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• US voting machines: Will 2004 elections be electronically rigged?.
• Recent revelations about US voting machinery companies and their products raise serious questions about the integrity of the electoral process in the US, as well as in other countries. ...
• However, voting systems corporations generally claim that the software code that records votes is proprietary, and therefore deny outside personnel access to the code. When candidates or organizations have sued for the right to access the code, judges have ruled in favor of the voting systems corporations. The companies have also threatened to void warranties for the machines if they are inspected.
• Voters who cast their ballots using any of a number of electronic voting systems have no way to check that their votes have been properly recorded. A New York election commissioner, Douglas Kellner, said: “Using electronic voting machines to count ballots is akin to taking all the paper ballots and handing them over to a couple of computer tech people to count them in a secret room, and then tell us how it came out. ...
• The democratic qualifications of the pre-DRE voting in the US should not be overstated. There have been numerous cases of elections rigged via manipulation of other voting machinery systems, or by altogether different means. ...
• The Florida state primary elections of 2002, in which Jim McBride defeated former attorney general Janet Reno for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, provided an example of the type of electoral irregularities that can be expected with DRE voting. Vote tallies in several precincts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties aroused Reno’s suspicion, and she asked Professor Rebecca Mercuri, an expert in computer sciences and voting machine technology, to investigate.
• In an interview with Salon, Mercuri said: “She called me because they saw the number rolling out of the machines, and they figured something was screwy. ... ” When asked about the process, the voting machinery supplier, Election System and Software (ES&S), sent a technician to recover the lost votes. ...
• The voting systems industry’s political and criminal connections.
• The voting machinery industry is dominated by a few large corporations—Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Diebold and Sequoia. ES&S machines count between 55 and 60 percent of votes cast in the US; Diebold and ES&S machines put together count about 80 percent of US votes.

• County to buy 'touch-screen' voting machines.
• By: GIG CONAUGHTON - Staff Writer SAN DIEGO ---- Despite objections from a dozen public speakers who said electronic voting machines put democracy at risk, San Diego County supervisors ended an 18-month process Tuesday by agreeing to spend $30 million to buy 10,200 computerized, "touch screen" voting machines. Officials said about 90 percent of the money needed to pay for the machines will come from state or federal grants. ...
• The machines have been certified by the state's chief elections officer, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley.
• But a dozen speakers at Tuesday's board meeting said they don't trust electronic voting machines in general ---- especially when they do not offer voters "paper trails," printouts of their ballots that give voters tangible proof of how they voted. County Registrar Sally McPherson said that the Diebold machines will eventually include printout features, but that the state won't require them until July 2006. Oceanside resident Otto Hunt, one of the dozen speakers who asked county supervisors to delay buying the electronic voting machines, told the board, "I speak to you as a worried voter. ... "With the Diebold touch-screen voting machine, when I leave the poll, my vote may be just a brief magnetic field on a spinning disc, nothing I can see," Hunt said. ... Unverifiable, easily manipulated, inadequate voting mechanisms that call into question our state and national election outcomes will trigger a constitutional crisis. ... On Tuesday, McPherson, the registrar, said that the Diebold machines had been blessed by the state and were secure. ... At the same time, Diebold, a company known for creating security systems for automatic teller machines, has suffered several public relations setbacks. In July, computer scientists at John Hopkins and Rice universities sharply criticized Diebold's machines, saying among other things that security flaws in the machines could let individual voters cast multiple ballots and allow insiders such as election workers, software engineers and even janitors to hack into the system and change votes. Diebold said the study was inaccurate, and the report was later called into question when it was revealed that one of the scientists had previous financial ties to a rival of Diebold that also builds electronic voting systems. However, others also criticized Diebold's machines, and company officials said Ohio inspectors found security flaws in its systems after buying the machines. ... "I'm not using their stupid machines.

