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Black Box Voting - http://blackboxvoting.org/
nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the integrity of the electoral process.

Campus-Vote - http://campus-vote.com/
Hosted service for voting and surveys. Uses web-based administration pages to set-up and monitor elections, along with optional administrative services.

CNET.com News - Unisys enrolls Microsoft, Dell to build better ballots - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-250855.html
Article describing Unisys partnership with Microsoft and Dell to create better voting systems.

Condorcet Internet Voting Service - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
a free internet voting service for conducting online elections.

Crypto-Gram: Voting and Technology - http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0012.html
Skeptical article about computerized voting by inventor of the Blowfish cryptography algorithm. Lots of good links to other articles.

DemoChoice Polls - http://www.demochoice.org/
PHP-based web software for polling and determining the winner of an Instant Runoff election. Licensed under GPL.

Electronic Voting - http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
Voting expert Rebecca Mercuri's website, with papers on the subject, and many articles and websites regarding electronic voting.

eVote Web Page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/evote/
Voting software designed to be used in conjunction with the Majordomo electronic mailing list system. As of August 1998, a shareware version was available for Majordomo running under Linux.

GNU.FREE - http://www.free-project.org/
Project dedicated to creating the GNU.FREE Internet Voting system and also advocating Free Software in e-democracy. Written in Java and an official package of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project

Internet Voting Technology Alliance - IVTA - http://www.ivta.org/
alliance to work on the public development and open peer review of standards to be used in voting over the Internet.

IVS Associates - http://www.ivsassociates.com
Provider of independent vote certifications for corporation shareholder meetings and professional association ballot tabulations and proxy fights

OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/
Standardizing the exchange of election and voter services information using XML

Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation - http://www.osdv.org
a non-profit foundation focused on reinventing electronic/digital voting technology through community based development of technical guidelines and specifications.

Political Sim - http://accuratedemocracy.com/s_sim_ad.htm
Free open-source software for voting and election games and simulations.

Preference Ballot Tabulation Perl Script - http://members.purespeed.com/~mg/index.vote_tabulation.html
Dual Dropping method combines Schwartz Sequential Dropping with Tideman's Ranked Pairs. For both single and multi-candidate elections [Open Source, GPL]

Salon.com - Hacking democracy - http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html
Article describing issues with the auditability of electronic voting systems, and pointing to areas of potential fraud.

Scytl: Secure Electronic Voting - http://www.scytl.com
Cryptographic security solutions for electronic voting systems.

Seattle Weekly - Point, click, vote? - http://www.seattleweekly.com/2000-11-01/news/point-click-vote/
Article by Angela Gunn. You may be ready to vote online, but the Net's not ready for you.

Serendipity: Voting Machines - http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/voting_machines.htm
Links to several articles discussing whether voting machines are being used to rig elections.

USA Today: Updating voting machines could take a decade - http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-02-13-voting.htm
Discussion of the possible problems upgrading voting systems throughout the U.S. as demand might exceed supply. Includes charts of what methods are currently used in which counties in the U.S.

VoteEngine - http://vote.sourceforge.net/
Python-based project to produce software of interest to people conducting votes on the Internet, or to people who are interested in researching various electoral methods.

VoteFair Ranking Service that calculates truly fair election and survey results - http://www.votefair.org/
Electronic voting system.

Voting Machines ProCon.org - http://www.votingmachinesprocon.org
Overview of electronic voting both pros and cons from over 200 experts. Biographies, laws, and relevant historical time lines also provided.

Wired News - Report Pans Internet Voting - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/03/42229
Article about a National Science Foundation report saying Internet voting from remote locations shouldn't be allowed anytime soon.

World Voting Booth - http://www.worldvotingbooth.com
Provider of free web-based voting services

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