E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy
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Unreliable electronic voting systems could undermine UK democracy warns a report
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Americans abroad, whose votes could be crucial if the Nov. 2 presidential election proves close, are being denied access to a U.S. Department of Defense Web site designed to make it easier for them to cast absentee ballots.
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SECURITY EXPERTS have rushed to warn the voting authorities in Missouri that a plan to allow the military stationed overseas to vote is shot full of holes.
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Groups fear that a vote amid persistent violence and a boycott by Sunnis would deprive the results of legitimacy.
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Ohio's e-voting systems are unreliable and insecure and should be changed, according to a new report done at the request of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
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Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a controversial decision by Missouri's Secretary of State: the state of Missouri will be allowing soldiers stationed overseas to cast ballots via e-mail. Their absentee ballots will be scanned and converted to PDF files, which will be emailed to the Defense Department, printed out, and then faxed to Missouri.  I'm in favor of helping soldiers vote; this is a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. Yet I'm deeply skeptical of this proposal, for two reasons:  The plan depends on e-mailed ballots being printed out and faxed by the Defense Department but does not provide any safeguards against soldiers being sanctioned for how they have voted;  The transmission method is inherently technically insecure
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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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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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Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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Prevention of terrorism cited as top priority but opponents claim vote is opening 'a pandora's box'.
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Call it Pandora's inbox. Late last year, Prime Minister Tony Blair invited the public to post petitions directly on his official Web site, hoping a dose of cyber-savvy would attract disenchanted voters.Comment
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Britain's unelected upper house may soon be replaced by something terribly untraditional: elected representatives!
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(October 7, 2004, 6:31 pm) For most people, their vote, or choice, is something to be protected and safeguarded. So if someone offers to &quot;buy&quot; a vote, others get understandably upset.
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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.
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Among the security concerns that have been raised is the possibility of someone being able to cast multiple ballots. Other concerns are about a sudden power outage and whether data would be lost in such a scenario.
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InfoWorld - Electoral districts opting to useÂ electronic voting machinesÂ face significant costs, some hidden, according to a new report from the French Internet Rights Forum.
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Online petitions could be used to decide issues to be debated in Parliament, David Cameron suggests.