Recommendations for Improving Reliability of Direct Recording Electronic Voting Systems

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights & the Brennan Center for Justice - June 2004

This report provides specific recommendations for elections officials planning to use electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections.

The recommendations are aimed at ensuring access and security in the voting systems used by 675 counties and are common sense solutions agreed upon by both the civil rights community and some of the nations leading computer security experts. Assuring the security of everyone's votes is no less important than having the right to vote.

While neither an endorsement nor indictment of electronic voting systems, this report identifies specific actions that should be taken prior to the 2004 elections to increase security and improve public confidence.