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	Electronic voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a term encompassing several different types of voting.
		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.
		Electronic voting systems can provide the opportunity for voters to not only verify that their vote was cast correctly (as with a VVPAT), but also that their vote was tabulated correctly with mathematical calculations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_voting (1995 words)

	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 (766 words)

	Dennis Kucinich on Electronic Voting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Electronic voting machines with meager security and significant technical flaws threaten to undermine our voting rights and thus the reliability of the election process.
		Using electronic voting machines to conduct elections is dangerous to democracy because there is no way of ensuring their accuracy.
		Without a "voter verified audit trail," meaning a permanent record of each vote that the voter can check to verify that it represents his or her intent, these changes might never be detected.
	www.kucinich.us /issues/e_voting.php (656 words)

	ACT Electoral Commission - Electronic Voting
		The ACT's electronic voting system, which was first used at the October 2001 election and was again used in the October 2004 election, is the first of its kind to be used for parliamentary elections in Australia.
		Electronic counting, which combines the counting of electronic votes and paper ballots, was first used in the ACT at the October 2001 election and was again used in the October 2004 election.
		The software for the electronic voting and counting system was built using Linux open source software, which was chosen specifically for this electoral system to ensure that election software is open and transparent and could be made available to scrutineers, candidates and other participants in the electoral process.
	www.elections.act.gov.au /Elecvote.html (551 words)

	Texas Safe Voting
		Voting system vendors are using the lack of disasters in the 2004 election to prove that evoting works well.
		The voting examiners are responsible for studying electronic voting machines and other voting technologies and recommending to the Secretary of State which systems should be certified for use in Texas.
		Electronic voting systems must have a voter-verifiable printed ballot to meet minimum standards for security, auditability, and election recounts.
	www.safevoting.org (3040 words)

	Electronic Voting and Other Election Day Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Computerized voting was supposed to be the cure for ballot fiascos such as the 2000 presidential election, but activist groups say it has only worsened the problem and they've gone to court across the country to ban the new machines.
		Voting is not a matter of personal expression but a serious responsibility for choosing what course this country will take in the years — and decades — ahead.
		The electronic voting system designed for the forthcoming American election is fundamentally flawed and could undermine the trustworthiness of the entire US democratic process, a scientist has told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.akdart.com /voting.html (8442 words)

	Voting Privacy
		The workshop covers the entire range of issues related to electronic voting from beginning to end, that is, from the point of capturing the voter’s intent to assuring an accurate final tabulation of votes.The gathering is open to the public, but participation will be limited to the invited panel participants.
		The League of Women voters convention held in Washington DC voted overwhelmingly to rescinded its support of paperless voting machines of endorsing paperless DRE voting machines to a neutral stand on all electronic voting technology.
		To make DRE voting systems accountable to voters and auditable in the event of a recount, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) has proposed a bill entitled the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 (HR 2239) that would require all electronic voting machines to produce a voter-verified permanent paper record.
	www.epic.org /privacy/voting (4827 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 (3251 words)

	Verified Voting Foundation : Resolution on Electronic Voting
		It is therefore crucial that voting equipment provide a voter-verifiable audit trail, by which we mean a permanent record of each vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter before the vote is submitted, and is difficult or impossible to alter after it has been checked.
		Voting machines should not be purchased or used unless they provide a voter-verifiable audit trail; when such machines are already in use, they should be replaced or modified to provide a voter-verifiable audit trail.
		Voting technology is an active research area that has already produced several proposals that promise to be much better than any system currently in use.
	www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org /article.php?id=5028 (1380 words)

	CNN.com - Super Tuesday puts electronic voting to test - Mar. 2, 2004
		Electronic voting made its debut in cities and towns from Maryland to California on Tuesday as election officials beefed up security for the record number of voters expected to cast e-ballots for the first time.
		Scattered technical problems were reported in the early hours as voters in 10 states, including California, New York and Ohio, went to the Super Tuesday polls to choose a Democratic presidential nominee and decide primary contests for congressional and state races.
		And the electronic voting trend is accelerating: In November's presidential election, at least 50 million people will vote on touch-screens, compared with 55 million using paper, punch cards or lever machines, according to Washington-based Election Data Services.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/03/02/e.voting.test.ap/index.html (874 words)

	Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualties \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Across the country, election overseers are now asking tough questions about electronic voting systems, which were sold on the promise of delivering more-accurate results than earlier methods, such as the punch-card approach that led to the hanging-chad controversy during the 2000 presidential election.
		As irregularities in the voting machines' software and hardware continue to surface, state governments and voter groups are lashing out at the makers of the devices, saying the companies have not followed through on assurances that they would provide federally certified systems.
		That vote, which was ultimately decided by 537 votes out of 5,963,110 cast, included a number of counties that used electronic voting systems, among them some that reported potentially consequential glitches.
	www1.cs.columbia.edu /~unger/eVoting.html (2321 words)

	IPTAblog: E-Voting Archives
		According to the CEC decision, electronic voting was to be used in 961 of 9,480 polling stations.
		The system does generate, if requested by the voter directly after voting, a private PIN code not linked to the voter which could be used to check the final control protocols, thus providing the voter with the possibility to confirm that his or her vote was recorded correctly.
		Florida officials will not require any recounts of votes cast on touch-screen voting machines during Tuesday's state primary, despite a ruling by an administrative judge that counties using electronic voting are not exempt from laws requiring the re-tabulation of votes in close elections.
	www.iptablog.org /evoting (4203 words)

