Category: e-Voting

SEATTLE – Researchers argued the pros and cons of electronic voting this weekend with the fervor of candidates on the campaign trail — but agreed on at least one point: This year’s presidential balloting has the potential to suffer more glitches than the infamous 2000 election

The Denver Post covers the same issues that are making headlines here in Ireland. Fred Brown on the rollback of e-voting in the US.

Minister Martin Cullen was on the News at One on Wednesday and was caught by Sean O’Rourke on the topic of the secret ballot. I have gone to the trouble of writing a transcript of the piece from the radio. You can listen to it in Real Audio here. What I do not understand about…

So the Minister is absolutely happy with the new system, which, it is believed will be completely fail safe, 100% perfect software and hardware, and nothing possibly can go wrong and there is no way the system can be hacked or accidentally lose votes or give wrong votes to the wrong candidate, and that it…

Dan points to this story in the Mercury News on another e-voting scandal. This one concerns our old friend, Diebold. Huge problems here: Concerned that their new $12.7 million Diebold electronic voting system had developed a glitch, election officials turned to a company representative who happened to be on hand. Lucky he was there. For…

Yet more e-voting scandal. This one from SlashDot. Apparently hackers are helping to test voting machines…theres a show on NPR. From this story and the one on NPR, the state hired a company and set up a test voting precinct and had the group try whatever they could to break into the machines. Most of…

This story keeps going, Dan has the coverage, and he is rightly going nuts. This is crazy stuff, and I thought Diebold were bad…

More on the e-voting scandals spreadin the US. It appears that 134 voters went into vote at the machines, but failed to vote. ”It’s incomprehensible that 134 people went to the polls and didn’t cast votes,” said Lieberman, who served on the canvassing board that oversaw Tuesday night’s count. “We need to find an answer…

More goings-on in the long-running Diebold saga. VoteHere, a company apparently developing security for e-voting, has been hacked, and it might be the same person who hacked Diebold earlier this year. Interestingly the authorities think its political, and not just vandalism, as they normally seem to do. Is it someone with grave concerns about democracy…

From Slashdot: After a negative review of the Diebold voting machines by the State Gaming Control Board, it looks like Nevada has gone with a competitor for the upcoming election. And Secretary of State Dean Heller is requiring paper receipts. According to the Associated Press story, Nevada is the first state to do so.” There’s…