Shamos: Why e-voting paper trails are a bad ideaSource: CNET News.com
Isn't it optimistic to think that officials and auditors will necessarily be able to detect the first real attack on e-voting machines?.
Shamos: Technology is always required in elections. The days of the hand-counted ballots are over.
Will Rush Limbaugh Be Indicted for Ohio Voter Fraud? Source: AlterNet.org
Michael Slater of Project Vote, a nonpartisan group that designs voter registration drives for low-income people, said GOP meddling in the Ohio Democratic Primary was a clear-cut example of fraudulent voting, which is how Republicans have defined the issue in recent years, as GOP …
Election can be stolen in "under a minute" with Diebold machinesSource: Homeland Stupidity
Researchers at Princeton University announced Wednesday that common electronic voting machines can be subverted by installing software which undetectably alters vote totals and, as a computer virus, spreads itself from one voting machine to the next.
Primary Concerns Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
As the breathless sports coverage of the presidential primaries bursts around me this morning, I'm doing my best to resist surrendering to the contrived drama about "comeback kids" and the flying shrapnel of numbers and hold onto my troubled skepticism about the electoral p …
On the Trail of Election Dirty TricksSource: TPM Muckraker
"Was Major Lobby Firm Behind Nasty Robo Calls? A Florida-based Republican political firm with circumstantial ties to at least two nasty robocalling efforts this year isn't quite as obscure as we thought.
Candidate Gets No Votes, but Voted for Himself. Source: Forbes
Randy Wooten figured he'd get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people - even if it was just his own.
He didn't. Now he has to decide whether to file a formal protest.