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MIT to host Cal/Tech Voting Technology Project Seminar Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future
Hosted by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, a seminar entitled "Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future" will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the First National Symposium on Security and Reliability of Computers in the Electoral Process, held in Boston in 1986. The panelists will look back at the issues that first aroused concerns... »
Voting machine problems in Mississippi primary highlight national concern
In the August 3 primary in Mississippi voters experienced voting machine problems: candidates’ names and entire contests missing from the voting machine screens and equipment failing to booting up properly. Problems were reported in Hinds County, which uses the Advanced Voting Systems Winvote and in several counties that use the Premier (Diebold) TSx equipped... »
Unique Challenges of Election Administration
For most Americans the election has been over for two weeks, but for the state and local officials tasked with administering elections the process continues. Most jurisdictions are involved in the certification process, during which vote totals are confirmed, absentee ballots are tabulated and the status of provisional ballots are determined. Over half the... »
The Election Protection Coalition
The nonpartisan Election Protection Coalition was formed to ensure that all voters have an equal opportunity to participate in the political process. Through our state of the art hotlines: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (administered by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) and 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (administered by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education... »
Voting Machine Expert Offers Insights on North Carolina “Vote-Flipping”
Douglas Jones is a voting technology expert on the computer science faculty at the University of Iowa who has done extensive study of the ES&S iVotronic direct recording voting machine. In this interview he offers his insights on reports of straight-party voting problems on iVotronics in multiple North Carolina counties. Q: Are you familiar... »
Vote Flipping and Touch Screen Calibration
Again this election cycle, stories have emerged about “vote flipping”, most notably in Texas, where a video of erratic touchscreen behavior was posted on several sites, and in several North Carolina counties. (link, link, link, link) As voting technology expert Douglas Jones wrote several years ago, it seems unlikely that vote flipping is evidence... »
The Hill Blog: A Common Sense Solution to Defective Voting
Posted at The Hill Blog - read the entire oped. In a week, millions of Americans will exercise their most important civil right – the right to vote. But as surely as some campaigns will end in a deluge of confetti and others in popped balloons, there will also be problems with vote tallies.... »
Roger Johnston on Security Vulnerabilities of Electronic Voting (Video)
Roger G. Johnston of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory gave an interview for WTTW in Chicago about vulnerabilities in electronic voting and procedures to mitigate those vulnerabilities (see video below.) Johnston was founder and head of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 1992 to 2007. Roger... »
Express Ballot Delivery: Overseas Vote Foundation, Federal Express Announce Partnership
The Overseas Vote Foundation and Federal Express have announced an important effort to provide overseas voters with an option for express return of their marked paper ballots to election officials Stateside. (For military overseas voters, the Department of Defense is required by Section 580 of the MOVE Act to provide free express paper ballot... »
An Important New Proposal for Voting Machines
If you’ve wondered why voting machine problems seem to occur again and again around the country and what can be done about it, the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law has an answer. A report released last week by the non-partisan organization, Voting System Failures: A Database Solution, found that in... »
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