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The Florida Long Count: Ballots and Voting Machines

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• Recounting Standards

Voting Machine Design/Function

• The Age of the Votomatic
  editorial, New York Times, 4 December 2000
• text of patent application explaining inherent flaws in Votomatic
  New York Times, 4 December 2000
• The Butterfly Ballot: Anatomy of a Disaster
  Bruce Tognazzini, AskTog "Human Interface Evangelism and Practical Design"
• Alas, Vote-Count Machines Are Only Human (error rates) [requires registration to view]
  Ford Fessenden and Christopher Drew, New York Times, 16 November 2000

Ballot Design

• Chad: From waste product to headline
  Prof. Douglas W. Jones, associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa
• An analysis of incompletely punched ballot cards
  Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa, December 2000; revised September 2001
• From Ballots to Cockpits, Questions of Design
  Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 January 2001
• No-Vote Rates Higher in Punch-Card Counts
  Ford Fessenden, New York Times, 1 December 2000

Recounting Standards

• Chads Have Their Place in Annals Of the Law
  Ford Fessenden and Christopher Drew, New York Times, 16 November 2000
• Experts Say Both Machine, Hand Counts Pose Problems
  John Mintz, Washington Post, 19 November 2000
• Analyze This: A Physicist on Applied Politics
  Lawrence M. Krauss, New York Times, 21 November 2000
• CHAPTER 127 (E). Processing Electronic Voting System Results – 127.130. Manual Counting
  Texas statute on manual counting of punchcard ballots; standards for counting incomplete punch as a vote

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