Ohio Authorizes E-Voting, Wants Paper Record Within Two Years

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E-voting rejected in Ohio

E-voting rejected in Ohio 07/19/2004 05:01 PM
The decision by Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell will block the deployment of e-voting systems from Diebold Election Systems in three counties.

Ohio approves machines with paper trail

Ohio approves machines with paper trail 06/11/2004 02:34 PM
USA Today Jun 11 2004 6:23PM GMT

Ohio Halts E-Voting Machines

Ohio Halts E-Voting Machines 12/04/2003 06:04 AM
Fears of vote tampering cause the state to delay implementation of new touch-screen systems until after the November 2004 election. Meanwhile, state officials will work with manufacturers to make the systems more secure.

Ohio stops three counties from switching
to e-voting

Ohio stops three counties from switching
to e-voting 07/16/2004 08:32 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 17 2004 0:33AM GMT

Ohio Halts Electronic Voting Deployment

Ohio Halts Electronic Voting Deployment 12/03/2003 12:17 PM
Beck 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.

Democrats allege e-voting problems in
Ohio

Democrats allege e-voting problems in
Ohio 01/06/2005 07:55 PM
Congress certifies President Bush as winner of election, as handful of Democrats debate e-voting machine irregularities.

Voting Problems in Ohio Spur Call for
Overhaul

Voting Problems in Ohio Spur Call for
Overhaul 12/24/2004 01:03 PM
From malfunctioning machines to poorly trained poll workers, Ohio has become this year's example for electoral flaws.

Ohio Opts to Put Touch Screen Voting on
Hold

Ohio Opts to Put Touch Screen Voting on
Hold 12/03/2003 12:20 PM

We want our e-voting paper trail

We want our e-voting paper trail 07/11/2004 05:21 PM
Letter El Reg is 'beyond obtuse

Ohio Woman Gets Honor 51 Years After
Kiss (AP)

Ohio Woman Gets Honor 51 Years After
Kiss (AP) 05/14/2004 07:33 AM
AP - A woman whose stolen kiss in a long-gone era kept her out of the National Honor Society will be inducted 51 years late.

E-voting security: looking good on
paper?

E-voting security: looking good on
paper? 07/07/2004 12:58 PM
Voter receipt more 'security blanket' than 'security measure'

Nevada Goes With E-Voting Paper Trail As
Well

Nevada Goes With E-Voting Paper Trail As
Well 12/12/2003 04:35 AM
As predicted a few weeks back when California announced that they were requirin g a paper trail on any e-voting machine, having such a large state do so would make other states follow suit. So, the next one up appears to be Nevada who announced today that they'll require paper receipts. However, here's where the article gets weird. They're claiming that they're the first state to do so, but that seems to ignore the California announcement from last month. The only thing that might support this claim (and this isn't clear) is that the California mandate is basically: if you use electronic voting machines, there needs to be a paper trail. The Nevada announcement appears to be: everyone must use electronic voting machines and there needs to be a paper trail. Completely off topic, but, since my experience with Nevada has been that everywhere you go there will be a slot machine, why doesn't one of these voting machine companies come up with a combined slot machine/voting machine?

Paper trail won't cure e-voting ills

Paper trail won't cure e-voting ills 09/06/2004 05:01 AM
Paper receipts are fine, but they won't guarantee accuracy of the vote count.

Merits of E-Voting, Paper Backups
Debated

Merits of E-Voting, Paper Backups
Debated 05/05/2004 06:31 PM
AP via Daily Press May 5 2004 10:38PM GMT

Senators question e-voting paper trail

Senators question e-voting paper trail 06/22/2005 02:35 AM
Calls for the use of voter-verified paper trails for electronic voting machines ran into trouble today from two powerful members of a Senate committee.

Making E-Voting Systems With Paper
Receipts Even Better

Making E-Voting Systems With Paper
Receipts Even Better 06/08/2004 10:50 AM
With all the talk lately about e-voting, one thing that continually gets mixed up is exactly what the fight is over. Those who are fighting to keep the existing machines like to claim that those who want a verifiable paper trail are fighting against progress - trying to go backwards away from electronic voting to a paper world. Of course, nothing can be further from the truth. Those who want the verifiable paper receipt aren't against electronic voting at all. They just understand the technology enough to realize that the current system isn't particularly secure or reliable and they want to make it better. Once you start going down that trail, however, you need to come up with a system that really is more secure and reliable, and that's where some researchers are putting a lot of attention these days. They're trying to go beyond just adding a verifiable paper ballot, to using systems to make sure that you can check after-the-fact, to guarantee that your vote really was properly counted. Most of the article focuses on David Chaum's system, which tends to bring out very strong opinions in people (too often focused on Chaum, himself, rather than the system). The argument against such systems is that they're either too complex or too expensive (or both), but no one ever said democracy was supposed to be cheap.

Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting
Paper Trail

Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting
Paper Trail 08/28/2004 02:51 PM

Paper Ballot E-Voting Machines Fails
During Test

Paper Ballot E-Voting Machines Fails
During Test 08/16/2004 02:47 AM
While at first glance it might look bad that one of the first new e-voting machines from Sequoia that actually has a paper ballot backup system failed during a demo test, it actually does a wonderful job proving the point most people fighting against current e-voting machines have been trying to prove. The system failed to mark the paper ballot on votes recorded in Spanish, which may seem embarrassing during the test. However, by not marking the paper ballot, it was immediately clear that there was a glitch in the system which could then be fixed. With traditional electronic voting machines that had no paper ballot backup, no one would know whether or not their vote was counted at all.

Groups call for law requiring e-voting
paper trail

Groups call for law requiring e-voting
paper trail 04/28/2004 05:16 PM
As much of the country moves toward using electronic voting machines, the groups want Congress to press ahead with legislation that would require a verified paper trail for voting.

Maryland court rejects paper requirement
for e-voting

Maryland court rejects paper requirement
for e-voting 09/03/2004 06:30 PM
A judge said it would be too costly to allow voters skeptical of electronic voting systems to opt for paper ballots.

Nevadans to Become First to Use
Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper
Trail

Nevadans to Become First to Use
Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper
Trail 09/10/2004 02:05 AM

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“Nevada residents became the first in the nation to vote on computers that leave a paper trail, taking part in a primary that produced scattered reports of delays — though none of the serious problems that have cast doubt upon electronic voting systems in other states. A delegation of federal election officials monitored the equipment’s debut Tuesday in the state capital as voters cast ballots for congressional candidates, state legislators, school officials and judges. Results…

Nevada E-Voting With Paper Backup
Primary Gets Good Results

Nevada E-Voting With Paper Backup
Primary Gets Good Results 09/08/2004 12:32 PM
Back in May we noted that election officials who didn't want to use e-voting machines with a paper trail were hoping Nevada's use of the machines would fail. Nevada was the first state to require that e-voting machines have a paper trail, and yesterday the primary in Nevada used those machines and very few problems were reported. There were, as always, some technical problems here or there, but unlike the other e-voting machines, at least people could check to see if their vote was actually recorded. Looks like those election officials hoping the Nevada experiment would fail should start shopping for new e-voting machines. If they're in California, they might want to avoid Diebold, which doesn't have the greatest reputation in the state these days.

Election Officials Hoping E-Voting
Machines With Paper Receipts Fail

Election Officials Hoping E-Voting
Machines With Paper Receipts Fail 05/27/2004 11:04 AM
You would think that the goal of an election official would be to help guarantee the most accurate election possible, promoting the benefits of democracy. However, it seems that that's not true at all. We've already talked about election officials who have decided to ignore rules requiring their electronic voting machines be more secure and others who are suing because they don't want to make their machines more secure. However, now that Nevada is going to use e-voting machines with a paper trail, many election officials are hoping the machines will fail just to say "I told you so!" Once again, they're missing the point. It is very likely that some of the machines will have bugs - and all of these election officials will start screaming about them. However, the problem with the current e-voting machines is that no one knows if there are bugs or not in how the votes are actually counted. Just because you've set up the system to not inform you if something goes wrong, it doesn't mean that everything has gone right. Shouldn't we trust a system that will at least let us double check if something has gone wrong more than one that doesn't let us check at all? Of course, the article notes that the paper trail in these Nevada elections will be useless, because it doesn't qualify as a legitimate ballot to be recounted. In other words, the only point of using e-voting with the paper trail in these elections is to see if the machines jam up, and then let election officials complain loudly about the problems with paper receipt e-voting machines.

Is The New York Times The Paper Of An
Obsolete Record?

Is The New York Times The Paper Of An
Obsolete Record? 07/14/2004 06:35 AM
We've discussed many times how newspapers simply don't get the internet, and Adam Penenberg is suggesting that there may be no greater example than the NY Times. The Times, of course, was one of the first online newspapers to require online registration and set up a paid archive for articles after a short period of free time online. However, because of that, the New York Times results barely appear at all in Google. If they're striving to be "the paper of record" then they need to be where people are looking -- and these days, people are looking in Google. Penenberg notes that despite the fact that the Times makes very little money off of those archives, they won't open them, because it might endanger their $20 million per year deal with Lexis-Nexis. Talk about getting hung up by legacy systems. Either way, it's a good point that the folks at the NY Times (and other newspapers) need to realize. Being online means being accessible. If you're not, then today's surfers aren't going to care. You may believe you can hang onto a small group and sell their demographic data to advertisers, but the data is dirty and the times are changing. People don't want to jump through hoops when there's a lot of other content out there, and if the command line of the internet is a search engine, these sites that block themselves off are simply making themselves obsolete.

