Category: e-Voting

I was on Irish national radio last night, only my second time – you can listen here. Download or open. I’m on around the 41st minute, but listen to the whole thing, it’s interesting stuff. Dick O’Brien over at Back Seat Drivers had a listen, and says I’ve been playing a stormer. Cheers Dick!

Excellent stuff on Vincent Browne tonight – yours truly has been contacted to possibly contribute. The government are running for the hills today it seems – Bertie Ahern was waffling as ever. Update: I was on the VB show – I will put a link up as soon as the online version becomes available. I…

Adrian Colley of the ICTE posts a comprehensive review of the outright lies spouted by our own Irish government. I hear such bullshit from Irish ministers on the radio, especially the shite on the Vincent Browne show last night – it’s nice to have a document that roundly and decisively dismisses the government propaganda. More…

Important stuff in California: Late last week, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said that additional security measures will be taken by county elections officials to avoid problems with computerized voting machines, whose security and reliability has been questioned in a number of recent studies. As part of the measures, counties will have to keep…

Brillant article from Stanford: “The votes of we, the people, are now the secrets of corporations,” said Faye Anderson, a Stanford Law School graduate and the writer and producer of “Counting on Democracy,” a nationally televised documentary about the 2000 Florida presidential election. Anderson was one of five speakers who examined the problems of electronic…

The brave new world of official Internet voting got its launch here last week. The New York Times editorial page tut-tutted about security and issued dire warnings. Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a Republican, inspected the Democratic Party’s new voting machinery up close and personal. And on or about Feb. 7 — but no…

More than 61% of the nation’s voters this fall will use electronically enhanced voting systems aimed at avoiding a repeat of the disputed 2000 election, but the changes won’t be enough if the tally is close, according to a new study. The study released Thursday by the political consulting company, Election Data Services, said 50…

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry Ice Cream, is launching a grass-roots campaign to require paper receipts for all electronic voting machines. The campaign, run by Cohen’s Web-based group TrueMajority, kicks off Tuesday in Washington. About 400,000 people have already joined the group, though. Cohen and computer security expert Dan Wallach hope to convince…

At the next European Parliament elections in June, Ireland’s voters might find themselves registering their choice with the push of a button rather than a stroke of a pen — a change which has traditionalists fuming. Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen, whose remit also takes in elections, has insisted that the so-called “e-voting system”,…

It has recently come to light that despite the assurances given by Minister Cullen T.D. – “The equipment and software for the voting machines has been tested by two international institutes for compliance with internationally accepted standards” – the reports themselves are of questionable relevance. Having previously cited 6 such reports, the clarification that there…