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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

OH election workers sentenced for recount fraud

People who suspect the 2004 presidential election was stolen got a boost recently when two Ohio election workers were sentenced to prison for rigging a recount of that states election. According to the AP, Jacqueline Maiden, the election boards third-highest ranking employee and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer, each were...

Tags: recount, worker

Blog posts 2007-03-14

In FL, missing e-votes cast doubt on House race

A Florida Democrat who lost his House race is seeking a recount after dozens of people reported problems using Sarasota County’s touch-screen voting machines and a significant number of ballots had no recorded votes in the high-profile race, The New York Times reports. Christine Jennings lost to...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, Christine Jennings

Blog posts 2006-11-10

Additional Resources

Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade

no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, e-voting, Windows Upgrade, Changing

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

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...

Tags: Companies, election industry, open source, TRANSPARENCY

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

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'...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., ASPX, online voter registration, voter registration, MAJOR Flaw

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

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

YouTube view-Ron Paul voting result gap tells me some of his fans are people-phobic

YouTube view-Ron Paul voting result gap tells me some of his fans are people-phobicComparison is offYT and the FL primary numbers are not comparable. You may well be right that many Paul supporters view YT more frequently. The wheels fall off your analysis when you pick up numbers...

Tags: result gap, YouTube view-Ron Paul, Ron Paul, YouTube Inc., Paul

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

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

Things we need to learn more about

Things we need to learn more about#5 PhonicsI was one of the first students subjected to a phonic alphabet. The year was 1966 and "Hooked on Phonics" was called ITA. This experiment lasted all of a few years, until results started showing a disturbing trend. Although Phonics allowed for children...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, identity

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

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

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

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....

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Elections, Christine Jennings

Blog posts 2007-01-10

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

Report blasts e-voting in midterm electionLinks to more ongoing election-vote news...Ongoing news and truth about the U.S. elections fraud: http://blackboxvoting.org   http://www.iwantmyvote.com/news/http://www.iwantmyvote.com/recount/

Tags: e-voting

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

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

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...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot

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...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Elections Kathy Dent, ballot, voter

Blog posts 2006-11-15

E-voting a fiasco?

E-voting a fiasco?VotingIn New York, voting itself is a waste of time. Hillary is still here and, who would have thought it possible, Shumer is even more full of himself than he was the day before.E-Voting FiascoThere are several good sites that list the various problems in this last, and...

Tags: e-voting, fiasco

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

E-voting

E-votingSo that's why PJ bans "politics"Not that it works, of course, but boy if you want to be provocative you've succeeded. I won't argue the Democrats have clean hands. There is the old story of how after his death William F. Buckley's grandfather switched from Republican to Democrat....

Tags: Vertical industries, Keyboards, e-voting, government, VOTING MACHINES

Discussion threads 2006-11-14