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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 11, 2004
9:19 AM
CONTACT: TrueMajority.org
Tyler Prell or Jason Dring 202-518-8047

The Computer Ate My Vote
Citizens Call For Secure Electronic Voting System


WASHINGTON - February 11 - Citizens Call For Secure Electronic Voting System

What: Press conference launching grassroots campaign for Voter-Verified Paper Trails in U.S. Elections.

Who:
Ben Cohen, co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and president of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and TrueMajority.org.
Dan Wallach, PhD, Rice University, computer security expert who has published 40 papers on the subject since 1995.

When: Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 11:00 AM EST

Where: In front of National Association of Secretaries of State annual conference,
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, DC

To fulfill the mandates of the 2002 Help American Vote Act, many states are moving toward the purchase of computerized voting machines. These machines have proven to be vulnerable to tampering, viruses and power outages. TrueMajority is encouraging secretaries of state to use their authority to require computerized voting machines to produce paper records, to be verified by voters and kept for audits and dispute resolution.

Ben Cohen, president of TrueMajority, a online grassroots group of 400,000 Americans will announce the launch of a nationwide campaign to encourage the top election officer in each state to require computerized voting machines to provide voter-verified paper records of each vote, which can be used to ensure the accuracy of elections.

Ben will be joined by Dr. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and an expert in computer security. Several secretaries of state have expressed an interest in joining the press conference.

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