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Chapters

| 1 — Introduction To Voting Problems | 2 — Essays On Voting Problems | 3 — Direct Recording Electronic Voting |

| 4 — Trust Our Election Officials? | 5 — Lies, Damn Lies, and Mail In Elections | 6 — Pitfalls Of Statewide Voter Registration Databases |

| 7 — Building Better Ballot Boxes | 8 — Voting Problems In The 2002 Elections | 9 — Voting Problems In The 2003 Elections |

| 10 — Voting Problems In The 2004 Elections | 11 — Voting Problems In The 2005 Elections | 12 — Voting Problems In The 2006 Elections |

| 13 — Election Web Sites And Problems |


 

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2002 election problems

Absentee ballot requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins recount by 139

Broward County, Florida, discovers glitch in election

Conflict probe launched in California's voting machine buys

Elections are scarier than a terrorist threat

Elections chief refuses to test vote machines in Palm Beach County, Florida

Florida

Florida's Broward County finds 100,000 lost votes — results unchanged

How to vote in one easy step — use chisel, tablet

Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, election mix-up

The re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Various news reports

Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized, report says Miami-Dade County, Florida, misled by ES&S

Wellington candidate sues, seeks new vote in Palm Beach County, Florida

2003 election problems

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs, Colorado, election

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Various news reports

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

2004 election problems

A worker at a Toledo, Ohio, election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for election

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals due to known ES&S software bug

Election problems in Craven County, North Carolina, due to ES&S software glitch

Election study finds widespread ballot counting problems

Electronic voting a mess in March California primary

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primaries

Electronic voting down for the count in Riverside County, California

Florida

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Gaston County elections director resigns after 13,000 votes are missing

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November election after 13,000 votes missing

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

North Carolina takes the lead in November election problems

North Carolina's ballot blues

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter fraud probed in 47 counties in Colorado

2005 election problems

1,200 phantom votes haunt election in Pitkin County, Colorado

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County, Colorado

Larimer County, Colorado, voting centers not answer to all voting problems

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

NAACP vote hearing details new flaws in Lucas County, Ohio

Various news reports

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

2006 election problems

22,000 in Jefferson County, Colorado, mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Colorado vote-security goals called unachievable

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Daily voting news for June 7th

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Early worries forecast Election Day 2006 fiasco as Tom Cole's replacement is no improvement in Denver, Colorado

Election error sparks resignation, recount in Williamson County, Texas

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

Maryland election judge and other comments on the 2006 primary election

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Montrose County, Colorado, Clerk violates election laws in November 2006 election

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Security added for voting machines in Colorado at last minute

Security plans for only 37 of 64 Colorado counties approved by Sec. of State prior to November 2006 election

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Various news reports

Vote our way with DREs or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Wisconsin primary election plagued by computer problems

Wrong PIN number halts election and absentee ballots found in drawer after election in Delaware County, Indiana

2007 election problems

Denver election critique delivered by post office in mail ballot election

The vote's in the mail in Denver, Colorado

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver, Colorado, city election

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A better ballot box?

A million votes in the electoral trash can

A modern democracy that can't count votes

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

ABC News published election results 24 hours before election on November 2, 1998

Absent without leave

Absentee ballot

Absent without leave

Absentee votes accidentally counted twice in White County, Indiana

Absentee voting does not increase voter turnout

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Adding insult to injury

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Ballots found in drawer after November 2006 election in Delaware County, Indiana

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Blunder by Colorado Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Colorado voter database under scrutiny after candidate's petition signatures cannot be verified

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Corrupts secret ballot

Denver voters had hard time following directions for marking ballots. They used red ink not read by scanner, markers that ran through to other side, and circled or X'd their choices, instead of drawing narrow line to connect two arrows.

