VISUAL RESOURCES

. Overview of Hanging Chads in 2000
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hjizR-gU9Q

. Princeton Diebold / Fox News
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=aZws98jw67g
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8JESZiLpBLE&feature=related

. Goldberg Drawings

. Remember "They Way Things Go" for reference to materials

. History of voting machines
 http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/


TEXT RESOURCES

E-Vote by Lizzie Widdicombe. New Yorker. January 22, 2007
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/01/22/070122ta_talk_widdicombe
Brief anecdotes about trying different voting machines on Staten Island.

Electronic Hanging Chads? Washington Post. May 7, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7866-2004May7.html
Good overview of basic problems with e-voting.

The Fixer. New York Times. February 3, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/nyregion/thecity/03elec.html?_r=1&sq=voting%20machine&st=nyt&scp=6&pagewanted=all
Brief anecdotes about mechanical voting machines in New York City at the cusp of a transition.

Electronic voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting
Wikipedia entry on different types of e-voting. Defines the terms and options.

2004 United States presidential election controversy, voting machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_controversy,_voting_machines
Wikipedia entry about voting machines in the 2004 presedential election

Premier Election Solutions Corporate Website
http://www.premierelections.com/
http://www.premierelections.com/demos/demo_tsx_printer_video.swf
http://www.premierelections.com/products_services/voting/new_products.htm
This site shows how the company (formerly Diebold) presents itself and its products.

(Optional)
Counting Votes by Ronnie Dugger. New Yorker. November 7, 1988
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1988/11/07/1988_11_07_040_TNY_CARDS_000349817?printable=true
Long article covering the history of mechanical and e-voting in the United States.


CONSIDERATIONS AND QUESTIONS

1. How is the vote cast?
2. How is the vote tabulated?
3. How does the voter verify her/his vote?
4. How does the vote propagate through the machine? Electrical, Mechanical?
5. The machine must be reliable and work for many votes.
6. What are we voting for?
7. What is the name of the machine (e.g. ExpressPoll®-5000, AccuVote®-OSX, VoteRemote® Suite, iVotronic)?


TEAMS

1. Videographers (2), documenting the process and final work through video
2. Photographers (2), documenting the process and final work through images
3. Illustrators (2), making diagrams / drawings of the machine
4. Writers (2), contextualizing and making meaning through words
5. Networkers (3), posting media around the web
6. Roadies (3), work on setting up the machine
7. WebMonkeys (2), build the web documentation
8. Communicators (3), design the visuals for web and print media


BEGIN

Start to think about what kinds of sensors, actuators, and mechanisms relate to the American Political Machine. How can this be embodied as one unit of the Goldbergian Voting Machine. As always, keep it simple. This project is about concept and refinement, not technical body building.