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E-voting 'risks Fraud'
News The experts -- three computer science professors and a former IBM researcher -- said on Wednesday that creating an e-voting system that both guarantees that each person votes once and protects voters' identities is impossible with existing...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
E-voting Flawed In London Election, Say Campaigners
News Digital rights campaigners have repeated assertions that the May 2008 London mayoral election results were potentially flawed due to e-voting problems. At a Greater London Authority meeting on Thursday, called to examine issues around e-voting...
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
E-voting Is Too Important To Leave To Politicians
Talkback E-voting is an invitation to electoral fraud.
[November 6, 2003, 21:53]
E-voting Is Too Important To Leave To Politicians
Talkback E-voting is an important issue since it extends the possibilities for people to vote. However this is just the tip of the ice-berg in terms of e-democracy. The mission for all politicians is to extend the democratic process and encourage...
[November 20, 2003, 15:22]
E-voting Harbours 'major Security Problems'
News Electronic voting systems have major security problems and hackers should make it their mission to find the flaws, an e-voting critic told security researchers on Thursday. Speaking at the Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas, Rebecca Mercuri...
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
E-voting 'must Be Dropped'
News The Conservative Party has called for the government to drop any idea of e-voting in future elections This followed news that the government is not yet planning for another round of e-voting pilots. In response to a parliamentary question from...
[September 8, 2005, 17:05]
E-voting Gets Technology Thumbs-up
News The e-voting trial held in St Albans last week has been hailed as a success, although it doesn't appear that the initiative encouraged many more voters to take part in the local elections. St Albans council worked with Oracle and BT to design and...
[May 3, 2002, 18:04]
E-voting Is Too Important To Leave To Politicians
Talkback Call for voter-verifiable e-voting which can be properly audited and trusted by endorsing our resolution at: http://www.free-project.org/resolution/
[November 7, 2003, 10:22]
Digital Rights Group: E-voting Fit Only For X Factor
News The Open Rights Group (ORG), a digital rights advocacy group, issued a statement on Tuesday stating its "deep concern" at the government's response to an Electoral Commission report on the May 2007 e-voting and e-counting pilots.
[November 14, 2007, 14:19]
E-voting Harbours 'major Security Problems'
Talkback E-voting in a seated assembled meeting with a secure network is justified. Similarly, e-voting at a polling station has its benefits in terms of speed and accuracy of count. The problems associated with diverted post will be avoided but the issues...
[October 20, 2004, 15:54]
Florida E-voting Battle Breathes Again
News A district judge in Fort Lauderdale had thrown out the e-voting case on procedural grounds, saying it could result in undue federal interference with state sovereignty. Just 36 days before Election Day, an American appeals court has breathed new...
[September 28, 2004, 15:55]
Government Dismisses Call To Halt E-voting
News The Electoral Commission's call to pull back from e-voting has been dismissed by the government. The government has rejected the Commission's view that no further e-voting pilots should take place until the government has a comprehensive electoral...
[November 13, 2007, 10:24]
Halt E-voting, Says Electoral Commission
News E-voting has been undergoing a series of trials in local elections across the UK, but the Electoral Commission, in a report, said that no further trials were necessary — for the moment. The Electoral Commission suggested that the security of e...
[August 2, 2007, 13:49]
Report Gives Thumbs Down To E-voting
News The Open Rights Group published a report on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites during the local government elections last month.
[June 22, 2007, 9:16]
Digital Rights Group Slams E-voting
News Digital rights activists have attacked the UK government over its plan to trial e-voting in the upcoming local elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the group claimed that e-voting "does not allow for meaningful vote audits and recounts...
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
Korea Mandates E-voting By 2005
News Other parts of Asia have also launched pilot projects in e-voting, including Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In June last year, residents of Niimi, about 500 kilometres (310 miles) southwest of Tokyo, became the first city in Japan to use e-voting.
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
Government 'has No Timetable' For E-voting
News The DCA told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com e-voting technology will not be used in any elections this year and there is currently no timetable for when it will be used. The government will not use electronic voting technology in local elections...
[February 15, 2006, 13:55]
Belated Objections May Scupper US E-voting
News 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 US presidential election.
[December 8, 2003, 12:05]
Government Drops E-voting Trials
News The government has ditched plans for wide-ranging trials of Internet and SMS voting next year that are supposed to pave the way for e-voting technology to be used at the next general election. The e-voting trials were due to kick off in 2006 as...
[September 5, 2005, 10:05]
UK Gears Up For £18m E-voting Trials
News The largest ever trial of electronic voting in Britain will take place in next month's local elections, as the UK government gears up for an e-enabled general election. A total of 18 e-voting projects are being funded -- twice as many as in last...
[April 14, 2003, 15:30]
