Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

STEALING OUR VOTES Jim Hightower of the Austin Chronicle reports: We're told that the beauty of America's political system is that we the people have the right to vote. Yes ... but do we have the right to have our votes properly counted?

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Trust But Verify The Washington Post, Government IT Review section reports: The California recall election this week refocused attention on the simmering debate over electronic voting machines. The Associated Press surveyed voters whose precincts were equipped with the new generation of voting machines. The consensus view was that while voters liked the machines, they'd love to have a paper receipt of some sort proving that their votes had been recorded.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

Voting Systems "Fair" to be Held in Boulder The Colorado Daily reports: Fearing a local version of Florida's election debacle during the 2000 presidential race, and in compliance with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Boulder County will hold a voting systems fair this Saturday to demonstrate four voting machines that are being considered to replace Boulder's 28-year-old punch card system.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

Some Details of Sequoia Touch Screens Interesting information can be found in this Sequoia press release.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

Electronic voting poses dangers The USC Daily Trojan reports:  In the past few California elections, you or someone you know may have noticed the use of new DRE ("Directly-Recorded Electronic") voting systems. They're slick. They're easy to use. And as currently implemented, they pose a serious threat to the transparency of our voting system.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Decision on voting suit may take weeks The Desert Sun reports: A federal appeals court Wednesday heard arguments from a Palm Desert woman challenging touch-screen voting, but it could be weeks before a decision is rendered.

October 9, 2003    Story Here  Archive

Voting system too vital to change by Kai Hagen in the Frederick County (MD) Gazette Frederick County is far from the electoral fiasco in Florida and the current chaos in California, but problems there and elsewhere have led to sweeping changes that will affect everyone. Some are long overdue reforms, while others may be worse than the problems they are trying to solve.

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Some Voters Skeptical of E-Voting Systems The Associate Press reports: With a sigh, Charles Coffey slapped a red, white and blue "I voted today" sticker on his T-shirt after voting at a firehouse. He wasn't sure, though, whether his computer-cast ballot counted. Though he had no evidence, Coffey was suspicious that the touch-screen voting computer could have been rigged to vote "yes" on the recall while recording the Democrat as voting for Republican winner Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Help America Vote Act Requires Changes The Tullahoma News reports: Tennessee must their voting equipment to comply with HAVA. Will they make the right decision?

Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

Time to Recall E-Vote Machines? Kim Zetter of WiredNews reports: Information obtained by Wired News at a training session for Alameda County poll workers indicates that security lapses in the use of the equipment and poor worker training could expose the election to serious tampering.

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Recount procedures questioned in California election Political activists are planning to scrutinize punch-card ballot results in California's historic recall election.

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:00:00 EDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Ohio replaces voting machine reviewer Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has replaced a firm slated to help conduct the security review of Ohio's newly certified voting machines -- after his office discovered that the firm had a financial interest in one of the machine makers. The decision followed his office's discovery that an arm of Science Applications International Corp. had promised to make a $5 million investment that would benefit Hart Intercivic. Hart was one of four voting machine vendors qualified this summer to sell voting machines to Ohio counties. SAIC, a Fortune 500 research and engineering firm, was to share the job of reviewing the firms' machines and software. The review was to identify security weaknesses that might jeopardize the integrity of next year's presidential election. [...] Blackwell said his office's procedures for identifying potential conflicts "surfaced a potential area of conflict [for SAIC] that saved us from embarrassment and probably legal entanglements." His decision to disqualify SAIC also headed off a second potential conflict for SAIC: It shares a lobbyist with another of Ohio's preferred vendors, Diebold Election Systems.

