We will be discussing and evaluating a variety of proposals to count and audit votes in a secure, accurate, transparent and fair way. Each person will give a brief description of their system and then take questions.
100% Hand Count Audit of Voter Marked Paper Ballots
Following an initial count by scanners
- Virginia Martin- Democratic Commissioner of Columbia County, New York
STAR-Vote System
Developed by Rice Univ. with the Travis County, TX clerk's office
- Phil Stark, Professor, Department of Statistics, Univ. of Calif. Berkeley
The Open Ballot Initiative
Voter-marked paper ballots are scanned, digital images are available to the public and secured through a cryptographic system
- Similar to what Black Box Voting is calling "The Brakey Method."
Approval Voting
Vote for as many people as you want, the person who gets the most votes wins, votes are counted by hand; proposed in Colorado
- Nisi Jacobs, HandCountedScore.org
Note that Hand Counted Score does not support Ranked Choice Voting because it requires a computer to count the votes.
Slide Show Verification Method
Developed by the Wisconsin Election Integrity Action Team
- Karen McKim, coordinator, Wisconsin Election Integrity Action Team