Clemency board considers restoring rights for ex-felons Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, June 16, 2004 BRENT KALLESTAD for AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet could clear a backlog of nearly 125,000 ex-felons seeking to have their civil rights restored at a clemency hearing Thursday, an administration spokeswoman said.
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E-Voting Enthusiasts Face Hurdles Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, April 5, 2004 By Caron Carlson for eWeek Internet voting in a U.S. presidential election is gone, but it is not forgotten. The security concerns that last month forced the Pentagon to cancel a project allowing some military personnel and other U.S. citizens to vote online from overseas in November dampened the Internet voting initiative, but it did not deter enthusiasts.
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Pentagon Drops Plan To Test Internet Voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, March 31, 2004 By Dan Keating, Washington Post Staff Writer The Pentagon has decided to a $22 million pilot plan to test Internet voting for 100,000 American military personnel and civilians living overseas after lingering security concerns, officials said yesterday.
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Online voting doubted: Officials cite concerns after ULL experience Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, March 20, 2004 By STEVEN K. LANDRY for The Advocate of Baton Rouge LAFAYETTE University of Louisiana at Lafayette students voted exclusively online this week during Student Government Association elections, the fifth time they have done so.
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Internet voting not likely in state Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, March 19, 2004 By AMY RINARD in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Oconomowoc - The Common Council has gone on record endorsing Internet voting for municipal elections, but the chairman of the state Elections Board said Wednesday that it's highly unlikely Wisconsin will ever allow voting through the Internet.
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FIGHTING FOR VOTER SECURITY Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, February 27, 2004 by Jim Hightower in the Austin (TX) Chronicle The Pentagon has retreated! Not from some foreign enemy, but from a domestic enemy: Electronic voting machines.
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Pentagon nixes Internet voting: Questions about security linger Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 23, 2004 By Michael Hardy for Federal Computer Week The Defense Department's decision to temporarily shelve its Internet voting plan has received mixed reviews. Computer scientists who considered the idea too risky are applauding, but industry advocates of electronic voting are disappointed.
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Ex White House chief questions internet voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, February 19, 2004 By Bankole Thompson for the Michigan Citizen Electronic voting raises concerns security, privacy, fraud
DETROIT ? John Podesta, former White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration, has doubts about the security of Internet voting.
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U.S. considers e-vote for primaries Story Here Archive |
By Harold Lee for The Daily Bruin (UCLA) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES ? The U.S. Department of Defense explored an option that would allow citizens overseas to vote online for the upcoming presidential election, but the project was abandoned last Friday.
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Will Internet Balloting Click? Foes cite lack of safeguards Story Here Archive |
By Mark Harrington, Staff Writer for Newsday.com Four years after a now-defunct local company ran the first online Democratic primary, the state of Internet voting is at a tenuous crossroads.
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Sometime via the 'Net? Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 By Scott Bradner for Network World, 02/09/04 I wrote about Internet-based voting after the chad-filled fiasco of the last presidential election. The column was not all that sanguine about the prospects, and events of the last few weeks have reinforced my skepticism.
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Michigan perseveres with Internet voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 Reuters Michigan Democrats will choose their presidential candidate via the Internet, despite doubts cast by the US Defense Department on online voting's security
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Michigan Net ballots get vote of approval Story Here Archive |
Published:Monday, February 9, 2004 By Declan McCullagh of CNET News.com The only U.S. presidential contest in 2004 to use Internet voting was completed over the weekend without a hitch, the Michigan Democratic Party said Monday.
Michigan's caucus, in which nearly one-third of the votes cast arrived through the Internet, gave presidential contender John Kerry another early victory over rivals Howard Dean, John Edwards and Wesley Clark.
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Michigan tries online balloting: Attempt by Dems in Arizona in 2000 was unsuccessful Story Here Archive |
Published:Saturday, February 7, 2004 Kamman for The Arizona Republic Today's caucuses in Michigan featured the presidential primary season's only opportunity to cast an early vote over the Internet, a novelty that brought Arizona Democrats international attention when they pioneered it with limited success four years ago.
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Internet voting system has flaws Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 By Patrick Kerns for the Johns Hopkins Newsletter Four experts in internet security published a report on January 20 declaring that the government internet voting pilot program known as the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) should be terminated because of the inherent security flaws of internet voting.
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Michigan Dems Vote Online Story Here Archive |
Published:Friday, February 6, 2004 wired.com Thousands of Michigan Democrats have cast ballots for Saturday's caucuses using an Internet system that security experts say shares some of the risks found in a just-scrapped Pentagon effort.
Party officials insist they have safeguards and note that these particular ballots, unlike those in the $22 million Pentagon program, are not meant to be secret.
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Pentagon abandons Internet voting experiment Story Here Archive |
Published:Thursday, February 5, 2004 By Vince Crawley MarineTimes staff writer Following the advice of technical experts, the Pentagon has shut down a planned Internet voting experiment that would have let tens of thousands of overseas troops cast online ballots in the November presidential elections.
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Despite Security Concerns, Michigan Democrats Continue Internet Voting Story Here Archive |
Published:Wednesday, February 4, 2004 Press Release from verifiedvoting.org A new federal Internet-based voting system, the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), has come under criticism for security vulnerabilities. Tuesday the federal government, stating that SERVE wasn't yet certified, pulled it from use in the South Carolina primary.
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Pentagon Drops E-Voting Test For S.C. Story Here Archive |
Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 As reported by thepittsburghchannel.com The Pentagon says it will not test an Internet voting project during Tuesday's South Carolina Democratic presidential primary. A system called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment or SERVE was developed for U.S. citizens overseas and is supposed to let would-be voters register and vote just like they would under their local laws and rules.
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Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 By Shane Harris for GovExec.com Critics and supporters of a new Pentagon-funded online voting system are digging in their heels in the debate over whether it should be scrapped over concerns that it's vulnerable to error and tampering. Now, a new dispute has developed not over the substance of the criticism, but the fact that it was aired at all.
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