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December 6, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Electronic votes touch off doubts SCOTT SHEPARD of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Election officials and computer scientists are increasingly concerned that touch-screen electronic voting machines like the ones used in Georgia may be inaccurate and even susceptible to sabotage. |
December 6, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Florida won't require printouts of touch-screen votes The Palm Beach Post reports: California will require that its touch-screen voting machines provide paper printouts for each ballot cast, but Florida's top elections official says she does not favor a similar standard here. |
December 5, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| More voting machine troubles. There should be no need for state to mandate change in Clark County The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: The problem at hand arose when Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller declared a month ago, "My goal is to put everyone on the same system. We don't want different systems." That wouldn't bother Clark County much if Mr. Heller just decided to spend the $10.7 million in federal money he has on hand through the act to buy Sequoia machines for rural and Northern Nevada. But when rumors circulated that Diebold Inc. one of Sequoia Pacific's competitors had offered to equip the entire state with its machines for the $10.7 million (which would mean trashing and replacing most of Clark County's 3,000 machines) Clark County officials grew concerned. |
December 5, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Ensign says voting machine debate moot Susan Voyles of The RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL reports: While people in Nevada and across the country debate whether electronic voting machines should produce a duplicate paper ballot, U.S. Sen. John Ensign said federal law already requires it. |
December 4, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| No Confidence Vote: Why the Current Touch Screen Voting Fiasco Was Pretty Much Inevitable Robert X. Cringely of PBS.com reports: If you spend any time on the Internet in the U.S., it is almost impossible not to know about the scandal involving touch screen voting machines. I mentioned it a few months ago, and my goal at that time was to goad the big newspapers into looking at the story, with the idea that if there was any truth to it, the New York Times and Washington Post ought to be on the story. |
December 2, 2003 (subscription) Story Here Archive |
Hack the Vote Subsequent to Mr. Krugmans article, the following letters to the editor were posted: |
December 2, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold Agrees Not to Sue Over Leaked Documents Fox News reports: A major supplier of touch-screen voting machines has agreed not to sue activists and others who posted leaked documents on the Internet about alleged security shortcomings surrounding electronic voting |
December 2, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Blackwell Seeks Improvements and Additional Security Assurances from Electronic Voting Machine Vendors The Ohio Secretary of State issues a press release stating: Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell today ordered electronic voting device vendors to resolve security weaknesses uncovered in two comprehensive examinations. Also, in the most extensive release of electronic voting device security information to date, Secretary Blackwell released the full findings of each examination. |
December 1, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold leaves Microsoft based machines unsecure The Seattle Times reports: ATM maker Diebold had neglected to install a security patch available from Microsoft, SecurityFocus reported, quoting Diebold's director of software engineering. |
December 1, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold backs down but - P2Pnet.net reports: Electronic voting machine maker Diebold Systems has backed down from its threats against people who publish details online about flaws in its machines, and 'irregularities' with certifying the systems for elections. |
December 1, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Electronic voting firm's legal case against free speech advocates RACHEL KONRAD of The Associated Press reports: In a major victory for free speech enthusiasts on the Internet, Diebold Inc. has agreed not to sue voting rights advocates who publish leaked documents about the alleged security breaches of electronic voting. |
December 1, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold Won't Sue Students ZACHARY M. SEWARD of The Crimson reports: A coalition of college students who had disseminated damaging internal memos of Diebold Election Systems won a major victory last week when the company backed down from threats to sue. |
November 30, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Paper trail is a must for voters Dan Radmacher of The Herald Tribune reports: Concerns continue to grow about the reliability and security of electronic voting machines, and more reasons for those concerns continue to present themselves regularly. |
November 30, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| SPECIAL REPORT: DEJA VOTE? Florida's voter database won't be ready in time Nancy Cook Lauer of The Tallahassee DEMOCRAT reports: Florida has spent tens of millions of dollars on new equipment, voter education and poll worker training since the 2000 election meltdown. But none of those reforms will matter if the would-be voter is denied a chance to cast a ballot to begin with. |
November 29, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Delay in reforms fueling doubts on voting machines KEVIN COUGHLIN of The Star-Ledger Staff reports: Last year's Help America Vote Act outlined election reforms meant to spare the nation from a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000. But many of those reforms have been on hold since February, awaiting the appointment of a key commission. Senate insiders now say it is unlikely the panel will be in place before early next year. The delays all but dash any hopes of resolving doubts about the security of electronic voting machines before next year's presidential election, according to computer experts. |
November 28, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| No voting trouble locally - New area voting machines work well despite national controversy Rebecca Helmes of The Palladium-Item (IN) reports: Wayne County elections seem to have gone off without a hitch, but controversy still exists nationwide about the security of electronic voting machines. |
November 26, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Bugs emerge in voting-machine trial Pete Pichaske of The Howard County Times reports: Representatives from Diebold Election System, the Canton, Ohio-based company supplying the voting machines to Maryland, fixed the problem in the morning and blamed it on a programming error. Antonetti said he was generally pleased with the system, despite the glitches. He expected to have the problems ironed out by primary election day, March 2. |
November 26, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Report vouches for accuracy, security of Broward voting machines Buddy Nevins of The Sun Sentinal reports: Broward County's touch-screen voting system is secure and there is no need to add printers to provide a paper record of the votes, a new report has found. |
November 26, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold Cash machines (ATM's) infected with worm NewScientist.com news service reports: Cash dispensing ATMs belonging to two US financial institutions were shut down when the computer worm Welchia invaded their embedded Windows XP operating systems in August. Diebold, the Ohio-based company that makes the machines, revealed the security breach on Tuesday. |
November 26, 2003 Story Here Archive |
| Diebold withdraws threats P2PNet.net reports: Electronic voting machine maker Diebold Systems says it's withdrawing more than a dozen legal threats against ISPs for hosting users who publish or link to corporate documents suggesting there are flaws in its equipment and irregularities. with certifying the systems for elections. |
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