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Internet voting system has flaws Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 Four experts in internet security published a report on January 20 declaring that the government internet voting pilot program known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) should be terminated because of the inherent security flaws of internet voting. |
February 06, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 State orders testing for touchscreens By Thomas Peele of the CONTRA COSTA TIMES Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday ordered California's counties to take extra security measures for the March 2 election due to expanding concerns about the vulnerability of electronic voting machines. Shelley also directed the manufacturer of controversial touchscreen voting units used in Solano, Alameda and other counties to turn over software and said he would impanel a team of independent experts to review it. |
February 06, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 TOUCH-SCREEN ELECTIONS State to shun voting backup Lawmakers say there's no need to add paper to touch-screen voting machines since they're confident the state's election reforms are satisfactory. BY ERIKA BOLSTAD for The MiamiHerald.com |
Michigan Dems Vote Online Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 Thousands of Michigan Democrats have cast ballots for Saturday's caucuses using an Internet system that security experts say shares some of the risks found in a just-scrapped Pentagon effort. Party officials insist they have safeguards and note that these particular ballots, unlike those in the $22 million Pentagon program, are not meant to be secret. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 E-Vote Still Flawed, Experts Say by Kim Zetter for WiredNews Computer security experts hired to hack electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems found that flaws in the machines could result in malicious insiders or outsiders stealing an election. The findings, released in a report late Thursday afternoon, culminated a weeklong test undertaken by security experts at Raba Technologies, a firm hired by Maryland's legislative services department to hack the voting machines. The report (PDF) stated that the Diebold machines did accurately count the votes but could be compromised. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 Touch-Screen Security Criticized By TED BYRD for the Tampa Tribune TAMPA - Hillsborough County Commissioner Pat Frank challenged the security of the county's touch-screen voting Wednesday, one day after Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson defended it while launching a voter registration drive. |
Pentagon abandons Internet voting experiment Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 Following the advice of technical experts, the Pentagon has shut down a planned Internet voting experiment that would have let tens of thousands of overseas troops cast online ballots in the November presidential elections. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 Diebold drops takedown orders BY PAUL GOLDSMITH-PINKHAM for The Phoenix, Swarthmore College's On-Line News In response to litigation brought by two Swarthmore students, Diebold, Inc. has ceased asking individuals at universities across the country, including Swarthmore, to remove internal company e-mails from public display on Web sites. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 City ready to launch new voting machines Optical scanners to be used March 2 By Phil Santoro, Boston Globe Staff But by March 2, when residents vote in the presidential primary election, the old rods will become suitable for the Historical Commission. That's because all of Everett's 19,000-plus registered voters who show up to vote will use a new system to cast their ballots, one that makes it easier for both handicapped voters and election officials. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 Baker sought no-bid contract for firm Then he asked maker of voting machines to hire his girlfriend By Jim Tankersley, Rocky Mountain News Tracy Baker asked Arapahoe County to give a Texas company a no-bid $3.5 million voting-machine contract. Then he asked the company to hire his girlfriend. |
February 05, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 Getting zapped for vote Clerk's recall election $100,000 pricier after batteries for voting machines lose juice By Jim Tankersley, Rocky Mountain News Arapahoe County will spend an extra $100,000 on Tracy Baker's recall election, because nobody bothered to charge the batteries in county voting machines. |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Don't Rush Voting Changes in W.Va. OP/ED By The Wheeling West Virginia News-Register As if there were not already plenty of questions concerning a mandated change to electronic voting in West Virginia, a new concern surfaced this week. It ought to convince legislators to go slowly on any state-required changes. Federal law, enacted in the wake of election fiascos in 2000, requires that old voting systems be replaced by electronic equipment. The law stipulates that changes must be made by elections this fall - but it allows counties to seek extensions until 2006. Many already have done so. |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Very close race for the Tulsa city council district 3 seat One contest in Tuesday's elections, the Tulsa City Council race in District 3, may still be disputed. The News on 6's Rick Wells reports the final count was so close, emotions boiled over at the election board Tuesday night, and the end result may be a re-count. "Numbers started coming in from no where, and I just wanted to know how in the Hell they got those numbers." |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Third voting report finds flaws, but hope by Steven T. Dennis Staff Writer for Gazette.net Paper ballots endorsed again ANNAPOLIS A third independent study of the state's $74 million Diebold voting system found "considerable security risks," but endorses it as "worthy of voter trust" if a number of fixes are made immediately. The report also endorsed voter-verifiable paper receipts as "absolutely necessary in some limited form" at some point. |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Palm Beach County avoids lawsuit, will buy printers for voting machines By Kathy Bushouse Staff Writer for the Palm Beach Sun-Sentinel County commissioners got themselves out of a lawsuit Tuesday by agreeing to buy printers for the county's 5,400 touch-screen voting machines. |
Despite Security Concerns, Michigan Democrats Continue Internet Voting Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 A new federal Internet-based voting system, the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), has come under criticism for security vulnerabilities. Tuesday the federal government, stating that SERVE wasn't yet certified, pulled it from use in the South Carolina primary. |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 New voting equipment hits snags in Illinois By Stephanie Sievers, Dispatch/Argus Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD Only one-third of Illinois' counties will have new election equipment up and running in time for the March 16 primary. |
February 4, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 As primary season heats up voting-system upgrades lag After the 2000 presidential election debacle, when hanging chads in Florida threw the results in doubt for five weeks, federal and state officials vowed never again. They quickly drafted plans to replace punch cards and other outdated voting systems, and pledged to spend the money needed to ensure every vote is counted properly. |
February 3, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Heller concerned about cuts to election budget by Geoff Dornan for Nevada Appeal Secretary of State Dean Heller says he's concerned about deep cuts to the federal election-reform budget proposed by President Bush. The president's budget plan would chop the funding for 2005 from $500 million to $40 million. |
Pentagon Drops E-Voting Test For S.C. Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 The Pentagon says it will not test an Internet voting project during Tuesday's South Carolina Democratic presidential primary. A system called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment or SERVE was developed for U.S. citizens overseas and is supposed to let would-be voters register and vote just like they would under their local laws and rules. |
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