Poll probe 'blamed all parties'
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An election expert writes a letter to clarify his findings on who was to blame for the Scottish election fiasco.
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Not to blame, but not a fabulous idea Investigators looking into the cock-up that was the May elections in Scotland have issued their final report. Looking at the media coverage, you'd be forgiven for thinking they'd given the whole thing a clean bill of health.â¦
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All Conservative frontbenchers have been ordered to reveal extensive details of the way they use expenses
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A US House of Representatives ethics panel launched an investigation into a sex scandal that rocked President George W. Bush's Republican Party a month before legislative elections.
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The leader of the British National Party tonight claimed his arrest by police investigating racism in the organisation was politically motivated.
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An investigation begins into allegations of "electoral offences" in the Ealing Southall by-election.
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Senior officer in charge of criminal investigation claims officials treated him as a political problem.
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By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. (CBS/AP) The Kerry campaign filed a complaint Friday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group behind
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Mr Lepper has said he is the victim of a smear campaign Polish prosecutors are investigating claims that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper employed a woman on condition that she had sex with him.Comment
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s trial of e-voting and e-counting technologies during last month's local elections resulted in crashed computers and technicians scratching their heads while posing new concerns about the systems' security and reliability, a new report has concluded. In one area of England, a manual recount performed after e-counting equipment was abandoned because of delays turned up a raft of uncounted votes, said Jason Kitcat, e-voting coordinator for the Open Rights Group, which deployed observers to polling sites in England and Scotland. The group, which has been critical of e-voting and e-counting, has submitted its 64-page report to the U.K. Electoral Commission, which will publish its own report on the trials on Aug. 3. The Department for Constitutional Affairs, which oversaw the pilot programs, said it welcomed the role of observers but would reserve comment until the Electoral Commission publishes its report. The Electoral Commission also did not comment. The U.K., which embarked on a voting modernization program in 2000, held trials in 13 administrative areas in England. Scotland replaced manual counting with e-counting technologies for the first time. The government has backed e-voting technologies, including postal voting and Internet voting, to increase voter participation. Open Rights Group volunteers watched how polling stations conducted e-voting, but much of the process was opaque due to the nature of how e-voting machines work, Kitcat said. The majority of polling stations experienced technical problems, ranging from laptop problems to unreliable electronic registers, the report said. Employees of vendors whose equipment was deployed refused to interact with observers, Kitcat said. "No one would really say what was going on," Kitcat said. "It was all so mysterious." However, observers did identify potential security problems. The report includes photographs of PC workstations and hubs with open ports, a possible security risk. "Network hubs were left on the floor with power and network connections loose," the report said. "In one case in Edinburgh, a hub was observed in easy reach of attendees, with ports free lying beneath a table providing an opportunity for unauthorized access to the e-counting system's network." E-counting scanners proved finicky due to incorrect paper sizes, scanner sensitivity and trouble in handling low-quality perforations on ballots. The most curious error in e-counting occurred in a ward in Breckland, England, where voters were give two ballots: one each for district council and parish elections. Officials tried an electronic count, but came up with far fewer district ballots than parish ballots when the two counts should be roughly the same, Kitcat said. A manual recount turned up about 56 percent more district council ballots. "We haven't been given an explanation by the election official or suppliers," Kitcat said. In Scotland, observers noted that election officials could log into the e-counting software merely by scanning a bar code on their identification badges, which the Open Rights Group cited as another security concern. Some election officials were positive about using new election technologies, but "the lack of general technical understanding and knowledge about the e-counting and e-voting systems across election staff was perturbing," the report said. Â
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The Daily Mail today dismissed David Blunkett&#39;s claim that the media played a role in his downfall, saying he only had himself to blame.
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An Observer investigation in the United States has uncovered widespread allegations of electoral abuse, many of them going uninvestigated despite complaints of what would appear to be criminal attempts to manipulate voter lists.
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The Tories order a probe into alleged "irregularities" in a local vote to oust Sir Patrick Cormack as a candidate.
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House Republican leaders should have kept Democrats in the loop &#151; and now must conduct a thorough investigation &#151; about the inappropriate e-mails that led to Rep. Mark Foley's resignation, a top Democrat said Sunday.
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The real question may be how undecided voters are processing all the charges and attacks.
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LONDON, July 20 -- British prosecutors said Friday they would not charge anyone in a high-profile campaign finance probe in which former prime minister Tony Blair became the first sitting British head of government to be questioned by police in a criminal investigation.
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Democrats on Wednesday charged that the national Republican party was linked to a group accused of trying to stop Democrats from registering to vote in at least two Western battleground states, Nevada and Oregon.