Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- E-voting
- (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...
- Full E-voting Definition >>
ZDNet Resources
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Demo bill in House would overhaul e-voting law
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- New e-voting rules could mean new machines would be scrapped
- 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...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot, Charlie Crist, e-voting
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Feds tell e-voting testing companies to watch their images
- 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....
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, CIBER, SysTest Labs
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
- E-voting certification company faulted for lax procedures
- 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...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, CIBER
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- In FL, Jennings appeals to see e-voting source code
- 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...
- Tags: Christine Jennings, Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Report blasts e-voting in midterm election
- 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 ...
- Tags: e-voting, voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- 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...
- Tags: paper ballot, ballot, e-voting, Christine Jennings, E-Voting Machine
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Jennings brings e-voting claim to Congress
- 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...
- Tags: Jennings&rsquo, Christine Jennings, Elections, Congress, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- 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
- Changes in e-voting afoot but who will foot the bill?
- 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...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Despite compromise, paperless e-voting machines are history
- 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...
- Tags: Ed Felten, Elections, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- 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...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- 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...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Elections Kathy Dent, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- E-voting a fiasco?
- 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...
- Tags: Jon Stokes, e-voting
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- 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
Additional Resources
- Military won't wait on EMR choice
- Military won't wait on EMR choice.....So in typical bureaucratic fashion they will forgo a system that works well, is battle tested and reliable as well as... most cost effective! I guess when you have morons voting for idiots this is the outcome. ]:)
- Tags: EMR
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
In this podcast Intel's Malcolm Harkins and HP's Manny Novoa chat about the latest issues in security technologies, notably the emergence of hardware assisted virtualization.
Tech news covering the latest in products, conferences and blog commentary, from ZDNet video.
According to a new study from the Economist, future success belongs to those who collaborate effectively. Learn how successful collaboration can improve profits, problem-solving, and competitive differentiation.
