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- When society makes technical decisions
- When society makes technical decisionsgovernment officals allowed to lag...Watching your back is a full time job, so few government officials have the time to appreciate or understand technology. There is no "think tank" that I know of to help the ignorant politicians, who while being well meaning, are depending...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Diebold Voting Machines, Diebold Inc., government
- Discussion threads 2005-07-28
- E-voting makes its mark
- E-voting makes its markThe Diebold effect..Both Ohio and Florida were big users of Diebold voting machines which were decertified for use in Califorina.http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htmAugust 14, 2003. Walden O'Dell, CEO of Diebold Inc. tells Republicans in a fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the...
- Tags: Litigation, Diebold Inc., Diebold Voting Machines, fraud, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2004-11-03
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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...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- 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...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, ballot, paper ballot
- 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...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
- Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'What else can they do?OS/2 is gone. Get over it.Windows ATM machines are elegant...The fear of losing money for customers is negated by the elegance and robustness of the Microsoft interfaces on these ATM machines. I met with a local bank CIO who was concerned...
- Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, NETWORKING, Financial services, ATM, Microsoft Windows, ATM Machines, bank, WINDOWS BASED
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- United Tech makes bid for ATM maker Diebold
- United Tech makes bid for ATM maker Dieboldthey make voting machines still?Does that mean they will buy this year's election too? jk.Let's hope United Tech is less corruptI bet the "additional value" they found was in the form of bribes given to Diebold by the Republicans (in the form of...
- Tags: United, Diebold Inc., ATM company, ATM
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- 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
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?
- The state of Ohio has released a comprehensive study of voting machine security and the report will have you longing for paper. A 334-page PDF report from the Ohio Secretary of State reveals insufficient security, poor implementation of security technology, lax auditing and shoddy ...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Access, EVEREST, Premier AV-TSX, Hart EMS, Security, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 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
- 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
- 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
- County's loss of voting data leads to new election
- In another case that puts into question the usability of electronic voting machines, a California judge is likely to order a new election for a Berkeley, CA, ballot initiative that lost due to dubious electronic voting machine data, reports IDG News Service.Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- County agrees to share e-voting data after court challenge
- After losing in court, Alameda County, CA, has agreed to share available election data from its e-voting machines, InfoWorld reports. The countys deputy counsel revealed in a court filing that it has tracked down 307 of 420 voting machines that may still contain vote tabulations from a disputed 2004 election...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- HID denies RFID demo threat, hackers worry
- HID denies RFID demo threat, hackers worryClassic crap from the Corporates.....Translation: "If you dare tell the truth and make the world aware of how much our product sucks, our attorneys will make your life miserable." That's pretty much what it comes down to. The Corporates have no...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, hacker, RFID
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- 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...
- Tags: e-voting, Elections, Government technology, paper, printer, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Crime on Paper
- "Crime on-line", thats the cover age title of the ACM Queue (Vol 4, #9) that arrived in my mailbox last week. Theres crime there all right, but its on paper, specifically in the articles relating to on-line crime and e-voting. Not that there isnt something good in...
- Tags: e-voting
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- About those voting machines ...
- Writing in Forbes, security expert Bruce Schneier says electronic voting machines are flat-out "a grave threat to fair and accurate elections." Much of our election security is based on "security by competing interests." Every step, with the exception of voters completing their single anonymous ballots, is witnessed by someone...
- Tags: e-voting, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Why Microsoft won't assault Linux
- Why Microsoft won't assault Linux1BFor once, we mostly agree.However, you might put a bit more weight on "1b:" the threat is more potent than the assault. A known danger creates less fear than an unknown one, which takes on the dimensions of the imagination.MS is well aware of this,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Solaris
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
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