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- Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
- As a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST explained, the easiest-to-solve portion of UOCAVA voting is simply delivering ballots to voters. Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot quickly anywhere in the world. However, a ballot which cannot be successfully...
- Tags: Ballot, Fax, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24 months, you should be well aware that tomorrow millions of Americans will be going to the polls to select their representative, one-third of their senators, and the next president. In general, Americans have become wary of the...
- Tags: Touch Screen, E-voting, Keyboards, Government, Hardware, Peripherals, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Hacking the vote
- Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...
- Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server
- 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
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- The Pentagon is pushing states to allow email balloting for troops overseas but so far few states are playing along, AP reports. "The personnel that fight our wars, the people who are most affected by the decisions on the use of the military, are being...
- Tags: State, E-voting, E-mail, Corporate Governance, Government, Online Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- 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
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot optionThe ACLU is rightCan't be wrong all of the time. 62 days before the primary is not the time to make a change. Better to wait until the general election.Give Us The Choice For Who/What To TrustPaper Please. I want my...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, ballot option
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- 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
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Colorado decertifies voting machinesSo, the mere fact that there was no printout, ...... or the capability of even GENERATING a hard copy of the vote, wasn't enough to alert these geniuses in the IT and Administrative departments of the government that we probably SHOULDN'T be USING these things?I guess there...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, electronic-voting machine, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...
- Tags: open source, ballot, democracy
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- 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
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballots
- E-voting predicament: Not-so-secret ballotsI was unaware my vote was suppost to be secretWhat a great thing if votes were secret. But I was unaware that it was so. I have always assumed that at least the government knew my voting record just as I know the voting record of my...
- Tags: Government, ballot, e-voting, E-voting predicament
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- 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
- Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate
- Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandateA hacker's dreamAvoiding any type of paper based back up would be a wonderful opportunity for a programmer that wanted to add a bit of software that will ensure his preferred candidates win an election.We are still in the beta stage of electronic...
- Tags: Dems, Dibold, hacker, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
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