Election Integrity News

How do you compare security across voting systems?

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
(http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?author=11)This article was posted at Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker Blog (http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1367)and is reposted here with permission...
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Special Report: The Myth of Widespread Non-Citizen Voting

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
In a recent segment, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs told viewers that substantial evidence suggests that large numbers of non-citizens, including...
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Good News for New York

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
This article was posted at written about (http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/28/tell-it-to-the-judge/) in earlier posts (http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/24/schedule-slips-and-slippery-slopes/), what gall vendors have providing New York?s voters...
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Statement by Commissioner Gracia M. Hillman In Response to NY Times Article on Voting System Flaws

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has posted the following response to Officials Say Flaws at Polls Will Remain in...
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VotersUnite.org: Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
?As we approach the 2008 general election, the structure of elections in the United States ? once reliant on local...
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Electronic Voting Bill

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
This letter was published by the New York Times on August 11, 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/l12vote.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=dianne%20feinstein&st=cse&oref=slogin) Washington, Aug. 6, 2008To the Editor: ?A...
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2008's First Disenfranchised Voters: Injured and Homeless Veterans

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
This article was posted at AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/story/94541/ ) and is reposted here with permission of the author.The first large block...
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Help Our Veterans Vote

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
This editorial was published in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/opinion/11bysiewicz.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) on August 10, 2008.WHAT is the secretary of Veterans Affairs...
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Some Homeless Citizens Face ?Roadblocks? When Registering

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
Lack of fixed, ID address challenges voters and administratorsThis article appeared in the Electionline Weekly (http://www.electionline.org) and is reposted here...
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Electronic Voting Expert Named to Key Federal Advisory Committee

VoteTrust USA - 16 hours 1 min ago
Dr. Barbara Simons Fills Position for Technology ProfessionalsDr. Barbara Simons, a computer scientist and founder of ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM), has...
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund Unveils New Strategy to Protect Voter Rights this November

VoteTrust USA - Tue, 2008/08/19 - 9:00pm
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has unveiled its new comprehensive non-partisan voter awareness program, Prepared to...
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Ohio Secretary of State Files Counterclaim in Lawsuit with Premier Election Solutions

VoteTrust USA - Tue, 2008/08/19 - 9:00pm
Documents Equipment Malfunctions in Premier Voting Machine CountiesSecretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Wednesday responded to a lawsuit filed by Premier...
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New York: Tell it to the Judge

VoteTrust USA - Mon, 2008/08/18 - 9:00pm
State Board informs Court of schedule delay This article was posted at Bo Lipari's Blog (http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/07/28/tell-it-to-the-judge/) and is reposted here with...
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A Bad Electronic Voting Bill

VoteTrust USA - Mon, 2008/08/18 - 9:00pm
This editorial is published in the August 3, 2008 New York Times. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/opinion/03sun2.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin)Congress has stood idly by while states have...
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Technologists' Statement on Internet Voting

VoteTrust USA - Mon, 2008/08/18 - 9:00pm
Because of the increasing frequency of proposals to allow remote voting over the internet, we believe it is necessary to warn policymakers...
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Holt Introduces Emergency Election Audit Bill for 2008 Elections

VoteTrust USA - Mon, 2008/08/11 - 9:00pm
Legislation Would Reimburse States for Conducting Audits U.S. Rep Rush Holt (D-NJ) today introduced legislation to encourage states to conduct...
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Florida: New Voting Machines - Paper Trail to Nowhere?

VoteTrust USA - Sun, 2008/08/10 - 9:00pm
After Sarasota's 2006 voting debacle, which featured huge undervotes and bitter accusations of technical failures, the state outlawed touch-screen voting. That made optical-scan...
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Where are the Technologists on the EAC Advisory Board?

VoteTrust USA - Sun, 2008/08/10 - 9:00pm
This article was posted on Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker Blog (http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1331) and is reposted here with permission.Barbara Simons, an...
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'Watchdog Press Died Under Bush': Journo Prof

Brad Blog - Sat, 2008/08/09 - 9:00pm
The corporate media still just don't get it. The topic came up at the end of an interesting discussion on Salon Radio Friday between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen. At the end of their conversation about ABC News' appalling inability to either retract their false 2001 ...
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FBI Admits it Illegally Obtained NYTimes, WaPo Reporters' Phone Records

Brad Blog - Sat, 2008/08/09 - 9:00pm
A mother of a late Friday disclosure. From the Times tonight, in an unbylined story, for tomorrow's papers... WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus ...
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