• Worries grow over new voting machines’ reliability, security .
• Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000. ...
• With just over a year to go before the next presidential race, touchscreen voting machines don’t seem like the cure-all some thought they would be. ...
• His doubts were so grave that he delayed purchasing new voting machines and is sticking with the old ones for now. ...
• Lately, they’ve expressed doubts about the machines’ accuracy, and have discussed purchasing an older technology for 1,000 more machines they need. ...
• Voter confidence: Since most touchscreen machines don’t create a separate paper receipt, or ballot, voters can’t be sure the machine accurately recorded their choice. ...
• Election fraud: Some worry the touchscreen machines aren’t secure enough and allow hackers to potentially get in and manipulate results. ...
• “The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting,” said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
• Federal election-reform legislation passed in 2002 aims to upgrade voting systems that rely on punch-card ballots or lever machines, and to improve voter registration, voter education and poll worker training. ...
• States upgrading their equipment are looking at two systems: electronic machines, with voters making their choice by touchscreens similar to ATMs; and older optical scan machines, with voters using pen and paper to darken ovals, similar to standardized tests. ...
• Still, North Dakota changed its plan to give officials the flexibility to go with touchscreens or optical scan machines. ...
• , has introduced a bill that would require that all voting machines create a paper trail. ...
• They insist that security is solid and machines records are examinable. They also say the sought-after improvements will create other problems, such as malfunctioning machines and violating the integrity of a voters’ privacy. ...
• The complaints echo those that came up when lever machines were introduced in the 1920s, and again when punch cards came on the scene, said Doug Lewis, an expert at The Election Center in Houston, Texas. ...
• , one of the larger voting machine makers, said “the fact of the matter is, there’s empirical data to show that not only is electronic voting secure and accurate, but voters embrace it and enjoy the experience of voting that way. ...

• ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES.
• eVoting-Machines, Electronic-Voting-Machines Election-Campaign-Contributions & Vote-For-Nader. ...
• About eVoting Machines, Election Campaign Contributions & .
• 2004 will be the first election to use electronic voting machines. ... The new electronic voting machine system will get rid of old style punch and paper ballots for the next election. The new eVoting Machines will use touch-screens to cast votes.
• The Year-2000 election had many problems at the voting booth with punch ballots, and severely effected many election campaigns. ...
• These ongoing vote counting voting problems tend to make us think negatively about the punch card voting system and want to develop a reliable "electronic" voting system also known as &touchscreen voting". E-Voting Machines will bring more confidence to ballot counting and should result in even better election campaign contributions for candidates, campaign advisors and political parties. ...
• Many people in the US believe that these new electronic voting machines will ensure a fair vote. E-voting has several advantages. ...

• Voting Machine Foul-Ups Delay Local Count.
• Berkeley voters ran into a number of glitches Tuesday when the machines that clear voter cards after they are used malfunctioned throughout the day, forcing several precincts to move to paper ballots which quickly ran out and had to be re-supplied by the county.
• According Elaine Ginnold, the Assistant Registrar of Voters for Alameda County, the county had trained poll workers to run the machines using a particular screen interface which somehow changed when the machines were set up at polls. As a result, the poll workers were unable to work the machines and had to call in for help. ...
• Ginnold speculated that the problems happened because the machinesâ ™ batteries and/or memory cards were shaken lose during transport to the polling stations.
• The slowdowns forced by the machines, along with problems encountered at City Hall when Berkeley and Albany tried to submit the results to the county over secure phone lines, left Berkeley behind the rest of the county in submitting the vote tallies.
• The card encoders that caused Berkeleyâ ™s tardiness were controversial even before the vote, according to Jim March, one of the plaintiffs who recently filed a suit against Diebold, the manufacturer of the card encoders and the touch screen voting machines. He said the machines were never properly certified before they were bought by the county.
• Ginnold said the machines did get a conditional certification but are pending further review.
• Other problems encountered throughout the day included voting machine freeze-up. That forced poll workers, who were not trained to re-boot the machines, to call in county workers, again delaying voters.
• Avi Rubin, a professor at John Hopkins university and co-author of the report that analyzed the software used by Diebold to run the machines, enrolled as an election judge in Baltimore County to help him examine firsthand several of his concerns.
• In particular, opponents are worried about the technology being vulnerable to hackers who could tamper with the voting machine, the systems used to submit the votes to the county and the machines used by the county to tally the votes. ...
• Here in Berkeley, Judy Bertelsen, a Berkeley physician who has attended several of the state-wide meetings concerning the new electronic machines, did the same as Rubin. ...
• She said the voting machines were left unattended at her polling place the night before with only thin plastic strips locking them shut. ... During her training before the election, she also criticized the countyâ ™s decision to use the same password--1111â ”to run all the machines.

