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| 1. | Name: | Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project | |||||||||
| 2. | Voting Machine Position: | No Stated Position to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?" | |||||||||
| 3. | Reasoning: |
"Touchscreens are, in our opinion, still unproven. Some counties, like Riverside, California, have had good experiences; other counties like Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and many counties in New Mexico had...faults and problems." ("Voting: What Is and What Could Be," Caltech/MIT Voting Project Report, July, 2001) |
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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 collaborative research project on election issues between California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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| B. Mission: | To prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential election
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| C. Structure: | Joint academic research project of Caltech and MIT | ||||||||||
| D. Members / Constituents: |
Non-membership |
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| F. Sr. Executive: | R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Ted Selker (MIT) | ||||||||||
| G. Title: | Co-Director | ||||||||||
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| I: # of offices: | 2 | ||||||||||
| I: Staff: | 12 Principle Investigators
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| 6. | Relevant Affiliations: | Founded in December 2000 by David Baltimore, President of Caltech, and Charles Vest, President of MIT | |||||||||
