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Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines (DRE)

A link to the Wikipedia page on DREs

See also our audits page for information on the papter trails that come with DREs (VVPATs).

Studies have shown that voters do not take the time to verify the paper trails on their machines:

• The Useability of Electronic Voting Machines and How Votes Can Be Changed Without Detection, PhD Thesis, Everett, 5/07, 192 pgs
  http://chil.Rice.edu/research/pdf/EverettDissertation.pdf (PDF 2.6 MB)

• New Jersey: Tests find flaws in printer performance, could jeopardize election accuracy, Smith, 7/07
  www.VerifiedVotingFoundation.org/article.php?id=6488

Nobody, and no machine, should be counting votes in secret.