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Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?
Video At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, California secretary of state Debra Bowen says open-source software can help improve security in voting systems. Even with built-in security measures, though, potential human error among thousands of...
[August 19, 2009, 15:34]
FBI scrutinises e-voting hack
News Local and federal authorities including the FBI are investigating an intrusion into a computer network at an e-voting software company, which suspects the hack was politically motivated. It's also, e-voting critics would say, about security.
[December 31, 2003, 8:05]
E-voting firms fight bad press
News As electronic voting machines prepare to go to the polls in large numbers, major vendors are collaborating to shore up support for them. Advanced Voting Solutions, Diebold Election Systems, Hart InterCivic, Sequoia Voting Systems, Election Systems...
[December 10, 2003, 11:00]
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]
E-voting company faces congressional inquiry
News Diebold, which makes touch-screen voting machines in use around the world, on Monday reiterated its withdrawal of copyright takedown notices directed at numerous Internet service providers with subscribers who posted copies of its internal email...
[December 2, 2003, 11:10]
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 'risks fraud'
News Four computer security experts have warned proponents of Internet voting that such systems cannot be secured against fraud. The experts -- three computer science professors and a former IBM researcher -- said on Wednesday that creating an e-voting...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Michael Moore attacks e-voting
News Controversial US documentary maker and author Michael Moore has lambasted electronic voting machines being used in some US states, claiming the technology is inherently open to misuse. in London's Palladium theatre on Sunday, Moore attacked one of...
[November 10, 2003, 15:10]
Electronic voting 'insecure,' say researchers
News University researchers delivered a serious blow to the current crop of electronic voting systems in an analysis of one such system's source code in which they concluded that a voter could cast unlimited ballots without detection.
[July 25, 2003, 11:52]
Online voting can't be trusted on standard PCs
News However, election fraud on a mass scale is difficult, costly and hard to conceal in old-fashioned physical voting systems. Gartner believes that until trustable computing platforms are widely available in standard PCs, online voting will require...
[March 8, 2004, 11:35]
Korea mandates e-voting by 2005
News Korea will be the first country in Asia to introduce an electronic voting system for all political elections, starting in 2005. The new voting system will begin on a trial basis from next year, when the government allows local citizens to vote on...
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
Halt e-voting, says Electoral Commission
News Trials of electronic voting and vote-counting should be halted until the government can come up with a good reason for using the technology, the Electoral Commission has said. E-voting has been undergoing a series of trials in local elections...
[August 2, 2007, 13:49]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News Thirty local councils will be piloting new voting technology at local and mayoral elections in May. Voters in Liverpool and Sheffield will be the first to trial text message and digital TV voting in this year's local elections.
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Government 'has no timetable' for e-voting
News The government will not use electronic voting technology in local elections this year because of concerns about security. The DCA told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com e-voting technology will not be used in any elections this year and there is...
[February 15, 2006, 13:55]
E-voting source code posted online
News VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes.
[April 7, 2004, 10:55]
Complexity of voting procedure
Talkback We have had some reaction to this story from Ditesh Kumar, one of the OpenMalaysia bloggers, who maintains the OOXML voting table in the story. I, along with other OpenMalaysia bloggers, maintain the OOXML voting table referenced in your article...
[March 27, 2008, 9:20]
Digital TV to play e-voting role
News The interactive TV trial is one of many e-voting experiments taking place in May's local elections, and it has a particular focus on improving turnout. E-voting trials were held in last year's local elections, and while they were a technological...
[April 17, 2003, 15:43]
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]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News The only US presidential contest in 2004 to use Internet voting was completed without a hitch, the Michigan Democratic Party said on Monday. In addition to the online voting option, Michigan residents could vote in person or through the mail.
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
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]
