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E-voting flaws put Florida in spotlight again

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

A Republican congressman gets seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a bug in the electronic ballot, the challenger would have won, voting experts say.
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E-voting worries focus on failures, not fraud

November 10th, 2006 · No Comments

No obvious election fraud tainted the midterm elections, but e-voting machine critics stress that Election Day failures should raise a red flag.
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E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines

October 3rd, 2005 · No Comments

A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States’ Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation’s state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of electronic voting devices.
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E-voting faces new scrutiny

November 24th, 2004 · No Comments

A newly announced federal investigation of the November election will bring fresh scrutiny on the performance of e-voting machines, but election experts said they believe any impact will be limited to future political contests.
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E-voting makes its mark

November 3rd, 2004 · No Comments

Electronic voting machines made a respectable showing in the U.S. elections on Tuesday, despite some critics’ predictions of widespread and major problems.
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The big election beta test

November 1st, 2004 · No Comments

Votes cast Tuesday will not only determine the next president of the United States, they could also go a long way toward determining the future of ballot machines in America.
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Stamp of reproval for e-voting systems

October 28th, 2004 · No Comments

As U.S. voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday, weak and outdated federal voting standards have emerged as a major cause of e-voting security concerns. Over the years, state election officials have approved purchases of thousands of e-voting machines, relying on their compliance with federal guidelines that fail to address critical problems.
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Global lessons in e-voting

September 30th, 2004 · No Comments

For all its vaunted leadership in technology and all things democratic, the United States finds itself in the unusual position of looking to developing nations for direction in the field of electronic voting. Mistrust of technology and the closed systems that have been created to tally votes have scuttled touch-screen and other electronic voting systems.
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