Directory: EVoting 00-11-00-CACM-EVotingCreatesManyRisks.txt 01-01-00-CACM-GaugingTheRisksOfInternetBasedElections.txt 01-01-00-CACM-TheCaseForInternetVoting.txt 01-02-00-ACMUbiquity-NoEasyFixForBallotCounting.txt 02-01-07-BBC-EVoting.txt 02-10-29-US-HelpAmericaVoteAct-PL107-252.txt 02-11-00-TechReview-ExperiencesWithOnlineVoting.txt 02-11-05-PCWorld-OnlineVoting.txt 02-12-02-CACM-SecurityConsiderationsForRemoteElectronicVoting.txt 02-12-02-UMD-EvaluationOfMDsEVotingMachine.txt 03-01-24-DDill-VotingMachinesMustProvideVoterAuditTrail.txt 03-02-19-ACMUbiquity-LFCranor-Privacy-Surveillence-Voting.txt 03-02-20-Salon-ProblemsWithElectronicVotingMachines.txt 03-02-21-NationalJ-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVoting.txt 03-02-21-SecurityFocus-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVoting.txt 03-02-25-BlackBoxVoting-WhistleBlowerSuesVotingMachineCompany.txt 03-02-25-MSNBC-ComputerScientistsConcernedAboutEVoting.txt 03-02-26-SJMerc-CountyEVotingPlansAdvanceInSpiteOfConcerns.txt 03-03-03-SFGate-ComputerScientistsQuestionEVoting.txt 03-03-28-WashPost-ComputerScientistsDisputeTouchScreenVotingMachines.txt 03-04-28-IHT-ManySayEVotingUnsafe.txt 03-05-07-MapCruzin-NebraskaElectronicVotingProblems.txt 03-05-09-Wired-VotingMachinesWithPaperTrailIntroduced.txt 03-05-15-NYT-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 03-05-30-USACM-LetterToCongHoltOnEVoting.txt 03-06-24-ABCNews-DODProposesEVotingForMilitary.txt 03-07-12-BosGlobe-PentagonPlansInternetVoting-SERVE.txt 03-07-12-Yahoo-SERVE-ElectronicVotingProject.txt 03-07-16-YES-ProblemsWithElectronicVoting.txt 03-07-20-SJMerc-DG-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 03-07-24-NYT-ResearchersFindDieboldEVotingProblems.txt 03-07-25-KohoEtc-AnalysisOfAnElecVotingSystem.txt 03-07-25-SJMerc-UnivResearchersAnalyzeEVoting.txt 03-07-26-SJMerc-DG-MDOfficialsIgnoreEVotingWoes.txt 03-07-26-WashPost-MDOfficials-EVotingOK.txt 03-07-28-USACM-WorkshopOnElectionSystems.txt 03-08-00-CACM-PaperlessVotingMachinesThreatenTheIntegrityOfTheDemocraticProcess.txt 03-08-00-GovTech-FaifaxVAUsesWiFiEvotingMachines.txt 03-08-04-Wired-EVotingMachineVulnerabilities.txt 03-08-05-Wired-EVotingLawsuitToFedAppealsCourt.txt 03-08-07-BaltoSun-MDToReviewE-votingPlans.txt 03-08-11-WashPost-ProblemsWithE-Voting.txt 03-08-25-BaltoSun-ResearcherCriticalOfEVotingCode.txt 03-08-27-Wired-NoConsensusOnEVotingMachines.txt 03-09-02-ABCNews-SoftwareAgentsMightVoteForUs.txt 03-09-10-MSNBC-DieboldOpticalVotingResultsSentToWebsite.txt 03-09-17-SJMerc-DG-RecallVoteDelayCouldHelpVerifiableVoting.txt 03-09-18-Wired-MarylandSaysDieboldVotingSystemOK.txt 03-09-19-EFF-StatementOnIEEEVotingMachineStandard.txt 03-09-23-Salon-DieboldVotingSystemAnInvitationToFraud.txt 03-09-24-TechRev-Rotenberg-ProblemsWithEvotingSystems.txt 03-09-25-Wired-MarylandSaysDieboldVotingSystemOK.txt 03-10-00-HightowerLowdown-DieboldCEOPolitics.txt 03-10-02-Baseline-CalifEVotingCertificationIssues.txt 03-10-06-Wired-DieboldEVotingMachinesFlawed.txt 03-10-08-WashPost-SomeVotersSkepticalOfEVotingSystems.txt 03-10-13-Wired-WorkerSaysDieboldInstalledUnauditedSWPatch.txt 03-10-15-Salon-EvotingSystemTestsInadequate.txt 03-10-20-TruthOut-DillMercuriSimonsDiscussEVoting.txt 03-10-20-Wired-EvotingIndustrySeeksPublicApproval.txt 03-10-29-Wired-EVotingProtestGainsMomentum.txt 03-11-03-CalifHaltsAuditOfDieboldEVotingMachines.txt 03-11-03-CSMonitor-EVotingIssues.txt 03-11-03-MSNBC-EVotingIssues.txt 03-11-03-USACM-StatementOnEVoting.txt 03-11-05-SJMerc-SantaClaraCtyBeginsEVoting.txt 03-11-06-CNETNews-W3CCriticizesVisualVerficationTests.txt 03-11-09-NYT-DieboldCEOPoliticalActivitiesExamined.txt 03-11-10-FCW-EVotingMachinesQuestioned.txt 03-11-10-LATimes-ExStateOfficialsNowWorkForEVotingFirms.txt 03-11-10-LondonFP-100KOntarioVotersCastBallotsOnline.txt 03-11-10-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesGettingMoreScrutiny.txt 03-11-11-Wired-DieboldForcedToPayForEVotingMachineAudit.txt 03-11-17-USACM-Grove-IntegrityAndEVotingSystems.txt 03-11-18-SJMerc-DieboldIssuesLegalThreatsToEVotingActivists.txt 03-11-19-Wired-3RepsBackEvotingPaperTrailBill.txt 03-11-21-SJMerc-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt 03-11-21-TheStandard-NCVIFormedToPromoteVerifiedEVoting.txt 03-11-21-Wired-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt 03-11-26-SJMerc-DG-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt 03-11-26-Wired-CalifOpponentsOfEvotingPaperTrailGearingUp.txt 03-11-30-USACM-ACMWashingtonUpdate-7-11.txt 03-12-08-CNETNews-StatesScrutinizeEvoting.txt 03-12-10-MtgmryCoGaz-DieboldEmailACallToGougeMarylandForPrinters.txt 03-12-10-NIST-Symposium-BuildingTrustInVotingSystems.txt 03-12-11-CNN-EvotingNoMagicBullet.txt 03-12-12-BobParks-HowWillYouKnowIfYourVoteIsCounted.txt 03-12-12-CompWorld-CriticismOfEvotingMachinesSecurityMounting.txt 03-12-15-NYT-EvotingMachines-ThePaperAuditTrail.txt 03-12-17-SJMerc-CalifSaysDieboldEvotingSoftwareNotApproved.txt 03-12-29-SJMerc-VoteHere-EvotingFirmsWebsiteHacked.txt 04-01-00-Wired-EVotingIssues.txt 04-01-20-NewsSci-WirelessEVotingMachinesRaiseSecurityConcerns.txt 04-01-20-ServeSec-JohsHopkinsReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt 04-01-21-NYT-JohsHopkinsReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt 04-01-21-Wired-OpenSourceEvotingSystemWillHaveSecurityissues.txt 04-01-22-SJMerc-JohsHopkinsReportBlastsDODOnlineEvoting.txt 04-01-24-Wired-BrazilsEVotingMachinesArePrettyGood.txt 04-01-26-Wired-ReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt 04-01-29-DieboldPR-RabaTechStudyValidatesDieboldEVotingSystemsInMD.txt 04-01-29-NYT-StudyWarnsEcurityPoorInEVotingSystems.txt 04-01-29-Wired-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt 04-01-30-SJMerc-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt 04-01-30-WashPost-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt 04-01-31-USACMWashUpdate-ComputerScientistsExposeProblemsWithInternetVoting.txt 04-02-01-SJMerc-DG-DieboldEVotingProblemsInAlamedaCo.txt 04-02-01-SJMerc-DieboldEVotingProblemsInAlamedaCo.txt 04-02-01-SJMerc-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt 04-02-01-TechRev-DillPushesPrintedEVotingAuditTrail.txt 04-02-02-Mindfully-FortuneRatesDieboldEVotingAs2003WorstTechnology.txt 04-02-03-GovExec-ComputerScientistsExposeProblemswithInternetVoting.txt 04-02-05-SJMerc-DODScrapsEvotingSystem.txt 04-02-06-SJMerc-CalifTriesToMakeEvotingSecure.txt 04-02-06-WashPost-DOD-TestingOnlyForOnlineVotingSystem.txt 04-02-07-SJMerc-30KVoteOnlineInMichiganCaucuses.txt 04-02-09-Salon-WasGeorgiaDemPrimaryHighjacked.txt 04-02-13-SJMerc-EvotingCriticsDestroyingAGoodThing.txt 04-02-16-MSNBC-SpaksFlyInEVotingDebate.txt 04-02-20-Wired-EVotingActivistsSayVoteAbsentee.txt 04-02-29-Reuters-EVotingMachinesFaceSuperTuesdayTest.txt 04-02-29-USACM-SecureElectionsAndEUEVotingStandards.txt 04-03-02-AviRubin-MyExperienceAsAnElectionJudge.txt 04-03-02-CNETNews-EVotingGenerallyGoesSmoothly.txt 04-03-02-NYT-NewApproachesToTrustworthyEVoting.txt 04-03-02-SJMerc-RecordNumberOfEVotesOnSuperTuesday.txt 04-03-02-SJMerc-SuperTuesdayTestsEVotingMachines.txt 04-03-03-BaselineMag-MarylandDidNotImplementAllEVotingRecommendations.txt 04-03-03-MSNBC-GlitchesAngerEVotingCritics.txt 04-03-04-WashPost-ProblemsWithEVotingButVotersLikeIt.txt 04-03-09-LATimes-7000OrangeCoVotersGivenWrongBallotCodes.txt 04-03-10-SJMerc-DG-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 04-03-11-PBS-Cringely-DieboldEVotingMachinesAlreadyHaveAPrinter.txt 04-03-11-Wired-CalLegislatorsUrgeDecertificationOfPaperlessEVotingMachines.txt 04-03-17-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesNeersPrintedVerification.txt 04-03-19-Wired-EVotingMachinesMissSomeCalifVotes.txt 04-03-29-Newsweek-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 04-03-29-Wired-HowEVoringThreatensDemocracy.txt 04-03-31-USACM-WashUpdate-LawsuitsOverBallotPrintersAdvance.txt 04-03-31-WashPost-DODCancelsInternetVotingTest.txt 04-03-31-WashTech-ProponentsDefendEVoting.txt 04-04-00-CalVoter-CaliforniaVoterFoundation.txt 04-04-01-GovExec-HowTheDODInternetVotingSERVESystemWasKilled.txt 04-04-01-SJMerc-EVotingDoubtsDrivePushForPaperTrail.txt 04-04-01-SJMerc-OpenVotingConsortiumProposesSecureVerifiableEVotingSystem.txt 04-04-02-SJMerc-EVotingIrregularitiesInRiversideCoCalif.txt 04-04-05-EWeek-MichDemoCaucusEVoteDoesNotImpressTechExperts.txt 04-04-05-NewsForge-LinuxOpenSourceEvotingSystems-Canada-Australia.txt 04-04-08-Wired-VoteHereReleasesSourceCode.txt 04-04-16-BusWeek-IndiaLikesInexpensiveEvotingMachines.txt 04-04-20-CFP2004-WhoIsWatchingTheWatchers.txt 04-04-20-MiamiHerald-PrintedReceiptswatingForStandards.txt 04-04-20-OaklandTrib-DieboldKnewOfProblemsWithCalifEvotingMachines.txt 04-04-20-TriValHerald-DieboldKnewUseOfUncertifiedSystemsIllegal.txt 04-04-22-PurdueUniv-CERIAS-EVotingSeminar-FilteringOutTheNoise.txt 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifAdvisoryCommRecommendsDieboldBan.txt 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifElectionOfficialsCriticizeDiebold.txt 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifPanelSaysDecertifyCertainDieboldSystems.txt 04-04-22-TriValleyHerald-DieboldApologizesForFlaws.txt 04-04-22-WSJ-HAVAComplianceBehindSchedule.txt 04-04-23-AzRep-AzSenateBillWouldRequireEvotingPaperTrail.txt 04-04-23-ChronHigherEd-AlarmsSoundedOverEvoting.txt 04-04-26-MSNBC-ConcernGrowingOverEVoting.txt 04-04-28-SJMerc-CalifAdvPanelRecommendsEvotingOnlyWithPaperBallotOption.txt 04-04-29-LATimes-CalifAdvPanelRecommendsEvotingOnlyWithPaperBallotOption.txt 04-04-30-USACM-OffersHelpToElectionAssistanceComm.txt 04-05-00-ACM-EVotingIssuesAtCFP2004.txt 04-05-00-Governing-ProblemsWithTouchScreenVoting.txt 04-05-00-IEEESympSecurityAndPrivacy-Rubin-AnalysisOfDieboldEVotingSystem.txt 04-05-03-NewsForge-DoubtsBeingRaisedAboutEVotingMachines.txt 04-05-03-NYT-AviRubinHavingAnEffectOnEVotingIssues.txt 04-05-03-NYT-AviRubin.txt 04-05-03-SJMerc-ElectionAssistanceCommLacksBudgetAndAuthority.txt 04-05-03-Wired-ElectionAssistanceCommLacksBudgetAndAuthority.txt 04-05-04-LATimes-SomeCalCountiesMaySueStateOverDecertifyingEVotingMachines.txt 04-05-05-Guardian-FirstHearingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt 04-05-05-PCWorld-FlawsInEvotingSystems.txt 04-05-05-SJMerc-FirstHearingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt 04-05-06-SJMerc-CalSenateCommVotesToBanEVotingForNov2.txt 04-05-06-Wired-ContradictoryOpinionsAtFirstMeetingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt 04-05-07-SJMerc-OhioGovernorAppprovesEVotingIn31Counties.txt 04-05-13-SJMerc-EVotingMachinesEliminateAbilityForMeaningfulRecounts.txt 04-05-14-SJMerc-USLawmakersAskGAOForStudyOfEVoting.txt 04-05-17-CNETNews-HouseMembersAskGAOToStudyEVoting.txt 04-05-20-CNETNews-ConcernsOverMachinesHas2004ElectionUsageInDoubt.txt 04-05-20-LATimes-BannedCaligEVotingSystemsLikelyToBeReadyByNov2.txt 04-05-23-NYT-DemandGrowsForPaperTrailsForEVoting.txt 04-05-27-Wired-NevadaCountyPlansEVotingPrinterVerificationTest.txt 04-05-28-USACM-WashUpdate-ConcernsWithEVotingSystems.txt 04-05-30-NYT-IndepentEVotingTestingLabsAreNotIndependent.txt 04-06-00-HarvardU-Symposium-ElectronicVotingBestPractices.txt 04-06-01-CIOMag-IssuesWithEVotingSystems.txt 04-06-07-GovtCompNews-MarylandOfficialSaysEvotingMachinesAreSafe.txt 04-06-08-CNETNews-CryptoApproachToSecureEVoting.txt 04-06-09-Reuters-FedElectionsChiefCallsForMoreSecureVote.txt 04-06-11-NYT-LWVSplitOnPaperlessEVotingSystems.txt 04-06-12-MiamiHerald-SomeFloridaEVotingMachinesHaveInconsisentEventLogs.txt 04-06-13-NYT-EVotingMachinesShouldBeAsSafeAsNevadaGamblingMachines.txt 04-06-14-Wired-FloridaEvotingMachinesSoftwarePreventsAuditingResults.txt 04-06-15-AP-LWVDropsSupportForPaperlessEVoting.txt 04-06-15-SJMerc-ElectionOfficialsJoinEVotingCompaniesAfterLeavingOffice.txt 04-06-17-NYT-CalifSecyOfStateRequiresEVotingPaperTrail.txt 04-06-17-SJMerc-DG-CalifSecyOfStateSeesTheLight.txt 04-06-17-SJMerc-DG-CalSecyOfStateRealizesEVotingProblems.txt 04-06-24-SacBee-MollyIvins-EVotingMachineNeedPaperTrail.txt 04-06-30-CNETNews-ExpertsDebateEVotingIssues.txt 04-06-30-NYT-NYUStudyCallsForIndependentAuditOfEVotingMachines.txt 04-06-30-USACMWashUpdate-EVotingContinuesToStirControversy.txt 04-07-01-AmCityAndCounty-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 04-07-06-ZWire-BevHarris-EVotingActivist.txt 04-07-07-Reuters-LawsuitWouldOverturnFloridaNoEVoteRecountRule.txt 04-07-07-SJMerc-ComputerExpertsWarnHouseCommOfEVotingProblems.txt 04-07-08-PhiladelphiaInq-ComputerExpertsWarnHouseCommOfEVotingProblems.txt 04-07-08-TechDirt-LawsuitWouldOverturnFloridaNoEVoteRecountRule.txt 04-07-11-SJMerc-CalifWhistleblowerLawsuitFiledToReclaimMoneySpentOnEVotingMachines.txt 04-07-12-RockyMtnNews-VenezuelaToUseUntestedEVotingMachinesInRecallElection.txt 04-07-12-USAToday-VenezuelaToUseUntestedEVotingMachinesInRecallElection.txt 04-07-14-SLCTrib-CitizenPetitionDemandsPaperBackup.txt 04-07-16-InetNews-CalifLawsuitChallengesEVotingRecountMethods.txt 04-07-19-EWeek-VotersRallyToDemandPaperAuditTrail.txt 04-07-21-CompWorld-AviRubinTellsCongressToUseComputerSecurityExpertise.txt 04-07-23-CompWorld-DemsWrestleWithEVotingIssues.txt 04-07-23-NYT-ImmediateStepsOfferInsuranceForEVoting.txt 04-07-26-DowJones-EUGovernmentsGenerallyCoolToEVoting.txt 04-07-28-CompWorld-EVotingSystemsNotReliableNorAccessibile.txt 04-07-28-SJMerc-MiamaDadeElectionDataLost.txt 04-07-29-SJMerc-FlaElectionDataLossHampersAudit.txt 04-07-30-SJMerc-MiamiDadeElectionsOfficialsFindLostData.txt 04-07-30-USACM-EVotingContinuesToStirControversy.txt 04-08-00-Nation-EVotingCouldPutPresidentialElectionInDoubt.txt 04-08-05-PCWorld-MercuriIssuesHackTheEVotingMachineChallenge.txt 04-08-07-WIred-HackerGetsCopiesOfInternalDataFromDieboldComputer.txt 04-08-08-ACM-ACMMovesTowardPolicyPositionOnEVotingPaperTrail.txt 04-08-16-TheNation-EVotingIssues.txt 04-08-17-CompWorld-NevadaToUsePrintingDREsOnSept9.txt 04-08-19-ChicDailyHerald-LectureQuestionsEVotingSecurity.txt 04-08-20-Wired-USOfficialPraisesIEEEForEVotingStandardsWork.txt 04-08-22-SJMerc-SecrecyAndViabilityOfDREMachineTestingCompaniesQuestioned.txt 04-08-22-WashPost-NewMexico2000-LostVotesDueToMisprogrammingAtCountyLevel.txt 04-08-23-MSNBC-SecrecyAndViabilityOfDREMachineTestingCompaniesQuestioned.txt 04-08-24-Salon-ProbelmsWithFloridaEVotingMachines.txt 04-08-25-MissouriSecyState-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt 04-08-27-SJMerc-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt 04-08-27-WashPost-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt 04-08-31-USACM-RecommendationsForEVotingCallForBetterSecurityTestingAndAuditing.txt 04-09-00-ACM-ACMMembersAgreeWithACMEVotingStatement.txt 04-09-01-iSeriesNet-TechWatchProgramWillMonitorEVoting.txt 04-09-08-SJMerc-CalifAGJoinsLawsuitAgainstEVotingCompanies.txt 04-09-08-SJMerc-CalifAttorneyGeneralJoinsLawsuitOnEVotingMachines.txt 04-09-17-SciAm-Selker-EVotingIssues.txt 04-09-19-NYT-ReadyOrNotEVotingGoesNational.txt 04-09-21-AAAS-ExpertsPanelCallForStudyAndReformOfEVotingSystems.txt 04-09-22-CNETNews-ManyNewEVotingProblemsIdentified.txt 04-09-22-Wired-MoreFlawsFoundInDieboldEVotingSystems.txt 04-09-24-InTheseTimes-ManyEVotingProblemsDocumented.txt 04-09-24-LATimes-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 04-09-27-DailyKOS-FedAppealsCourtOrdersRehearingInFLPaperTrailLawsuit.txt 04-09-27-SJMerc-SwissAuthoritiesDeclareInternetVotingTestASuccess.txt 04-09-27-WashPost-JimmyCarter-StillSeekingAFairFloridaVote.txt 04-09-28-MontereyHerald-MoreFederalLawmakersWantPaperRecords.txt 04-09-28-NetWorld-ACMAgainstEVotingSystems.txt 04-09-28-SJMerc-CalifGovSignsBillRequiringEVotingPaperTrail.txt 04-09-28-SJMerc-FedAppealsCourtOrdersRehearingInFLPaperTrailLawsuit.txt 04-09-29-IndependentDigital-SomethingRottenInTheStateOfFlorida.txt 04-09-30-CouncilOfEurope-COEMinistersAgreeOnEVotingLegalText.txt 04-09-30-USACM-ACMCouncilApprovesPositionStatementOnEVotingSystems.txt 04-09-30-WIred-DieboldLosesCopyrightSuitOverMisuseOfDMCA.txt 04-10-00-ACMQueue-IssuesWithEVotingMachines.txt 04-10-00-CACM-ACMStatementOnEVotingSystems.txt 04-10-00-CACM-AnalyzingInternetVotingSecurity.txt 04-10-00-CACM-EvotingSourceCodeAvailabilityNotSufficient.txt 04-10-00-CACM-OnlyOneVotePerMachineCanChangeTheResultsOfAnElection.txt 04-10-00-IEEESpectrum-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt 04-10-00-NRC-NRCProjectOnElectronicVoting.txt 04-10-01-JohnMarshallLawSchool-E-lection2004Symposium-IsEVotingReadyForPrimeTime.txt 04-10-01-SJMerc-JudgeRulesDieboldMisrepresentedCLaimsUnderDMCA.txt 04-10-03-Wired-DisabledVotersLikeEVotingForAccess.txt 04-10-04-DougJones-CommentsOnEuropeanDraftEVotingStandard.txt 04-10-10-OnlinePolicyGrp-DieboldCeaseAndDesistLetter.txt 04-10-11-SJMerc-MercuryNewsEVOtingRoundtable.txt 04-10-11-SJMerc-VotingMachineProblemsCutDieboldEarningsForecast.txt 04-10-14-Yahoo-FloridaEVotingMachineCrashPostponesTest.txt 04-10-18-CompWorld-ResearchersRemainConcernedAboutEVotingSecurityAndReliability.txt 04-10-19-InfoWorld-ElectionIncidenceReportingSystem-EIRS.txt 04-10-25-WashPost-EVotingRaisesNewIssues.txt 04-10-26-WIred-EVotingVendorsTurnOverObjectCodeToNISTLibraray.txt 04-10-27-SJMerc-EVotingVendorsTurnOverObjectCodeToNISTLibraray.txt 04-10-28-CNETNews-IssuesWithEVoting.txt 04-10-28-EETimes-ExpertsWarnEVotingMachinesRemainUnsecured.txt 04-10-28-SJMerc-CalifCountiesApplyPaperBallotRulesDifferently.txt 04-10-31-USACM-NationalAndInternationalUpdateOnEVoting.txt 04-11-00-CACM-EvaluationOfEVotingSystems.txt 04-11-00-DrDobbs-AviRubinProposesOpenSourceSecureEVotingSystems.txt 04-11-01-CNETNews-Nov2ElectionIsBetaTestOfEVoting.txt 04-11-01-EETimes-GroupsWorkingOnEVotingSpecs.txt 04-11-01-SJMerc-OneThirdOfCalifVotersConcernedAboutEVotingMachines.txt 04-11-01-SJMerc-ProblemsWithDREMachineTesting.txt 04-11-02-CompWorld-OnlyIsolatedReportsOfEVotingMachineMalfunctions.txt 04-11-02-Wired-ElectionWatchdogsReportEVotingGlitches.txt 04-11-03-CompWorld-ExpertsQuestionEVotingInSpiteOfApparentSuccessOnNov2.txt 04-11-03-UsTogether-EvidenceMountsThatVoteWasHacked.txt 04-11-06-CommonDreams-EvidenceMountsThatVoteMayHaveBeenHacked.txt 04-11-06-TruthOut-EvidenceMountsThatVoteWasHacked.txt 04-11-07-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesStillNeedBetterReliability.txt 04-11-10-SJMerc-CalifSettlesEVotingSuitAgainstDiebold.txt 04-11-11-Artifice-APetitionToCongressToInvestigateThe2004Election.txt 04-11-12-NYT-MostlyGoodReviewsForEVoting.txt 04-11-17-TechRev-MostEVotingProblemsArePollingPlaceProcedures.txt 04-11-18-SJMerc-ElectionVerificationProjectCitesEVotingProblems.txt 04-11-18-WIred-UCBResearchersShowFloridaEVotingInconsistencies.txt 04-11-24-CNETNews-GAOToInvestigate2004EVoting.txt 04-11-30-USACM-ConcernsAboutEVotingContinue.txt 04-12-01-BostonGlobe-VotingErrorsTalliedNationwide.txt 04-12-02-ElecDes-CriticsCiteEVotingProblems.txt 04-12-07-ITBus-EVotingStillExpensiveAndFraughtWithSecurityIssues.txt 04-12-07-WIred-UCBEVotingAnalysisCriticized.txt 04-12-11-YubaNet-TheNeedForAccountableAndVerifiableEVoting.txt 05-01-00-DigTrans-TouchScreenVotingReliabilityContested.txt 05-01-13-ClevePlainDeal-OhioPullsPlugOnEVotingForOpticalScan.txt 05-01-16-SFlaSunSent-TouchScreensMoreLikelyToCastFlawedBallot.txt 05-01-27-PCWorld-DieboldToMarketEVotingSystemWithPaperTrail.txt 05-01-28-USAToday-DieboldDevelopsEVotingPrinter.txt 05-02-03-SJMerc-DieboldPrinterFailsToSatisfyEVotingCritics.txt 05-02-07-MSNBC-VotingSystemsPerformanceRatingProposed.txt 05-02-09-CompWorld-VotingIntegrityAndVerificationActWouldRequirePaperTrail.txt 05-02-09-PCWorld-VotingIntegrityAndVerificationActWouldRequirePaperTrails.txt 05-02-28-CompWorld-ClintonAndBoxerIntroducePaperTrailEvotingBill.txt 05-03-07-FedCompWeek-EACEvotingStandardsWillNotRequirePaperTrail.txt 05-03-31-USACM-ExpertsBeginVoterRegistraionDatabaseStudy.txt 05-04-08-Bloomberg-LawmakersBeginningToRequirePaperInVoting.txt 05-04-14-CompWorld-CostsAndProblemsMayDoomEVotingSystem.txt 05-04-18-Bloomberg-CarterBakerCommisionWeighsUSVotingChanges.txt 05-04-22-AP-ChairOfUSVotingReformPanelResignsCitingLackOfSupport.txt 05-04-25-CompWeekly-EVotingPopularWithUKVoters.txt 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05-07-07-WIred-USEvotingGuidelinesNeedMoreWork.txt 05-07-13-NewsForge-EvotingPaperTrailAndSystemTransparency.txt 05-07-15-CompWorld-NewJerseyToGetEvotingPaperTtrailIn2008.txt 05-08-02-KCInfozine-AdvocatesUrgeCommissionToRequireVerificationAnAccessibility.txt 05-08-03-InsideBayArea-CalifTestFindsManyDieboldMachineProblems.txt 05-08-13-InsideBayArea-CalifRequiresVendorsNeedToCertifyEquipmentWillMeetHAVAGuidelines.txt 05-08-15-JohnsHopkins-NSFToFundCenterToStudyEVotingIssues.txt 05-08-21-PressCitizen-DougJonesReceivesNSFGrantToStudyEVoting.txt 05-08-28-CompWorld-AustrlianElectionCommissionLooksAtOpenSourceEVoting.txt 05-08-30-InsideBayArea-CalifBillWouldRequireUsingPaperTrailForRecounts.txt 05-09-19-FecCompWeek-ElectionReformCommConcludesVoterVerifiedPaperTrailsNeeded.txt 05-09-23-Wired-ElectionReformCommConcludesVoterVerifiedPaperTrailsNeeded.txt 05-09-29-NIST-SunshineMeetingNoticeForUSElectionAssistanceCommission.txt 05-09-30-USACM-CarterBakerCommissionReportAMixedBag.txt 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07-08-03-USACM-CalifReviewFindsVulnerabilitiesInEVotingSystems.txt 07-08-03-USACM-SenFeinsteinLikelyToPushBackDatesForRequiringEVotingPaperTrails.txt 07-08-03-USACM-TechCommitteeReschedulesFinalVotingStandardsMeeting.txt 07-08-04-CompWorld-CalifMandatesToughNewSecurityStandardsForEVotingSystems.txt 07-08-11-SJMerc-CalifEVotingSuppliersTryToWinReapprovalBefore2008Elections.txt 07-08-16-AP-DieboldUnableToSellEVotingUnitAmidCriticismOfSystems.txt 07-08-16-Felten-DieboldAccuVote-TSVotingMachineSecurityIssues.txt ==========> 00-11-00-CACM-EVotingCreatesManyRisks.txt========== Inside risks: voting automation (early and often?) Rebecca Mercuri November 2000 Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 11 Computerization of manual processes often creates opportunities for social risks, despite decades of experience. This is clear to everyone who has waded through deeply nested telephone menus and then been disconnected. Electronic voting is an area where automation seems highly desirable but fails to offer significant improvements over existing systems, as illustrated by the following ==========> 01-01-00-CACM-GaugingTheRisksOfInternetBasedElections.txt========== Gauging the risks of internet elections Deborah M. Phillips, Hans A. von Spakovsky January 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1 Removed from independent public scrutiny, hidden inside a possibly insecure infrastructure, Internet voting may offer a cloak for vote theft, voter coercion, and lost public confidence in the outcome. The idea of voting via the Internet has fired the imaginations of many millions ==========> 01-01-00-CACM-TheCaseForInternetVoting.txt========== The case for internet voting Joe Mohen, Julia Glidden January 2001 Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1 The March 2000 Arizona Democratic Party's presidential preference primary illustrates the promise of accessibility, inclusiveness, and accountability in online elections. back to top ==========> 01-02-00-ACMUbiquity-NoEasyFixForBallotCounting.txt========== Voting after Florida: no easy answers Lorrie Faith Cranor February 2001 Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 47 A close look at voting equipment and procedures finds that there is no quick (or cheap) fix for ballot counting issues. As the world watched the electoral drama unfold in Florida at the end of 2000, my phone started ringing off the hook. "Wouldn't all our problems be solved if ==========> 02-01-07-BBC-EVoting.txt========== Monday, 7 January, 2002, 12:42 GMT E-voting: A load of old ballots? The UK should be the first country to hold its general elections online, says Robin Cook, leader of the Commons. But BBC News Online's technology correspondent Mark Ward says it is not going to be easy. You can order a pizza via the net, visit a webcam to ==========> 02-10-29-US-HelpAmericaVoteAct-PL107-252.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/PDF/HAVA.pdf 116 STAT. 1708 PUBLIC LAW 107–252—OCT. 29, 2002 (F) general information on Federal and State laws regarding prohibitions on acts of fraud and misrepresenta-tion. (c) VOTERS WHO VOTE AFTER THE POLLS CLOSE.—Any indi-vidual who votes in an election for Federal office as a result of a Federal or State court order or any other order extending the time established for closing the polls by a State law in effect 10 days before the date of that election may only vote in that ==========> 02-11-00-TechReview-ExperiencesWithOnlineVoting.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation11102.asp Venturing to Vote Online Innovation By Julie Claire Diop November 2002 European governments experiment with Internet elections Who will ever forget the endless examinations of Florida’s paper ballots and the debates over "hanging" and "pregnant" chads after the 2000 U.S. presidential vote? Florida’s saga continued in September as technical glitches ==========> 02-11-05-PCWorld-OnlineVoting.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106734,00.asp Dreaming of a Digital Democracy Advocates say it's just a matter of time--and security--before we log on to cast ballots. Michelle Madigan, Medill News Service Tuesday, November 05, 2002 WASHINGTON -- Americans are trekking to the polls to cast their votes by touching a screen or punching a card. In an Internet-dominated society, some ==========> 02-12-02-CACM-SecurityConsiderationsForRemoteElectronicVoting.txt========== Security considerations for remote electronic voting Aviel D. Rubin December 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 12 Introducing state-of-the art technology into the election process implies new risks that may not be worth taking. The right of individual citizens to vote for their representatives in the U.S. government, as well as for their counterparts in the country's various ==========> 02-12-02-UMD-EvaluationOfMDsEVotingMachine.txt========== ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2002-25html/2002-25 .html AN EVALUATION OF MARYLAND’S NEW VOTING MACHINE The Center for American Politics and Citizenship Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 December 2, 2002 Executive Summary ==========> 03-01-24-DDill-VotingMachinesMustProvideVoterAuditTrail.txt========== http://verify.stanford.edu/evote.html Voting machines must provide a voter-verifiable audit trail I, David Dill, am trying to organize opposition to unauditable electronic voting machines by technologists, especially computer science researchers. I have written a statement, for which I would like to recruit endorsements. (Here is the current list of endorsements) ==========> 03-02-19-ACMUbiquity-LFCranor-Privacy-Surveillence-Voting.txt========== At the Crossroads of Technology and Policy Lorrie Cranor on privacy, online voting and Internet censorship. Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs-Research, where she has done work in a variety of areas where technology and policy issues interact -- including online privacy, electronic voting and spam. She is chair of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the World Wide Web Consortium and author of the book Web Privacy with P3P (O'Reilly 2002). ==========> 03-02-20-Salon-ProblemsWithElectronicVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html Hacking democracy? Computerized vote-counting machines are sweeping the country. But they can be hacked -- and right now there's no way to be sure they haven't been. By Farhad Manjoo Feb. 20, 2003 | During the past five months, Bev Harris has e-mailed to news organizations a series of reports ==========> 03-02-21-NationalJ-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVoting.txt========== National Journal's Tech Daily The Vote Against Touch-Screen Voting by Maureen Sirhal A group of technologists and academics is protesting the potential introduction of new voting machines in the heart of Silicon Valley because they say the move will lead to questionable election results. Led by Stanford University computer-science professor David Dill, more than 300 computer scientists, students, technology professionals and others have ==========> 03-02-21-SecurityFocus-ComputerScientistsChallengeTouchScreenVoting.txt========== E-Voting security debate comes home SecurityFocus By Kevin Poulsen Should electronic ballots decide the next presidential election? Some respected computer scientists and security experts say the risks posed by malicious hackers, equipment failure or subtle programming errors make fully-electronic voting systems a bad idea. On Friday, they're taking that fight to their own backyard, trying to stop local officials from introducing the systems into 5,000 voting booths in the heart of ==========> 03-02-25-BlackBoxVoting-WhistleBlowerSuesVotingMachineCompany.txt========== http://www.blackboxvoting.com/votehere-lawsuit-1.html LAWSUIT: Voting Machine Engineer Sues, Alleges Machine Design Flaws WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT: Insider Sues Voting Machine Company Full text of lawsuit: http://www.blackboxvoting.com/votehere-lawsuit-1.html 2/25/2003 -- Dan Spillane, a voting machine test engineer, has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, DRE touch-screen voting machine manufacturer Spillane's lawsuit charges wrongful and retaliatory termination; ==========> 03-02-25-MSNBC-ComputerScientistsConcernedAboutEVoting.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/877280.asp?cp1=1 Critics call for electronic voting halt Computer scientists say systems too vulnerable to fraud ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 25 — At least one in 10 voters nationwide cast ballots in the last presidential election on electronic voting machines, whose popularity is growing as counties replace the ==========> 03-02-26-SJMerc-CountyEVotingPlansAdvanceInSpiteOfConcerns.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5266490.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 26, 2003 County lets e-voting plan advance without paper backup By Karen de Sá Mercury News Santa Clara County supervisors rejected pleas from computer scientists Tuesday that they require new electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail after each touch-screen vote is cast, leaving that decision to the ==========> 03-03-03-SFGate-ComputerScientistsQuestionEVoting.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BU1 22767.DTL&type=tech Scientists question electronic voting Henry Norr Monday, March 3, 2003 Oddly enough, Silicon Valley has been a laggard when it comes to applying the technology it's famous for to the election process. Now it's finally beginning to catch up, and it has suddenly become ==========> 03-03-28-WashPost-ComputerScientistsDisputeTouchScreenVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39241-2003Mar27.html "New Voting Systems Assailed" Washington Post (03/28/03) P. A12; Keating, Dan Over 300 computer scientists and experts have joined a campaign that disputes the reliability and security of new touch-screen voting machines that have been installed throughout several U.S. states in response to election reforms. They argue that such systems are susceptible to human error, malfunctions, and interference, while their biggest disadvantage lies in not ==========> 03-04-28-IHT-ManySayEVotingUnsafe.txt========== http://www.iht.com/articles/94643.htm Internet Voting - A Fixers Dream Lee Dembart/IHT IHT Monday, April 28, 2003 PARIS More than 1.5 million Britons will have a chance to vote Thursday in 17 local elections using electronic voting systems that computer security experts on both sides of the Atlantic say are fraught with danger and an invitation to fraud. ==========> 03-05-07-MapCruzin-NebraskaElectronicVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/bush041603b.htm Massive cyberfraud by Republicans in Nebraska? ``...former conservative radio talk-show host and now Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel was the head of, and continues to own part interest in, the company that owns the company that installed, programmed, and largely ran the voting machines that were used by most of the citizens of Nebraska. When Democrat Charlie Matulka requested a hand count of the vote in the election he lost to Hagel, his request was denied ==========> 03-05-09-Wired-VotingMachinesWithPaperTrailIntroduced.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58738,00.html Voting Machine Leaves Paper Trail By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM May. 09, 2003 PT Voting machines that print individual ballots -- an election accessory many computer scientists have clamored for -- are moving a step closer to widespread availability. ==========> 03-05-15-NYT-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== "To Register Doubts, Press Here" New York Times (05/15/03) P. E1; Lubell, Sam Electronic voting machines have gotten a boost since the controversial 2000 presidential elections, but the momentum is being countered by a group of technologists who warn that such systems are less secure than paper-based ones. Stanford University computer scientist David Dill is leading a group of more than 100 academic and commercial experts, including ACM, who say ==========> 03-05-30-USACM-LetterToCongHoltOnEVoting.txt========== May 30, 2003 The Honorable Rush Holt 1019 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Holt, As the Co-Chairs of USACM, the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, we are writing to commend you for your ==========> 03-06-24-ABCNews-DODProposesEVotingForMilitary.txt========== http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/FutureTech/netvoting030624.html An Internet-based voting system would allow millions of absentee ballots from Americans living and working overseas to be counted in "real time." But, could a national electronic voting system help or hurt the U.S. election process? (ABCNEWS.com) Virtual Voting United States Prepares E-Ballot System Trial for 2004 Elections By Paul Eng ==========> 03-07-12-BosGlobe-PentagonPlansInternetVoting-SERVE.txt========== http://www.boston.com/dailynews/193/wash/Thousands_to_cast_ballots_by_I%3A.shtml Thousands to cast ballots by Internet in 2004 elections By Sam Hananel, Associated Press, 7/12/2003 12:40 WASHINGTON (AP) Imagine casting a vote for president from a cybercafe in Thailand, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf or a laptop computer at home. Thousands of people serving in the military and American civilians living abroad will have that option next year in the nation's most extensive Internet ==========> 03-07-12-Yahoo-SERVE-ElectronicVotingProject.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20030 712/ap_on_hi_te/internet_voting Thousands to Cast Ballots by Web in 2004 Sat Jul 12, 8:10 AM ET By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Imagine casting a vote for president from a cybercafe in Thailand, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf or a laptop computer at home. ==========> 03-07-16-YES-ProblemsWithElectronicVoting.txt========== http://www.yesmagazine.org/26courage/pibel.htm This article appears in YES! magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org. Safeguarding the Vote By Doug Pibel Last November, I voted. At least I think I did. When I got to my polling place, instead of the familiar ballot where I drew a fat, black line to connect two parts of an arrow, I was handed what looked like a blank credit card. I plugged that into one of the spiffy new touch-screen voting machines and started ==========> 03-07-20-SJMerc-DG-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6344554.htm Posted on Sun, Jul. 20, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Voting machines need paper trails By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Sometime in the next few weeks, California will decide whether voters will have any reason to trust the outcomes of elections in the 21st century. ==========> 03-07-24-NYT-ResearchersFindDieboldEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/24VOTE.html * "Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say" New York Times (07/24/03) P. A12; Schwartz, John Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say software in Diebold Election Systems' voting machines could allow multiple fraudulent votes or let election workers rig the systems. Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute technical director Aviel D. Rubin has published the software's long list of security shortfalls on the Web. Experts have previously called for an open review of ==========> 03-07-25-KohoEtc-AnalysisOfAnElecVotingSystem.txt========== http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf A paper entitled "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System," by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin and Dan Wallach, was released tonight. (The first three authors are at Johns Hopkins University; Wallach is at Rice). An article about the paper will be appearing in tomorrow's (Thursday's) New York Times. You can find the article at http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf. ==========> 03-07-25-SJMerc-UnivResearchersAnalyzeEVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/6385047. htm GMSV July 25, 2000 Our own Dan Gillmor has been shooting up flares for a while now on the weaknesses in some of the technology proposed for electronic voting machines, namely that no record is kept to verify that a vote was correctly recorded. Now he and others with similar concerns have some new ammo in the form of an ==========> 03-07-26-SJMerc-DG-MDOfficialsIgnoreEVotingWoes.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001233.shtml#001233 July 26, 2003 State Officials Scoff at Voting Machine Security Woes posted by Dan Gillmor 12:29 PM # Washington Post: Voting Machine Study Divides Md. Officials, Experts. In 2001, four out of the five members of the technical group that was asked to recommend to the state which electronic voting system to buy instead recommended against buying any at all. The state ignored the advice. "They ==========> 03-07-26-WashPost-MDOfficials-EVotingOK.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48092-2003Jul25.html Voting Machine Study Divides Md. Officials, Experts Margaret A. Jurgensen, director of Montgomery County elections, says recent voters loved the new machines. (Tom Allen -- The Washington Post) By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 26, 2003; Page B01 For some in Maryland, the report yesterday by Johns Hopkins University computer ==========> 03-07-28-USACM-WorkshopOnElectionSystems.txt========== Workshop on Voter-Verifiable Election Systems July 28­29, 2003, Denver Colorado Adams Mark Hotel Billions of dollars will be spent in the next few years on voting equipment. Unfortunately, some believe the new technology may reduce election integrity and voter confidence. A proposed solution is to provide "voter verifiability,” so that election results are guaranteed to reflect the intent of the voters. The workshop aims to bring together people interested in these issues. ==========> 03-08-00-CACM-PaperlessVotingMachinesThreatenTheIntegrityOfTheDemocraticProcess.txt========== Viewpoint: Voting and technology: who gets to count your vote? David L. Dill, Bruce Schneier, Barbara Simons August 2003 Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 Issue 8 Paperless voting machines threaten the integrity of democratic process by what they don't do. Voting problems associated with the 2000 U.S. Presidential election have spurred calls for more accurate voting systems. Unfortunately, many of the new ==========> 03-08-00-GovTech-FaifaxVAUsesWiFiEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=61857 A Vote for the Future Wi-Fi voting goes off without a hitch in Fairfax, Va. By Blake Harris August 2003 Following the 2000 election debacle in Florida, the condition of America's election machinery received considerable public scrutiny, prompting a drive to replace aging voting systems with newer technology. ==========> 03-08-04-Wired-EVotingMachineVulnerabilities.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59874,00.html More Calls to Vet Voting Machines By Louise Witt 02:00 AM Aug. 04, 2003 PT A recent report that showed touch-screen voting machines could be vulnerable to hackers spurred the National Association of Secretaries of State, a majority of whose members are in charge of their states' elections, to consider whether the standards for the machines should be beefed up to prevent tampering. ==========> 03-08-05-Wired-EVotingLawsuitToFedAppealsCourt.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59898,00.html Voting Suit Gains Momentum By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2003 PT A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of computerized touch-screen voting systems has moved to a higher-profile venue in federal appeals court. According to Susan Marie Weber, a Palm Desert, California woman who is suing ==========> 03-08-07-BaltoSun-MDToReviewE-votingPlans.txt========== http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.voting07aug07,0,1419965.story Voting machine review ordered Hopkins study of flaws in security prods action; Purchase no longer 'a certainty'; California firm to analyze touch-screen system By David Nitkin Sun Staff Originally published August 7, 2003 In the wake of a study revealing security flaws in the costly touch-screen voting machines Maryland has agreed to buy, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. ordered ==========> 03-08-11-WashPost-ProblemsWithE-Voting.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42085-2003Aug10.html Jolted Over Electronic Voting Report's Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 11, 2003; Page A01 The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state's electronic voting machines. But with a recent ==========> 03-08-25-BaltoSun-ResearcherCriticalOfEVotingCode.txt========== http://www.sunspot.net/features/lifestyle/bal-to.vote25aug25.story A vote of no confidence When a Hopkins computer scientist declared a new breed of electronic voting machinery to be junk, he cracked open a wide and costly debate. By Michael Ollove Sun Staff Originally published August 25, 2003 In neither appearance nor demeanor does Avi Rubin suggest the aura of a ==========> 03-08-27-Wired-NoConsensusOnEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60195,00.html No Consensus on Voting Machines By Joanna Glasner 02:00 AM Aug. 27, 2003 PT As California officials consider new security requirements for computerized voting machines, state residents remain conflicted over the future role of old-fashioned paper ballots. ==========> 03-09-02-ABCNews-SoftwareAgentsMightVoteForUs.txt========== http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/FutureTech/techtv_computervote030902.html Voting by Net Proxy? Could Software 'Agents' One Day Cast Our Ballots? By Andy Jordan, Tech Live Sept. 2— Face it, you're more concerned with who was voted off the latest reality television show than where California governor hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger stands on health care. ==========> 03-09-10-MSNBC-DieboldOpticalVotingResultsSentToWebsite.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/964736.asp?cp1=1 E-voting critics point to security hole California primary results appeared online before polls closed By Rachel Konrad ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 10 — The strange case of an election tally that appears to have popped up on the Internet hours before polls closed is casting new doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines. During San Luis ==========> 03-09-17-SJMerc-DG-RecallVoteDelayCouldHelpVerifiableVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6791541.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 17, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Recall could have silver lining if verifiable voting is a winner By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com): Voting wrongs: California's perils-of-Pauline politics could have a silver ==========> 03-09-18-Wired-MarylandSaysDieboldVotingSystemOK.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60486,00.html E-Voting Audit Ready for Public By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Sep. 18, 2003 PT A security audit ordered by Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting machines is complete, and a version of it is ready for public consumption. ==========> 03-09-19-EFF-StatementOnIEEEVotingMachineStandard.txt========== >Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory > >For Immediate Release: Friday, September 19, 2003 > > >Contact: > >Cindy Cohn > Legal Director > Electronic Frontier Foundation ==========> 03-09-23-Salon-DieboldVotingSystemAnInvitationToFraud.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/23/bev_harris/index_np.html An open invitation to election fraud Not only is the country's leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year. By Farhad Manjoo Sept. 23, 2003 | As if the public image of punch-card voting machines had not already been bruised and battered enough, on Sept. 15, the 9th Circuit Court of ==========> 03-09-24-TechRev-Rotenberg-ProblemsWithEvotingSystems.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_rotenberg092403.asp A Vote Against the Computerized Ballot We're nowhere near ready to hand over the core of our democratic process—voting—to electronic systems. By Marc Rotenberg September 24, 2003 In a recent article on TechnologyReview.com, Simson Garfinkel gleefully reported that the concerns about electronic voting systems expressed by many of ==========> 03-09-25-Wired-MarylandSaysDieboldVotingSystemOK.