Electronic voting: Moving beyond the ballot box
News Beneath the viridian green glow of a viewfinder flowed an inch-wide strip of paper that inventor David Chaum says will prove with mathematical rigor whether a vote cast on a computer in a ballot box has been tampered with after the fact.
[June 8, 2004, 16:20]
Electronic voting: Moving beyond the ballot box
Talkback If the final vision is one where citizens can vote on every bill, who needs government representatives?
[June 27, 2004, 16:51]
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News Electronic scanning technology to count ballot papers (Bedford, Breckland, Dover, South Bucks, Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Warwick District Council) Additional central polling stations allowing people to cast their ballot at convenient...
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
largely Microsoft business partners
Talkback Looks like stuffing the ballot box may not work for M$ this time. Might be a good time to start paying some bribes, er, I mean using PR.
[July 18, 2007, 14:59]
Re: Pros and Cons
Talkback The electronic system is still a black box, and it will keep records of the votes that could be reverse-engineered in a matter of moments instead of the work that it takes to audit" a paper-only ballot.
[January 31, 2007, 14:44]
Do Both
Talkback You then post it in the ballot box. In the event of a query, the papers in the box can be counted. I am also an IT pro, and I quite agree with the above comment. How about a system where you vote on a screen on a booth and it chucks out a pre...
[January 31, 2007, 14:10]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The SERVE project is designed to gather data on whether Internet voting will significantly help bring overseas citizens to the virtual ballot box. The issues have cast a cloud of uncertainty over the upcoming election season, forcing ballot machine...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Pros and cons
Talkback The electronic system is still a black box, and it will keep records of the votes that could be reverse-engineered in a matter of moments instead of the work that it takes to "audit" a paper-only ballot.
[January 31, 2007, 14:16]
Revealed: Blair's broadband wake-up call
News Once together, Richards' congratulations over the ballot box successes were swept aside by Blair, who was seized with the need for action. June 2001 was the date when broadband finally registered on the Prime Ministerial radar, according to one of...
[March 28, 2003, 15:17]
E-voting 'must be dropped'
News The government must retain the tried and trusted ballot box as the foundation of British democracy. The Conservative Party has called for the government to drop any idea of e-voting in future elections
[September 8, 2005, 17:05]
HP explains Hewlett ousting
News On Monday, HP asked a Delaware judge to throw out Hewlett's lawsuit, calling it "a last-gasp attempt by the apparent loser of a proxy battle to gain in the court what he apparently could not win at the ballot box.
[April 3, 2002, 11:55]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News A safe system is a pen and paper and a ballot box -- I would never say that anything electronic is perfectly safe. The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday) announced his intention to make online voting a reality within the UK.
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
Blair Witch: The buzz
News With such a huge customer base and the potential for a single bestseller to have a thousand reviews, I don't think it's really possible to run around Amazon.com stuffing the ballot box, so to speak; but again, you have to accept the information...
[October 22, 1999, 9:46]
