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Rock the Vote Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 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. |
February 3, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Rise of the machines: No voting tech is perfect, but integrity is crucial OP/ED for DailyCamera.com Nothing created by humans is ever going to be perfect. And as Boulder County Commissioner Paul Danish remarked recently, when it comes to choosing new election technology for the county, "No matter what we do, we won't get a perfect system." But with an election looming, we're going to need a system, perfect or not. |
February 3, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Tuesday, February 3, 2004 No Bumper Stickers, Just the Ballots, Please By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL of the New York Times In gyms, schools and community centers across South Carolina, voters long accustomed to pushing buttons on machines were surprised to face simple paper ballots instead. With the memory of hanging chads fresh in the minds of Democratic Party officials, it was back to basics. "We felt it was the most accurate way to measure the intent of the voter," said Nu Wexler, executive director of the State Democratic Party. "You don't have to worry about chads and that sort of stuff. |
February 2, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 2, 2004 Printers draw fire and praise By Kathy Bushouse Staff Writer for the Sun-Sentinel When Nevada voters go to the polls in November, they'll be among the first in the nation to cast their ballots on a touch-screen voting machine, then double-check them on a piece of paper before making their choices official. |
February 2, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 2, 2004 New reports cast doubt on Internet voting By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Computers are spreading into nearly every aspect of American life, but the door may have just slammed shut on them as they try to enter the polling booth. Two recent reports have called for pulling the plug on online voting unless serious security concerns are addressed. Many security experts say the flaws cannot be fixed. |
February 2, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Published:Monday, February 2, 2004 Fed-up Elections Officials Are Quitting NewsMax.com Wires from the AP Turnover among election administrators in the nation's largest counties since the 2000 presidential stalemate has been unusually high with, by one expert's count, at least 20 top officials leaving office. |
February 1, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| ELECTRONIC VOTING'S HIDDEN PERILS By Elise Ackerman of Mercury News Poll workers in Alameda County noticed something strange on election night in October. As a computer counted absentee ballots in the recall race, workers were stunned to see a big surge in support for a fringe candidate named John Burton. |
A promising road to Internet voting Story Here Archive |
Many reports since the 2000 election have cautioned against proceeding with voting over the Internet until fundamental security problems can be resolved. The Pentagon ignored the warnings. It's moving ahead with a system that will enable 100,000 overseas residents to vote in presidential primaries and the November election. |
February 1, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Touch-screen systems aren't infallible ELECTION OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN LAX IN SUPERVISION Mercury News Editorial After spending millions on new touch-screen machines, the last thing local election officials want is for people to doubt the systems' reliability. So registrars of voters, Jesse Durazo of Santa Clara County among them, end up sounding more like pitchmen than guardians of the vote. They mouth reassurances about technologies few of them understand and dismiss skeptics as Luddites and kooks. |
February 1, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Rigged election called possible By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News Could someone hack an election? Yes, according to a report presented to the Maryland Legislature Thursday by Raba Technologies, a consulting firm. Maryland hired Raba's computer scientists to hack into its Diebold electronic voting system. The researchers found that software vulnerabilities could allow a saboteur to vote multiple times or tamper with computer code to steal an election. |
January 31, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| New Voting Machines for New York State: Promise or Peril? An Editorial by Kim Alexander Are new, paperless, computerized voting machines a sign of promise or peril? This is an important subject. What we do about voting technology now will have consequences for decades to come. I'm here today to explain why I believe it is necessary that there be a voter-verified paper trail to accompany digital ballots. The short answer is this: there is no good reason for voters to trust paperless, one hundred percent computerized voting systems run on secret software. Most of the security risks associated with computerized voting can be addressed by requiring a voter-verified paper audit trail. |
January 31, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| An Editorial from the New York Times How to Hack an Election Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, starting with voter-verified paper trails. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Commissioners to pledge money for ballot printers By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Palm Beach County commissioners appear ready to extricate themselves from an elections lawsuit by pledging $2.5 million for ballot printers to go along with the county's paperless touch-screen voting machines. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| County Unveils New Voting Machines: Some Voter Groups Oppose New System From SanDiegoChannels.com SAN DIEGO With the California primary election less than two months away, the San Diego County Office of the Registrar worked around the clock to introduce the county's new touch-screen voting machines. More than 10,000 computerized touch-screen voting machines were delivered throughout the county. They were tested and certified by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. Poll workers are being trained to handle the new system, which will be in place by March 2, 2004, for every California county. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Electoral Meltdown in Fairfax A Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by Raoul E. Drapeau of Vienna, VA Fairfax County recently spent $3.5 million on electronic voting machines, which were introduced to voters in November. They were a disaster. I was an election officer assisting voters during that election. I also have many years of experience in developing computer graphics systems. This one was not ready for prime time. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Flaws, but hope, in voting report by Steven T. Dennis Staff Writer for GazetteNet ANNAPOLIS A third independent study of the state's $74 million Diebold voting system found "considerable security risks" but endorses it as "worthy of voter trust" if a number of fixes are made immediately. The report also endorsed voter-verifiable paper receipts as "absolutely necessary in some limited form" at some point. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| County one step closer to buying voting machines: Activist groups find actions hasty By Laura Morsch, Camera Staff Writer Boulder County is one step closer to buying a new voting system, and some local groups are objecting. Boulder County commissioners unanimously approved a motion Thursday to allow the county clerk to negotiate a contract with voting-machine vendor Hart InterCivic Inc. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Bipartisan Request Seeks Halt to Internet Voting Groups Fear Citizens Abroad Will Be Compromised By Dan Keating, Washington Post Staff Writer In a highly unusual pairing, the Republican and Democratic party organizations for citizens living abroad have banded together against the Pentagon's Internet voting program for the presidential election. |
January 30, 2004 Story Here Archive |
| Md. computer testers cast a vote: Election boxes easy to mess with In Annapolis, tales of trickery, vote rigging By Stephanie Desmon SunSpot.net Staff For a week, the computer whizzes laid abuse - both high- and low-tech - on the six new briefcase-sized electronic voting machines sent over by the state. |
January 29, 2004 Story Here |
| NY Times: Security poor in electronic voting machines, study warns. |
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