• Will the 2004 Election be Stolen With Electronic Voting Machines? An Interview with Bev Harris, Who Has Done the Groundbreaking Work on This Issue. ...
• BUZZFLASH: Electronic voting machines, including touch-screen voting, have been touted as the salvation of a fair voting process. Your tenacious research over the last year has shown that this idea may be the Trojan Horse of voting machine reform, allowing elections to be stolen more easily than in the past. What are the basic reasons that you argue that electronic voting machines pose a threat to democracy?.
• This happened when voting systems, which should be considered part of the "public commons" were turned over to private companies. ...
• Voting machine companies are not required to tell us who owns them. ...
• Hagel has owned shares in both the voting company itself and in the parent company run by his campaign finance director, and Hagel was the CEO and Chairman of the voting machine company while it built the machines that counted his votes.
• -- Diebold, the second largest voting machine company. ...
• -- VoteHere, the company striving to get its cryptography software into all the other companies' machines (already has a contract with Sequoia), has as its Chairman a close Cheney supporter and member of the Defense Policy Board, Admiral Bill Owens. ...
• -- Voting companies also have a somewhat incestuous group of key players -- Todd Urosevich and Bob Urosevich founded ES&S, but Todd now is an executive with ES&S while Bob is president of Diebold Election Systems. Sequoia and ES&S share software and optical scan machines.
• Disabling the safeguards: Voting systems have always had people trying to rig them, with varying degrees of success. ...
• Probably the most important understory to the voting issue right now is this: The voting industry is spending literally millions of dollars, and going through amazing feats of contorted logic that can best be described as marketing gymnastics, to convince us that we should discontinue proper auditing. ... Even with the optical scan machines, which retain a paper ballot, some states have passed laws to prevent us from looking at the paper ballot to use it for a proper audit.
• -- Incorrect programming: One thing we've never had until we got electronic vote-counting (which includes touch screens and optical scan machines), is bad software programming. ...
• (SAIC) on the security of the Diebold voting system identified 328 flaws, 26 of which it deemed "critical. " The examination was ONLY done because, quite by accident, we got access to the voting program files and a report was written that exposed problems. ...

• Electronic Voting Machines.
• Electronic voting machines with meager security and significant technical flaws threaten to undermine our voting rights and thus the reliability of the election process. Without federal review and software testing, these voting machines are being marketed by companies and bought by states at an alarming rate. ...
• I, Dennis Kucinich, have created this website to educate the American public about the dangers of current electronic voting machines, and to empower and enable individuals to take preventive action in their communities by taking inventory of their local County Election Board's voting equipment.
• As citizens of the United States of America, we are fortunate to have a voting system that is designed to uphold democracy as the bedrock of our society. ...
• Next page: Direct recording electronic voting machines .
• Direct recording electronic voting machines .
• Studies on Diebold's Machines .

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• Topics > Tech/Industry Trends > Industry News > Current Events > E-Voting Critics Grow Louder   Security flaws in touch-screen systems pose serious risks, some claim. ... presidential primary season approaches, a debate is raging about electronic voting--and IT professionals and computer scientists are among the loudest critics.
• Manufacturers of the latest generation of electronic touch-screen voting devices, known as direct recording electronic machines (DREs), are poised to reap the rewards of the spending spree. ...
• Fueling the Fire Incidents of electronic voting machine malfunctions have fueled the fire, as have thorough security reviews of DREs that have been commissioned recently by election officials in various states. Those reviews found high-risk vulnerabilities in the systems sold by Diebold, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia Voting Systems.
• United Front Meanwhile, six vendors--those four plus Advanced Voting Solutions and Unilect--responded to the controversy by banding together to form an organization called the Election Technology Council, which will address ethics and security practices, among other issues.
• Still, many IT professionals engaged in the e-voting issue are troubled by the limits of computer systems' reliability.
• Nilsson, who chairs the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility working group on voting, is scathing on the subject of poor software quality in DREs. ...
• The computer science professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia is often on the opposite side of the argument from e-voting skeptics; but even his opponents credit him with running, for the state of Georgia, what may be the most thorough voting machine inspection regime in the country. While Georgia's rigorous tests have discovered unreliable units before they could be used at the polls, Williams says he trusts the machines as far as is necessary within a total security framework.
• "People are looking at the security of electronic voting machines from a purely technical point of view, but security is a combination of physical, legal, and procedural measures," says Williams. ...
• David Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University in California, is a recent arrival to the electronic voting discussion: He says that prior to January 2003, he wasn't deeply involved in any policy debates. But about a year ago, "it occurred to me that people were buying these machines, and nobody was minding the store," Dill says.
• " But he maintains that verification can be provided without paper, and he has developed what he claims is a secure voting architecture that uses multiple redundant software components. ...

• Voting Machines Violate Constitution – .
• Why?  Voting machines. ...
• Voting machines violate the Constitution and threaten what's left of American democracy like no terrorist ever could. Only a handful of private companies sell and service the machines that register and tabulate votes in U. ...
• have come under increasing suspicion due to widespread voting machine "glitches" and unexpected election upsets. ... Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), long ago cornered the market in voting machine sales and service. ...
• Some people think that voting machines can be made 'secure' by incorporating technical safeguards and standards, but that misses the point in law. Once the machine is in the polling booth critical parts of the voting process become unobservable and, therefore, violate Articles I & 2 of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. But, to my knowledge no individual or organization, such as the NAACP, ACLU or Common Cause, have challenged the constitutionality of voting machines. Although plenty of distraught candidates have gone to court accusing the voting machines of miscounting their votes, but to little avail. ...
• Voting machines reflect the action of the machine first and the intent of the voter. ... When machines are in the voting booth three violations of federal law take place:.
• inability to observe if voting machines properly register votes .
• inability to observe if voting machines properly count votes .
• inability to enforce the Voting Rights Act, because of the inability to observe if voting machines are properly registering or counting votes .
• Enforcement of the Voting Rights requires that Federal Observers observe whether votes are being "properly tabulated. ... " However, voting machines constitute a concealed tabulation of the vote which cannot be observed by Federal Examiners, making the examiner's role in that regard moot and the federal Voting Rights Act unenforceable. Nelldean Monroe, Voting Rights Program Administrator for the U. ... Office of Personnel Management admitted to this reporter in November of 2002 that there is no training and no opportunity for Federal Observers to observe the accuracy of voting machines. ...

• -- Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000. ...
• Worries grow over new voting machines.
• WASHINGTON -- Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000. ...
• With just over a year to go before the next presidential race, touch-screen voting machines don't seem like the cure-all that some thought. ...
• His doubts were so grave that he delayed buying new voting machines and is sticking with the old ones for now. ...
• Lately, they've expressed doubts about the machines' accuracy and have discussed purchasing an older technology for 1,000 more machines they need. ...
• * Voter confidence: Since most touch-screen machines don't create a separate paper receipt, or ballot, voters can't be sure the machine accurately recorded their choice. ...
• * Election fraud: Some worry the touch-screen machines aren't secure enough and could allow hackers to get in and manipulate results. ...
• "The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting," said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
• Federal election reform legislation passed in 2002 aims to upgrade voting systems that rely on punch card ballots or lever machines and to improve voter registration, voter education and poll worker training. ...
• States upgrading their equipment are looking at two systems: electronic machines, with voters making their choice by touch screens similar to ATMs, and older optical scan machines, with voters using pen and paper to darken ovals, similar to standardized tests. ...
• Still, Georgia announced it would re-examine the security of its $54 million worth of computerized machines. ...
• North Dakota changed its plan to give officials the flexibility to go with touch screens or optical scan machines. ...
• , has introduced a bill that would require all voting machines to create a paper trail. ...
• And they say the sought-after improvements will create other problems, such as malfunctioning machines and violating the integrity of a voter's privacy. ...
• The complaints echo those that came up when lever machines were introduced in the 1920s, and again when punch cards came on the scene, said Doug Lewis, an expert at The Election Center in Houston. ...

• One company is selling butterfly ballot voting machines similar to the ones used in Florida on eBay. ...
• Ballot Machines Hit EBay But They Aren’t the Famous Florida Models .
• May 8 — It sounds like the chance of a lifetime — to own one of the “butterfly ballot” voting machines that caused such a ruckus in the last presidential elections.
• An online auction on eBay urged surfers to “grab your pieces of history” by bidding for “an actual Votomatic Punchcard Voting Recorder. ...
• The machines offered by Xenia, Ohio-based Psephos Corp. — two on eBay and more on its own corporate Web site — aren’t the actual infamous machines used in Palm Beach, but, rather, replicas.
• Although the eBay listings states “PALM BEACH CO BUTTERFLY BALLOT VOTING MACHINE,” the online descriptions of the machines says they are “like the ones used in Florida. ...
• Palm Beach County's voting machines gained infamy after conservative candidate Pat Buchanan received thousands of votes, an unusually high number in the heavily Democratic region. ...
• “As long as they stipulate that they are the rightful owners of these machines and they made it clear that the machines are similar to the Palm Beach machines and not the actual items themselves, the listings are OK,” he said.
• The listings on eBay come a day after reports that Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore stated that the county’s machines would be put up for auction on eBay to help raise money for new voting machines. ...
• That's a piece of advice many Palm Beach residents now follow — at least in the voting booth. ...

