Interesting CNN report. … Continue reading
Category Archives: voting technology
News from Kentucky. … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in NCSL’s “The Canvass.” Coincidentally, the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly is: “Internet Voting: The Third-Rail in Elections.” … Continue reading
The East Valley Tribune reports. … Continue reading
The National Defense Committee has issued this press release. See also this statement. … Continue reading
The latest issue of NCSL’s “The Canvass” is now available. … Continue reading
Boing boing explains. … Continue reading
Slate explores. … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: For the past month, the election community has been focused to different degrees on President Obama’s Election Night observation that “we need to fix” problems that caused long lines at the polls on Election Day. Recently, the President … Continue reading
Read this letter calling for paper trails and against internet voting. … Continue reading
LA Times: As secretary of state, I want to expand on this success and explore the possibility of one day not just registering online, but in fact voting online,” [State Sen. Leland] Yee said in a statement. “If we can … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
NBC reports. … Continue reading
Joe Hall: Maria: Which of the voting ‘conspiracy theorists’ are doing the most harm, in your view, and how? Joe: Well, Fitrakis and Bello really seem to be getting widespread play this year for some reason. I can’t tell you how … Continue reading
McClatchy reports. … Continue reading
Barbara Simons and Mark Halverson blog. … Continue reading
News from Nevada. … Continue reading
NPR reports. I expect Tamara Keith, the reporter on this story, is going to get the same tin-foiled hate mail that I’ve been getting for rejecting the left-wing election truthers who are convinced that the voting machines are rigged for … Continue reading
A Pew Data Dispatch. … Continue reading
Today’s “To the Point:” Could Voting Machines Steal the Election? (1:07PM) In the year 2000, “hanging chads” on Florida’s paper ballots put the presidential election in doubt. Two years later, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, which provided federal … Continue reading
Hits Idaho. … Continue reading
Absolute must-read from Steven Rosenfeld, as a counter to the left’s election truthers. … Continue reading
TechPresident reports. … Continue reading
WaPo reports on the Left’s election truthers. … Continue reading
This item originally appeared at Forbes. … Continue reading
The Global Post reports. … Continue reading
Important questions from Doug Chapin. … Continue reading
Press release: “When it comes to the integrity and accuracy of voting systems in the United States, the good news is that widespread technological upgrades have largely eliminated the voting-machine problems that were so evident when Florida’s disputed recount determined … Continue reading
USA Today reports. … Continue reading
NYT: “Computer security experts have identified vulnerabilities in the voter registration databases in two states, raising concerns about the ability of hackers and others to disenfranchise voters.” “They could influence an election with 20,000 votes for less than a penny … Continue reading
The Verge reports. … Continue reading
Pew data dispatch. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
News from Colorado. … Continue reading
News from NY. … Continue reading
This item in the Wall Street Journal begins: A decade after Dana Debeauvoir helped change Travis County, Texas to an all-electronic voting system she still expects to be falsely accused of fixing the coming election, just as she had in … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. “An Ohio state auditor’s report in late 2011 offered Butler County officials a choice that seemed a sure-fire Election Day win: get rid of problem-plagued voting machines, replace them with a more reliable system and save … Continue reading
Interesting. … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
This article in the Wall Street Journal begins, as Chapter 6 of The Voting Wars begins: with the Michigan Fight Song (“Hail to the Victors”) playing through the D.C. Board of Elections Computers: Go Blue! … Continue reading
Important Larry Nordenpiece in Politico: “Why are states with new voting restrictions so unconcerned about fraud that is the real threat to our elections? Over the past 18 months, in a bitterly partisan environment, several states have passed new restrictions … Continue reading
Cincinnati Enquirer: “Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Thursday unveiled a new program that will allow registered voters to update their address online, a plan expected to simplify Election Day by substantially reducing the number of troublesome provisional ballots cast.” … Continue reading
If Colorado remains close, this will be an issue to watch—both in terms of the potential for issues with ballot layout/design/voter confusion and the potential for minor or independent candidates to affect the Romney/Obama totals.. … Continue reading
New Brennan Center report: By Lawrence Norden – 07/31/12 Design defects in ballots, voter instructions, and voting machines contributed to the loss of several hundred thousand votes in the most recent national elections. In addition, in the 2008 and 2010 … Continue reading
Must-read NYT report. [This post has been updated with the updated headline of the NYT report.] … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading