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January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Pentagon's Online Voting Program Deemed Too Risky By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer A Pentagon program for Internet voting in this year's presidential election is so insecure that it could undercut the integrity of American democracy and should be stopped immediately, according to computer-security specialists who were asked to review the $22 million pilot plan intended for about 100,000 overseas voters. |
January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting System By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is standing by an Internet voting system it developed for U.S. citizens overseas despite an independent analysis that said it was so vulnerable to attacks that it should be scrapped. |
January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| E-Voting Experts SERVE Up Controversy By Jim Wagner for internetnews.com Officials at the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) moved quickly to dispel the e-voting gloom created by a group of computer scientists who find the Internet too vulnerable to attack, publishing a report earlier this week recommending an immediate halt to Internet voting. |
January 22, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Scan ballots to offer little confusion by RAY MILLER, Staff Writer Casa Grande Valley Newspaper MARICOPA - The Pinal County Elections Department expects little or no confusion when voters use the new Accuvote electronic ballot scanning system during the Democratic Presidential Preference Election Feb. 3, and again in the special district and municipal election primaries on March 9. |
January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to Use As reported by John Schwartz of the NY Times: A new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a panel of computer security experts asked by the government to review the program. |
January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Open-Source E-Voting Heads West As Reported by Kim Zetter of WiredNews: A California college student is planning to develop a new electronic voting system based on open-source software created in Australia. Scott Ritchie was one of dozens of activists who appeared in Sacramento last Thursday before the California secretary of state's Voting Systems Panel to express criticism of e-voting systems currently being used in the United States. |
January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Federal remote voting system called flawed CNN's Daniel Sieberg and Alex Walker contributed to this report. (CNN) A federally funded Internet-based voting system due for release in less than two weeks is inherently flawed and should be scuttled because of weak security, according to a report by a team of computer scientists. |
January 21, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| District vote set; contender may quit The Clarion Ledger reports: 2 months after paperless election machine failures cause a race to be challenged, the Mississippi State Senate voted Tuesday to hold a new election in Hinds County District 29, but the Democratic contender says he is financially and emotionally drained and is considering pulling out of the race. |
January 20, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Wireless e-voting machines raise concern Celeste Biever of New Scientist reports: Computer scientists are concerned that new electronic voting machines - already bought by several US states - have been designed to have the capability to transmit vote tallies wirelessly. |
January 19, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| New Election Recommended in District 29 As reported by WLBT Mississippi: After failures by election machines in the November 2003 General election, and "unable to determine the will of the voters", the Mississippi State Senate committee recommended sending voters back to the polls to pick a candidate to fill that seat. It's a decision that still has to be voted on by the full Senate. |
January 19, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Official keeps job despite lying Jim McElhatton of THE WASHINGTON TIMES Reports: Board of Elections Chairman Benjamin F. Wilson blamed the delays on a contractor helping to oversee the touch-screen machines, Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. "This is a Sequoia issue," Mr. Wilson said. The company manufactured the touch-screen machines used during the election. Officials with Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. said that they were responsible for delays Tuesday, and that the Board of Elections had implemented touch-screen voting faster than most other localities. |
January 19, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| One-click voting: Will your vote count? By Alexander Maugeri of The Daily Princetonian (Princeton U.) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. A little more than half of Americans vote for President, less than a third for members of Congress most say it's because their vote doesn't matter. But what if votes didn't matter. What if votes were being systematically eradicated and discounted? |
January 19, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Ballot Breakdown: Flaws continue to hamper computerized voting By Wendy M. Grossman for Scientific American.com Even before the last chad was detached in the 2000 Florida election fiasco, discussions began about how to improve the voting systems in the 170,000-odd jurisdictions in the U.S. The Help America Vote Act, which passed in October 2002, allocates $3.8 billion to modernize voting systems across the nation. |
January 18, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Fixing Democracy New York Times OP/ED The morning after the 2000 election, Americans woke up to a disturbing realization: our electoral system was too flawed to say with certainty who had won. Three years later, things may actually be worse. If this year's presidential election is at all close, there is every reason to believe that there will be another national trauma over who the rightful winner is, this time compounded by troubling new questions about the reliability of electronic voting machines. |
January 17, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Rep. Wexler sues in push for ballot printouts South Florida Sun-Sentinel Reporters Anthony Man and Kathy Bushouse Report: Arguing that he's exhausted other options and that time is running out to ensure an accurate 2004 election, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, turned to the courts Friday in his quest to require paper printouts from electronic voting machines. |
January 16, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold Gets Stay in California As Reported by WiredNews Reporter Kim Zetter: SACRAMENTO, California Delay was the order of the day in California Thursday as the secretary of state's Voting Systems Panel, or VSP, postponed announcing any sanctions against Diebold Election Systems. Voting activists from across California converged on the secretary of state's office to see what action, if any, the government would take against Diebold for violating voting-system certification laws and to see whether the state would certify the company's latest touch-screen voting machines. |
January 16, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Counties shun new voting machines Mark Naymik and Julie Carr Smyth of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Report: A group of Ohio's largest counties, including Cuyahoga, refused Thursday to meet a state deadline for ing new voting machines until Secretary of State Ken Blackwell can guarantee that the machines are secure. |
January 16, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Officials defend new vote machines Jim McElhatton of THE WASHINGTON TIMES reports: District elections officials are defending the way they handled the new touch-screen voting technology, which cost more than $1 million, amid criticism about long delays in tallying the results of this week's nonbinding presidential primary. |
January 16, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Election hearing closes B.J. O'Brien of the Bethel Beacon reports: Lawyers for both sides in the lawsuit filed by former First Selectwoman Judith Novachek and fellow Republicans against the town and the winning Democratic candidates on Election Day issued their closing briefs in Danbury Superior Court earlier this week. |
January 15, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Brave new elections The Missoula Independent's Staff Writer Mike Keefe-Feldman Reports: New machines open door for disabled-and fraud This past election day, Missoula’s ballot tabulator was working so hard observers could actually see the 20-year-old scanning machine smoking in the Missoula County Courthouse. But by 2004’s presidential race, Missoula will have ushered in new voting technologies including the “precinct counter,” a ballot box scanner that can alert voters if they’ve over- or under-voted. Optical scanners will still be used to count absentee ballots, but most data will be tabulated through the use of the precinct counters, whose data can be downloaded onto a disk and loaded into a PC at the County Courthouse, according to Missoula County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer Vickie Zeier. |
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