14 States that are/will soon be exclusively OpScan - AL, ID, MI, MN, MT, NE, NH, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SD, VT. (for accessibility they do not use DREs -- they chose either ballot-marking devices such as the Automark, or a system such as vote-by-phone such as the IVS Inspire)

3 States that are mostly OpScan - AZ (primary voting system is OpScan; DREs are used in most counties for accessibility only; two or three counties use Automark) IL (OpScan in most counties, some DREs for accessibility, some counties with Automark) WY (20 counties use OpScan with Automark; 3 counties use DREs with VVPAT for accessibility only but OpScan is their primary voting system;)

13 States with one or more "OpScan only" counties AR, CA, IN, IA, KS, MS, MO, NC, PA, TX, VA, WA, WV

3 States that will probably remain OpScan only, or will have DREs with a paper trail for accessibility only (purchases not yet complete): MA, ME, WI

3 States still unknown (purchases not yet complete): CT, NY, TN

Comment: Despite the misunderstanding of some states that HAVA required DREs, a number of states have increased their use of OpScan rather than decreased it. For example, Buncombe County in North Carolina recently decided to sell its ES&S iVotronic DREs despite having just purchased them -- they used them in one election and decided to switch to the Automark paper-ballot-marker. There are also some states or counties that use paper ballots that are hand-counted but the list has not been compiled yet.

On Electronic Voting: We Were Always Right, They Were Always Wrong...

Brad Friedman
On November 20, 2004, in an article about those of us concerned about what happened in the Presidential Election, the New York Times wrote that such concerns were little more than "the conspiracy theories of leftwing bloggers." What a difference a year and a half makes.

In this recent NY Times we find this headline, "New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems". The "fears," of course, aren't "new" at all. The article covers the latest -- and most stunning -- security breach yet discovered in electronic voting machines. This time, it's a "feature" that Diebold has implemented on every touch-screen voting machine in the country. A "feature" to make it easier for them (and apparently every fraudster and/or partisan and/or terrorist in the world) to change the operating software in about one minute's time with nobody noticing and with no password necessary. continued ...