• Worries grow over new voting machines' reliability, security.
• Touchscreen machines not the cure-all some expected.
• Skeptics fear electronic voting machines will only produce more problems, but supporters say security is solid and machine records are examnable. ...
• (AP) -- Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000. ...
• With just over a year to go before the next presidential race, touchscreen voting machines don't seem like the cure-all some thought they would be. ...
• His doubts were so grave that he delayed purchasing new voting machines and is sticking with the old ones for now. ...
• Lately, they've expressed doubts about the machines' accuracy, and have discussed purchasing an older technology for 1,000 more machines they need. ...
• • Voter confidence: Since most touchscreen machines don't create a separate paper receipt, or ballot, voters can't be sure the machine accurately recorded their choice. ...
• •  Election fraud: Some worry the touchscreen machines aren't secure enough and allow hackers to potentially get in and manipulate results. ...
• "The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting," said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
• Federal election-reform legislation passed in 2002 aims to upgrade voting systems that rely on punch-card ballots or lever machines, and to improve voter registration, voter education and poll worker training. ...
• States upgrading their equipment are looking at two systems: electronic machines, with voters making their choice by touchscreens similar to ATMs; and older optical scan machines, with voters using pen and paper to darken ovals, similar to standardized tests. ...
• Still, North Dakota changed its plan to give officials the flexibility to go with touchscreens or optical scan machines. ...
• Rush Holt, D-New Jersey, has introduced a bill that would require that all voting machines create a paper trail. ...
• They insist that security is solid and machines records are examinable. They also say the sought-after improvements will create other problems, such as malfunctioning machines and violating the integrity of a voters' privacy. ...

• Report shows major defects in new voting machines.
• Touch-screen voting machines made their debut in Montgomery County during last year's primary and general elections. ...
• Maryland's newly purchased electronic voting machines should be scrapped because the software that runs it has major security flaws, a Johns Hopkins professor said.
• An analysis of the software that runs the Diebold Election Systems voting machines shows that a voter -- using a forged smart card -- could cast multiple votes for the same candidate without being detected, said Aviel D. ... The touch-screen machines require voters to insert a smart card, touch their choices and then eject the card and hand it to poll workers.
• 6 million contract for 10,931 new voting machines manufactured by Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems Inc.
• The machines are sitting in a warehouse in Odenton, waiting to be shipped to 19 counties by Sept. ... Four counties -- Allegany, Dorchester, Montgomery and Prince George's -- tested the high-tech voting machines last year.
• "I think they need to scrap the voting machines. ...
• (R) said that while the governor is concerned about the flaws, the voting machines are "not an off-the-shelf product. ...
• Maryland chose the Diebold voting machines "for its efficiency and processing results and the access they are able to provide for the disabled," DeLeaver said.
• "We want to inspire voter protection and confidence and these machines can provide that," she said.
• Jurgensen, elections director in Montgomery County where the machines made their debut last year. Diebold machines were also tested last year in Allegany, Dorchester and Prince George's counties. ...
• The state of Georgia turned to the Diebold voting machines after Florida became the laughingstock of the nation.
• Before the switch, Georgia used punch cards, letter- and optical-scan machines and -- in two counties -- paper ballots.

• Libertarian's lawsuit targets electronic voting machines.
• Paperless electronic voting machines -- such as this one from Sequoia Voting Systems -- pose a threat to Libertarians, said LP member Susan Marie Weber, who filed a lawsuit to stop their use.
• A California Libertarian who filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against "touchscreen" voting systems is now waiting to learn whether an appeals court will hear oral arguments in the case.
• At stake in the case is whether the government can use Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) touchscreen voting machines in Riverside County, California. The machines use an electronic voting system that produces no paper ballots.
• "All Libertarians should be incensed that there is absolutely no way to verify any election that is on an electronic voting system. ...
• A ruling against DRE voting systems could halt their distribution in California, said Weber, and create a legal precedent that could slow their acceptance around the USA.
• The suit was filed after Riverside County installed Sequoia Voting Systems' AVC Edge System DRE voting machines.
• Ironically, in an attempt to head off complaints about the system, Townsend demonstrated the DRE machines at a county Libertarian meeting, said Weber.
• In her brief to the court, Weber argued that DRE machines, which record and tabulate votes electronically using a touchscreen "ballot," have no hardcopy mechanism to verify the accuracy of votes.
• The lawsuit argues that touchscreen voting systems are illegal under California law and violate the Fourteenth Amendment's "equal protection" clause. According to California Elections Code §19205, all voting machines must be "safe from fraud or manipulation. ...
• District Court (Central District of California), the secretary of state's attorneys countered that the voting machines were tested for accuracy under laboratory conditions.
• In addition, according to the voting watchdog group, Election Guardians, the Sequoia Voting Systems' AVC Edge System uses proprietary software, which closes "the doors to independent analysis of the source code to see how it actually does -- or does not -- count the votes. ...
• If DRE voting systems are used, Weber asked the court to require printers to be added to the touchscreen machines, to produce a voter-verified paper ballot.
• Other California voting systems -- pre-scored punch cards, Datavote systems, and optical scan ballots -- all have a paper hardcopy ballot trail to recount in the event of machine failure, noted Weber.