A world in which people pay no heed to
PAPER OF RECORD editorials is beginning
to look a LOT more attractive

A world in which people pay no heed to
PAPER OF RECORD editorials is beginning
to look a LOT more attractive 06/09/2004 02:48 AM
The New York Times > Opinion > Ronald Reagan .. obit masthead on Reagan .. NYT

nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/07MON1.html
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Electronic Voting Machine Shown To
Mis-Record Votes

Electronic Voting Machine Shown To
Mis-Record Votes 05/14/2004 03:14 PM
One of the silly arguments of those defenin g poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes. Well, there goes that argument. Found over at Freedom to Tinker is news of some research done on electronic voting machines used in Florida elections that clearly show the machine's voting image and the audit logs do not match, which could lead to votes being lost or not counted properly. What's scary about this is that the report noting these problems was written a year ago and, even those these problems were known, the machines were still used and the same problems occurred again. As always, the local election supervisor claims that, even though they know about this problem, it's no big deal. She claims that the only problem is with the audit system - and not the vote tabulation. Of course, if the audit system doesn't match the vote tabulation there's no way to know that the vote tabulation actually works properly. Even worse, the "workaround" the supervisor came up with was basically to use uncertified software. What's wrong with a paper trail again?

The quality of record keeping in primary
care: a comparison of computerised,
paper and hybrid systems

The quality of record keeping in primary
care: a comparison of computerised,
paper and hybrid systems 12/22/2003 03:15 AM
Royal College of General Practitioners Dec 22 2003 1:51AM ET

Record sales down 4 years straight

Record sales down 4 years straight 04/11/2004 07:00 AM
"Fourth consecutive annual drop blamed squarely on illegal file sharing" says vnunet. "The 2003 decline reflects consumers' continuing practice to download songs illegally from the Internet" says the Miami Herald. "Global music sales had another difficult year in 2003 under the combined effects of digital and physical piracy and competition from other entertainment products," the Hollywood Reporter parrots. "Global sales of recorded music slid again in 2003 as piracy and illegal downloading continued to inflict damage," Newsday harps. "Industry executives blame European consumers for burning music onto blank compact discs or downloading the music for free off the Internet rather than buy from the local record shop" says Forbes. The The Moscow Times claims "Pirates Taking a Toll on $32Bln Music Industry". Not a single one of them mentioned the four year boycott of the major labels, which started right before the slump in sales started.

"Vast tuition sums go to pay huge
salaries to professors to stare at their
navels and get approving glances from
THE PAPER OF RECORD ."

"Vast tuition sums go to pay huge
salaries to professors to stare at their
navels and get approving glances from
THE PAPER OF RECORD ." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

Cenbank authorizes CEF overseas online
account

Cenbank authorizes CEF overseas online
account 06/19/2004 06:10 AM
Bnamericas.com - Sat Jun 19, 08:02 am GMT

Cisco authorizes $5b in additional stock
repurchases

Cisco authorizes $5b in additional stock
repurchases 05/14/2004 10:41 AM
Xinhua News Agency May 14 2004 2:33PM GMT

Cisco Systems authorizes additional
stock repurchases

Cisco Systems authorizes additional
stock repurchases 05/13/2004 09:16 PM
San Francisco Chronicle May 14 2004 1:14AM GMT

Krugman: In reality, all infidels
probably look alike to the terrorists,
but if they do have a preference,
nothing in Mr. Bush's record would make
them unhappy at the prospect of four
more years

Krugman: In reality, all infidels
probably look alike to the terrorists,
but if they do have a preference,
nothing in Mr. Bush's record would make
them unhappy at the prospect of four
more years 07/21/2004 09:42 AM
everybody knows .. points out .. Krugman .. column

nytimes.com/2004/07/20/opinion/20krug.html?hp
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Raw Print | Republican Ohio Secretary
of State boasts about
"delivering" Ohio to Bush

Raw Print | Republican Ohio Secretary
of State boasts about
"delivering" Ohio to Bush 01/06/2005 04:46 AM
Smoking Gun Ken Blackwell Letter: Brags About Stopping the "Disaster" of a Kerry Victory from Happening. Will the Senate Democrats Just Yawn as They and Democracy are Mocked by Bush's Katherine Harris in Ohio? (Scroll Down) 1/5 .. revealed .. deliver

rawstory.rawprint.com/105/blackwell_campaign_letter2_105.php
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"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..."

"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..." 01/27/2004 02:55 PM

A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes

A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes 05/15/2004 09:47 PM
งชง†ง‡งŠ จŠ† ง„…„„Š ง†ง‡ ‡งŠ ƒง .. [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html] .. International Standard Paper Sizes .. จŒ† งŒ†ฌง .. Fascinating article

cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
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[Paper] Small XSS Paper

[Paper] Small XSS Paper 07/28/2004 04:49 PM
Ferruh Mavituna (Jul 27 2004)

Record Industry making record amounts of
money!

Record Industry making record amounts of
money! 09/04/2004 07:27 PM

Apparently BMI is pretty proud that they have been paying record royalties to their artist. This is at the same time that the RIAA and others are complaining that P2P is costing them Billions. Bunch of hypocrites [Techdirt]

Even more amazing links and contradictions. [Arstechnic a]

Voting Machine Companies Make Political
Contributions to Both Democrats and
Republicans - New Report Traces Campaign
Contributions of Companies that Produce
E-Voting Machines

Voting Machine Companies Make Political
Contributions to Both Democrats and
Republicans - New Report Traces Campaign
Contributions of Companies that Produce
E-Voting Machines 08/13/2004 03:15 AM
New research on the political campaign contributions made to Democrats and Republicans by voting maching companies. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
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