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60583,00.html Maryland: E-Voting Passes Muster By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Sep. 25, 2003 PT Maryland election officials released a highly anticipated report Wednesday that examines the security of Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting machines. Despite a summary in the report that states the Diebold system used in several ==========> 03-10-00-HightowerLowdown-DieboldCEOPolitics.txt========== http://www.hightowerlowdown.com/articles/oct03_v5_n10/oct03_v5_n10_1.cfm OCTOBER 2003 VOLUME #5 NUMBER #10 Edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer Welcome to WallyWorld. Like some combination of Oz, Alice’s Wonderland, and the Brothers Grimm, it’s a fabulistic realm ripe with political symbolism and significance. In the futuristic Land of Wally, elections take place in cyberspace, and the voting process has been privatized. Indeed, voting machines themselves are owned and tightly controlled by a small group of for-profit ==========> 03-10-02-Baseline-CalifEVotingCertificationIssues.txt========== http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1306643,00.asp October 2, 2003 Vote, with No Confidence By Edward Cone The absence of serious security for voting systems means the controversy surrounding California's recall election and other contests is far from over. The voting machines that almost derailed the Oct. 7 California recall election ==========> 03-10-06-Wired-DieboldEVotingMachinesFlawed.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,60713,00.html Time to Recall E-Vote Machines? By Kim Zetter 08:39 AM Oct. 06, 2003 PT As Californians head to the polls on Tuesday, voters in at least one county will cast their ballots electronically on machines that have been shown to be flawed. ==========> 03-10-08-WashPost-SomeVotersSkepticalOfEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64114-2003Oct8.html Some Voters Skeptical of E-Voting Systems By RACHEL KONRAD The Associated Press Wednesday, October 8, 2003; 5:26 PM OAKLAND, Calif. - With a sigh, Charles Coffey slapped a red, white and blue "I voted today" sticker on his T-shirt after voting at a firehouse. He wasn't sure, though, whether his computer-cast ballot counted. Though he had no ==========> 03-10-13-Wired-WorkerSaysDieboldInstalledUnauditedSWPatch.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,60563,00.html Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election? By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Oct. 13, 2003 PT Diebold Election Systems has had a tumultuous year, and it doesn't look like it's getting any better. Last January the electronic voting machine maker faced public embarrassment ==========> 03-10-15-Salon-EvotingSystemTestsInadequate.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/15/riverside_voting_machines/index_np. html Bad grades for a voting-machine exam Riverside County, Calif., invited citizens to observe a test of its computerized voting systems. One participant was not impressed. By Farhad Manjoo Oct. 15, 2003 | Over the past several years, as computer scientists began expressing concerns about the security of touch-screen electronic voting ==========> 03-10-20-TruthOut-DillMercuriSimonsDiscussEVoting.txt========== http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102003A.shtml Electronic Voting: What You Need To Know By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Interview Monday 20 October 2003 Author's Note | In July of 2003, I sat down for an extended, free-wheeling interview in Denver with three of the smartest people I have ever met. Rebecca ==========> 03-10-20-Wired-EvotingIndustrySeeksPublicApproval.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60864,00.html E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Oct. 20, 2003 PT In the wake of concerns raised about security flaws in electronic voting systems, a lobbying group is strategizing a public relations and lobbying campaign to help voting companies "repair short-term damage done by negative reports and media coverage." ==========> 03-10-29-Wired-EVotingProtestGainsMomentum.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61002,00.html E-Vote Protest Gains Momentum 02:00 AM Oct. 29, 2003 PT Swarthmore College students embroiled in a legal battle against voting-machine maker Diebold Election Systems have received a groundswell of support from universities and colleges nationwide. Students at Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Duke University, the University of ==========> 03-11-03-CalifHaltsAuditOfDieboldEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61068,00.html Calif. Halts E-Vote Certification By Kim Zetter 05:49 PM Nov. 03, 2003 PT SACRAMENTO, California -- Uncertified software may have been installed on electronic voting machines used in one California county, according to the secretary of state's office. ==========> 03-11-03-CSMonitor-EVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1103/p11s02-uspo.html From the November 03, 2003 edition A better ballot? Electronic ballots, hailed as the antidote to hanging chads, will make a mark on Election Day. But critics warn of risks to democracy. By Mary Wiltenburg | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor When voters head to the polls Tuesday, those using punch-card ballots - notorious for their role in the 2000 presidential election recount - may do so ==========> 03-11-03-MSNBC-EVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.msnbc.com/news/985033.asp?cp1=1 Black Box Voting Blues Electronic ballot technology makes things easy. But some computer-security experts warn of the possibility of stolen elections By Steven Levy NEWSWEEK Nov. 3 issue — After the traumas of butterfly ballots and hanging chad, election officials are embracing a brave new ballot: sleek, touch-screen ==========> 03-11-03-USACM-StatementOnEVoting.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm USACM Policy Brief E-Voting Technology and Standards To ensure the integrity and reliability of our nation's election process, USACM recommends a strong focus on information assurance in each phase of the election process that employs information technology. Standards and criteria are needed to improved accuracy, integrity, security, and usability of voting systems. Continued R&D in areas including computer and data storage security, ==========> 03-11-05-SJMerc-SantaClaraCtyBeginsEVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7189451.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 05, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Touch-screen voting debuts in Santa Clara County By Maya Suryaraman Mercury News Punch-card ballots became history in Santa Clara County on Tuesday when it joined most of the rest of the state in using electronic voting machines. ==========> 03-11-06-CNETNews-W3CCriticizesVisualVerficationTests.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5103639.html W3C criticizes antirobot tests Last modified: November 6, 2003, 1:56 PM PST By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com An increasingly popular robot-busting technique shuts out the visually impaired, according to a standards group. ==========> 03-11-09-NYT-DieboldCEOPoliticalActivitiesExamined.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/yourmoney/09vote.html?ei=5012&en=71c4 d60c0ffd29b1&ex=1069131600&partner=CNET&pagewanted=print&position= November 9, 2003 Machine Politics in the Digital Age By MELANIE WARNER IN mid-August, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100 wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a ==========> 03-11-10-FCW-EVotingMachinesQuestioned.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/1110/pol-evote-11-10-03.asp Jury still out on e-voting Touted as an antidote to the hanging chad, e-voting solution not proven, experts say BY MICHAEL HARDY Nov. 10, 2003 Risk assessment report from SAIC ==========> 03-11-10-LATimes-ExStateOfficialsNowWorkForEVotingFirms.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/la-me-revolving10nov10,1,923292,print.story Ex-Officials Now Behind New Voting Machines Those who led the state's ballot-count reforms now work for the firms making the equipment. By Tim Reiterman and Peter Nicholas Times Staff Writers November 10, 2003 As secretary of state in 2001, Bill Jones moved to rid California of the type ==========> 03-11-10-LondonFP-100KOntarioVotersCastBallotsOnline.txt========== http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2003/11/10/252133.html 100,000 ballots to be cast online The voters in eastern Ontario could opt for picking their choices via Internet or telephone. JEN HORSEY, CP 2003-11-10 05:31:18 TORONTO -- As voters across Ontario were preparing to head to the polls today to elect their municipal leaders, a technological first was quietly taking place in the easternmost reaches of the province. About 100,000 voters the ==========> 03-11-10-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesGettingMoreScrutiny.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001495.shtml#001495 November 10, 2003 E-Voting Machines Under More Scrutiny posted by Dan Gillmor 06:47 PM # New York Times: Machine Politics in the Digital Age. Touch-screen machines from Diebold, called AccuVotes, do not have such a "voter verified" paper trail. ES&S and Sequoia are working on prototypes for machines with printers. Diebold's machines are like A.T.M.'s, in that voters touch their selection and ==========> 03-11-11-Wired-DieboldForcedToPayForEVotingMachineAudit.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61172,00.html E-Vote Firm's Bill Comes Due By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Nov. 11, 2003 PT SACRAMENTO -- Citing concerns that Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on some electronic voting systems in a California county without the state's knowledge, officials are forcing the company to pay for an audit of all the company's voting machines used in the state in order to win ==========> 03-11-17-USACM-Grove-IntegrityAndEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm.11-17-03.html Integrity and E-Voting Systems By Jeff Grove Director, ACM Office of Public Policy Washington, D.C. As state and local election officials turn to computerized e-voting systems to replace or upgrade current voting equipment, the stakes are high. The public's confidence and trust in the entire US electoral system hang on the answers to ==========> 03-11-18-SJMerc-DieboldIssuesLegalThreatsToEVotingActivists.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7288162.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 18, 2003 Group Fears Threats of E-Voting Company RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. - A civil rights group fears legal threats from an electronic voting company are having a "chilling effect" among Internet service providers, students and voting rights advocates. ==========> 03-11-19-Wired-3RepsBackEvotingPaperTrailBill.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61298,00.html Republicans Back E-Vote Bill Wired News Report 12:07 AM Nov. 19, 2003 PT As criticism of electronic voting systems heats up across the nation, three Republicans have signed on to support a bill that would force e-voting machines to produce a paper trail. Previously only Democrats had vowed to support the bill. ==========> 03-11-21-SJMerc-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7321237.htm Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 California requires electronic voting machines to make receipts SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - In a major victory for voting rights advocates, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced today that all electronic voting machines in California must provide paper receipts by 2006. Shelley also introduced stricter requirements for testing and auditing of the ==========> 03-11-21-TheStandard-NCVIFormedToPromoteVerifiedEVoting.txt========== http://www.thestandard.com/article.php?story=20031121012728281 Group pushing e-voting security to launch Friday, November 21 2003 @ 01:27 AM GMT By Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service A new group that draws heavily from the ranks of computer scientists and technology policy specialists who are concerned about inattention to IT security issues in voting systems will announce its debut on Friday in Washington, D.C. ==========> 03-11-21-Wired-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61334,00.html E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail By Kim Zetter 03:25 PM Nov. 21, 2003 PT SAN FRANCISCO -- California will become the first state requiring all electronic voting machines produce a voter-verifiable paper receipt. The requirement, announced Friday by California Secretary of State Kevin ==========> 03-11-26-SJMerc-DG-CalifRequiresPaperReceiptsFromEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7354103.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 26, 2003 State move a victory for safe voting By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 03-11-26-Wired-CalifOpponentsOfEvotingPaperTrailGearingUp.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61379,00.html Dust-Up Over E-Vote Paper Trail By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Nov. 26, 2003 PT SAN FRANCISCO -- California election officials who oppose a paper trail for electronic voting machines appear to be gearing up for a fight with the state. Angered by California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's announcement Friday ==========> 03-11-30-USACM-ACMWashingtonUpdate-7-11.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 7.11 November 30, 2003 ACM and CRA Sponsor Cyber Security Policy Event Congress to Approve Funding for Computing Research and Education OMB Issues New Privacy Guidelines FBI Plans to Open Five New Computer Crime Labs NIST Seeks Comment on New Security Controls and Secure Hash Standard New Congressional Research Services Report on E-Voting Nanotechnology R&D Authorization Enacted into Law ******************************* ==========> 03-12-08-CNETNews-StatesScrutinizeEvoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5114062.html States scrutinize e-voting as primaries near By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified December 8, 2003, 4:00 AM PST Some states are raising last-minute security concerns over e-voting technology as much of the country prepares to switch over from mechanical to electronic ballots in time for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. ==========> 03-12-10-MtgmryCoGaz-DieboldEmailACallToGougeMarylandForPrinters.txt========== http://www.gazette.net/200350/montgomerycty/state/191617-1.html E-mail stolen from Diebold is a call to gouge Maryland by Steven T. Dennis Staff Writer Montgomery County Gazette Dec. 10, 2003 ANNAPOLIS -- An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems' internal database recommends charging Maryland "out the ==========> 03-12-10-NIST-Symposium-BuildingTrustInVotingSystems.txt========== >Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems >First NIST Symposium on >December 10 and 11, 2003 > >OVERVIEW > >The symposium will deal with issues relevant to the implementation >of the Help America Vote Act >(HAVA), and help >foster dialogue and collaboration among voting and elections ==========> 03-12-11-CNN-EvotingNoMagicBullet.txt========== http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/elec04.nist.evoting/index.html Electronic voting no magic bullet Specialists seek input of academia, technology, election officials By Marsha Walton CNN A voter slides her voter registration card into an e-voting machine in a demonstration at this week's National Institute of Standards and Technology conference. ==========> 03-12-12-BobParks-HowWillYouKnowIfYourVoteIsCounted.txt========== http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN03/wn121203.html Bob Parks, UNiv. of Maryland, Physics Friday, December 12, 2003 1. ELECTRONIC VOTING: HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF YOUR VOTE IS COUNTED? You won't. After the 2000 election fiasco in Florida, election officials across the country sought to modernize voting. This has meant a lot of business for companies that make touch-screen electronic voting machines. However, voters may also be getting the business - the machine codes are proprietary secrets ( ==========> 03-12-12-CompWorld-CriticismOfEvotingMachinesSecurityMounting.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,88 178,00.html Criticism of electronic voting machines’ security is mounting By Elizabeth Heichler DECEMBER 12, 2003 As presidential primary season approaches, a debate is raging about electronic voting -- and IT professionals and computer scientists are among the loudest critics. ==========> 03-12-15-NYT-EvotingMachines-ThePaperAuditTrail.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/technology/15neco.html Considering Computer Voting By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: December 15, 2003 Gaithersburg, Md. HIGH-TECH voting is getting a low-tech backstop: paper. Most new voting machines are basically computers with touch screens instead of keyboards. Their makers promise that the new machines will simplify voting and forever end the ==========> 03-12-17-SJMerc-CalifSaysDieboldEvotingSoftwareNotApproved.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7511145.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 17, 2003 Voting machine maker dinged AUDITOR SAYS SOFTWARE WASN'T APPROVED By Elise Ackerman Mercury News SACRAMENTO - Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said Tuesday that Diebold Elections Systems could lose the right to sell electronic voting machines in ==========> 03-12-29-SJMerc-VoteHere-EvotingFirmsWebsiteHacked.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7592802.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 29, 2003 Electronic Voting Firm Has Site Hacked TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON - A company developing security technology for electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that executives think was tied to the rancorous debate over the safety of casting ballots online. ==========> 04-01-00-Wired-EVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/evote.html January 2004 Broken Machine Politics Introducing the User-Friendly, Error-Free, Tamper-Proof Voting Machine of the Future! (WARNING: Satisfaction not guaranteed if used before 2006.) By Paul O'Donnell On a cool afternoon last February, five politicians gathered in the heart of ==========> 04-01-20-NewsSci-WirelessEVotingMachinesRaiseSecurityConcerns.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994584 Wireless e-voting machines raise concern 17:07 20 January 04 Computer scientists are concerned that new electronic voting machines - already bought by several US states - have been designed to have the capability to transmit vote tallies wirelessly. Critics of e-voting have previously cited uncertified software upgrades or bugs ==========> 04-01-20-ServeSec-JohsHopkinsReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt========== http://www.servesecurityreport.org/ A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) January 20, 2004 Authors Dr. David Jefferson Dr. Aviel D. Rubin Dr. Barbara Simons ==========> 04-01-21-NYT-JohsHopkinsReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/technology/23CND-INTE.html?ei=5062&en=2acd464e defb3c30&ex=1075352400&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position= January 21, 2004 Report Says Internet Voting System Is Too Insecure to Use By JOHN SCHWARTZ new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a panel of computer security experts asked by the government to ==========> 04-01-21-Wired-OpenSourceEvotingSystemWillHaveSecurityissues.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61968,00.html Open-Source E-Voting Heads West By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Jan. 21, 2004 PT A California college student is planning to develop a new electronic voting system based on open-source software created in Australia. Scott Ritchie was one of dozens of activists who appeared in Sacramento last ==========> 04-01-22-SJMerc-JohsHopkinsReportBlastsDODOnlineEvoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7769017.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 22, 2004 Pentagon online voting blasted SCIENTISTS SAY SYSTEM HAS SECURITY FLAWS AND SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN BEFORE DEBUT By Elise Ackerman Mercury News The Pentagon's new Internet-based voting system is vulnerable to tampering and should be shut down, computer scientists reviewing the program said Wednesday. ==========> 04-01-24-Wired-BrazilsEVotingMachinesArePrettyGood.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61654,00.html For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule Leslie M. Mira 02:00 AM Jan. 24, 2004 PT PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- From deep inside the Amazon to the gaucho country outside this port city, Brazil's government has solved riddles large and small to deliver a quick and generally reliable voting method to its 115 million voters. ==========> 04-01-26-Wired-ReportCriticalOfDODOnlineEvoting.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62041,00.html Risky E-Vote System to Expand By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Jan. 26, 2004 PT Researchers warned last week that an Internet voting system designed for Americans overseas to use in the November presidential election should be scrapped -- because Internet insecurities could compromise the election. ==========> 04-01-29-DieboldPR-RabaTechStudyValidatesDieboldEVotingSystemsInMD.txt========== http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=DBD&script=410&layout=-6& item_id=489744 Maryland Security Study Validates Diebold Election Systems Equipment for March Primary Findings Consistent With Prior SAIC Review ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, based on the analysis by RABA Technologies, concludes that the March primary election can be held successfully without any ==========> 04-01-29-NYT-StudyWarnsEcurityPoorInEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=1093 January 29, 2004 Security Poor in Electronic Voting Machines, Study Warns?? Story here???RABA Report Here January 29, 2004 By JOHN SCHWARTZ, NY Times Electronic voting machines made by Diebold Inc. that are widely used in several states have such poor computer security and physical security that an election ==========> 04-01-29-Wired-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62109,00.html E-Vote Still Flawed, Experts Say By Kim Zetter 06:12 PM Jan. 29, 2004 PT Computer security experts hired to hack electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems found that flaws in the machines could result in malicious insiders or outsiders stealing an election. ==========> 04-01-30-SJMerc-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7836994.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 30, 2004 Maryland's e-voting system vulnerable to hackers, report finds ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Computers that Maryland voters will use in the March primary contain ``vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious individuals,'' according to programmers who tested the equipment. Hackers could easily compromise 16,000 touch-screen computers in precincts ==========> 04-01-30-WashPost-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61661-2004Jan29.html?nav=hptoc_m Md. Voting Machines Vulnerable, Firm Says By Nelson Hernandez Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 30, 2004; Page B01 The "Red Team" members attacked Maryland's new electronic voting system ruthlessly. They picked locks, yanked on wires, ripped out monitors and hacked into central computers. One agent even slipped a rubber keyboard into his ==========> 04-01-31-USACMWashUpdate-ComputerScientistsExposeProblemsWithInternetVoting.txt========== Subject: ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.1 January 31, 2004 From: Lillie Coney Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:06:59 -0500 To: WASHINGTON-UPDATE@ACM.ORG ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.1 January 31, 2004 ==========> 04-02-01-SJMerc-DG-DieboldEVotingProblemsInAlamedaCo.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001742.shtml#001742 February 01, 2004 More Worrisome Electronic Voting Problems • posted by Dan Gillmor 08:46 AM • permanent link to this item # Mercury News: Electronic Voting's Hidden Perils. Alameda County officials still don't know why the computer program failed on election night. In fact, they only discovered the malfunction because they could compare the paper ==========> 04-02-01-SJMerc-DieboldEVotingProblemsInAlamedaCo.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7849090.htm Posted on Sun, Feb. 01, 2004 ELECTRONIC VOTING'S HIDDEN PERILS By Elise Ackerman 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 ==========> 04-02-01-SJMerc-RabaTechStudyFindsMarylandSystemVulnerableToHackers.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7849117.htm Posted on Sun, Feb. 01, 2004 Rigged election called possible RESEARCHERS FIND VULNERABILITIES By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Could someone hack an election? ==========> 04-02-01-TechRev-DillPushesPrintedEVotingAuditTrail.txt========== "Valid Voting?" Technology Review (02/01/04) Vol. 107, No. 1, P. 74; Jonietz, Erika Stanford University computer science professor David Dill says a major flaw in electronic voting systems is the voter's inability to observe the votes that are recorded, and argues that e-voting machines should be enhanced with voter-verifiable audit trails. Such a feature would support accurate recounts, and help ensure against election fraud as well as accidental errors. To this end, Dill crafted the Resolution on Electronic Voting, which would make voter-verifiable printers a required component of e-voting machines. The ==========> 04-02-02-Mindfully-FortuneRatesDieboldEVotingAs2003WorstTechnology.txt========== http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Worst-Technology-Fortune22dec03.htm 2feb04 Worst Technology Diebold Election Systems PETER LEWIS / Fortune 22dec03 Worst Technology of 2003: Remember all the chads and dimples that made voting for President so chaotic in Florida three years ago? In a well-meaning effort to fix the system before the 2004 elections, many communities—in Florida and in ==========> 04-02-03-GovExec-ComputerScientistsExposeProblemswithInternetVoting.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/020304ti.htm February 3, 2004 Rock the Vote By Shane Harris sharris@govexec.com 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 ==========> 04-02-05-SJMerc-DODScrapsEvotingSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7884707.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 05, 2004 Pentagon scraps Internet voting system WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon won't use an Internet voting system for overseas U.S. citizens this fall because of concerns about its security, an official said Thursday. The official, who requested anonymity, said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul ==========> 04-02-06-SJMerc-CalifTriesToMakeEvotingSecure.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/7889659.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 06, 2004 Securing electronic voting CALIFORNIA TAKES STEPS TO SAFEGUARD SYSTEM By Elise Ackerman Mercury News California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday announced measures to improve election security in the wake of a report describing how votes can be ==========> 04-02-06-WashPost-DOD-TestingOnlyForOnlineVotingSystem.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17147-2004Feb5.html Pentagon Calls Off Voting by Internet By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 6, 2004; Page A12 The Pentagon has canceled plans to collect votes over the Internet from military personnel and civilians abroad for this fall's presidential election because of security concerns. ==========> 04-02-07-SJMerc-30KVoteOnlineInMichiganCaucuses.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7898975.htm Posted on Sat, Feb. 07, 2004 Thousands vote online in Michigan caucuses By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Mary Jane DuLyn, 71, is one of tens of thousands of Michigan voters who won't be turning up at the polls today. Thanks to a computer she keeps in her spare bedroom, DuLyn cast her vote online for Howard Dean weeks ago. ``It just took a ==========> 04-02-09-Salon-WasGeorgiaDemPrimaryHighjacked.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/09/voting_machines/index_np.html Will the election be hacked? A Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Farhad Manjoo Feb. 9, 2004 | A few weeks after Election Night 2002, Roxanne Jekot, a ==========> 04-02-13-SJMerc-EvotingCriticsDestroyingAGoodThing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7945076.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 13, 2004 Opponents of change a threat to electronic voting By Mike Langberg Mercury News Fear of change is a universal human emotion, and it often erupts when new technology comes along to alter an established and comfortable way of doing things. ==========> 04-02-16-MSNBC-SpaksFlyInEVotingDebate.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4274389/ Sparks fly in e-voting debate Researchers face off over security issues An electronic voting machine is demonstrated at the Registrars-Recorder/County Clerk's headquarters in Norwalk, Calif. The machines have stirred up a controversy over computer security. By Alan Boyle Science editor MSNBC ==========> 04-02-20-Wired-EVotingActivistsSayVoteAbsentee.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62364,00.html E-Voting Activists: Vote Absentee By Kim Zetter 10:51 AM Feb. 20, 2004 PT Activists in two states launched campaigns to urge voters to cast paper absentee ballots in their March primaries, warning that the electronic, paperless voting machines used in those states are open to fraud and may not count votes accurately. ==========> 04-02-29-Reuters-EVotingMachinesFaceSuperTuesdayTest.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4463250 E-Voting Terminals Face Super Tuesday Test Sun Feb 29, 2004 05:53 PM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland's sleek new voting machines will be swathed in tamper-proof tape during Tuesday's primary election, but that won't make computer scientist Avi Rubin any more confident in the outcome. ==========> 04-02-29-USACM-SecureElectionsAndEUEVotingStandards.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 8.2 February 29, 2004 ******************************* [1] USACM Identifies Digital Rights Management Policy Issues [2] USACM Urges Federal Funding to Ensure Secure Elections [3] European Officials Working on Standards for Electronic Voting [4] California Appeals Court Rules in Support of Reverse Engineering [5] House Democrats Release Report on Homeland Security Efforts [6] New Free Trade Agreement Includes Provisions of the US DMCA ==========> 04-03-02-AviRubin-MyExperienceAsAnElectionJudge.txt========== http://www.avirubin.com/judge.html My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County by Avi Rubin March 2, 2004 It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this morning. Today, I served as an election judge in the primary election, and I am writing down my experience now, despite being extremely tired, as everything is fresh in my mind, and this was one of the most incredible days in my life. ==========> 04-03-02-CNETNews-EVotingGenerallyGoesSmoothly.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028-5168670.html E-voting smooth on Super Tuesday By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified March 2, 2004, 5:05 PM PST Electronic voting's first big test came Tuesday, as voters used computerized voting machines instead of paper ballots and punch cards to help choose who will be the Democratic Party's nominee for president. ==========> 04-03-02-NYT-NewApproachesToTrustworthyEVoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/science/02VOTE.html March 2, 2004 Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove It Did By SARA ROBINSON New Your Times More than two centuries of elections in the United States have resulted in paper-based voting systems secured by a multitude of checks and procedures. New electronic voting systems require voters to trust computers and the people who ==========> 04-03-02-SJMerc-RecordNumberOfEVotesOnSuperTuesday.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8085414.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 02, 2004 Record number of electronic ballots to be cast on Super Tuesday SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Advocates for electronic voting argue that the paperless ballots save money and eliminate many of the problems common with more antiquated systems. Yet the concern that software glitches or hackers could make the results ==========> 04-03-02-SJMerc-SuperTuesdayTestsEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8085414.htm Posted on Tue, Mar. 02, 2004 Super Tuesday puts electronic balloting to the test SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Electronic voting made its debut in cities and towns from Maryland to California on Tuesday as election officials beefed up security for the record number of voters expected to cast E-ballots for the first time. Scattered technical problems were reported as voters in 10 states, including ==========> 04-03-03-BaselineMag-MarylandDidNotImplementAllEVotingRecommendations.txt========== http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,1542125,00.asp March 3, 2004 Primary Concerns Baseline Magazine By Edward Cone The early returns are in and no voter fraud has been discovered in the wake of Maryland's first statewide use of touch-screen electronic voting machines, which took place during the Democratic primary on March 2. That's a good ==========> 04-03-03-MSNBC-GlitchesAngerEVotingCritics.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4424621/ MSNBC E-voting glitches anger critics Human error precisely why paper trail needed, they charge Ric Feld / AP By Rachel Konrad The Associated Press Updated: 12:47 p.m. ET March 03, 2004 ==========> 04-03-04-WashPost-ProblemsWithEVotingButVotersLikeIt.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29998-2004Mar4.html E-Voting Field Test By Cynthia L. Webb washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Thursday, March 4, 2004; 11:41 AM High-tech voting machines got yet another trial run on Super Tuesday this week. The results, according to critics? There's still a lot of work to be done to make electronic voting secure and glitch-free. ==========> 04-03-09-LATimes-7000OrangeCoVotersGivenWrongBallotCodes.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-machines9mar09,1,5058076.st ory?coll=la-news-politics-california 7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots By Ray F. Herndon and Stuart Pfeifer Times Staff Writers March 9, 2004 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 ==========> 04-03-10-SJMerc-DG-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010090.shtml#010090 March 10, 2004 'Ballots' Lost in California: Voting Officials Blase # LA Times: 7,000 Orange County Voters Were Given Bad Ballots. "From what we have seen so far, we do not believe any of these instances where people voted in precincts they shouldn't have voted in would have affected any of the races," said Steve Rodermund, Orange County's registrar of voters. ==========> 04-03-11-PBS-Cringely-DieboldEVotingMachinesAlreadyHaveAPrinter.txt========== http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040311.html Prints of Darkness A Year Into the E-voting Crisis, Shouldn't We Have Noticed the Printer That's Already Built into Each Diebold Voting Machine? March 11, 2004 By Robert X. Cringely The press, of which I consider myself some vestigial part -- a little toe or an appendix at best -- works in mysterious ways. How does a newsworthy event turn ==========> 04-03-11-Wired-CalLegislatorsUrgeDecertificationOfPaperlessEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,62627,00.html Legislators Urge E-Voting Halt By Kim Zetter 09:48 AM Mar. 11, 2004 PT SACRAMENTO -- California legislators said on Thursday they want to stop the use of all paperless electronic voting machines in the state, fearing the same type of fiasco that plagued Florida in the 2000 election. ==========> 04-03-17-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesNeersPrintedVerification.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8206495.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 17, 2004 Without paper trail, election could be chaotic By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist News and views, culled and edited from my online eJournal (www.dangillmor.com/blog): ==========> 04-03-19-Wired-EVotingMachinesMissSomeCalifVotes.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62721,00.html E-Vote Snafu in California County By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Mar. 19, 2004 PT After recounting more than 13,000 absentee paper ballots, Northern California's Napa County reported Thursday that an electronic voting machine used in the March 2 primary election missed more than 6,000 votes. ==========> 04-03-29-Newsweek-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== "Ballot Boxes Go High Tech" Newsweek (03/29/04) Vol. 143, No. 13, P. 62; Levy, Steven Touch-screen machines were touted as the best solution to a flawed voting system that led to the Florida debacle in the last presidential election, but findings that touch-screen systems are susceptible to hacking and issues with their lack of a voter-verifiable paper trail have raised doubts about their trustworthiness. Cryptographers and computer scientists are developing alternate systems that must be secure enough to prevent election fraud while maintaining voters' anonymity in order to be of any practical use. Rebecca ==========> 04-03-29-Wired-HowEVoringThreatensDemocracy.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62790,00.html How E-Voting Threatens Democracy By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Mar. 29, 2004 PT In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington, searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual, when she made a startling discovery. ==========> 04-03-31-USACM-WashUpdate-LawsuitsOverBallotPrintersAdvance.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 8.3, March 31, 2004 ******************************* [1] USACM and CRA Urge Congress to Support NIST Labs [2] European Union Enacts New Copyright Enforcement Directive [3] Lawsuits Over Ballot Printers Advance [4] Two More States Opt-out of MATRIX Project [5] White House Defends Science Policy [6] Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference to be held April 20 to 23 ==========> 04-03-31-WashPost-DODCancelsInternetVotingTest.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37319-2004Mar30.html Pentagon Drops Plan To Test Internet Voting Security Fears Derail $22 Million Experiment By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 31, 2004; Page A23 The Pentagon has decided to drop a $22 million pilot plan to test Internet voting for 100,000 American military personnel and civilians living overseas ==========> 04-03-31-WashTech-ProponentsDefendEVoting.txt========== http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/23141-1.html Budgets, mandates slow adoption of e-voting 03/31/04 By Gail Repsher Emery, Washington Technology Staff Writer Most state and local governments have not bought electronic voting systems because they can’t afford to and because they fear buying a system that won’t meet future government mandates, but security concerns haven’t been a ==========> 04-04-00-CalVoter-CaliforniaVoterFoundation.txt========== http://www.calvoter.org/ Welcome The California Voter Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting and applying the responsible use of technology to improve the democratic process. Announcements * ==========> 04-04-01-GovExec-HowTheDODInternetVotingSERVESystemWasKilled.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/features/0404-1/0404-1s1.htm Voted Down By Shane Harris sharris@govexec.com Why the ultimate e-government effort failed to get off the ground. In 1997, a glimmer of revolution appeared in a tiny, overlooked office in the Pentagon. ==========> 04-04-01-SJMerc-EVotingDoubtsDrivePushForPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8331858.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 01, 2004 Doubts about e-voting machines driving push for paper trail Associated Press An effort to erase doubts about new ATM-style voting machines by backing up digital votes with paper records is gaining ground nationwide, as state officials heed warnings about security and potentially messy recounts. ==========> 04-04-01-SJMerc-OpenVotingConsortiumProposesSecureVerifiableEVotingSystem.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8328014.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 01, 2004 Electronic voting alternative offered CONSORTIUM PLANS TO UNVEIL ITS OWN `SOUND, SECURE' SYSTEM By Elise Ackerman Mercury News There are few things engineers enjoy more than solving problems. So when word spread in the scientific community about problems with newfangled electronic ==========> 04-04-02-SJMerc-EVotingIrregularitiesInRiversideCoCalif.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8340373.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 02, 2004 Electronic-vote complaints reviewed WEB SITE ALLEGES BALLOT TAMPERING IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Voting activists alleging irregularities in the primary election have asked California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to impound the electronic voting ==========> 04-04-05-EWeek-MichDemoCaucusEVoteDoesNotImpressTechExperts.txt========== # "Ballot Box Debate" eWeek (04/05/04) Vol. 21, No. 14, P. 29; Carlson, Caron The success of online voting in the Michigan Democratic Party Caucus Feb. 7, 2004, did not impress the computer scientists involved in the federal SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) project. A month later, the Pentagon decided to table SERVE, which would have enabled some military personnel and other U.S. citizens overseas to vote in the November election, over security concerns. According to former ACM president Barbara Simons, who served on the peer review panel that recommended ending SERVE in January, there ==========> 04-04-05-NewsForge-LinuxOpenSourceEvotingSystems-Canada-Australia.txt========== http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/01/1530219.shtml NewsForge The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source Could open source elections close out hanging chads? 2004.04.05 8:15 StoneLion When Joe Church contemplated trudging out in the Canada cold to cast a vote for relatively minor and in some cases unopposed local candidates, the IT veteran ==========> 04-04-08-Wired-VoteHereReleasesSourceCode.txt========== http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62983,00.html See-Through Voting Software By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Apr. 08, 2004 PT VoteHere, an electronic voting software company, released its source code this week in a bid to let others examine how its technology works and help people gain confidence in the e-voting process. ==========> 04-04-16-BusWeek-IndiaLikesInexpensiveEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_16/b3879074.htm A Voting Revolution In India? India's new electronic system -- built on $200 machines -- could curb fraud and build faith in the process India prides itself on being the world's largest democracy. But its elections typically have been raucous affairs, with hundreds killed in fights between rival political parties and chronic allegations of ballot-box stuffing. One common practice in the past was the hijacking of entire polling stations by ==========> 04-04-20-CFP2004-WhoIsWatchingTheWatchers.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage.March.2004.cfm?story=6 "Who's Watching the Watchers" Focus of 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference April 20-23, 2004 "The program lineup, with topics virtually grabbed from the headlines, is clear evidence that these security and privacy issues are central to the way we live and work." -- Deirdre Mulligan, Chair, CFP2004 ==========> 04-04-20-MiamiHerald-PrintedReceiptswatingForStandards.txt========== "Voters Unable to Have Printed Receipt" Miami Herald (04/20/04); Yanez, Luisa Miami-Dade county election officials rejected a proposal on April 19 to equip iVotronic touch-screen voting machines with printers in time for the November presidential election because the technology is not state certified. The iVotronic suppliers must wait for federal and state election officials to agree on standards before they can provide a prototype system: "They have to decide things like the size and weight of the paper used for the receipt, in what languages it will be printed, what would be on it," notes Meghan McCormick, who ==========> 04-04-20-OaklandTrib-DieboldKnewOfProblemsWithCalifEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2095811,00.html# Article Last Updated: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 2:24:28 PM PST Diebold knew of legal risks Attorneys warned firm that use of uncertified vote-counting software violated state law By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California ==========> 04-04-20-TriValHerald-DieboldKnewUseOfUncertifiedSystemsIllegal.txt========== http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2095694,00.html Article Last Updated: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 11:18:46 AM PST Voting services firm facing legal hurdles By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER TriValleyHerald Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California election law and broke its $12.7 million contract with Alameda County. ==========> 04-04-22-PurdueUniv-CERIAS-EVotingSeminar-FilteringOutTheNoise.txt========== As part of the CERIAS "Filtering Out the Noise" seminar series, we will have a speaker and panel discussing issues surrounding concerns with e-voting and DRE voting machines. The seminar is in Indianapolis, from 4-6pm on April 22nd. The featured speaker is Dr. Rebecca Mercuri of Notable Software. The abstract of her talk and a brief bio are given below. Following her presentation, there will be a panel session to further ==========> 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifAdvisoryCommRecommendsDieboldBan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8494917.