(Electronic-Voting) Using a computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter's...
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...
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...
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...
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) is the lead sponsor of HR 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, which has garnered dozens of co-sponsors, Ars Technica reports. HR 811 features several requirements that will warm the hearts of geek activists. It bans the use of computerized voting...
Several Pennyslvania counties say they may have to scrap their recently purchased voting machines - at a cost of several million dollars - if newly proposed rules become law, the Pittsburg Post-Gazette reports. The proposed change calls for all voting machines to print the type of ballot that can...
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...
Companies that test voting machines are coming under increasing fire. As we noted earlier this month, the federal Election Assistance Commission banned Ciber Inc. from testing more machines until it starting meeting the governments QA requirements. New York state was also leaning hard on Ciber to clean up its act....
The federal government has temporarily banned Ciber Inc. - the lab that has tested most electronic voting machines - from testing more machines after it learned the company hasnt been following proper procedures, The New York Times reports. “What’s scary is that we’ve been using systems in elections that...
After losing an election in which 18,000 voters mysteriously failed to cast a vote in a hotly contested House race, Florida Democrat Christine Jennings sued to force the e-voting manufacturer to turn over the machines source code. Circuit Judge William Gary refused to grant that request last week, ruling her...
Three anti-evoting advocacy groups have released a report that says electronic voting machines gave the country not more accurate elections but rather late poll openings, data-retrieval errors and widespread machine failures, The Houston Chronicle reports. The report PDF, released by Voter Action, VotersUnite.Org and VoteTrust USA, looked ...
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...
Christine Jennings, the presumptive loser in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, is officially contesting the race results in Congress, alleging widespread voting machine irregularities, Congressional Quarterly reports. The House Administration Committee will decide whether to proceed with an investigation of the complaint. Since the 109th Congress is over, the...
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...
With new federal guidelines on e-voting machines and widespread voter discontent, changes at the polling place are a sure thing for the 2008 Presidential election, The New York Times reports. "In the next two years I think well see the kinds of sweeping changes that people expected to see...
On his blog Freedom to Tinker, Prof. Ed Felten praises the new standards approved by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee TGDC.. While disappointed that the panel didnt require the removal of paperless e-voting machines, Felten thinks that states will phase out all-electronic machines in favor to the "state of the...
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...
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...
Jon Stokes has a post-mortem of the election day e-voting problems, and though you wont read much about the problems - or see them - in the national media, Stokes writes, they were myriad. Its not anecdotal - Common Cause logged 16,000 calls on their hotline. Proof that mechanical...
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...
Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...
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