ClearVote.org was started in November 2004 by Teresa Knezek, in the aftermath of the US's 2004 presidential election. This site is devoted to the cause of promoting legislation requiring a paper record be printed out by every electronic voting machine in use in the United States. The sole purpose is to end the spread of unaccountable, all-electronic "black box" voting machines in the US electoral system.

While requiring open access to the operating software for such machines is also a nice idea, as is developing minimum security standards for the systems tabulating the votes, I decided to focus on a single, attainable aspect of the all-electronic voting issue. ClearVote.org is intended to be an effective vehicle for electoral reform, not an idealistic one.

This site will not feature any content that is not specifically related to errors and apparent inconsistencies in all-electronic voting systems. I do not want ClearVote.org to be a partisan effort. The right of every registered voter in the US to have their vote reliably and verifiably counted was the most critical issue raised by the November 2004 elections, and until the American public can be assured that their votes will be guaranteed an accurate, verifiable count, attempting any other political reform is pointless.

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