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  • NIST finds security problems with overseas e-voting

    Posted December 25, 2008 - 11:10 am

    A government report points to security problems with Internet and Web-based voting for overseas U.S. citizens.

  • E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

    Posted November 4, 2008 - 8:56 pm

    Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several U.S. states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

  • Problems with e-voting reported early in battleground states

    Posted November 4, 2008 - 11:04 am

    Tuesday could be a long day for election officials with U.S. states relying on electronic voting machines to record votes in the U.S. presidential election.

  • Nov. 4, 2008: What could possibly go wrong?

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 9:40 pm

    E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history. But progress has zig-zagged.

  • Election '08: Tech highs and lows

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 11:32 am

    Technology has played a greater role than ever this election year. And on this US election eve, e-voting security issues remain a concern. In this roundup, some tech highpoints and lowpoints (and funny points too).

  • E-voting groups are watching a handful of states

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 10:11 am

    "This is an election that will sort of stress-test the [election] systems," said Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines. "Any problem that's going to come up is going to be amplified."

  • Ed Felten on e-voting: What can go wrong

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 9:56 am

    Voting machines of all stripes have remarkably similar flaws and though geographically scattered, inaccurate tallies of votes are not likely to flip a whole presidential election, there is a "nightmare scenario" that could.

  • Online video of purported W.Va. e-voting 'flip' is disputed

    Posted October 29, 2008 - 8:12 pm

    A recently posted video that purports to "expose" a touch-screen e-voting machine that flipped votes during a demonstration run by a county election clerk in West Virginia was apparently edited and didn't show the whole interview and demonstration by the official.

  • Open source: How e-voting should be done

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 12:54 pm

    In the past eight years, elections in the United States have taken on the guise of a TV game show, with the elections themselves not quite as compelling as watching voting mechanisms fail across the country, especially in key battleground states such as Florida and Ohio. Pols and pundits from both sides of the aisle are quick to place most of the blame on faulty electronic voting systems. But until we set a technical policy that favors open voting systems, as Australia did in 2001 with its open source eVACS (Electronic Voting and Counting System), we have only ourselves to blame.
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