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To the Editor:. ... Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 28 days ago
The District of Columbia has witnessed yet another triumph of Electronic Voting this week, when a computer malfunction inflated records of write-in votes in the city's Tuesday primary elections by insane amounts: D.C. election officials blamed a defective computer memory cartridge yesterday for producing what appeared to be thousands of write-in votes that officials say did not exist.... For example, in the Republican at-large race, 1,560 write-ins at 9:50 p.m. dwindled to 18 by 12:16 a.m. The problem also added thousands of votes to individual candidates, inflating vote totals. At 9:50 p.m. 8,246 ballots were recorded cast in the at-large Republican primary, but that shrank to 3,735 by 12:16 a.m. Hmm. This time around, the malfunction was caught and corrected. But how it happened remains something of a mystery. The firm that supplied D.C.'s Voting machines, Sequoia Voting Systems, says that its database and software functioned just fine, so something ... Source: gizmodo.com --- 8 days ago
Conspiracy theorist or not, any time I'm typing information into a computer at any time of the day, I know that it can be lost at a moment's notice, by the simple glitch of a program or power supply. There's simply no permanence to digital information, which makes the potential alteration of such data both frightening and perfectly realistic. Apply that principle to something like a presidential election, and the prospects become downright scary. That is, unless you're Homer Simpson. Then it's just kind of funny. [via Wonkette Thanks Diebold! ] ... Source: www.npr.org --- 35 days ago
Officials in many states are concerned about the reliability of Electronic Voting and are now moving toward systems that can provide a voter-verified paper trail. Larry Norden, author of The Machinery of Democracy , discusses the latest advances in Voting technology. ... Source: www.ajc.com --- 32 days ago
A Fulton County Superior Court Judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit to scrap Georgia's Electronic Voting system. ... Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu --- 30 days ago
[JURIST] A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Monday granted summary judgment for the state of Georgia in a suit alleging that the state's Electronic Voting system is unconstitutional and illegally vulnerable to fraud. The challenge, filed in 2006 by a coalition of Georgia voters called Voter GA, alleged that the system's lack of paper documentation compromises accuracy and fraud detection, providing no way to perform a recount. The group asserted that the system violates voters' due process rights because fraudulent manipulation cannot be detected, and violates equal protection rights by creating a disparity where absentee voters use ballots that can be verified, audited and recounted. The state maintained that the Electronic system is more secure than older Voting systems. Lawyers for Voter GA said they will appeal the decision. Also Monday, US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and senior Department of Justice officials met with rights groups and state and local officials to discuss ballot protection efforts for the upcoming national elections on November 4. Mukasey, who has made election monitoring a priority for the end of his term, said that to achieve voter confidence, the DOJ must " openly with groups interested in the protection of Voting rights and with the state and local officials primarily responsible for administering our elections." AP has more. Similar challenges in Maryland, New Jersey, and Florida to the leg ... Source: www.alternet.org --- 29 days ago
UC computer scientists release video on how to hack a sequoia touch-screen Voting machine. ... Source: www.sciencedaily.com --- 1 day ago
This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's Voting machines. ... Source: www.lockergnome.com --- 3 days ago
This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today’s Voting machines. As part of his advanced computer science class, Rice University Associate Professor and Director of Rice’s Computer Security Lab Dan [...] ... Source: www.creditcards.com --- 25 days ago
After 2000s contentious election fades into the chaddy past, so does the call to use the banking system's ATM networks as Voting machines. ... Source: www.eurekalert.org --- 2 days ago
( Rice University ) This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's Voting machines. ... Source: www.rgj.com --- 27 days ago
Group shows several ways to change e-Voting results even with paper trail. ... Source: lxer.com --- 11 days ago
California's secretary of state, Debra Bowen, believes that open-source software should be used in elections involving Electronic Voting machines, to protect against error and fraud. Speaking in Cambridge, MA, [on Thursday] during a panel discussion at the EmTech organized by Technology Review, Bowen noted that individual counties are currently responsible for purchasing Voting machines. Often the choice is left up to an IT professional who may lack detailed knowledge of cryptography and computer security. But the biggest concern, according to Bowen, is a lack of access to the machines' underlying code. "Many times, a person has no legal right to review the software, even if they could," she said. ... Source: news.toonzone.net --- 7 days ago
The New York Times reports that Homer Simpson will have a run-in with an Electronic Voting machine on the Nov. 2, 2008, episode of The Simpsons . The sequence "emerged on the Internet" this week, immediately drawing praise and criticism from political partisans, despite the producers' claims that they were not attempting to make a political statement as much as a satirical one. In a related story, [read more] ... Source: www.democracynow.org --- 1 day ago
Ohio is a key swing state that ended up deciding the outcome of the 2004 election. But the state was riddled with Voting problems, ranging from breakdowns in Electronic Voting machines to accusations of widespread voter disenfranchisement. We speak to Democrat Jennifer Brunner, who was elected Secretary of State of Ohio in November 2006. [includes rush transcript] ...
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With a major U.S. election imminent, security experts are sounding alarms about the lack of attention paid to fixing Electronic Voting technology in use in North America. ... Source: www.securitymanagement.com --- 2 days ago
With Voting irregularities in 2004, a report last year critical of the state's e-Voting machines , and Ohio's reputation as kingmaker in this year's presidential election, you better believe all eyes will turn to the Buckeye State on November 4. read more ... Source: www.register-herald.com --- 2 days ago
FAYETTEVILLE — An early test of the county’s Electronic iVotronic Voting machines and its optical scan system was conducted as part of Wednesday’ Fayette County Commission meeting. ... Source: blogout.justout.com --- 4 days ago
In this clip of from “The Simpsons” episode that will air on November 2nd, Homer has a little trouble with his fancy or “rigged” Electronic Voting machine. In the process he even mentions something about this only happening in Ohio, a major swing state in the election. ... Find more results for Electronic Voting on RSSMicro.com |
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A professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas has been teaching his students how easy it is to rig the software used in Voting machines for the US Presidential election. In 2006, Electronic Voting machines accounted for over 40 percent of votes cast in US elections, and these numbers are expected to higher still this year. Dan Wallach, Director of Rice's Computer Security Lab, split a class of undergraduate and graduate students into two groups: one to tweak Voting software to influence an election; the other to try to track down the hackers. "What we've found is that it's very easy to insert subtle changes to the Voting machine," Wallach said. "If someone has access and wants to do damage, it's very straightforward to do it." Barack, McCain... or Bush again? Even though students were often able to find the other team's Voting fraud hacks, Wallach said that in real life it would probably be too late. "We have little reason to believe that the certification and testing process used on genuine Voting machines would be able to catch the kind of malice that our students do in class," said Wallach. "If this happened in the real world, real votes could be compromised and nobody would know." again Although if Bush wins this time, I for one will be just a bit suspicious. ...