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Electronic Voting Hearings Set to Start
(AP)
Electronic Voting Hearings Set to Start
(AP)
05/05/2004 02:35 AMAP - Concerned about the reliability of electronic voting, a federal
panel is examining ways to safeguard polling from hackers and bad
software to avoid another disputed presidential election this
November.
Other News: Electronic Voting Hearings
Other News: Electronic Voting Hearings
05/05/2004 09:36 AMAn Election Assistance Commission is looking into electronic voting
problems.
NEW ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM IN FLORIDA:
FLAWED... electronic records from first
widespread use of touch-screen voting in
Miami-Dade County have been lost ,,,
records disappeared after two computer
system crashes last year, leaving no
audit trail for t
NEW ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM IN FLORIDA:
FLAWED... electronic records from first
widespread use of touch-screen voting in
Miami-Dade County have been lost ,,,
records disappeared after two computer
system crashes last year, leaving no
audit trail for t
07/28/2004 07:38 AMnytimes.com/2004/07/28/politics/campaign/28vote.final.html?ei=5006&
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EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation and
Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company
11/04/2003 06:26 AMElectronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law Clinic Sue Electronic
Voting Company .. press release .. EFF announced .. Here's
why
eff.org/Legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/20031103_eff_pr.php
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U.S. getting wary of electronic voting
U.S. getting wary of electronic voting
04/23/2004 06:59 PMglobetechnology.com Apr 23 2004 11:05PM GMT
Electronic Voting Debacle
Electronic Voting Debacle
11/18/2003 07:02 AMOpinion
Electronic Voting and Transparency
Electronic Voting and Transparency
02/10/2004 02:51 AM(I have shifted from Impressionistic Transcription to other modes,
need to listen and learn. Phil Windley, blogger and former CIO of the
great State of Utah. Adina Levin, Socialtext rock star by day, freedom
fighter by night. Bill Stotesbury, Representative...
Other News: Electronic Voting
Other News: Electronic Voting
02/10/2004 11:51 AMSalon digs into the security, reliability and political issues of
electronic voting for an article well worth reading.
Electronic Voting in the News
Electronic Voting in the News
12/11/2003 01:08 PMLegislators Wary of Electronic Voting
(AP)
Legislators Wary of Electronic Voting
(AP)
04/23/2004 01:46 PMAP - A growing number of federal and state legislators are expressing
doubts about the integrity of the ATM-like electronic voting machines
that at least 50 million Americans will use to cast their ballots in
November.
Legislators Wary of Electronic Voting
Legislators Wary of Electronic Voting
04/23/2004 02:48 PMAP via Daily Press Apr 23 2004 6:55PM GMT
Electronic voting vendors band together
Electronic voting vendors band together
12/10/2003 05:24 PMTheir new Election Technology Council hopes to write a code of ethics
and review security best practices for the electronic voting industry.
Why is gambling more secure than
electronic voting?
Why is gambling more secure than
electronic voting?
06/15/2004 03:56 AMvoting machines vs. slot
machines
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Electronic Voting Firm Hacked
Electronic Voting Firm Hacked
12/30/2003 02:48 PMCBS News Dec 30 2003 1:07PM ET
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic
Voting Goes National
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic
Voting Goes National
09/18/2004 03:04 PMVoters will be asked to cast their ballots on machines whose accuracy
and security against fraud have yet to be tested on such a grand
scale.
Dave Barry on Electronic Voting
Dave Barry on Electronic Voting
09/12/2004 10:53 AMCritics sue electronic voting company
Critics sue electronic voting company
07/11/2004 06:20 PMBoston Globe Jul 11 2004 10:12PM GMT
Ready or Not, Electronic Voting Goes
National
Ready or Not, Electronic Voting Goes
National
09/19/2004 03:38 PMWhether or not the machines are ready for the election - or the
electorate ready for the machines - there is no turning back.
Electronic voting has yet to fulfill
promise
Electronic voting has yet to fulfill
promise
08/12/2004 01:33 PMSiliconValley.com Aug 12 2004 3:43PM GMT
Introduction of Electronic Voting to
Ireland
Introduction of Electronic Voting to
Ireland
02/10/2004 02:57 AMEuropean and local elections will be held in Ireland on Friday, June
11th 2004. These will be the first elections in which a system of
electronic voting will be used across the whole country. The
Government has already spent €10 million on not only preparation for
the deployment of this system, one to which many people are now
voicing their opposition, but also on an advertising campaign aimed at
calming people's worries about the proposed change.
