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• -- 57% of Online Population Support Internet Voting -- .
• ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, March 3, 2000 – If the online population has any input, the new voting booth will be your computer and registering and voting online will be a part of the election process. Two-thirds (68%) of the online population support allowing citizens to register to vote over the Internet and 57% of the online population support allowing citizens to vote online. Recent initiatives by the Department of Defense to allow men and women stationed overseas to vote online receives the most support with 79% of the online population in favor of this proposition.
• These are among the findings about online voting from the most recent Harris Interactive Election 2000 survey. ...
• Support for online voting varies greatly depending upon age. Almost two-thirds (62%) of 18-24 year old online users favor online voting, compared to 53% of 40-64 year olds and only 36% for those 65 or older. This may mean that online voting will be fully accepted in the next 10 to 20 years as the younger generation ages. When support for online voting is examined by individual ideology, 47% of conservatives favor online voting compared to 59% of moderates and 64% of liberals. ...
• While the majority of the American online population favor online voting, they also recognize that it may have both positive and negative implications. When asked about the impact of online voting, the online population believes it will have the following effects. ...
• Turnout: Online America feels that online voting will have a positive impact on turnout and reverse the trends in past elections of declining voter turnout. ...
• 78% feel that online voting will significantly increase turnout of individuals age 18 to 24 .
• 77% agree with the statement that online voting with increase overall turnout .
• Security/Fraud: Although many individuals see the benefits to online voting, many also see the potential for security problems and the increase possibility of fraud.

• It has recently entered the business of creating electronic voting terminals and solutions for government entities. ...
• In 1995, Bob Urosevich started I-Mark Systems, whose product was a touch screen voting system utilizing a smart card and biometric encryption authorization technology. ... On January 22, 2002, Diebold announced the acquisition of GES, then a manufacturer and supplier of electronic voting terminals and solutions. ...
• Williams, responsible for certification of voting machines for the state of Georgia has provided a negative assessment based on her accounting of potential exploits. ...
• Sludge, an Internet journalist, both claim there is also evidence that the Diebold systems have been exploited to tamper with American elections —a claim Harris expands in her book Black Box Voting. ...
• Sludge further cites Votewatch for evidence that suggests a pattern of compromised voting machine exploits throughout the 1990s, and specifically involving the Diebold machines in the 2002 election. ...
• Diebold's critics believe that these memos reflect badly on Diebold's voting machines and business practices. ...
• Maryland officials requested that Diebold add the functionality of printing voting receipts. ...
• Senate Ethics Director resigns; Senator Chuck Hagel admits owning voting machine company McCarthy Group .

• 100,000 ballots to be cast online.
• 100,000 ballots to be cast online.
• About 100,000 voters the counties of Prescott-Russell and Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry were registered to cast their ballots online. ...
• , an eastern Ontario startup company, registered voters in 11 area municipalities had the option of voting via the Internet or telephone. ...
• Church said the new system makes democracy more accessible by removing such barriers to voting as limited mobility or even poor weather. ...
• Church said the system uses security measures based on world standards for financial transactions like those used in online banking or credit card transactions. ...
• The online and telephone polls were to remain open until the end of the day today. ...
• "As minister responsible for the Canada Elections Act, electronic voting is of particular interest to me," Boudria said. ...
• "Voting electronically addresses issues such as time and distance that sometimes prevent people from voting. ...
• Proponents of electronic voting have long suggested such a system might improve voter turnout, which has been on a dismal downturn in recent elections. ...

• In the following year, she enrolled for an online course in TESOL and has since received her Diploma from the London Teacher's Training Centre. ...
• She will use the computer to design her worksheets and will make use of the Internet to chat online with her sister who is living overseas. ...

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• The democratic process could move online in the near future, according to a Brighton-based e-voting expert. ...
• Jason Kitcat, co-founder of Swing Digital, has designed an electronic voting system used by organisations around the world and would like to see wide-spread use of internet voting in the next few years. ...
• The Government has promised to provide online access to all Departmental services by 2005. Mr Kitcat believes the introduction of online voting is a natural progression from this aim. ...
• "Research has shown a large number of people are keen to vote online for convenience and speed. ...
• Last year, Mr Kitcat set up Swing Digital to promote his own e-voting software, FREE (Free Referenda and Elections Electronically). ...
• Mr Kitcat said: "The main concerns about this type of voting have been security and privacy. ...

