Voting system vendors are using the lack of disasters in the 2004 election to prove that evoting works well.
Here's the trouble: in key states, the exit polls were different from the final result. If the vote was rigged to tilt toward he winning candidate, we will never know.
If we had a voter-verified paper trail, we'd be able to do a recount and find the problem.
More details on evoting problems from EFF.
Evoting weblog from experts including Dan Wallach, Avi Rubin, David Dill, Ed Felten, Bruce Schneier, and others.
Report voting problems
* by phone1-866-MYVOTE1
* https://voteproblem.org/
* These services are is sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and the Verified Voting Foundation.
Post videos and digital photographs of voting problems
* http://vidvote.org
You can sign up to be an election monitor, for several hours during the day, be a "mystery voter", or a poll closing observier
* http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=200690
Election observer guidelines, targeted for Hart Intercivic System used in Travis, Harris, Tarrant and Brazos counties
* http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/voting-observer.html