Findings of the Open Rights Group Election Observation Mission in Scotland and
England
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| The Open Rights Group cannot express confidence in the results for
| areas observed.
|
| The Open Rights Group (ORG) believes that the problems observed at the
| English and Scottish elections in May 2007 raise serious concerns
| regarding the suitability of e-voting and e-counting technologies for
| statutory elections. E-voting is a ‘black box system’, where the
| mechanisms for recording and tabulating the vote are hidden from the
| voter. This makes public scrutiny impossible, and leaves statutory
| elections open to error and fraud.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/e-voting-main/
Look how Microsoft took over New York to warn the state about the 'dangers' of
a transparent voting process. They changed legislation too.
Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
Related:
France to chose president with help of electronic voting
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| "Technology should only be introduced in elections if there is
| transparency, accountability and public confidence," said Mitchell,
| whose organization has monitored thousands of elections around the
| world. "Technology must enhance democratic principles, not inhibit
| them."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/business/evote.php
Open-source project aims to erase e-voting fog
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| The project involved vendor Logica CMG, but was eventually ended.
| The Dutch government decided to release the code under the GNU
| GPL license after stripping it of its proprietary elements.
|
| [...]
|
| The back-end software, written in Java, will run on Linux or Apple's
| OS X. The user interface, viewed through a Web browser, is "Google
| simple," Kiniry said.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/16/HNevotingfog_1.html
Congress finally considers aggressive e-voting overhaul
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| It bans voting machines that contain wireless networking hardware
| and prohibits connecting voting machines to the Internet.
| Finally, it requires that the source code for e-voting
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| machines be made publicly available.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070401-congress-finally-considers-aggressive-e-voting-overhaul.html
http://tinyurl.com/2c57o2
Tougher Standards Could End E-voting
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| For the first time, California is demanding the right to try hacking
| every voting machine with red teams of computer experts and to study
| the software inside the machines, line-by-line, for security holes.
|
| The proposals are the first step toward fulfilling a promise that
| Secretary of State Debra Bowen made during her 2006 election campaign
| to perform a top-to-bottom review of all voting machinery used in
| California.
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http://www.asq.org/qualitynews/qnt/execute/displaySetup?newsID=1289
Dutch FOI disclosures reveal the odd business of evoting
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| "The Dutch have had evoting for years, and it has always had pretty
| lax monitoring. [After the hacks were broadcast] the government
| got interested and started asking for checks on the software."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/17/foi_dutch/
Diebold Weighs Strategy for Voting Unit
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| 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.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIEBOLD_VOTING?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
|
| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows,"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
Polling places turn to paper ballots after glitches
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| Pennsylvania's Lebanon County also extended polling hours
| because a programming error forced some voters to
| cast paper ballots.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html
Would open source make elections fair?
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| I will line up and use a Diebold voting machine, like everyone
| else in Georgia, and hope that the vote count is accurate. But
| that's all it will be, a hope. As last week's HBO special
| revealed the machines and (more important) the system is both
| closed-source and easy to hack.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=834
Estonia votes via the Internet
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| Eligible voters then receive ballots for their area as an HTML site on
| their displays; an ActiveX or Java applet serves as the election client.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/85987/from/rss09
Diebold quietly repaired voting machines
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| The unpredictable freezes don't cause votes to be lost, officials
| said, but they confuse voters and election judges who sometimes
| wonder whether votes cast on a frozen machine will be counted.
|
| [...]
|
| 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.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines
E-Voting Raises New Questions in Brazil
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| Some Brazilians are lobbying the tribunal to switch from Windows CE to
| an open-source operating system for the voting machines, since Microsoft
| Corp., citing trade secrecy, won't allow independent audits to make
| sure malicious programmers haven't inserted commands to "flip" votes
| from one candidate to another.
|
| [...]
|
| Fontoura confirmed that Brazil is considering a move away from
| crosoft's proprietary code -- "We are studying the possibility of using an
| open-source program like Linux in future elections. This would make the
| entire process much more transparent and far less expensive," he said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060929/brazil_electronic_voting.html?.v=2
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