	Electronic Voting
		Internet voting creates additional problems due to the inability of service providers to assure that websites are not spoofed, denial of service attacks do not occur, balloting is recorded accurately and anonymously, and votes are cast by the appropriate person.
		Florida's Congressman Robert Wexler and Palm Beach County Commissioners Burt Aaronson and Addie Green have filed a federal lawsuit, citing the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution and claiming that it is unconstitutional for 52 counties in Florida to have a means to conduct a recount, while the 15 touchscreen counties cannot perform one.
		Electronic Vote Tabulation Checks and Balances," Ph.D. dissertation, defended October 27, 2000 at the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. The title link here takes you to the thesis defense announcement and abstract.
	www.notablesoftware.com /evote.html (5152 words)

	Voting machine - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		See e-voting PR for a description of how electronic voting machine manufacturers and state governments have responded to legitimate concerns with corporate PR campaigns.
		Electronic voting machines have been installed in several states in response to a federal mandate.
		Furthermore, the programming of the voting machines is secret, or at least it was until Diebold's source code was discovered on an insecure ftp server and analysed by independent experts.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Voting_machine (1249 words)

	Online NewsHour: Electronic Voting -- May 5, 2004
		The commission Congress created to investigate the security of electronic voting machines said the software is not reliable enough for use in the 2004 presidential election.
		A look at the second wave of voting problems in South Florida, despite the state's recent $32 million investment in new touch screen voting technology.
		SPENCER MICHELS: Despite Shamos' reservations, some voting machine companies are in the process of getting printers certified, and legislation is pending in the U.S. Senate that would require all voting systems in the nation to produce a paper receipt.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/jan-june04/voting_05-05.html (1684 words)

	Electronic Voting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Submissions of news and information on electronic voting projects; cryptographic voting protocols; the use of electronic voting by both governments and non-governmental organizations; and relevant articles, books, Web sites, seminars, and conferences are welcome.
		Sensus is a security-conscious electronic polling system designed for conducting secure and private elections and surveys over the Internet.
		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.
	lorrie.cranor.org /voting (317 words)

	USATODAY.com - Electronic voting can zap skeptics concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Meanwhile, as is typical, the people in Washington who could help ease the transition to electronic voting and resolve doubts about its efficacy are busy issuing federal mandates but not the money to carry them out.
		Granted, a vote is more sacrosanct than a credit-card number or the right price for a pound of bananas.
		One thing that prodded Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox into pushing for touch-screen voting was the knowledge that her state had many more uncounted ballots in 2000 than Florida did.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2004-03-01-voting-edit_x.htm (1012 words)

	VerifiedVoting.org : Index
		The study, over a year in the making, was conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, in cooperation with an array of experts from government, academia, and elsewhere.
		The report identifies 120 potential threats to voting technologies currently in use and recommends effective countermeasures to defend against those threats.
		It is time for Congress to pass legislation to require secure, auditable voting systems, and for the Federal Elections Assistance Commission to get serious about developing standards that deal with the very real threats to our voting systems." Read more...
	www.verifiedvoting.org (707 words)

	electronic voting and Democracy
		For non US citizen: Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is a Federal law encouraging, and even subsidizing, the use of electronic voting systems by the states.
		Although a lot of the public-relations window-dressing was pitched in terms of enabling disabled persons to vote (a rather dubious claim), the heavy lifting was done by a consortium of defense contractors and voting-machine companies, which same group has now launched a public relations campaign touting computer voting.
		More recently, amid Congressional moves to amend HAVA, ITAA escalated and established a group (made up of electronic voting machine companies) to "raise the profile" of electronic voting, and peddle its "benefits" to the American public.
	www.electronic-vote.org /TERMINI/chivuole_en.php (426 words)

	Online Journal
		Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy
		Electronic voting minus paper trails makes it easy to rig elections
		Voting industry insiders hold secret meeting to hire PR firm to sell electronic voting to public
	onlinejournal.com /evoting (390 words)

	CIS: Electronic Voting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cryptography and Information Security research group of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science has a long-standing interest in electronic voting and the security of voting technology.
		For any information on using EVOX, how EVOX works, or on electronic voting in general, please don't hesitate to contact Ben Adida.
		Rachel Greenstadt has prepared a short bibliography of research on electronic voting.
	theory.lcs.mit.edu /~cis/voting/voting.html (437 words)

	BNA's Web Watch - Electronic Voting
		Report on the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda, March 2001.
		Analysis of an Electronic Voting System from researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice University (PDF 400k)
		The FEC Proposed Voting Systems Standard Update A Detailed Comment by Dr. Rebecca Mercuri Submitted to the Federal Election Commission on September 10, 2001 in accordance with Federal Register FEC Notice 2001-9, Vol.
	www.bna.com /webwatch/evoting.htm (404 words)

	Ronald L. Rivest : Voting Resources Page !
		This collection is idiosyncratic and not intended to be more than a personal collection made publicly available; it is not intended to be comprehensive, representative, or balanced in any particular way.
		Electronic Voting Records - An Assessment (April 2004).
		Special issue of CryptoBytes (Fall 2004) on electronic voting.
	theory.lcs.mit.edu /~rivest/voting/index.html (680 words)

	Electronic Voting in Travis County, Texas
		Vote Travis Vote turn to the spirit of freedom!
		Voters coming to the polls to cast their vote in upcoming elections once again will use Travis County’s eSlate™, the newest in Direct Record Electronic (DRE), state-of-the-art voting systems.
		The really good news is that no computer experience is needed to vote on the eSlate system.
	www.co.travis.tx.us /county_clerk/election/eSlate/default.asp (240 words)

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