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	Electronic voting in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the federal elections still use paper ballots, voting technology has been used since at least the 1990s at the municipal level in many cities, and there are increasing efforts in a few areas to introduce it at a provincial level.
		Such a process may not be used for an official vote without the prior approval of the committees of the Senate and of the House of Commons that normally consider electoral matters.
		Numerous problems were reported with the voting machines used, and Pierre Bourque of Vision Montreal called for some re-votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Canada (748 words)

	Electronic voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Electronic Voting Machines are used on a large scale in India (See Indian voting machines), Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States.
		A direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting system records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter; that processes data by means of a computer program; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.
		Vote data may be transmitted as individual ballots as they are cast, periodically as batches of ballots throughout the election day, or as one batch at the close of voting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_voting (1946 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Tech News: Electronic voting debated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Electronic voting alleviates the need for the traditional paper ballot to be marked and counted during election day -- but is not universally trusted.
		In Canada, we continue to rely on the paper-based voting system, while Americans are embracing technology to reform their voting system.
		Switzerland recently had success with its electronic voting process, where citizens were able to cast ballots online in a national referendum.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/TechNews/Canton/2004/10/30/pf-693339.html (529 words)

	Term paper on Electronic Voting Systems
		There is no doubt that electronic voting machines significantly eliminate the centuries old problem of paper trails that result in over vote or under vote yet it brings with it a baggage of newer problems.
		But electronic machines lost nearly as many votes as punch cards, averaging 2.3 percent over the last four elections." According to data provided by the Election Data Services, this means that for the year 2004 approximately 1.1 million votes will be lost translated 1.1 million people will be denied of their Constitutional right to vote.
		Electronic voting machines' inability to meet technological and legal requirement are not only issues for concern.
	www.termpapergenie.com /electronic.html (4466 words)

	For the Record: Electronic Voting
		But infinitely more worrisome is that the electronic voting companies getting the HAVA contracts are all incestuously connected and were funded by the extreme conservative Christian right.
		I remind everyone that the electronic voting machine companies are incestuously connected, and were funded by extreme Christian conservative Howard Ahmanson.
		Six electronic voting machines used in two North Carolina counties lost 436 absentee ballot votes in the 2002 general election because of a software problem, raising increasing doubts about the accuracy and integrity of voting equipment in a presidential election year.
	wilsonhellie.typepad.com /for_the_record/electronic_voting (3961 words)

	Electronic Voting Debacle \| The Register
		Diebold had changed the software used by the voting machines seven or eight times, without anyone examining it, and then after the election the company immediately overwrote the flash memory of all the cards used by those machines, so it is now impossible to know what the vote counts really were.
		All the voting machines use the same hard-coded passwords; in some cases, this password was set to "1111" (I think that's the sound of the collective jaws of security pros dropping to the floor).
		Voting systems must use open software and may not use wireless communications devices; further, any electronic communication performed by the voting system may only be outgoing, and only then to report vote totals.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2003/11/18/electronic_voting_debacle (3258 words)

	Electronic Voting \| DarrenBarefoot.com
		While this is obviously in jest, electronic voting is becoming a tremendous threat to democracy.
		Various cities in BC have used various models of electronic voting machines, usually optical mark-sense scanners that read marked paper ballots.
		My impression is that electronic voting (like most technology introduced into a process that has a perfectly functional, though low tech, system) is designed more to make the people supplying the technology more money, rather than to improve the system.
	www.darrenbarefoot.com /archives/2004/10/electronic-voting.html (444 words)

	PCWorld.com - Is E-Voting Safe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the electronic nature of the new voting machines, combined with their lack of a physical audit trail for each vote, leaves a hole that crooks with inside access could exploit.
		The Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project was established in December 2000 to study voting machine reliability and generate guidelines for future voting systems.
		Mike Alvarez, Caltech's cochair of the Voting Technology Project, says that "any jurisdictions that have made substantial changes to their voting systems are the places where the most problems are likely to occur." But that applies to adding paper-trail technology, too.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,115608,00.asp (2075 words)

	[Nfbofnc] Electronic Voting in Canada, Very interesting Article
		"People are finding it's a lot easier to vote on the Internet than by phone," said Church, pointing to the obvious similarities between = checking off boxes on a computer screen and casting a paper ballot.
		"As minister responsible for the Canada Elections Act, electronic voting is of particular interest to me," Boudria said in a news release.
		"Voting electronically addresses issues such as time and distance that sometimes prevent people from voting." Proponents of electronic voting have long suggested such a system might improve voter turnout, which has been on a dismal downturn in recent elections.
	www.nfbnet.org /pipermail/nfbofnc/2003-November/000106.html (757 words)

