Senators question e-voting paper trail

Grok Headline matches for Senators question e-voting paper trail

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

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.

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

Direct and Related Links for 'Nevadans to Become First to Use Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper Trail'

“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…

Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting
Paper Trail

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

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.

Senators Question TSA Denials

Senators Question TSA Denials 04/15/2004 04:59 AM
In the wake of American Airlines' admission that it shared passenger data with federal contractors, two senators ask Transporation Security Administration officials why they denied having acquired airline passenger records when in fact they had. By Ryan Singel.

Senators Question Bolton's
Qualifications to Be U.N. Envoy

Senators Question Bolton's
Qualifications to Be U.N. Envoy 04/11/2005 01:52 PM
Senators challenged the nominee's past blunt criticisms of the U.N., his policy positions, and even his temperament.

paper trail NOW paper trail NOW paper
trail NOW

paper trail NOW paper trail NOW paper
trail NOW 07/28/2004 02:44 PM
Florida county loses 2002 E-voting records in computer crash Ooooops. Do your Congresspeople and Senators support verified voting ? - Check the VerifiedVoting.org database (verifiedvoting.org previously mentioned here) to see if your political reps support H.R.2239 and S.1980, the tandem bills before the U.S. House and Senate which would mandate paper-trail voting. "Electronic miscounts of votes are a fact, not a theory...Technologists warn that electronic voting machines are flawed. They say we should "trust but verify." " Others disagree....with Democracy.

Paper Trail

Paper Trail 08/30/2004 12:04 PM
Activists are pushing voters to use absentee ballots in the face of electronic voting machine mishaps. But paper can be hacked, too.

The Paper Trail

The Paper Trail 05/31/2004 07:10 AM
The Paper Trail "But TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official—whose name was blacked out by the Pentagon—that raises questions about Cheney's arm's-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the e-mail says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. The e-mail says Douglas Feith, a high-ranking Pentagon hawk, got the "authority to execute RIO," or Restore Iraqi Oil, from his boss, who is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. RIO is one of several large contracts the U.S. awarded to Halliburton last year"

"auditable paper trail"

"auditable paper trail" 07/29/2004 08:51 PM

A paper trail and a pistol

A paper trail and a pistol 06/01/2004 10:38 AM

A Paper Trail for Voters 12/9

A Paper Trail for Voters 12/9 12/09/2003 08:28 AM
New York Times editorial

nytimes.com/2003/12/08/opinion/08MON1.html
track this site | 4 links

Paper trail a a costly route

Paper trail a a costly route 07/22/2004 01:13 AM
Usatoday.com - Wed Jul 21, 08:10 am GMT

Demand for Paper Trail Escalates

Demand for Paper Trail Escalates 07/15/2004 04:58 AM
Activists hand over more than 350,000 signatures to election officials, demanding that electronic voting machines have voter-verified paper trails. They also hold rallies around the country to make their point. By Kim Zetter.

TIME.com: The Paper Trail -- Jun. 07,
2004

TIME.com: The Paper Trail -- Jun. 07,
2004 05/30/2004 11:36 PM
Time Uncovers Evidence That Cheney Lied About Not Being Involved in Halliburton Contracts .. strikes again .. forgotten .. Link: .. lied

time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040607-644111,00.html
track this site | 6 links

Women Vote for Paper Trail

Women Vote for Paper Trail 06/14/2004 07:40 PM
Wired News Jun 14 2004 11:28PM GMT

Without paper trail, election could be
chaotic

Without paper trail, election could be
chaotic 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
SiliconValley.com Mar 17 2004 11:04AM GMT

Usenix President - Linux Needs Better
Paper Trail

Usenix President - Linux Needs Better
Paper Trail 05/24/2004 02:31 PM

Paper Trail Leads to Alleged Grinches
(AP)

Paper Trail Leads to Alleged Grinches
(AP) 12/27/2004 10:49 AM
AP - It wasn't tough for police to thwart two would-be Grinches — they just followed the telltale trail of wrapping paper.

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

Diebold Will Add A Paper Trail... At A
Huge Price

Diebold Will Add A Paper Trail... At A
Huge Price 12/16/2003 01:47 PM
I think it's now been determined exactly why Diebold is so afraid of adding a paper trail to their voting machines: they keep getting burned by paper trails. After emails exposed just how insecure their voting machines were, a set of internal Diebold communications show an employee suggesting that, should they be required to retrofit voting machines with paper trails that they charge ridiculously high fees to do so. Diebold has said that the cost of the printers included in a voting machine would run about $1,000 to $1,200, which may seem a bit high for a pretty simple printer. The internal memos, however, point out that this is just part of the strategy. Since they're going in and replacing or retrofitting machines that have already been bought, Diebold sees them as captive customers who will be forced to pay whatever Diebold wants.

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 AM

nytimes.com/2004/07/28/politics/campaign/28vote.final.html?ei=5006& en=b992e2c2cfb441c3&ex=1091592000&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print& position=
track this site | 4 links

EPIC Sues to Obtain Gov't Paper Trail on
Collection of Passenger Data

EPIC Sues to Obtain Gov't Paper Trail on
Collection of Passenger Data 06/11/2004 01:59 AM
BeSpacific Jun 11 2004 5:08AM GMT

California voting machine called into
question

California voting machine called into
question 11/04/2003 08:19 PM
A state committee tables certification of Diebold's new touch-screen voting machine pending an investigation of uncertified software allegedly inserted into existing machines.

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'

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

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.

Experts question integrity of proposed
military e-voting scheme

Experts question integrity of proposed
military e-voting scheme 09/03/2004 04:52 AM
Last February, a team of patriotic geeks was assembled by Uncle Sam to test out the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) system for military and others stationed outside the Untied States. The team's conclusions, unfortunately, were that the system was as wide open as a Windows box in terms of vulnerability and totally closed in terms of code, calling the mostly-Accenture software of the system into question.

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.

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.

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

Ohio Authorizes E-Voting, Wants Paper
Record Within Two Years 05/10/2004 11:53 AM
While California is banning all e-voting machines unless they agree to some fairly strict security provisions, it looks like Ohio has now auth orized the use of e-voting machines for the November election. The state will require a paper trail for e-voting machines - but not until May of 2006. If they're going to require it anyway, I don't see why they shouldn't require it now. This basically means that for the next two years we have no way of knowing how accurate votes from Ohio will be.

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.

A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes

A4 Paper / International Standard Paper
Sizes 05/15/2004 09:47 PM
§ª§†§‡§Š ¨Š† §„…„„Š §†§‡ ‡§Š ƒ§ .. [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html] .. International Standard Paper Sizes .. ¨Œ† §Œ†¬§ .. Fascinating article

cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
track this site | 5 links

[Paper] Small XSS Paper

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

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]

Senators Getting RSS!

Senators Getting RSS! 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

Senate Begins RSS Rollout

"Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) is the first Senator with a RSS news feed for press releases on his official site. Feeds for other senators will soon follow according to Jason Blum in Enterprise Systems Support of the office of the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms. Plans call for what Blum refers to as 'RSS relay agents.' These are local customized feeds for hometown constituents for NOAA weather alerts and state news." [RSS in Government]

Biden's feed is here. This is really thrilling news, and maybe it will even prompt legislators to post more substantial news more often to their sites!

In addition, if your library runs a community or news site, don't forget that you'll be able to re-post these feeds on that site. After all, they can't be copyrighted or licensed since they're funded by taxpayer money and they come from our government, right? (At least for the moment....)

Grok Description matches for Senators question e-voting paper trail
GrokA matches for Senators question e-voting paper trail

Senators question e-voting paper trail

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: