tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60653002011-07-30T23:40:02.917-04:00Black Box NotesOut of the box talesMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-26330221028786056542010-04-04T07:14:00.000-04:002010-04-04T07:14:18.193-04:00TV Stands Tips for Your EntertainmentTV stands have almost certainly recognized not only for its necessity in mounting plasma or LCD TVs, but for its chic appeal in the household. Especially when you're the type who's into television viewing or extreme gaming during your leisure time, TV stands should always function for your needs. Some TV stands offer extra-large cable-management cutouts so cables can be routed through the back ofMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1081639662142305512004-04-10T19:27:00.000-04:002004-04-10T19:31:33.436-04:00Happy Easter!Some holidays visits and a broken DSL connection add together to equal a few days off for me. DSL is supposed to be fixed Tuesday afternoon sometime, so I'll probably not be posting much until late Tuesday or early Wednesday.On the bright side, this will give me some time for some off-line projects as well as time to get my second computer back together. Who knows, ... maybe I'll Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1081390862252084142004-04-07T22:21:00.000-04:002004-04-07T22:24:49.700-04:00From Benedict@Large:The Perfect AlibiI've been absent for a few days. I've been working on a malor article over at Benedict@Large, my other blog. At about 5,000 words, these things take a few days to write. It doesn't have anything to do with "black box" issues, but I think that you may find it interesting.Largely unreported or under-reported at least in the U.S. press, the Bush administration Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1081104696586090102004-04-04T14:51:00.000-04:002004-04-04T14:55:19.826-04:00Washington Post:In the Heat of the Campaign"AN UNPRECEDENTED criminal enterprise designed to impermissibly affect a presidential election." That was the heated accusation leveled last week by the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee against the Kerry campaign, an array of outside Democratic groups working to defeat President Bush and several big donors to those groups. The Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1081104050124715032004-04-04T14:40:00.000-04:002004-04-04T14:44:32.890-04:00New York Times:The Confusion Over Voter IDn last month's Florida presidential primary, Fort Myers polling places had signs saying voters could not vote without photo ID, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida The problem is, the signs were wrong. ...* * *Voter ID laws must strike a balance between preventing voter fraud and not making it unduly difficult to vote. Without a Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080974850963684542004-04-03T01:47:00.000-05:002004-04-03T01:51:11.593-05:00Alan Bisbort:Who Counts the Votes?Too many questions, too little time, too much riding on the outcome. Clarke's book is bad news for Bush."It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes."~ Joseph Stalin It should be all over for the Bush administration by now. Richard Clarke's damning testimony in front of the 9/11 commission has stood up to scrutiny, and been corroborated by othersMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080704819468566552004-03-30T22:46:00.000-05:002004-03-30T22:50:35.763-05:00New to "Friends of Black Box Notes"A welcome to corrente, the newest "friend" of Black Box Notes. corrente is a group of four bloggers who between themselves keep a fine eye on what is happening. Drop by for sure and check out what they are doing."Friends" are those blogs that link in their sidebars to Black Box Notes.Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080662376304954402004-03-30T10:59:00.001-05:002004-03-30T11:03:38.610-05:00The View from BenedictJust a personal observation: As Dr. Valelly mentions in the below article, "In our elections, we don't count everything well. We have a lot of error." I think that this is a key factor in our sometimes inability to communicate our concerns to elections officials (and others). The fact of the matter is that these people are in an environment where they have gotten used to Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080662353647487602004-03-30T10:59:00.000-05:002004-03-30T11:02:49.750-05:00Stub: Will history repeat itself?Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080658319524366722004-03-30T09:51:00.000-05:002004-03-30T09:55:35.640-05:00AccuPoll Press ReleaseAccuPoll Receives Federal QualificationFor Electronic Voting SystemTUSTIN, CA -- March 26, 2004-- AccuPoll (OTCBB:ACUP), a developer of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems, today announced the federal qualification of its voting system by the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), the organization that oversees standards established by the Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080657349454010302004-03-30T09:35:00.000-05:002004-03-30T09:39:25.140-05:00Axis of Logic:The Ballots are Still Full of HolesAn interesting review of the eVote controversy with of course the distinctly progressive tone expected from Axis of Logic. The various concerns are presented fairly, if perhaps briefly, though the assessment that the controversy "has pretty much stopped voting reform dead in its tracks" is somewhat overstated. Clearly however, the reforms will not Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080610350622644822004-03-29T20:32:00.000-05:002004-03-29T20:36:05.466-05:00MAKING VOTES COUNTWhen the Umpires Take SidesA New York Times SeriesWhen Katherine Harris had to decide which candidate won Florida in 2000, many people were disturbed to learn she was both the state's top elections official and co-chairwoman of the Florida Bush-Cheney campaign. This year, that kind of unhealthy injection of partisanship into the administration of a presidential election could Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080509416719967502004-03-28T16:30:00.000-05:002004-03-28T16:41:08.263-05:00The View from BenedictThat'll teach me!After a week off of the Black Box Voting circuit, I've just spent ten hours trying to catch up. Over three dozen new articles posted including new editorials from both the New York Times and Washington Post. Quite an effort, and I'm still not quite done. What follows however is something worth commenting upon.Having so many articles to post, I've organized Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080504364555902282004-03-28T15:06:00.000-05:002004-03-28T15:09:38.090-05:00North Carolina Round-UpFri, Mar. 28, 2004 ~Electronic voting tamperingis said to be unlikely hereThe 2000 election debacles in Florida and Georgia shook some voters' confidence in the elections system, but North Carolina State Board of Elections Director Gary Bartlett said voters have been protected from similar events here since 1994.The term "pregnant chad," which became common knowledge after Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080502584225264072004-03-28T14:36:00.000-05:002004-03-28T14:39:57.436-05:00California Round-UpSun, Mar. 21, 2004 ~Multi-Precinct Polls Blamed for Mix-UpMislabeled log books at voting stations that doubled up led to some wrong ballots given out in March primary, workers say.Orange County poll workers say breakdowns in training on new electronic voting machines contributed to thousands of voters receiving the wrong ballots March 2.Literature issued to polling place Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080499909954713692004-03-28T13:51:00.000-05:002004-03-28T13:55:23.560-05:00Ohio/Mid-West Round-UpSun, Mar. 21, 2004 ~Voting with new machines 'went wonderfully,' official saysCARMI, Ill. - Voters in White County used an optical scan voting system for the first time in Tuesday's primary election, leaving behind the old punch card system.* * *"It went wonderfully," said White County Clerk Paula Dozier. "Things went off like clockwork. With the new system, it took only Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080498024046645992004-03-28T13:20:00.000-05:002004-03-28T13:23:57.343-05:00Texas/Louisiana Round-UpSat, Mar. 20, 2004 ~Election claims create buzzThe Kenner mayoral race is over and the day to challenge the results has passed, but some residents remain abuzz over allegations of election-day improprieties at the polling stations.In a letter Wednesday to the Louisiana attorney general and secretary of state, Police Chief Nick Congemi, who lost the March 9 contest to City Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080495609023157042004-03-28T12:40:00.000-05:002004-03-28T12:43:42.076-05:00Maryland Round-UpSun, Mar. 28, 2004 ~Washington Post:Voting for Better VotingMARYLAND LEGISLATORS are moving to address a serious defect in the touch-screen voting machines that the state has been introducing over the last several elections. The problem, pointed out by experts studying the system, is that glitches in the machines' programming could be difficult to detect. Because votes are Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080493622670842822004-03-28T12:07:00.000-05:002004-03-28T12:10:36.030-05:00Florida Round-UpSun, Mar. 21, 2004 ~Florida remains vulnerableto Election Day problemsDuring this month's Democratic presidential primary in Florida, an elections staffer in Polk County mistakenly gave five voters extra ballots - giving them the chance to vote twice.In Bay County in the Panhandle, a technical error gave Richard Gephardt more votes than presumptive nominee John Kerry - even thoughMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080488416314510642004-03-28T10:40:00.000-05:002004-03-28T10:44:40.920-05:00Changing How We VoteSeattle Times:E-voting is inevitable, despite flawsE-voting is inevitable, simply because it is so much more efficient. More significant, it's a system that generally works and whose flaws can be fixed.Imagine if your grocery store told you it wasn't giving out receipts any more because everything is scanned and the computer is never wrong.Or what if your bank decided to quit Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080480028396955892004-03-28T08:20:00.000-05:002004-03-28T08:24:01.403-05:00Internet Voting Rejected -- Twice
Wisconsin:Internet voting not likely in stateElections Board official cites security concerns"We wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole," said Shane Falk, a Madison lawyer and chairman of the state board."As long as I'm chairman, or even on the board, we will not see Internet voting in Wisconsin. There are just too many problems with it."Louisiana:Online votingMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080477495855863222004-03-28T07:38:00.000-05:002004-03-28T07:41:48.653-05:00Selection Or Election:Vending Machine Voting -- for the elite A new(?) eVote advocacy site. I haven't spent a lot of time checking it out, but it appears to consist of a lot of extensive excepts from various publications on the subject including Bev Harris' book. [Great artwork, by the way.][Via Paper Vote Canada.]Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080476423951097362004-03-28T07:20:00.000-05:002004-03-28T07:23:56.903-05:00Oak Park Coalition for Truth & JusticeE-Voting -- Proposed Strategies forSafeguarding the Electoral ProcessAn issues/response summary by Kevin McDermott If you want to see what a professional paper on this subject reads like, this is probably as good as you'll find. In reviewing a December symposium called "Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems", McDermott addresses the role of Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080472974665033692004-03-28T06:22:00.000-05:002004-03-28T07:23:30.373-05:00Oakland Tribune:Diebold vows to fix e-vote problemsThe president of Diebold Election Systems pledged Wednesday to fix multiple problems plaguing its oldest touchscreen-voting customer on the West Coast.Officials in Alameda County, purchaser of a $12.7 million Diebold electronic-voting system in May 2002, reserved judgment on whether the McKinney, Texas, firm is capable of delivering on its Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080471371242155422004-03-28T05:56:00.000-05:002004-03-28T05:59:44.360-05:00Paper Vote Canada has a brief post up referencing Wyle Labs:Who certifies electronic voting machines in the US?Wyle Laboratories and Ciber Inc.And what are their qualifications?As far as I know, they have none. They're just a couple guys who one day decided "hey, I think I will certify electronic voting machines".Unfortunately, that characterization of Wyle is a bit off. If you are interested in Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080468893909376362004-03-28T05:14:00.000-05:002004-03-28T05:18:26.793-05:00The Open Voting Consortium will be holding a demomonstration of their software [press release] on April 1, 2004 in Santa Clara County, CA. An on-line demo of their software including paper ballot (image) production and audio read-back can be found here.The Open Voting Consortiun is an open source development project on SourceForge.net. Once completed, the software will be free for use by any Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1080466732103897182004-03-28T04:38:00.000-05:002004-03-28T04:42:24.716-05:00The New York Times:Voting Rights of Florida FelonsScrutinized After 2000 ElectionThe New York Times presents a lengthy article on Florida's felony disenfranchisement practices including a look inside that state's reapplication and review procedures. A few interesting facts from the article:Florida felony disenfranchisement began in 1868 when the state gave blacks the right to vote as a condition Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079927154844705052004-03-21T22:45:00.000-05:002004-03-21T22:49:18.640-05:00Death of a patriotMarch 19, 2004—The subject line on Tuesday’s email read: “Another mysterious accident solves a Bush problem. Athan Gibbs dead, Diebold lives.” The attached news story briefly described the untimely Friday, March 12, death of perhaps America’s most influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail in the era of touch screen computer voting.Gibbs, an accountant for more than Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079832289410602302004-03-20T20:24:00.000-05:002004-03-20T20:28:12.090-05:00spenceRant.
I'll take the chads
You're not going to believe what happened to this voter from SanDiego!
I signed in, cast my vote and gave them the card back. Before taking off to work, I asked the woman how safe this new voting system was. She said "Oh it's REALLY safe! Your vote goes into a microchip and is stored with all the other votes and then at the end of the day, we bring all the Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079832160399716812004-03-20T20:22:00.000-05:002004-03-20T20:39:57.326-05:00Live from the Nuke-Free Zone:Uncle Diebold's ClubhouseGoing with the Avi Rudin post on what it is actually like to be a poll worker, there is this from a blog post from a San Diego poll worker. Some stuff good, some stuff bad.[ Via PaperVoteCanada.]Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079823432068209892004-03-20T17:57:00.000-05:002004-03-20T20:51:19.466-05:00i, cringleyPrints of DarknessA Year Into the E-voting Crisis, Shouldn't We Have Noticed the Printer That's Already Built into Each Diebold Voting Machine?
A reasonably good article that makes the point that Diebold eVote terminals already have a printer. So why is it going to cost over $500 per machine to add one in?In fact, Cringley notes that the re-count ability was already specified in HAVAMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079816335034454962004-03-20T15:58:00.000-05:002004-03-20T16:02:17.716-05:00Activists Clamor for Paper TrailBALTIMORE - Supporters of a paper trail for electronic voting machines ran full-page advertisements Thursday calling for a tangible record of each ballot cast in the November election.Ads in The Baltimore Sun and The Palm Beach Post of Florida show a touch-screen computer from Diebold Election Systems, the Ohio-based company that makes Maryland's machines, Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079815960189988102004-03-20T15:52:00.000-05:002004-03-20T15:56:02.920-05:00E-Vote Snafu in California CountyAfter recounting more than 13,000 absentee paper ballots, Northern California's Napa County reported Thursday that an electronic voting machine used in the March 2 primary election missed more than 6,000 votes.The recount did not change the outcome of any races, but a spokesman for a state legislator said the glitch highlighted the need for using only e-voting Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079628028217885612004-03-18T11:40:00.000-05:002004-03-18T11:43:47.326-05:00freedom rider:Vote Theft in 2004: Deja Vu All Over Againfrom The BLACK CoMMentatorIn the year 2000 America was treated like a pesky third world nation in need of regime change. Those who had been out of power for eight long years chose not to endure that humiliation any longer. They decided to win and they weren’t going to let something as insignificant as democracy stand in the way.As usual the Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079532614945220802004-03-17T09:10:00.000-05:002004-03-17T09:13:33.013-05:00On Benedict@Large:Gutting Marbury v. MadisonRepublicans seek power to reverse Supreme CourtMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079484534638936962004-03-16T19:48:00.000-05:002004-03-16T19:52:11.560-05:00WISH-TV (Indianapolis):Johnson County Demands Answers From ES&SIntermediate TitlesBut the clerk doesn't trust them. Neither do the members of the Indiana election commission."I just think I was absolutely lied to by your CEO and I'm more than on the slow burn about it. I think you guys sat in this room and you all lied to me," said Brian Burdick, Indiana election commissioner, to ES&S at a Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079483663718485992004-03-16T19:34:00.000-05:002004-03-16T19:37:40.763-05:00Chicago Tribume:The (design) fix is inIn a stunning turnabout, Chicago and Cook Countyhave become national leaders in election reformWhen the confusing "butterfly ballot" in Florida's Palm Beach County threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, a little light went off in a lot of people's heads: Elections don't just happen. They're designed. Which means they can be mis-designed.While Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079481679630802842004-03-16T19:01:00.000-05:002004-03-16T19:04:36.983-05:00Washington Post:Election Panel Tells States Money Will Be Coming$2.3 Billion to Be Disbursed for Voting Upgrades The Election Assistance Commission's first meeting is scheduled for March 23, but it doesn't yet have its own space, phones, or e-mail and is struggling to get up and running with its $1.2 million budget for this year.But the states don't just want money. They also want guidance on Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079474792768783332004-03-16T17:06:00.000-05:002004-03-16T17:09:49.966-05:00Palm Beach Post:Ballot questions remain after dress rehearsalThe Palm Beach Post reviews problems in the recent Florida primary.By all appearances, Tuesday's election was a success in Florida. Most polling places opened on time, most voters cast ballots without incident, and no candidates complained that all votes weren't counted. But minor problems inched into view, raising questions about Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079473163860640942004-03-16T16:39:00.000-05:002004-03-16T18:54:50.610-05:00Irish minister urges e-votingIreland moves to E-voting, joining Holland and Germany.More on this from Politics.ie, the "Irish Politics Website". Politics.ie also contains an archive of 77 articles relating to E-voting in Ireland.Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079472783357962402004-03-16T16:33:00.000-05:002004-03-16T16:36:20.246-05:00Los Angeles Times:Suffrage Suffers in the Land of RightsMore than 8 million Americans are disenfranchised for various reasons. The main reason however is that there is no established right to vote written in the Constitution. Good article.You have to admire President Bush's willingness to amend the Constitution over an issue of basic principles. But before we forever deny millions of Americans Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079349463800568472004-03-15T06:17:00.000-05:002004-03-15T06:20:58.890-05:00Newsday:Election flawedDon't repeat Florida in 2004A good write-up from Newsday, framing the issue well and easily readable.The nightmares of the last presidential election were on paper. This year, with wide use of electronic voting, the bad dreams could appear in the form of wayward bytes in a computer's addled brain, calamitous errors by poorly trained poll workers, or manipulation by hackers Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079348544886763652004-03-15T06:02:00.000-05:002004-03-15T06:05:40.110-05:00Associated Press:Vote-less ballots worry Broward DemocratsSeniors may be having difficulty with E-votingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - There weren't many choices to make in Broward County elections last week, but 169 ballots without votes in the Democratic presidential primary are causing some worries.Nearly half of the ballots without primary votes were in precincts with large elderly populations. Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079348017216832012004-03-15T05:53:00.000-05:002004-03-15T05:56:52.513-05:00News Journal (Ohio):Make sure poll machines are readyThe Issue:The state Controlling Board wants to make sure security issues are cleared up before releasing $127 million for new voting machines.Our Opinion:It's better to wait a month or so to make sure the issues are resolved than to spend now and regret it.We think waiting another month to make sure security issues are addressed with the Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079347435960664992004-03-15T05:43:00.000-05:002004-03-15T05:47:10.763-05:00Palladium Item (Indiana):Voting machines aren't illegalElections: Uncertified software wasremoved after problem discoveredWayne County's new voting machines aren't illegal; they're just not certified -- yet.But uncertified or not, they've been approved for use in the May primary elections."I wish people would use the term 'certified' instead of legal," Wayne County Clerk Sue Anne Lower said. "Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079346687698419392004-03-15T05:31:00.000-05:002004-03-15T05:34:42.623-05:00San Diego Union Tribune:Electronic voting component wasn't fully testedMalfunctioning voter card activator only "conditionally certified"State election officials knew in the days leading up to the March 2 election that a key component of San Diego County's electronic voting system had not undergone the full testing set forth by federal standards, according to internal government Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079345979705650582004-03-15T05:19:00.000-05:002004-03-15T05:26:14.356-05:00Salt Lake Tribune:Voting machine selection may be in secretIt's not the machines. It's the people complaining about them!Should a state committee charged with deciding how Utahns will vote in the future close their meetings to the public?Some officials think so.While keeping their meetings open for now, the Voting Equipment Selection Committee on Thursday discussed shutting the doors to the Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079345136582538322004-03-15T05:05:00.000-05:002004-03-15T05:08:51.733-05:00Lost E-Votes Could Flip Napa RaceNapa County in Northern California said on Friday that electronic voting machines used in the March presidential primary failed to record votes on some of its paper ballots, which will force the county to re-scan over 11,000 ballots and possibly change the outcome of some close local races.The glitch is the latest in a string of problems with the new generation ofMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079343789483240332004-03-15T04:43:00.000-05:002004-03-15T04:46:24.233-05:00New York Times:Florida as the Next FloridaAs Floridians went to the polls last Tuesday, Glenda Hood, Katherine Harris's successor as secretary of state, assured the nation that Florida's voting system would not break down this year the way it did in 2000. Florida now has "the very best" technology available, she declared on CNN. "And I do feel that it's a great disservice to create the feeling Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079102204623496702004-03-12T09:36:00.000-05:002004-03-12T09:39:55.496-05:00WISH-TV (Indianapolis):Election Commission Bails Out Voting Machine Maker In Time for May PrimaryWhat began as an I-Team 8 investigation into voting technology got hot late Wednesday night. On the grill: Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the maker of touch-screen voting machines used in Indiana and across the nation.Heated debate about voting machines ignited fireworks Wednesday."Am I so damnMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079101181958392472004-03-12T09:19:00.000-05:002004-03-12T09:22:53.043-05:00The Record-Courier (Nevada):New election machines generating concernsAll 17 Nevada county clerks will meet in Carson City to try and get a handle on how to conduct this year's elections with a number of unknowns still hanging in the balance."I don't know if there is a perfect answer," Douglas County Clerk Barbara Reed said. "We are so far into the election cycle this year."My greatest concern, Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079100561505165602004-03-12T09:09:00.000-05:002004-03-12T09:12:32.716-05:00Democracy