'E-voting' Category
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Another Diebold security hole
September 7, 2004Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole This was recently posted at blackboxvoting.org. The scary part is that the central tabulator is the machine that receives the votes from individual touch screen terminals! What’s more, here in CA, Gov. Swarzenegger froze the funds, allocated by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, which would have [...]
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Testing of e-voting machines kept secret
August 22, 2004Wired News: E-Vote Machines: Secret Testing The three companies that certify the nation’s voting technologies operate in secrecy and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. Despite concerns over whether the touch-screen machines can be trusted, the testing companies won’t say publicly if [...]
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Dangers with provisional voting
August 6, 2004Washington > Campaign 2004 > A Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/politics/campaign/06vote.html?hp”>The New York Times > Washington >A Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them (Free registration required). Provisional voting, the centerpiece of the Help America Vote Act that Congress passed in 2002, will be put into effect across the nation [...]
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E-voting does not have to be “Direct-Recording Electronic”
July 31, 2004[Politech] More on electronic voting, security, and seeing source code This posting to the email list “Politech” describes the differences between “Direct-Recording Electronic” (DRE) voting and other electronic voting systems. It is important to differentiate between “electronic voting”, which has immense promise to make voting more accessible to many people, as well as improving the [...]
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Unreliable voting continues in FL
July 30, 2004Washington > Campaign 2004 > Lost Record ’02 Florida Vote Raises ’04 Concern” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/politics/campaign/28vote.final.html”>Lost Record ’02 Florida Vote Raises ’04 Concern. By Abby Goodnough, NYT July 28, 2004 (login required). Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are [...]
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Hearing on E-voting
July 9, 2004House Cmte. Hearing on Electronic Voting Security [requires RealOne Player] The House Administration Committee holds this hearing on the security of electronic voting systems. 11:00 AM. 7/7/2004: WASHINGTON, DC. 3 hours. Witnesses addressing the issues of “direct-recording electronic” (DRE) voting machines include Britain J. Williams, professor emeritus of computer science and IT at Kenesaw State [...]
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League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines
June 16, 2004League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press, USA Today, Posted 6/14/2004 7:25 PM. The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or [...]
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E-Voting doesn’t meet standards of E-gambling
June 14, 2004Opinion > Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.html?ex=1402459200&en=40e4afe91f2a555f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND”>Opinion: Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting. New York Times, June 13, 2004. Dan Gillmor points to this NYT editorial that compares standards for gambling machines to the lack of standards and testing and regulation for e-voting machines. He notes that the editorial page is doing much [...]
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Abusable technology awareness center
June 8, 2004ATAC: Abusable Technologies Awareness Center This looks like quite a useful blog. Their goal is to “provide current and accurate information about technology that oversteps its bounds.” The list of panelists is quite impressive and, if the first two posts are any proof, there is quite a bit of interesting discussion going on here (see [...]
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Open Voting Consortium
May 30, 2004The Open Voting Consortium Open Voting Consortium (OVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and delivery of open voting systems for use in public elections. Read more from the NYT magazine story, “A Really Open Election”