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 22, 2004 Panel recommends ban on computer voting system By Elise Ackerman KNIGHT RIDDER SACRAMENTO BUREAU SACRAMENTO - An advisory panel unanimously recommended this morning that Secretary of State Kevin Shelley ban use of a computerized voting system in four California counties. ==========> 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifElectionOfficialsCriticizeDiebold.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8491288.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 22, 2004 E-voting probe criticizes vendor STATE: MACHINES WERE POORLY TESTED By Elise Ackerman Mercury News SACRAMENTO - State election officials accused Diebold Election Systems of jeopardizing the March primary by selling California counties a poorly ==========> 04-04-22-SJMerc-CalifPanelSaysDecertifyCertainDieboldSystems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8499874.htm Posted on Thu, Apr. 22, 2004 E-voting panel wants to dump troubled system By Elise Ackerman Mercury News SACRAMENTO - Less than seven months before the presidential election, an advisory panel Thursday unanimously recommended an unprecedented ban of touch-screen election equipment used in four California counties. ==========> 04-04-22-TriValleyHerald-DieboldApologizesForFlaws.txt========== http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2100333,00.html Article Last Updated: Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 3:21:59 AM PST Diebold apologizes for device flaws Critics of electronic voting and voting By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Trivalley Herald It is an uncommon day when the nation's second-largest provider of voting systems concedes that its flagship products in California have significant ==========> 04-04-22-WSJ-HAVAComplianceBehindSchedule.txt========== # "Push for Voting Changes May Not Cure All Ills" Wall Street Journal (04/22/04) P. A4; Weinstein, Elizabeth Despite the best intentions, the modernization of the U.S. electoral process required by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 is behind schedule, which means that many voters will still rely on traditional, non-computerized voting systems for the November presidential election. Jurisdictions in at least 34 states are expected to deploy touch-screen electronic voting machines by November, but concerns about their vulnerability to hacking and tampering have become an especially contentious issue--enough to prompt lawmakers such as Rep. ==========> 04-04-23-AzRep-AzSenateBillWouldRequireEvotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0423Bcapitol-briefs23.ht ml Arizona Republic Capitol briefs Apr. 23, 2004 12:00 AM Senate: Paper trail needed in e-voting The Senate reinstated its demand Thursday that any electronic voting machines ==========> 04-04-23-ChronHigherEd-AlarmsSoundedOverEvoting.txt========== # "Wary of E-Voting, Some Professors Sound the Alarm" Chronicle of Higher Education (04/23/04) Vol. 50, No. 33, P. A18; Schmidt, Peter Respected academics are criticizing the security of direct recording electronic voting machines and online voting, alleging that such systems could be tampered with by just about anyone and be used to commit electoral fraud without the public's awareness. Their warnings have prompted lawmakers to take actions that e-voting advocates believe hinder the modernization of the electoral process; moreover, proponents maintain that critics' conclusions are unscientific and clouded by emotion. Harvard University fellow Rebecca Mercuri was among the ==========> 04-04-26-MSNBC-ConcernGrowingOverEVoting.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4816422/ E-voting debate: Can we trust computers? Problems, questions mount in advance of November elections The Associated Press Updated: 11:53 a.m. ET April 26, 2004 A growing number of federal and state legislators are expressing doubts about the integrity of the ATM-like electronic voting machines that at least 50 million Americans will use to cast their ballots in November. ==========> 04-04-28-SJMerc-CalifAdvPanelRecommendsEvotingOnlyWithPaperBallotOption.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8545947.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 28, 2004 Panel urges paper option for touch-screen voting By Paul Jacobs Mercury News SACRAMENTO - A state election advisory panel recommended Wednesday that most counties using touch-screen voting equipment should be allowed to do so in November if they give voters the option of choosing a paper ballot. ==========> 04-04-29-LATimes-CalifAdvPanelRecommendsEvotingOnlyWithPaperBallotOption.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-machines29apr29,1,5897 461.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california E-Vote Devices Win Partial Favor A secretary of state's panel urges an OK for 10 counties already using machines but expresses support for maintaining a paper trail. By Stuart Pfeifer Times Staff Writer April 29, 2004 ==========> 04-04-30-USACM-OffersHelpToElectionAssistanceComm.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 8.4, April 30, 2004 ******************************* [1] USACM Offers to Assist Federal Commission in Assessing Evoting Systems [2] USACM and CRA Urge Congressional Support for IT Research at NIST [3] USACM Joins Diverse Coalition in Seeking Changes to the DMCA [4] Legislation Introduced to Reauthorize the High Performance Computing Act [5] EPIC to Host IT Policy Conference in Washington ******************************* ==========> 04-05-00-ACM-EVotingIssuesAtCFP2004.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/s.cfm?story=14 Electronic Voting Issue Animates Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference Avi Rubin, Conference Chair Deirdre Mulligan and David Dill celebrate returns from "election" held to illustrate potential e-voting risks. The real world collided with the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP2004) held in Berkeley, California, in April. Headlines from the local news broadcasts reported that California's Voting Systems Panel had unanimously recommended a ban on many of the Diebold paperless electronic voting machines ==========> 04-05-00-Governing-ProblemsWithTouchScreenVoting.txt========== http://www.governing.com/articles/5voting.htm From Governing’s May 2004 issue No Soft Touch Touch-screen voting looked like the obvious answer to hanging-chad election chaos. But the new machines have generated some problems of their own. By ANYA SOSTEK In the weeks following the disputed 2000 presidential election, Riverside County Registrar Mischelle Townsend became a celebrity of sorts. Media from ==========> 04-05-00-IEEESympSecurityAndPrivacy-Rubin-AnalysisOfDieboldEVotingSystem.txt========== http://avirubin.com/vote/ Analysis of an Electronic Voting System to appear in: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May, 2004. Authors Tadayoshi Kohno Adam Stubblefield Aviel D. Rubin Dan S. Wallach ==========> 04-05-03-NewsForge-DoubtsBeingRaisedAboutEVotingMachines.txt========== http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/04/30/2219212.shtml?tid=136&tid=137 NewsForge The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source Proprietary, paperless e-voting is failing -- and selling 2004.05.03 4:00 JLyman Computer security experts are hoping a California election systems panel's recent rejection of embittered voting machine-maker Diebold's touch screen ==========> 04-05-03-NYT-AviRubinHavingAnEffectOnEVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/technology/03vote.html May 3, 2004 Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher By JOHN SCHWARTZ BALTIMORE, April 29 - The fix was in, and it was devilishly hard to detect. Software within electronic voting machines had been corrupted with malicious code squirreled away in images on the touch screen. When activated with a specific series of voting choices, the rogue program would tip the results of a ==========> 04-05-03-NYT-AviRubin.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/technology/03vote.html May 3, 2004 Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher By JOHN SCHWARTZ The New York Times BALTIMORE, April 29 - The fix was in, and it was devilishly hard to detect. Software within electronic voting machines had been corrupted with malicious code squirreled away in images on the touch screen. When activated with a ==========> 04-05-03-SJMerc-ElectionAssistanceCommLacksBudgetAndAuthority.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8580743.htm Posted on Mon, May. 03, 2004 Tiny new agency ill-equipped for e-voting oversight SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - As alarm mounts over the integrity of the ATM-like voting machines 50 million Americans will use in the November election, a new federal agency has begun scrutinizing how to safeguard electronic polling from fraud, hackers and faulty software. ==========> 04-05-03-Wired-ElectionAssistanceCommLacksBudgetAndAuthority.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63322,00.html E-Vote Problems Overwhelm Feds Associated Press 05:17 PM May. 03, 2004 PT As alarm mounts over the integrity of the ATM-like voting machines 50 million Americans will use in the November election, a new federal agency has begun scrutinizing how to safeguard electronic polling from fraud, hackers and faulty software. ==========> 04-05-04-LATimes-SomeCalCountiesMaySueStateOverDecertifyingEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-machines4may04,1,5303910.story?coll=la-h ome-local Some Counties Might Sue Over E-Voting Orders The secretary of state's paper-ballot requirement and other rules for using electronic systems are too difficult and costly, several registrars say. By Stuart Pfeifer Times Staff Writer May 4, 2004 ==========> 04-05-05-Guardian-FirstHearingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt========== http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4057113,00.html Expert Says E-Voting Is 'Terrible' Wednesday May 5, 2004 7:16 PM By HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A computer science expert criticized electronic voting systems planned for the November election as highly vulnerable and flawed, saying on Wednesday a backup paper system is the only short-term solution to ==========> 04-05-05-PCWorld-FlawsInEvotingSystems.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115948,00.asp The Computer Ate My Vote As critical voices grow louder, and Congress takes note, should you be concerned about the security of electronic voting machines come November? Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Wednesday, May 05, 2004 "The computer ate my..." sounds like the setup for a bad excuse you'd hear in grade school. But the headline of this column, which appears on T-shirts from ==========> 04-05-05-SJMerc-FirstHearingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8596314.htm Posted on Wed, May. 05, 2004 Panel hears warnings about e-voting, quick fixes WASHINGTON (AP) - A state election official on Wednesday cautioned against a last-minute rush to back up electronic voting with paper receipts, telling a federal commission that a change before the November election would create unnecessary confusion for voters and poll workers. ==========> 04-05-06-SJMerc-CalSenateCommVotesToBanEVotingForNov2.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8601825.htm Posted on Thu, May. 06, 2004 Senate panel OKs e-voting ban AS STATE WEIGHS BILL, COUNTIES STRUGGLE WITH NEW REGULATIONS By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Less than a week after Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified all electronic-voting machines used in California, a state Senate committee ==========> 04-05-06-Wired-ContradictoryOpinionsAtFirstMeetingOfElectionAssistanceComm.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63349,00.html E-Voting Commission Gets Earful By Michael Grebb 02:00 AM May. 06, 2004 PT WASHINGTON -- Passions ran high Wednesday at the first public hearing of the Election Assistance Commission, where activists and manufacturers of electronic voting machines clashed over whether new e-voting systems should include a voter-verifiable paper trail that auditors could use to recount votes if ==========> 04-05-07-SJMerc-OhioGovernorAppprovesEVotingIn31Counties.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8616084.htm Posted on Fri, May. 07, 2004 Ohio governor approves electronic voting machines in 31 counties COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Bob Taft signed a bill Friday authorizing up to 31 counties to switch to electronic voting machines in time for the Nov. 2 election. The new law also requires that by May 2006, such machines issue paper receipts ==========> 04-05-13-SJMerc-EVotingMachinesEliminateAbilityForMeaningfulRecounts.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/8655721.htm Posted on Thu, May. 13, 2004 Electronic voting raises recount angst CRITICS SAY ERRORS COULD GO UNDETECTED By Elise Ackerman Mercury News The federal government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize the nation's voting booths in the hope of avoiding a repeat of the divisive ==========> 04-05-14-SJMerc-USLawmakersAskGAOForStudyOfEVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8669074.htm Posted on Fri, May. 14, 2004 Federal lawmakers call for study of electronic voting WASHINGTON (AP) - More than a dozen House Republicans and Democrats asked congressional auditors Friday to study the security of electronic voting systems. ``While the existing data indicate that these machines can be more accurate ==========> 04-05-17-CNETNews-HouseMembersAskGAOToStudyEVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5214440.html?tag=nefd.top House requests e-vote probe By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified May 17, 2004, 3:58 PM PDT As the U.S. Congress considers legislation to restrict the use of electronic voting machines, 13 House of Representatives members have ordered an investigation into e-voting security. ==========> 04-05-20-CNETNews-ConcernsOverMachinesHas2004ElectionUsageInDoubt.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5216643.html Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualties By Robert Lemos and Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified May 20, 2004, 5:26 AM PDT Riverside County, Calif., has bet millions of dollars on high technology to secure the future of its elections, but officials are now discovering that there won't necessarily be a payoff anytime soon. ==========> 04-05-20-LATimes-BannedCaligEVotingSystemsLikelyToBeReadyByNov2.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-evotes20may20,1,1279831.story?coll=la -home-politics Banned E-Voting Systems Likely to Be Ready Nov. 2 Secretary of state says he's confident 10 counties will meet his conditions by election. By Stuart Pfeifer Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 20, 2004 ==========> 04-05-23-NYT-DemandGrowsForPaperTrailsForEVoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html May 23, 2004 Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for Electronic Votes By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE WASHINGTON, May 22 - A coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials, led by California's secretary of state, Kevin Shelley, is trying to force the makers of electronic voting machines to equip those machines with voter-verifiable paper trails. ==========> 04-05-27-Wired-NevadaCountyPlansEVotingPrinterVerificationTest.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63618,00.html E-Vote Printers' High-Stakes Test By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM May. 27, 2004 PT Some outside election officials are hoping the new e-voting system that Nevada will be using this year -- a touch-screen machine that produces a voter-verified paper trail -- will cause the state many problems. If it does, it will prove their point that adding a paper trail to touch-screen machines is ==========> 04-05-28-USACM-WashUpdate-ConcernsWithEVotingSystems.txt========== ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE Vol. 8.5 (May 28, 2004) =========================================== CONTENTS [1] Pentagon Advisory Committee Issues Report on TIA [2] Investigation Finds Widespread Government Data Mining [3] Developments at State Level to Impact Use of Evoting Systems [4] British Computer Society Raises Concerns Regarding UK Identity Card Proposal ==========> 04-05-30-NYT-IndepentEVotingTestingLabsAreNotIndependent.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/opinion/30SUN1.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditoria ls%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fEditorials May 30, 2004 MAKING VOTES COUNT Who Tests Voting Machines? Whenever questions are raised about the reliability of electronic voting machines, election officials have a ready response: independent testing. There is nothing to worry about, they insist, because the software has been ==========> 04-06-00-HarvardU-Symposium-ElectronicVotingBestPractices.txt========== Voting, Vote Capture & Vote Counting Symposium June 2004 Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Electronic Voting Best Practices The following document was developed by Jean Camp, Allan Friedman and Warigia Bowman of the Kennedy School based on the Symposium on Voting, Vote Capture & Vote Counting. ==========> 04-06-01-CIOMag-IssuesWithEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.cio.com/archive/060104/evote.html CIO.com Online Special Report E-Democracy: The Lowdown on E-Voting Recent elections have highlighted flaws in U.S. voting procedures and prompted a push to apply IT to the casting and counting of votes. Critics worry we're going from bad to worse in adopting the new technology without working out all the bugs. We explore the challenges and what it will take to fix them. BY MEGAN SANTOSUS ==========> 04-06-07-GovtCompNews-MarylandOfficialSaysEvotingMachinesAreSafe.txt========== http://www.gcn.com/23_13/statelocal/26086-1.html 06/07/04; Vol. 23 No. 13 E-voting debate: paper or no paper By Jason Miller GCN Staff As the administrator of elections for Maryland, Linda Lamone believes electronic voting machines are safe and secure, even without a paper trail. ==========> 04-06-08-CNETNews-CryptoApproachToSecureEVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5227789.html High hopes for unscrambling the vote By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified June 8, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT PISCATAWAY, N.J.--Computer scientists gathered here recently and bobbed their heads into an odd-looking contraption for a glimpse of emerging technology that might just help make the digital world safer for democracy. ==========> 04-06-09-Reuters-FedElectionsChiefCallsForMoreSecureVote.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5385933 Elections Chief Calls for More Secure Vote Wed Jun 9, 2004 04:14 PM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Better safeguards against glitches and hacking are needed to avoid a high-tech version of the messy Florida recount battle in the 2000 presidential election, the top U.S. elections official said on Wednesday. ==========> 04-06-11-NYT-LWVSplitOnPaperlessEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/campaign/11league.html League of Women Voters Is Split on Paperless Computer Voting Systems By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 11, 2004 By The Associated Press Electronic voting is at the center of an internal battle in the League of Women Voters, whose national leadership is refusing to endorse demands by hundreds of members for a paper trail to guard against fraud, hackers and malfunctions. ==========> 04-06-12-MiamiHerald-SomeFloridaEVotingMachinesHaveInconsisentEventLogs.txt========== "Software Problem Imperils Voting Recounts" Miami Herald (06/12/04); Klas, Mary Ellen; Fineout, Gary Florida officials have learned that iVotronics touchscreen voting machines currently used in 11 counties suffer from flaws that could make manual recounts in close races impossible, a development that has voter proponents up in arms despite assurances from the machines' manufacturer and the state Division of Elections that the problem is easily remedied. The bug in question prevents the e-voting machines from producing a consistent "event log" of the voting activity when the systems are asked to replicate electoral events. Orlando ==========> 04-06-13-NYT-EVotingMachinesShouldBeAsSafeAsNevadaGamblingMachines.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.html June 13, 2004 MAKING VOTES COUNT Gambling on Voting If election officials want to convince voters that electronic voting can be trusted, they should be willing to make it at least as secure as slot machines. To appreciate how poor the oversight on voting systems is, it's useful to look at the way Nevada systematically ensures that electronic gambling machines in ==========> 04-06-14-Wired-FloridaEvotingMachinesSoftwarePreventsAuditingResults.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63837,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 New 'Hiccup' for Florida Voters Associated Press 11:48 AM Jun. 14, 2004 PT TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said. ==========> 04-06-15-AP-LWVDropsSupportForPaperlessEVoting.txt========== League of Women Voters drops support of e-vote machines By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or computer malfunctions. About 800 delegates who attended the nonpartisan league's biennial convention in Washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that ==========> 04-06-15-SJMerc-ElectionOfficialsJoinEVotingCompaniesAfterLeavingOffice.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8925946.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 15, 2004 E-voting regulators often join other side when leaving office By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Shortly after leaving office, former California Secretary of State Bill Jones sent letters to each member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, reassuring them that the electronic voting machines they wanted to buy were ==========> 04-06-17-NYT-CalifSecyOfStateRequiresEVotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/politics/15vote.html June 15, 2004 He Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Kevin Shelley is a big and voluble Irish politician, the son of a former San Francisco mayor, and not the sort you would figure for the heretofore semi-obscure job of California secretary of state. But Mr. Shelley, who was elected to the post in November 2002 after a career as a state legislator, has ==========> 04-06-17-SJMerc-DG-CalifSecyOfStateSeesTheLight.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/8 943809.htmPosted on Thu, Jun. 17, 2004 Secretary of state finally sees the e-voting light By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist When a posse of computer scientists first raised dire warnings about untrustworthy new voting machines in late 2002 and early 2003, California's top voting official thought they were ``a bunch of nut jobs.'' ==========> 04-06-17-SJMerc-DG-CalSecyOfStateRealizesEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8943809.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 17, 2004 Secretary of state finally sees the e-voting light By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist When a posse of computer scientists first raised dire warnings about untrustworthy new voting machines in late 2002 and early 2003, California's top voting official thought they were ``a bunch of nut jobs.'' ==========> 04-06-24-SacBee-MollyIvins-EVotingMachineNeedPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/9775980p-10698703c.ht ml Molly Ivins: Now is the time to act on voting machine situation By Molly Ivins Published 2:15 am PDT Thursday, June 24, 2004 AUSTIN, Texas — Heads up, team, the voting machine situation requires sustained attention, but not panic or paranoia. There is time to act, but act we must. ==========> 04-06-30-CNETNews-ExpertsDebateEVotingIssues.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1028_3-5251471.html E-voting: Nightmare or nirvana? By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified June 30, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT If electronic voting were to face an international referendum, it would almost certainly lose. ==========> 04-06-30-NYT-NYUStudyCallsForIndependentAuditOfEVotingMachines.txt========== "Report Calls for Fixes in High-Tech Voting" New York Times (06/30/04) P. A16; Schwartz, John Touch-screen voting systems need a quick solution if they are to be used in the upcoming presidential election, and the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have issued a report outlining how such a fix can be implemented. The report recommends that an independent security audit of the machines, their software, and procedures for monitoring election bugs be carried out. "If implemented by those jurisdictions within the obvious constraints of time and resources, these ==========> 04-06-30-USACMWashUpdate-EVotingContinuesToStirControversy.txt========== ================================================ ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.6 (June 30, 2004) ================================================ [3] EVOTING CONTINUES TO STIR CONTROVERSY There have been a number of interesting developments regarding evoting this month. The chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC), Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., said earlier this month that he would like to see all evoting machine source code ==========> 04-07-01-AmCityAndCounty-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== http://americancityandcounty.com/mag/government_count/ Can we count on it? Jul 1, 2004 12:00 PM By Jim Romeo American City and County Four years after hanging chads made headlines, many people are worried about how electronic voting technology will perform this election season. ==========> 04-07-06-ZWire-BevHarris-EVotingActivist.txt========== http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12236985&BRD=1710&PAG=461&dept_id=3622 62&rfi=6%22 Activist: E-Voting to Be a'Train Wreck' By RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press Writer 07/06/2004 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Ambushing registrars and tracking down executives at their homes and offices, a literary publicist has uncovered conflicts of interests and security flaws inside the companies that make electronic ballot machines. ==========> 04-07-07-Reuters-LawsuitWouldOverturnFloridaNoEVoteRecountRule.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5611409 Lawsuit Challenges Florida Ballot Recount Rules Wed Jul 7, 2004 02:50 PM ET By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Voting rights groups sued Florida election administrators on Wednesday to overturn a rule that prohibits manual recounting of ballots cast with touch-screen machines, a lawsuit with echoes of the state's disputed 2000 presidential election voting. ==========> 04-07-07-SJMerc-ComputerExpertsWarnHouseCommOfEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9101221.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 07, 2004 Experts warn House panel of potential e-voting problems By Sumana Chatterjee Knight Ridder Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Just four months before November's elections, vulnerabilities persist in electronic voting machines used nationwide, a group of computer experts told House lawmakers on Wednesday. ==========> 04-07-08-PhiladelphiaInq-ComputerExpertsWarnHouseCommOfEVotingProblems.txt========== # "Electronic Voting Machines Are Still Vulnerable, House Is Told" Philadelphia Inquirer (07/08/04) P. A2; Chatterjee, Sumana A panel of computer experts warned lawmakers in the House of Representatives on July 7 that e-voting systems are too vulnerable to hacking, malfunctions, and fraud to be relied on for the upcoming presidential election. "Given the gravity of the security failings the computer security community has documented...it is irresponsible to move forward without addressing them," argued Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute professor Avi Rubin, who added that it is impossible to guarantee that machines have not been ==========> 04-07-08-TechDirt-LawsuitWouldOverturnFloridaNoEVoteRecountRule.txt========== http://techdirt.com/articles/20040708/0943258.shtml Lawsuit Against Florida Law Prohibiting E-Vote Recounting Contributed by Mike on Thursday, July 8th, 2004 @ 09:45AM from the that-would-probably-be-helpful dept. thecaptain writes in to tell us: "Voting groups are fighting to overturn a rule that prohibits manual recounting of ballots cast with touchscreen machines. There's a RULE in Florida that prohibits recounts of ballots cast with touchscreen machines? How frightening is that? I'm glad I'm Canadian." It's ==========> 04-07-11-SJMerc-CalifWhistleblowerLawsuitFiledToReclaimMoneySpentOnEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9131675.htm Posted on Sun, Jul. 11, 2004 Electronic voting critics sue company under whistle blower law RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - Critics of electronic voting are suing Diebold Inc. under a whistleblower law, alleging that the company's shoddy balloting equipment exposed California elections to hackers and software bugs. ==========> 04-07-12-RockyMtnNews-VenezuelaToUseUntestedEVotingMachinesInRecallElection.txt========== http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_3029224, 00.html E-voting's big debut Venezuela election hinges on untested touch screen system By Alexandra Olson, Associated Press July 12, 2004 CARACAS, Venezuela - Despite an electronic voting fiasco in 2000 and the furor over e-voting in the United States, Venezuela is using untested touch screen ==========> 04-07-12-USAToday-VenezuelaToUseUntestedEVotingMachinesInRecallElection.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-07-12-venezuela-evote_x.htm Posted 7/12/2004 3:56 AM Doubts over touchscreen tech choice for Venezuela recall By Alexandra Olson, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela — Despite an electronic voting fiasco in 2000 and the furor over e-voting in the United States, Venezuela is using untested touchscreen computers for its recall referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency. ==========> 04-07-14-SLCTrib-CitizenPetitionDemandsPaperBackup.txt========== http://166.70.44.66/2004/jul/07142004/utah/183377.asp E-voting backup is demanded By Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Larry Bergan, left, and computer scientist Jay Lepreau, of the University of Utah, stuff printouts with a portion of the 2,000 names their organization "Utah Count Votes" has gathered asking that the state's balloting system has a verifiable paper backup system. (Paul Fraughton/The Salt Lake ==========> 04-07-16-InetNews-CalifLawsuitChallengesEVotingRecountMethods.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3382541 E-Voting Suit Highlights Legal Lag By Susan Kuchinskas July 16, 2004 UPDATED: A suit filed in Riverside County, California, claims that the Registrar of Voters ignored the law. But electronic voting technology muddies the waters. ==========> 04-07-19-EWeek-VotersRallyToDemandPaperAuditTrail.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1624631,00.asp Opposition Grows to Paperless Voting July 19, 2004 By Caron Carlson Voters took to the streets in 19 states last week to protest paperless electronic voting machines. In the coast-to-coast "Computer Ate My Vote" rallies, citizens showed what activists say could become widespread dissent against nonverifiable ballots if this year's presidential election becomes ==========> 04-07-21-CompWorld-AviRubinTellsCongressToUseComputerSecurityExpertise.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,94667,00. html Computer scientist defends security community stance on e-voting Aviel Rubin is the professor at the center of the controversy over e-voting security News Story by Dan Verton JULY 21, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- The computer science professor at the center of the controversy over electronic voting ==========> 04-07-23-CompWorld-DemsWrestleWithEVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,94751,00. html Effort afoot to address e-voting at convention The Democratic Party is eager to wrestle with the issue of electronic-voting system security and integrity News Story by Dan Verton JULY 23, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- A Democratic congresswoman from President George W. Bush's home state plans to put the issue ==========> 04-07-23-NYT-ImmediateStepsOfferInsuranceForEVoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/opinion/23fri1.html?ex=1091798545&ei=1&en=2254 c143febb1491 Insurance for Electronic Votes New York Times July 23, 2004 This November, millions of voters will use electronic voting machines of questionable reliability. The election is by now too near for the sort of major overhaul that ==========> 04-07-26-DowJones-EUGovernmentsGenerallyCoolToEVoting.txt========== # "In Most of Europe, Electronic Voting Loses Out to Paper Ballots" Dow Jones Newswires (07/26/04); Miller, John European citizens and governments generally prefer traditional paper-based voting because of unresolved reliability and security issues surrounding electronic voting. The EU Commission will not endorse e-voting, while major e-voting deployments in Ireland and the United Kingdom were terminated or heavily criticized because of security or technical lapses. EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen doubts that a total pan-European adoption of e-voting will ever come about because of concerns with "technical" problems and "social ==========> 04-07-28-CompWorld-EVotingSystemsNotReliableNorAccessibile.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,94 875,00.html E-voting debate shifts focus to reliability, accessibility Grass-roots organizations fear e-voting system malfunctions News Story by Dan Verton JULY 28, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Electronic voting system malfunctions and problems with features designed to help disabled Americans vote have led to a flurry of activity this week by grass-roots organizations that fear security ==========> 04-07-28-SJMerc-MiamaDadeElectionDataLost.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9258914.htm Posted on Wed, Jul. 28, 2004 DADE ELECTIONS Computer glitches lost voting data BY JOE MOZINGO jmozingo@herald.com Two computer crashes last year destroyed most of the electronic records from recent Miami-Dade County elections, raising fears about the touch-screen ==========> 04-07-29-SJMerc-FlaElectionDataLossHampersAudit.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9267577.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 29, 2004 CAMPAIGN 2004 Election vote loss examined The state reacted to a revelation that records from a Dade primary may have been purged. Election-reform advocates said the incident destroyed the only way of verifying whether votes had been counted correctly by the touch-screen system. BY JOE MOZINGO ==========> 04-07-30-SJMerc-MiamiDadeElectionsOfficialsFindLostData.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9284471.htm Posted on Fri, Jul. 30, 2004 Miami-Dade elections officials find lost 2002 e-voting data MIAMI (AP) - Miami-Dade County elections officials said Friday that they have found detailed electronic voting records from the 2002 gubernatorial primary that were originally believed lost in computer crashes last year. Seth Kaplan, spokesman for the Elections Supervisor office, said the records ==========> 04-07-30-USACM-EVotingContinuesToStirControversy.txt========== ================================================ ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.7 (July 30, 2004) ================================================ RISKS AND VULNERABILITIES OF E-VOTING CONTINUE TO STIR CONTROVERSY July proved to be a busy month in terms of e-voting activities. Early in July, the House Administration Committee held a hearing on e-voting technology that featured testimony from Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin and others, and--with time ==========> 04-08-00-Nation-EVotingCouldPutPresidentialElectionInDoubt.txt========== # "How They Could Steal the Election This Time" Nation (08/04); Dugger, Ronnie The vulnerability of electronic voting machines to inside tampering--either by officials of election jurisdictions or corporate programmers--raises the specter of election fraud on a massive scale, so massive that it could cast the outcome of the U.S. presidential election into doubt and threaten democracy. With so much at stake, Stanford professor David Dill warns that potential election saboteurs could include "hackers, candidates, zealots, foreign governments and criminal organizations," while local officials would be ==========> 04-08-05-PCWorld-MercuriIssuesHackTheEVotingMachineChallenge.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117261,00.asp Can You Hack the Vote? Debate over e-voting machines prompts challenges and cash payout for sabotaging the system. Tom Spring, PC World Thursday, August 05, 2004 Electronic voting systems have drawn fire from courts, lawmakers, and citizens groups--and now they're under attack by hackers. ==========> 04-08-07-WIred-HackerGetsCopiesOfInternalDataFromDieboldComputer.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59925,00.html New Security Woes for E-Vote Firm By Brian McWilliams 02:00 AM Aug. 07, 2003 PT Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare. ==========> 04-08-08-ACM-ACMMovesTowardPolicyPositionOnEVotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/s.cfm?story=2# ACM Moves toward Policy Position on E-voting Systems Since computer-based electronic voting machines have been deployed in the wake of the 2000 election, the computing community has exposed some of the technology-based vulnerabilities inherent in the systems being purchased by many states. The story gained ground when computer scientists targeted the safety of votes on touchscreen machines slated for use in Maryland and California. (See Analysis of an Electronic Voting System for more information). ==========> 04-08-16-TheNation-EVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger How They Could Steal the Election This Time by RONNIE DUGGER The Nation [from the August 16, 2004 issue] On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or local-election insiders. Some 98 million citizens, five out of every six of the roughly 115 ==========> 04-08-17-CompWorld-NevadaToUsePrintingDREsOnSept9.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,95319,00. html Nevada officials back e-vote systems for primary, general election It's the first state to use the touch-screen machines with printers News Story by Todd R. Weiss AUGUST 17, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Nevada election officials are confident that an electronic voting system being used for the state's Sept. 7 primary will perform well, despite a problem that showed up in a demonstration of the ==========> 04-08-19-ChicDailyHerald-LectureQuestionsEVotingSecurity.txt========== http://www.dailyherald.com/kane/main_story.asp?intID=3821843 Lecture questions security level of electronic voting By Gala M. Pierce Chicago Daily Herald Staff Writer Posted 8/19/2004 With the presidential election on the horizon, Americans are wondering if their vote will count. And Dan Wallach of Rice University in Houston has asked the question: How ==========> 04-08-20-Wired-USOfficialPraisesIEEEForEVotingStandardsWork.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64644,00.html Techies Praised for E-Vote Work By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Aug. 20, 2004 PT The new national elections chairman this week praised computer scientists for calling attention to security problems with e-voting machines and for helping develop new standards for building machines that will be more secure in the future. ==========> 04-08-22-SJMerc-SecrecyAndViabilityOfDREMachineTestingCompaniesQuestioned.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9468198.htm Posted on Sun, Aug. 22, 2004 E-voting machine certification criticized BILL POOVEY Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like machines to be used by nearly one in three voters in November. ==========> 04-08-22-WashPost-NewMexico2000-LostVotesDueToMisprogrammingAtCountyLevel.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22536-2004Aug21.html Lost Votes in N.M. a Cautionary Tale As Election Day Nears, a Look at Problems in 2000 Shows Fallibility of Machines By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 22, 2004; Page A05 ESPAÑOLA, N.M. -- Four years ago, about 2,300 voters traveled the winding roads through this remote county to cast their ballots before Election Day on ==========> 04-08-23-MSNBC-SecrecyAndViabilityOfDREMachineTestingCompaniesQuestioned.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5762054/ Nation’s voting machines tested in secret Companies refuse to discuss flaws in touchscreens By Bill Poovey The Associated Press Updated: 1:39 p.m. ET Aug. 23, 2004 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the ATM-like ==========> 04-08-24-Salon-ProbelmsWithFloridaEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/08/24/machines/index_np.html The downloading of the president '04 Will fears about the new voting machines keep voters away from the polls? And what's going on in Florida, anyway? By Farhad Manjoo Salon Aug. 24, 2004 | Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, a corporate lawyer and a former president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, vividly ==========> 04-08-25-MissouriSecyState-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt========== http://www.sos.mo.gov/news.asp?id=375 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Contact: Spence Jackson, (573) 751-4951 Blunt Announces New Voting Option for Missouri Military Personnel JEFFERSON CITY - Secretary of State Matt Blunt today announced that Missourians serving in designated combat locations overseas will have the option of having their ballots scanned and e-mailed to the United States ==========> 04-08-27-SJMerc-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9516777.htm Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004 Security experts raise concerns about Missouri's e-mail voting JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy. Though state and federal officials insist safeguards are in place to protect ==========> 04-08-27-WashPost-MissouriToAllowMilitaryEmailVoting.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36781-2004Aug26.html Missouri Plan to Let Military Cast Votes by E-Mail Draws Criticism By Jo Becker Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 27, 2004; Page A10 A plan to make the presidential battleground of Missouri the first state to allow military voters serving in combat zones such as Iraq to cast their absentee ballots via e-mail is renewing concerns about the security of online ==========> 04-08-31-USACM-RecommendationsForEVotingCallForBetterSecurityTestingAndAuditing.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.8 (August 31, 2004) ================================================ [5] RECOMMENDATIONS FOR E-VOTING CALL FOR BETTER SECURITY, TESTING, AND AUDITING Earlier this summer, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (BC) released a new report providing specific recommendations for elections officials planning to use electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections. Many ==========> 04-09-00-ACM-ACMMembersAgreeWithACMEVotingStatement.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage_2.cfm?ci=September_2004&announc ement=1&CFID=28812893&CFTOKEN=99917601 Majority of Members Polled Agree with ACM E-voting Policy Statement ACM MemberNet September 2004 Some 95 percent of ACM members voting in an opinion poll support ACM's stance on e-voting. The statement recommends requiring a voter-verifiable audit trail in e-voting systems. ==========> 04-09-01-iSeriesNet-TechWatchProgramWillMonitorEVoting.txt========== http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/news/nwn/story.cfm?ID=19292&channel=home Program Seeks Auditable Electronic Voting Article Information Article ID: 19292 Pub: iSeries Network Date: September 01, 2004 by Cheryl Ross Senior News Editor ==========> 04-09-08-SJMerc-CalifAGJoinsLawsuitAgainstEVotingCompanies.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9608838.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 08, 2004 California AG joins lawsuit suit against voting companies San Jose Mercury News California Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that voting equipment company Diebold Inc. sold the state shoddy hardware and software, exposing elections to hackers and software bugs. ==========> 04-09-08-SJMerc-CalifAttorneyGeneralJoinsLawsuitOnEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9607016.htm Posted on Wed, Sep. 08, 2004 State attorney general joins lawsuit on voting machines By Kate Folmar San Jose Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday decided to take over a false-claims lawsuit against the manufacturer of a touch-screen voting system purchased in California. ==========> 04-09-17-SciAm-Selker-EVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00018DD5-73E7-11 51-B57F83414B7F0000 September 17, 2004 Scientific American Fixing the Vote Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems--with the machines and the wider electoral process--are rectified ==========> 04-09-19-NYT-ReadyOrNotEVotingGoesNational.