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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
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...
- Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- 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
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- 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...
- Tags: Paper Ballots, ballot, voter, post voter
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
- 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
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Colorado decertifies voting machinesSo, the mere fact that there was no printout, ...... or the capability of even GENERATING a hard copy of the vote, wasn't enough to alert these geniuses in the IT and Administrative departments of the government that we probably SHOULDN'T be USING these things?I guess there...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, electronic-voting machine, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Coming quick on the heels of a scathing voting machine report from the Ohio Secretary of State see Larry Dignan for details, the machines have been decertified for use in parts of Colorado. According to The Denver Channel: Secretary of State Mike Coffman cited security or...
- Tags: Colorado, Audit, Ballot, Financial Accounting, Scanners, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...
- Tags: open source, ballot, democracy
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- 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
- 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
- Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarceDont trust paper ballots eitherWhat proof do you have that your paper ballot gets counted? Before Al Gore's election challenge we never counted dangling chads or anything else the counting machines rejected.Not that it matters much as ALL the candidates the...
- Tags: ballot, felon, Diebold Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Paper trail bill voted out of House committee. Would such a law have prevented Sarasota?
- Paper trail bill voted out of House committee. Would such a law have prevented Sarasota?So what?We have no way of knowing whethe our votes are tallied honestly.Even paper ballots tend to be un through scanners in all but small New Englamd towns. The scanners magically produce tallies that might even...
- Tags: Scanners, ballot, e-voting, Paper Trail
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
- 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...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail electionsMAIL ELECTION BY MAILHI,THANKS FOR YOUR CLEARLY WRITTEN ARTICLE. I HAVE SOME IDEAS ABOUT HOW VOTING SHOULD BE DONE THAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR SOME TIME AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU.FROM WORKING AS A PART TIMER IN POST...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., ballot, voter, information technology, IT IS
- Discussion threads 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...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machinesPaper TrailIn my voting precinct it was optional to use the touch screen voting machine. The bubble ballot scanners were also available, so I had a choice of either. I personally like the ease of use of the touch screen, but I would...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, PRODUCTIVITY, ballot, touch screen, computer, voter
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
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