, 2009
III. ESSENTIAL PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
A. COLORADO ORGANIZATIONS
1. Good Voting Practices
Coloradans for Voting Integrity (http://www.cfvi.us)
Colorado Voter Group (ColoradoVoter@googlegroups.com)
Democracy Technology Project (http://democracytechnology.org)
League of Women Voters
2. Citizen Protection
Colorado Common Cause, report from 2008
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, Can I Vote? July 2008
Center for People with Disabilities
Colorado Lawyers Committee
Latina Initiative
B. NATIONAL
Ellen Theisen, Myth Breakers: Facts about Electronic Elections
2nd edition - designed for County OfficialsDouglas Jones’ website: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/
Election Protection, National Lawyers Committee
Jonah Goldman and Wendy Weiser, An Agenda for Election Reform, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 2007
http://lccr.3cdn.net/0b5b8c6a1b8a088f12_03m6bh0aa.pdfElectionline has a very nice interactive map showing what voting systems are in use across the United States: http://www.electionline.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Ensuring the Voting Rights of Homeless Persons: A Report by the Civil Rights Program of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Washington, D.C., July 20082007 Federal Election Reform Legislation, VotersUnite.Org’s Recommendation, November 21, 2006
http://www.votersunite.org/info/LegislationRecommendation.aspVerified Voting: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
Voter Action, http://www.voteraction.org/
Black Box Voting: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
For documented problems with voting systems:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/documents/ElectronicsInRecentElections.pdf
C. DOCUMENTS CREATED BY CFVI (see http://cfvi.us)
1. Response to Attorney Scott Gessler, Election Reform Commission
2. Response to Election Reform Commission Recommendations
3. Denver Post Op Ed, March 2, 2009
D. THE DEMOCRACY TECHNOLOGY PROJECT:
“The Twelve Principles of Sound Election Practice”