NOW!Miscounts, Changed Votes, No Paper Trail:Is Electronic Voting a Threat to Democracy? A Democracy NOW! interview with:Prof. David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org. He has led the charge to oppose the use of electronic voting equipment that do not allow voters to inspect individual permanent records of their ballots, fail to Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079047645847983332004-03-11T18:27:00.000-05:002004-03-11T18:30:36.076-05:00California Legislators Urge E-Voting Halt SACRAMENTO -- California legislators said on Thursday they want to stop the use of all paperless electronic voting machines in the state, fearing the same type of fiasco that plagued Florida in the 2000 election.State Sens. Don Perata (D-Oakland) and Ross Johnson (R-Irvine), the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate election committee, sent a letter toMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079026962310924882004-03-11T12:42:00.000-05:002004-03-11T12:45:52.060-05:00Indianapolis Star:Election panel OKs Illegal softwareThe Indiana Election Commission voted late Wednesday to let four counties use illegal voting software after hearing desperate appeals by county clerks who feared primary election disasters if they didn't get help.The unanimous decision by the four commission members, though, belied the anger they felt at Election Systems & Software, the voting Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079026654994447452004-03-11T12:37:00.000-05:002004-03-11T12:40:44.793-05:00San Antonio Express-News:Bexar computer glitch delays counting of votesTabulation computers for Bexar County's almost-new $8.5 million touch-screen voting system had to be re-programmed midway through Tuesday's count, momentarily throwing the local party primaries into disarray for the second time in two years.Tabulation of the Bexar County votes was delayed for about 1 1/2 hours, beginning aboutMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079025460637290602004-03-11T12:17:00.000-05:002004-03-11T12:21:55.793-05:00Briefly:Nashville CityPaper: Tennessee Sec. of State opposes paper trailLas Vegas Review-Journal: Sec. of State right to want paper trailLas Vegas Sun: Nevada elections chief presses for printed ballot receiptsProblem Reports:Daily Star (Louisiana): Discovery of test votes leads to recount[This is the problem about forgetting to zero out the machines.]Mercury News: Power problem hit 40 percent ofMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079021501725371402004-03-11T11:11:00.000-05:002004-03-11T11:14:51.700-05:00Optical Scanners fail:Florida county orders recount in primaryElection officials in Bay County, Florida, plan to recount all of the almost 20,000 ballots cast in Tuesday's presidential primary because of vote-counting irregularities, election Supervisor Mark Andersen said Wednesday."I'm not the happiest camper," Andersen said hours before the recount was scheduled to get under way. "We're going Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1079019380904970902004-03-11T10:36:00.000-05:002004-03-11T10:39:30.670-05:00New Senate bill introduced:Senators Clinton, Graham talk 2004 voting,but not the Democratic ticketSens. Bob Graham of Florida and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York are pushing legislation that would ensure a printed receipt of votes cast on new touch-screen computer terminals, arguing it will restore voter confidence in the election process.They both insisted the move had nothing to do with Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078937503716105052004-03-10T11:51:00.000-05:002004-03-10T11:55:15.280-05:00Seattle Weekly:Black Box BacklashBev Harris of Renton created a firestorm with her national Internetcampaign against electronic voting. Now she's trying to persuadepeople in the real world that their democracy is on the line. Bev Harris at home in Renton: "I've never seen such a clueless bunch of people," she says of election officials.Big Media Bev scores a major article this time in the SeattleMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078934316449347622004-03-10T10:58:00.000-05:002004-03-10T11:01:44.390-05:00Baltimore Sun:An insider's view of vote vulnerabilityBy Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University This is pretty much the same article I picked up from Rubin's website last Wendesday just after he had completed a day as an election judge. A lot of the color has been trimmed from this version and contextual information is added. Both versions are worth reading.Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078933130798842902004-03-10T10:38:00.000-05:002004-03-10T10:41:58.966-05:00Salem Statesman-Journal:Oregon to create centralizedbase for elections dataThe state will consolidate 36 voter-registration databases into oneA lot can go wrong in an election, even outside of Florida.But the confusion in that state during the 2000 presidential election led Congress to pass the 2002 Help America Vote Act.The law, among other things, required states to prepare a centralized Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078931932785578312004-03-10T10:18:00.000-05:002004-03-10T10:22:01.186-05:00Reno Gazette-Journal:Board OKs non-certified voting machinesNorthern Nevada voters may be casting their ballots this November on electronic machines that have not been federally certified, a problem critics said could jeopardize the entire election.The Board of Examiners approved a $9.3 million contract Tuesday for Secretary of State Dean Heller to order 4,500 touch-screen voting machines from Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078931538991481792004-03-10T10:12:00.000-05:002004-03-10T10:15:27.466-05:00Philadelphia