	CNEWS - Forum
		For voting, the appropriate level of technology is a paper ballot marked by hand.
		Electronic voting technology introduces unreliability and removes transparency from the voting system.
		votes for president, senators, congress-critters, often a few referendums, etc. Some of these entries can have over a dozen choices.
	www.canoe.ca /mb2/messages/cnewsf/877.html (166 words)

	Global Research
		In Ohio, computer voting fraud, vote tossing and voter suppression were the main methods.
		Vote tossing was simply the removal of Kerry votes and some third party votes.
		The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca grants permission to cross-post original Global Research (Canada) articles in their entirety, or any portions thereof, on community internet sites, as long as the text and title of the article are not modified.
	globalresearch.ca /articles/MEN412A.html (675 words)

	IT Business : Computing Canada
		The voting box IT infrastructure was supplied by PG Elections, an affiliate of PG Mensys, which has helped to run several elections since 1999.
		PG Elections deployed some 1,400 electronic ballot boxes and voting terminals in 604 sites, providing an electronic voting system in a majority of municipalities in the province of Québec (a number of others cities also voted electronically using systems deployed by another service provider).
		A voting terminal is a completely electronic device that registers votes using a touchscreen display, but the systems that failed during these municipal elections across the province were electronic ballot boxes used to scan paper ballots, which are then digitized and compiled.
	www.itbusiness.ca /it/client/en/ComputerCanada/News.asp?id=37614 (560 words)

	Voting Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voting was a public process where qualified citizens voted openly, either by voice or on paper.
		Voting machines are under increasing scrutiny due to their inherent non-transparency, which is why most countries have chosen not to use them.
		An electronic voting machine maker is battling a voter rights advocate in Washington state who wants to force the company to reveal the machines' software blueprint.
	www.ecotalk.org /VotingSecurity.htm (8498 words)

	ADD - Altri luoghi della democrazia
		Electronic Democracy Resources [Suzanne L. Bertin] - This web site is intended to provide links to online sources of information relating to electronic democracy as well as to serve as a repository for my own research on the topic.
		Electronic Voting - Summary: World-Wide E-Democracy Projects Page - a list of projects from around the world which promote tele-democracy.
		GOVNEWS - The International Govnews Project seeks to stimulate electronic access to public government information and electronic "open democracy" by establishing the framework for a dedicated government hierarchy on the Internet's Usenet news service where needed public information can be easily made available and discussed.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/3412/ald_ita.htm (2529 words)

	EFF: Breaking News
		Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined in this preliminary settlement agreement with Sony BMG this week to settle several class action lawsuits filed due to Sony's use of flawed and overreaching computer program in millions of music CDs sold to the public.
		The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of Prison Legal News told a federal court Wednesday that Georgia state prisoners should be allowed to receive material printed from the Internet through the mail.
		The law requires escrow of the source code for all voting systems to be certified in the state and identification of programmers.
	www.eff.org /news/archives/2005_12.php (3086 words)

	Electronic Voting Page
		Keller, A., D. Mertz, J. Lorenzo Hall, and A. Urken, "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine," in Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age.
		Manjoo, F. Voting into the void New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
		Manthorpe, L. Electronic Voting in the 2001 ACT Election.
	www.social-informatics.net /evoting.htm (1878 words)

	MovableBlog: Asides: Archives: Electronic voting in Ireland encounters criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MovableBlog: Asides: Archives: Electronic voting in Ireland encounters criticism
		As a political science degree holder, I oppose all measures that introduce electronic voting.
		Canada's system works nicely: place an X next to your candidate of choice, on a piece of paper, which gets counted by elections officials, supervised by scrutineers (y'know, people) from each party.
	www.movableblog.com /asides/2003/05/30/404 (74 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century: Books: Bev Harris,Beverly Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voting is a right that has been denied to many throughout U.S. history, but author Bev Harris makes clear in the book "Black Box Voting" that electronic voting machines open up massive new possibilities for mischief that could make past indiscretions seem small by comparison.
		This book does an excellent job of bringing to the public the insecurity of the bulk of the commercial electronic voting machines, and their threat to democracy.
		And since the release of this book, things certainly haven't gotten better; electronic voting machines of the type Harris talks about in this book continue to proliferate, and politicians continue to use the system to their own ends.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1890916900?v=glance (1760 words)