• The Future: Voting  In The New World Order.
• A Diebold touchscreen voting machine.
• What can you do? Voice your support for HR 2239, a bill that would force all electronic voting machines to create a paper trail.
• Ohio Won't Make 2004 Deadline for Electronic Voting.
• Voting Machine Owner Committed To Give Votes To Bush .
• Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is: "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year. ...
• Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud .
• Voting Machines Called Home?? .
• 5 hours before the polls closed in San Luis Obisbo County, Diebold voting machines called their home computer and started sending vote results back to Diebold. ... The only problem is, at the time the Diebold machines sent the data, only 40% of the votes had actually occurred.
• Incredibly, this software keeps not one, but two Microsoft Access data tables of voting results. ...
• Did the US Mainstream Media do an end run around the REAL scandal? Diebold's Shocking War Against Black Box Voting. com Election-Fraud Website (Black Box Voting. ...
• Diebold Shutting Down ISP's Around The World That Dare Post The Memos Proving The Vote Machines Are Not Secure Or Honest .
• A former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials. ...
• The US electronic voting system is a total fraud.

• Confusion about voting machines a concern.
• ATLANTA - Some Bibb County voting officials are worried that the state isn't going to provide enough time for senior citizens and others to have hands-on practice with electronic voting machines that will be used for the first time this year.
• But state officials claim the machines are extremely easy to use, and that a multimillion-dollar effort to inform the masses about how they work should be adequate to allay fears of the new technology. The state also plans to make the machines widely available for training sessions after the Aug. ...
• He was disappointed when the class was postponed, but said that when he practiced with one of the new voting machines at a previous meeting, he found them easy to use.
• 20 primaries, the state will be bombarded with opportunities to see, touch and practice on the new machines, said Kara Sinkule, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State. Every voting precinct in Georgia will have a sample machine on display for demonstrations during the Aug. ...
• Georgians with Internet access can see a near-replica of the voting machines now at www. ... The only difference between this Internet demonstration and the real thing is that with the actual voting machines you use your fingers instead of a mouse, Sinkule said.
• Still, there's a great deal of anxiety about using the new voting machines, said Elaine Lucas, a Macon city councilwoman and chair of special projects for the Bibb County Voters League. If fear of the new machines is widespread, it could result in low voter turnout, she said.
• Her group has postponed three training sessions with churches because demonstration machines weren't available. The state isn't making more machines available for demonstrations until after the Aug. ...
• That's because voters will continue to use the old voting methods - in Bibb County, it's paper ballots - in the primaries.
• Elaine Carr of the Bibb County Board of Elections said that's the right decision because giving demonstrations on the new machines before the primary would have confused people.
• "I think right now is just not the time for the machines to be out there," Carr said.

• On-Line Demonstration of Voting Terminal.
• Overreaction - Call for e-voting ban is misguided.
• Seniors try out voting system.
• Some 33,000 Diebold voting stations are being used simultaneously in locations across the United States to assist voters in exercising their most fundamental constitutional right: The right to vote.
• Diebold is a global leader in providing high-quality cutting-edge direct recording electronic (DRE) voting solutions to jurisdictions of all sizes, along with a comprehensive service and elections support capability that’s unmatched on a global scale. ... The AccuVote-TS™ system provides voters with an entirely new state-of-the-art design that represents a major leap forward in voting technology. ...
• Recent articles concerning electronic voting systems.

• Electronic voting machines with meager security and significant technical flaws threaten to undermine our voting rights and thus the reliability of the election process. Without federal review and software testing, these voting machines are being marketed by companies and bought by states at an alarming rate. ...
• This campaign has created a website to educate the American public about the dangers of current electronic voting machines, and to empower and enable individuals to take preventive action in their communities by taking inventory of their local County Election Board's voting equipment; click HERE.
• As citizens of the United States of America, we are fortunate to have a voting system that is designed to uphold democracy as the bedrock of our society. ...
• Using electronic voting machines to conduct elections is dangerous to democracy because there is no way of ensuring their accuracy. It is imperative that there be a required voter-verified paper trail for every election so that any errors and irregularities caused by the voting machines can be discovered.
• Unfortunately, there are no such requirements for the so-called "Direct Recording Electronic" machines currently being used in many communities and states. ...
• Recent studies have reported numerous very serious technical flaws in electronic voting machines, including allowing a person to: vote more than once, see ballots that have been cast on a machine, change party affiliation on ballots, alter the counting of votes, modify, create or even delete votes inside the voting machines and interfere with audit logs and election results. Their analysis shows that the voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards, placing our future elections at risk to both insider and outsider attacks.
• Require all voting machines to produce a voter-verified paper record for use in manual audits and recounts. ...
• Ban the use of undisclosed software and wireless communications devices in voting systems. ...
• Require all voting systems to meet these requirements in time for the general election in November 2004. ...
• Require that electronic voting systems be provided for persons with disabilities by January 1, 2006. ...
• Many of them can also list dozens of plausible ways for computerized voting machines to be compromised.
• While there is certainly room for improvement in voting technology, electronic voting machines are not the answer. ... Unless we are using auditable voting equipment, public confidence in our elections will be eroded and the results of any election will remain open to question.