• Online voting wins over many in Michigan .
• Michigan apparently solved the youth vote with a simple mechanism: online voting. ...
• Online voting was popular for predictable reasons. ... But for youth, online voting is far more convenient than going to a school or church and sitting for a couple of hours while "seniors" try to make up their minds (yeah, I was young once). ...
• Online makes sense for another reason: Candidates increasingly turning to the campaigning power of the Internet can make it a one-click move to enable supporters to cast their vote. ...
• Still in its infancy, online voting is hardly a perfect solution. ...
• More significant, online voting's reliability is still far from proved. ...
• Indeed, the Defense Department has scrapped plans to use online voting for overseas military in the November election. ...
• If that process were to turn up widespread corruption, caucuses could be reheld or another vote taken (or online results factored out). ...
• Whatever it determines, online voting seems inevitable, once secure measures are put into place. ...

• The Debate Over Online Voting.
• STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Will Internet voting turn politics on its head? Dramatic claims are being made in the wake of this year's Arizona Democratic primary, the first binding online election. ...
• John McCain's insurgency, which was sustained by online contributions. ...
• Online balloting can have a beneficial effect on turnout, and not only for white baby boomers. ...
• Moreover, an ABC News poll found that 61 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds support online voting.
• I also dismiss the charge that the ability of an online voter to cast ballots for all registered members of his or her household represents a singular problem. ...
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• Instructions for voting online are on the ballot for those who prefer that voting method. Future elections will dispense with the printed ballot for those with e-mail addresses, who will simply receive notice of the online balloting location. ...

• E-Vote Software Leaked Online  .
• Software used by an electronic voting system manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems has been left unprotected on a publicly available server, raising concerns about the possibility of vote tampering in future elections. ...
• The software is used for placing ballots on voting kiosks and for storing and tabulating results for the Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen system. ...
• According to a computer programmer who discovered the unprotected server, the files also contain Visual Basic script and code for voting system databases that could allow someone to learn how to rig voting results. ...
• Sequoia's AVC Edge voting machines were used in California's Riverside County for the 2000 presidential election and for last month's California gubernatorial recall election. ...
• It's the second time this year that voting machine code has been leaked on the Internet. ...

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• We encourage you to take advantage of our convenient Internet voting service.  Vote your shares online by following the four easy steps below. ...
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• Women Get the Online Vote.
• However shaky its methodology, online polling is already a reality. Online voting, too, is being debated in a variety of communities.
• Now, one Internet company has announced that it will hold an online primary--among a group of voters bigger than the population of California and New York combined: women.
• ) The virtual primary will be the culmination of several months of online surveys designed both to provide information about which political issues are important to women and to determine how women are likely to vote.
• com, says, "It's an underreported fact that women have been the voting majority since 1964. ...
• The Majority 2000 site, which plans to launch next January, is part of a growing trend of powerful voting blocs using the Internet to flex their political muscles. ...
• com project is retaining Harris Interactive, one of the premier online polling firms.
• More than 1,800 women responded to an online survey about Dole's candidacy, and many wrote heartfelt responses. ...
• 17, 2000Ronna AbramsonNot Voting in Your Pajamasposted Nov. ...

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• Topics > Tech/Industry Trends > Industry News > Current Events > Digital Ballot Box Arrives  In first steps toward Internet voting, e-mail ballot distribution helps military personnel vote on time. ...
• On-Site Voting Slows In 1972, 5 percent of Americans cast their votes by absentee ballot. ...
• The "explosion of absentee voting" is pushing the movement toward Internet voting, says Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
• Alvarez is helping the Defense Department plan its online voting effort for 2004. ...
• Its easier accessibility will be inviting, and the opportunity to vote online will bring more people to the polls, he says. ...
• "Internet voting is the ultimate step in making it easier for Americans to vote," Alvarez says. ...

• Online absentee voting eliminates postmarks.
•     The Pentagon is putting the finishing touches on an electronic voting system that will allow about 100,000 military personnel and other Americans living abroad to cast their ballots through the Internet in the 2004 elections. ...
•     The new system, in which each voter is assigned a digital signature for voting through a secure Internet connection, will replace the postal method of absentee ballots, particularly for U. ...
•     "We have troops on the move," said Polli Brunelli, director of the Pentagon's Federal Voting Assistance Program, which designed the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE). ...
• Brunelli said the digital signature, a string of randomly generated letters and characters different for each registered voter, makes using the system as secure as visiting a voting booth. ...
•     Because election regulations are determined on a state-by-state basis, officials with the Federal Voting Assistance Program have been working with states, sometimes down to the county level, to develop SERVE. ...
•     A 2002 federal law mandates that the Pentagon carry out an electronic voting demonstration project in coordination with state election officials, but no states are required by federal law to participate in the project. ...