Inquirer:Electronic voting: A trust issueAs the nation heads into a presidential election year,the technology takes center stage. It is not error-free.As the nation approaches its first presidential election since the controversial Florida count gave George W. Bush the White House, debate is heating up over the security and accuracy of electronic-voting machines.This time, about 43 Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078930643891215942004-03-10T09:57:00.000-05:002004-03-10T10:04:21.983-05:00Florida ForeverThe political urban legend that facts won't kill.By Peter Kirsanow @ National Review OnLine For what it's worth. Essentially a denial of black harrassment and intentional purging of black voter eligibility during the 2000 Florida elections. Mr. Kirsanow is a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and presumably worked on the investigation.As to the charges of black Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078904212909330742004-03-10T02:36:00.000-05:002004-03-10T02:42:32.700-05:00Vote rigging, Texas styleGerrymandering for fun and profit I earlier posted a story about Mike Murphy, a first-timer running in the Texas 4th congressional district GOP primary. Mike was an unknown with no experience, no organization, no money, and no chance. Pure grassroots stuff. The upshot of that story was that in spite of the fact that he had no chance, he recieved several calls from Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078897167073982152004-03-10T00:39:00.000-05:002004-03-10T00:42:34.653-05:00West Palm Beach, FLHuman error causes frustration at pollsMore trouble with voting machine key-cardsThe human oops factor caused more upset than technology failures in Tuesday's balloting, according to the complaints of confused, frustrated or angry voters.The most reported problem: Democrats couldn't vote in their party's presidential primary because poll workers pushed the wrong buttons to Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078869084990742942004-03-09T16:51:00.000-05:002004-03-09T16:54:31.966-05:00Recently in Florida:Wexler files lawsuit demandingprinters for new voting machinesU.S. Rep. Robert Wexler took his crusade for voting machine printers back to court Monday, filing a federal lawsuit in West Palm Beach that claims having no way to manually recount votes from touch-screen machines is a violation of federal law.Wexler said Monday there is no uniform system for conducting recounts in Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078863487092736472004-03-09T15:18:00.000-05:002004-03-09T15:21:14.420-05:00Problems in California:
7,000 Orange County VotersWere Given Bad BallotsPoll workers struggling with a new electronic voting system in last week's election gave thousands of Orange County voters the wrong ballots, according to a Times analysis of election records. In 21 precincts where the problem was most acute, there were more ballots cast than registered voters.Wide margins in most races seemMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-107886185286005112004-03-09T14:50:00.000-05:002004-03-09T14:53:59.716-05:00California Lawmakers WantVoting Age Lowered to 14SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four Democratic California lawmakers on Monday proposed giving teenagers as young as 14 the right to vote in a move that would make the often trailblazing state the first in the nation to do so.Under the proposal, youths under the current legal voting age of 18 would be able to cast ballots in state and local elections Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078833771667060162004-03-09T07:02:00.000-05:002004-03-09T07:05:58.746-05:00Issues delay E-vote rolloutSecurity reviews, push for paper tallies, fundingpostpone use of Diebold's machines in Ohio Slow funding, security issues, certification inadequacies have slown the E-vote aquisition process in Ohio.Voters were supposed to use touch-screen machines on Tuesday, but several issues delayed the deployment. Right now, none of Ohio's 88 counties are using electronic voting Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078832552336705972004-03-09T06:42:00.000-05:002004-03-09T06:45:38.996-05:00Quotable:In economic terms, an election is a very profitable thing to steal.~ David Dill, VerifiedVoting.orgMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078829121812799422004-03-09T05:45:00.000-05:002004-03-09T05:48:28.403-05:00New York Times:International Election Monitors Take on FloridaMiami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Duval counties to be monitoredTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - An international group that usually monitors elections in developing democracies said Monday it would take up posts at Florida precincts in November in hopes of averting another debacle when voters pick the next U.S. president.Four years Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078715331523631472004-03-07T22:08:00.000-05:002004-03-07T22:11:56.653-05:00Think You Voted in Md.? Think AgainIncomplete Ballots on Diebold A Machines Known Problem A heads-up Maryland voter noticed that he was presented a ballot missing one of the races he was eligible to vote on, learns that this is a known problem, and is told that there is nothing that can be done about it.Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078634879054766602004-03-06T23:47:00.000-05:002004-03-06T23:51:02.356-05:00MotherJones.comDiebold's Political MachinePolitical insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive this yearas Florida was four years ago. Which is why the state's plan to usepaperless touch-screen voting machines has so many up in arms.
