Crypto stars sound off on e-voting, DRM Issues spark heated debate among experts    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, February 24, 2004 By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service SAN FRANCISCO - A panel of distinguished cryptographers at the RSA Conference in San Francisco weighed in on a variety of hot button issues, including electronic voting and rights management for digital media.

E-Voting or 'Bust' in California    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 Patrick Mallon for NewsMax.com California's headlong rush into electronic voting met a judge this week who apparently doesn't give much weight to a mountain of expert evidence against the use of machines still vulnerable to malfunction.

No hanging chads here Pittsfield goes high tech for Super Tuesday    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By D.R. Bahlman of the Berkshire Eagle Staff PITTSFIELD For the first time in more than 50 years, Pittsfield residents will be using new voting machines when they cast ballots in an election.

Voting bill still stalled    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By Michael Hardy in Federal Computer Week Legislation that would require touch-screen voting machines to generate a paper record of votes remains stalled in the House, even though it has attracted more than 100 co-sponsors and generated companion bills in the Senate.

Public relations campaign promotes Diebold machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 Associated Press The five-year, $1 million campaign is part of the $55 million the state is paying Diebold Election Systems Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, maker of the 16,000 touch-screen computer terminals that will be used throughout Maryland beginning with the March 2 primary. Baltimore uses machines made by a different company.

How Reliable Are Electronic Voting Machines? San Diego Computer Experts Study Machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 From The SanDiegoChannel.com SAN DIEGO San Diego is just days away from casting votes in its first electronic election. And who can forget why the federal government required the conversion to paperless terminals? Two words hanging chad.

Touch screens: Levers with a plug    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By Tom Blackburn, Palm Beach Post Columnist The 2000 election in Florida was quickly clich?d as a wake-up call. But, like people trying to make decisions while their brains are fuzzy from sleep, no one answered the call adequately.

Voting devices focus of ads    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By Stephanie Desmon of the Baltimore Sun Staff Critics claim PR campaign is meant to shift attention from new machines' flaws; $1 million outreach program; Officials say voters need to get used to terminals There are ads for them on the sides of buses, on billboards, on the radio and on television. There's a Web site devoted to them. There will be hundreds more get-to-know-you events around the state where they'll be on display for the curious.

Pentagon nixes Internet voting: Questions about security linger    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By Michael Hardy for Federal Computer Week The Defense Department's decision to temporarily shelve its Internet voting plan has received mixed reviews. Computer scientists who considered the idea too risky are applauding, but industry advocates of electronic voting are disappointed.

Faxes pour into Galvin office: Voters' protest appears off target    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, February 22, 2004 By Matthew Rodriguez, Boston Globe Correspondent Government offices are accustomed to getting bags of letters or floods of e-mail about controversial issues. But last week, it was a fax machine that went wild at Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office.

Editorial: Our voting machines: Secretary of state must provide way to create a paper trail in '04    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, February 22, 2004 Editorial in the Treasure Coast Palm News Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood is boasting that new touch-screen voting machines mean "Florida is no longer haunted by those ghosts of 2000" (see her letter to the editor on this page). Perhaps she should re-read Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to remember that Floridians would do well to fear the ghost of the election to come.

State still hasn't resolved confusion over recounts    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, February 22, 2004 Palm Beach Post Editorial Webster's New World Dictionary defines manual as "having to do with a hand or the hands; without electrical or other power." What part of that definition does Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood fail to understand?

Old or new, you can count on election problems    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, February 22, 2004 By LEN WELLS, Courier & Press correspondent When the March 16 primary election rolls around, voters in many Southern Illinois counties will be in for a big surprise.

New voting machines will be on display in Union County 2004 elections: Punch cards will be used, but new equipment must be in place in 2006    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, February 22, 2004 By Pam Tharp Correspondent for the Palladium-Item LIBERTY, Ind. Picking a new voting system to comply with all the federal rules is like shooting at a moving target, Union County election officials say.

Legislation would create written safeguard for touch-screen votes    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, February 21, 2004 By FROM STAFF REPORTS for the Oakland Tribune SACRAMENTO An East Bay state senator on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at guaranteeing the integrity of elections as California's voting systems move into the computer age.

Low-Cost Fix Sought on Voting Machines    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, February 21, 2004 From the Los Angeles Times Staff Reports Citing the rapidly spiraling cost and technological complexity of securing electronic voting equipment, a joint county and city task force recommended earlier this week that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors postpone seeking proposals on a $100-million countywide electronic voting system.

Grand Lake marquee speaks to voting fraud    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, February 21, 2004 by Peggy Stinnett for the Oakland Tribune ALLEN MICHAAN, owner of Oakland's beautiful art deco movie house, caught our attention right after that controversial Gore vs. Bush election in the fall of 2000.

Voting machines edict upsets election officials BEAUFORT: Federal and state-led reforms jar county plans.    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, February 21, 2004 By Frank Morris in the Carolina Morning News Beaufort County election officials have launched a campaign to get out of a state plan for a uniform, statewide electronic voting machine system.

Sen. Hillary Clinton to headline South Florida fund-raisers    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, February 21, 2004 KEN THOMAS for the Associated Press WESTON, Fla. - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored Florida Democrats Saturday to remain vigilant during the upcoming fall elections - and remember the lessons of 2000.

How Safe Is Your E-Vote? Elections go digital, but experts fear a crash    Story Here  Archive

Published:Friday, February 20, 2004 By LEE NICHOLS for the Austin Chronicle It's either the best thing ever to happen to elections, or the stupidest blunder our elected officials have ever made; the savior of our democracy, or a conspiracy to steal it; an idea whose time has come, or a hapless symbol of society's naive faith in technology.

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