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E-voting debate heats up in California Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 JULY 16, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A former California political candidate who lost the March 2004 race for Riverside County Board of Supervisors by only 45 votes filed a lawsuit today against the county after she was denied access to the memory and audit logs of the electronic voting systems used during the election. |
State's top election official pulls plug on electronic voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three Ohio counties that were considering a switch to electronic voting machines for the November election will not be allowed to do so because of concerns about the machines' security, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell said Friday. |
Riverside County wins certification for electronic voting in November Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 SACRAMENTO - Riverside County won certification for electronic voting in the Nov. 2 election Friday, becoming the state's seventh county where voters will be allowed to use touch-screen machines. |
Civil Rights Board Wants Inquiry on Florida Voter-Purge List Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 WASHINGTON, July 15 - Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called on the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate possible voting-rights violations in Florida's troubled effort to purge felons from its voter registration lists. At a hearing on the state's effort to use a list of 48,000 suspected felons to trim voter rolls, the civil rights commission's chairman, Mary Frances Berry, also urged the newly created federal Election Assistance Commission, which is distributing millions of dollars to the states for voting improvements, to consider withholding Florida's share. |
Broward commissioners accused of dodging subpoenas in Oliphant hearing Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 Miriam Oliphant's trial to regain her job as Broward County's elections supervisor will likely end next week without her getting a chance to face the group she largely blames for her downfall: the County Commission. |
Poll workers' chief recalls '02 chaos Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 Testimony in Miriam Oliphant's Florida Senate trial Thursday centered on the chaotic September 2002 primary election and a budget crisis while she was Broward elections supervisor. Lawyers for Gov. Jeb Bush rested their Broward County phase of the case against Oliphant after three hours of testimony by Pat Nesbit, the head of poll workers. They expect to call more witnesses next week when the trial moves to Tallahassee. |
ITAA fires back at e-voting critics Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 JULY 16, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON The president of one of the most influential IT vendor associations is accusing electronic voting system critics, many of whom are IT security researchers, of using the issue of e-voting security to wage a "religious war" that pits open-source software against proprietary software. |
California Recount Case to Consider E-Voting Audit Trail Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 RIVERSIDE, CA Former Riverside County Board of Supervisors candidate Linda Soubirous, national election integrity organization VerifiedVoting.org, and a bi-partisan pair of Riverside County voters today sued Riverside County and its Registrar of Voters Mischelle Townsend because the county refused to conduct a proper recount of a March 2004 election with a razor-thin margin. The Soubirous lawsuit could guarantee public access to security records stored inside electronic voting machines in future recounts. |
Congressman seeks answers on Md. e-voting system Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 BALTIMORE (AP) — A miffed U.S. congressman has sent a second letter to Maryland's governor, asking for details on the state's efforts to ensure the accuracy of electronic voting machines before the November elections. |
Sequoia Voting Systems Successfully Passes Federal Testing of VeriVote Printer Upgrade for Touch Screen Voting System Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 Sequoia Voting Systems today announced it has successfully passed federal testing of the VeriVote(R) printer upgrade to the company's popular AVC Edge touch screen voting system. The printer, which allows voters to view a paper copy of their electronic ballot before leaving the polling place, will be used throughout the State of Nevada for their September 7, 2004 Primary Election and the November 2, 2004 Presidential General Election. |
E-Voting Suit Highlights Legal Lag Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, July 16, 2004 A suit filed in Riverside County, California, claims that the Registrar of Voters ignored the law. But electronic voting technology muddies the waters. Linda Soubirous lost the March 2004 race for a seat on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors by 45 votes. But it wasn't the close call that outraged her. When voting results were held up at one precinct, her campaign aides allegedly saw the vendors' employees tinkering with the central tallying computers. |
Election Troubles Already Descending on Florida Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 MIAMI, July 14 - Three years after Gov. Jeb Bush announced a new voting system that he called "a model for the rest of the nation," Florida is grappling with some of the same problems that threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, as well as new ones that critics say could cause even more confusion this November. |
The Touch-screen "Trust Fall" Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 Team-building events are difficult for computer software test groups. One of the major problems is trying to find corporate trainers that are willing to forego all those wonderful activities designed to foster trust between team members. Blind-folded walks are problematic, and the famous “trust fall” - wherein a team member free-falls backwards into a colleague’s arms – is out of the question. The reason for this, of course, is that those who test computer programs base their entire career on being suspicious. “How do you know that works?” “How will that work with your current business processes?” and “Yeah, right – just one little change – no need to re-test. We’ve heard that one before!” are phrases the typical software tester utters every single day of the week. |
Elections officials to purchase new voting machines Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 BATON ROUGE State elections officials are preparing to spend $46 million to buy new voting machines for 50 of the state's 64 parishes, with the search for new machines to begin next month. |
Pettis works to end punch card voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 Pettis County voters may be filling in ovals instead of punching out chads by 2006. Punch-card ballots cannot be used for federal elections held after January 2006, according to the Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002. That means that Pettis County must purchase new voting machines for each of the 25 precincts, as well as one for absentee votes taken at the courthouse. |
Wise County May Use New Voting Machines in 2005 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 Wise, Va. Only one -in-four Americans believe that their vote is not properly tallied by voting machines in recent polling data indicating a growing loss of confidence in the integrity of American democracy. Following the infamous "Flori-duh" presidential vote count, hanging chad and skewed vote tallies have left many Americans wondering about old punch card or old mechanical voting machines. |
Editorial: Paper receipts won't cure ills of electronic voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 This week, moveon.org is organizing rallies in 19 states, including Wisconsin, to protest electronic voting. As part of its "computer ate my vote" campaign, moveon.org is promoting state and federal legislation that would require electronic ballot boxes to issue a paper receipt. The federal legislation has the backing of Wisconsin Reps. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) and Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac). Skeptics are right to worry about computer voting. |
The excuses are scattered amid ruins of voter list plan Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 My question is, did my friends in Gov. Jeb Bush's administration intentionally try to look so goofy over this list of 47,000 names of potential purgees from Florida's voter rolls? Was there a sale on rubber red noses and floppy shoes down at the Clown Emporium? Was this a plot to keep us all laughing while Karl Rove sneaks into the basement and steals the voting machines? |
Pact reached on electronic vote security Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 One day after agreeing to end a months-long battle with the secretary of state, Riverside County officials signed an agreement Wednesday consenting to new electronic-voting security measures, while San Bernardino County officials remained in negotiations. |
Don't compromise secret ballot Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, July 15, 2004 There's no question that electronic voting machines purchased by the state of South Carolina must maintain a paper trail. A paper record of vote tallies is necessary to ensure that results haven't been tampered with, and to provide for challenges to ballot results. In contrast, providing an individual receipt to each voter, as recommended by one lawmaker, could actually be used to compromise the inviolability of the secret ballot. |
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