Public Election Document Archive Ready for Testing
USCountVotes.net is excited to announce that we have begun testing our public election document archival system, the first step to ensuring a fair and transparent election process for every American. We're hoping that you will join us in testing the new election data upload and management system for elections data, including voter registration and elections results data with a free account at http://www.USCountVotes.net .
USCountVotes documents and analysis are freely and publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection. Not one county in America today publicly releases or monitors its own detailed vote count data broken out by precinct and by vote type (absentee, early, overseas, military, provisional, and Election Day) that would reveal probable vote miscounts. See http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf
The National Election Data Archive's current system is its first rudimentary tool that can be immediately used to publish detailed election data from ongoing primary elections for independent analysts. In the absence of independent audits of voter verified paper ballots, detailed vote count data analysis is the only way to alert the public when probable vote count errors have occurred and provide court-worthy evidence in time to contest elections and obtain hand counts or re-elections.
Here's what we're looking for:
We're looking for volunteers around the country that want to obtain their local detailed elections data to sign up at http://www.USCountVotes.net/login.php . The accounts are free, and the assistance you'll provide is invaluable. An account at USCountVotes.net allows a user to upload documents for public archiving for analysis by anyone who is interested.
So register, sign in, request permission to upload elections data, upload data, and let us know how you like the system and what we can do to improve it. For security purposes, we must approve you to upload data and require typing in random characters when you log in.
We're also looking for volunteer archival administrators to insure that documents uploaded for each state are valid and correctly sourced through our site's document management system.
In addition to users who obtain and upload local election data from over 3300 separate local election offices, we need help with open records laws research. Each state has its own relevant open records laws, so letters requesting detailed elections data are required to be specifically tailored to the local laws. We're looking for someone to help organize research the specific formats of open records request letters for each state, so that we can publicly provide the open records letters that each states' volunteers will need. (See http://www.uscountvotes.net/public/ucv_select_info.php )
If you'd like to make a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. ( http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html ) Donations would allow us to undertake new development programs and improve the site to better allow you to ensure the continuation of Democracy in America. For $2,000/month to pay for a programmer, we could finish the election archive project in time for the 2006 November general election including:
1. a similar public archive system for statistical analysis of election results by volunteer statisticians
2. parsing the election documents to standardize the information and allow for easier analytical consistency for any location in the country
3. enable upload of web pages by simply specifying the URL (right now volunteers must create a single file from a web page and upload it)
4. backup of all archived docs to servers at another Internet location
5. statistical programming to automate and publish statistical analysis of the election data
The National Election Data Archive is creating a standard, free resource for anyone interested in elections and voting. Please donate to this project so that our new programmer can commit enough hours to finishing it in time for the November 2006 general election. http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html
I want to personally thank all the generous patriots who made donations for Ron Baiman and I to attend the upcoming May AAPOR.org
(American Association of Public Opinion Researchers) conference in order to rebut the arguments by the Election Science Institute and Mitofsky et al. that the exit polls do not show evidence of vote fraud; and to present the academic work that Ron and I performed regarding the Ohio exit polls. (See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf and http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf and http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit-Poll-Analysis.pdf
Your generous donations did amount to more than needed to attend. However, we then paid a reasonable $700 in programming fees to roll out our public election data document archive system, and so still fell a little short for next week's conference. Ron and I have been working on papers and a slide presentation for the AAPOR conference which will be publicly released afterwards.
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections
USCountVotes documents and analysis are freely and publicly available to anyone with an Internet connection. Not one county in America today publicly releases or monitors its own detailed vote count data broken out by precinct and by vote type (absentee, early, overseas, military, provisional, and Election Day) that would reveal probable vote miscounts. See http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf
The National Election Data Archive's current system is its first rudimentary tool that can be immediately used to publish detailed election data from ongoing primary elections for independent analysts. In the absence of independent audits of voter verified paper ballots, detailed vote count data analysis is the only way to alert the public when probable vote count errors have occurred and provide court-worthy evidence in time to contest elections and obtain hand counts or re-elections.
Here's what we're looking for:
We're looking for volunteers around the country that want to obtain their local detailed elections data to sign up at http://www.USCountVotes.net/login.php . The accounts are free, and the assistance you'll provide is invaluable. An account at USCountVotes.net allows a user to upload documents for public archiving for analysis by anyone who is interested.
So register, sign in, request permission to upload elections data, upload data, and let us know how you like the system and what we can do to improve it. For security purposes, we must approve you to upload data and require typing in random characters when you log in.
We're also looking for volunteer archival administrators to insure that documents uploaded for each state are valid and correctly sourced through our site's document management system.
In addition to users who obtain and upload local election data from over 3300 separate local election offices, we need help with open records laws research. Each state has its own relevant open records laws, so letters requesting detailed elections data are required to be specifically tailored to the local laws. We're looking for someone to help organize research the specific formats of open records request letters for each state, so that we can publicly provide the open records letters that each states' volunteers will need. (See http://www.uscountvotes.net/public/ucv_select_info.php )
If you'd like to make a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. ( http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html ) Donations would allow us to undertake new development programs and improve the site to better allow you to ensure the continuation of Democracy in America. For $2,000/month to pay for a programmer, we could finish the election archive project in time for the 2006 November general election including:
1. a similar public archive system for statistical analysis of election results by volunteer statisticians
2. parsing the election documents to standardize the information and allow for easier analytical consistency for any location in the country
3. enable upload of web pages by simply specifying the URL (right now volunteers must create a single file from a web page and upload it)
4. backup of all archived docs to servers at another Internet location
5. statistical programming to automate and publish statistical analysis of the election data
The National Election Data Archive is creating a standard, free resource for anyone interested in elections and voting. Please donate to this project so that our new programmer can commit enough hours to finishing it in time for the November 2006 general election. http://www.uscountvotes.org/fairelection/donate.html
I want to personally thank all the generous patriots who made donations for Ron Baiman and I to attend the upcoming May AAPOR.org
(American Association of Public Opinion Researchers) conference in order to rebut the arguments by the Election Science Institute and Mitofsky et al. that the exit polls do not show evidence of vote fraud; and to present the academic work that Ron and I performed regarding the Ohio exit polls. (See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/exit-polls/Ohio2004-US-future.pdf and http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf and http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit-Poll-Analysis.pdf
Your generous donations did amount to more than needed to attend. However, we then paid a reasonable $700 in programming fees to roll out our public election data document archive system, and so still fell a little short for next week's conference. Ron and I have been working on papers and a slide presentation for the AAPOR conference which will be publicly released afterwards.
Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections
rudkla - 11. Mai, 14:28
