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Today's Fresh Blogs...| California white hat hackers: 3, Diebold and friends: 0 |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 6:51 pm |
| Tags: Electronic Voting Machines, Electronicvotingmachines, Hacked, Hacking, University Of California, Universityofcalifornia, Voting Machines, Votingmachines |
| of "faith" in the US voting process, a group of University of California researchers have just hacked their way through security on nearly every voting machine certified by the state of California. According to Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who initiated these tests, the team was able to "bypass physical and software security in every |
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| Hackers Make Quick Work Of Most California Voting Machines |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:14 am |
| Tags: Voting Rights |
| review” of every voting system certified by the state. Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting |
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| Voting machine producers criticize critiques |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:19 pm |
| Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Evoting, Hacked, Hacker, Hart, Sequoia, Voting Machines, Votingmachines |
| 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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| Republicans Move To Stealthily Steal Electoral Votes |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Voting Rights |
| I’m not a big fan of the electoral college system, but this article doesn’t make me feel better about amending it. The New Yorker: At first glance, next year’s Presidential election looks like a blowout. But it might not be. Luckily for the incumbent party, neither George W. Bush nor Dick Cheney will be running; indeed, the |
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| Jonah Goldberg Endorses Jim Crow |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:02 pm |
| Tags: Right Wing Pundits, Voting Rights |
| vote; why not all citizens?A voting test would point the arrow of civic engagement up, instead of down, sending the signal that becoming an informed citizen is a valued accomplishment. Golly gee whillikers, Mistah Goldberg, why don’t we have tests at the polls here in America? Although, I seem to remember a historical precedent for just |
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| Senate Backpedals On Legislation Requiring Paper Trail For E-Voting Machines |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:38 pm |
| Tags: Election 08, Campaigns Elections, Voting Rights |
| push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they’ve backed away from doing so in time for next year’s presidential election. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ |
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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 |
| 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 into," which is causing quite a bit of concern considering that touchscreen alternatives aren't exactly an option in the Sunshine State. Reportedly, the document noted that |
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| Ann Coulter's Voter Fraud Case Is Still Alive |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:15 pm |
| Tags: Voting Rights, Ann Coulter |
| but Annie’s little voting faux pas is not resolved yet. Fogg catches this item from the local news. The Palm Beach Post reports today that FEC Case No. 07-211 is still alive and well and that Coulter is still under investigation. WPB campaign consultant Richard Giorgio has filed a complaint accusing her of false swearing and fraud to |
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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 |
| 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 continues to allow events such as these to complicate democratic procedures. For |
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| CA Secretary of State Decertifies Majority LA County E-voting Machines |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 5:35 pm |
| Tags: Voting Rights |
| Election Systems and Sequoia Voting Systems — Bowen said she would allow just one machine per polling place, apparently to provide an accessible option for disabled voters. Electronic voting critics had unsuccessfully lobbied Bowen’s predecessor to stop the machines’ use in California. More than three dozen California counties |
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| In Brief: California has deemed e-voting safe after ... |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 11:41 am |
| Tags: E The Vote, E Voting |
| California has deemed e-voting safe after implementing new security measures. [pcworld] |
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| California official gives ok to voting systems that failed security audit |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 3:45 pm |
| Tags: California, Diebold, E Voting |
| with ease in a California e-voting system security audit? Well what do you know, the eminently wise and honorable California Secretary of State Debra Bowen up and decided Friday that those severely vulnerable Diebold, Hart, and Sequoia voting terminals would still be cleared for takeoff, provided the companies in question supply their machines |
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| California Secretary of State Holds Firm on Voting Machine Integrity |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 8:40 pm |
| Tags: Elections Voting |
| and confidence in the voting process. Although this may sound like an easy task, supported by one and all, it has been anything but. The county clerks and registrars of voters in many of the state's 58 counties don't want her treading on their sacred ground. Historically, the voting process has been under the singular domain of each |
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| California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Decertifies Diebold, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems--Late Submitted ES&S System InkaVote Plus Used in Los Angeles to be Reviewed |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Elections Voting |
| ramifications on electronic voting.] After two months of unprecedented analysis of California's voting systems and related security procedures, Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced some of those systems can continue operating in 2008 in California while others are too flawed to be widely used. Each of the systems that went through |
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| Federal Reserve Says, Nothing To See Here - Keep Driving |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 2:33 pm |
| Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Mortgage News, Monetary, Policy, Inflation, Moderate, Pressures, Geithner, Voting, Hoenig |
| by incoming information. Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman; Timothy F. Geithner, Vice Chairman; Thomas M. Hoenig; Donald L. Kohn; Randall S. Kroszner; Frederic S. Mishkin; Michael H. Moskow; William Poole; Eric Rosengren; and Kevin M. Warsh. 2007 Monetary policy Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, |
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