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/politics/campaign/19vote.html?ex=1096516800&en =d21bbea70711939c&ei=5070 September 19, 2004 Ready or Not, Electronic Voting Goes National By TOM ZELLER Jr. New York Times Just over six weeks before the nation holds the first general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, specialists agree that whatever the ==========> 04-09-21-AAAS-ExpertsPanelCallForStudyAndReformOfEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0921evote.shtml Experts Convened by AAAS Call for Voter-System Research and Reform, Warning of Broad Vulnerability 21 September 2004 A panel of top experts on election technology and administration warned Tuesday that the American system of voting is broadly vulnerable to error and abuse, and called for a crash-course of study and reform to make results more reliable and to promote better access by voters, especially those who have historically ==========> 04-09-22-CNETNews-ManyNewEVotingProblemsIdentified.txt========== http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5378199.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed E-voting critics report new flaws By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com September 22, 2004, 2:59 PM PT WASHINGTON--Critics of electronic voting machines said on Wednesday that they have identified additional flaws in vote-counting software that could permit miscreants to alter results in the November election. Bev Harris, an activist who runs a Web site called Black Box Voting, and a ==========> 04-09-22-Wired-MoreFlawsFoundInDieboldEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65031,00.html Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Sep. 22, 2004 PT Voting activist Bev Harris and a computer scientist say they found more vulnerabilities in an electronic voting system made by Diebold Election Systems, weaknesses that could allow someone to alter votes in the election this November. ==========> 04-09-24-InTheseTimes-ManyEVotingProblemsDocumented.txt========== http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/978/ Features > August 24, 2004 Sum of a Glitch Evidence shows that machines might be the real swing voters this November By Bev Harris InTheseTimes In the Alabama 2002 general election, machines made by Election Systems and Software (ES&S) flipped the governor’s race. Six thousand three hundred Baldwin ==========> 04-09-24-LATimes-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-evoting24sep24,1,5875278.story?coll=la-hom e-headlines. THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE Tallying the Woes of Electronic Balloting By Chris Gaither Times Staff Writer September 24, 2004 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More than 45 million people in 29 states and the ==========> 04-09-27-DailyKOS-FedAppealsCourtOrdersRehearingInFLPaperTrailLawsuit.txt========== http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/27/16237/0352 Touch screen voting lawsuit revived by Sinfonian Mon Sep 27th, 2004 at 20:23:07 GMT Some good news from the courts today. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has directed a lower court to take up the lawsuit, filed by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Palm Beach County), that charges that electronic voting machines lack a verifiable paper trail necessary to guarantee the fairness of an election. ==========> 04-09-27-SJMerc-SwissAuthoritiesDeclareInternetVotingTestASuccess.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9774380.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 27, 2004 Internet voting test in Switzerland declared success San Jose Mercury News GENEVA (AP) - Swiss authorities hailed as a success a test of Internet voting in a national referendum, even as computer security experts remain skeptical that any online balloting could ever be secure using current technologies. ==========> 04-09-27-WashPost-JimmyCarter-StillSeekingAFairFloridaVote.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52800-2004Sep26.html Still Seeking a Fair Florida Vote By Jimmy Carter Monday, September 27, 2004; Page A19 Washington Post After the debacle in Florida four years ago, former president Gerald Ford and I were asked to lead a blue-ribbon commission to recommend changes in the American electoral process. After months of concerted effort by a dedicated and ==========> 04-09-28-MontereyHerald-MoreFederalLawmakersWantPaperRecords.txt========== http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/9779895.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 28, 2004 More federal lawmakers want paper records of electronic ballots RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press Just five weeks before election day, federal legislators are increasingly casting doubt on electronic voting terminals and demanding that touchscreen computers produce paper records. ==========> 04-09-28-NetWorld-ACMAgainstEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928paperevot.html Paperless e-voting gets thumbs down from ACM By David Legard IDG News Service, 09/28/04 Automated voting systems need to take into account that voters have a right to be issued with a physical record to check that their vote was correctly recorded, the Association for Computing Machinery said Monday. ==========> 04-09-28-SJMerc-CalifGovSignsBillRequiringEVotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9778846.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 28, 2004 Governor approves electoral changes BILLS SIGNED TO REQUIRE E-VOTING PAPER RECORD AND TO RETURN PRIMARY TO JUNE By Kate Folmar San Jose Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday shook up California elections, requiring paper records for all votes cast on touch-screen systems ==========> 04-09-28-SJMerc-FedAppealsCourtOrdersRehearingInFLPaperTrailLawsuit.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9776945.htm Posted on Tue, Sep. 28, 2004 Court revives voting machine lawsuit BY GARY FINEOUT AND LESLEY CLARK gfineout@herald.com TALLAHASSEE - Florida's election system, ridiculed and maligned during the 2000 presidential election and then rebuilt with new technology, was thrown into chaos again Monday with five weeks to go before Election Day. ==========> 04-09-29-IndependentDigital-SomethingRottenInTheStateOfFlorida.txt========== http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=566688 Something rotten in the state of Florida Pregnant chads, vanishing voters... the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House. You'd think they'd want to get it right this time. But no, as Andrew Gumbel discovers, the democratic process is more flawed than ever 29 September 2004 Independent Digital ==========> 04-09-30-CouncilOfEurope-COEMinistersAgreeOnEVotingLegalText.txt========== > Strasbourg, 30.09.2004 - The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers > today agreed the first international legal text on e-voting in elections > and referendums. > > The recommendation sets out a blueprint for governments planning to use > new technologies for future elections and referendums. It is based on > experience gathered by the Council of Europe through pilot projects in > several member states and know-how collected from legal and technical > experts from nearly all 45 member states. ==========> 04-09-30-USACM-ACMCouncilApprovesPositionStatementOnEVotingSystems.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.9 (September 30, 2004) =================================================== [1] ACM LEADERSHIP APPROVES POSITION STATEMENT ON VOTING SYSTEMS Seeking to improve the security, accessibility, and public confidence in the voting process, ACM's elected leadership has approved a public statement on the deployment and use of computer-based electronic voting (e-voting) systems for public elections. ACM's position is that while ==========> 04-09-30-WIred-DieboldLosesCopyrightSuitOverMisuseOfDMCA.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65173,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case By Kim Zetter 05:03 PM Sep. 30, 2004 PT Students who sued Diebold Election Systems won their case against the voting machine maker on Thursday after a judge ruled that the company had misused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and ordered the company to pay damages and fees. Lawyers for the students call the move a victory for free speech. ==========> 04-10-00-ACMQueue-IssuesWithEVotingMachines.txt========== Opinion: Electronic voting systems: the good, the bad, and the stupid Barbara Simons October 2004 Queue, Volume 2 Issue 7 Is it true that politics and technology don’t mix? As a result of the Florida 2000 election fiasco, some people concluded that paper ballots simply couldn’t be counted. Instead, paperless computerized voting systems (known as direct recording electronic systems, or DREs) were ==========> 04-10-00-CACM-ACMStatementOnEVotingSystems.txt========== ACM statement on voting systems Jeff Grove October 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 10 The Association recommends more attention to integrity, security, and usability in the design and use of all voting systems. Seeking to bolster the security, accessibility, and public confidence in the voting process, ACM's elected leadership has approved a public statement on the ==========> 04-10-00-CACM-AnalyzingInternetVotingSecurity.txt========== The problems and potentials of voting systems: Analyzing internet voting security David Jefferson, Aviel D. Rubin, Barbara Simons, David Wagner October 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 10 An extensive assessment of a proposed Internet-based voting system. The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) is an Internet-based voting system built by Accenture and its subcontractors for the ==========> 04-10-00-CACM-EvotingSourceCodeAvailabilityNotSufficient.txt========== The problems and potentials of voting systems: Source availability and e-voting: an advocate recants Jason Kitcat October 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 10 A former proponent of requiring the availability of e-voting system source code explains why he no longer develops source-available e-voting software. Source-available software whether proprietary or nonproprietary (such as under ==========> 04-10-00-CACM-OnlyOneVotePerMachineCanChangeTheResultsOfAnElection.txt========== The problems and potentials of voting systems: Small vote manipulations can swing elections Anthony Di Franco, Andrew Petro, Emmett Shear, Vladimir Vladimirov October 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 10 Considering the effects and implications of changing only a single vote per machine. Under the mandate of the Help America Vote Act, precincts across the U.S. are ==========> 04-10-00-IEEESpectrum-ProblemsWithEVoting.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/oct04/1004poll.html The Perils of Polling Electronic voting may avert a repeat of the 2000 Florida debacle, but it also creates new problems By Steven Cherry This November, people all over the United States will cast ballots using methods that span centuries of technological development. In fact, in this technologically advanced country, more than half of the voters will mark their ==========> 04-10-00-NRC-NRCProjectOnElectronicVoting.txt========== CALL FOR INPUT -- NRC Project on Electronic Voting A large number of American voters will be using electronic voting systems for the first time in the 2004 election. Many issues and concerns have been raised about their use. Recognizing this, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies (which include the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) has launched a project to develop a framework for understanding the technology, social, and operational issues relevant to decision-making about electronic ==========> 04-10-01-JohnMarshallLawSchool-E-lection2004Symposium-IsEVotingReadyForPrimeTime.txt========== The John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law E-lection 2004: Is e-voting ready for prime time? A symposium addressing the legal and technical issues regarding the upcoming election Friday, October 1, 2004 Explore these e-voting issues with the nation's experts ==========> 04-10-01-SJMerc-JudgeRulesDieboldMisrepresentedCLaimsUnderDMCA.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9812372.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 01, 2004 Judge rules e-voting vendor misrepresented law San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A manufacturer of electronic voting equipment knowingly misrepresented its claims when it sent threatening letters to the Internet providers of people who had posted the company's internal documents online, a federal judge has ruled. ==========> 04-10-03-Wired-DisabledVotersLikeEVotingForAccess.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65206,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7 E-Voting Fans: The Disabled Associated Press 03:30 PM Oct. 03, 2004 PT COLLEGE PARK, Maryland -- This November, Eileen Rivera Ley, 41, will vote by herself for the first time. Blind voters in Maryland and several other states will use electronic voting machines equipped with technology that allows the disabled to vote independently. ==========> 04-10-04-DougJones-CommentsOnEuropeanDraftEVotingStandard.txt========== http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/coe2004.shtml The European 2004 Draft E-Voting Standard: Some critical comments Part of the Voting and Elections web pages, http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/ by Douglas W. Jones THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science Posted to the web, Sept 29, 2004; ==========> 04-10-10-OnlinePolicyGrp-DieboldCeaseAndDesistLetter.txt========== http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/cease_desist_letter.s html Cease and Desist Letter October 10, 2003 William Doherty Online Policy Group, Inc. 304 Winfield Street San Francisco, CA 94110-5512 doherty@onlinepolicy.org ==========> 04-10-11-SJMerc-MercuryNewsEVOtingRoundtable.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9851518.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 11, 2004 ROUNDTABLE E-voting: Can we count on it? San Jose Mercury News In the wake of Florida's Great Chad Disaster in the 2000 election, the federal government successfully pushed states into moving more quickly to new voting technologies that purportedly were more efficient and trustworthy than paper or ==========> 04-10-11-SJMerc-VotingMachineProblemsCutDieboldEarningsForecast.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9893015.htm Posted on Mon, Oct. 11, 2004 Citing voting machine woes, Diebold cuts earnings forecast NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) - Mounting legal costs over its electronic voting equipment have forced automated teller machine maker Diebold Inc. to slash its third-quarter earnings forecast. Diebold said in a news release Monday that its legal woes in California would ==========> 04-10-14-Yahoo-FloridaEVotingMachineCrashPostponesTest.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_el_ge/e_voting_palm_b each_12 E-Voting Machine Crash Deepens Concerns Thu Oct 14,10:17 AM ET By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A computer crash that forced a pre-election test of electronic voting machines to be postponed was trumpeted by critics as proof of the balloting technology's unreliability. ==========> 04-10-18-CompWorld-ResearchersRemainConcernedAboutEVotingSecurityAndReliability.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,96659,00. html E-vote at Risk Despite vendor assurances, researchers remain concerned about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems. News Story by Dan Verton OCTOBER 18, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - This November, as many as 50 million Americans could vote for president using some form of electronic touch-screen ==========> 04-10-19-InfoWorld-ElectionIncidenceReportingSystem-EIRS.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/19/HNvotingsceptics_1.html E-voting sceptics use Web to monitor election Development teams will use open source toolkits to examine possible problems By Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service October 19, 2004 For technology experts concerned about how electronic voting systems will perform on election day, what better tools to use to monitor the situation than those of their trade: the Web and open source development. ==========> 04-10-25-WashPost-EVotingRaisesNewIssues.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59554-2004Oct24.html Electronic Voting Raises New Issues Security, Recount Questions Persist As States Adopt Paperless Balloting By Dan Keating Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 25, 2004; Page A06 Electronic voting systems that were touted as the solution to the paper ballots and hanging chads of the 2000 presidential election have become a new source of ==========> 04-10-26-WIred-EVotingVendorsTurnOverObjectCodeToNISTLibraray.txt========== http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65490,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software By Kim Zetter 03:00 PM Oct. 26, 2004 PT Wired In an effort to increase the integrity of next week's presidential election, five voting machine makers agreed for the first time to submit their software programs to the National Software Reference Library for safekeeping, federal ==========> 04-10-27-SJMerc-EVotingVendorsTurnOverObjectCodeToNISTLibraray.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/10027730.htm Posted on Wed, Oct. 27, 2004 E-voting companies submit some code to federal library San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The nation's largest voting machine companies are submitting millions of lines of code to the National Software Reference Library to address sharp criticism from computer scientists about the secret software used in elections. ==========> 04-10-28-CNETNews-IssuesWithEVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/Stamp+of+reproval/2009-1028_3-5429534.html Global Lessions In EVoting By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 28, 2004 4:00 AM PT When the Maryland State Board of Elections ordered more than 5,000 voting machines from Diebold Election Systems in 2002, the touch-screen computers came with assurances that they met federal voting standards. ==========> 04-10-28-EETimes-ExpertsWarnEVotingMachinesRemainUnsecured.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=51201118 Voting machines remain unsecured, expert warns By Chappell Brown EE Times October 28, 2004 (10:32 AM EDT) RYE, N.Y. — Computer experts are questioning the security of the all-electronic voting machines being used in this year's presidential election, but the problems posed by this new approach to recording the vote run much deeper than ==========> 04-10-28-SJMerc-CalifCountiesApplyPaperBallotRulesDifferently.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10037818.htm Posted on Thu, Oct. 28, 2004 E-voting rules likely to lead to confusion in 10 counties By Dion Nissenbaum Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - They were supposed to make life at the ballot box easier. But with less than a week to go until Election Day, new electronic voting machines are sparking confusion and uneven sets of rules that await millions of Californians ==========> 04-10-31-USACM-NationalAndInternationalUpdateOnEVoting.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.9 (October 31, 2004) =================================================== [3] E-VOTING TO BE IN NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT ON ELECTION DAY With most polls set to open tomorrow morning to begin the 2004 election, the last few weeks have seen a good deal of activity surrounding e-voting. Most recently, for instance, a Florida judge ruled that state election officials are not legally obliged to provide voter-verifiable ==========> 04-11-00-CACM-EvaluationOfEVotingSystems.txt========== Inside risks: Evaluation of voting systems P.L. Vora, B. Adida, R. Bucholz, D. Chaum, D.L. Dill, D. Jefferson, D.W. Jones, W. Lattin, A.D. Rubin, M.I. Shamos, M. Yung November 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 11 The recent spate of security issues and allegations of "lost votes" in the U.S. demonstrates the inadequacy of the standards used to evaluate our election systems. The current standards (the FEC Voting Systems Standards) along with the revision being developed by IEEE 1583 (see the article by Deutsch and ==========> 04-11-00-DrDobbs-AviRubinProposesOpenSourceSecureEVotingSystems.txt========== # "A Conversation With Avi Rubin" Dr. Dobb's Journal (11/04) Vol. 29, No. 11, P. 16; Woehr, Jack J. Johns Hopkins University professor Avi Rubin has become a leading figure in the debate over the security of electronic voting thanks to his analysis of Diebold AccuVoteTS voting system software, which uncovered fundamental vulnerabilities that have sparked demands for a way to verify electronically cast votes. Conspiracy theorists contend that vendors are intentionally rigging the voting systems in order to support their political agendas, but Rubin dismisses such assertions, arguing that it is more critical to investigate the potential for ==========> 04-11-01-CNETNews-Nov2ElectionIsBetaTestOfEVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/The+big+election+beta+test/2100-1028_3-5433101.html The big election beta test By Robert Lemos Story last modified November 1, 2004, 4:00 AM PST Votes cast Tuesday will not only determine the next president of the United States, they could also go a long way toward determining the future of ballot machines in America. ==========> 04-11-01-EETimes-GroupsWorkingOnEVotingSpecs.txt========== http://www.eetonline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51201612 Stumping for specs By Rick Merritt EE Times November 01, 2004 (9:00 AM EST) San Jose, Calif. — It won't be in time for tomorrow, but technologists are taking steps to secure the digital ballot box. Even as the nation braces for ==========> 04-11-01-SJMerc-OneThirdOfCalifVotersConcernedAboutEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/ 10068341.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 01, 2004 Poll finds one-third in state wary of electronic voting machines By Elise Ackerman Mercury News One in three California voters are not confident that electronic voting machines will count their ballots properly, and two out of three believe it is ==========> 04-11-01-SJMerc-ProblemsWithDREMachineTesting.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65535,00.html E-Voting Tests Get Failing Grade By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Nov. 01, 2004 PT Wired In 1996, a federal testing lab responsible for evaluating voting systems in the United States examined the software for a new electronic voting machine made by I-Mark Systems of Omaha, Nebraska. ==========> 04-11-02-CompWorld-OnlyIsolatedReportsOfEVotingMachineMalfunctions.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,97159,00. html E-vote technology at center stage amid election hype, hysteria There have been only isolated reports of machine malfunctions News Story by Dan Verton NOVEMBER 02, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- As expected, unsubstantiated reports of electronic voting system malfunctions trickled into various independent monitoring organizations today, but officials acknowledge that it ==========> 04-11-02-Wired-ElectionWatchdogsReportEVotingGlitches.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65579,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_ht ml Watchdogs Spot E-Vote Glitches By Kim Zetter 06:21 PM Nov. 02, 2004 PT The jury is still out on e-voting machines used in the election but reports collected by late Tuesday evening by election watchdogs seem to contradict assurances by voting company representatives that the election should "put to ==========> 04-11-03-CompWorld-ExpertsQuestionEVotingInSpiteOfApparentSuccessOnNov2.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,97197,00. html Despite apparent e-vote success, questions remain An 'absence of accountability' could lead to doubts about accuracy News Story by Dan Verton and Patrick Thibodeau NOVEMBER 03, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- Computer security experts today renewed their warnings about electronic voting systems and said that without an independent assessment of how the equipment fared in yesterday's ==========> 04-11-03-UsTogether-EvidenceMountsThatVoteWasHacked.txt========== http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results Kathy Dopp, Wednesday November 3, 2004 Us Together Look at the Percent Change columns. Notice how the percents vary much more widely in the Op-Scan counties versus the Touchscreen counties. Explanation, Sources, and Graphical Plots are Below the Chart ==========> 04-11-06-CommonDreams-EvidenceMountsThatVoteMayHaveBeenHacked.txt========== http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm Published on Saturday, November 6, 2004 by CommonDreams.org Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked by Thom Hartmann When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and ==========> 04-11-06-TruthOut-EvidenceMountsThatVoteWasHacked.txt========== http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked By Thom Hartmann CommonDreams.org TruthOut Saturday 06 November 2004 When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th ==========> 04-11-07-SJMerc-DG-EVotingMachinesStillNeedBetterReliability.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10121628.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 07, 2004 E-voting reliability still has a ways to go By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist It didn't take long after last week's elections for the conspiracy theories to take flight. One, in particular, started to ricochet around the Internet even before John Kerry conceded the election to President Bush -- and it blamed ==========> 04-11-10-SJMerc-CalifSettlesEVotingSuitAgainstDiebold.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10148189.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 10, 2004 Calif. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Wednesday a $2.6 million settlement with Diebold Inc., resolving a lawsuit alleging that the company sold the state and several counties shoddy voting equipment. ==========> 04-11-11-Artifice-APetitionToCongressToInvestigateThe2004Election.txt========== http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html A Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the Presidential Election of 2004 View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition To: United States Congress TO: All members of the Congress of the United States of America; all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives ==========> 04-11-12-NYT-MostlyGoodReviewsForEVoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/politics/12evote.html?oref=login November 12, 2004 Mostly Good Reviews for Electronic Voting By JOHN SCHWARTZ NY Times Numerous problems with electronic voting machines were reported around the country on Election Day and immediately afterward, but most election officials and experts say the great majority of the machines functioned as expected. ==========> 04-11-17-TechRev-MostEVotingProblemsArePollingPlaceProcedures.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/wo_selker111704.asp The Real Problem with Voting The biggest trouble lies not so much in the technology but in poll workers’ failure to follow the procedures that would assure reliable results. By Ted Selker November 17, 2004 As co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP), I have been involved in inventing new secure voting machines, designing better ballots, and ==========> 04-11-18-SJMerc-ElectionVerificationProjectCitesEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10216514.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 18, 2004 Group cites electronic voting problems, urges reforms San Jose Mercury WASHINGTON (AP) - The record use of electronic voting machines on Nov. 2 led to hundreds of voting irregularities and shows the need for higher standards, a voting rights group said Thursday. ==========> 04-11-18-WIred-UCBResearchersShowFloridaEVotingInconsistencies.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy By Kim Zetter 12:18 PM Nov. 18, 2004 PT Wired Electronic voting machines in Florida may have awarded George W. Bush up to 260,000 more votes than he should have received, according to statistical analysis conducted by University of California, Berkeley graduate students and ==========> 04-11-24-CNETNews-GAOToInvestigate2004EVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/E-voting+faces+new+scrutiny/2100-1028_3-5465309.html E-voting faces new scrutiny By Evan Hansen Story last modified Wed Nov 24 04:00:00 PST 2004 NNET News news analysis A newly announced federal investigation of the November election will bring fresh scrutiny on the performance of e-voting machines, but election experts said they believe any impact will be limited to future political ==========> 04-11-30-USACM-ConcernsAboutEVotingContinue.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.11 (November 30, 2004) =================================================== [1] ELECTION OVER, CONCERNS WITH E-VOTING LINGER The November 2004 general election has come and gone, but not without stirring concerns over e-voting systems. While the consenus seems to be that most e-voting machines performed adequately in the election, several precincts suffered breakdowns of their e-voting machines, others ==========> 04-12-01-BostonGlobe-VotingErrorsTalliedNationwide.txt========== http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/12/01/voting_errors_tallied_nati onwide/ Voting errors tallied nationwide By Brian C. Mooney Boston Globe Staff December 1, 2004 More than 4,000 votes vanished without a trace into a computer's overloaded memory in one North Carolina county, and about a hundred paper ballots were ==========> 04-12-02-ElecDes-CriticsCiteEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=9313 "Getting Out (of) the E-Vote" Electronic Design (12/02/04); Schneiderman, Ron Despite assurances from election officials and voting machine vendors that the e-voting systems used in the recent national election operated more or less smoothly, voters, activist organizations, and others reported more than 1,000 incidents of system crashes, malfunctions, bugs, disenfranchisement, overvoting, inadequate security, and even election fraud. Almost 450 ballots ==========> 04-12-07-ITBus-EVotingStillExpensiveAndFraughtWithSecurityIssues.txt========== Technology in Government, December 2004, Vol. 11 No. 9 E-voting still expensive, fraught with security issues IT Business 12/7/2004 10:15:57 AM - The U.S. federal election showed the flaws of electronic voting, with stories circulating about candidate names appearing incorrectly on the check-out screens of the polling kiosks, power outages and untrained poll staff. by Fawzia Sheikh ==========> 04-12-07-WIred-UCBEVotingAnalysisCriticized.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65896,00.html Florida E-Vote Study Debunked By Kim Zetter Wired 02:00 AM Dec. 07, 2004 PT A study by Berkeley grad students and a professor showing anomalies with electronic-voting machines in Florida has been debunked by numerous academics who say the students used a faulty equation to reach their results and should ==========> 04-12-11-YubaNet-TheNeedForAccountableAndVerifiableEVoting.txt========== http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_16133.shtml Kim Alexander: The Need for Transparent, Accountable and Verifiable U.S. Elections Author: Kim Alexander, President, California Voter Foundation Published on Dec 11, 2004, 07:54 YubaNet Prior to 2000, few people ever bothered to look at the mechanics of voting. Elections were like the sausage factory-people wanted to enjoy the end product ==========> 05-01-00-DigTrans-TouchScreenVotingReliabilityContested.txt========== # "A Contested Election for Touch-Screen Voting" Digital Transactions (01/05) Vol. 2, No. 1, P. 38; McKinley, Ed Almost 30 percent of U.S. voters used touch-screen electronic voting machines in the 2004 presidential election, and e-voting advocates claim the systems' relatively error-free performance is a confirmation of the technology's reliability. However, critics are calling for deeper analysis of e-voting machines, tougher standards, and more safeguards; adding fuel to their fire were complaints of undervoting, voter disfranchisement, and system malfunctions during the election. University of Iowa professor Douglas Jones, a member of ==========> 05-01-13-ClevePlainDeal-OhioPullsPlugOnEVotingForOpticalScan.txt========== # "Ohio Pulls Plug on Electronic Voting" Cleveland Plain Dealer (01/13/05); Smyth, Julie Carr; Naymik, Mark Touch-screen electronic voting machines long criticized for inadequate security and reliability have been rejected by Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell in favor of a statewide deployment of optical-scan machines that process manually filled-out paper ballots tallied up by a precinct-based computerized counter. The systems not only comply with Ohio's requirement to supply a paper trail, but they offer greater flexibility than electronic machines at less cost, says representative Carlo LoParo. He reckons that equipping touch-screen systems ==========> 05-01-16-SFlaSunSent-TouchScreensMoreLikelyToCastFlawedBallot.txt========== # "Touch Screens More Likely to Be Flawed, Analysis Finds" South Florida Sun-Sentinel (01/16/05); Milarsky, Jeremy A South Florida Sun-Sentinel analysis of Florida voting machines used in the Nov. 2 presidential election found that touch-screen systems were 50 percent more likely than older paper-based systems to cast a flawed or unregistered presidential ballot. Some 18,555 instances of flawed or unregistered presidential ballots were extracted from the 5 million votes studied in the November election: 11,824 ballots out of 2.7 million touch-screen votes were determined to be unregistered ballots, while 6,731 ballots out of 2.3 ==========> 05-01-27-PCWorld-DieboldToMarketEVotingSystemWithPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,119481/article.html Diebold to Market Paper-Trail E-Voting System Company designs new machines with printers for voter-verified paper trail. Grant Gross, IDG News Service, PC World, January 27, 2005 3:00 PM PST WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Diebold Election Systems, a target of many electronic-voting critics during the 2004 U.S. election, announced Thursday it has completed the design for a printer that would give its e-voting machines a paper trail. ==========> 05-01-28-USAToday-DieboldDevelopsEVotingPrinter.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2005-01-28-diebold-printout _x.htm Posted 1/28/2005 2:17 PM Diebold completes e-voting printer prototype USA Today NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Diebold said Thursday it has completed a prototype printer designed for use with touch-screen electronic voting machines, allowing voters to print, review and verify ballot selections. ==========> 05-02-03-SJMerc-DieboldPrinterFailsToSatisfyEVotingCritics.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10810218.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 03, 2005 Prototype printer fails to satisfy e-voting activists San Jose Mercury SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Three months after the presidential election, one of the nation's biggest makers of touch-screen voting machines has created a companion printer that spits out paper records. ==========> 05-02-07-MSNBC-VotingSystemsPerformanceRatingProposed.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6885237/site/newsweek/ A Step Forward in the Voting Wars Why has it taken so long to move toward uniform standards for electronic polling machines? By Steven Levy Newsweek Feb. 7 issue - The polling places in Iraq are front-and-center this week, but the jagged scars of our own election are still far from healed. Part of the ==========> 05-02-09-CompWorld-VotingIntegrityAndVerificationActWouldRequirePaperTrail.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legislation/story/0,108 01,99633,00.html New U.S. Legislation Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail News Story by Grant Gross ComputerWorld FEBRUARY 09, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced a bill that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines to allow for a so-called voter-verifiable paper trail. ==========> 05-02-09-PCWorld-VotingIntegrityAndVerificationActWouldRequirePaperTrails.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,119628/article.html Bill Proposes E-Voting Paper Trail Critics say legislation isn't the right way to secure electronic voting machines. Grant Gross, IDG News Service, PC World, February 09, 2005 1:00 PM PST WASHINGTON -- A group of U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines to allow for a so-called "voter verifiable" paper trail. ==========> 05-02-28-CompWorld-ClintonAndBoxerIntroducePaperTrailEvotingBill.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legislation/story/0,108 01,100073,00.html Clinton, Boxer pushing e-voting bill in Senate Their measure mandates a voter-verified paper ballot for e-voting machines News Story by Todd R. Weiss FEBRUARY 28, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A wide-ranging bill that, among other things, would mandate a voter-verified paper ballot for every vote cast in electronic voting machines has been introduced by Sens. Hillary Clinton ==========> 05-03-07-FedCompWeek-EACEvotingStandardsWillNotRequirePaperTrail.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0307/tec-evote-03-07-05.asp Vote for change E-voting vendors look to 2006 Federal Compuing Week March 7, 205 "Congressman renews call for voting paper trail" [FCW.com, Feb. 9, 2005] "Touch-screen voting" [Federal Computer Week, Sept. 6, 2004] ==========> 05-03-31-USACM-ExpertsBeginVoterRegistraionDatabaseStudy.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.3 March 31, 2005 ============================================================= [3] EXPERTS BEGIN VOTER-REGISTRATION DATABASE STUDY Former ACM President and current USACM executive committee member Barbara Simons and database expert Paula Hawthorn are co-chairing a study looking into ==========> 05-04-08-Bloomberg-LawmakersBeginningToRequirePaperInVoting.txt========== http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aaB4iadjGAC0&refer=us Paper Makes a Comeback as Electronic Elections Spur Opposition April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Meet the next big thing in paperless voting: paper. Voting-rights groups and computer scientists, concluding that a tangible record is essential to any electronic voting system, are persuading a growing number of U.S. lawmakers and election officials either to reject paperless voting machines or to require fitting them with costly add-on printers to help verify results. ==========> 05-04-14-CompWorld-CostsAndProblemsMayDoomEVotingSystem.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,10 1105,00.html Fate of $25M e-voting system in Miami-Dade dangling The county may opt instead for optical scanning equipment News Story by Marc L. Songini APRIL 14, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ongoing technical glitches have prompted election officials in Florida's Miami-Dade County, famous for the hanging-chad controversy in the disputed 2000 presidential election, to consider scrapping a ==========> 05-04-18-Bloomberg-CarterBakerCommisionWeighsUSVotingChanges.txt========== http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a0pYNZv7C6sM&refer=us Carter-Baker Commission Weighs U.S. Voting Changes (Update1) Last Updated: April 18, 2005 16:55 EDT Bloomberg April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Voting advocates called today for new government initiatives to reduce long lines at polls and eliminate other glitches that arose in last year's presidential election. Some proposed a national holiday to increase turnout and cut waiting time. ==========> 05-04-22-AP-ChairOfUSVotingReformPanelResignsCitingLackOfSupport.txt========== Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns By ERICA WERNER The Associated Press Friday, April 22, 2005; 12:32 PM WASHINGTON - The first chairman of the federal voting agency created after the 2000 election dispute is resigning, saying the government has not shown enough of a commitment to reform. DeForest Soaries, a Baptist minister, said Friday that his resignation from the ==========> 05-04-25-CompWeekly-EVotingPopularWithUKVoters.txt========== http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=138081&liArticleT ypeID=20&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 E-voting pilots have shown that SMS and e-voting are popular with electors, so how soon can we expect to see these alternatives to traditional ballots being widely used? Sally Flood reports Computer Weekly April 25, 2005 Nearly 50% of first-time voters have voted for a Big Brother contestant, but ==========> 05-04-25-GovtCompNews-NISTToIssueEvotingGuidelines.txt========== http://www.gcn.com/24_9/e_gov/35596-1.html 04/25/05; Vol. 24 No. 9 Cybereye: Avoid the rush: Worry about 2006 elections now By William Jackson Government Computer News Staff The issue of voting technology has largely disappeared from the public agenda since the November elections. But addressing questions about electronic voting now will help keep them from becoming crises in the fall of 2006. ==========> 05-04-29-USACM-ACMProvidesTestimonyToUSElectionAssitanceComm.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.4 29 April 2005 ============================================================= [2] ACM PROVIDES TESTIMONY TO EAC ON VOTER DATABASES As reported last month, ACM recently created a committee to look into design issues for statewide voter registration databases. The Help America Vote Act ==========> 05-04-29-USACM-ElectionAssistanceCommTechCommAdoptsVotingSystemStandards.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.4 29 April 2005 ============================================================= [5] EAC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ADOPTS VOTING SYSTEM STANDARDS; EAC COMMISSIONER RESIGNS In other e-voting news, the EAC's Technical Development Guidelines Committee ==========> 05-05-08-USAToday-PushToReplaceEVotingMachinesCausesConfusion.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-05-08-voting-machines_x.htm Push to replace voting machines spurs confusion By Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY May 8, 2005 WASHINGTON — Election officials across the nation are scrambling to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to replace outmoded voting machines with equipment that is supposed to be more accurate. But a controversy over the reliability of computerized voting machines continues to cloud their decisions. ==========> 05-05-25-ACM-USACMCommentsToUSElectionAssistanceCommission-EAC.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/PDF/EAC_database_guidance_comments.pdf May 25, 2005 Ms. Juliet Thompson General Counsel United States Election Assistance Commission 1225 New York Avenue, N.W. Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 Delivered via fax and e-mail: 202-566-1392, guidance@eac.gov ==========> 05-05-25-USACM-LetterOnVoterRegistrationDatabaseGuidelines.txt========== May 25, 2005 Ms. Juliet Thompson General Counsel United States Election Assistance Commission 1225 New York Avenue, N.W. Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 Delivered via fax and e-mail: 202-566-1392, guidance@eac.gov Dear Ms. Thompson, ==========> 05-05-27-BlackBoxVoting-DieboldOpticalScanSystemHacked.txt========== http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/5921.html 5-27-05: Optical scan system hacked Posted on Friday, May 27, 2005 - 05:03 pm Tallahassee, FL: "Are we having fun yet?" Black Bax Voting This is the message that appeared in the window of a county optical scan machine, startling Leon County Information Systems Officer Thomas James. Visibly shaken, he immediately turned the machine off. ==========> 05-05-31-USACM-VoterRegistrationDatabaseStudyCallsForMoreDetails.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.5 31 May 2005 ============================================================= [3] ACM VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASE STUDY CALLS FOR MORE DETAILS IN EAC GUIDANCE ACM's committee on Guidelines for Implementation of Voter Registration ==========> 05-06-04-YubaNet-BlackBoxVotingProjectFindsOpticalScanMachinesOpenToHacking.txt========== http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_21497.shtml From YubaNet.com BlackBoxVoting Finds Voting Scan Machines Hackable Author: Matthew Cardinale Published on Jun 4, 2005, 08:35 Two new and startling discoveries announced by Bev Harris and BlackBoxVoting.org indicate that Diebold Optical Scan Machines are vulnerable to, and designed for, hacking that would modify the results of an election. ==========> 05-06-06-CtyNews-NewVotingEquipmentStandardsUnderDevelopment.txt========== http://www.countynews.org/CountyNewsTemplate.