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:00:00 PDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Monday, September 29, 2003 California County Keeps E-Vote Despite the release of a comprehensive report on Wednesday that showed the Diebold touch-screen voting machines to be "at high risk of compromise," election officials in California say they have no plans to replace the machines before the upcoming gubernatorial election. [...] "Any election conducted on these machines is questionable," said Dill. "You don't have any proof that the election results are sound. On the other hand, a challenging party doesn't have any proof that the election is unsound, because the evidence is not there either." "In fact, they have a disclaimer in the report saying they won't guarantee that they've found all the problems," said Dill. "Nowhere in the report is there any evidence that the machines are actually sound. All the report says is that they can mitigate the risks by changing procedures. But saying they can minimize the risks doesn't say they can make the risks acceptable."

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:00:00 EDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, September 28, 2003 Criticism of Broward's touch screen voting machines intensifies Skepticism is increasing throughout the nation and in Congress about initial claims that touch-screen voting is all but immune to fraud. That was the pitch that helped sell the machines. Broward County commissioners are studying whether to dump the touch-screen machines that cost them $17.2 million in favor of the older system of optical scanners, which are far less costly and maintain a paper trail. They have also asked county staffers to research the feasibility of adding printers to the touch-screen machines.

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Sunday, September 28, 2003 Voting machines taking heat A growing number of critics have local officials around the country wondering whether electronic voting machines -- like the ones used in Charlotte, Sarasota and Manatee counties -- were impulse purchases they will come to regret. Commissioners in Miami- Dade and Broward counties recently announced that they are reviewing their new systems because the machines don't give voters a paper record of their selection. Some say the paper receipt is a key ingredient to preventing voter fraud.

Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:00:00 CDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Saturday, September 27, 2003 Report critical of Diebold system Diebold Inc.'s touch-screen voting system carries a "high risk of compromise" by computer hackers and untrained poll workers who could damage the accuracy of election results, an independent report prepared for Maryland has found. [...] The lead researcher in the study, Avi Rubin, said he was "astonished and deeply disappointed" to learn that Maryland officials were moving forward with the purchase of Diebold machines. "State election officials believe all of the vulnerabilities in this system can be corrected by next March. I do not," Rubin said in a statement.

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:00:00 EST    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 25, 2003 Touch-Screen Voting Gets State OK, With Security Fixes "It seems that the SAIC report pretty much backed our report and came to a lot of the same conclusions," said Avi Rubin, an author of the Hopkins study and a computer science professor. But Rubin said it's a bad idea for the state to rush forward with the new system until it's confirmed that the security holes have been plugged. "If they're going to get this report and then go ahead with it anyway," Rubin said, "you have to question their motives for commissioning the report in the first place.

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:26:00 EDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 25, 2003 E-voting given go-ahead despite flaws Rubin says that the SAIC report is fair, but is worried about the evaluation. "What I am concerned about is that the plan of action released by the governor of Maryland does not seem to mesh with the report," he says. "I wonder if they read the SAIC report. If you hire someone to do a study and they report a high risk of compromise, why in the world are you going to go ahead with the current system?" he asks.

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:02:00 PDT    Story Here  Archive

Published:Thursday, September 25, 2003 Elections chief tightens vote security King County's newly appointed elections chief has taken steps to reduce the possibility of computerized vote-tampering while he studies questions raised about possible security flaws in software the county uses to tally election results. [...] Logan said he decided election security was a "legitimate issue" after internal company e-mail was posted on the Internet and discussed in a Salon.com article Monday. The memos appeared to support reports by Renton Web journalist and author Bev Harris that election results on Diebold's GEMS software could be altered by someone using its underlying Microsoft Access software without leaving a trace in the GEMS audit log. "Right now you can open GEMS' .mdb file with MS-Access, and alter its contents. That includes the audit log," wrote Ken Clark, an employee of Diebold Election Systems, in an October 2001 e-mail.

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:00:00 PST    Story Here  Archive

Published:Wednesday, September 24, 2003 A Vote Against the Computerized Ballot Backers of DRE systems seem to run screaming from the room whenever anyone suggests generating voter-verified paper ballots. Apparently, the technology of thermal printers is too complex for the billion-dollar industry. Backers of DRE systems have also tried to confuse the debate by suggesting that voter-verified paper ballots would exclude disabled voters. But this is nonsense.

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