   E-Voting ArchiveJuly 06, 2006Schneier and Others on the Security of Voting Systems
The Brennan Center runs a threat analysis on US voting systems, concluding that many "have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities."
May 16, 2006"I Don't Believe These Evil Elections People Exist," Says Diebold
E-voting spokesperson describes company's slightly overoptimistic threat model.
January 06, 2006North Carolina County Commissioners Only Want to Break Voting Law a Bit
The Commissioners council denies they want to throw out the state's e-voting law. They just want the power to ignore it.
December 22, 2005Leon County, FL Dumps Diebold Voting Machines
Live demonstration given of how to hack a Diebold machine.
November 18, 2005Election Glitch Round-up
A look at what went wrong around the country on Tuesday
September 20, 2005A Diebold Insider Speaks
What tabloid reports would look like if tabloids reported on important e-voting issues.
September 12, 2005Proper Recounts Too Hard, Say E-voting Officials
California election clerks complain new e-voting recount rules would make their jobs difficult. They would also make e-voting recounts a lot, lot safer.
June 06, 2005Common Sense Prevails in Cook County
Cook County in Illinois, which happens to be the third-largest electoral jurisdiction in the country, has chosen an optical scan-based system with a paper trail over e-voting systems that can't be audited.
March 30, 2005FL Election Officials Battling Over Machines
Choice quote: "People in Leon County would rather vote on paper than on vapor."
March 02, 2005Clinton/Boxer E-voting Bill Introduced
The bill requires a paper trail for e-voting machines, and it joins several others in the House and Senate.
February 17, 2005Ohio Judges Tosses Voting Machine Deadline
Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell had ordered counties to purchase new optical-scan machines by Wednesday last week, but the court ruled in favor of the local elections boards and tossed the deadline.
E-voting Reform Bill Tops 100 Co-sponsors
Rep. Rush Holt's Voting Integrity and Verification Act is back in action with more support than ever.
February 08, 2005Yin Yang Alert: Diebold Launches Voting Machine with Printer
The company that wanted to charge "out the yin yang" for voting machines with printers has finally produced a prototype of what you get for such a price.
Ireland May Toss 50 Million Euros of E-voting Machines
Last year's security dust-up -- and the public's vote of no-confidence -- may mean the scrap heap for the country's planned switch to e-voting.
February 01, 2005New Group Launches to Create Standards for E-voting
The Voting Systems Performance Rating (VSPR) is designed to be a publicly drafted, publicly available alternative to today's flawed voting machine standards.
January 05, 2005Counting Votes Like Money
In a CoinStar? No! But Jim Adler of VoteHere wants us to bring the same level of concern about security to our democracy that we do our debit machines.
December 10, 2004FL E-Vote Study May Be Flawed
The Berkeley report on statistical anomalies in Florida's e-voting results is being criticized by other scientists.
November 18, 2004Diebold Pays $2.6 Million in Settlement
For misleading California counties into purchasing shoddy equipment.
Broward Voting Machines Count Down
When some of the Florida county's voting machines reached 32,000 votes, they simply started counting backwards.
November 10, 2004E-voting Tally: Supersize Me!
One Ohio precinct gave President Bush 4,258 votes to John Kerry's 260. The trouble is that only 638 people voted in that precinct on election day.
Post-Election Pondering About E-voting
Some lost votes and others seemed to pull them out of the air, but this article focuses on how the machines didn't spontaneously combust.
E-voting Machine Loses 4,500 Votes
Good thing that mandate wasn't hanging on the outcome in North Carolina!
October 27, 2004The Argument for Auditable E-voting
EFF Pioneer Award winner Avi Rubin with a lucid essay on why it's critically important that electronic voting machines have voter-verfied paper audit trails.
October 26, 2004More on FL E-voting
This editorial ponders the question of whether e-voting will make Florida the next Florida.
FL Judge Cuts Paper Trail Suit
The court squashed Rep. Robert Wexler's bid to get the state to provide paper trails for electronic voting machines.
October 20, 2004Florida E-voting Has Rocky Start
Unsurprisingly, the state's new voting system had a range of problems when early voting opened this week.
October 19, 2004The Logic of E-voting Security
Ed Felten with a clear, accessible post on one kind of problem with Diebold's voting machine security.
"VoterGate" Hits the Internet Archive
The documentary on e-voting is available for free from the Internet archive.
PopSci on E-voting
EFF's own Annalee Newitz with a feature on the problems with today's voting machines and how they should be addressed.
E-voting Suit in New Jersey
A coalition of NJ citizens and election officials wants the state to abandon e-voting before the upcoming election.
October 12, 2004Diebold Cuts Financial Forecast
The company is learning the hard way that fixing a machine *after* you sell it is more expensive than doing it right the first time.