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Denver's voter registration list in question

Do not satisfy five essential criteria for sound and honest elections

Elderly often exploited by others to commit absentee ballot fraud

Enables buying and selling votes

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

First requirement for election fraud is to obtain a ballot

In 1998 former Democratic congressman Austin Murphy of Pennsylvania was convicted of absentee-ballot fraud in a nursing home

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district in 2004 election

In 2004, a worker at a Toledo, Ohio, election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

In Palm Beach County, Florida, Theresa LePore claimed 37,839 absentee votes counted but only 29,000 ballots had been received

Losing ballots by the thousands

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Mail ballots not the answer for Denver, Colorado, election woes

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

Nursing home abuses

Optical scanner breaks down while counting absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Problems with optical scanners

Proliferation means secret ballot is increasingly a thing of the past

Requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Studies show no change or decrease in turnout

The ballot gatherers

They go AWOL

Tool of choice for those engaging in election fraud

Virtually no way to discover if ballots have disappeared

Vote buying and selling corrupts 2003 mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

Voter fraud epidemic

Why mail ballots are a bad idea

Absentee votes worry officials as November 2, 2004 nears

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Accenture

A risk to the national security of the United States

Accenture-ating the positive (and it doesn't look good)

Bombs in United Kingdom

Bugs in Accenture's system for Colorado Department of Labor rile lawmakers

Can't design or build voter registration databases

Colorado agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Colorado and Accenture will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Colorado contracts with Accenture to help transform unemployment insurance delivery system

Colorado disaster

Colorado faces new glitches on computer contracts

Colorado scraps Accenture voter registration system

Colorado's choice of Accenture draws criticism

Controversy swirls around Wisconsin's voter list contract with Accenture

Database debacles in Colorado

Delays plague Wisconsin list of voters

Denver Post — Letters to the editor

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Elections officials gave Florida flawed felon voter list

Epitome of incompetence

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended in Colorado

Florida to cancel two multimillion-dollar technology contracts

Florida voter database disasters

Full refund due Colorado from Accenture on late voter registration database

Hacked Canadian vote

Kansas disaster

Legislative hearing on SURE voter registration system in Pennsylvania

Marine Corps disaster

Marines tell Accenture to stop work

Marines terminate contract

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

New voter rolls arouse more fears in Florida

No stranger to influence peddling in the United States

Offshore company captures online military vote

Pennsylvania voter registration database disaster

Problems with SURE voter registration system in Pennsylvania

Sinks in British quagmire

Software bugs delay Accenture's voter registration system in Wisconsin

Software froze up, failed to print poll books, delayed elections, and mailed voter cards to incorrect addresses in Arkansas for at least three years.

Software froze-failed to print poll books and operate on ES&S machines in Arkansas

Texas

To build voter registration and election management system for Pennsylvania

To consolidate voter registration databases in Kansas

To face legislative scrutiny for failed projects in Colorado

Voter database behind schedule in Wisconsin

Wins Marine Corps logistics pact

Wisconsin disaster

Wisconsin lawmaker pushes to drop Accenture's contract for voter registration system

Wisconsin's statewide voter registration system (SVRS)

Wyoming disaster

Wyoming media release (the official propaganda)

Wyoming Secretary of State Meyer — State wanted too much, voter registration system dies

Accuracy

Hand recounts

Ackerman, Elise

Blind voters rip e-machines

Additional layers of complication with electronic voting

Alabama

Bob Riley

Judge in Baldwin County "discovers" 7,000 votes too many had been given Democratic candidate for governor

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County

Alaska

Democrats defend public's right to see election data

District vote totals don't match final, official results in 2004 election

In 20 of 40 State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district

Security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Vote counting and securing democracy in Alaska

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter turnout percentage in 16 election districts is over 200% in the 2004 election

All the president's votes?

Americans with disabilities call for election systems featuring both accessibility and security

An election spoiled rotten

Any programmer can write code that displays one thing on a screen, records something else, and prints yet another result

Appoint committees of the unqualified

Arizona

Cost

Election officials refuse to answer Senate questions about Maricopa County 2004 primary election

Arkansas

Accenture software froze up, failed to print poll books, delayed elections, and mailed voter cards to incorrect addresses for at least three years.

Chaos in primary on ES&S machines

Election officials claim problems are minor

Damaged optical scanner permanently lost nearly 700 votes in Pike County

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County

Optical scanners record bogus overvotes in two counties

Report on 2006 primary meltdown rips ES&S

Comments

Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Waldenburg mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

As elections near officials challenge balloting security

ATM network for voting —A non-starter

Audits

Post-election audit results in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties after November 2005 election

Aurora, Colorado, mental health centers tries for stealth election to raise taxes

Avoiding detection of election fraud

Appoint committees of the unqualified

No records, no proof, no problem

Sign non-disclosure agreements with your vendors

Use your own judges if it goes to court

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Back room counting of ballots occurs without citizen oversight and often by relatives or cronies of county clerk in mail ballot elections

Backdoors

Diebold VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

EJF perspective on how major this problem is

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

Bad ideas for voting

Adding up the cost of electronic vote counting

Avoiding detection of election fraud

Conclusions

Conduct many elections

Direct recording electronic voting

Do away with secret ballots

Early, absentee, or mail balloting

Electronic voting machines

Electronic voting machines commonly invent or lose ballots

Exit polls

Increasing voter turnout

Internet voting

Just keep coming

Just say no to recounts

Letting voting machine companies run the election

Make election day a holiday

Problems with optical scanners counting ballots

The way it was when voting worked

Voting centers

Bald-faced lies about black box voting machines and the truth about the Diebold rob-georgia file

Ballot gatherers

Ballot king was paid by Orlando Mayor Dyer, other politicians to collect absentee ballots in Florida

Ballot opacity

Black stripe on back could be read through ballot as a vote

Denver voters had hard time following directions for marking ballots and used markers that ran through to other side

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Ballot tracking and inventory

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California

Ballots misprinted then repaired with correction fluid by ES&S in 2006 Arkansas primary

Barry, Dave

How to vote in one easy step — use chisel, tablet by Dave Barry

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Basic voting principles

Beauprez, Jennifer

Firms mum on hacker attacks — FBI seeks to ease fears on reporting

Behler, Rob

Told by Diebold to avoid Prof. Brit Williams during testing in Georgia

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Bigger than Watergate

Binker, Mark

Printers failed on ES&S DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Blame the voter

Delays in counting absentee ballots in November 2006 Riverside County, California, election attributed to voters

Husband and wife given different ballots in Crawford County, Arkansas, and official blames the voters

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Blind voters rip e-machines

Bloated registrations —including dead people — clog up voters' rolls across Colorado

Blunder by Colorado Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Bolstad, Erika

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Boulder County, Colorado, can't count ballots with Hart voting machines

Bousquet, Steve

New voter rolls arouse more fears in Florida

Boutin, Paul

Hack the vote — How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 elections

Bribery of a North Carolina Election Director

Brodsky, Ellen

Clerk notes election irregularities in Broward County, Florida

Brown, Kay

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Brubaker, Paul

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Building better ballot boxes

A better ballot box?

Bad ideas for voting just keep coming

Encrypted ballots

To register doubts, press here

Trust, but verify

Burks, Lisa

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

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Caldara, Jon

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Want to know how I voted? Look it up

California

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County

Blind voters rip e-machines

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Conflict probe launched in voting machine buys

Cost

Diebold's TSx machines fail in California in 2005

Election fraud alive and well in Santa Ana (Orange County)

Electronic voting a mess in March 2004 primary

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County election

Electronic voting down for the count in Riverside County

In October, 1998, 16,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were discovered in Los Angeles County

Monterey County registrar Tony Anchundo pleads no contest to 43 criminal charges

Recount in 2004 Riverside County primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County

Vote fraud investigations in Carmel and Monterey County go nowhere

Voter fraud hotline and handbook

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch for Sequoia DRE

Canada

Hacked Canadian vote

Carroll, Vincent

The vote's in the mail

Casey, Sean

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Centralization of state voter registries hands an all-too-tempting monopoly to whichever party controls the office of secretary of state

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Chaum, David

Encrypted ballots

Chicago rules of election fraud

Choate, Alan

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Ciber

No test methods specified for majority of requirements or how they would find bugs of check hacking defenses when testing voting machines for New York

Temporarily banned from testing voting machines for not following quality-control procedures and not documenting all required tests

Clark, Deborah

Pinellas County Florida Supervisor of Elections just can't seem to get the hang of running an election

Pinellas County, Florida, finds Supervisor of Elections worked for voting machine manufacturer

Clark, Ken

Kings County, Washington, frequently used backdoor to modify Diebold voting database

Claussen, Nick

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Cole, Thomas

Charged with felony theft, forgery, and embezzlement while working as computer technician for Denver Colorado Election Commission

Collins, Michael

Votes at risk in some states

Colorado

1,200 phantom votes haunt November 2005 election in Pitkin County

22,000 in Jefferson County mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

47 of 64 counties report voting irregularities in November 2004 election

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs election

Accenture and state will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Accenture database debacle

Accenture to face legislative scrutiny for failed projects

Agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Amendment 28 for mail ballot elections

Arapahoe County Clerk just elected — now recall him

Arapahoe County Clerk's affair dividing office

Arapahoe County has spent $200,000 in effort to oust clerk Baker

Arapahoe County ousts clerk in a rout

As bad as the 1904 election?

