By Luther Weeks on December 5, 2008
Eureka CA, Diebold error resulted in 179 uncounted ballots. The Times-Standard reports the story of the “Humboldt Election Transparency Project”, similar to a post-election audit <read> Premier Elections Solutions (formerly known as Diebold Election Systems, Inc.), seems to have known about the glitch at least since 2004. The Transparency Project is not an ordinary audit, […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on November 2, 2008
Princeton Professor Andrew Appel hacks voting machine in 6 min and 51 sec for CNN host: <video> Anyone familiar with Connecticut’s Diebold AccuVote-OS would be able to beat that 6 min and 51 sec, especially if they had a copy of one of the keys for the machine (hint they are all the same key, […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, FAQ
By Ebanezer Cluge on October 31, 2008
Editor’s Note: Posted Halloween 2009. Rush Holt has moved on from the House, yet we still face the danger of putting off needed reforms.
Like many voters, I am concerned about the integrity of this year’s election. Last night I was visited by three visions of elections future. From 2008, 2012 or 2016. I’m a little hazy on some of the details, but the visions were worse than anything yet imagined.
The Ghost Of Presidential Elections Future:
It seems the problems all stemmed from what happened in the 2008 election and its aftermath. Its a little hazy but the ghost warned of three possible outcomes:
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits, Recounts/Recanvasses
By Luther Weeks on October 16, 2008
Verified Voting, Common Cause, and the Brennan Center for Justice released a major report today: <press release> <report> Is America Ready to Vote? State Preparations for Voting Machine Problems in 2008 States Get Mixed Reviews on Readiness for Voting Machine Problems — Citing Improvements, Election Experts Call for Backup Measures to Secure the Vote on […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Reports
By Luther Weeks on October 13, 2008
Posted on October 11, UConn has a new report dated October 7th of the Pre-Election testing of memory cards for the August 2008 Primary, Pre-Election Audit of Memory Cards for the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections <read> There was a different methodology used to gather cards for this report. Previous reports were of an incomplete […]
Posted in CT, Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on October 9, 2008
A full hour on voting integrity: I especially recommend the 2nd segment with Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. She demonstrates that while she has her hands full in Ohio, she understands the issues and has moved aggressively to improve voting integrity and voter access. She commissioned the Everest reports and has used them to […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on October 9, 2008
The New York Times in an editorial, That’s a Pretty Big Glitch, nails the issue again <read> In the early days of electronic voting, critics who warned that it was unreliable were dismissed as alarmist. Now it seems that hardly an election goes by without reports of serious vulnerabilities or malfunctions. Unfortunately, for the most […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Other Editorials, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on October 8, 2008
We keep making the case that recounting by machine is unreliable and not up to the demands of Democracy. Kim Zetter has a readable and detailed article describing the ups and downs of the recent Palm Beach recounts. We have always said that recounting by machine can cause the same errors, if any, to simply […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Recounts/Recanvasses
By Luther Weeks on October 4, 2008
The Providence Journal has the story of a very close primary in our neighboring state. There are some interesting lessons here. <read> First there is a reason CTVotersCount wants manual hand-to-eye counts in close races, rather than reading the votes through a machine. Primarily (no pun intended) any machine errors will likely just be repeated. […]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Recounts/Recanvasses, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on August 29, 2008
We have been covering a significant report by VotersUnite.org, Vendors are Undermining the Structure of U.S. Elections. , the report summarizes the bind Connecticut and other states are in: Violations of Federal Law Leave States in a Double Bind. The federal government fails to meet its HAVA deadlines for giving guidance to the states on […]
Posted in Costs, CT, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Reports, Skulduggery and Errors
