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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...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Use paper absentee ballots, MD gov. says
- After an abysmal primary election in which electronic voting machines displayed just how buggy they can be, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is recommending concerned voters just use paper absentee ballots, Maryland's Gazette reports. Critics said an influx of absentee ballots would be costly and delay results in...
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- In Ohio, paper audit records are a mess
- "Destroyed, blank, illegible, missing, taped together or otherwise compromised." That describes nearly 10 percent of the paper ballots produced by Diebold machines in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where Cleveland is located, according to a review of the county's electronic voting system, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Even when the...
- Blog posts 2006-08-16
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- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- CO official wants return to paper ballotsSecret CodeAs long as the code which tallies my vote is kept secret, I am going to doubt its honesty.I may not care to read that source code but I do care to be allowed to read it.Paper ballots are a good thingIt's reliable...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- After all of the money spent, energy expended and ink spilled over electronic voting machines, it seems that there is a simpler way to vote that is more reliable and that could vastly improve participation: mail-in paper ballots. The Orange County Register interviewed a number of elections officials who...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- E-voting
- Pkstephens, a regular talkback contributor who writes some very insightful stuff, responded to my earlier comments on evoting with a number of queries and, ultimately, a long discussion I thought made a compelling argument. Here it is in its entirety: Im not necessarily disputing...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Election glitches are high-tech, low-tech
- High-tech glitches with electronic voting machines and e-poll registers are a huge part of concern over next months election day, but officials are also scrambling to recover from a raft of low-tech screw-ups, Stateline.org reports. A few cases in point: In Ottawa County, Mich., a ballot was...
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- More on E-voting
- If the evoting machine represents the visible tip of the iceberg, what happens below see level? In both Canada and the United States electoral officials are expected to prepare an appropriate number of polling places, ensure that each polling place has a list of the people eligible to vote...
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- E-Voting
- E-VotingPencil and paperMark the oval next to the candidate you prefer. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.There will be errors and fraud in any system -- the trick is to make fraud as costly as possible and errors as transparent as possible.Hand marked ballots keep the cost of fraud...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- Voting electronically? Be very afraid!
- Voting electronically? Be very afraid!Guess you haven't seen this yethttp://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/09/video_testimony_of_v.htmlHere's video of Clint Curtis, a former programmer for Yang Enterprises YEI in Florida, testifying under oath that Representative Tom Feeney asked him to write a voting machine program to rig elections. Feeney is Republican Congressman who was the Speaker...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- CO lawyer: Stop electronic voting
- Touch-screen voting machines, required by law in many jurisdictions, are actually making elections less secure - indeed, says a Colorado attorney who filed a suit on behalf of 14 citizens, the system in that state is "headed for a train wreck," the Rocky Mountain News reports. An expert would...
- Blog posts 2006-09-15
- An odd E-voting bit
- An odd E-voting bitCable problems continueAccess to my site - and my access to your comments and this site - will continue to be highly variable until Shaw gets their problem fixed.They promised by the day before yesterday....eVotingThe reason that Delay's name has to appear on the ballot is that...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- Home office is no tax shelter
- Home office is no tax shelterThe more things change the more they stay the sameTaxation without representation, eh? Perhaps all these folks who do not live in New York, yet are taxed by New York should sue to have a say in New York state politics, say, like the ability...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- Bush campaign official indicted
- Bush campaign official indictedWhat a surpriseIt makes sense that it was a Republican responsible for a DDoS attack against a Democratic candidate. I mean, only a fool would have thought that a Democratic candidate would have sabotaged another Democratic candidate's campaign. A Republican had the most to gain so this...
- Discussion threads 2004-12-01
- Government watchdog to investigate election
- Government watchdog to investigate electionNeeds InvestigatingI had four friends over the night of the election.Three of us had been mysteriously un-registered to vote.One was un-registered from the precienct where she has voted since she was old enough - where she voted in the last election. She was told that...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-23
- E-voting critic calls on hackers to expose flaws
- E-voting critic calls on hackers to expose flawsE-voting disaster in the makingNO e-voting period, it would be to easy for anyone to enter the system and cause total kaos and disaster.If you want to vote, go to the poll or do as the military does and so on, absent card...
- Discussion threads 2004-07-29
- Court refuses to lift California e-voting restrictions
- Court refuses to lift California e-voting restrictionsComputers + Voting = Ralph Nader DominationThink about it. A couple motivated computer scientists hack this flawed system and just for fun, get Ralf Nader elected. I'm from Minnesota and I've seen first hand what can come out of a Joke candidate....
- Discussion threads 2004-07-07
- Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualties
- Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualtiesVote for Bush in '04....so you can get drafted and have a slug pumped into your skull from some phony foisted war lobbed on to some poor arab country so that Bush and Co. can realize their dream of ruling the universe.BTW, why...
- Discussion threads 2004-05-20
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