Aurora election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora election official could face fine, jail

Aurora mental health centers tries stealth election to raise taxes

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver election

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver

Bloated registrations —including dead people — clog up voters' rolls across the state

Blunder by Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Bugs in Accenture's system for Department of Labor rile lawmakers

Chaffee County Democratic voter in Precinct 2 given Republican ballot for Precinct 15 on DRE in voting center

Choice of Accenture draws criticism

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Contracts with Accenture to help transform unemployment insurance delivery system

County clerks breaking election law on signatures

Denver auditor expands review of election board

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft, forgery, and embezzlement

Denver election chief's exit sought

Denver Election Commission loses voter records

Denver election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Denver Post — Letters to the editor about Accenture

Denver's voter registration list in question

Doofus of the Month award given to Arapahoe County Clerk

Doofus too dumb to quit in Arapahoe County

Doubting Thomas in El Paso County

Drew Durham unfit for public office... a man with a history of racism and ideological zealotry

Early worries forecast Election Day 2006 fiasco as Tom Cole's replacement is no improvement in Denver

Election rule written by unqualified political appointee

Election watchdog could face charges in Boulder County

Election watchdog won't face charges in Boulder County

Eroding the cornerstone of democracy

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended for Accenture

Free Al Kolwicz!

Full refund due from Accenture on late voter registration database

Garfield County investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

Hanging chads looking better all the time

Individual appointed by SoS to certify voting machines has no training in computer science or security

Key voting machine certification document altered

Secretary of State responds

Larimer County voting centers not answer to all voting problems

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten counties

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Mail ballots not the answer for Denver election woes

Mesa County list of voters raises doubts

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Montrose County Clerk and Hart Interciviv representative don't even know how to plug in voting machines Election Day 2006

Montrose County Clerk doesn't bother to run logic and accuracy tests before November 2006 election

Montrose County Clerk violates election laws in November 2006 election

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Optical scanner breaks down while counting absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Phantom voters

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs

Report spreads blame for voting ills in Boulder County

Return of the stealth election

Scraps Accenture voter registration system

Secretary of State whimsically changes voting machine certification

Security added for voting machines at last minute in 2006

Security plans for only 37 of 64 counties approved by Sec. of State prior to November 2006 election

Standing on principle is not mal-intent as Boulder County Clerk claims

State election computer fails test

State faces new glitches on computers in Accenture contracts

The urge to purge

The vote's in the mail in Denver

U.S. bars Ciber from testing electronic voting machines

Uncharted territory with mail ballots

Voter database under scrutiny after candidate's petition signatures cannot be verified

Voter fraud probed 47 counties in Colorado's November 2004 election

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver city election

Vote-security goals called unachievable in 2006

Voting from the grave

Voting machine certification done by totally unqualified political appointee

Voting machine examiner proven incompetent

Voting machines missed mark

Want to know how I voted? Look it up in Boulder County

When allies become enemies, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson turns on her protege

Commonly-observed problems with electronic voting machines

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Computer security

Critic gets the old heave-ho

Firms mum on hacker attacks — FBI seeks to ease fears on reporting

Gambling on voting

If you want to win an election just control the voting machines

Threats from computer voting

Where are the protections against hacking computer voting systems?

Conduct many elections

Conflict probe launched in California's voting machine buys

Corn, David

Diebold wines and dines election officials

Corral, Oscar

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2002 election mix-up

Corry, Charles

Bad ideas for voting just keep coming

Basic voting principles

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft — Why public trust is an issue here

Doubting Thomas

If you have confidence in the accuracy and reliability of electronic voting machines you're way too friendly with Jack Daniels, or you've been smoking far too much of that Maui Wowee

Internet voting for military an open invitation to election fraud

Introductory comments on voting problems

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Vote fraud — Is our house any different?

Why mail ballots are a bad idea

You can have an honest election, or you can have a mail in/absentee ballot election, but you can't have both at the same time

Costs

Adding up the cost of electronic vote counting

DRE voting is extremely expensive

Florida's ES&S iVotronic machines impossible to upgrade

Guilford County, North Carolina, spent $3.4 million ($2.1 million HAVA) on voting equipment first used in 2006, but by 2008 elections county must spend another $1.4 million

Hidden costs of $130,000 associated with flash cards required for trilingual ballot in Florida

How much taxpayer money is involved?

