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| 1. | Name: | Electronic Frontier Foundation | |||||||||
| 2. | Voting Machine Position: | Con to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?" | |||||||||
| 3. | Reasoning: | "Since the adoption and implementation of DREs, substantial errors have occurred during elections, including errors resulting in significant voter disenfranchisement and, in at least one case, the need for an election to be reheld. Additionally, computer scientists nationwide have expressed concern about the security and auditability of DREs." (Letter to Henry McMaster, Attorney General for the State of South Carolina, July 19, 2004) |
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Credibility Ranking: |
Organization/VIP/Other Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories |
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| 5. | Organization | ||||||||||
| A. Description: |
A public interest organization dedicated to protecting civil liberties and free expression in the digital world that works primarily by bringing and defending lawsuits |
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| B. Mission: | To be the first line of defense when our freedoms in the networked world come under attack
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| C. Structure: | A donor-funded nonprofit public interest organization comprised lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, and activists | ||||||||||
| D. Members / Constituents: |
13,000 |
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| F. Sr. Executive: | Shari Steele | ||||||||||
| G. Title: | Executive Director and President | ||||||||||
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| I: # of offices: | 1 | ||||||||||
| I: Staff: | 22
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| 6. | Relevant Affiliations: | None listed | |||||||||