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• "Delaware puts voting info online" civic. ...
• In Arizona in the spring of 1996, encountering a voting Democrat was about as likely as finding a snowball in the desert. ...
• State Democratic leaders anxious to reinvigorate their party concluded that they had to make voting "more convenient and easier," said party executive director Cortland Coleman. ...
• Voting among Democrats shot up by a factor of more than six — about 86,000 cast ballots. ...
• He credits Internet voting. The convenience of online voting holds a promise of reversing the decades-long decline in voting in the United States. ...
• Proponents say online voting would permit people to vote from their homes or workplaces when traveling to a polling place might be inconvenient. ...
• com, the Internet company that managed the online part of the Arizona Democratic primary, says Internet voting could give rise to a sort of New Age, laid-back democracy. After the election, he and colleagues recounted stories about families "who voted at home together," a couple who invited friends in "to share a cup of coffee and cast their vote online," and the president of the Navajo Nation, who voted via computer from Window Rock, the Navajo capital. ...
• But to many election experts, the Arizona primary highlighted Internet voting's pitfalls as much as its potential. ...
• com's voting Web site, to lack of privacy assurances for voters, to a legal challenge to the election on grounds that Internet voting discriminated against those who lack access to the Internet. The FEC does not oppose voting over the Internet, Bonsall said. The agency "is completely neutral" on the technology, but is a strict proponent of standards that ensure the integrity of the voting process. And on that front, Internet voting raises many questions. ...

• The Road Ahead for Online Voting .
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• My first contacts with voting in Dark Corner, Arkansas did more to shape my views of elections than all the political science courses I took and taught well over a decade later. ...
• They often lingered for hours after voting to discuss crops, people, and politics. ...
• That basic voting technology, whether it is in yesterday's rural Marble Township, Arkansas, or today's urban Raleigh, North Carolina, is receiving a strong challenge. ...
• However, the real technological challenge to basic voting methods saw its most public face to date when Arizona conducted the country's first legally binding constitutionally protected election using the Internet in March, 2000. ...
• We must face the fact that Online Voting (OLV) is here, it is now, and it is probably more inevitable than many would like to admit. Just as most election officials were getting familiar with automated voter registration systems, they are now facing demands to let the barbarians through the gates of their systems to touch the most sacred of sacred election functions: voting. ...
• Generally, they address one of the most distressing failures of our democracy: most people of voting age do not consider it worth the effort to vote. ... The perceived costs of paying attention and going to the polls a couple of times a year outweigh the perceived benefits of electing government officials and voting .
• Why shouldn't I have the convenience of voting by Internet?" The convenience argument for Internet voting is self-indulgent, Baby-Boomer-centric, and increasingly prevalent. ...
• The convenience of the Internet for online voting is undeniable. ...
• Simple convenience for improving turnout is not the only argument behind the demands for Internet voting. ...
• Keep also in mind that among the fastest growing demographic segment of people going online is the 55+ age group. ... For the aging population, having access to home-based voting will often be more of a necessity than it will be a convenience. As their mobility decreases, their interest in online voting, to go with online pharmaceutical, grocery, and banking services, will increase. ...

