Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Voting machine producers criticize critiques

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Evoting, Hacked, Hacker, Hart, Sequoia, Voting Machines, Votingmachines

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsVoting machine makers scoffing at bad reviews? That's preposterous! Actually, it's not all that alarming to hear that Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia Voting Systems all had less-than-amicable responses to a state study that "found that their machines could be breached by hackers." Of course, we're not exactly sure

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• Fresh study (still) finds Diebold e-voting machines hacker-friendly

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:27 am

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Election, Evoting, Florida, Hacking, Vote, Voting

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe fact that some individuals still have any level of faith left in Diebold is quite baffling, but in case you were looking for just one more episode to dash your hopes of a hack-proof voting machine, open wide. As fate would have it, a fresh study in Florida has found that even optical scan voting systems "can be hacked

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• Myriad of errors mar UK e-voting trials

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Dominion Voting, Dominionvoting, E Voting, Error, Evoting, Mishap, Vote, Voting

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsRight on cue, the Electoral Commission has published findings from a number of UK e-voting trials, and just as expected, they went about as awry as they possibly could. Within the 24-page document resides a comedy of errors that would certainly put any other system on an eternal blacklist, but the blind faith in e-voting

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• Diebold says e-voting sales have failed

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: 2008 Elections, 2008elections, Diebold, E Voting, E Voting, Election, Elections, Electronic Voting Machines, Electronicvotingmachines, Evoting, Hacking, Hacks, Voting

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets According to an AP article released today, Diebold, one of the prominent makers of the recently embattled electronic voting machines, says that the company has failed to make its e-voting business profitable. If you'll recall, Diebold machines have repeatedly been the target of various hacks, many of which have proven

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• Connecticut offering up voting lessons on video

  Published: August 24, 2007, 12:08 pm

  Tags: Connecticut, E Voting, Evoting, Lessons, Optical Scan, Opticalscan, Video, Voting, Voting Lessons, Votinglessons

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNot to anyone's big surprise, e-voting is apparently not the most straightforward process in the world, but Connecticut's Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is going so far as to release a 90-second video clip that demonstrates how to correctly place a vote using a vanilla optical scan voting machine. Yep, this means

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• Dutch government abandons e-voting for red pencil

  Published: September 27, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Dutch, Evoting, Holland, Netherlands, Vote, Voting

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets About a year after the Dutch government began seriously worrying about the integrity of e-voting machines, they've literally pulled the plug on the venture. The biggest flaw was the lack of a paper trail according to a special committee which reported its finding this morning. As such, Nederlanders will return to the

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• Uncle Sam Wants to Know How You Feel About E-Voting Machines [Indecision '08]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: E Voting, Eac, Election Assistance Committee, Evoting, Gadgets, Government, Indecision 08, Politics, Voting, Voting Machines

  If you're not exactly down with the state of e-voting in the US (and you really shouldn't be), the Election Assistance Committee (a federal oversight committee that now has reign over certifying e-voting machines) wants to hear about it and what you think of their recently proposed guidelines (PDF, 600 pages). Ostensibly they're designed to

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• An Overview of the New E-Voting Machine Guidelines [Indecision '08]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 7:40 pm

  Tags: E Voting, Eac, Election Assistance Committee, Evoting, Gadgets, Indecision 08, Politics, Voting

  In case you didn't want to rip through the pages upon pages of the EAC's Voluntary Voting System Guidlines or the 600-page monster version before firing off your two cents on e-voting, Ars Technica nicely overviews them for us. For one, paper trails are now a de facto requirement, since "independent, voter-verifiable records" are required for

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• ES&S e-voting machine fails epically at withstanding hackers

  Published: December 7, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Crack, Cracked, E Voting, Evoting, Hacked, Inkavote, Red Team, Redteam, Security, Vot, Voting

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe're going out on a limb here and assuming that precisely no one is surprised, but yes, another e-voting machine has proven totally incapable of resisting even the most unsophisticated of hacks. Not long after California Secretary of State Debra Bowen okayed the use of systems that failed prior security audits provided

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