October 05, 2004Diebold Loses Copyright Case
The decision in the Diebold Memos case came down last week, and EFF's clients were victorious.
September 29, 2004Internet Voting in Switzerland Deemed a Success
By Swiss authorities, that is. Security experts weren't nearly as convinced.
ACM Opposes E-voting
The world's oldest professional society of computer scientists recently came out against voting machines that don't provide a paper trail.
September 23, 2004More Flaws in Diebold Code
We're *so* relieved that we don't have to do that company's PR.
September 15, 2004Limousine Ride for Election Officials: $300
Knowing that it helped your voting-machine company win a $100 million contract: Priceless.
MD Court Sides with Paperless E-voting
The state's highest court ruled that its Diebold voting machines - the subject of three critical security reviews - nevertheless pass muster for the November election. Only a few days earlier, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) cast a vote on a Diebold machine at a demonstration. It failed.
September 08, 2004State of California Sues Diebold for False Claims
The state is joining a civil suit filed by two voting rights activists.
September 01, 2004FL Judge Rules Recounts Legal. Phew.
A Florida rule barred 15 counties with e-voting machines from conducting manual recounts, but not anymore.
August 26, 2004Hearings Continue in Maryland E-voting Case
Voters in Maryland are taking the stand in a three-day hearing to determine whether the state is required to provide paper audit trails for its e-voting machines.
August 25, 200444% of Voters Want a Paper Trail
A poll commissioned by a voting machine vendor indicates a significant jump in the number of people who are concerned about validating the votes they cast on electronic voting machines.
August 24, 2004New Mexico's Missing Votes
In 2000, New Mexico's electronic voting machines failed to record 678 presidential votes - in a state where the election was decided by 366.
Voting Labs Fail Transparency Test
Three private labs are responsible for testing all of America's electronic voting machines, but the results are a secret.
August 13, 2004Paper Trail Catches Glitch in E-Voting Machine
A recent demonstration of Sequoia Voting Systems' new paper trail-enabled voting machine proved more than expected: when the machine malfunctioned, the paper trail caught the error.
August 04, 2004General Public, Security Experts Feel Differently About E-Voting
This relates to one of our favorite ploys by e-voting supporters: that e-voting is okay because a majority of the public feels good about it. Security experts are just a vocal minority. But, um, don't we rely on experts to tell us about problems that might otherwise go unnoticed and unaddressed?
Election Threats, In-Depth
The Nation runs a comprehensive piece on the many ways that technology impacts an election.
July 19, 2004E-Voting Victory in Ohio
The final three Ohio counties considering the purchase of e-voting machines will stick to paper this November. Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell ordered the counties not to buy the machines in light of security concerns highlighted in yet another troubling study.
The Vast Open Source Conspiracy
Electronic voting machine vendors think that their critics are driven by a religious devotion to free software.
July 13, 2004Coverage of E-Voting Day of Action
There's too much coverage to put in a single miniLink, so here are a few for your reading pleasure.
Posted by Ren Bucholz at 08:28 PM
Gov't Says Elections Will Be Held On Time
After a week of speculation about potential delays, the nation's top election official assured the public that the November elections will be held as scheduled.
July 07, 2004CA E-Voting Machine Ban Upheld
A federal judge recently ruled to uphold California's ban on e-voting machines that do not meet the state's security standards.
July 03, 2004Notes from California E-Voting Hearing
While Judge Cooper issued a heartening tentative ruling earlier this week in a California e-voting case, the official hearing was held on Friday. Kim Alexander has the scoop.
Cautious Optimism in CA E-Voting Case
A federal judge recently refused to lift -- for now -- California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's order for additional security on e-voting machines. The order was issued after a year of hearings and major scandals involving voting machine vendors.
June 30, 2004California Re-Certifies Some E-Voting Machines
The machines will be deployed under heightened security, so several counties will now be able to use them in the November elections.
June 25, 2004Even E-Voting Supporters Say Tests Are Inadequate
Computer scientists from all sides of the issue are criticizing the shoddy testing procedures that are supposed to ensure security in e-voting.
June 16, 2004Election Officials Who Choose Frying Pan Over Fire
Running elections can wear an official out, so it must be nice that cushy jobs at voting equipment companies are often available to former public servants. Plus, they can start pitching their new employer's goods before they're off the government payroll. Brilliant!
June 14, 2004Ohio Certifies E-Voting Machine that Produces Paper Ballots
AccuPoll's touchscreen voting machine produces a voter-verifiable paper ballot and is now available for purchase in Ohio.
June 11, 2004Combine Ballots and Crypto, Mix Well
Inventor David Chaum recently demonstrated an e-voting audit technology that's potentially more reliable than anything that exists today -- and it doesn't use paper.