That label sounds ominously accurate to the many who are skeptical of computerized voting. In addition to being as decisive as the 2000 polling in Florida, theyMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078539235564938732004-03-05T21:13:00.000-05:002004-03-05T21:16:57.810-05:00The Nation: Editor's CutLet's End the Two-Party DuopolyAlternative Voting Strategies Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses alternative voting strategies to allow practical participation by third parties including proportional representation, instant run-off voting, and fusion.Say what? Yeah, I had never heard of fusion before either, and even had to go to this article to get a better explanation of it.Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078518718141855542004-03-05T15:31:00.000-05:002004-03-05T15:34:59.810-05:00Common Dreams:A Deafening Silence Californian Brian D. Barry tells of his feelings on first using an E-vote terminal:I've always wondered what sound Democracy would make if it died.Last night, I found out in Santa Clara, California. The sound it makes is a deafening silence, and it sent chills up and down my spine. This sound scared me more than anything I've ever heard in my life.Last night, I Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078477078611781242004-03-05T03:57:00.000-05:002004-03-05T04:07:27.280-05:00The Guardian (UK):The hacks in the machineThe electronic voting being used in Tuesday's Super Tuesday Democratic primaries offers unprecedented opportunities for electoral fraudStealing an election used to take some doing. Sometimes the dead had to vote. At other times it took the intervention of the supreme court, as in Florida three years ago. Maybe not a theft in that case, but certainly a Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078476723043785572004-03-05T03:52:00.000-05:002004-03-05T03:55:03.763-05:00Joplin (Missouri) Independent:Are Bush & Cheney out to steal the elections?Nothing particularly new here. Interesting mostly because it shows that E-voting concerns are reaching even into the heartland.[ Via Independent Media TV.]Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078475844670579532004-03-05T03:37:00.000-05:002004-03-05T03:40:25.576-05:00To the left:My left column, that is. I've added (at last) some new sites to my Black Box Notes Readings. These are web sites that provide a lot of links to articles on E-voting. Some of them are professional; others are not. Some update frequently; others do not. Here's a brief review of my additions:Paper Vote Canada - Very active personal blog, unique in providing world-wide coverage of Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078369735314314322004-03-03T22:08:00.000-05:002004-03-04T15:38:46.950-05:00Super Tuesday Diebold WatchA Black Box Notes Special ReportSelected articles regarding the performance of Diebold E-vote machines during Tuesday's primary. Use links below or simply scroll down:Scoop (NZ): Faith-Based Paperless Voting on TrialThe Industry Standard: How risky is e-voting?San Jose Mercury News: Scattered e-voting problems anger computer scientistsNorth County (CA) Times: ElectronicMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078369387711181832004-03-03T22:03:00.000-05:002004-03-03T22:46:12.653-05:00Scoop (NZ):
Faith-Based Paperless Voting on TrialGrowing Scrutiny Spurs Movement for a Transparent Elections"Concern for the transparency and integrity of Georgia elections continues to grow," said Hugh Esco, chair of the Voter Choice Coalition and political coordinator of the Georgia Green Party. The Green Party office phone started ringing early this morning with reports of anomolies and Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078369041489838132004-03-03T21:57:00.000-05:002004-03-03T22:00:21.233-05:00The Industry Standard:How risky is e-voting? This is very interesting. Apparently, it's from some sort of blog posting from The Industry Standard. Blogger Declan McCullagh links to the original posting by "an undergraduate in a large Georgia university" ("First-hand report of problems with "secure" e-voting") regarding those unsecured Diebold voting machines in Georgia (mentioned below).I'm an Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078366185880365182004-03-03T21:09:00.000-05:002004-03-03T22:29:51.716-05:00San Jose Mercury News:Scattered e-voting problemsanger computer scientists This is troubling. This is the standard Associated Press feed for this story, perhaps with a bit different detail than other newspapers as each newspaper is free to edit that feed before publishing it. No problem until you notice the story's title now ("Poll workers grapple with electronic voting glitches") is quite Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078364288980996902004-03-03T20:38:00.000-05:002004-03-03T20:41:08.246-05:00North County (CA) Times:Electronic voting gets rocky startComputer problems early Tuesday marred San Diego County's first election with electronic ballots, forcing poll workers to turn people away and leading a county supervisor to demand an immediate probe into whether some were cheated out of their right to vote.At the same time, voters overwhelmingly told reporters and election officials that Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-107836362744108872004-03-03T20:27:00.000-05:002004-03-03T20:30:06.810-05:00Baltimore Sun:Touch-screen gets a mixed Md. responseNew ballot technology called easier by some, but suffers breakdownsAs many Marylanders cast their first votes on new touch-screen machines yesterday, the process was deemed, at the same time, a rousing success and a dismal failure. It all depends on who was doing the judging.Election directors said reluctant senior citizens embraced the machinesMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078361523915504492004-03-03T19:52:00.000-05:002004-03-03T19:55:28.576-05:00Times-Herald (SF Bay area):E-voting: The 'E' stands for 'easy' Lot's of voters in Solano County (CA) like the new (Diebold) voting machines, but even some of those would preferto see a paper receipt.One item in this article concerned me however. If you read down, you'll see some comments attributed to "Jo Murray", reportedly from "the registrar's office." This is followed later by "Murray also Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078360282903629382004-03-03T19:31:00.000-05:002004-03-03T19:34:22.186-05:00Tri-Valley (CA) Herald:E-voting problems drive voters awayAlameda, San Diego counties plagued by hardware issues Thousands of voters in two of California's largest, electronic-voting counties were forced to cast paper ballots and some were driven from the polls by