•   Voting Machine Companies Huddle Together.
• It's unclear exactly what the purpose of this group is, but the various companies that make voting machines appear to have teamed up to deal with the growing complaints about what they offer. ... While they have a nice friendly quote about dealing with the controversy "positively" (what, now that suing everyone hasn't proven effective?), they also are already pointing out that basic things like a verifiable paper trail will add significant cost to the voting process. ...

• Worries grow over new voting machines' reliability, security .
• (AP) - Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000.
• With just over a year to go before the next presidential race, touchscreen voting machines don't seem like the cure-all some thought they would be. ...
• Touchscreen voting .
• His doubts were so grave that he delayed purchasing new voting machines and is sticking with the old ones for now.
• Lately, they've expressed doubts about the machines' accuracy, and have discussed purchasing an older technology for 1,000 more machines they need.
• - Voter confidence: Since most touchscreen machines don't create a separate paper receipt, or ballot, voters can't be sure the machine accurately recorded their choice.
• - Election fraud: Some worry the touchscreen machines aren't secure enough and allow hackers to potentially get in and manipulate results.
• "The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting," said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
• Federal election-reform legislation passed in 2002 aims to upgrade voting systems that rely on punch-card ballots or lever machines, and to improve voter registration, voter education and poll worker training.
• States upgrading their equipment are looking at two systems: electronic machines, with voters making their choice by touchscreens similar to ATMs; and older optical scan machines, with voters using pen and paper to darken ovals, similar to standardized tests.
• Still, Georgia announced it would re-examine the security of its $54 million-worth of computerized machines. North Dakota changed its plan to give officials the flexibility to go with touchscreens or optical scan machines. ...
• , has introduced a bill that would require that all voting machines create a paper trail.
• They insist that security is solid and machines records are examinable. They also say the sought-after improvements will create other problems, such as malfunctioning machines and violating the integrity of a voters' privacy.

• (Redirected from Voting) .
• Voting is usually the final step of a meeting's decision making. ...
• In a democracy, voting most commonly implies election, i. ... In politics voting is the method by which the electorate of a democracy appoints representatives in the government. ...
• A vote, or a ballot, is the individual's acts of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain motion (e. ...
• Different voting systems use different types of vote. ...
• In a voting system that uses a single vote, the voter can select one of the five that they most approve of. ... This precludes him voting for anyone else. ...
• In a voting system that uses a multiple vote, the voter can vote for any subset of the alternatives. ... Approval voting uses such multiple votes. ...
• In a voting system that uses a ranked vote, the voter has to rank the alternatives in order of preference. ... There are a great many voting systems that use ranked votes. See preference voting. ...
• In a voting system that uses a scored vote (or range vote), the voter gives each alternative a number between one and ten (the upper and lower bounds may vary). See range voting. ...
• One reason for preferring complex voting systems that may allow for these statements is to deal with the need to accommodate expressions of both tolerances and preferences in voting. ...

• New Voting Machines for New York State: Promise or Peril? .
• Are new, paperless, computerized voting machines a sign of promise or peril?.
• What we do about voting technology now will have consequences for decades to come.
• 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.
• Computerized voting solves the problem of the moment -- inaccurate vote counting technology -- but replaces it with a whole set of new problems we are only just beginning to understand.
• It's these kinds risks that led hundreds of respected computer scientists and technologists to sign Stanford computer science professor David Dill's Resolution on Electronic Voting, which insists there be an audit trail to back up digital ballots.
• I am familiar with the security procedures used with computerized voting systems. ...
• For paper and lever voting systems, we have developed elaborate security procedures to safeguard votes. For example, in a lever voting system, pollworkers check the mechanical counters before opening the polls to confirm the counters are set to zero. In a paper voting system, pollworkers open the ballot box and show the first voter at the polls that the box is empty and hasn't been pre-stuffed.
• There are attempts to replicate such procedures in a computerized voting system. ...
• The problem with these tests is that they are conducted when the machines are in "test mode". ...
• Already there are signs that some voters lack confidence in computerized voting. ...
• That's the problem: computerized voting as it is in use today is not transparent. ...
• Many of you are lever machine voters and may be wondering why no one's made much of a fuss over that voting system's lack of a paper trail. The reason is this: lever machines are mechanical; there's no need for a paper audit trail because there is no software used.

