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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mahjongg Investigations (exe)
- Organized crime is taking over Metro City. As a detective in the 83rd precinct you must use your Mahjongg skills to unearth clues and bring the criminals to justice. Don Diamante, the citys undisputed godfather, must be located and brought in. Collect and match evidence tiles to pinpoint perpetrators. Special...
- Tags: Professional Development, Desktops, Career, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-06-21
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machinesPaper TrailIn my voting precinct it was optional to use the touch screen voting machine. The bubble ballot scanners were also available, so I had a choice of either. I personally like the ease of use of the touch screen, but I would...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, PRODUCTIVITY, ballot, touch screen, computer, voter
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Politicos: MD will switch to paper audit systems in '08
- Politicos: MD will switch to paper audit systems in '08MARYLAND'S VOTING SYSTEMAdopting a system of paper ballots to be counted by optical scan would be a lot cheaper since only one machine would be required in each precinct as opposed to DRE machines, which require a machine for each voter....
- Tags: Financial accounting, audit system, Politico, audit, Paper Ballots
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- 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
- In VA, paperless voting but no shortage of paper
- While it looks like the super-tight vote for Virginia senator will be settled once and for all today in favor of Democrat Jim Webb - giving the Democrats control of both the House and Senate - the past several days of counting have highlighted that elections in the age of...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, ballot, Encoder
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Denver suffering glitches, long lines, frustrated voters
- In Denver, voters are experiencing major backups in voting due to computer glitches and an inadequate number of laptops to check voter registration. Democrats had asked a judge to extend polling hours in the citys voting centers, but she declined, saying she doesnt have authority to do so, The Rocky...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD election
- Maryland held a mock trial of its Diebold voting machines yesterday, to see whether the companys fixes had solved the rather severe problems the machines suffered in the states primary election. The Baltimore Sun reports: The machines experienced 10 problems yesterday, including someone accidentally kicking out a...
- Tags: Diebold Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Diebold says MD bug fixed, officials dubious
- Diebold says it has fixed the bug that caused Maryland voting machines to crash repeatedly during the state's primary election, the Baltimore Sun reports. But elections commissioner Linda H. Lamone is taking a wait-and-see attitude, saying she would not be convinced until it passed a daylong test scheduled...
- Tags: E-Poll, Diebold Inc., voter
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- CO lawyer: Stop electronic voting
- CO lawyer: Stop electronic votingStop Electronic VotingDoing away with electronic voting. Boards of Election can always resort to paper ballots. Paper ballots can be easily controlled by printing a specific number and accounting for the ballots used and those turned back as not used or spoiled. They...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Stop electronic-voting, ballot, e-voting, poll-worker
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- Where democracy goes to Diebold
- Avi Rubin, the political scientist who has documented many problems with Diebold polling equipment, presents his report on a day at the polls during the Maryland primary. You should read the whole thing, but I am going to excerpt extensively because of how critical the performance of Diebold...
- Tags: poll book, voter, Diebold Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Election Troubles
- The Anchorage Daily News reports about technical problems with new Diebold voting machines. From the article:Problems with Alaska’s new touchscreen voting machines slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state. Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several...
- Tags: Implementation, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- States waking up to e-voting machines
- States waking up to e-voting machineswindows CE is the problemSee, the voting machines run on Windows CE, which is short for Windows Critical Error. There will come a time when Bill Gates will make all the voting machines vote for him. Now, if the voting machines ran on Linux,...
- Tags: Financial accounting, GOP-drafted HB3, Democratic Party, recount, e-voting machine, e-voting, democracy
- Discussion threads 2005-12-07
- Gunshot sensing tech blows law enforcement away
- Gunshot sensing tech blows law enforcement awayShot spotter isn't newWe've had Shot Spotter in Redwood City since 1996 which makes the city one of the earliest customers. Shot Spotter, combined with extra patrol units on New Year's Eve called Operation Silent Night, helped eliminate celebratory gunfire which poses a...
- Tags: Shot Spotter, Gunshot Software, Big Brother
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Political Identity
- On the heels of the 2004 election, one of the things that candidates want is email addresses. Not just any email addresses, but email addresses of likely voters with particular persuasions in their district. Broken down by precinct, if you please. The fact...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., e-mail address
- Blog posts 2005-04-27
- Political Identity
- On the heels of the 2004 election, one of the things that candidates want is email addresses. Not just any email addresses, but email addresses of likely voters with particular persuasions in their district. Broken down by precinct, if you please. The fact...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., e-mail address
- Blog posts 2005-04-27
- E-voting critic calls on hackers to expose flaws
- E-voting critic calls on hackers to expose flawsE-voting disaster in the makingNO e-voting period, it would be to easy for anyone to enter the system and cause total kaos and disaster.If you want to vote, go to the poll or do as the military does and so on, absent card...
- Tags: e-voting, voter
- Discussion threads 2004-07-29
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