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Category - E-VOTING
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PdF London Event May 13: Action Replay
(techPresident) Technology is changing politics the world over, and right now one epicenter for that transformation is Great Britain, where the May 6 elections have become a fascinating free-for-all among three major parties, the Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal-Democrats, and where the campaigns, the media, party activists, independent bloggers and ordinary voters are all rapidly engaging with each other online. (April 22, 2010)
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New Zealanders Unable to E-vote Until 2023
(Stuff.co.nz) Most New Zealanders are unlikely to be able to vote online in general elections till at least 2023, under a proposal being considered by Justice Minister Annette King. (May 15, 2008)
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E-Vote: Americans Confident in Most Voting Systems' Security, Says Survey
(Government Technology) According to five nationwide annual opinion surveys completed in January 2008 and released recently by InfoSentry Services, there is no widespread growing crisis of public confidence in voting systems as some interest groups have proclaimed. A strong majority of Americans have confidence in the country's most widely used voting systems, according to a release from InfoSentry, including the computerized systems frequently attacked by critics of election administration. (March 21, 2008)
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E-Vote: Tapscott Says Web 2.0 Will Determine Presidential Campaign Advantage
(Government Technology) The campaign that wins the long primary fight may be the one that goes against centralization, and lets "mass collaboration" rule. In other words, the war room is over.
That's the view of collaboration innovation expert Don Tapscott, who says that advantage in the primaries will go to the campaign that embraces Web 2.0 techniques for mass collaboration, letting grass-roots organizers share information and develop responses with the minimum direction from the central campaign office.
(February 21, 2008)
- Scottish election suffers from e-voting woes
Note: From Issue 11.05, section "THE WORLD'S WIDE WEB".
The US isn't the only country with e-voting problems. In Scotland, elections were seriously marred by spoiled paper ballots, which led to technical problems with electronic counting systems that delayed election results, Computerworld reports. The supplier, DRS, told Computerworld UK that the problems were not about being able to read the votes - the scanners worked without problems - but with consolidating the votes and database fragmentation.
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- Soldiers Votes: Ripe for Fraud?
Note: From Issue 10.20, section "HOTSPOT".
The Internet is changing life in the combat zone. In years prior, the US military had limited options in casting their ballot for US elections.
Soldiers would request a ballot via air mail and return it the same way. This year soldiers from all around the world are submitting their votes for the midterm election via email.
But is this a good thing? And are their votes safe from tampering?
Security experts from with the Pentagon warn of the potential risks linked with encrypted messages- identity fraud, hacking, and interception.
States have the option on how to exchange ballots with the overseas troops. They can fax, e-mail or mail the ballots, or a combination of the methods. In 1990, the federal government began the use of faxed ballots, when US troops were stationed in the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield.
E-mail, however, is only an option in those states that allow it; at the moment eight do. Mississippi was the first, allowing troops overseas to vote by e-mail in a 2003 gubernatorial election.
Soldiers faxing and e-mailing their ballots also must sign waivers saying they understand that somebody might see their ballot, says J. Scott Wiedmann, deputy director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program. "There's no U.S. constitutional guarantee to a secret ballot," he said.
But I must echo the sentiment of David Wagner, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, Will soldiers feel free to vote their conscience when they know that the Department of Defense may be able to see how they voted?
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E-Mail Voting Comes With Risks
U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud
Download: Dept. of Defense internal review of voting system (PDF)
- Voting Machine Co. Says No Ties to Chavez
Note: From Issue 10.20, section "THE WORLD'S WIDE WEB".
A U.S. company that makes touch-screen voting machines said it requested a federal investigation to dispel what it called baseless rumors of ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. said it asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, to investigate it and its parent software company, the Smartmatic Corp. The request comes after news articles suggested improper ties.
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- HowdTheyVote?
Note: From Issue 10.16, section "SUPER SITES".
Canadian citizens want to know how their representatives are voting in Parliament. HowdTheyVote.ca allows potential voters to check out what their MPs have been up to by creating a comprehensive database that includes many of the pivotal votes in the House of Commons, complete with voting history, dissention, attendance and speaking habits.
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