• More councils trial online voting By Emma Nash 30-04-2003 1. ...
• The country's biggest trial of electronic voting ends today, with 1. ...
• He says that gaining public trust is one of the main factors in making electronic voting a success. ...
• 'Securing e-voting must not only be done, but must be seen to be done,' he said. ...
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• Commentary: Online voting? Of course it can work Tuesday February 17, 2004 - 04:00 PM GMT       Topics: Government , News and Trends By: Chris Preimesberger You might have read the news today -- oh boy -- about how the Pentagon really, really wanted to use a new Web-based system called Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) to allow 6 million military personnel and their relatives around the world to vote in U. ...
• The Congressional experts said, in effect, that voting can't be done online -- at least not in the Windows-dominated world we have today. ...
• "Internet voting presents far too many opportunities for hackers or even terrorists to interfere with fair and accurate voting, potentially in ways impossible to detect," the computer experts said in a stock statement. ...
• 7 primary vote using a voting-via-Web option, and it came off without a hitch. ...
• "We went above and beyond the call of duty to bring us to an accurate voting result," said Adrienne Marsh, communication director for the Michigan Democratic Party. "We made it kind of difficult to actually vote online; some people complained about it, but in the end it worked very well. ...
• In the end, 123,000 registered Democrats were eligible to vote online, two-thirds of them registered online, and 46,000 actually voted using the system, which featured two firewalls, redundancy (you had to register, then have the party email you a ballot, then email it back), voter ID numbers, random assigned passwords, two kinds of encrypted data, and two forms of other personal information -- city and date of birth. If any detail was wrong, you couldn't vote online. ...
• com, which attempted to do an online election in Arizona four years ago and ultimately failed. ...
• Michigan proved that voting by Web is not an impossibility. ...
• Just think of all the advantages that secure Web-based voting could bring: .
• Voting via the Web would have saved lots of time and effort, not to mention news coverage.
• Eventually, secure Web-based voting could be used to ask voters about what they really think about various other issues, such as gun control, same-sex marriage, government-funded abortion, etc. ...
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• Pentagon scraps plan for online voting in 2004 elections .
• Pentagon stands behind Internet voting system for troops   (01/22/04) .
• Defense plans to expand online voting in 2004 election   (06/20/03) .
• The Pentagon has canceled plans to allow military personnel to vote online in the November 2004 presidential elections, a Defense Department spokeswoman said Thursday.
• Defense officials still expect to eventually use an online voting system, according to the spokeswoman. ...
• A group of four computer scientists criticized the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment in a Jan. ...
• Defense officials are currently investigating other technology that would allow military personnel overseas to securely cast their votes online, the spokeswoman said.
• Simons said she is willing to lend her expertise to evaluate future Pentagon online voting systems.

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• In 1998, the state of Florida signed a $4 million contract with Database Technologies (DBT Online), which later merged into ChoicePoint, for the purposes of providing a central voter file listing those barred from voting. ...
• The allegations charge that 57,700 people (15% of the list), primarily Democrats of African-American and Hispanic descent, were incorrectly listed as felons and thus barred from voting. ...
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• The electoral madness in the Sunshine State has brought renewed interest in the possibilities of online voting. The primaries and general election offered a smattering of experimental attempts, but e-voting is not yet a reality. Could online voting prevent problems like we’ve seen in Florida, or will it just invite fraud and disruption from hackers? Read on, and decide for yourself. ...

• NYT Sets Up Section to Examine Flaws in Voting Machines (0).
• I BECAME EMBROILED in the national debate about electronic voting security when I co-authored a report exposing serious security flaws in Diebold Inc. ...
• The main problem with electronic voting machines that do not provide voter-verifiable paper ballots is that they are entirely controlled by software. ...
• Each of the voting machines at the precinct contains a memory card on which votes are tallied. ...
• So if voting machine vendors wanted, they could control the outcome of the election with no one ever knowing that the results had been programmed into the voting machines. ...
• We have put our trust in the outcome of our elections into the hands of a few companies (Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems, which is based in California, and Election Systems and Software in Omaha, Neb. ...
• It's a shame that the e-voting tidal wave has a near-hypnotic effect on these judges and almost all voters. ...
• I am much better equipped after having been a judge to argue against e-voting machines. ...
• But the more electronic voting is viewed as successful, the more it will be adopted and the greater will be the risk when someone decides to exploit the weaknesses of these systems. ...
• Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at the Johns Hopkins University specializing in security, cryptography and e-voting, is technical director of the school's Information Security Institute. ...
• Election officials in Johnson County are now demanding answers from a voting machine company at the heart of a recent I-Team investigation. ...
• As the ES&S Project manager, Orange helped the county set up new touch-screen voting systems. ...
• , Another Company's Voting Machines Have Problems.
• Poll workers struggling with a new electronic voting system in last week's election gave thousands of Orange County voters the wrong ballots, according to a Times analysis of election records. ...
• But the problems, which county officials have blamed on insufficient training for poll workers, are a strong indication of the pitfalls facing officials as they try to bring new election technology online statewide. ...
• David Hart, chairman of Texas-based Hart InterCivic, which manufactured Orange County's voting system, said it would be impossible to identify which voters cast ballots in the wrong precincts because of steps the company had taken to ensure voter secrecy. ...

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• civilians who reside overseas cast their votes online. The risks associated with online voting can't be eliminated because the Internet and PCs are inherently unsecure, say the researchers, who were asked by the government to analyze an online voting system called the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE). The system is vulnerable to the same cyberattacks that threaten other online services, including viruses, spoofing and denial-of-service attacks. ...
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