http://www.safevoting.org/blog/ en-us 2004-11-03T07:48:53-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000034.html Voting system vendors are using the lack of disasters in the 2004 election to prove that evoting works well. Here's the trouble: in key states, the exit polls were different from the final result. If the vote was rigged to... Background alevin 2004-11-03T07:48:53-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000033.html Evoting weblog from experts including Dan Wallach, Avi Rubin, David Dill, Ed Felten, Bruce Schneier, and others.... Background alevin 2004-11-01T20:44:37-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000032.html Report voting problems * by phone1-866-MYVOTE1 * https://voteproblem.org/ * These services are is sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and the Verified Voting Foundation. Post videos and digital photographs of voting problems * http://vidvote.org... alevin 2004-11-01T20:41:10-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000031.html You can sign up to be an election monitor, for several hours during the day, be a "mystery voter", or a poll closing observier * http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=200690 Election observer guidelines, targeted for Hart Intercivic System used in Travis, Harris, Tarrant and... alevin 2004-11-01T20:40:46-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000030.html by Bruce Scheier, leading technical expert and voice of reason on computer security. Four years after the Florida debacle of 2000 and two years after Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, voting problems are again in the news: confusing... Background alevin 2004-10-31T13:08:10-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000029.html Last weekend, frightened emails circulated around Travis County. At least one voter tried to select a straight-party Democratic ticket. When proofing the ballot, George Bush was selected for President. Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir and the local democratic party were... Background alevin 2004-10-28T10:26:28-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000028.html On September 7, Nevada became the first state in the US to vote using electronic voting machines producing a voter-verifiable paper trail. The $9.3 million system was provided by Sequoia Systems. There were a few delays, but no major problems,... Background alevin 2004-10-04T10:17:15-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000027.html At a demonstration of the new Sequioa electronic voting system in Nevada -- scheduled for use in the November election -- the brand new voter-verified paper trail feature proved that the machine missed votes. According to this Wired Magazine story,... Background alevin 2004-08-18T09:56:15-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000025.html Austin, TX - The Texas Secretary of State today agreed to indefinitely postpone a meeting of the state's voting examiners following the filing of a lawsuit by the ACLU of Texas and a Texas voter. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is... Background alevin 2004-08-15T18:57:38-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000024.html Sunshine Sought for Texas Election Systems Examiners Lawsuit Attacks Secrecy of Meetings Where E-voting Machines Are Evaluated Austin, TX. August 10, 2004. The ACLU of Texas and Jon Lebkowsky, a Texas voter, today filed a lawsuit demanding that the meetings... alevin 2004-08-10T15:44:33-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000023.html On May 4, the Texas Voting System Examiners reviewed the first electronic voting system with a voter-verified paper trail. The Accupoll system prints out a ballot for each voter to review, which can be stored in case of audits and... Background alevin 2004-08-09T12:22:33-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000022.html The full paper is available on the EFF Website There are two ways to add a paper ballot to an evoting sytem. The first is to take an optical scan system, and add a computer interface for users to vote.... Actions alevin 2004-08-09T11:04:03-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000021.html As reported by the Miami Daily Business Review A scathing internal review of the iVotronic touch-screen voting machines used in Miami-Dade and Broward, Fla., counties, written by a Miami-Dade County elections official, has raised fresh doubts about how accurately the... Background alevin 2004-08-09T10:50:37-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000020.html In-depth Nation Article, by a journalist who has been covering the security risks of electronic voting since the 1980s. Last fall during a public talk on "The Voting Machine War" for advanced computer-science students at Stanford, Dill asked, "Why am... Background alevin 2004-08-09T10:29:36-06:00 http://www.safevoting.org/blog/archives/000019.html The need for valid election audits and recounts is a "good-government" issue that transcends party lines. The Texas Republican and Democratic Party 2004 Platforms both call for a voter-verifiable paper ballot to ensure election integrity. The Republican platform section on... Background alevin 2004-07-22T11:35:11-06:00