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- An examination of systems, programming and datacenter procedures in order to determine the efficiency of computer operations.
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- MD Senate, House vote to scrap $65m e-voting system
- Maryland moved a step closer to scrapping its $65 million e-voting system and switching to machines that produces a paper audit trail. The state Senate unanimously approved a bill to do just that. But even if the bill is ultimately signed into law, the change wouldnt happen until the 2010...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Panel says voting systems need paper audits
- A federal tech committee acted to herald the end of paperless electronic voting yesterday. The Technical Guidelines Development Committee voted to start work on a national standard for voting machines - and that standard includes independent verification of ballot choices, The Washington Post reports. "This seems to mark...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Initial audit of FL machines finds no problems
- Florida state election officials in Sarasota County conducted a simulated election on five e-voting machines not used in the countys problematic election, as the state proceeds with an audit to explain why 18,000 cast ballots didnt include a vote for the hotly contested Congressional race, AP reports. The workers...
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Mounting pressure for a paper trail in FL and Washington
- In Florida and Washington, pressure is mounting to do something about the state of voting in the country. After problems with e-voting in a Florida county - and with Democrats in control of Congress - the odds are good that state and federal legislation will be passed to address the...
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- FL county muddles through the paper trail
- In Sarasota County, FL, where 18,000 ballots registered no votes for Floridas 13th Congressional District House race, dozens of recount volunteers are scrutinizing pieces of paper, seeking mathematical errors in the computerized tabulation of votes, The Miami Herald reports. Its a meaningless ritual, said David Dill, a Stanford University...
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
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- FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online
- Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999
- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999Correction: change the insecure in previous posting to secureReally got to look closer at what I post.I have to agree that the electronic election industryNeeds some severe reform, if not the hammer brought down on them. I was ALWAYS suspicious as to...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- What is security transparency?
- Guest editorial by Andrew Storms Transparency is a common theme in politics and Wall Street these days. The 2008 elections, dealings of TARP, financial institutions run a-muck are all places where we hear the word transparency bandied about on a daily basis. While many security professionals speak...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Google grapples with increasingly political Web
- Google grapples with increasingly political WebUghI hope the internet doesn't lead to direct democracy. It's a horrible system of government best summed up as three wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.There's a reason our founding fathers picked a representative republic, although they also assumed that people in the...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Next step in e-voting: printers that don't jam
- The widespread use of e-voting machines yielded a backlash among voters. Most election officials have opted for system that include a paper audit trail, so voters can check that their votes were entered in the electronic machine as intended. But that solution is creating another low-tech glitch, AP reports...
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Politicos: MD will switch to paper audit systems in '08
- Maryland - one of the states that relied on 100% electronic voting machines - will likely move to a verifiable paper record for the 2008 presidential election, politicians predicted yesterday, according to the Baltimore Sun. State Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, who was viewed as a main obstacle...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Sarasota, FL, junks e-voting machines
- Things went so swimmingly on election day in Sarasota County, FL, that the county will abandon touch-screen voting in 2008 and return to paper ballots, the Orland Sentinel reports. The e-voting machines may have lost some 18,000 votes in a hotly contested congressional race. That was the number...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Would open source make elections fair?
- Would open source make elections fair?Unintentional duplication, I presume.There's a paragraph that appears to be making its point by repetition.You DON'T want receiptsVoting receipts is an idiotic idea and it only invites more corruption.Our votes are supposed to be [b]secret[/b] for a reason - so that votes cannot be bought...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Election blues: The many ways for things to awry on Nov. 7
- The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the possible problems that may crop up with e-voting machines on November 7 registration required Among the major issues: New equipment, elderly poll workers: Many machines bought under Helping America Vote were only bought this year, which means...
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- IL counties have faith in voting machines
- In Illinois, county election officials are furiously spinning about election machines. In DuPage County, the Election Commission invited the media to tour a warehouse to see the steps they've taken to protect their Diebold-built machines from would-be hackers. And, the Daily Herald reports, in Kane County, the county...
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Yet more on Evoting
- Yet more on EvotingMaybe, but we've seen where...that ends in the US.... A public fight in court, a moron in the White house and lots of tax money wasted on 'public services'to controll everybody...BTW: Using different counting and/or RDBMS software for different locations means that an interface needs to be...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- Voting electronically? Be very afraid!
- This Novembers election marks the first widespread use of electronic voting in the US. There is considerable concern among computer security professionals and others that electronic voting is not secure and evidence keeps mounting that the current crop of machines are not secure as they could be. The Help...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
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