May 31, 2004Counties Decide to Wait Out E-Voting Storm
Questions continue to erupt about the reliability and security of electronic voting, so some counties are keeping their wallets shut until the situation improves.
Who Tests E-Voting Machines?Florida Secretary of State Claims E-voting Machines Aren't Computers
She went on to explain that they are magical boxes with microprocessors and hard drives. That run Windows.
May 26, 2004Diebold. We're From the Private Sector and We're Here to Help
Diebold Variations is a collection of clever "faux-sters" criticizing the embattled election-software company.
May 18, 2004House Orders E-Voting Probe
Thirteen members of the House of Representatives want an investigation into the security risks of e-voting.
Blind Voters Pan E-Voting
Electronic voting terminals are supposed to be a panacea for disabled voters, but this article shows that some of the technology has a long way to go before it delivers on its promise.
Opinion: What NY Needs in Voting Machines
The New York Times with a top-notch editorial on how New York should approach voting machine upgrades.
May 10, 2004Ohio Passes Paper Trail Requirement
Governor Bob Taft made Ohio the seventh state in the country to require a voter-verified paper trail for electronic voting terminals. The requirement will not go into effect until 2006.
May 06, 2004Panel Hears Testimony on E-Voting
The Electoral Assistance Commission (EAC) yesterday heard from a range of experts on electronic voting.
CA County to Sue Secretary of State Over Voting Machines
Sadly, Riverside County chose to sue the state rather than comply with extra security requirements for the 2004 election.
May 04, 2004Ireland to Sink Net-Voting Program
A controversial Internet-voting initiative will likely be cancelled in the wake of an independent investigation revealing its flaws and security vulnerabilities.
May 03, 2004EFF Pioneer Avi Rubin Profiled in NY Times
Sure, Avi's saving democracy and all, but we're excited to see that the Pioneer Award is "one of the highest honors among the geekerati."
April 20, 2004Election Official Accuses E-Voting Company of Lying
The second largest election company in the country knowingly installed uncertified software on voting machines used in real elections.
Diebold Spending $500K/Month to Cover Mistakes
Leaked documents show that the voting company knew it was illegally running uncertified code in real elections.
April 13, 2004FL Reconsiders Ban on Recounts
You read that right - the Florida legislature had been planning to address the inauditability of e-voting machines by making some recounts illegal.
April 10, 2004VoteHere for Transparent Elections
The election security company has released its source code, documentation of known issues and a host of other materials for public review. Bravo!
April 08, 2004Ohio Wants Paper Trails
Ohio's Joint Committee on Ballot Security, comprised of bipartisan legislators, voted 7-1 that all Ohio voting machines should have voter-verified paper audit trails by 2006. It's now up to the legislature and Secretary of State to act on that recommendation.
April 07, 2004Op-ed: Florida's E-Day Tech Still Flawed
Mark Grossman of The Miami Herald with a scathing editorial on the e-voting situation in Florida.
March 31, 2004E-Voting Official Accused of Accepting Illegal GiftMarch 30, 2004Comprehensive Look at E-Voting Risks
Kim Zetter at Wired with a terrific feature on the dangers of e-voting.
March 26, 2004Let the Verifiable Elections Begin!
Accupoll has completed federal certification for an electronic voting machine that produces a voter-verified paper audit trail.
Officials Reprimand Diebold, Claim Contract Violations
Alameda County - Diebold's oldest California customer - publicly chastised the election company for a slew of election-day malfunctions and opened the door for a lawsuit over contract violations.
March 23, 2004E-Voting Security: If You've Got It, Flaunt It
Paul Andrews on the Open Voting Consortium's solution to election security.
March 19, 2004Papers Run Ads for Pro-Paper E-Voting
True Majority is running pro-paper trail ads in The Baltimore Sun (MD) and The Palm Beach (FL).
Conservative Calls for Election Reform
Norman Ornstein chronicles problems with our election system in a recent "Roll Call."
[Subscription unfortunately required to get beyond the abstract.] March 16, 2004Maryland Alert: Accountable E-Voting Needs Your Help
The Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland - a state-based grassroots organization - needs your help in the fight for paper audit trails in e-voting machines.
The Days of Wine and Lost E-Votes
Napa County is re-scanning 11,000 ballots that were miscounted by an electronic reader. The results could alter the outcome of the race.
March 15, 2004Op-Ed: Florida as the Next Florida
Excellent NYT op-ed on e-voting problems in the Sunshine State.
NC: Another State Group for Verifiable Voting
The North Carolina Grassroots Organization to Ensure Verified Voting is just that - check it out if you live between Virginian and South Carolina.
March 12, 2004Smartmob the Vote
Rock the Vote is using text messages to woo younger voters into polling places.
CA Legislators Try to Freeze E-Voting
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