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Analysis of an Electronic Voting System view detail comment email this

An expose of vulnerabilities in electronic voting software. The Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute reported on security risks of the Diebold voting system, and electronic voting systems in general, when they found the system's computer source code on the Internet. "This ... independent scientific analysis of voting system source code demonstrates the fallacy of the closed-source argument for such a critical system." The site has a link to Diebold's rebuttal of the report and responses to the rebuttal.
http://avirubin.com/vote/
Topics: 2003 California Recall Election, 2004 Presidential Election, Computers, Computers, Politics, Technology

Last updated Sep 10, 2003


Black Box Voting: Ballot-tampering in the 21st Century view detail comment email this

The somewhat complicated design of this Web site obscures its interesting and highly topical content, which includes the full text of "Black Box Voting," a book exploring the limitations of electronic voting software, with an emphasis on the Diebold system. The stories archive is searchable and browsable by month. Registration required to post comments.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/
Topics: Blogs & Podcasts by Subject, Politics, Technology

Last updated Oct 9, 2003


Politech: Politics & Technology view detail comment email this

The Web-based archive for a moderated mailing list about politics and technology. News and perspectives on intellectual property, free speech, economics, and related issues.
http://www.politechbot.com/
Topics: Politics

Last updated Jul 21, 2006


A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) view detail comment email this

"This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense's FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program). ... The authors are members of SPRG (the Security Peer Review Group), a panel of experts in computerized election security that was assembled by FVAP to help evaluate SERVE."
http://www.servesecurityreport.org/
Topics: 2003 California Recall Election, 2004 Presidential Election, Computers, Computers, Politics, Technology

Last updated Feb 17, 2004


United States Election Assistance Commission view detail comment email this

Website for this "independent, bipartisan commission created by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. ... It issues guidance about HAVA, adopts voluntary voting system guidelines, audits the use of HAVA funds, and provides best practices and resources to election officials throughout the nation." Find background material, information for election officials and voters, documents on voting system certification, reports, and related resources. Background documents also available in Spanish.
http://www.eac.gov/
Topics: Politics

Last updated Jul 3, 2008


Vote: The Machinery of Democracy view detail comment email this

This exhibition "explores how ballots and voting systems have evolved over the years as a response to political, social, and technological change, transforming the ways in which Americans vote." Topics discussed include paper ballots, the gear-and-lever voting machine, punch-card ballots, the Florida ballot re-count in the 2000 presidential election, and related ballot and voting issues. Includes a bibliography. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/
Topics: Politics, Technology, The United States Presidency

Last updated Aug 10, 2004


Voting Technology view detail comment email this

A directory of voting systems and equipment used in California's 58 counties. Lists for each county the county election official, the polling place machine type, the machine make and model, the absentee voting machine make and model, and whether the county allows early voting. Also features a color-coded map showing the voting system (optical scan; data vote, or punchcard; electronic ballot, or touchscreen) to be used by each county. From the California Voter Foundation.
http://www.calvoter.org/issues/votingtech/vtdirectory.html
Topics: California: Politics, Politics, Technology

Last updated Aug 10, 2004


Voting Technology view detail comment email this

Articles about electronic voting systems. From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), which "has been studying voting machines and the human-machine interface of voting since the 1980s."
http://cpsr.org/issues/vote/
Topics: 2003 California Recall Election, 2004 Presidential Election, Computers, Computers, Politics, Technology

Last updated Dec 2, 2008




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