New Backup Voting System May Pose Problems
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Call it the law of unintended consequences. A new national backup system meant to ensure that millions of eligible voters are not mistakenly turned away from the polls this year, as happened in 2000, could wind up causing Election Day problems as infamous as Florida's hanging chads.
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Pentagon efforts to fix absentee voting problems among U.S. troops that marred the 2000 election have run into trouble as plans to use the Internet crumbled and a fax or e-mail balloting system draws fire.
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While most experts appear to agree that electronic voting has real problems, few argue that they could completely undermine the November election.
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Blog: A sweeping new proposal scheduled for a preliminary vote Wednesday contains criminal penalties for unauthorized sales and fraudulent uses of Social Security numbers, but are there too many exceptions?
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As officials investigated the human errors that disrupted Maryland's primary election, there were renewed fears yesterday that electronic malfunctions could cause even greater problems in November.
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Last month, a group of Princeton University researchers discovered how easy it was to inject malicious software into a Diebold voting machine, enabling it to flip votes between candidates. This isn't a new problem. You'd think the solution might be better cryptography, but just what constitutes "better?"
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Six U.S. states participating in Super Tuesday primary elections are at high risk for voting-machine malfunction or tampering because they don&#39;t have paper backups, according to a report released by the Verified Voting Foundation and Common Cause.
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The success of last week's primary election using touch-screen voting machines heartens officials in other states, where e-voting has been problematic. Still, the Silver State may be in a unique situation.
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Voters worried that an electronic voting machine might accidentally eat their vote on Nov. 2 would be better off pointing the finger of blame at clueless poll workers than at shiny new touchscreen machines, according to information released by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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Touted as the solution to the hanging chads of the 2000 presidential election, experts debate the reliability of software that operates the new electronic voting systems. -The Washington Post
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Poor software design, serious IT management inefficiencies and an untested deployment of a critical application were all major factors in last month&#8217;s Election Day problems in Denver, according to a scathing report from an IT consultant. The problems led to hours-long delays for voters looking to cast ballots and raised questions about the overall efficacy of e-voting.
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By Jennifer Davies, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Jun. 22--From hanging chads to computer glitches that mysteriously lose  thousands of votes, Lori Steele figures there has to be a better way to run  elections.
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Some voters say machines indicated they had voted for a different candidate.
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A team of e-voting researchers has released a report describing flaw in the e-voting machines used by 90 percent of Dutch voters. The report describes certain access problems as "strikingly similar" to those noted in Diebold's touch-screen voting machines last month.
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A think tank warns that a backup won't improve electronic voting systems, just increase costs.
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More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.
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Problems loom for the presidential election including voting equipment changes that could delay the outcome past Nov. 2, a group of international observers said Tuesday in a report.