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- 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
- A call for electronic election data standards
- With the election looming, a question remains whether federal standards for the electronic registration databases are maintained well enough to keep voters from getting purged from the rolls, reports Technology Review According to Thad Hall, a political scientist at the University of Utah and an elections expert, the...
- Tags: standards, Thad Hall
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Voting electronically? Be very afraid!
- This Novembers election marks the first widespread use of electronic voting in the US. There is considerable concern among computer security professionals and others that electronic voting is not secure and evidence keeps mounting that the current crop of machines are not secure as they could be. The Help...
- Tags: E-voting, precinct, audit
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Texas secretary of state pushing e-voting - hard
- In many states, the verdict is still out on electronic voting machines, but if Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams has his way, his state will vote digital in all coming elections, reports The Statesman. Williams has taken his pro-electronic voting machine message on the Web and elsewhere to...
- Tags: Williams, e-voting
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- Two new e-voting vendors try to sell to local govts.
- The New York Times reports on two newcomers to the e-voting industry. The companies - AutoMark Techical Systems and Avante Intl. Technology - may prove to be surprising dark horses in the election of e-voting vendors or little more than write-in candidates. AutoMark is the brainchild of Eugene M....
- Tags: Avante Intl, AutoMark Techical Systems, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-06-08
- Cook County evoting machines delay vote tabulation
- Electronic voting machines caused problems in Chicago's Cook County as election workers were unable to transmit vote tallies in Tuesday's Democratic primary, the Washington Post reports. Votes for an important local race, Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, were delayed until Wednesday. llinois has received more...
- Tags: Landon Neal, Cook County
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Warnings on voter databases
- With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 HAVA, many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards to protect their data against fraud, according to a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery. "Nobody's done...
- Tags: ACM, database
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- IT's role in improving elections
- Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker released the final version of a bipartisan election reform report today. The two led a 21-member, privately funded Commission that offered 87 recommendations to strengthen the country's electoral system and build confidence in the political process. Of the...
- Tags: voter registration
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- E-voting accreditation takes a small step forward
- Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology will not be able to provide a list of recommended labs to certify e-voting machines until 2007, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has adopted a plan to temporarily accredit labs already used by state and local authorities. National Association of State Election...
- Tags: accreditation
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
- Calif. requires manufacturers to meet national voting law requirements
- Manufacturers of e-voting machines will have to bear the cost of meeting the requirements of the Help America Vote Act HAVA, California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said last week. Vendors will have to sign contracts agreeing to the stipulation. “I want the people to get what they paid for,...
- Tags: Bruce McPherson
- Blog posts 2005-08-10
- In an Entrepreneurial Venture, Populex Corporation Partners With HP for Major Competitive Differentiation
- With more than 35 years of technology-based experience in both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 companies, and holding 29 U.S. and several foreign patents for telecommunications and high technology products, Populex Corporation was asked to find a voting solution that would address the electoral problems uncovered in the Bush/Gore presidential race...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Entrepreneurship, Business Structures, Management, Finance
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