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/Con tentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=16671 New standards for voting equipment in development Local elections officials still facing a variety of HAVA compliance issues By Alysoun McLaughlin Associate Legislative Director County News June 6, 2005 ==========> 05-06-07-AP-Report-TheCaseForUniversalVotingCenters.txt========== http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77600 KATU 2 News - Portland, Oregon Technology, modernity may change future elections June 7, 2005 - By ROBERT TANNER AP National Writer The nation's election administrators say it's time to restructure elections to reflect the way Americans live, scrapping neighborhood precincts and Election ==========> 05-06-17-PittsPostGaz-SuggestionsToDoAwayWithTraditionalVotingMethods.txt========== http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6889.shtml Momentum Builds For Election Reform By ANN McFEATTERS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 17, 2005, 04:49 Nearly five years after the chaos of Election 2000, angry citizens still storm Capitol Hill and statehouses to demand investigations and changes to the electoral process while task forces continue to churn out recommendations for ==========> 05-06-21-CompWorld-SenatorsOjectToEVotingPrinters.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,10 2667,00.html Senators question e-voting paper trail One said the printouts would discriminate against blind voters News Story by Grant Gross ComputerWorld JUNE 21, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Calls for the U.S. government to mandate a voter-verified paper trail with electronic voting machines ran into opposition ==========> 05-06-24-Science-StepsToMakeEVotingMachinesMoreSecureAndAccurate.txt========== "Election Auditing Is an End-to-End Procedure" Science (06/24/05) Vol. 308, No. 5730, P. 1873; Selker, Ted Electronic voting machines are becoming more accurate, as the most significant drops from 2000 to 2004 in the residual vote rate, which measures uncounted votes, occurred in states that rely on electronic methods of ballot casting. Due to lackluster record-keeping, though, lingering doubts that undermine public trust in the machines remain. Congress' proposal to attach printers to direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines to generate a paper trail has many drawbacks, including increased costs and the possibility of voter ==========> 05-06-29-InsideBayArea-AlamedaCountySticksWithDiebold.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2830431 Article Last Updated: 6/29/2005 02:46 AM County moves ahead with new e-voting system Diebold's latest machine prints, so voters can verify their choices By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area Despite stout public opposition, Alameda County is headed toward sticking with Diebold electronic-voting machines for the next congressional and presidential ==========> 05-07-07-WIred-USEvotingGuidelinesNeedMoreWork.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,68116,00.html E-Vote Guidelines Need Work By Kim Zetter Wired 02:00 AM Jul. 07, 2005 PT In an effort to keep pace with changing technology and address widespread security concerns about electronic voting machines, the federal government has released new guidelines for voting systems. ==========> 05-07-13-NewsForge-EvotingPaperTrailAndSystemTransparency.txt========== http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/06/182210&tid=132&tid=27 NewsForge The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source E-voting: paper trail versus transparency 2005.07.13 11:00 Jay Lyman In the heat of major political campaigns and elections, we hear a lot about electronic voting and the fight over their accuracy and trustworthiness. ==========> 05-07-15-CompWorld-NewJerseyToGetEvotingPaperTtrailIn2008.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,10 3264,00.html N.J. to get e-voting paper trail, but not until 2008 A legal battle continues to try to put the law into effect sooner News Story by Todd R. Weiss JULY 15, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - New Jersey has passed a new law mandating voter-verifiable paper trails for electronic touchpad voting machines, but election reform advocates in the state are pressing ahead with legal action ==========> 05-08-02-KCInfozine-AdvocatesUrgeCommissionToRequireVerificationAnAccessibility.txt========== http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/9317/ Tuesday, August 02, 2005 :: infoZine Staff :: page views Advocates Urge Election Assistance Commission to Require Verification and Accessibility Voters Can Have the Best of Both Worlds Kansas City Infozine PoliticsPasadena, CA - infoZine - Voting rights advocates in the disability community and supporters of a voter-verified paper ballot have come together ==========> 05-08-03-InsideBayArea-CalifTestFindsManyDieboldMachineProblems.txt========== # "Initial Report Undersold E-Vote Snafus" Inside Bay Area (CA) (08/03/05); Hoffman, Ian The first mass testing of the new Diebold AccuVote TSx electronic voting systems in the United States last month demonstrated fallibility of far greater magnitude than previously reported. During a mock election employing 96 such machines in California, almost one-third of the units had some kind of problem: Nineteen machines suffered 21 screen freezes or system crashes and had to be restarted by Diebold technicians, while 10 units suffered 11 printer jams. This was almost double the number of problematic systems reported in earlier tests, ==========> 05-08-13-InsideBayArea-CalifRequiresVendorsNeedToCertifyEquipmentWillMeetHAVAGuidelines.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2919675 New rules for voting machine vendors By Jennifer Coleman, Associated Press Inside Bay Area [Accessed Aug. 13, 2005 SACRAMENTO — Makers of electronic voting machines will have to certify that their systems meet federal guidelines to ensure that voters don't get "stuck with a lemon" as technology and regulations evolve, the state's top election ==========> 05-08-15-JohnsHopkins-NSFToFundCenterToStudyEVotingIssues.txt========== http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050815.120003&time=12% 2028%20PDT&year=2005&public=0 Mon Aug 15 12:28:08 2005 Pacific Time Johns Hopkins-Led Center Will Study, Develop Voting Technologies; Technology, Public Policy Issues, Election Booth Behavior Will Receive Scrutiny BALTIMORE, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A federally funded center dedicated to improving the reliability and trustworthiness of voting technology, drawing on experts in computer science, public policy and human ==========> 05-08-21-PressCitizen-DougJonesReceivesNSFGrantToStudyEVoting.txt========== http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050821/NEWS01/50821030 4/1079/NEWS Sunday, August 21, 2005 Professorstudies electronic voting By Mike McWilliams Iowa City Press-Citizen Long before the debacle in Florida that marked the 2000 presidential election, Douglas Jones knew there were problems with voting security in the United ==========> 05-08-28-CompWorld-AustrlianElectionCommissionLooksAtOpenSourceEVoting.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=353463869 Computerworld Sunday, 28th August 2005 | Computerworld Zones | Electoral commission eyes open source voting Rodney Gedda 16/08/2005 07:41:39 If bringing total democracy to electronic voting can only happen via software source code that can be viewed by all, the Australian Electoral Commission is ==========> 05-08-30-InsideBayArea-CalifBillWouldRequireUsingPaperTrailForRecounts.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2985277 State law would mandate following e -vote paper trail Bill on governor's desk requires touch-screen recounts to use printouts By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area Aug. 30, 2005 California is on the verge of turning away from electrons and toward paper as the ultimate arbiter of democratic choice, with final passage Monday of a bill ==========> 05-09-19-FecCompWeek-ElectionReformCommConcludesVoterVerifiedPaperTrailsNeeded.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article90850-09-19-05-Web Commission recommends voting safeguards "E-voting companies file code" [Federal Computer Week, Nov. 7, 2004] BY Michael Hardy Published on Sep. 19, 2005 The 21-member Commission on Federal Election Reform, led by former president Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, has concluded that electronic voting machines should generate voter-verifiable trails and all ==========> 05-09-23-Wired-ElectionReformCommConcludesVoterVerifiedPaperTrailsNeeded.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68954,00.html Paper Trail Urged as E-Voting Fix By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Sep. 23, 2005 PT Wired Efforts to secure the integrity of electronic-voting machines seemed to get a boost this week, but the debate over the best way to guard against election tampering remained at a fever pitch. ==========> 05-09-29-NIST-SunshineMeetingNoticeForUSElectionAssistanceCommission.txt========== U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 1225 New York Ave. NW – Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 SUNSHINE ACT NOTICE AGENCY: United States Election Assistance Commission * * * * * * * * ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting for the Technical Guidelines Development Committee DATE & TIME: Thursday, September 29, 2005, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. (MDT) PLACE: National Institute of Standards and Technology ==========> 05-09-30-USACM-CarterBakerCommissionReportAMixedBag.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.9 30 September 2005 ============================================================= [2] CARTER-BAKER COMMISSION REPORT A MIXED BAG The Federal Commission on Election Reform led by former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James A. Baker III has issued its report ==========> 05-10-04-CNETNews-ElectionReformCommConcludesVoterVerifiedPaperTrailsNeeded.txt========== http://beta.news.com.com/E-voting+report+could+push+audit+trails/2100-1028_3-588 8926.html E-voting report could push audit trails By Declan McCullagh CNET News Story last modified Tue Oct 04 20:30:00 PDT 2005 An election commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James A. Baker III drew attention last month by proposing ==========> 05-10-06-CNETNews-EvotingHobbledBySecurityIssues.txt========== http://news.com.com/E-voting+hobbled+by+security+concerns/2100-1028_3-5889705.ht ml E-voting hobbled by security concerns By Declan McCullagh CNET News Story last modified Thu Oct 06 04:00:00 PDT 2005 It's been nearly five years since Americans received a painful education on the perils of traditional voting machines in Florida and almost one year since the ==========> 05-10-06-DecFocus-GroupCallsForRevisedEvotingSecurity-OpenSourceDebate.txt========== http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11336 E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-10-03 SecurityFocus [Accessed Oct. 6, 2005] A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States' Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation's state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of ==========> 05-10-17-CNETNews-EstoniaHoldsNationwideNetVotingHasLowParticipation.txt========== http://news.com.com/Estonia+pulls+off+nationwide+Net+voting/2100-1028_3-5898115. html Estonia pulls off nationwide Net voting By Anne Broache CNET News Story last modified Mon Oct 17 15:45:00 PDT 2005 A tiny Baltic nation last week became what appears to be the first country to open its local elections to Internet voting on a nationwide level--although ==========> 05-10-21-FedCompWeek-GAOConfirmsSomeEvotingProblems.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article91183-10-21-05-Web GAO confirms some e-voting problems BY Michael Hardy Published on Oct. 21, 2005 Federal Computing Week Some fears about the security and integrity of electronic voting machines are well grounded, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today. ==========> 05-10-31-CompWorld-EVotingGrowsWithoutConsensus.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,105802,00.htm l E-voting Grows Without Consensus News Story by Marc L. Songini OCTOBER 31, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - State and local election officials, looking to meet federal voting regulations, are buying electronic voting gear despite a lack of best practices guidance and money. ==========> 05-11-08-LATimes-TestingSnafuCatchesCalifGovenor.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-110805arnold_lat,0,7268769.story?coll=la-ho me-headlines Schwarzenegger Hits Snag at Polling Place By Robert Salladay LA Times Staff Writer 11:03 AM PST, November 8, 2005 SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up to his Brentwood neighborhood polling station today to cast his ballot in the special election — and was told ==========> 05-11-09-InsideBayArea-PaperlessVotingMachinesUsedForLastTimeInCalif.txt========== http://insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3197545 Paperless e -voting era ends Touch-screen machines with no printable record used for the last time in California on Tuesday By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area Nov. 9, 2005 Elaine Ginnold awoke in a darkened home with no electricity — a harrowing way ==========> 05-11-11-VoterActionNM-NMOfficialsTryToBlockMachineInspections.txt========== NM Election Officials Try to Block Machine Inspections > Voter Action New Mexico Update 11/11/05 > > In the past week, two New Mexico election officials refused to allow the voter > plaintiffs in the case of Patricia Rosas Lopategui v. Rebecca Vigil-Giron, et > al. to conduct meaningful inspections of their electronic voting machines. > This despite clear indications that there were serious problems in last year’s > presidential election with these same machines, which do not produce a > voter-verifiable and auditable paper record. > ==========> 05-11-13-NewsRec-NCEvotingMachineCerifierIsExDieboldEmployee.txt========== http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWSREC0101/51113 0328 Article published Nov 13, 2005 Voting group leery of state contractor By Mark Binker Staff Writer , News-Record RALEIGH -- The man hired to help North Carolina determine which voting machines counties should use has extensive experience working for two of the ==========> 05-11-28-LexingtonDispatch-DieboldMayDecideNotToSellInNC.txt========== http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051128/APN/511280948&ca chetime=5 Article published Nov 28, 2005 N.C. judge dismisses voting machine case, vendor may pull out The Dispatch, Lexingrton, NC By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-CalifInvitesHackerTestOnEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13284411.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 Security of Diebold machines must past a hacker test Mercury News Editorial Hack away. Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti soon will have at a touch-screen voting machine awaiting certification in California. The invitation to expose ==========> 05-11-29-SJMerc-CalifMayImposeHackerTestOnEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13284156.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 29, 2005 California may impose hacker test on all electronic vote machines Mercury News SACRAMENTO (AP) - Companies wanting to sell electronic voting machines in California may be forced to prove their systems can withstand an attack from a computer hacker, the state's top elections official said Monday. ==========> 05-11-29-Wired-NCRequirementToDiscloseCode-DieboldMayLeaveNCMarket.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69708,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 Another Blow to E-Voting Company Associated Press Wired 09:26 AM Nov. 29, 2005 PT One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined Monday to protect it from criminal prosecution should it fail to disclose software ==========> 05-11-30-AP-EvotingUnderScrutinyAsDeadlineLooms.txt========== http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/13295842.htmFor%20information%2 0about%20ACM's%20e-voting%20activities,%20visit%20%3Ca%20href= Posted on Wed, Nov. 30, 2005 Electronic voting under scrutiny as federal compliance date looms BRIAN BERGSTEIN Associated Press Even in this election off-year, the potential perils of electronic voting systems are bedeviling state officials as a Jan. 1 deadline approaches for ==========> 05-11-30-SJMerc-CalifPostponesEvotingHackerTest.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13293428.htm Posted on Wed, Nov. 30, 2005 Critical test postponed for touch-screen voting By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau Secretary of State Bruce McPherson this week said he hopes to comply with a Jan. 1 federal deadline to make voting more accessible to Americans with disabilities. ==========> 05-11-30-USACM-USACMWritesVirginiaPolicymarkersOnEvoting.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.11 30 November 2005 ============================================================= [2] USACM WRITES TO VIRGINIA POLICYMAKERS ON E-VOTING USACM sent a letter to Virginia Delegate Tim Hugo, chair of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Certification, Performance, and Deployment of Voting ==========> 05-12-00-CACM-IdentifyingAndDefendingAgainstPortVulnerabilities.txt========== Digital village: Pernicious ports Hal Berghel, David Hoelzer December 2005 Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 Issue 12 Identifying and defending against port-related vulnerabilities. It is now well documented that some of the greatest security vulnerabilities to computer software are a result of inattention to current service packs, hot fixes, and patches. Our experience with big-ticket malware such as W32/Blaster ==========> 05-12-01-InsideBayArea-UncertaintyInTestingEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3268257 Article Last Updated: 12/01/2005 03:45:50 AM Uncertainty clouds future of e-vote tests Despite movement toward new standards for machines, change may be years away By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area SACRAMENTO — For11 years, most states have relied on voting systems tested to minimal federal standards, the results withheld from public scrutiny and given ==========> 05-12-01-RawStory-CalifEvotingSummitShutsOutReformAdvocates.txt========== http://rawstory.com/news/2005/California_voting_summit_shuts_out_voting_1201.htm l California voting summit shuts out voting reform advocates; Panels appear stacked with electronic voting proponents December 1, 2005 Miriam Raftery Raw Story A California summit on voting equipment, where many of the speakers had ==========> 05-12-01-SJMerc-ThreeCompaniesCertifiedToSellMachinesInNC.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13304893.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 01, 2005 Diebold among winning bidders for N.C. voting equipment sales GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Mercury News RALEIGH, N.C. - The State Board of Elections approved three companies Thursday to sell voting machines to all 100 counties in time for next year's elections, ==========> 05-12-08-CNETNews-EFFChallengesNCCertificationOfEvotingMachines.txt========== http://news.com.com/EFF+moves+to+block+e-voting+system+certification/2100-1028_3 -5988243.html?tag=nefd.top EFF moves to block e-voting system certification By Anne Broache Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: December 8, 2005, 5:57 PM PST The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a court complaint Thursday aimed at blocking North Carolina's recent certifications of voting machines, saying ==========> 05-12-08-EFF-EFFChallengesNCCertificationOfEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_12.php#004237 December 08, 2005 North Carolina Sued for Illegally Certifying Voting Equipment EFF Asks Court to Void Approval of Diebold and Others Without Source Code Review EFF Raleigh, North Carolina - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Thursday filed a complaint against the North Carolina Board of Elections and the North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services on behalf of voting ==========> 05-12-08-SJMerc-EFFChallengesNCCertificationOfEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13361799.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 08, 2005 Election group challenges certification of 3 vote machine vendors GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. - A civil liberties group sued two state agencies Thursday, asking a judge to prevent three firms from selling voting equipment because it contends officials failed to properly review and assemble software code from ==========> 05-12-12-RawStory-DieboldCEOResignsAfterLegalProblemsSurface.txt========== http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Diebold_CEO_resigns_after_reports_of_1212.html?far k Diebold CEO resigns after reports of fraud litigation, internal woes John Byrne Raw Story December 12, 2005 The chief executive officer of electronic voting company Diebold who once famously declared that he would "deliver" Ohio for President Bush has resigned ==========> 05-12-13-TechRev-ElectionOfficialsMustMakeSystemDecisionsByNewYear.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Hardware/wtr_15998,294,p1.html Tuesday, December 13, 2005 E-Voting Deadline Looms Election officials must decide by January 1 which electronic voting system is least likely to cause problems next November. By Lamont Wood Technology Review The mid-term elections of 2006 are still 11 months away, but they've already ==========> 05-12-14-SJMerc-DieboldCEOResignsAfterLegalProblemsSurface.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13407620.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 14, 2005 Analysts happy with Diebold moves NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) - Analysts say the resignation this week of Diebold Inc.'s chief executive may help restore the credibility of the embattled automated-teller and voting machine maker. Walden W. O'Dell, 60, quit the company for unspecified personal reasons. The ==========> 05-12-14-Wired-NCElectionOfficiasAccesedOfIgnoringNewStateLaw.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,69831,00.html Can State Ignore Its E-Vote Law? By Kim Zetter Wired 02:00 AM Dec. 14, 2005 PT E-voting rules head to court this week in North Carolina, where election officials stand accused of ignoring a tough new state law designed to raise the bar on procedures to ensure machines are secure and accurate. ==========> 05-12-15-MiamiHer-FLTestsShowFlawsInDieboldOpticalScanMachines.txt========== http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13410061.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 15, 2005 New tests fuel doubts about vote machines A top election official and computer experts say computer hackers could easily change election results, after they found numerous flaws with a state-approved voting-machine in Tallahassee. BY MARC CAPUTO AND GARY FINEOUT, mcaputo@herald.com Miami Herald ==========> 05-12-16-SJMerc-InvestorsSueDieboldOverInflatedSharePrices.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13423796.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 16, 2005 Diebold sued by investors Mercury News CLEVELAND (AP) - Two groups of investors are suing Diebold Inc., claiming that misleading comments about the company's electronic voting machine business artificially inflated share prices. ==========> 05-12-1-ColumbusDispatch-DieboldCEOResignsAfterLegalProblemsSurface.txt========== Diebold's chairman leaves the company Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Columbus Dispatch NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) - The chairman and chief executive of automated-teller and voting-machine maker Diebold Inc. quit yesterday. The company, which has come under fire for its electronic voting business, said in a statement that the resignation of 60-year-old Walden W. O'Dell is effective immediately. ==========> 05-12-21-SJMerc-CalifRefusesToApproveElectronicVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13455648.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 21, 2005 A `no' vote on machines STATE SEEKS SECURITY TESTS ON TOUCH-SCREENS, SCANNERS By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - Suggesting the ``security and integrity'' of electronic voting could be at risk, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Tuesday refused to ==========> 05-12-21-SJMerc-CalifSeeksSecurityTestsOnEvotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13458101.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 21, 2005 A 'no' vote on electronic voting machines STATE SEEKS SECURITY TESTS ON TOUCH-SCREENS, SCANNERS By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - Suggesting the ``security and integrity'' of electronic voting could be at risk, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Tuesday refused to ==========> 05-12-21-Wired-DieboldOpticalScanFlawsSpreadConcernToOtherSuppliers.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,69893,00.html?tw=wn_1techhead Diebold Hack Hints at Wider Flaws By Kim Zetter 2005-12-21 08:35:00.0 Wired Election officials spooked by tampering in a test last week of Diebold optical-scan voting machines should be equally wary of optical-scan equipment produced by other manufacturers, according to a computer scientist who ==========> 05-12-23-MiamiHer-CalifThreatensToDecertifyESSEvotingSystems.txt========== http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/13477283.htm Posted on Fri, Dec. 23, 2005 Errors lead California officials to warn voting-machine company JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press SACRAMENTO - California election officials have told one of the country's largest manufacturers of voting machines to repair its software after problems with vote counts and verification surfaced during California's November special ==========> 05-12-28-NIST-WorkshopOnAnalysisOfEvotingThreats.txt========== http://vote.nist.gov/threats/index.html Developing an Analysis of Threats to Voting Systems October 7, 2005 Gaithersburg, MDNIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology [Accessed Dec. 28, 2005] The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted a workshop to allow the U.S. election community to participate in developing an analysis of threats to voting systems. The workshop took place on October 7, 2005, at the ==========> 06-01-00-Chronogram-WillYourEVoteCount.txt========== http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2006/01/news/index.php Voting 2.0 Will Your E-Vote Count? By Cheryl Gerber | Illustrations By Dash Shaw Chronogram Imagine this: A Trojan Horse unleashes thousands of illegitimate votes and disappears without a trace, election commissioners bypass laws, uninvestigated computer glitches and easily picked locks in voting systems, no federal ==========> 06-01-01-CIOMag-GAOExpectsLittleInfluenceFromGuidelinesIn2006.txt========== "Will E-Votes Be Counted?" CIO (01/01/06) Vol. 19, No. 6, P. 24; Gross, Grant The Government Accountability Office does not expect the electronic voting guidelines, which the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is working on, to have much of an impact in 2006. The EAC is considering initiatives such as establishing security and reliability standards, and programs for testing and certifying e-voting systems. E-voting guidelines were not in place for the 2004 national elections, and problems with the e-voting machines were widespread. For example, a data storage misunderstanding led to ==========> 06-01-04-WiscTechNews-WiscToRequireSourceCodeEscrow.txt========== http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2585 Voting machine source code must be available for review By WTN News • 01/04/06 Wisconsin Technology News Correction: the original story was based on an official summary that referred to the bill as introduced and did not take into account certain amendments. Under the law as enacted, the source code would be placed into escrow with the elections board. It would be analyzed in the case of a recount, but not open to ==========> 06-01-06-RichTimesDisp-VirPanelUrgesPaperRecordForEvoting.txt========== http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_Ba sicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769133451&path=!news&s=1045855934842 Panel urges paper record of electronic votes Delegate Hugo cites lack of confidence in integrity of state's voting process BY TYLER WHITLEY RICHMOND (VA) TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Friday, January 6, 2006 The state should test a system that would produce a paper trail to verify the ==========> 06-01-18-SJMerc-CalifDelaysOnVotingMachinesCertification.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13654980.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 18, 2006 Delay on e-voting machines worries county registrars By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - Local election officials around California are getting more antsy each day the state is unable to certify the electronic voting machines they are expecting to use in June. ==========> 06-01-19-LATimes-MostCalifEVotingMachinesNotYetCertified.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-machines19jan19,0,7583811.story?coll=la- headlines-california Most of State's Vote Machines Not Ready for Primary Time Electronic devices in 53 counties, including O.C., are still not certified for use in the June primary. By Jean O. Pasco Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 19, 2006 ==========> 06-01-22-WashPost-FLOfficialFindsSecurityOfEVotingMachinesLacking.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012101051. html As Elections Near, Officials Challenge Balloting Security In Controlled Test, Results Are Manipulated in Florida System By Zachary Goldfarb Special to The Washington Post Sunday, January 22, 2006; A06 As the Leon County supervisor of elections, Ion Sancho's job is to make sure ==========> 06-01-23-CompWorld-ExpertCallsForIncreasedEvotingSecurity.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,10 7950,00.html Expert Calls for Increased E-voting Security Q&A by Marc L. Songini JANUARY 23, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Herbert Thompson, director of research at Wilmington, Mass.-based Security Innovation Inc., is a co-author of several books, including How to Break Software Security (Addison Wesley, 2003). He volunteered last May and again last month in Leon County, Fla., to hack an ==========> 06-02-00-CACM-InvestigatingSophisticatedSecurityBreaches.txt========== Next-generation cyber forensics: Investigating sophisticated security breaches Eoghan Casey February 2006 Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 Issue 2 Sophisticated intruders take full advantage of the lack of forensic readiness. To respond more effectively to such attacks, computer security professionals and digital investigators must combine talents and work together. Well-funded groups in China are gathering sensitive information by breaking ==========> 06-02-06-AP-80PercentOfVotersWillUseEVotingIn2006.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13806202.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006 Study: 80 percent of voters to be using e-voting equipment in 2006 Associated Press Fewer voters will cast their ballots by punching a card or pulling a lever in this November's elections as the country continues to turn to newer, electronic machines, according to a study released Monday. ==========> 06-02-07-AP-80PercentOfVotersWillUseEVotingIn2006.txt========== http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/1381051 0.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 07, 2006 Electronic voting on rise, study says By Robert Tanner ASSOCIATED PRESS Fewer voters will cast their ballots by punching a card or pulling a lever in November's elections as the country continues to turn to newer, electronic ==========> 06-02-07-AP-DieboldCEOSaysFateOfEvotingUnitUnderReview.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13814703.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 07, 2006 Diebold chief says fate of e-voting unit under review NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) - Diebold Inc.'s new chief executive, determined to cut $100 million in costs over three years, said he is reviewing whether the company should continue investing in its embattled electronic voting business. CEO Thomas Swidarski insisted in an Associated Press interview that he feels ==========> 06-02-09-Governing-ChallengeOfEvotingInteroperability.txt========== http://governing.com/news/2voting.htm Posted Feb. 9, 2006 States’ Challenge: e-Voting Interoperability By ZACH PATTON Governing.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of the states have missed federally mandated deadlines for establishing voter registration databases, and without any additional federal assistance on the horizon, states will largely be on their ==========> 06-02-15-BaltoSun-MarylandUsesFlawedDREElectionMachines.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.voting15feb15,0,5769724.sto ry?coll=bal-oped-headlines Flawed election machines leave Maryland voters guessing By AVI RUBIN The Baltimore Sun February 15, 2006 Maryland has adopted a technology for voting that makes it impossible to audit the results of elections, makes it impossible to perform recounts when races ==========> 06-02-16-ACM-USACMReleasesStudyOfVotingDatabases.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=354 February 16, 2006 USACM Releases Major Study of Voting Databases Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today making almost 100 recommendations to state and local officials charged with creating and managing statewide voter registration databases (VRDs). The report is a comprehensive “soup-to-nuts” look at challenges elections officials ==========> 06-02-16-ACM-USACMStudyOfVotingDatabases-1.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/VRD/bios.html Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery February 2006 ==========> 06-02-16-ACM-USACMStudyOfVotingDatabases-2.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/VRD/ Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery February 2006 Last year USACM formed a committee of experts to provide states with guidance on implementing the statewide voter-registration databases mandated by the Help ==========> 06-02-16-ACM-USACMStudyOfVotingDatabases-3.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/PDF/VRD_report.pdf Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery February 2006 2 2 Preface The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an educational and scientific ==========> 06-02-17-CNETNews-ACMReportSaysVoterDatavasesMustBeSecured.txt========== http://news.com.com/Voter+databases+must+be+secured%2C+report+says/2100-7348_3-6 040781.html Voter databases must be secured, report says By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks Story last modified Fri Feb 17 06:34:16 PST 2006 American history does not lack political entrepreneurs who invented novel ways to manipulate the results of elections, from Tammany Hall in the 19th century ==========> 06-02-21-InsideBayArea-DieboldEVotingMachinesGetCalifApproval.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3526049 Diebold machines get state approval Decision is likely to set off a buying spree for as many as 21 counties By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area [Accessed Feb. 21, 2006] After almost three years, Diebold Election Systems won approval Friday to sell its latest voting machines in California, despite findings by computer scientists that the software inside is probably illegal and has security holes ==========> 06-02-22-VerifiedVoting-VVResponseToCalifDieboldCertification.txt========== http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6339 California: Verified Voting Foundation responds to conditional certification of Diebold AccuVote TSx and OS voting systems Secretary of State Bruce McPherson cites security analysis conducted by U.C. Berkeley computer scientists by Robert Kibrick, VerifiedVoting.org Legislative Analyst, and Pamela Smith, Nationwide Coordinator February 22nd, 2006 ==========> 06-02-28-USACM-StudyOnVoterRegistrationDatabasesReleased.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.2 28 February 2006 ============================================================= [3] USACM RELEASES MAJOR STUDY ON VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASES Citing the danger of voter fraud and disenfranchisement from poorly implemented databases, a committee of experts commissioned by USACM released a report today ==========> 06-03-00USACM-StudyGroupIssuesVoterRegistrationDatabaseGuidelines.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage_2.cfm?ci=March_2006&story=5&CFI D=72441778&CFTOKEN=41308570# USACM Study Group Issues Voter Registration Guidelines "These guidelines will enable the more than 20 states that have not yet met these federal deadlines to avoid election day problems." Barbara Simons, former ACM President and Study Committee Co-Chair USACM, March 2006 A team of computer security and voting experts has issued recommendations to ==========> 06-03-01-WashSpec-EVotingSystemsProblemsHiddenFromVoters.txt========== http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20060301evoting_1.cfm ELECTION 2006 Do You Know How Your Vote Will Be Counted? By Warren Stewart | 03/01/2006 The Washington Spectator Since the 2000 presidential election mess, we've checked in periodically on the vital issues of voter fraud, election reform and the rapid spread of electronic voting machines (see, most recently, our June 15, 2005, and April ==========> 06-03-10-WashPost-MDHouseApprovesSwitchToPaperBallots.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/09/AR2006030902339. html Md. House Approves Paper Ballots By Ann E. Marimow Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 10, 2006; B04 The Maryland House of Delegates unanimously passed legislation yesterday to ditch the state's touch-screen voting machines for the coming election in favor ==========> 06-03-22-SFChron-CalifVoterGroupSuesToBanTouchScreenSystems.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/22/BAG P6HS52Q1.DTL Voter group sues to ban touch-screen system It's called vulnerable to hackers seeking to change results -John Wildermuth, SF Chronicle Political Writer Wednesday, March 22, 2006 A group of California voters is challenging Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's approval of a controversial touch-screen voting system the group ==========> 06-03-27-PittsPostGaz-CMUProfOffersRewardForSuccessfulEvotingSystemBreakin.txt========== http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06086/677130-103.stmProfessor to try to hack voting machines Monday, March 27, 2006 By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette If you can hack into a touch-screen voting machine undetected, Michael Shamos will give you $10,000. Darrell Sapp, Post-Gazette Dr. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who ==========> 06-03-28-USAToday-MachineProlemsInTXAndILPrimaries.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-27-voting-machines_x.htm Posted 3/27/2006 11:36 PM Updated 3/28/2006 7:04 AM Primary voting-machine troubles raise concerns for '06 By Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Problems using voting machines in the Texas and Illinois primaries this month have reinforced fears that the 2006 elections may be beset with glitches. ==========> 06-03-31-BaltoSun-EvotingMachinesNeedRecoveryPlans.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.voting31mar31,0,1505298.sto ry?coll=bal-oped-headlines Touch-screen voting isn't the right answer By John Schneider Originally published March 31, 2006 The Baltimore Sun A debate over the use of electronic voting machines in Maryland generally has focused on words such as "security," "interpretive code" and "hacking." ==========> 06-04-00-CACM-AStudyOfAccuracyPrivacyUsabilitySecurityReliabilityOfVoterRegistrationDatabases.txt========== Statewide databases of registered voters CACM Staff April 2006 Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 Issue 4 A study of accuracy, privacy, usability, security, and reliability issues. ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM) formed a committee last year to provide states with guidance on implementing the statewide voter-registration databases mandated by the Help America Vote Act, a federal law passed in the ==========> 06-04-00-IEEE-DS-USFallingBehindInEvoting.txt========== http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc 6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2006/04&file=o4004.xml&xsl =article.xsl& IEEE DS Online Exclusive Content April 2006 Cradle of Liberty Lags on E-Voting Greg Goth Several United States sites call themselves “The Cradle of Liberty,” owing to ==========> 06-04-04-USACM-MDHousePassesEvotingPaperTrailLegislation.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 4 April 2006 ============================================================= [6] MARYLAND HOUSE PASSES LEGISLATION MANDATING PAPER TRAILS By a unanimous vote, the Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation that would require the state to replace their current touch-screen voting ==========> 06-04-07-CompWorld-NewCalifRegistrationDatabaseRejectsEligibleVoters.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,110353,00.html New database rejects eligible Calif. voters The troubled system was built to comply with federal law News Story by Marc L. Songini APRIL 07, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - California’s new voter registration database — whose creation the federal government once called a model for other states — may prevent thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots in a June 6 statewide election, officials fear. ==========> 06-04-11-AP-OnlineVoteOnWashStateQuarterSuspended.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14317988.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 11, 2006 Vote on new Washington quarter hijacked by computer mischief OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Talk about your two-bit schemes. Robotic computer programs stuffed the online ballot boxes in a contest for Washington's official state quarter design, forcing technicians to suspend voting. ==========> 06-05-05-CalifVoterDatabaseRejectsTooManyVotersrejected.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 5 May 2006 ============================================================= [7] CALIFORNIA VOTER REGISTRATION DATABASE REJECTING VOTERS Last month Computerworld reported that about 43 percent of voter registration forms in Los Angeles County were rejected by the new California ==========> 06-05-10-InsideBatArea-DieboldSystemsSecurityHoleSaidToBeDangerous.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_3804675 Voting glitch said to be 'dangerous' By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area, May 10, 206 Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit the risk from a "dangerous" security hole found in Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s ATM-like touch-screen voting machines. ==========> 06-05-11-AP-StatesMandateMorePhysicalSecurityForDieboldMachines.txt========== http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060511/APF/605110606 Thursday, May 11, 2006 3 states mandate more security for Diebold e-voting machines By DAN GOODIN AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO— Officials overseeing elections in three states have directed local authorities to take additional security measures with a popular type of electronic voting machine to prevent election fraud. ==========> 06-05-11-BlackBoxVoting-ThreeLevelSecurityFlawsFoundInDieboldSystems.txt========== http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/27675.html Posted on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 12:34 pm Black Box Voting Three-level security flaws found in Diebold touch-screens Due to the nature of this report it is distributed in two different versions. Details of the attack are only in the restricted distribution version considered to be confidential. Fewer than 50 words have been redacted in the version below. ==========> 06-05-11-EdFelten-ReportClaimsSeroiusDieboldSecurityFlaws.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1014 Freedom to Tinker … is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own. « Twenty-First Century Wiretapping: Recording Report Claims Very Serious Diebold Voting Machine Flaws Thursday May 11, 2006 by Ed Felten [This entry was written by Avi Rubin and Ed Felten.] ==========> 06-05-12-BaltoSun-ExpretsSeeNewDieboldSecurityFlaw.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.voting12may12,0,618610.story?coll= bal-local-headlines Experts see new Diebold flaw They call it worst security glitch to date in state's voting machines and a 'big deal' By Stephanie Desmon Sun reporter, The Baltimore Sun Originally published May 12, 2006 ==========> 06-05-12-ECommTimes-StatesIncreaseEVotingSecurityAfterReport.txt========== http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/50500.html States Beef Up E-Voting Security After Report on Weaknesses By Keith Regan E-Commerce Times 05/12/06 2:06 PM PT "As it stands now, in using paper to vote, all one has to do to tamper with an election is toss a bag of ballots in the ocean," said Sonia Arrison, director of Technology Studies at the California-based Pacific Research Institute. ==========> 06-05-12-InsideBayArea-NewSecurityHoleFoundInDieboldSystems.