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35. 2007_01_15_TIME MAGAZINE_E-Voting, 2007 January 15

 File — Box: 4
Identifier: Box 4

Scope and Contents

As extensively documented in the 14 NOV 2006 JVM Accession of documents to the U of I, in the mid-1970's Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC) developed a high-speed paper ballot scanning system, based upon similar concepts used in their line of Optical Mark Readers for Student Test scoring - such as the ITBS, ITED, ACT, and similar tests - to sell to a startup company in Omaha, NE - Data Mark Systems, Robert J. Urosevich, President. John V. McMillin, Product Development Manager at WLC, together with Robert J. Roelf, WLC Hardware Marketing Manager, were instrumental in implementing and guiding this project to a successful conclusion for a series of primary and general elections held from 1976 to 1978 in Douglas County, NE, and other locations. Years later, as the key principals in this endeavor had 'gone their separate ways', Robert J. Urosevich became President of DEIBOLD's Electronic Voting Systems Divisions and in the early 2000s, began marketing their touch-screen AccuVote E-voting terminals and software to many jurisdictions throughout the U. S.; selling millions of dollars of equipment in a few short years. For a wide variety of reasons, there were numerous problems, controversies, legal disputes, and lawsuits that followed the introduction of this new and largely untested technology in voting systems. Professor Douglas W. Jones, U of I, has published extensively on these issues, and is widely regarding as a leading expert on voting systems and their relative strengths and weaknesses. He comes out very strongly in favor of traditional paper-based voting, and is a vocal critic of E-voting technology. I mention the above background by way of 'introducing' yet another voice screaming out against the ubiquitous DEIBOLD E-voting systems, this time from a rather interesting character, convicted felon Brett Kimberlin, who was featured in a major article in the January 15, 2007 issue of TIME MAGAZINE, Page #48-50. Refer to the JVM Archival Media Folder 2007_01_15_TIME MAGAZINE_E-Voting, which includes my MS Word file 2007_01_15_TIME MAG_Wizard of ODD_E-voting.doc presenting the text in the TIME article, and several relevant embedded photos. The JPEG-scanned images are also included

Dates

  • Creation: 2007 January 15

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Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 14.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Archives Repository

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