E-voting

• Following the 2000 presidential election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which allocated $3.6 billion for improving election administration and updating antiquated paper-based voting systems. (Security Pipeline)
  
  
• An estimated 40 million Americans cast votes on November 2, 2004 on approximately 175,000 touch-screen voting machines, also known as direct-recording electronic, or DRE, voting systems. (Security Pipeline)
  
  
• More than 4,500 votes were lost in Carteret County, N.C., when more votes were cast than the electronic voting systems could store. The incident is being investigated by the North Carolina State Board of Elections. (Security Pipeline)
  
  
• The election incident-tracking Web site voteprotect.org, operated by election-watch groups, said 1,222 voting-machine-related incidents were reported through Wednesday afternoon, November 3, 2004. Not all of those involved DRE systems. (voteprotect.org)
  
  
• Polling stations with e-voting machines drew the most calls to an MSNBC.com a voter complaint hotline, with more than 18,000 complaints by mid-afternoon Tuesday, November 2, 2004. (MSNBC.com)
  
  
• One Ohio precinct, where only 638 ballots were cast, reported 4,258 votes for President Bush, according to an Associated Press report. Officials who found the error said Bush actually got 365 votes to John Kerry's 260. (FCW)