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_3805089 New security glitch found in Diebold system Officials say machines have 'dangerous' holes By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area [Accessed May 12, 2006] Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit the risk from a "dangerous" security hole found in Diebold Election Systems ==========> 06-05-12-NYT-NewSecurityFearsInElectronicVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin May 12, 2006 New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems By MONICA DAVEY The New York Times CHICAGO, May 11 — With primary election dates fast approaching in many states, officials in Pennsylvania and California issued urgent directives in recent days about a potential security risk in their Diebold Election Systems ==========> 06-05-12-WSJ-NewsConcernsAboutEVotingSystems.txt========== Reversing Course on Electronic Voting Wall Street Journal (05/12/06) P. A4; Cummings, Jeanne Citing the spate of demonstrated vulnerabilities in e-voting machines, some supporters of the 2002 Help America Vote Act have grown concerned that the law intended to improve the voting process could have made things much worse, and have begun filing lawsuits to block the compliance efforts of some state election officials. The law, passed to ensure that the confusion surrounding the 2000 presidential election is not repeated, requires states to upgrade their voting systems to electronic machines, which at the time were considered ==========> 06-05-17-NewStandard-MoreEVotingConcernsSurface.txt========== http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=3180 More E-voting Concerns Surface with State Primaries Underway by Catherine Komp The NewStandard With another election season around the corner, activists are concerned that electronic voting machines supplied by a handful of American corporations are bug-ridden and easily tampered with, but the road to redress is rough and windy. ==========> 06-05-22-NAS-CSTBToHoldSessionOnEvotingAndOnlineCommunities.txt========== http://cstb.org/events/opensession.html Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Open Session May 2006 Monday, May 22, 2006 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 100 500 Fifth Street, NW ==========> 06-05-29-Newsweek-NoSecurityInPaperlessVotingSystems.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12888600/site/newsweek/ Will Your Vote Count in 2006? 'When you're using a paperless voting system, there is no security,' says Stanford's David Dill. By Steven Levy Newsweek, May 29, 2006 May 29, 2006 issue - Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the voting booth, here comes more disturbing news about the trustworthiness of ==========> 06-05-30-WashPost-TheGrowingDebateOverEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900816. html Debating the Bugs of High-Tech Voting Test of Software in Machines Renews Security Concerns By Zachary A. Goldfarb Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, May 30, 2006; A15 The already-cantankerous debate over high-tech voting machines, which have been ==========> 06-06-04-USAToday-LawsuitsTargetEVoting.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-04-electronic-voting_x.htm Spate of lawsuits target e-voting Posted 6/4/2006 11:15 PM ET By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY DENVER — Electronic voting machines, adopted widely after the disputed Florida ballot count in the 2000 presidential election, are under legal attack as primary election season heats up. ==========> 06-06-06-USACM-ComputerScientistsFindNewSecurityVulnerabilities.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.5, June 2006 COMPUTER SCIENTISTS FIND SIGNIFICANT NEW SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN E-VOTING MACHINES A new report by Harri Hursti for blackboxvoting.org outlines several new serious security flaws in Diebold voting machines. While many of the specifics of the attacks have been redacted, the vulnerabilities allow an attacker with physical access to Diebold TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting ==========> 06-06-08-GWU-VotingSystemsRatingsWorkshop.txt========== http://vote.cs.gwu.edu/vsrw2006/ Voting System Ratings Workshop 8-9 June 2006 The George Washington University Co-sponsored by NIST and NSF Numerous election procedures and supporting technologies have been used over the centuries, yet no formal methodology for examining these exists. This absence is particularly conspicuous today, and the discovery of several ==========> 06-06-26-CompWorld-AuditorReportCriticizesFloridaVoterDatabase.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Id=13&articleId=112204 Auditor's Report Criticizes Florida's Voter Database State agrees to fix security woes that could lead to unauthorized access Marc Songini June 26, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Florida voter registration data can be vulnerable to theft, corruption, unauthorized access and alteration, despite the best efforts of elections officials, indicated a report by the Florida ==========> 06-06-26-USAToday-BrennanCenterFindsEvotingMachinesVulnerable.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-26-e-voting_x.htm Analysis finds e-voting machines vulnerable By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY, Updated 6/26/2006 10:06 PM ET WASHINGTON — Most of the electronic voting machines widely adopted since the disputed 2000 presidential election "pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state and local elections," a report out Tuesday concludes. There are more than 120 security threats to the three most commonly purchased ==========> 06-06-27-AP-StudySaysEvenWithPaperTrailVotingSystemsAreFlawed.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14914412.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 27, 2006 Report: E-voting systems flawed, even with paper records NEW YORK (AP) - The most widely used electronic-voting systems all have flaws that can be addressed relatively easily, but few states and counties have actually implemented recommended security measures, researchers concluded Tuesday. ==========> 06-06-28-MiamiHerald-DavidDillSaysPaperVotingRecordsAreCritical.txt========== http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14918419.htm Miami Herald, Posted on Wed, Jun. 28, 2006 Critic: Paper vote records vital A California computer expert discussed with two local groups the importance of having a paper record attached to electronic voting machines. BY EVAN S. BENN, ebenn@MiamiHerald.com States that use electronic voting machines must also have a system of paper records to verify votes, a leading critic of touch-screen voting said Tuesday ==========> 06-07-00-Governing-ManyConcernedOverEVotingIssues.txt========== http://www.governing.com/articles/7evoting.htm From Governing’s July 2006 issue Warning: eVoting Ahead From local election officials to ordinary citizens, there’s angst in the air over the security of electronic ballots. By ELLEN PERLMAN Election officials are jittery these days, and understandably so. This year marks a huge transition in how citizens cast their votes at the polls. All eyes ==========> 06-07-03-CompWorld-EvotersContinueToExpressFraudConcerns.txt========== http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName =government&articleId=112285&taxonomyId=13 Concerns About Fraud Potential Continue to Plague Users of Electronic Voting Machines Report says flaws must be fixed for upcoming votes Marc Songini Mobilizing Enterprise Applications: Strategies for Wireless and Remote Success ==========> 06-07-09-USNews-VotingMachineryReformGoingSlow.txt========== http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060709/17voting.htm Election Corrections America's voting machinery was supposed to be fixed, but the road to reform has been slow going By Silla Brush, USNews, Posted Sunday, July 9, 2006 That messy 2000 election was supposed to be the jolt America needed. After chronic flaws in the country's voting process became painfully public, an ambitious reform effort was supposed to make hanging chads and butterfly ==========> 06-07-13-AP-ElectronicVotingMachinesUnderLegalAttack.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15031102.htm Posted on Thu, Jul. 13, 2006 Electronic voting machines under legal attack By Deborah Hastings, Associated Press Computerized voting was supposed to be the cure for ballot fiascos such as the 2000 presidential election, but activist groups say it has only worsened the problem and they've gone to court across the country to ban the new machines. ==========> 06-07-17-Embedded-EVotingUncertaintiesFaceNov06elections.txt========== Voting Software Embedded.com (07/17/06) Ganssle, Jack With the November elections fast approaching, the uncertainties that still pervade the multitude of e-voting systems in use throughout the country will likely result in the candidates who lose tight races crying foul, writes Jack Ganssle. The machines are not the only part of the process that is suspect, according to a recent ACM report on the software used to register voters. "In light of recent events and legislation that have underscored the core importance of voting and of public confidence in our electoral system, one ==========> 06-07-19-ACM-SecurityExpertsSeegapsInEvotingTestingAndCertification.txt========== Association for Computing Machinery SECURITY EXPERTS SEE GAPS IN E-VOTING TESTING, CERTIFICATION July 19, 2006 Wagner And USACM Propose Recommendations to Assure Reliable Elections Washington, DC, July 19, 2006 - David Wagner, a well-known researcher in information security and electronic voting, testified today that the federal qualification process for voting machines is not working. At a Congressional hearing reviewing new federal voluntary standards for voting equipment, Wagner, an associate professor of Computer Science at ==========> 06-07-19-EETimes-ExpertsTellCongressEVotingSecurityIsFlawed.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190700026 Experts tell Congress U.S. e-voting security is flawed George Leopold, EE Times, (07/19/2006 2:07 PM EDT) WASHINGTON — Security experts told Congress on Wednesday (July 19) that the federal qualification process for electronic voting machines is flawed. "We have grave reservations about the safeguards in place with many of the computerized voting technologies being used," Eugene Spafford, chairman of the ==========> 06-07-20-USACM-USCAMCallsOnCongressToCloseGapsInCurrentSystem.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=399 USACM, July 20, 2006 Congress Looks into E-Voting Issues, USACM Calls on Congress and the EAC to Close Gaps in Current System Facing a steady stream of reports about e-voting machine failures and security vulnerabilities, yesterday Congress tackled the question of whether new federal standards will improve this technology. The short answer from the witness and the Members of Congress seemed to be that the standards, while a good first ==========> 06-07-25-AusIT-TrialOfEVotingForBlindVotersRecommended.txt========== http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19899956%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00. html Blind to lead way in e-voting Chris Jenkins, JULY 25, 2006 AUSTRALIANS could use electronic voting systems in next year's federal election if a proposed trial goes ahead. The proposal arises from a report by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters on the 2004 federal election, published in October. ==========> 06-07-26-WashPost-VotingJurisdictionsMayNotBeReadyForNewEquipment.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/25/AR2006072501355. html Jurisdictions May Not Be Ready for New Gear, Analysis Says By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Special to The Washington Post, Wednesday, July 26, 2006; A15 Last year, a report called "Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting" took a look at the issues surrounding the move by most of the country's election jurisdictions to electronic voting machines. The report's theoretical ==========> 06-08-01-USENIX-ElectronicVotingTechnologyWorkshop.txt========== 2006 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '06) August 1, 2006 Vancouver, B.C., Canada Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and ACCURATE, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections Dear Colleague: Join us in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1, 2006, for the first ==========> 06-08-02-CompWorld-WhistleblowerLawsuitFiledInEvotingReliabilityAndSecurityConcerns.txt========== Whistleblower lawsuit filed against e-voting industry The suit questions the reliability, security of e-voting machines Marc Songini August 02, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A federal whistleblower lawsuit has been filed against the e-voting industry, alleging that one company sold electronic voting devices that did not to perform as promised. But details about the suit are sketchy because of secrecy rules surrounding whistleblower litigation, according to Matt Schultz, an attorney at Levin, ==========> 06-08-04-CompWorld-SanDiegoLawsuitOnEVotingSecurityProcedures.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9002204 E-voting security under fire in San Diego lawsuit Machine practices, ballot reliability in doubt Marc Songini August 04, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A lawsuit has grown out of alleged breaches in security procedures around electronic voting machines in San Diego County after a hotly contested congressional election, throwing a spotlight on the ==========> 06-08-04-USACM-EVotingIssuesRecieveAttention.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.7 August 4, 2006 ============================================================= ELECTRONIC VOTING ISSUES RECEIVES ATTENTION ON NUMEROUS FRONTS A Congressional hearing and two new reports renewed attention on the security, reliability and usability of e-voting systems this month. USACM ==========> 06-08-09-TechDaily-DebateOverEVotingStillPlaguingElections.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0806/080906tdpm1.htm August 9, 2006 Debate over e-voting is still plaguing elections By Winter Casey, National Journal's Technology Daily When George W. Bush was elected president in 2000 amid controversy over paper ballots, the nation quickly moved toward electronic voting systems. Ever since then, the controversy has focused on e-voting, and the battle shows no signs of receding this year. ==========> 06-08-09-TechRev-ScratchVotingCardsCouldEliminateElectionFraud.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17275&ch=infotech Technology Review, Wednesday, August 09, 2006 Scratch-and-Vote System Could Help Eliminate Election Fraud A new lottery-style scratch card has been developed that might make elections less susceptible to rigging. By Duncan Graham-Rowe In future elections cryptography could allow voters to check that their “X” is associated with the candidate they voted for (Credit: istockphoto.com/Panaroid) ==========> 06-08-11-CIOInsight-WillYourVoteCount.txt========== http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2002514,00.asp E-Voting: Will Your Vote Count? CIO Insight, August 11, 2006 By Debra D'Agostino Hardly a day goes by without electronic voting making headlines. In mid-July, voter-rights group Voter GA filed a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board opposing the use of electronic systems, calling them too insecure. In Texas, a state district judge refused to block the use of e-voting machines in ==========> 06-08-16-PhilaInq-LawsuitTargetsPennsylvaniaEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/phila delphia_county/philadelphia/15282429.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 16, 2006 Lawsuit targets Pa.'s electronic voting machines By Thomas Fitzgerald, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Concerned that election results could vanish into the ether, a group of voter advocates filed suit yesterday to block Pennsylvania from using electronic voting machines that do not provide a paper trail of each vote cast. ==========> 06-08-17-CNET-BrennanCenterSaysEVotingMachinesNotSecureNorReliable.txt========== http://news.com.com/Sober+warnings+about+e-voting+systems/2010-1071_3-6106187.ht ml Sober warnings about e-voting systems By Eric J. Sinrod, CNET Networks, Story last modified Thu Aug 17 05:02:12 PDT 2006 In the wake of the hanging-and-dimpled-chads debacle of the 2000 presidential election, there has been a move to embrace electronic voting systems. Good news, right? Perhaps not quite yet. ==========> 06-08-21-CompWorld-PaperTrailFlawedInOhioElection.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Id=13&articleId=9002610 Paper Trail Flawed in Ohio Election, Study Finds E-voting has benefits, but still a calculated risk, report says Marc Songini August 21, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A report questioning the accuracy of Diebold Election Systems' e-voting equipment in a recent Ohio election gives more ammunition to critics who doubt the viability of electronic voting technology. ==========> 06-08-23-MSNBC-AllMinn2006VotingWillBeElectronic.txt========== http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14453254/ Computers take over 2006 Minn. elections Questions arise about accuracy and possibility of tampering EXCLUSIVELY ON MSNBC.COM [AccessedAug. 23, 2006] MINNEAPOLIS - For the first time, all votes cast in Minnesota's fall elections will be electronically counted. In past elections, about 80 percent of Minnesotans have voted using optical ==========> 06-08-28-GovTech-BrennanJusticeCenterSaysEVotingMachinesHaveImproved.txt========== http://www.govtech.net/localgovt/story.php?id=100747 Report Finds Improvements in New Voting Technology Aug 28, 2006 News Release Gov't Tech The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, today released a report and policy proposals, concluding that two of the most commonly purchased electronic voting systems today are better at recording voter intentions than older systems like the punchcard system used in Florida in 2000. ==========> 06-08-29-Bloomberg-RaceToAdoptEVotingRaisesConcerns.txt========== http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aTrz304l11pA&refer=home Race to Adopt Electronic Voting Raises Concern Over Elections By Catherine Fisher Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Electronic voting machines are coming to Centre County, Pennsylvania, and residents see a mess in the making. On a recent morning, more than 30 constituents -- twice as many as usual -- attended a meeting of the county board in the locality of 136,000, home to ==========> 06-09-01-NYT-ALookAtEVotingTechnology.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/nyregion/01lives.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, September 1, 2006 Public Lives - A Look Under the Hood at Democracy’s Engine By ANTHONY RAMIREZ If democracy were a Nascar race — full of noise, fury, victory and defeat — then voting reform would be democracy’s nuts and bolts: inconspicuous, workmanlike, but needed to hold things together. ==========> 06-09-10-BaltoSun-ElectionToBeFirstInMarylandToBeAllElectronic.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-id.issues.vote.10sep10,0,645622 5.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines How much can state trust electronic voting? Tuesday's primary is 1st in Maryland to be held entirely on computers By Melissa Harris, Balitmore Sun Reporter, Originally published September 10, 2006 This Tuesday, for the first time, every voter in Maryland will cast a ballot on a voting system that is entirely electronic. Apart from the important public ==========> 06-09-13-AP-EdFeltenClaimsDieboldEvotingMachinesAreVulnerable.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/09/13/ap3015420.html Associated Press Princeton Prof Hacks E-Vote Machine By CHRIS NEWMARKER , 09.13.2006, 06:42 PM A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines. ==========> 06-09-13-PrincetonUniv-EdFeltenClaimsDieboldEvotingMachinesAreVulnerable.txt========== http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/81/65O23/index.xml?section=topsto ries Researchers reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines by Teresa Riordan · Posted September 13, 2006; 12:46 p.m. In a paper published on the Web today, a group of Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected. ==========> 06-09-14-USAToday-EvotingEquipmentCouldPoseProblemsInUpcomingElections.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-13-election-glitches_x.htm?POE=N EWISVA Election glitches 'could get ugly' Updated 9/14/2006 12:37 AM ET By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Eight weeks before elections that will decide control of Congress, a rush by state and local governments to prepare new voting machines and train poll workers is raising the possibility of trouble reminiscent of the 2000 ==========> 06-09-15-TechLib-DieboldReleasesResponseCriticizingFeltenVotingMachineSecurity.txt========== http://www.techliberation.com/archives/040655.php Tech Liberation, September 15, 2006 Diebold Blasts Felten Study Diebold has released a response to the Felten study. It appears to me to be misleading in several important respects, so I thought it merited a quick fisking: Three people from the Center for Information Technology Policy and ==========> 06-09-17-WashPost-MarylandProblemsRaiseWidespreadConcerns.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600885. html Major Problems At Polls Feared Some Officials Say Voting Law Changes And New Technology Will Cause Trouble By Dan Balz and Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writers, Sunday, September 17, 2006; A01 An overhaul in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that ==========> 06-09-18-CntrInfoTechPolicy-SecurityAnalysisOfDieboldAccuVote-TS.txt========== http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/summary.html Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine: Executive Summary Center for Information Technology Policy [Accessed Sept. 18, 2006] Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten For more information and the full text of this study, see http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting. ==========> 06-09-18-EdFelten-HotelMinibarKeysOpenDieboldVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064 “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines Monday September 18, 2006 by Ed Felten Like other computer scientists who have studied Diebold voting machines, we were surprised at the apparent carelessness of Diebold’s security design. It can be hard to convey this to nonexperts, because the examples are technical. To security practitioners, the use of a fixed, unchangeable encryption key and the blind acceptance of every software update offered on removable storage are ==========> 06-09-20-CompWorld-EVotingExpertRubinCitesManyProblems.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003475 Q&A: Go back to paper ballots, says e-voting expert Avi Rubin, a Maryland elections judge and professor, cites security woes Marc Songini September 20, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Avi Rubin is unique in that he is both a professor of computer science who specializes in e-voting security issues and someone who directly participates in the electoral process as a Maryland ==========> 06-09-21-RollingStone-WillTheNextElectionBeHacked.txt========== http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_th e_next_election_be_hacked/print Will The Next Election Be Hacked? Fresh disasters at the polls -- and new evidence from an industry insider -- prove that electronic voting machines can't be trusted ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., Rolling Stone, Posted Sep 21, 2006 1:23 PM Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" -- his report on Republican methods for keeping more than 350,000 Ohio voters from casting ==========> 06-09-21-WashPost-MarylandElectionChiefWantsToReturnToPaperBallots.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001356_ pf.html Ehrlich Wants Paper Ballots For Nov. Vote State Election Chief Says Staff Toiling to Fix Electronic Glitches By Christian Davenport and Ann E. Marimow Washington Post Staff Writers, Thursday, September 21, 2006; A01 A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the ==========> 06-09-22-NPR-HowVotingMachinesCanBeMadeMoreSecureReliableAndUsable.txt========== http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2006/Sep/hour1_092206.html Science Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 with host Ira Flatow The primaries are behind us, and now the election season can begin in earnest. Join Ira and guests in this hour of Science Friday as the talk turns to the technology of voting machines. How can we improve security, reliability, and usability? ==========> 06-09-23-NPR-StudyShowsEVotingMachinesAreVunerableAndNeedPaperTrails.txt========== http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129761 Election 2006 Study Shows Vulnerability of Voting Machines National Public Radio Listen to this story... Weekend Edition Saturday, September 23, 2006 · A study points to potential problems with the most widely used electronic-voting machines in the country. ==========> 06-09-24-NYT-EVotingMachinesMakeElectionOfficialsWary.txt========== http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0916F835550C778EDDA00894DE4044 82 Electronic Voting Machines Are Making Officials Wary New York Times (09/24/06) P. A19; Urbina, Ian An increasing number of state and local officials are growing concerned about the reliability of electronic voting machines as the November elections approach. The most recent warning about the technology came from Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R), who suggested that the state return to paper balloting. Some ==========> 06-09-25-BaltoSun-DieboldSayProblemsWithMarylandMachinesFixed.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-voting0925,0,385178.story?coll=ba l-home-headlines Vote check-in glitch is declared fixed Maker of 'e-poll books' tells state they will stop crashing By Melissa Harris, Baltimore Sun Reporter, Originally published September 25, 2006, 9:28 PM EDT Diebold Election Systems Inc. said Monday that it has solved a design flaw that caused the state's electronic check-in computers to crash repeatedly during ==========> 06-09-26-WashPost-DieboldSayProblemsWithMarylandMachinesFixed.txt========== Tech Firm Shows Off Glitch-Free Software Upgrade Aimed at Rebuilding Confidence By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, September 26, 2006; B02 The manufacturer of Maryland's new electronic voter registration machines said yesterday that technicians have fixed the software glitch that caused machines in every precinct to freeze and reboot during the Sept. 12 primary election but acknowledged that two other flaws remain undiagnosed. ==========> 06-09-27-DailyNews-ElectionSystemsAndSoftwareVotingSystemsForeignLinksRaiseConcern.txt========== http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_4407865 Vote system's foreign links raise concern BY TROY ANDERSON, Staff Writer, Daily News Article Last Updated:09/27/2006 09:31:49 PM PDT As Los Angeles County officials roll out a new $25 million voting system today, an election watchdog group and others are raising concerns about its software and its maker's ties to an international gambling firm. ==========> 06-09-28-ACM-ACMExpertsUrgePaperTrailsForEVoting.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/9_2006/evoting.cfm The Association for Computing Machinery ACM SECURITY EXPERTS URGE PAPER TRAILS FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING Simons, Felten Stress Security, Reliability and Backup Procedures to Ensure Public's Trust Washington, DC, September 28, 2006 - Barbara Simons, an electronic voting expert and past president of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, testified today that "providing a voter verified paper trail is a significant ==========> 06-09-28-CompWorld-ExpertsWarnCongressOfProblems-PaperTrailMandateFails.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003721 Experts warn Congress of e-voting woes; paper-trail mandate fails They're concerned about problem-plagued voting in November Marc Songini September 28, 2006 (Computerworld) -- With hotly contested nationwide elections just weeks away, several computer experts today questioned the reliability and security of e-voting systems during a congressional committee hearing. ==========> 06-09-28-EETimes-ComputerExpertsWarnCongressElectronicVotingMachinesUnreliable.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193100139 Computer experts renew call for secure e-voting EE Times, (09/28/2006 11:48 AM EDT) WASHINGTON — With midterm elections less than six weeks away, computer experts are again warning Congress that electronic voting machines remain unreliable and that a paper trail is needed to verify election results. E-voting security and reliability concerns re-emerged during recent primary ==========> 06-09-28-PCWorld-EVotingImprovedSince2004ButStillManyProblems.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127130/article.html E-Voting: No Fix Yet Electronic voting has improved since the 2004 elections. however, many problems with security, reliability, and operation still remain. Kim Zetter, PC World, Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:00 PM PDT In 2004, when touch-screen voting machines were widely deployed for the first time in a national election, concerns about the security and reliability of the machines--and therefore, the integrity of election results--abounded. Since ==========> 06-09-28-SJMerc-ExpertsSayUSMilitartOverseasVoteSystemRipeForFraud.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15629523.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 28, 2006 U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas. Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the Pentagon's ==========> 06-09-30-SFChron-OnlineElectionsShouldAttractYoungerVoters.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/30/MNGNKLFNET1.DTL Online elections would attract younger voters -- someday C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2006 A recent study had the details. Voters in this country, it said, are getting older and less diverse. This is not exactly a news flash. The diversity issue is a topic for another column, but the lack of participation by young voters has been an ongoing ==========> 06-10-00-IEEESpectrum-DatabaseProblemsMayDisqualifyVotersInFutureElections.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4663 IEEE Spectrum, Oct 2006 Issue News Analysis: The Next Voting Debacle?, By Steven Cherry Database problems may disqualify legitimate voters in upcoming U.S. elections The Help America Vote Act of 2002, or HAVA, has garnered most of its notoriety because it required election officials throughout the United States to replace old paper-based voting machines with controversial new electronic equipment by 2004. But there are other provisions in the law that took effect only in ==========> 06-10-01-PacResInst-TheRiseOfEVoting-2.txt========== http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20302 Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-Voting - 2nd Edition Sonia Arrison and Vince Vasquez, October 1, 2006, Pacific Research Institute The digital revolution has left an imprint on virtually every aspect of society, including the process by which Americans choose their leaders. On Election Day 2004, voters cast more than 40 million votes, nearly one third of the total, on approximately 175,000 electronic voting machines. Relatively few complaints about e-voting systems were received, and those that were could be ==========> 06-10-04-Ascribe-SurveySaysPennaVotersTrustButWantVerificationEvoting.txt========== http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20061004.123044&time=12% 2053%20PDT&year=2006&public=0 Wed Oct 4 12:53:42 2006 Pacific Time Pennsylvania Voters on E-Voting: Trust, But Verify BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A survey conducted by Lehigh University and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/studorgs/polling/) in late September and released October 3, 2006, found that, when it comes to e-voting, Pennsylvania voters are ==========> 06-10-04-BaltoSun-MarylandMockElectionHasFewGlitches.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-md.voting04oct04,0,3045904.story? coll=bal-local-headlines Few glitches in mock election, but Lamone still not sure about system By Melissa Harris, Baltimore Sun reporter, Originally published October 4, 2006 After a daylong test of the state's retrofitted voter check-in computers, it remained unclear yesterday whether the $18 million system works well enough for the state's elections chief to deploy it in the November general election. ==========> 06-10-04-WashPost-BookReview-BraveNewBallot-AviRubin.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301310. html Computer Science Professor Argues For a Paper Trail With E-Voting By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Washington Post, October 4, 2006; A23 BRAVE NEW BALLOT The Battle to Safeguard Democracy In the Age of Electronic Voting By Aviel D. Rubin ==========> 06-10-06-CompWorld-FlawsFoundInEuropeanVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9003958 Flaws found in European voting machines Problem affects gear used by 90% of Dutch voters, Robert McMillan October 06, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Dutch researchers have found flaws in electronic voting systems used in the Netherlands, Germany and France. A paper published Friday (PDF file) describes flaws in the Nedap / Groenendaal ==========> 06-10-06-USACM-ComputingExpertsTellCongressPaperTrailsAreNeeded.txt========== COMPUTING EXPERTS TELL CONGRESS PAPER TRAILS ARE NEEDED FOR E-VOTING USACM, Oct. 6, 2006 With just five weeks before an estimated one-third of voters will use new technologies this Election Day, the Committee on House Administration held a hearing on electronic voting systems and the benefits and drawbacks of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails (VVPAT or paper trails). USACM Members Barbara Simons and Edward Felten testified before the committee. Also testifying before the committee were: Gary Smith, Election Director, Forsyth County, Georgia; Keith Cunningham, Election Director, Allen County, Ohio; James ==========> 06-10-09-CNET-LackOfStandardsInhibitsEVoting.txt========== http://news.com.com/Standards+to+stimulate+e-voting/2100-1028_3-6123416.html Standards to stimulate e-voting? By Candace Lombardi, CNET Networks, Story last modified Mon Oct 09 05:08:05 PDT 2006 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The government was quick to trust the Internet with tax returns, but it still has not managed to organize a paperless voting system. What's the holdup? ==========> 06-10-09-OttumwaCourrier-EVotingMayNotEliminateElectionProblems-DougJones.txt========== http://www.ottumwa.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_282234022.html Published October 09, 2006 11:40 pm - Electronic voting machines may not eliminate election problems New machines have their own set of problems By MATT MILNER Ottumwa Courier staff writer OTTUMWA — Dr. Douglas Jones seems, at first glance, an unlikely expert for the subject of voting. ==========> 06-10-10-WashPost-ManyVotersBelieveTheirVoteNotSafe.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901034. html A Vote We Can Believe In Washington Post, By E. J. Dionne Jr., Tuesday, October 10, 2006; A21 Sometimes, paranoids are right. And sometimes even when paranoids are wrong, it's worth considering what they're worried about. I speak here of all who are worried sick that those new, fancy high-tech voting ==========> 06-10-13-USNewswire-BroadCoalitionUrgesPlansForEmergencyPaperBallots.txt========== http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=74267 Election Integrity Organizations, Leaders Urge States to Plan for Emergency Paper Ballots, Procedures for Nov. Election Signatories Include Congressmembers, Elections Officials, Computer Scientists, Civil Rights Attorneys U.S.NewsWire, 10/13/2006 8:01:00 AM, Contact: Ilene Proctor PR, 310-271-5857 WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A broad coalition of more than 50 election integrity groups and individuals sent letters today to all 50 ==========> 06-10-14-AP-BrazilsEVotingHasSafeguardsLackingInUS.txt========== http://www1.redding.com/redd/nw_business/article/0,2232,REDD_17527_5065111,00.ht ml Brazil's electronic voting has safeguards lacking in the U.S. By Stan Lehman, Associated Press October 14, 2006 SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Elections in Brazil used to be a monumental challenge, with millions of paper ballots to count by hand, many of them delivered by canoe and horseback from remote Amazon villages. Fraud was widespread, and it ==========> 06-10-14-AvantNews-SPOOF-19YearOldDieboldTechnicianWinsUSPresidency.txt========== http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=281 19 Year Old Diebold Technician Wins U.S. Presidency By Ion Zwitter, Avant News Editor Washington, D.C., November 5, 2008 [Accessed Oct. 14, 2006] In a dramatic development that has come as a surprise to pundits and the public alike, a youthful technician with Diebold, Inc. has emerged as the unlikely winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The president-elect, 19 year old Billy Pustule of Green, Ohio, reached via SMS at the garage apartment by his ==========> 06-10-14-DemoInAction-SupportTheVoterConfidenceActOf2006.txt========== http://www.democracyinaction.com/dia/organizationsCOM/secstateproject/campaign.j sp?campaign_KEY=1811 Support the Voter Confidence Act of 2006 Democracy in Action, October 14, 2006 In primaries in Ohio, Maryland, California and numerous states across this nation, Electronic Voting Machines have caused serious problems at the polls, resulting in long lines, voters turned way from their polling places, and uncounted or miscounted votes. We must act now to ensure that every eligible ==========> 06-10-14-EllenBukstel-TheyLostMyVoteSong.txt========== http://www.ellenbukstel.com/lostvote.htm They Lost My Vote [Accessef Oct. 14, 2006] © 2006, words & music by Ellen Bukstel and Nancy Wuerzburger Tuesday in November I took that stroll To cast my ballot at the local poll The lines were long but I didn’t care Had water, a hat and my folding chair ==========> 06-10-16-AuburnUniv-ResearchersToTestSystemForVOtersWithDisabilities.txt========== http://www.ocm.auburn.edu/news_releases/elec.html AU RESEARCHERS TO TEST ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES Auburn University, 10/16/06 AU RESEARCHERS TO TEST ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR VOTERS WITH DISABILITIES AUBURN - Researchers in the Auburn University Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering have partnered with Indiana University, the AU Center for Governmental Services and IBM to develop Prime III, an advanced electronic voting system that enables people with certain disabilities to vote in ==========> 06-10-16-CountyNews-SupportGrowsForFederalPaperBallotMandate.txt========== http://www.naco.org/CountyNewsTemplate.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/ContentDi splay.cfm&ContentID=21510 Support grows for federal paper ballot mandate By Alysoun McLaughlin, Associate Legislative Director, County News, Oct. 16, 2006 Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives - including minority whip and coauthor of the Help America Vote Act, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) - joined 207 of their colleagues during the month of September in cosponsoring H.R. 550, the ==========> 06-10-16-TechRev-ComputerizedVoterRegistrationDatabasesNeedMajorOverhaul.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17616&ch=infotech Computerized Voter Registration Databases Need a Major Overhaul Political scientist Thad Hall says federal standards are required to prevent state electronic registration databases from disenfranchising people. By Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review, Oct. 16, 2006 Voters can get purged from the rolls because there are no federal electronic standards for maintaining registration databases. (Credit: Getty Images) ==========> 06-10-16-WashPost-EstoniasInternetVotingASuccess.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110301470. html E-VOTING - Dispatch From The Future By Wolfgang Drechsler, Washington Post, Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page B01 TALLINN, Estonia, On the night of Oct. 16, 2005, I sat in front of a huge screen in one of the great halls of Tallinn Castle to watch results come in from the first genuine nationwide Internet elections in the world. Soon, numbers began pouring down the screen, Matrix-like, as the votes were assembled ==========> 06-10-18-Wired-HowToBuildABetterEVotingMachine.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/evote/0,71957-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Building a Better Voting Machine, By Kim Zetter Wired, 02:00 AM Oct, 18, 2006 It's been six years since the Florida presidential fiasco launched a flurry of spending around the country to replace antiquated punch-card and lever voting machines with expensive new electronic touch-screen machines. Yet new controversies over the security of e-voting machines continue to crop up, making it clear that the new machines are just as problematic as the ones they ==========> 06-10-19-NYT-NewMachinesAndNewLanwsMayCauseProblems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/us/politics/19voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, October 19, 2006 New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes By IAN URBINA WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: the audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese. ==========> 06-10-19-PittsCityNews-WillEVotingMachinesPerformDifferentlyInNovThanInMay.txt========== http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A19395 POSTED ON OCTOBER 19, 2006:, Pittsburgh City Newspaper Will our electronic voting machines in November perform better or worse than they did in May? And how can we know? By Marty Levine CMU Professor Michael Shamos, the state's voting machine examiner: Machines, not paper will "'protect ... the voter from rascaldom.'" heather mull ==========> 06-10-20-AviRubin-DisksContainingDieboldSourceCodeArriveAnonymously.txt========== http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/10/another-diebold-source-code-leak.html Avi Rubin's Blog, Friday, October 20, 2006 Another Diebold source code leak This week, three disks containing Diebold source code, that appear to have come from Wyle Labs and Ciber Inc, the independent testing authorities that certify voting machines for federal qualificaiton, were delivered anonymously to a former Maryland state delegate. The story was covered this morning in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun. I was asked by a reporter to inspect the ==========> 06-10-20-WashPost-OfficialsProbePossibleTheftOfDieboldSoftware.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901818. html?referrer=emailarticle Officials Probing Possible Theft of Voting Software in Md. Ex-Delegate Says FBI Contacted Her About Disks She Received By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post Staff Writer, October 20, 2006; B01 The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain ==========> 06-10-24-LATimes-NewVoringMachineSystemsAndRulesMayCauseTroubleAtThePolls.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-elect24oct24,0,5710021.stor y?coll=la-home-nation New voting systems, rules may spell trouble at polls Election analysts expect complications, but some disagree over how widespread they will be in the midterm tally. By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, October 24, 2006 WASHINGTON — Ambitious efforts to modernize the nation's patchwork voting system were finally supposed to pay big dividends in the 2006 congressional ==========> 06-10-24-WashPost-EVotingMachineBugChopsOffCandidatesNames.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301178. html Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates' Names Computer Glitch Affects Voters in 3 Jurisdictions; Error Cannot Be Fixed by Nov. 7 By Leef Smith, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, October 24, 2006; B04 U.S. Senate candidate James Webb's last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and ==========> 06-10-25-PCWorld-USGovernmentNeedsToCompleteEvotingGuidelines.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123186/article.html E-Voting Progress Assessed Government report suggest continued work on security and certification. Grant Gross, IDG News Service, PC world, October 25, 2005 7:00 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Questions about the security and accuracy of electronic voting systems are likely to continue into the 2006 national elections, because the federal government has not yet completed work on electronic voting guidelines, according to a new government report. ==========> 06-10-26-BaltoSun-DieboldRepairedThousandsOfMarylandMachinesIn2005WithoutProperNotification.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.voting26oct26,0,7989773.story?c oll=bal-home-headlines Diebold machine glitch fixed quietly '05 repair not disclosed to elections board By Melissa Harris, Baltimore Sun reporter, October 26, 2006 Diebold Election Systems shipped Maryland flawed electronic voting machines that were used in the 2004 election, then quietly replaced the malfunctioning components last year, documents and interviews show. ==========> 06-10-26-WashPost-DieboldRepairedThousandsOfMarylandMachinesIn2005WithoutProperNotification.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501907_ pf.html Voting Machines Had Defective Part Key Component Was Replaced in Touch-Screen Units After Repeated 'Freezes' By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post Staff Writer, October 26, 2006; B05 The maker of Maryland's electronic voting system replaced a flawed electronic component in several thousand touch-screen voting machines in 2005, state election officials acknowledged this week. ==========> 06-10-27-AP-DieboldRepairedThousandsOfMarylandMachinesIn2005WithoutProperNotification.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15863430.htm Posted on Fri, Oct. 27, 2006 Diebold quietly repaired voting machines, Associated Press BALTIMORE - Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years earlier, according to published reports Thursday. ==========> 06-10-27-CompWorld-SatiricalWebSiteOffersToFixElections.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9004503 Web site offers to 'fix' elections -- for a price As Nov. 7 looms, the satire (satire, right?) gets sharper Robert McMillan, October 27, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- "Winning is everything." That's the mantra of Election Partners Ltd., whose slick Fixavote.com Web site offers such services as "real-time voter correction," and "enhanced retrospective tallying." The site features attractive stock-photography models ==========> 06-10-27-PCWorld-FixavoteWebsiteOffersToFixElections-Satire.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127684/article.html Web Site Offers To 'Fix' Elections - For A Price A Web site called fixavote.com, which appears to be satire, claims to "guarantee" e-voting results. Robert McMillan, IDG News Service, PC World, October 27, 2006 8:00 AM PDT That's the mantra of Election Partners, whose slick Fixavote.com Web site offers such services as "real-time voter correction," and "enhanced retrospective tallying." The site features attractive stock-photography models ==========> 06-10-27-TheGuardian-USWarnedOfElectionChaos.txt========== http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1932655,00.html US warned of ballot box chaos as elections near Report says 10 states not ready for electronic vote Scientist hacks into new polling machine on TV Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington, October 27, 2006, The Guardian An early voter casts her ballot for in the US midterm elections at a polling station in Miami. An independent watchdog has voiced concerns about voting procedures in at least 10 states. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ==========> 06-10-29-NYT-USInvestigatesEVotingManufacturersTiesToVenezuela.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html The New York Times, October 29, 2006 U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties By TIM GOLDEN The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez. ==========> 06-10-31-CNET-PaperTrailsNeedAComplicatedIssue.txt========== http://news.com.com/Does+e-voting+need+paper+trails/2100-1028_3-6130946.html Does e-voting need paper trails? By Anne Broache, CNET Networks, Tue Oct 31 08:29:13 PST 2006 After reports of a rocky primary election this year, Maryland's Republican governor turned heads even outside the Old Line State when he called for a return to all-paper ballots. "When in doubt, go paper, go low-tech," said Gov. Robert Ehrlich, according to ==========> 06-10-31-DilbertBlog-Spoof-TheUpsideToHackedVotingMachines.txt========== http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/electronic_voti.html Electronic Voting Machines Dilbert Blog, October 31, 2006 Years ago when I worked at a big bank, one of the hot issues was that many customers didn’t trust our new-fangled ATM machines. Amazingly, this fear had almost nothing to do with the fact that I worked in the ATM department. Indeed, my suggestion to include a paper shredder hole right next to the deposit hole was barely even considered. In the end, ATMs rarely stole anyone’s money and ==========> 06-10-31-PRNews-DieboldWantsPreButtalAndDisclaimerForHBODocumentary.txt========== http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-31-200 6/0004463570&EDATE= HBO Documentary Riddled With Errors and Slipshod Reporting Diebold Election Systems Asks HBO for Pre-Buttal and Disclaimer ALLEN, Texas, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- In a letter to HBO chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht, Diebold Election System President David Byrd says that the documentary Hacking Democracy "contains significant factual errors and does not meet HBO standards for accuracy and fairness." ==========> 06-10-31-Purdue-SecurityExpertSpaffordSaysEVotingPosesSecurityRisk.txt========== http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html3month/2006/061031T-Spafford.meltdown.html Purdue University, October 31, 2006 Cybersecurity expert says nationwide use of computerized voting poses risk WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Many of the paperless computerized voting systems adopted in wake of the "hanging chad" presidential election controversy in 2000 have the potential to create more problems than they solve, according to an information security expert at Purdue University. ==========> 06-10-31-WashPost-PentagonWarnedOnEmailVotingSecurityIssues.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001062. html E-Mail Voting Comes With Risks Pentagon Warned on Security Issues for Overseas Ballots By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Staff Writer, October 31, 2006; A19 Time was when soldiers, if they wanted to vote, had to request ballots by snail mail, fill them out and return them the same way. ==========> 06-11-00-ACMQueue-ExpertsDiscussTechnologysImpactOnElectionIntegrity.txt========== http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=432 A Conversation with Douglas W. Jones and Peter G. Neumann From Cybercrime, ACM Queue, Vol. 4, No. 9 - November 2006 Does technology help or hinder election integrity? Douglas W. Jones and Peter G. Neumann have long been active participants in promoting integrity in the election process, with special emphasis on the dependable use of information technology, as well as on the weak-link nature of the entire process, from beginning to end. ==========> 06-11-00-CACM-EVotingSystemsMayContainElectronicBackDoors.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 11 (2006), Page 112 Inside risks: COTS and other electronic voting backdoors Rebecca T. Mercuri, Vincent J. Lipsio, Beth Feehan During the U.S. 2006 primary election season, there was a flurry of media attention about electronic voting, when it was revealed that Diebold Election Systems had erroneously reported to a testing authority (CIBER) that certain Windows CE operating system files were commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) but in fact also contained customized code. This is important because, remarkably, all ==========> 06-11-00-NIST-RecommendationsOnRequiringSoftwareIndependenceInEVotingSystems.txt========== http://vote.nist.gov/DraftWhitePaperOnSIinVVSG2007-20061120.pdf Requiring Software Independence in VVSG 2007: STS Recommendations for the TGDC William Burr, John Kelsey, Rene Peralta, John Wack National Institute of Standards and Technology November 2006 Acronyms and Terms Used in This Paper The following acronyms and terms are used in this paper. Some of these terms are also ==========> 06-11-01-Bloomberg-DieboldDemandsHBOCancelEVotingMachineDocumentary.txt========== http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/290653_diebold01.html Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Diebold demands that HBO cancel documentary on voting machines Film saying they can be manipulated 'inaccurate' By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, BLOOMBERG NEWS Diebold Inc. insisted that cable network HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. ==========> 06-11-01-CompWorld-FloridaAndTexasVotersComplainAboutEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9004682&intsrc=hm_list Voters in Fla., Texas complain of e-voting glitches Some said their votes were flipped from one candidate to another, Marc Songini November 01, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Elections officials in southern Florida are downplaying recent reports of glitches encountered during early voting on electronic voting machines -- most notably, a problem known as "vote flipping." ==========> 06-11-01-HollywoodRep-HBORejectsDieboldRequestsOnEVotingDocumentary.txt========== http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iu1kJn0r6mbsE3T+LOOIm OQ== The Hollywood Reporter HBO vetoes Diebold's docu request By Brooks Boliek, Nov 1, 2006 WASHINGTON -- HBO rejected a call by Diebold Election Systems to pull the documentary "Hacking Democracy" from its schedule or air company disclaimers questioning the accuracy of film. ==========> 06-11-02-SJMerc-HBORejectsDieboldRequestsOnEVotingDocumentary.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15904527.htm Posted on Thu, Nov. 02, 2006 HBO docu irks voting company, San Jose Mercury News HBO rejected a call by Diebold Election Systems to pull the documentary "Hacking Democracy" from its schedule or air company disclaimers questioning the accuracy of the film. In a letter to HBO chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht, Diebold seeks to have ==========> 06-11-02-VotingIntegrity-SecuringTheVoteProject2006.txt========== http://votingintegrity.org/docs/help/recommend-2006.pdf National Committee for Voting Integrity, 1718 Connecticut Avenue,NW Suite 200,Washington,DC 20009. Coordinator Lillie Coney,202-483-1140 x 111 SECURING THE VOTE PROJECT 2006 [Accessed Nov. 2, 2006] The National Committee for Voting Integrity has prepared this document,with the assistance of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.This document is ==========> 06-11-02-WashPost-HBODocumentarySuggestsEVotingProblemsPossibilities.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103220. html?referrer=emailarticle 'Hacking' Doesn't Crack the Code By Paul Farhi, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, November 2, 2006; C07 Something -- maybe a lot of things -- is wrong with how America conducts its elections. As you might have heard, there were a few problems down in Florida back in 2000, and more recently in the Maryland primary. No doubt, voting and vote-counting can be messy, complicated and subject to potentially ==========> 06-11-03-BaselineMag-ExpertsWarnOfEVotingAndInternetVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2051184,00.asp E-Voting, As it Advances, Faces Big Risks November 3, 2006, By Robert Hertzberg, Baseline Magazine On the eve of Tuesday's midterm elections, computer experts are sounding an alarm about possible problems with the electronic systems that two in every five voters will be using. They are also criticizing the Defense Department's decision to let some ==========> 06-11-03-Fortune-DieboldStrugglesToOvercomeEVotingMachineControversy.txt========== http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393084/?postv ersion=2006103014 Rage against the machine Diebold struggles to bounce back from the controversy surrounding its voting machines. FORTUNE Magazine, November 3 2006: 9:46 AM EST (From the November 13, 2006 issue) By Barney Gimbel, Fortune writer-reporter ==========> 06-11-03-NetWorld-ExpertsSayEVotingProblemsStillExist.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110306-e-voting-problems-still-exist-criti cs.html E-voting problems still exist, critics say By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, 11/03/06, Network World Electronic-voting machines remain vulnerable to attacks from people trying to steal elections and to glitches that incorrectly count votes, critics say as the U.S. prepares for a national election Tuesday. ==========> 06-11-03-WSJ-EVotingChangesContemplatedByLegislators.txt========== Touch Screens? Vote Yes or No Wall Street Journal (11/30/06) P. A4; Krunholz, June Although most new electronic voting systems worked during the recent election, according to electionline.org, many changes are being contemplated in the way America votes. Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who will take over as head of the Senate rules committee, and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) have both proposed legislation to require paper records from touch screen voting machines, random audits of some of these records, and disclosure of the software code used in voting machines so it could be checked for vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, several ==========> 06-11-04-SciNews-ComputerScientistsAndMathematiciansLookorBetterWaysToVote.txt========== http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061104/bob10.asp Week of Nov. 4, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 19 , p. 298 Ballot Roulette: Computer scientists and mathematicians look for better ways to vote Peter Weiss, Science News Two months ago, in primaries for governor and congressional and state legislative seats in Maryland, many trips to the polls became painful experiences. At hundreds of precincts in Montgomery County, for instance, new ==========> 06-11-05-BradBlog-DieboldCensorsMarylandVotingMachineStudy.txt========== http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3731 BLOGGED BY Brad ON 11/5/2006 7:02PM BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: 'THE PENTAGON PAPERS OF E-VOTING' — THE LONG-SOUGHT 2003 STATE OF MARYLAND'S 'SAIC REPORT' ON DIEBOLD SECURITY VULNERABILITIES — NOW RELEASED IN FULL! Previously Unreleased 200-Page Report Said to Document Some 180 Security Flaws and Recommendations Made to Diebold and the State Still Unclear as to Who Made Changes, Additions, Redactions to Publicly ==========> 06-11-06-CompWorld-ProblemsInVoterRegistrationDatabasesCouldRejectVoters.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=272109 Glitches in state databases could turn away voters Marc Songini November 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Eligible voters in Florida may arrive at the polls tomorrow and find that they are ineligible to cast ballots because of the strict requirements for inclusion in the state's new database of registered voters. ==========> 06-11-06-USACM-ElectionDayToTestEVotingSystems.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.10 November 6, 2006 ============================================================= [2] ELECTION DAY TO TEST ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS Election Day in the United States - November 7 - is tomorrow and about one third of the public will be using new voting equipment for the first time. ==========> 06-11-07-AP-PennaVoterSnapsAndAttacksEVotingMachine.txt========== http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15611962/ Balloting breakdown: Pa. voter attacks machine ‘He just snapped’ after encountering touch-screen gear, poll workers say Cesar L. Laure / AP, Updated: 9:14 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2006 ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A would-be voter in Pennsylvania was arrested Tuesday at a polling place in Allentown after smashing an electronic voting machine with a paperweight, according to poll workers. ==========> 06-11-07-AP-WatchdogsWarnOfElectionProblemsWithEquipmentAndDatabases.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15951138.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 07, 2006, Associated Press Election watchdogs warn of poll problems with new voting equipment, databases and ID rules With a third of Americans voting on new equipment and voters navigating new registration databases and rules governing acceptable IDs, election watchdogs worry about polling problems Tuesday. ==========> 06-11-07-ArsTechnica-ChicagoVotingMachinesHaveCardsStuckInThem.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/staff/carthage.ars/2006/11/7/5886 November 07, 2006 @ 10:50AM - posted by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes Chicago e-voting problems, Ars Technica I just got back from my local precinct, which offers both optical scan ballots and touchscreen options. I asked to use the one available touchscreen (a Sequoia Edge2), but apparently it has been frozen all morning. There's a card stuck in the machine, and no one can get it out. ==========> 06-11-07-DailyKos-NoOneTrustsEVotingSystemsAnymore.txt========== http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/7/1546/82402 Today is the end of the electronic voting machine, by kos Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 12:04:06 PM PST Republicans are complaining about voting irregularities as loudly as we are today. A Republican governor, two Republican congressmen turned away from the polls. Votes supposedly switching in electronic voting machines in New Jersey. Complaints coming from New Mexico and elsewhere. ==========> 06-11-07-Forbes-ProgrammingErrorsAndInexperienceFrustratePollWorkers.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/11/07/ap3152614.html?tag=nl Associated Press: Poll Workers Struggle With Vote Machines By ANICK JESDANUN 11.07.06, 2:52 PM ET Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts Tuesday, delaying voters in several states and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead. ==========> 06-11-07-InfoWorld-WatchdogGroupsReportEVotingProblems.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/07/HNevotingprobs_1.html Watchdog groups report e-voting problems More than 14,000 calls have already been received at Common Cause, a government watchdog group, and the polls don't close for hours yet By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, November 07, 2006 Problems with voting machines across the U.S. are being reported to watchdog groups, including significant problems of votes being incorrectly recorded Tuesday. ==========> 06-11-07-MorningCall-PennaVoterSnapsAndAttacksEVotingMachine.txt========== http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-smashedmachine1107-cn,0,1574203.story?coll=a ll-news-hed Last Updated: November 7, 2006 - 2:19 PM EST Voter smashes touch-screen machine in Allentown, The Morning Call A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said. ==========> 06-11-08-ACM-ExpertsConcludeMidtermElectionsProducedMixedEVotingResults.txt========== http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/trans/acm-elect.pdf ACM EXPERTS SAY MORE REQUIRED TO IMPROVE E-VOTING Technology Leaders Stress Need to Learn From Problems in Numerous States Washington, DC, November 8, 2006 – Electronic voting experts from ACM have concluded that yesterday’s midterm elections produced a mixed bag of results on new e-voting systems. Problems were not as widespread as some had feared, but serious flaws in the ==========> 06-11-08-AP-EVotingSystemsUseRelativelySmooth.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15961802.htm Associated Press, Posted on Wed, Nov. 08, 2006 Voting systems: scattered problems, but relatively smooth There were occasional hiccups in the nation's all-too-human system voting systems -- long lines in Denver, slow election machines in Ohio, a longshot Texas candidate who briefly, and incorrectly, enjoyed a big lead -- but no major breakdowns. ==========> 06-11-08-AviRubin-ProblemsWithTheMidtermElection.txt========== http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/11/worst-case-scenario-for-midterm.html Avi Rubin's Blog, Wednesday, November 08, 2006 A Worst Case Scenario for a midterm election? In several recent elections, the eyes of the country fell on one particular jurisdiction that came under the microscope and affected the entire nation. In 2000, it was Florida and hanging chads. In 2004 it was Ohio and long lines, and in 2006 it is shaping up to be Virginia and a single race that will determine which party controls the senate. Every article I have read today states that ==========> 06-11-08-CNET-ASampleOfEVotingGlitchesOnElectionDay2006.txt========== http://news.com.com/A+sampling+of+e-voting+glitches+on+election+day+2006/2100-10 28_3-6133440.html?tag=sas.email A sampling of e-voting glitches on election day 2006 By Declan McCullagh CNET Networks, Wed Nov 08 08:17:48 PST 2006 There were plenty of glitches in electronic voting machines during Tuesday's election. But how many were serious ones? ==========> 06-11-08-CompWorld-IsVoteFlippingASecurityOrUserInterfaceOrUserProblem.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9004858&intsrc=hm_ts_head Update: Is 'vote flipping' an e-voting problem or user error? Todd R. Weiss November 08, 2006 (Computerworld) During Tuesday's midterm elections in the U.S., reports emerged from across the nation about a potential problem called "vote flipping," where a voter selected a candidate on e-voting hardware and the machine counted the vote for an opposing candidate. ==========> 06-11-08-DailyRecordNews-EVotingMachineMislabelsSantorumADemocrat.txt========== http://www.ydr.com/politics/ci_4622149 Woman: Machine calls Santorum a Democrat York County escaped worse problems, but the process wasn't flawless. By BRENT BURKEY, Daily Record/Sunday News, 11/08/2006 03:08:50 AM EST Nov 8, 2006 — Nathalie Engdahl brought her 70 years of voting experience into a Manchester Township precinct building early this morning and voted straight Democrat. ==========> 06-11-08-GlobeAndMail-ProgrammingErrorsAndInexperienceFrustratePollWorkers.txt========== http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061108.ELECTMACH08/TPStory/In ternational POSTED ON 08/11/06, The Globe AndMail THE MIDTERM ELECTION New electronic machines bedevil voting, BRAD LINN Special to The Globe and Mail, with a report from AP WASHINGTON -- Mechanical glitches and unfamiliarity with new high-tech ==========> 06-11-09-CNN-ScatteredComputerProblemsSlowVoting.txt========== http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.voting/ Scattered computer glitches slow voting CNN, Nov. 9, 2006 (CNN) -- More voters than ever used electronic voting machines during Tuesday's midterm elections and scattered glitches were reported across the country. Two counties in Illinois kept hundreds of precincts open late. ==========> 06-11-09-ElectCen-MachineRecordsDemocratVoteForRepublican.txt========== http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/nov/07/mo_sen_machi ne_records_dem_vote_for_gop MO-SEN: Machine Records Dem Vote For GOP By Justin Rood, Talking Points memo [Accessed Nov. 9, 2006] Reader PW writes: My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill's ==========> 06-11-09-TechDirt-DieboldCensorsMarylandVotingMachineStudy.txt========== http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061106/231708.shtml What The Maryland Study On Diebold Voting Machines Didn't Tell You from the now-you-can-find-out dept TechDirt [Accessed Nov. 9, 2006] One of the issues concerning e-voting machines, and Diebold in particular, is how they've responded to all the criticism and vulnerabilities -- with the company often being accused of covering up, ignoring or denying the problems. Steven Zakulec writes to let us know that back in 2003, Maryland commissioned a ==========> 06-11-10-HeraldTrib-CommonCauseWeighsInOnVotingIrregularitiesInSarasotaCounty.txt========== http://shedit.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061110/BREAKING10/611 10006&start=1 Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 10. 2006 2:30PM Common Cause joins fray, By JEREMY WALLACE,jeremy.wallace@heraldtribune.com Add Common Cause to the list of national groups weighing in on the voting irregularities in Sarasota County. Common Cause is using the case to lobby Congress for legislation demanding all ==========> 06-11-13-CompWorld-IsVoteFlippingASecurityOrUserInterfaceOrUserProblem.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=government&articleId=273455&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top ‘Vote Flipping’ Is Real, but Its Cause Is the Subject of Debate Some blame machines; others say it’s voter error Todd R. Weiss November 13, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Before and during last week’s midterm elections, reports emerged that “vote flipping” — where a voter selects a candidate using e-voting hardware and the machine counts the vote for another ==========> 06-11-13-Forbes-DidYourVoteGetCounted.txt========== http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/11/10/voting-fraud-security-tech-security- cz_bs_1113security.html Did Your Vote Get Counted? Bruce Schneier, Forbes, 11.13.06, 6:00 AM ET Last week in Florida's 13th Congressional district, the victory margin was only 386 votes out of 153,000. There'll be a mandatory lawyered-up recount, but it won't include the almost 18,000 votes that seem to have disappeared. The electronic voting machines didn't include them in their final tallies, and ==========> 06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=435 USACM, November 13, 2006 Meet the New Boss: Outlook for Technology Policy in the Next Congress The outcome of last week’s election is now clear with the Democrats taking over the legislative branch. The dust, however, is far from settled. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on technology policy. What shape this will take is unclear, because much of it will be dictated by the new House and Senate Chairpersons who have not organized or set any agendas ==========> 06-11-14-CompWorld-EVotingMachinesInArkansasMiscountedVotes.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9005063 E-voting 2006: A touch screen, a missing vote, a mystery in Arkansas A small-town candidate says his own vote -- for himself -- wasn't counted Todd Weiss November 14, 2006 (Computerworld) -- With only 36 registered voters casting ballots last week on Election Day, every vote mattered in Waldenburg, Ark., population 80. ==========> 06-11-14-TechDaily-DemocratsMayGiveVotingMachinesMoreScrutiny.txt========== http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1106/111406tdpm2.htm November 14, 2006 Democrats may give voting machines more scrutiny By Michael Martinez, National Journal's Technology Daily Concerns about the security of e-voting systems might be given more airtime in Congress in the wake of last week's election, which vaulted Democrats into control. ==========> 06-11-14-Wired-ElectronicVotingFromHomeMightBeTheBestWayToGo.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,72113-0.html Election '08: Vote by TiVo, By Keith Axline 02:00 AM Nov, 14, 2006, Wired In the wake of yet another election marred by technical glitches, critics of electronic voting machines are repeating their call to restore old-fashioned paper to the increasingly computerized election process. But a smaller, quieter group is convinced the real solution lies in the other ==========> 06-11-17-ChronHigherEd-YoloCountyCalifUsesCSGradStudentsToHelpWithEVotingMachines.txt========== Hoping to Avoid Election-Day Glitches, One County Calls in the Computer Scientists Chronicle of Higher Education (11/17/06) Vol. 53, No. 13, P. A35; Foster, Andrea L. Yolo County, Calif., enlisted 60 computer-science grad students from the University of California at Davis to help clear up confusion about the assembly, disassembly, and use of electronic voting machines among elderly poll workers on Election Day, although the machines ultimately saw little actual use. The machines were rolled out for use by disabled voters, but voters ==========> 06-11-17-Wired-FloridaCandidateChallenges369VoteLossInCongressionalElection.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/evote/0,72130-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Did Florida Foul Another Ballot? By Kim Zetter, 02:00 AM Nov, 17, 2006, Wired Six years after the phrase "Florida recount" entered the national lexicon, another recount in the Sunshine State is sparking new controversies about poorly designed ballots, faulty voting equipment and negligent election officials. ==========> 06-11-19-SarasotaHeraldTrib-VotingProblemsIncreaseCallsForChange.txt========== http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061119/NEWS/611190547/ 1006/SPORTS Electronic voting trend may be short-circuiting Sarasota ballot problems fuel calls for change By VICTOR HULL, victor.hull@heraldtribune.com Sarasota Herald Tribune, Last modified: November 19. 2006 5:53AM Long after it is decided whether Vern Buchanan or Christine Jennings will serve in Congress as Florida's District 13 representative, the bizarre 2006 vote in ==========> 06-11-20-AP-FloridaCandidateChallenges369VoteLossInCongressionalElection.txt========== Monday, November 20, 2006 Jennings Challenges 369-Vote Loss in Congressional Race By BILL KACZOR, The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE -- Democrat Christine Jennings officially contested her 369-vote loss in the 13th Congressional District on Monday immediately after the Florida Election Canvassing Commission certified the results in the race. A manual recount last week confirmed Republican Vern Buchanan was the winner over Jennings in the southwest Florida district being vacated by Republican ==========> 06-11-21-ACLU-FloridaVotersChallenge369VoteLossInCongressionalElection.txt========== Sarasota Voters File Lawsuit for Revote in Congressional Race November 21, 2006 ACLU, et. al Voters from Sarasota County today filed suit in state court in Tallahassee asking for a revote in Florida's 13th congressional district. The suit alleges that thousands of citizens were disenfranchised when massive undervotes plagued the tight Congressional race between Democrat Christine Jennings and Republican Vern Buchanan. In a high-profile battle over former Rep. Katherine Harris' seat, the result was decided by 363 votes, yet over 18,000 ballots cast on ==========> 06-11-26-MediaNews-SenFeinsteinToLeadEVotingInvestigation.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/16101724.htm Posted on Sun, Nov. 26, 2006 Feinstein to lead e-voting scrutiny MEASURES SOUGHT TO AVOID DISPUTES, By Frank Davies, MediaNews Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - This month's election fueled growing anxiety about new electronic voting systems around the country, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California plans to take a hard look at e-voting and a host of other election issues and rules. ==========> 06-11-26-NYT-ExpertsConcernedAsBallotProblemsPersist.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/us/politics/26vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, November 26, 2006 Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist By IAN URBINA and CHRISTOPHER DREW After six years of technological research, more than $4 billion spent by Washington on new machinery and a widespread overhaul of the nation’s voting system, this month’s midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts. ==========> 06-11-28-AP-ConcernsRaisedInVenezuelaEVotingButOfficialsSaySafeguardsInPlace.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16116525.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 28, 2006 E-voting stirs suspicion in Venezuela, but officials say safeguards in place CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Under pressure from opponents of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's elections council has adopted safeguards for the country's electronic voting machines to prevent tampering in Sunday's election -- conditions so strict that experts say they surpass some standards in the United States. ==========> 06-11-28-WashPost-FloridaEVoteDiscrepencyStillAMystery.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801382. html Vote Disparity Still a Mystery In Fla. Election For Congress By Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post Staff Writer, November 29, 2006; A03 SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 28 -- Almost since the time the votes were tallied here on election night, the race for Florida's 13th Congressional District has been surrounded by a contentious mystery: ==========> 06-12-01-WashPost-USElectionAssistanceCommSaysPaperRecordNeeded.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113001637. html Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned Paper Systems Should Be Included, Agency Says By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post Staff Writer, December 1, 2006; A01 Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance ==========> 06-12-03-Unknown-BallotFormatsTouchscreensAndUndervotes.txt========== Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida Laurin Frisina2 Michael C. Herron3 James Honaker Jeffrey B. Lewis5 Initial Draft: November 23, 2006, This Draft: December 3, 2006 1The authors thank Greg Huber for comments on an earlier draft of this paper and thank election officials in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas, and Sarasota Counties for ==========> 06-12-04-AP-USElectionAssistanceCommSaysPaperRecordNeeded.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16164286.htm Posted on Mon, Dec. 04, 2006 Extra checks on voting machines rejected STEPHEN MANNING, Associated Press GAITHERSBURG, Md. - A federal advisory panel on Monday rejected a recommendation that states use only voting machines that produced results which could be independently verified. ==========> 06-12-04-CNET-NISTSaysPaperlessEVotingIsNotSecure.txt========== http://news.com.com/Report+Paperless+e-voting+is+not+secure/2100-1028_3-6140079. html Report: Paperless e-voting is not secure By Candace Lombardi, CNET Networks, Dec 04 06:57:34 PST 2006 A key advisory agency to a federal commission on election standards has come down on the side of those who want voter-verified paper trails. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says the U.S. ==========> 06-12-04-IDG-USGovtBoardRejectsPaperTrailProposal.txt========== Government rejects e-voting paper trail proposal Grant Gross December 04, 2006 (IDG News Service) A U.S. government board looking at ways to improve the security of electronic voting has rejected one proposal that would have required election officials to use paper-trail ballots or other audit technologies with the machines. The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), an advisory board to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC), on Monday failed to pass a ==========> 06-12-05-CNET-USGovtBoardRejectsPaperTrailProposal.txt========== http://news.com.com/Panel+snubs+proposed+e-voting+check/2100-1028_3-6140707.html Panel snubs proposed e-voting check By Anne Broache, CNET Networks, Dec 05 07:19:02 PST 2006 GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Computer scientists all too familiar with code bugginess have long criticized electronic voting machines that rely entirely on successful software performance, but they have failed for now to persuade a federal advisory committee to recommend otherwise. ==========> 06-12-05-WashPost-USElectionAssistanceCommSaysPaperRecordNeeded.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401290. html Federal Panel Rebuffs Guidelines That Insist on a Paper Trail By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post Staff Writer, December 5, 2006; B06 A federal advisory group rejected a measure yesterday that would have discouraged states from using electronic voting systems that lack an independent means of verifying their results, according to a spokeswoman for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. ==========> 06-12-06-AP-USAdvisoryPanelBacksIndependentVerificationOfEVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16177980.htm Posted on Wed, Dec. 06, 2006 Federal panel backs independent verification of e-voting machines WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal advisory panel approved a revised proposal that encourages states to use electronic voting machines that can be independently verified, a day after rejecting a similar recommendation. The resolution, adopted unanimously Tuesday by the panel drafting voting ==========> 06-12-06-USACM-ElectionDayEvotingProblemsLargelyIsolated.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.11 December 6, 2006 ============================================================= ELECTION DAY E-VOTING PROBLEMS LARGELY ISOLATED With the exception of the undervoting issues in Sarasota (which really didn't emerge until after Election Day), the problems with this election ==========> 06-12-06-USACM-EVotingProblemsInFlorida.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.11 December 6, 2006 ============================================================= E-VOTING TROUBLES IN FLORIDA? While, as reported above, most e-voting problems were scattered and not necessarily linked to problems with the machines, a Congressional race in ==========> 06-12-06-USACM-TechPolicy-110thCongress-EVoting.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.11 December 6, 2006 ============================================================= TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE 110TH CONGRESS - MEET THE NEW BOSS The 110th Congress will have a new Democratic majority in both Houses. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on ==========> 06-12-07-AP-USElectionOversightBoardApprovesTougherSecurityGuidelines.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16188376.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 07, 2006 Agency toughen voting security program, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The nation's top election oversight board approved guidelines for electronic voting machines, putting in place the first federal standards but stopping short of requiring states to follow them. The Election Assistance Commission said the 68-page manual offers standards for ==========> 06-12-08-NYT-ProspectiveLegislationWillMakeDrasticChangesIn2008.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, December 8, 2006 Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election By IAN URBINA and CHRISTOPHER DREW By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted, including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail, federal voting officials and legislators say. ==========> 06-12-12-WashTech-IDCStudySaysLongTermStrategyNeededForAccurateTimelySecureEVoting.txt========== http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/29842-1.html E-voting requires long-term strategy: IDC Click to Listen Washington Technology, 12/12/06, By Ethan Butterfield, Staff Writer Though state and local governments have spent nearly $3.8 billion since 2002 on electronic voting systems, they still have a long way to go before e-voting generates an accurate, timely and secure voting process, according to a new study from IDC Research Inc. ==========> 06-12-13-CompWorld-DenverEVotingProblemsBlamedOnFaultySoftware.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9006038&intsrc=hm_ts_head Report blames Denver election woes on flawed software Local election officials were also slammed for a 'casual approach' to technology Todd Weiss December 13, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Poor software design, serious IT management inefficiencies and an untested deployment of a critical application were all major factors in last month's Election Day problems in Denver, ==========> 06-12-21-AP-PrinterPaperJamsHamperEVoting.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122100123. html Paper Jams Hamper Electronic Voting By STEPHEN MANNING, The Associated Press, December 21, 2006; 10:58 AM GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- The paper ballots and hanging chads that marred the 2000 presidential election have almost vanished from polling places, replaced by electronic-voting machines that are supposed to eliminate recount chaos. ==========> 06-12-21-USACM-ElectionsAdvisoryCommitteeRecommendsSoftwareIndependentVotingSystems.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.12 December 21, 2006 ============================================================= KEY FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS SOFTWARE INDEPENDENT VOTING SYSTEMS As mentioned in the previous story, The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) met to start shaping the federal 2007 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG). After some initial disagreement (discussed below) ==========> 06-12-21-USACM-ElectionsAssistanceCommissionConsiders2006ElectionASuccess.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.12 December 21, 2006 ============================================================= ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION CONSIDERS 2006 ELECTION A SUCCESS The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) met to handle regular business and hear testimony on the mid-term elections. The EAC heard from Dr. Bill Jeffrey, Director of NIST and Chair of the Technical Guidelines Development ==========> 06-12-21-USACM-USACMEncouragesAdoptionOfSoftwareIndependeceStandardsForEVoting.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.12 December 21, 2006 ============================================================= USACM ENCOURAGES ADOPTION OF "SOFTWARE INDEPENDENCE" STANDARD FOR VOTING SYSTEMS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an important paper in late November recommending that federal standards allow certification only for "software independent" (i.e. systems that do not rely ==========> 06-12-22-AtlantaJConst-EVotingPaperBackupExpectedToHaveProblems.txt========== http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2006/12/22/metballot1222a.html Voter paper trail not an easy path Ballot back-up clunky, lengthy, experts warn. By Carlos Campos, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/22/06 Adding a paper trail to Georgia's electronic voting machines is not a cure-all for assuring voter confidence, a panel of elections experts cautioned Thursday. An Election Day experiment Nov. 7 in three precincts in Georgia —- one each in ==========> 06-12-22-SarasotaHeraldTrib-UndervoteLeadsToElectionChallenge.txt========== http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEWS0521&template=ov r2 A contested election, [Accessed Dec. 22, 2006], Sarasota Herald-Tribune Election night ended with Vern Buchanan leading his opponent, Christine Jennings, by less than one-quarter of 1 percent of votes, triggering an automatic recount. A manual recount followed, with Buchanan being declared the winner over ==========> 07-01-00-IEEESpectrum-ProfessorInventsPunchscanSecureVotingSystem.txt========== http://staging.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4817 Making Every E-Vote Count, By Steven Cherry, IEEE Spectrum, Jan 2007 A noted cryptographer has a system that works BUT DID IT COUNT? : St. Louis was among the one-third of all localities in the 2006 U.S. midterm elections that used new electronic equipment. But myriad technical problems marred elections in Missouri and many other states, and some paperless ballots may have been lost in the ether. ==========> 07-01-01-HeartlandInst-EVotingIsGreatSuccess.txt========== http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20346 E-voting Upgrades America’s Ballot Box Written By: Vince Vasquez, January 1, 2007, The Heartland Institute On Election Day 2006, more than 65 million Americans voted using direct recording electronic (DRE) machines. Despite the hysteria over ballot booth meltdowns, voters can continue to be confident using e-voting systems, as they make voting simpler, safer, and more accessible than traditional paper ballots. ==========> 07-01-02-CompWorld-SecurityExpertSpaffordSaysEVotingMachinesSecurityAProblem.txt========== http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName =privacy&articleId=9007005&taxonomyId=84&intsrc=kc_feat Security expert: E-voting issues persist Eugene Spafford sees trend toward auditable results, By Grant Gross January 02, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn't gone away after November's elections in the U.S. ==========> 07-01-02-InfoWord-SecurityExpertSpaffordSaysEVotingMachinesSecurityAProblem.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/02/HNevotingqa_1.html Q&A: E-voting issues still there Security expert Eugene Spafford says there's still work to be done to ensure accuracy By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, January 02, 2007 The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn't gone away after November's elections in the U.S. ==========> 07-01-02-InfoWorld-SecurityExpertSpaffordSaysEVotingMachinesSecurityAProblem.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/02/HNevotingqa_1.html Q&A: E-voting issues still there Security expert Eugene Spafford says there's still work to be done to ensure accuracy By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, InfoWorld, January 02, 2007 The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn't gone away after November's elections in the U.S. ==========> 07-01-04-NYT-TestingLabCiberBarredFromTestingEVotingSystemsForNotFollowingProcedures.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/washington/04voting.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, January 4, 2007 U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting By CHRISTOPHER DREW A laboratory that has tested most of the nation’s electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests. ==========> 07-01-05-InfoWorld-RulesRequringIndependentAuditMechanismsComingEventually.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/05/HNevotingfix_1.html Changes in e-voting likely coming, experts say There's a consensus to do something, but it is ahead of the solution, one secretary of state said By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, InfoWorld, January 05, 2007 Rules requiring independent audit mechanisms for electronic-voting machines are likely coming, but the changes won't happen overnight, a group of advocates said Friday. ==========> 07-01-09-PittsTribRev-ComputerScientistsTryToUnderstandFloridaUndervoting.txt========== http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_487645.html CMU professor investigates vote By Rob Amen, Pttsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW' January 9, 2007 A professor from Carnegie Mellon University is one of seven prominent computer scientists trying to help the Florida Department of State determine why 18,000 ballots cast in last fall's general election did not include votes in a hotly contested congressional race. ==========> 07-01-11-Wired-FloridaUndervotingCaseStillNotSettled.