Little Known Facts in the Electronic Voting Machines Debate:
- Electronic voting machines were introduced and first used for a real election in Illinois in 1975.
- 17% more voters used electronic voting machines in 2004 than 2000, thus marking the largest rise of a specific voting system from one election to the next since 1980.
- Electronic voting machines had the second worst residual vote rate of the five voting systems used in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election with a rate of approximately 3%.
- Since 1996, Dr. Michael Shamos has offered a $10,000 prize in The DRE Tampering Challenge to anyone who can hack an electronic voting machine so that it does not count votes properly and so those alterations are undetectable. To date, no one has accepted the challenge.
- The state of Maryland owns 16,000 Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines, each with two locked bays to protect the machines from tampering. The locks on the machines are identical, and they can all be opened by the same key.
- In March 2004 electronic voting machines used in Santa Clara County, California gave audio instructions directing blind voters to press a yellow button. Blind voter Sam Chen commented, "Yellow means nothing to me."
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