	Project Censored Media democracy in action
		While the technical problems with the voting machines themselves have received a certain amount of coverage in the mainstream media, the political conflicts of interest, though well documented, have received almost none.
		From the beginning of the year, articles expressing concerns over the security of electronic voting machines, and the lack of a verifiable paper trail, have appeared in newspapers around the country as well as in mainstream magazines.
		Since nearly 50 million Americans will cast votes on electronic voting machines during the coming November elections, security, and the verifiability of our votes, is undeniably important.
	www.projectcensored.org /publications/2005/6.html (1219 words)

	Lorrie Faith Cranor's Home Page
		I have also done research on electronic voting and a novel voting procedure called declared-strategy voting.
		Declared-Strategy Voting is a novel group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies, thus allowing voters to cast ballots that are both effective and expressive.
		Sensus is a security-conscious electronic polling system designed for conducting secure and private elections and surveys over the Internet.
	lorrie.cranor.org (1366 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 23: Issue 53
		Washington State was forced to implement a primary that required the voter to declare a party preference before voting for that party's candidates.
		When a voting machine wouldn't accept David Miller's nonpartisan ballot at Crown Lutheran Church in Seattle, a poll worker put his ballot on the side of the machine to be counted later.
		The two voting methods (paper vs electronic) may provide different results, based on the spelling on the candidates' name.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/23.53.html (3286 words)

	EVM2003
		A worldwide group of scientists, engineers, political scientists, legal scholars, and voting-rights activists are working on developing a PC based voting machines that will be easier to use, more secure, cheaper, and provide greater democratic transparency than commercially available voting machines.
		Votes collected at precincts are canvassed (aggregated) at higher levels.
		Developers want to demonstrate a voting system where all components are open for public inspection and debate.
	evm2003.sourceforge.net (705 words)

	Alaska Refuses E-Vote File Request - TechIMO News
		The Alaskan Divisions of Elections has refused a request by state-level Democratic party officials to access 2004 electronic voting data files - not just the reported election result data, but the actual database files.
		The argument being used by election officials is the data is contained in a proprietary file format owned by Diebold, thus the requested files can not be disclosed to the public.
		That's how they hope to figure out if the votes were registered and reported accurately.
	www.techimo.com /newsapp/i15731.html (201 words)

	Electronic Voting The stolen election of 2004
		In the 2002 mid-term elections, the Republicans "shocked" Democrats by solidifying their power in Congress, using the same fraudulent methods, along with new and improved fl box technology.
		They have been given millions of dollars by the Bush regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines that were just used in the 2004 election.
		Unless electronic vote tabulation is history, and these companies are driven out of business, it’s their country.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHI411B.html (2478 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Tech News David Canton: Electronic voting debated
		CANOE -- CNEWS - Tech News David Canton: Electronic voting debated
		Do you plan to file your tax return electronically this year?
		The push for electoral reform in the U.S. was triggered by voting irregularities in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/TechNews/Canton/2004/10/30/693339.html (587 words)

	Diebold Loses Copyright Case Against Indybay ISP : Indybay
		9/30/04: Electronic voting machine maker Diebold, Inc., today became the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it unlawful to falsely threaten ISPs for copyright violation when the copyright holder knows that infringement hasn't occurred.
		The memos suggested that the company was aware of security flaws in its voting system when it sold the system to states.
		The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which took on the case for OPG, argued that the memos were an important part of the public debate on electronic voting systems.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/10/01/24832.php (877 words)

	DIMACS Workshop on Electronic Voting -- Theory and Practice
		The workshop was a follow-up on the very successful WOTE I, and was informally referred to as WOTE II.
		The second rule to keep in mind is to get original receipts for all reimbursable expenses.
		If you're coming from abroad, check the latest visa requirements (they are changing all the time) and get an early start on obtaining a visa.
	dimacs.rutgers.edu /Workshops/Voting (405 words)

	Manifesto Multilinko
		I submitted identical stories about electronic voting in Canada to Slashdot and comp.risks (Risks Digest).
		Slashdot 2004-09-12 18:35:03 electronic voting in Canada (Index,Politics) (rejected)
		In the past two years that I've been signed up, I have yet to go to one.
	flame.cs.dal.ca /~akerman/blog/2004_09_12_archive.html (1346 words)

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