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72452-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 House Seat Hangs by a Byte Wired, By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Jan, 11, 2007 As the 110th Congress settles into the Capitol building this month, one congressman won't be able to get too comfortable in his chair, with a controversy over the electronic voting machines that put him in office boiling down to a battle over the source code. ==========> 07-01-13-WashPost-LegislationMandatingPaperRecordGainsMomentumInMaryland.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202147. html Officials Warm To Paper Trail To Verify Votes In Maryland By Lisa Rein, Washington Post Staff Writer, January 13, 2007; B01 Legislation mandating a paper record to verify voting in Maryland is gaining momentum in the General Assembly, which might join a national movement to make touch-screen voting more reliable and tamper-proof. ==========> 07-01-19-InetNews-ElectionAssistanceCommAdvisedToCertifyNewTestingLabs.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3655001 Internet News, January 19, 2007 Congress Lights Fire Under Vote Systems Agency, By Michael Hickins The Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which is responsible for certifying labs that test voting machines, said yesterday it has been advised by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to accredit two new independent testing labs. ==========> 07-01-22-ChronHigherEdu-KennesawStateUnivManagesGeorgiaEVotingMachines.txt========== http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i20/20a02901.htm Georgia's Unusual 'Electoral College' Kennesaw State U. manages the state's electronic voting machines, but other experts question the arrangement By ANDREA L. FOSTER, Chronicle of Higher Education, [Accessed Jan.22, 2007] Computer-science professors are among the most vocal critics of electronic voting, often warning against reliance on the machines' accuracy. But a group of computer experts here at Kennesaw State University is taking the ==========> 07-01-23-FreeToTinker-DieboldWebsiteShowsHowToMakeYourOwnVotingMachineKey.txt========== http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1113 Freedom-To-Tinker Diebold Shows How to Make Your Own Voting Machine Key Tuesday January 23, 2007 by J. Alex Halderman By now it should be clear that Diebold’s AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines have lousy security. Our study last fall showed that malicious software running on the machines can invisibly alter votes, and that this software can be installed in under a minute by inserting a new memory card into the side of the ==========> 07-01-23-TechDirt-PacResInstAndHeartlandSayEVotingProblemsJustUserError.txt========== http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070122/221408.shtml E-Voting Critics Brushed Off As Wild-Eyed Activists? from the way-to-win-support dept, TechDirt, Jan. 23, 2007 Both the Heartland Institute and the Pacific Research Institute have long histories of questionable public policy positions. Both groups have been accused at times of being involved in astroturf or shilling campaigns for their funders, who usually remain anonymous. PRI, in particular, seems to have a habit of making really bad arguments in support of their position -- such as ==========> 07-01-25-BradentonHerald-QuestionsRemainInFloridaDistrictUndervoting.txt========== http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16538437.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 25, 2007 Questions remain in D-13 undervote controversy DUANE MARSTELLER, Bradenton Herald Staff Writer SARASOTA - What caused the 13th Congressional District race's large undervote remains a mystery, one that might not be solved without a thorough probe of the electronic voting machines involved, a recent academic study said. ==========> 07-01-29-CompWorld-NYSuspendsTestingAndCertifyingEVotingMachinesDueToTestFlaws.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=280967&intsrc=hm_list New York Halts E-voting Machine Testing Marc L. Songini January 29, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The New York State Board of Elections has suspended the testing and certifying of electronic voting machines after learning of flaws in the test methods of the company it hired to do the job. ==========> 07-01-30-VoteTrustUSA-ElectionReformLawHasFourMajorLoopholes.txt========== http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2226&Itemi d=26 Olde Fashioned Legal Loopholes Allow Rigging of Hi-Tech Elections By Howard Stanislevic and John Washburn, VoteTrustUSA, January 30, 2007 The following is a brief discussion of how election integrity can be compromised by taking advantage of loopholes in election reform legislation. The authors believe that any such legislation should be judged by its ability and intent to mitigate the risks discussed herein. ==========> 07-02-01-NYT-FloridaGovWillReplaceTouchscreenVotingWithScanners.txt========== Florida returns to Paper ballots New York Times, Feb. 1, 2007 DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1 - Gov. Charlie Crist today announced plans today to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida's largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election, instead adopting a statewide system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines. Voting experts said Florida's move, coupled with new federal voting legislation ==========> 07-02-05-Thomas-HR811-BillToAmmendHelpAmericaVoteActToRequirePaperTrail.txt========== http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h811_ih.xml 110th CONGRESS. 1st Session H. R. 811, To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper ballot under title III of such Act, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 5, 2007 Mr. Holt (for himself, Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia, Mr. Wexler, Mr. ==========> 07-02-06-CompWorld-RepHoltRenewsPushForEVotingPaperTrails.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=legislation_regulation&articleId=9010538&taxonomyId=70&intsrc=kc_top Congressman renews push for e-vote paper trails Holt wants to mandate transparency, chain of custody, verifiability Marc L. Songini February 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The U.S. Congress is again being asked to require that every e-voting device used in U.S. elections produce a paper receipt that a voter can use to confirm his ballot selections. ==========> 07-02-07-USACM-EVotingContinuesToBeOfInterestIn2007.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.1 February 7, 2007 ============================================================= [6] ELECTRONIC VOTING CONTINUES TO ATTRACT ATTENTION Electronic voting will continue to be of interest in 2007, an off year for most voting jurisdictions. In part, this is due to two main events that will unfold over the course of 2007. ==========> 07-02-07-USACM-QandAWithUSACMChairOnEVoting.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.1 February 7, 2007 ============================================================= [5] Q&A WITH USACM CHAIR EUGENE SPAFFORD ON E-VOTING Computerworld did a Q&A session with Eugene Spafford, USACM's Chair and Director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) on the security of e-voting issues. The ==========> 07-02-08-FeinsteinWillPursueRequiringPaperVotingTrails.txt========== http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/08/MNGN5O0KMJ1.DTL&hw=f einstein+will+pursue+paper&sn=001&sc=1000 Feinstein will pursue paper record at polls Bill would also require routine audits of voting systems Zachary Coile, SF Chronicle Washington Bureau, February 8, 2007 (02-08) 04:00 PST Washington -- The new Democratic Congress, concerned about the perils of electronic voting, is moving quickly to require states to keep paper records of every vote cast and conduct regular audits of voting systems. ==========> 07-02-09-CNET-USElectionOfficialsDefendEVotingTestingOversight.txt========== http://news.com.com/Feds+defend+oversight+of+e-voting+testing/2100-1028_3-615771 8.html Feds defend oversight of e-voting testing, By Anne Broache CNET Networks, Feb 09 02:38:02 PST 2007 WASHINGTON--Federal election officials on Thursday defended their procedures for evaluating laboratories that test e-voting machines, which have attracted allegations of secrecy and slipshod management. ==========> 07-02-14-DemosOrg-AReportOnTechnologyForAccessibleVotingSystems.txt========== http://demos.org/pub1312.cfm Improving Access to Voting A Report on the Technology for Accessible Voting Systems February 14, 2007, By Noel Runyan, Demos.Org Improving Access to Voting is a new report by technology expert Noel Runyan, published by Demos and Voter Action, that finds that state voting systems are widely noncompliant with federal ADA and HAVA access requirements for voters with disabilities. Twenty percent of U.S. adults with disabilities -- more than ==========> 07-02-14-InetNews-SenNelsonsEVotingReformBillCalledDisappointing.txt========== http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3659991 InternetNews, February 14, 2007 Senator Introduces 'Disappointing' E-Vote Reform Bill, By Michael Hickins Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who last week called snafus during a recent election in his state "a mockery of democracy," has introduced a bill that would ban paperless voting. Nelson, who represents the state that has come to symbolize election problems ==========> 07-02-14-SenFeinstein-CallForInvestigationInWakeOfFloridaUndervote.txt========== Senator Feinstein wants investigation in wake of Sarasota County undervote Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today asked the Government Accountability Office to launch an investigation of the electronic-voting system used in Sarasota County, Florida, in last year’s midterm election. The following is the text of Senator Feinstein’s letter to David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States: ==========> 07-02-16-Wired-PrincetonProfBuys5EVotingMachinesFor82DollarsInGovtAuction.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72742-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 $82 Buys E-Voting Secrets By Kim Zetter, Wired, 02:00 AM Feb, 16, 2007 For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. And now he's taking them apart. Princeton computer science professor Andrew Appel and his students have begun ==========> 07-02-19-WashPost-EffortsInCongressToPassEVotingPaperTrailIntensify.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/18/AR2007021801067. html Campaign Strengthens For a Voting Paper Trail By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Special to The Washington Post, February 19, 2007; A17 Efforts are intensifying in Congress to pass legislation that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines used in federal elections to provide paper trails that could be checked in the case of a recount. ==========> 07-02-24-NYT-DisputedStudySaysUserErrorWasCouseOfFloridaUndervote.txt========== Panel Cites Voter Error, Not Software, in Loss of Votes New York Times (02/24/07) P. A9; Drew, Christopher A team of computer experts from several universities has announced its unanimous decision that there is no evidence supporting the argument that voting machine malfunction was to blame for the undervote in the 2006 Sarasota County Congressional race. Possible explanations offered by the team, which was lead by Florida State University computer science professor Alec Yasinac and University of California, Berkeley professor David Wagner, were that voters could have touched the screen twice, erasing their own vote, or could have ==========> 07-03-00-CACM-WithoutProperModelsStandardsCannotEnsureIntegrityOrAccuracyOfVote.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 3 (2007), Pages 19-24 Viewpoint: Fixing federal e-voting standards Earl Barr, Matt Bishop, Mark Gondree Without a threat model and a system model, voting standards cannot ensure the integrity or accuracy of the voting process. In elections throughout the U.S., electronic voting machines have failed to boot, tallied 10 times as many votes as registered voters, and drawn criticism ==========> 07-03-02-Wired-EstoniaHoldsWorldsFirstNationalInternetBallot.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/evote/0,72846-0.html Online Voting Clicks in Estonia By John Borland, Wired, 02:00 AM Mar, 02, 2007 TALLINN, Estonia -- In the plush seats of a fireplace-warmed hotel cafe here, over a steaming cup of green tea, Veljo Haamer opened up his laptop computer Wednesday and logged into this country's digital ballot box. With his online vote for parliament, the entrepreneur helped make a bit of ==========> 07-03-05-AP-DieboldMightDumpItsElectionsBusinessUnit.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16837134.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 05, 2007 Diebold deciding on a strategy for its elections unit CLEVELAND (AP) - Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing the company's reputation. ==========> 07-03-06-USACM-AuditFindsNoEvidenceOfEquipmentMalfunctionInFloridaUndervote.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.2 March 6, 2007 ============================================================= OFFICIAL SARASOTA AUDIT COMPLETE; E-VOTING ACTIVITY CONTINUES On February 23, the State of Florida released its audit report concerning the contested undervotes in Sarasota County. Neither the state nor the audit team tasked with examining the voting machines found evidence that the machines contributed to the undervotes, the number of which dwarfed the ==========> 07-03-06-USACM-LetterReprintedInEVotingActivitiesOfKennesawStateUniversity.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.2 March 6, 2007 ============================================================= CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION PRINTS USACM LETTER IN RESPONSE TO E-VOTING ARTICLE In January, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the unique relationship between the State of Georgia and the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University. This quote captures the basic thrust ==========> 07-03-07-ACM-TranscriptOfEdFeltenTestimonyForVoterVerifiedPaperTrails.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2007/felten.cfm The Association for Computing Machinery ACM/Press Release. Last updated March 23, 2007 by Steven Geringer COMPUTER SECURITY EXPERT REINFORCES ACM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SECURE, RELIABLE E-VOTING Felten's Congressional Testimony Urges Voter Verified Paper Trails New York, NY - March 7, 2007 - At a Congressional hearing today on election ==========> 07-03-15-TechDaily-ShouldEVotingSystemsBeOpenToReview.txt========== The E-voting Question: To Open or Not to Open? National Journal's Technology Daily (03/15/07) Martinez, Michael A hearing held before the House Administration Election Reform Subcommittee on Thursday heard arguments both for and against making e-voting systems open to review. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) has authored a bill that would require election officials to implement an audit system using paper receipts and require e-voting vendors to submit their source code for inspection. Patent laws do not clearly protect voting-machine code, but violating the code's confidentiality should carry a penalty, says National Association of State Election Director's ==========> 07-03-20-CompWorld-FloridaOfficialsWarnedOfProblemPriorToContestedUndervoteElection.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9013787&intsrc=hm_list Florida officials warned of e-voting glitch prior to election Losing candidate says slow response times may have caused undervote in Sarasota County Marc L. Songini, Computer World March 20, 2007 -- A glitch in Sarasota County's electronic voting machines may have caused an undervote that Democrat Christine Jennings claims cost her ==========> 07-04-01-ArsTechnica-CongressConsidersAggressiveEVotingOverhaul.txt========== http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070401-congress-finally-considers-aggress ive-e-voting-overhaul.html Congress finally considers aggressive e-voting overhaul By Timothy B. Lee | Published: April 01, 2007 - 11:35PM CT | ARS Technica In the wake of last year's e-voting debacle in Florida's Sarasota county and the widespread publicity regarding serious security flaws in computerized voting machines, there is considerable political momentum for e-voting reform. We've previously reported on a reform proposal by California's secretary of ==========> 07-04-04-NYT-OppositionToEVotingGrowsInFrance.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/world/europe/04france.html?ex=1176350400&en=bf b2ff5f391dd00a&ei=5070&emc=eta1 The New York Times, April 4, 2007 Opposition to Electronic Voting System Grows in France, By ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS, April 3 — For France’s Socialists, among others, the coming presidential election could descend into a nightmare like last fall’s in Florida. This is the first presidential election in France to use paperless computer ==========> 07-04-06-UMass-RonRivestLectureOnEVoting.txt========== http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/04/06/News/ Professor.Lectures.About.Electronic.Voting-2827272.shtml Professor Ron Rivest of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department spoke at UMass Wednesday., Posted: 4/6/07 Professor lectures about electronic voting By: Andrew Trull, Daily Collegian Correspondent As the United States approaches the 2008 presidential election, voting systems across America are under scrutiny. Controversy over electronic voting machines ==========> 07-04-06-USACM-ADeeperLookAtEVotingReform.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.3 April 6, 2007 A DEEPER LOOK AT E-VOTING REFORM For the past few Congresses Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) has taken the lead on legislation to reform electronic voting. Each year his efforts have garnered deep support from the Democratic party, but each year the legislation stalled with no Congressional action. With the Democrats now ==========> 07-04-06-USACM-CongressContinuesToExamineEVotingReformProposals.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.3 April 6, 2007 ============================================================= ELECTRONIC VOTING UNDER EXTENDED SCRUTINY The many voting reform proposals that have been introduced in Congress are just one sign of the continued interest in voting reform expressed by ==========> 07-04-12-NetWorld-RivestSaysInternetVotingIsOpenToManipulation.txt========== http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/041207-dont-trust-internet-voting.html Don’t trust voting on the 'Net, speaker says By Tim Greene, Network World, 04/12/07 Cambridge, Mass.-- Internet voting is so open to manipulation that it should be avoided at all costs, according to a keynote speaker at this week's Usenix symposium on networked system design and implementation. “It’s voting by mail made worse,” says Ronald Rivest, a computer science ==========> 07-04-14-RiceU-ProjectToAssessEVotingTrustworthiness.txt========== http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/hackavote2004.pdf Hack-a-Vote: Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems [Accessed April 14, 2007] In a quest for election legitimacy, officials are increasingly deploying direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems. A project to assess their trustworthiness revealed both the ease of introducing bugs into such systems and the JONATHAN BANNET, DAVID W. PRICE, ALGIS RUDYS, JUSTIN SINGER, AND DAN S. WALLACH Rice University ==========> 07-04-16-InfoWorld-ResearchersBuildingFoundationForFutureSecureEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/16/HNevotingfog_1.htmlOpen-source project aims to erase e-voting fog Researchers building software they hope will provide a foundation for future secure e-voting systems By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, InfoWorld, April 16, 2007 Joseph Kiniry, a computer science lecturer at University College Dublin, seems an unlikely candidate to work on open-source voting software. ==========> 07-04-18-InfoWorld-USLawmakersCallForEVotingPaperTrails.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/18/HNevotingpapertrails_1.html Lawmakers call for e-voting paper trails Contested elections point to the need for paper trails on e-voting machines, but some worry about the consequences of hastily imposing new standards By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, Infoworld, April 18, 2007 U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday called for electronic voting machines to include paper trail backups, while a government auditor said better security measures for the machines are needed. ==========> 07-04-18-LinuxInsider-OpenSourceTransparencyAndEVoting.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56938.html Open Source, Transparency and Electronic Voting By John P. Mello Jr., LinuxInsider, Part of the ECT News Network, 04/18/07 "Everyone who is not paid by a vendor who has looked at existing electronic voting machinery has found significant flaws," said software engineer John Washburn. "Moreover, they've never found the same flaw twice. That tells me that that must be some defect-dense code. Not only do you find something every time someone looks at it, you find something new every time someone looks at ==========> 07-04-20-NYT-AuditFindsManyFaultsInCleveland2006EVoting.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20ohio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, April 20, 2007 Audit Finds Many Faults in Cleveland’s ’06 Voting, By BOB DRIEHAUS CINCINNATI, April 19 — An audit of last November’s general election in the Cleveland area has found that hundreds of votes were lost, that others were recorded twice and that software used to count the ballots was vulnerable to data problems. ==========> 07-04-23-AgenceFrancePresse-FrenchPoliticalPartiesCallForWithdrawalOfEVoting.txt========== http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=6 1906 Voting machines a 'catastrophe'--French parties By Michel Sailhan, Agence France-Presse, April 23, 2007 PARIS--Several French political parties demanded the withdrawal of electronic voting machines for the second round of the presidential election after widespread problems during Sunday's ballot. ==========> 07-04-24-USAToday-StateAndLocalElectionOfficialsOpposeEVotingPaperTrails.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-04-23-paper-trail-voting_N.htm Paper-trail voting gets organized opposition By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, April 24, 2007 WASHINGTON — State and local officials have begun a coordinated campaign to stop Congress from requiring a paper record of ballots cast on electronic voting machines, arguing it could cause more problems in next year's presidential election than it would solve. ==========> 07-04-28-CompWorld-GroupsCallForLawRequiringEVotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,92731,00.html Groups call for law requiring e-voting paper trail Grant Gross, ComputerWorld April 28, 2004 (IDG News Service) Members of VerifiedVoting.org and Common Cause called today for the U.S. Congress to move ahead with legislation that would require a verified paper trail for voting, as much of the country moves toward using electronic voting machines. Representatives of the two groups want Congress to act on the Voter Confidence ==========> 07-05-03-Guardian-UKExpertsQuestionReliabilityAndSecurityOfInternetVoting.txt========== Hacking the Online Ballot Box Guardian Unlimited (UK) (05/03/07) Bradbury, Danny A series of high-tech pilot projects gave some voters in the United Kingdom the opportunity to cast their votes over the Internet in elections on May 3, but experts are questioning the reliability and security of Internet voting. Despite security evaluations by the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) and the Electoral Commission, independent experts identified flaws in a least two of the election's pilot projects, calling them "catastrophically weak" and claiming it would have been easy to manipulate votes in some districts testing ==========> 07-05-04-CFP-Evoting-ComputerSecurityVsTheRightToKnow.txt========== http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/cfp2007.pdf Computer Security Versus the Public's Right to Know Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa, jones@cs.uiowa.edu Notes for a panel discussion on Electronic Voting Integrity Computers, Freedom and Privacy , Montreal, May 4, 2007, 11:00AM Abstract: Computer security requires that some information be withheld from the public --at the very least, passwords and secret keys. When a computer system is ==========> 07-05-04-CNET-FloridaDecidesToDumpTouchScreenVotingMachines.txt========== http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9715960-7.html May 4, 2007 10:08, Florida ditches problematic touch-screen voting, and now what? Posted by Declan McCullagh, CNET News MONTREAL -- Florida's decision this week to dump touch-screen voting machines is a good start, computer scientists said at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference here on Friday. ==========> 07-05-04-NYT-FloridaLegislatureVotesToReplaceTouchScreenVotingMachines.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, May 4, 2007 Florida Acts to Eliminate Touch-Screen Voting System By TERRY AGUAYO and CHRISTINE JORDAN SEXTON MIAMI, May 3 — Florida legislators voted on Thursday to replace touch-screen voting machines installed in 15 counties after the troubled 2000 presidential election here with a system of optical scan voting. ==========> 07-05-08-NYT-NTStateEVotingMayBeReadyByFall2008.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/nyregion/08vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, May 8, 2007 Electronic Voting May Be Ready by Fall ’08, Official Says, By JONATHAN P. HICKS Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, New York State could well replace its aging voting machines by September 2008, a co-chairman of the New York State Board of Elections said yesterday. Douglas A. Kellner, one of two board chairmen, said after a Congressional ==========> 07-05-08-USACM-HouseCommitteeLooksIntoFloridaUndervote.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.4 May 8, 2007 ============================================================= HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE LOOKS INTO SARASOTA UNDERVOTE A Task Force of the Committee on House Administration held a meeting on May 1 regarding the voting irregularities in Sarasota County's election for the ==========> 07-05-09-ACM-ACMApplaudsUSHouseEVotingReformLegislation.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/5_2007/legislation.cfm The Association for Computing Machinery ACM APPLAUDS COMMITTEE VOTE ON E-VOTING REFORM LEGISLATION Cites Passage of Provisions to Assure Security, Reliability of Election Process Washington, DC - May 9, 2007 - Barbara Simons, a member of ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM), sees today's passage of legislation by a U.S. House of Representatives Committee as a critical and much needed step forward toward reforming the e-voting system. Simons, who chairs USACM's voting subcommittee, ==========> 07-05-10-CNET-USHouseCommitteeApprovesEVotingPaperTrailsRequirement.txt========== http://news.com.com/House+panel+approves+e-voting+paper+trails/2100-1028_3-61825 90.html House panel approves e-voting paper trails By Anne Broache, CNET Networks, May 10 06:26:48 PDT 2007 All U.S. voting systems would be required to produce or make use of verifiable paper ballots in time for the next presidential election under a bill approved this week by a House of Representatives panel. ==========> 07-05-10-InsideBayArea-CalifSecretaryOfStateAsksUCToTestEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.insidebayarea.com/search//ci_5861659 Hackers, experts to probe e-voting Secretary of state launches review of machines By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER, Inside Bay Area, 05/10/2007 02:51:46 AM PDT In a backhanded dismissal of unmet federal promises to safeguard voting systems, California's elections chief is tapping hackers, computer scientists and technology policy analysts for what experts say will be the toughest review of voting systems in the nation. ==========> 07-05-11-Stanford-ThingsYouCanAndCannotDoInCreatingCampaignAds.txt========== Election 2008 and the Remix Culture Friday, 11 May (12:00 PM » 01:00 PM) Lauren Gelman, Stanford Univ. Things you can and cannot do when creating your own campaign ads or when covering the election. Lauren Gelman is Dean of State of Play Academy and the Associate Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. ==========> 07-05-16-InternetWormAttackedVoterDatabaseInFloridaDuringEarlyVoting.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9019560&intsrc=hm_list Worm attacked voter database in notorious Florida district Machine in hotly contested 13th Congressional district lain low by Slammer on first day of election, By Brad Friedman May 16, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The computer database infrastructure of Sarasota County, Fla., was attacked by a notorious Internet worm on the first day of early voting during the 2006 election, which featured the now-contested ==========> 07-06-00-NatlAcadOfEngr-BridgingScienceTechnologyAndPoliticsInElectionSystems.txt========== http://www.nae.edu/nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/MKEZ-744MLY?OpenDocument National Academy, of Engineering - The Bridge V-37-2 Voting Technologies Volume 37, Number 2 - Summer 2007 Articles Bridging Science, Technology, and Politics in Election Systems R. Michael Alvarez, Erik K. Antonsson ==========> 07-06-11-OpelikaAuburnNews-AuburnUnivResearchersTestNewEVotingSystem.txt========== http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=OAN/MGArticle/OAN_BasicArticle&c =MGArticle&cid=1173351577741&path=%21news AU finds success with voting system Amy Weaver / Opelika-Auburn News Auburn UNiversity, June 11, 2007 The Prime III voting system developed by students and faculty at Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has tested well on three separate attempts. ==========> 07-06-13-NYT-EVotingSystemForMilitaryPersonnelHasSecurityAndPrivacyProblems.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/washington/13overseas.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref= slogin&adxnnlx=1181776124-+9Inte+JI16gU84RP7k7Yw The New York Times, June 13, 2007 Casting Ballot From Abroad Is No Sure Bet, By IAN URBINA Over the last six years, the Defense Department has spent more than $30 million trying to find an efficient way for American soldiers and civilians living abroad to vote in elections back home. ==========> 07-06-14-CompWorld-USHouseDelaysVoteOnRequiringEVotingPaperTrail.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=legislation_regulation&articleId=9024785&taxonomyId=70&intsrc=kc_top Criticism grows as House e-vote debate delayed Co-sponsor Kucinich withdraws support for bill that mandates paper trail Marc L. Songini June 14, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Criticism of legislation that would require that all touch-screen voting machines provide a paper trail is mounting as its wait for a congressional vote grows. ==========> 07-06-19-CompWorld-USCourtProhibitsAccessToProprietaryEVotingCodeInDisputedElection.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9025252&intsrc=hm_list Court prohibits access to touch-screen source code Latest ruling in effort to find reason for 18,000 lost Florida votes in Nov. election Marc L. Songini June 19, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The drawn-out saga involving a disputed Congressional seat in Florida finished another chapter Monday when a federal ==========> 07-06-22-BBC-ReportWarnsOfEVotingThreatToUKDemocracy.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6229640.stm BBC NEWS, 2007/06/22 10:19:24 GMT E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy British democracy could be undermined by moves to use electronic voting in elections, warns a report. The risks involved in swapping paper ballots for touch screens far outweigh any benefits they may have, says the Open Rights Group report. ==========> 07-06-25-CompWorld-NYLegislatureKeepsStronEscrowRequirementsForEvotingSoftware.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Name=legislation_regulation&articleId=9025618&taxonomyId=70&intsrc=kc_top New York legislators keep e-voting software in public hands, By Marc L. Songini Voter activists had fought changes to e-voting software escrow laws June 25, 2007 (Computerworld) -- With this year's New York Senate and Assembly session now ended, local voting activists are chalking up a victory for the public at the expense of Microsoft Corp. and the e-voting industry. ==========> 07-07-02-KABC-CalifHiresHackersToTestEVotingMachines.txt========== http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=capitol_reports&id=5444235 Hackers Hired to Crack Calif. Electronic Voting Machines Latest Attempt to Ensure Voters Their Ballots Will Be Counted KABC By Nannette Miranda SACRAMENTO, July 2, 2007 (KABC-TV) - Are California's new high-tech voting machines secure? Some people fear that hackers could disrupt election results. Now a test is being conducted to find out if the system is vulnerable to an attack. ==========> 07-07-03-USACM-DevelopmentCommitteeOnVoluntaryVotingSystemGuidelinesPostponesNextMeeting.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.6 July 3, 2007 ============================================================= TGDC FINAL MEETING ON NEXT VVSG POSTPONED The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) was scheduled to hold its final meeting on the next version of the Voluntary Voting System ==========> 07-07-03-USACM-NewYorkTimesReportsOnTroubledOverseasMilitaryVotingSystem.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.6 July 3, 2007 ============================================================= NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS ON MILITARY OVERSEAS VOTING An article in the June 13 New York Times, describes the current status of military voting overseas. In brief, the systems in place to help service ==========> 07-07-14-PCWorld-CalifJudgeLikelyToOrderRevoteInMishandledEvotingCase.txt========== http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134572-c,legalissues/article.html Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Error A California judge appears set to nullify an election result voting down medical use of marijuana after an e-voting lawsuit. Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, July 14, 2007 3:00 PM PDT A California judge is likely to order a Berkeley city initiative back on the ballot because of local officials' mishandling of electronic voting machine data, a public-interest lawyer arguing the case said Friday. ==========> 07-07-20-NYT-RevampedEvotingLegislationLikelyDelayedUntil2012.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/washington/20vote.html?ei=5070&en=c7e28fc8b1ee bc35&ex=1185595200&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1184955218-lo5qrQfi2yzgVTZdCcjFdQ The New York Times, July 20, 2007 Overhaul Plan for Vote System Will Be Delayed, By CHRISTOPHER DREW Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are slowing their drive to revamp the nation’s voting systems, aides said yesterday. Under pressure from state and local officials, as well as from lobbyists for ==========> 07-07-21-NYT-AccessibilityNotOnlyHurdleInVotingSystemOverhaul.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/washington/21vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, July 21, 2007 Accessibility Isn’t Only Hurdle in Voting System Overhaul, By CHRISTOPHER DREW Democrats in Congress who are trying to redesign the nation’s voting system generally share the same goals: an affordable, easy-to-use system with durable paper ballots that can be used by the disabled without help from poll workers. But yesterday, as House leaders failed for a second day to reach agreement on ==========> 07-07-23-MediaNews-CalifWindsUpEVotingSystemsHackingTest-ReportToFollow.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6441197 E-voting systems `hacked' for flaws STATE OFFICER RUNS RIGOROUS TESTING By Steven Harmon, MediaNews Sacramento Bureau, 07/23/2007 01:29:39 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - In a nondescript storage room, tucked deep behind layers of security doors, a handful of computer experts have just wrapped up an intense two months of hacking or otherwise manipulating electronic voting systems. ==========> 07-07-25-CNET-SenatorsAbandonPaperTrailMandateFor2008Election.txt========== http://news.com.com/Senators+to+abandon+08+e-voting+paper+trail+mandate/2100-101 4_3-6198789.html?tag=item Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate By Anne Broache, CNET, Jul 25 13:04:20 PDT 2007 WASHINGTON--Democratic senators on Wednesday made another push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential election. ==========> 07-07-28-MediaNews-EVotingSystemsFailCaliforniaHackingTests.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6486946 E-voting fails hasty state review EXPERTS AND OFFICIALS DEBATE REPORT MONDAY By Steven Harmon, MediaNews Sacramento Bureau, 07/28/2007 01:30:58 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - Three electronic voting systems used by millions of voters in California proved vulnerable to hacking - votes were easily flipped and results changed - according to results submitted Friday by a team of computer experts who conducted a "top-to-bottom review" ordered by the state's top election ==========> 07-07-28-NYT-EVotingSystemsFailCaliforniaHackingTests.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/us/28vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, July 28, 2007 Scientists’ Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere By CHRISTOPHER DREW Computer scientists from California universities have hacked into three electronic voting systems used in California and elsewhere in the nation and found several ways in which vote totals could potentially be altered, according ==========> 07-07-30-eWeek-WhatTheUSIsDoingWrongWithEVoting.txt========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2164264,00.asp What the U.S. Is Doing Wrong with E-Voting By Lisa Vaas, eWeek, July 30, 2007 Another body blow was struck to the already lousy reputation of U.S. e-voting when the office of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen on July 30 published investigation results showing that three major e-voting systems are liable to having their accuracy, security and/or integrity compromised. ==========> 07-07-31-AP-FloridaOpticalScanMachinesStillSubjectToTampering.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6508961 Study finds Florida optical scan voting machines still flawed Associated Press, 07/31/2007 02:03:34 PM PDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. ==========> 07-07-31-MediaNews-EVotingSystemCompaniesAttackCalifHackingTests.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6505840 E-vote vendors attack critical state review MANUFACTURERS, OFFICIALS, ACTIVISTS ARGUE OVER RESULTS By Steven Harmon, MediaNews Sacramento Bureau, 07/31/2007 01:38:14 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - Voting machine vendors and election officials at a hearing Monday assailed Secretary of State Debra Bowen's "top-to-bottom" review of electronic voting systems for failing to consider real-world responses to potential hacking and vote-rigging. Voting-rights activists, meanwhile, urged her to ==========> 07-07-31-Wired-SenateToHoldHearingsOnEVotingSecurity.txt========== http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/senate-to-hold-.html Senate to Hold Hearing on Security of Voting Machines By Kim Zetter, Wired, July 31, 2007 Electronicvoting2 In the wake of the California report released last week showing that Red Team security researchers were able to hack voting machines from three of the top voting machine companies, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) announced today that the Senate Rules and Administration Committee will hold a hearing in September to examine the report's findings. ==========> 07-08-01-MiamiHerald-FlaVotingChiefToTestSecurityOfAllEVotingSystems.txt========== http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/188769.html Florida voting chief aims to block hackers Florida's top elections chief has found Diebold's voting machines could be compromised easily by hackers and is demanding a quick fix. Wed, Aug. 01, 2007, BY MARC CAPUTO, MiamiHerald The study by Florida State University found that, despite recent software fixes, an ‘‘adversary'' could use a pre-programmed computer card to swap one candidate's votes for another or create a "ballot-stuffing attack'' that ==========> 07-08-01-NYUniv-NYUStudyFindsStatesNotDoingEnoughToEnsureAccurateEVotingSystems.txt========== http://brennancenter.org/press_detail.asp?key=51&subkey=50088 New Report Finds States Not Doing Enough to Ensure Accurate Count on Electronic Voting Machines New York University, Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Research: Random Post Election-Audits of Paper Records and Machines Essential to Ensuring Integrity of the Vote ==========> 07-08-02-Reuters-BritainsElectoralCommissionSaysInternetVotingShouldStopForNow.txt========== http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070803/wr_nm/britain_election_internet1_dc_2 Halt "high risk" e-voting: British watchdog By Peter Griffiths, Reuters, Aug 2, 9:00 PM ET Trials of Internet voting at elections should be halted until officials address serious concerns over costs and the risk of fraud, Britain's election watchdog said on Thursday. Britain's Electoral Commission, said in a report that e-voting pilot schemes at ==========> 07-08-02-UCBerkeley-UCBStudyFindsCalifEVotingSystemsVulnerableToAttack.txt========== http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/08/02_evoting.shtml E-voting systems vulnerable to viruses and other security attacks, new report finds UC Berkeley, By Sarah Yang, Media Relations | 02 August 2007 BERKELEY – A review of software source code led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found security holes that would leave electronic voting machines vulnerable to attack. ==========> 07-08-03-USACM-CalifReviewFindsVulnerabilitiesInEVotingSystems.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.7 August 3, 2007 ============================================================= CALIFORNIA TOP-TO-BOTTOM REVIEW OUTLINES VULNERABILITIES AND DEFICIENCIES IN E-VOTING SYSTEMS On July 27, The California Secretary of State released the first of the reports from the teams conducting a top-to-bottom review of three of the ==========> 07-08-03-USACM-SenFeinsteinLikelyToPushBackDatesForRequiringEVotingPaperTrails.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.7 August 3, 2007 ============================================================= KEY SENATOR SIGNALS SLOWING OF E-VOTING REFORM On July 25 the Senate Rules Committee held a hearing on Chairwoman Diane Feinstein's (D-CA) e-voting reform bill, the Ballot Reform Act (S. 1487). During the hearing, Senator Feinstein said two key things: First, she is ==========> 07-08-03-USACM-TechCommitteeReschedulesFinalVotingStandardsMeeting.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.7 August 3, 2007 ============================================================= FINAL VOTING STANDARDS MEETING RESCHEDULED According to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) -- the body charged with developing federal voting system standards -- website, the plenary meeting originally scheduled for July 3 will now take place on ==========> 07-08-04-CompWorld-CalifMandatesToughNewSecurityStandardsForEVotingSystems.txt========== http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName =security&articleId=9029038&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top California moves to lock down e-voting systems Controls on three companies' offerings; ES&S decertified Robert McMillan, ComputerWorld August 04, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- California's secretary of State has mandated tough new security standards for the state's e-voting systems and curtailed their use, following an independent review of the technology. ==========> 07-08-11-SJMerc-CalifEVotingSuppliersTryToWinReapprovalBefore2008Elections.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6599890 E-voting companies scramble to win approval before November '08 By Niraj Sheth, Mercury News, 08/11/2007 01:36:18 AM PDT Sequoia Voting Systems and other e-voting companies whose machines were decertified last week for use in February's primary elections are under pressure to design new systems that pass muster in time for the November 2008 presidential elections. ==========> 07-08-16-AP-DieboldUnableToSellEVotingUnitAmidCriticismOfSystems.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6639214 Diebold unable to sell e-voting unit Associated Press, 08/16/2007 08:21:17 AM PDT NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Diebold Inc. said Thursday it has failed to sell its voting technology business, which is used in elections across the country, amid criticism that its voting machines were not reliable. Instead, the company said, it will allow the unit to operate more ==========> 07-08-16-Felten-DieboldAccuVote-TSVotingMachineSecurityIssues.txt========== http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/summary.html Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine: Executive Summary Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten [Accessed Aug. 16, 2007] For more information and the full text of this study, see http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting. The Diebold AccuVote-TS and its newer relative the AccuVote-TSx are together