Critics Sue Electronic Voting Company
(AP)
Critics Sue Electronic Voting Company
(AP)
07/11/2004 03:38 PMAP - Critics of electronic voting are suing Diebold Inc. under a
whistleblower law, alleging that the company's shoddy balloting
equipment exposed California elections to hackers and software bugs.
The State of Electronic Voting in
Georgia
The State of Electronic Voting in
Georgia
02/15/2004 03:54 PMACM Eyes Policy Position on Electronic
Voting
ACM Eyes Policy Position on Electronic
Voting
07/03/2004 11:56 AMElectronic Voting Security Firm Hacked
Electronic Voting Security Firm Hacked
12/30/2003 12:02 AMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 29 2003 11:04PM ET
Site of electronic voting firm hacked
Site of electronic voting firm hacked
12/30/2003 01:38 AMElectronic Voting Firm Site Hack
Electronic Voting Firm Site Hack
12/30/2003 06:09 AMAn intruder manages to hack into the computers of a company developing
security technology for electronic voting systems. The break-in could
be related to the debate over the safety of online balloting.
Defending Weak Electronic Voting
Machines
Defending Weak Electronic Voting
Machines
05/11/2004 06:09 PMI'm still a bit confused why anyone would object to electronic voting
machines having
more security and
more ways to prove
they're accurate, but everyone has their reasons. Unfortunately, this
debate is turning into a political debate of Republicans vs. Democrats
rather than a focus on the actual issues. That explains this latest
editorial
in
defense of current electronic voting machines, which seems to
paint the whole discussion as a Democratic plot to make democracy more
expensive. The author does try to go through all the complaints, but
starts off with a completely pointless argument to set the tone of his
argument. He picks up the comment of a
comedian about how the
machines can be hacked over the internet and points out these machines
are not hooked up to the internet. This makes it appear that the
people who are really complaining about these machines have no idea
what they're talking about and think the machines are hooked up to the
internet. The real complaints about the system being easily tampered
with are brushed off by saying no one has ever been caught tampering
with these machines. The simple response to that is that he forgot to
add the word "yet" to the end (and that just because no one's been
caught doesn't mean it hasn't happened). He then brushes off the idea
that tampering is a real problem anyway, since people could only
tamper with one machine at a time, since (apparently) messing up a few
votes is okay. As for the very unlikely possibility that anyone is
tampering with the voting software to better favor one candidate, he
says that random testing takes care of that. Random testing certainly
helps - but as the California situation showed, the random testing was
done incorrectly and uncertified software was loaded after machines
had been "tested." Furthermore, there's simply no reason not to make
voting machine software publicly open so that independent testers can
go through the code and verify there's nothing wrong with it.
Finally, all the way at the end, he gets to the real complaint that
most people have with these voting systems: that there's no
recountable paper trail. His response shows just how much he doesn't
understand the real issue. He says that each machine records the
electronic votes multiple times, and the recount is easy: just view
one of the other records. This leaves out the important middle step:
knowing that any of those records actually recorded the vote properly.
I can make a thousand identical copies of the same incorrect records
and it doesn't help me to verify the accuracy of the original vote.
He claims that the only reason to add a paper trail is to make the
machines more expensive - but it's already been shown that the
addition of such a paper trail adds a tiny cost to each machine (many
of them already have paper printers included). Besides, at what point
did anyone say democracy had to be cheap? Ignoring all the politics
on either side concerning these voting machines, why would anyone not
support making these machines more secure while also including some
way to verify the accuracy of the vote? Most people arguing for
better security don't believe there's some big plot to steal an
election or that hackers are waiting to mess up the vote. We just
don't like the fact that it's
possible and would feel a lot
better with a more secure system. What's wrong with that?
