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- E-voting
- (Electronic-Voting) Using a computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter's...
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- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- The Pentagon is pushing states to allow email balloting for troops overseas but so far few states are playing along, AP reports. "The personnel that fight our wars, the people who are most affected by the decisions on the use of the military, are being...
- Tags: State, E-voting, E-mail, Corporate Governance, Government, Online Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Why client-server fails
- The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into the IBM Future Systems project in 1968 was simple: build future...
- Tags: Client-server, Client-server Idea, Serialization Problem, E-voting, Servers, Government, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- eVoting systems come under fire
- eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...
- Tags: Quality, e-voting, standards, Federal Reserve Board
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- eVoting systems come under fire
- As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...
- Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Our students will need to drive E-voting
- Our students will need to drive e-votingEvoting vs Paper voting.Chris,That's a great question. I sent my wife teacher this link to ask her opinion and also ask her to talk to a few students to see what they say. I'll be interested in what they have to say.In my...
- Tags: e-voting, ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Our students will need to drive E-voting
- I heard a piece on The World tonight on my way home from class highlighting electronic voting efforts. In contrast to the United States, where many states are abandoning efforts at e-voting and additional federal funding is being devoted to paper balloting, countries like Brazil have moved almost exclusively...
- Tags: E-voting, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Dear Pamela Jones:
- As you must know this Stephen Norris take-over at SCO poses a real risk to groklaw - what happens to your business if IBM takes this opportunity to settle? The basis for such a settlement is obvious: SCO works to open source everything,...
- Tags: SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Team Management, Open Source, E-voting, Linux, Management, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- Fortify offers source code analysis to states
- Fortify Software says it will offer a free copy of its source code analysis software to states in order to check the integrity of their e-voting machines. According to the press release: "We're donating our products to states so they can find places where their...
- Tags: Software, Analysis, Fortify Software, E-voting, Security, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- Colorado's secretary of state now says the state should junk electronic voting machines and go back to good ol' paper ballots, The Rocky Mountain News reports. "I have more confidence in having votes cast on paper ballots at the polls rather than relying exclusively on...
- Tags: Ballot, Electronic-voting Machine, E-voting, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- A looming election nightmare?
- After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...
- Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- CA squabble with ES&S will delay SF election results
- Election night in San Francisco will be an anticlimactic affair, as Secretary of State Debra Bowen has implemented strict controls over Election Systems and Software, the company that makes the city's e-voting machines, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "We'll probably be able to release the absentee ballot results at...
- Tags: Debra Bowen, San Francisco, Ballot, Computer Associates International Inc., E-voting, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- CA says ES&S sold uncertified machines, wants $10m fine
- California secretary of state Debra Bowen accused Election Systems & Software (ES&S) of ripping off the state by selling five counties nearly 1,000 electronic-voting machines that were not certified, InfoWorld reports."Given that each machine costs about $5,000, it appears ES&S has taken $5 million out of the pockets of several...
- Tags: Debra Bowen, Computer Associates International Inc., E-voting, Machine, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballots
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballotsI was unaware my vote was suppost to be secretWhat a great thing if votes were secret. But I was unaware that it was so. I have always assumed that at least the government knew my voting record just as I know the voting record of my...
- Tags: Government, ballot, e-voting, E-voting predicament
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Image: Illustrating Ohio's E-voting problems
- Chart created by two Ohio residents shows how to reconstruct a supposedly secret ballot.Two Ohio residents have created this chart to show how to reconstruct a supposedly secret ballot.One data source is a list of voter names sorted by the order in which they voted. The second data source is...
- Tags: Ohio, data source, ballot, estimation, e-voting
- Image galleries 2007-08-20
- Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarce
- Now that everyone realizes what a very bad idea electronic voting machines are, Diebold would like nothing more than to get out of the business. Alas, reports InfoWorld, it has been unable to sell Diebold Election Systems. Oh, and revenue projections for the company? Slashed.DES has a new name, Premier...
- Tags: Diebold Inc., E-voting, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Reports on eVoting continue to give it poor marks for security
- I ran across three different articles on eVoting over the last little while that interested me:E-voting systems vulnerable to viruses and other security attacks, new report finds - This report documents the efforts of two teams of security researchers from UC Berkeley and UC Davis my alma mater. The...
- Tags: Security, Team, E-voting, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Senators to abandon '08 E-voting paper trail mandate
- Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandateA hacker's dreamAvoiding any type of paper based back up would be a wonderful opportunity for a programmer that wanted to add a bit of software that will ensure his preferred candidates win an election.We are still in the beta stage of electronic...
- Tags: Dems, Dibold, hacker, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- No access to code in eVoting case
- No access to code in eVoting caseClosed Source for Voting, Anyone?Where are all of the fans about how closed source products are the pillars of capitalism while open source is regarded as communism?[i]"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, e-voting, software
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- No access to code in eVoting case
- A district court of appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that denied access to the source code of he iVotronic touch-screen systems made by Elections Systems & Software in a contested election for a Florida U.S. House seat.Christine Jennings, who lost the race by 369 votes claims that the...
- Tags: Security, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
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