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• 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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• 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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• 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

  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 the machine to be susceptible to intrusion from outside elements and thus unreliable from a security standpoint. 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

  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 improve notoriously non-existent security, but they were drafted in part by reps from voting machine companies. One place to start, besides simply saying the machines

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• 50 States Sued! Federal Court to be Asked to Delay ALL Primaries

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:14 am

  Tags: Voting Machines, Paper Ballots, Delayed Primaries, 50 States Sued

  prohibiting the use of all voting machines and to force election officials to instead utilize paper ballots and to count and total all votes by hand, always in full view of the public. This is targeted to EVERY voting precinct in every state of the union. This is how we the people are going to make sure we take our country back and that

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• California SOS Debra Bowen on voting machines and ballot initiatives.

  Published: December 3, 2007, 8:35 pm

  Tags: Ca Electoral Votes, Debra Bowen, Electronic Voting Machines

  on her duty to de-certify voting systems that shows inherent and persistent problems. She talks about how California is moving forward now that several voting machines are no longer acceptable in Califorina.In the second one, SOS Bowen provides valuable information about the current initiatives to change the allocation of California's

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• Ohio Official Urges Replacing Voting Machines

  Published: December 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Ohio, Official, Urges, Replacing, Voting, Machines

  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state's top elections official recommended yesterday that Ohio counties replace their touch-screen voting machines because the devices -- in use for roughly two years -- are vulnerable to manipulation.

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• Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting

  Published: December 17, 2007, 9:32 am

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Elections, Electronic Voting, Electronicvoting, Ohio, Touchscreen Voting Machines, Touchscreenvotingmachines, Voting

  providers of electronic voting equipment -- including, of course, renamed Diebold -- and recommending that the 50 counties which use them scrap the machines in favor of a paper-trail-leaving optical scanning method. The report, commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, details the ways in which white hat hackers were able to

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• Colorado voting machines don't make the grade

  Published: December 20, 2007, 8:22 am

  Tags: Colorado, Decertified, Electronic Voting Machines, Electronicvotingmachines, Failed, Failing, Hacking, Vote, Voting, Voting Machines, Votingmachines

  blow to electronic voting fans everywhere, Colorado's Secretary of State has declared the machines unreliable -- and apparently in need of a software patch. While not as harsh as some rulings on the systems, Secretary Mike Coffman decertified three out of four machines which had been tested. Why the bad grade? Apparently the machines

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• To the Professionally Offended, there *is* no Right Answer

  Published: January 18, 2008, 9:44 am

  Tags: Aclu, Contradictions, Elections, Ohio, Paper Ballots, Voting Machines

  from switching its voting apparati from touch-screen machines to what the ACLU believes represents "unequal, inaccurate and inadequate voting technology." The new method of voting, which the ACLU -- one of the most "professionally offended" organizations in the nation -- finds so, well, offensive? The Paper Ballot. Cuyahoga County is

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• Massive Fraudulent CIA-backed Voting Machine Conspiracy in SC [South Carolina Mini Election]

  Published: January 19, 2008, 4:15 pm

  Tags: John Mccain, Primaries, South Carolina, South Carolina Mini Election, Swampland, Voting Machines

  According to reports in Horry (ahem) County, South Carolina — where Myrtle Beach is — voting machines have been hijacked by merciless corporates smoking Cuban cigars, eating children...

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• Massive Fraudulent CIA-backed Voting Machine Conspiracy in SC [South Carolina Mini Election]

  Published: January 19, 2008, 4:15 pm

  Tags: John Mccain, Primaries, South Carolina, South Carolina Mini Election, Swampland, Voting Machines

  Myrtle Beach is — voting machines have been hijacked by merciless corporates smoking Cuban cigars, eating children malfunctioning. And if the machines don’t work, and officials don’t have any paper ballots on hand, then officials take their phone numbers and call them when new ballots come in. John McCain relies on huge

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• HEY, YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO: ... [Voting Irregularities In Florida]

  Published: January 29, 2008, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Blimp, Florida, Primaries, Ron Paul, Voting Irregularities In Florida, Voting Machines

  glitches” with voting machines. We hear that one of these complainers, that was actually not a human but a famous blimp, said that when it tried to vote for Ron Paul, the machine’s robotic Fascist-arms stuffed it in a black burlap sack and threw it to the bottom of Lake Okeechobee. [Orlando Sentinel]

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• e-Voting 2.0 -- Time to open (source) the voting process

  Published: February 3, 2008, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Politics News, Technology Web, 2008 Presidential Election, E Voting, Election 2008, Voting, Voting Machines

  are using these electronic voting machines. The ratings for the 15 states holding presidential primaries on voting machines on Super Tuesday are below. Forty states, including the District of Columbia, are reviewed inside the report. The remaining states were not reviewed since they hold caucuses and do not use electronic voting machines.

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• Pennsylvania Primaries Postponed

  Published: April 2, 2008, 2:29 am

  Tags: Voting Machines, Pennsylvania Primaries

  significant portion of their voting machines are on the fritz...From Fox News:April 1 2008 -Philadelphia- Pennsylvania secretary of the commonwealth Pedro Cortes announced that thousands of voting machines were malfunctioning. In a press conference late Tuesday evening he stated,"Simply put, they (the voting machines) won't start up. We are

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