• State keeping quiet on flaws in machines.
• Report: New voting system at 'high risk'.
• 6 million electronic voting system found 66 flaws that could lead to fraud and errors, but many of the weaknesses -- and how they will be fixed -- remain a closely guarded state secret.
• (R) called the report on the Diebold voting system "positive," saying the state would fix the vulnerabilities in time for the March presidential primary. ...
• Municipalities with November elections should not be concerned, administration officials said, because the touch-screen machines were used securely in last year's elections in Allegany, Dorchester, Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
• Frosh said the public needs to have confidence in the voting system.
• And he criticized the Ohio-based company's contention that it has already used the voting system in past elections without problems. ...
• Mark Radke, director of voting industry for Diebold Election Systems, said his company had already fixed the three security weaknesses the study identified with the machines themselves.
• "We believe we are fully prepared to roll out the voting machines for the 2004 presidential primary," said Gilles W. ...
• Burger said Diebold has made changes to the voting machines including better encryption methods and smart card technology. The machines are not connected to a network and so would not be affected by a computer virus or tampering, he said.
• on the state's new voting system may be found online at www. ... us -- see voting systems under hot topics. ...

• Voting machine.
• A voting machine provides vast potential for electoral fraud. ...
• Electronic voting machines have been installed in several states in response to a federal mandate. Notably and disturbingly, these electronic machines leave no paper trail by which vote verification or audit can take place. Furthermore, the programming of the voting machines is secret, or at least it was until Diebold's source code was discovered on an insecure ftp server and analysed by independent experts. ...
• "In Georgia, where Diebold Election Systems machines are used, a handful of voters found that when they pressed the screen to vote for one candidate, the machine registered a vote for the opponent. ...
• But more critically, computer scientists charge that the software that runs the machines is riddled with security flaws. ...
• , including the founder of the GNU e-democracy project (who has now abandoned it due to unresolved concerns about inherent problems of voting electronically), who has issued grave warnings about voting by computer. ...
• All machines had the same password hard-wired into the code. ...
• In October 2003, Andrew Gumbel reported in the Independent (UK) that "Next year's US presidential election may be compromised by new voting machines that computer scientists believe are unreliable, poorly programmed and prone to tampering. ...
• "An investigation published in today's Independent reveals tens of thousands of touch screen voting machines may be less reliable than the old punchcards, which famously stalled the presidential election in Florida in 2000, leaving the whole election open to international ridicule. ...
• "The machines are said to offer no independent verification of individual voting choices, making recounts impossible, and the software is shielded from public scrutiny by trade secrecy agreements. ...
• They have also cast doubt on the accuracy of last November's mid-term election results, especially in Georgia, the first state to switch to touch screen voting. ...
• David Dill 1 , a computer science professor at Stanford University, said: "These machines do not allow the voters to check that their votes are accurately and permanently recorded. No one can prove that the machines are trustworthy. ...
• The three leading voting machine manufacturers are substantial Republican campaign donors. ...

• But at least these Diebold machines were working from paper (absentee ballots) so they could correct the count. ...
• Sludge Report #162 - Sequoia Voting Code Released - Get it while you can! This may be the next Diebold. ...
• Open Voting Consortium software supposed to be tested today .
• Open Voting Consortium - Open source software, voter-verified ballots. ...
• The SCDC has written up a position paper on e-voting. ...
• Also, the NY Times has yet another article on e-voting: The Results Are in and the Winner Is. ...
• In the meantime, people continue to buy Diebold voting machines, despite the controversy over their penchant for installing uncertified software on machines being used in elections and other past and potential problems with their systems. ...
• The New York Times has an article "Security Poor in Electronic Voting Machines, Study Warns" Original: http://www. ...
• html?id=9 to do a "Red Team" test to demonstrate the ability to attack the Diebold voting machines that will be used in the upcoming primary elections. ...
• Apparently unauthorized software has been used on voting machines in 10 different states, and a lot of other scary things. ...
• Ohio Study Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting, John Schwartz, Dec. ...
• Court news: About the OPGvsDiebold case, after the telephone conference today: Diebold Backs Down, Won't Sue on Publication of Electronic Voting Machine Flaws. ...
• "We're pleased that Diebold has retreated and the public is now free to continue its interrupted conversation over the accuracy of electronic voting machines," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. ...
• Maryland needs help fixing (ie verified voting) or getting rid of the Diebold machines that they have already bought. The Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland put out a call for Maryland-based activists to help out with the big legislative battle they're gearing up for in the next few weeks. ...
• Breakthrough progress: California requires electronic voting machines to make receipts. ...

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