Electronic voting security firm hacked
Electronic voting security firm hacked
12/30/2003 01:36 AMBoston Globe Dec 29 2003 11:34PM ET
Electronic voting firm has site hacked
Electronic voting firm has site hacked
12/29/2003 09:16 PMBoston Globe Dec 29 2003 8:33PM ET
Electronic Voting Firm Has Site Hacked
Electronic Voting Firm Has Site Hacked
12/29/2003 05:35 PMAP via Daily Press Dec 29 2003 5:32PM ET
Free Software for Electronic Voting -
Help Wanted!
Free Software for Electronic Voting -
Help Wanted!
03/19/2005 02:51 AMAs we have all been hearing a lot about for almost five years now, the
situation with electronic voting in the United States (and elsewhere)
is a mess. More than that, we all know that we have precious little
time to do something about it.
Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting
Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting
11/13/2003 03:56 PMFlorida Lost Electronic Voting Data
Florida Lost Electronic Voting Data
07/28/2004 01:06 PMThe electronic voting story keeps getting worse and worse --
especially in, of all places, Florida. We've already mentioned how
Florida's e-voting machines had
audit
trails that didn't match the actual vote totals and how Florida
has a law
prohibi
ting recounts for electronic voting machines. Now, the news comes
out that, despite being required by law to keep the data from the
machines for 22 months, election officials in Miami-Dade county admit
that
a hard-drive crash has wiped out the data from some electronic voting
machines used in the 2002 election and there's simply no record of
the votes any more. They quickly point out that all the votes were
(probably) counted at the time of the election, but (of course)
there's really no way to make sure that's true at all. It's also not
the real point. This is highlighting (once again) how unreliable
these machines are, and without any kind of paper trail, there's
simply no way to go back and make sure that (a) the votes were counted
(b) they were counted accurately and (c) they can be counted again.
"a little demo to prove how insecure
electronic voting really is"
"a little demo to prove how insecure
electronic voting really is"
09/25/2004 03:59 AMOhio Halts Electronic Voting Deployment
Ohio Halts Electronic Voting Deployment
12/03/2003 12:17 PMBeck writes
"Electronic voting was to be deployed in Ohio statewide by March,
but due to numerous security flaws found in the voting systems the
state has delayed certification of the systems,
possibly until 2006. Diebold's system had the most problems, but all
of the systems had numerous flaws. Many scenarios were found where a
person without proper authority was able to manipulate election
results. The Ohio Secretary of State released a report detailing 57
security flaws. (The entire report was released, unlike the state of
Maryland, which blacked out much of their report.) There was no
indication in the article of whether the state will require
voter-verified printed receipts. By the way, the Diebold poll
supervisor password is 1111 - nationwide - which was just one of the
many flaws discovered." The article actually suggests that most
of the problems may be solved in 60 days and the machines may be
offered again just a few months later than originally planned - so it
doesn't sound like they'll require a paper trail. Also, it's pointed
out in the article that all of these machines declared problematic had
already been "certified" by the state, showing just how ridiculous the
certification process is.
Diebold Gets Busted for Electronic
Voting Shenanigans
Diebold Gets Busted for Electronic
Voting Shenanigans
04/25/2004 04:13 AMThe full story is over on Corante.On April 20th, the Oakland Tribune
published a story regarding Diebold's alleged use of uncertified
voting software in violation of California state law (Diebold knew of
legal risks). The article cited and focused on internal legal memos
from the Jones Day law firm showing that Diebold's own lawyers had
warned of some of the possible illegalities. Online, the Oakland
Tribune posted the documents in addition to the article. That
afternoon, the Trib's parent company and the reporter were sued by
Jones Day to have the documents returned. The judge ordered the
documents returned, except for those already published on the internet
(Judge: Tribune must turn over legal memos):Hmm, "already published on
the Internet", eh? Click on that link and download them. They
are the Diebold electronic voting scandal's smoking gun, dead body,
and confession note. All nicely presented, annotated, and
distributed, for your democratic pleasure.
Electronic voting debate: Can computers
ever be trustworthy?
Electronic voting debate: Can computers
ever be trustworthy?
04/24/2004 03:36 AMAP via The Ledger Apr 24 2004 7:35AM GMT
Calif. Joins Electronic Voting Lawsuit
Calif. Joins Electronic Voting Lawsuit
09/07/2004 11:30 PMAP via Daily Press Sep 8 2004 4:02AM GMT
Electronic Voting Source Code Released
Electronic Voting Source Code Released
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