Electronic-Vote Critics Urge Changes to System
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Voting activists on Wednesday enlisted computer experts, a trained monkey and a man on a hunger strike in a last-minute pitch to convince officials to improve the security of electronic vote-counting systems.
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More weaknesses appear in the Diebold electronic voting system that activists say could be used to rig the November election. The company says auditing procedures would catch any vote fraud. By Kim Zetter.
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So-called "paper audit trails" are unlikely to solve accuracy problems associated with electronic voting and would in fact introduce another potential problem to the mix, according to a report issued Tuesday. But even some critics of current e-voting tech are discounting the ITIF's take on the matter.
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Claiming that their government simply doesn't have the knowledge to do it right, Germany's venerable Chaos Computer Club has called for an injunction barring their government from deploying e-voting machines in an election slated for late January.
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A coalition of voting rights groups today called on the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would require electronic voting machines to have printers attached.
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Polls run by news sites to gauge public opinion of politicians are turning into partisan tools for political spin doctors. People voting, often repeatedly, in response to e-mails from their favored candidates can skew the results. By Louise Witt.
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Avi Rubin, a Maryland elections judge and professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, says the U.S. has moved too quickly to embrace e-voting and should take a step back to protect the sanctity of voting.
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Critics call the report obsolete, but a growing number of senators are pushing to adopt its recommendations.
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Experts say that when it comes to voting machines, usability issues should be as much of a concern as security.
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Questions over the reliability of optical scan ballots, which are marked and scanned like a standardized test, could slow down the vote-counting process, according to election officials.
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INTERNET and telephone voting should be dumped until ministers get a grip on electoral fraud, sleaze watchdog Sir Alistair Graham warns.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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A think tank warns that a backup won't improve electronic voting systems, just increase costs.
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With less than six weeks to go before the Nov. 2 presidential election, voting activists said officials still have time to set up a paper trail as a counterweight to an e-voting system they portrayed as wide open to manipulation.
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Inside the battle for a critical chunk of votes
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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND - Poll observers in about 6 percent of Maryland's precincts recorded 201 problems with electronic voting machines during the Nov. 2 general election, according to a report released Tuesday by TrueVoteMD.org.
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Just five weeks before election day, federal legislators are increasingly casting doubt on electronic voting terminals and demanding that touchscreen computers produce paper records.
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With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes.  -washingtonpost.com