a confluence of hardware problems, poor poll worker training and confusion over open-primary voting.At about one in every six polling Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078359643289585772004-03-03T19:20:00.000-05:002004-03-03T19:23:42.653-05:00This is a great article pair. First, the Baltimore Sun discovers that Avi Rubin, co-author of the infamous "Hopkins report" criticizing Diebold e-vote machines, has signed up to be an election judge on Super Tuesday watching, (what else?) Diebold e-vote machines, and then Rubin's own report of the experience.Baltimore Sun:Voting-machine critic will be the judge todayNo security woes expected, butMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078354605954346402004-03-03T17:56:00.000-05:002004-03-03T17:59:45.483-05:00E-Voting Machines Largely Bug-Free on TuesdayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters across the United States encountered scattered problems with new touch-screen systems on Tuesday as they voted in primary elections, but by and large the machines ran smoothly, state election officials said on Wednesday. Voters in some polling stations in San Diego and Oakland, California, were turned away after officials Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078354026054219992004-03-03T17:47:00.000-05:002004-03-03T17:50:05.110-05:00Snafus Aplenty in E-VotingCalifornia, Maryland, and Georgia experience E-vote problems.Frozen screens and malfunctioning computers plagued some Super Tuesday voters who tried to cast electronic ballots, and experts predict such problems will be repeated on a national scale in November.In California's San Diego County, touch screens failed to boot properly, causing delays of up to two hours and Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078251859952260322004-03-02T13:24:00.000-05:002004-03-02T13:27:17.450-05:00Security Increased for Tuesday's E-VotingWith a record number of voters casting electronic ballots on Super Tuesday, election officials from California to Maryland are beefing up security to prevent problems ranging from software glitches to hackers.In California, new security measures range from random tests of touch-screen machines by independent computer experts to a recommendation that poll Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078251054206186862004-03-02T13:10:00.000-05:002004-03-02T13:13:51.890-05:00Technical Problems Reported in E-VotingScattered Technical Problems Reported AsElectronic Voting Debuts in Super Tuesday ContestsOne polling place in Maryland had to switch to paper ballots due to machine malfunctions.One county in Georgia had to switch to paper ballots due to a procedural error.Ten voting machines were found unlocked and unattended in a school loby in Georgia.Both Georgia and Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078072447136289412004-02-29T11:34:00.000-05:002004-02-29T11:37:01.653-05:00NY Times: Making Votes CountThe Results Are in and the Winner Is . . .or Maybe NotThe New York Times looks at the 1996 Nebraska and 2002 Georgia elections:Defeated candidates who think they were robbed are nothing new in American politics. But modern technology is creating a whole new generation of conspiracy theories — easy to imagine and, unless we're careful, impossible to disprove. The nationMischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1078019990275061482004-02-28T20:59:00.000-05:002004-02-28T21:05:21.793-05:00A Debate on Electronic Voting:A Tool To Improve Elections or Rig Elections?Bev Harris goes tete a tete with a Georgia advocate of E-voting
A Bev Harris debate with Bill Bozarth, executive director of Common Cause Georgia. Bev's positions are well known, so let me briefly run down Bill's position here.Bill is an advocate for E-voting. He sees it as a step in the right direction. He tends toward Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077998193995178712004-02-28T14:56:00.000-05:002004-02-28T14:59:27.046-05:00Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077942925988097442004-02-27T23:35:00.000-05:002004-02-27T23:38:47.686-05:00San Francisco Chronicle:Why can't they vote? Disenfranchisement by any name is disenfranchisement:
Few people realize that voting rights are left up to the states -- a legacy of the South's post-Civil War effort to prohibit newly freed slaves from voting.California's voting laws, however, are relatively liberal compared to the 14 states that permanently bar ex-felons from voting and the 29 Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077852759376471542004-02-26T22:32:00.000-05:002004-02-26T22:35:30.546-05:00The Free Press: Speaking Truth to PowerDiebold, Electronic Voting andthe Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy The Free Press hails from Ohio, home of Diebold and their CEO Walden "Wally" O'Dell, who is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President". If you expect then for this article to be strongly-worded, you're right on target. Topics include "voter fraud", "incestuous Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077846524710551512004-02-26T20:48:00.000-05:002004-02-26T20:51:35.606-05:00From the Austin Chronicle: How Safe Is Your E-Vote?Elections go digital, but experts fear a crash Extensive coverage of the E-vote issue from the Austin Chronicle:It's either the best thing ever to happen to elections, or the stupidest blunder our elected officials have ever made; the savior of our democracy, or a conspiracy to steal it; an idea whose time has come, or a hapless symbol of Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077758607996805442004-02-25T20:23:00.000-05:002004-02-25T20:26:17.670-05:00Into the courts:
Group wants judge to orderupgrades to e-vote machinesTwo weeks before California's March 2 primary, a group alleging widespread potential security glitches in electronic voting machines is asking a judge to make counties install new safeguards before voting begins.Citizens from Solano, Sacramento, San Diego and Stanislaus counties filed their request for a temporary restraining Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065300.post-1077757521661800602004-02-25T20:05:00.000-05:002004-02-25T20:08:11.576-05:00PBS opens new site for Election 2004 coverageIn their words:
The "By the People: Election 2004" Web site is a gateway to all of PBS's election programming, on-air and online. Site features include:Election headlines from the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, updated throughout the day, every day.Weekly features from NOW With Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE and other PBS programs (updated every Friday).Detailed Mischa Peytonnoreply@blogger.com0