'E-voting' Category
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CA Senator Bowen proposes SB 11
December 9, 2004SB 11 Senate Bill – INTRODUCED Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), the incoming chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee, has introduced a bill so that political candidates cannot take campaign contributions from voting machine companies. This bill would additionally prohibit a candidate for elective state or local office from accepting any [...]
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E-voting machine irregularities in FL
November 18, 2004The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections by Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson, and Rachel Best. This working paper just came out today (11/18/04). There are some pretty strange findings and the authors say they are “99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable [...]
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Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy
November 14, 2004How could the exit polls in this year’s presidential election have diverged so drastically from the results that election officials and the media announced? Professor Steven Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a disturbing answer. Looking at the exit polls and announced results in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, he concludes that the [...]
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Voting standards do not address current technology
October 30, 2004Stamp of reproval for e-voting systems. By Robert Lemos CNET News.com, October 28, 2004. As U.S. voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday, weak and outdated federal voting standards have emerged as a major cause of e-voting security concerns. Over the years, state election officials have approved purchases of thousands of e-voting machines, relying [...]
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Electronic Voting addressed at American Institute of Physics
October 30, 2004Voting machines remain unsecured, expert warns. By Chappell Brown EE Times, October 28, 2004. With the election only a few days away, news of the insecurity of electronic voting continues to come out with alarming consistency. A government study of voting machine security issues was cancelled because the conclusions by the panel of computer scientists [...]
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E-vote early and often!
October 14, 2004Bad Protocol. Edward W. Felten. Freedom to Tinker, October 13, 2004. Felton reports from a talk by Dan Wallach from Rice University. One of Wallach’s example concerns the Diebold AccuVote-TS system, which uses “smartcards” that validate a electronic vote and only let a voter vote once. Unfortunately, it is “an illustration of how badly Diebold [...]
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limited data on internet voting
October 12, 2004E-Voting Research Delayed, Experts Say Yahoo! News / AP By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN and RACHEL KONRAD. Sun Oct 10, 2004 After nearly 50,000 Michigan Democrats cast ballots over the Internet in February, academics eagerly sought election data that would help them determine what types of people voted online. But scholars around the country complain that [...]
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More on Diebold GEMS
September 23, 2004Wired News: Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws A programmer wrote a 5 line script that changes vote totals in the Diebold e-voting Global Election Management System (GEMS). Diebold says not to worry. The system wasn’t designed to be used that way. And anyway, “no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it’s against [...]
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Lots of information about e-voting
September 23, 2004EFF: E-voting The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides this page of links to information about electronic voting. Categories include: Electronic Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides, an audio of a Technical presentation at a conference, court cases (e.g., ACLU v. Connor (Texas), Stewart v. Blackwell (Ohio)), Standards for Electronic Voting Machines, Independent Research into E-voting Security, Media [...]
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Diebold GEMS tabulator
September 17, 2004Consumer Report Part 1: Look at this — the Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole | Black Box Voting The major news organizations are not covering this. Is it because it is not correct? Surely, someone else should examining this issue! Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator — 1,000 [...]