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- Scottish election suffers from e-voting woes
- The US isnt the only country with e-voting problems. In Scotland, elections last week were seriously marred by spoiled paper ballots, which led to technical problems with electronic counting systems that delayed election results, Computerworld reports. The supplier, DRS, told Computerworld UK that the problems were not about being...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Reluctantly, ID gives up punch card voting
- Idaho is the last state with old-fashioned manual punch card voting systems, but thats about to change. Ada County, Idaho is about to switch over to optical scan technology, the Idaho Stateman reports. County officials are not exactly pleased. Compared to the punch-card system, county officials say...
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- 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
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- In Florida, its back to the future. The state whose election irregularities sent the presidential election of 2000 to the Supreme Court and spawned a crisis in the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines wants to go back to all paper ballots. Gov. Charlie Crist will ask the Florida...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of FL voting machines
- The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider whether Floridas touch-screen voting machines need to have a paper trail in case of a recount, The Orlando Sentinel reports. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler appealled a lower-court ruling that the states touch-screen voting machines dont need to leave a paper ballot trail....
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- FL legislature contends with problems with e-voting machines
- When the Florida Legislature convenes in March, the future of electronic voting machines will be one of the top items of business. While much of the country is registering fears about the ways votes are handled with the machines, Florida once again is in the limelight with an ongoing controversy...
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Bad sample ballot may explain voting shortfall in FL
- Its looking increasingly likely that those 18,000 missing votes in a congressional race in Floridas Sarasota County really were never cast, rather than being lost in a e-voting snafu. One possible reason for the shortfall: In efforts to save money the county sent out a sample ballot that didnt match...
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- FL certifies challenged election
- In problematic House District 13, where about 18,000 cast ballots mysteriously didnt include votes for a hotly contested House race, state officials officially certified Republican Vern Buchanan the winner by 369 votes over Democrat Christine Jennings, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Democrats immediately followed with a lawsuit asking...
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- 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
- 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
- In Kathleen Harris' district, a recount and probably a revote
- Katherine Harris and voting irregularities just go together like PB & J. Six years after Harris, Floridas secretary of state in 2000 and currently a US Representative, certified George W. Bush as president, the vote for who will succeed her in the House is completely screwed up.This time, electronic voting...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- In VA, paperless voting but no shortage of paper
- While it looks like the super-tight vote for Virginia senator will be settled once and for all today in favor of Democrat Jim Webb - giving the Democrats control of both the House and Senate - the past several days of counting have highlighted that elections in the age of...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- IN: Machines fail, hours extended, court fights galore
- In Indiana, voters are suffering serious difficulties at the polls. In Delaware County technical glitches in e-voting machines prevented voting in 75 precincts and a judge extended voting hours in the county until 8:40 local time. On a blog-like page on its website, the Indianapolis Star is posting...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- 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
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- 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
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked"when an optical reader and paper ballot solve everything?? "It doesn't solve the problem of how to allow elections to be manipulated, which is what this is all about.The ability to produce a desired election result without having any way to challenge it is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- 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
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at risk
- Major flaw in State of Pennsylvania online voter registration puts user data at riskCommonThis is a common phenomenon, happens to MS-only shops.You get a 'developer' who only knows Microsoft technology. (aka: Softie). Since Microsoft stresses ease of use (they don't do complexity well), you get the point and click 'developer'...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
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