Palm Beach County, Florida, pays $14.4 million for ES&S iVotronic voting machines that fail miserably

Passaic County, New Jersey paid $4.9 million ($3.8 million HAVA) for 650 Sequoia machines in 2005

Rhode Island spends $5 million on ES&S AutoMark machines for handicapped voters that don't work

Spend millions on voting machines and then have to hand count the ballots

Switch to electronic voting will cost New York state $200 million

Couch, Mark

Colorado agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Colorado and Accenture will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Colorado faces new glitches on computers

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended in Colorado

Coup d'état by computer

Crazy way to run an election

Crummy, Karen

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Voter fraud probed in Colorado

CSTARS

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

Culp, Bill

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig during 2004 presidential election

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Daly, Kay

Vote early, vote often

Damron, David

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals

Davey, Monica

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

Davis, Darrell

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Dead men voting

In South Dakota fraud wanders off the reservation

Review of West Virginia May 2006 primary election finds the dead can still vote

Delaware

Denver election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Denver's voter registration list in question

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Diebold

246.48% turnout is acceptable to report generator

25% of machines failed in 2002 pre-election testing in Georgia

Additional layers of complication with blended voting systems

Are background checks done on technicians they hire?

As elections near officials challenge balloting security

As of 2006 is there any rational, informed individual in the United States who believes one word from a Diebold representative?

Audit log

Avi Rubin analysis of code

Bald-faced lies about black box voting machines and the truth about the rob-georgia file

Black Box Voting report on voting machine test in Florida

Black Box Voting report on voting machine test in Florida — Grade "F" — For complete failure

Blended system didn't in September 2006 primary in Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Blended voting systems

Chairman and C.E.O. Walden O'Dell is a Bush pioneer and raised at least $100,000 for Bush

Chose not to fix security holes documented in January 2004 Maryland report

Company representative defends their record

Concerns about Georgia, Ohio elections

Consistent unexplained circumstantial evidence

Consultant convicted of embezzlement

Cost

Crazy way to run an election

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Dieb-throat

Difficulties of installing paper trails in TSx DREs

Director of G.E.S., Michael K. Graye, arrested in 1996 in Canada on tax-fraud and money-laundering charges involving $18 million and then indicted for stock fraud in US

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

District vote totals don't match final, official results in 2004 election in Alaska

DRE supervisor smart cards all had same password

Electronic poll books did not synchronize and repeatedly crashed in September 2006 primary in Maryland

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in DREs before March 2004 California primary

Engineer admits anyone can access server through Microsoft Access

Evidence of method

Evidence of motive

Evidence of opportunity

Evidence of prior conduct

Expense of voting with blended system

Failure in California of TSx machines in 2005

Fantasy becomes reality

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November 2004 election after 13,000 votes missing

GEMS central tabulator contains stunning security hole

How backdoor was originally discovered

How they woo state officials

How to rig an election in the United States

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district

In 2000, G.E.S. hired Jeffrey Dean as senior VP despite fact that he had served time on 23 felony counts of embezzlement

Insider alleges company plagued by technical woes

John Elder, convicted cocaine trafficer who served five years in prison, is printed-products manager

Kids prick open a scandal

Machines freeze before votes can be tallied

Maryland State election director blames election judges for disaster in September 2006 primary with Diebold poll books

Microsoft Access database

More GEMS problems, and why current solutions/explanations won't work

Multiple sets of books

Nearly one-third of TSx machines failed in August 2005 test in California

Negative votes can be entered via GEMS

New security risks found in voting systems

No less than five people involved with the management and development of voting systems are convicted felons

Optical Scan Accumulator Adaptor for blended voting systems is vaporware

Physical security measures found to be totally inadequate in September 2006 primary in Maryland

Poll worker told to shut up and not question the numbers in September 2006 Carroll County, Maryland, election

Preliminary report on the performance of the "blended" or "dual" system in Flagler County, Florida

Problems with GEMS central tabulator

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Rob Behler

Rob-georgia FTP site

Security bombshell

Solutions to GEMS central tabulator problem

Spokesman admits backdoor inserted intentionally

Taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

The face of modern ballot tampering

The perfect crime

TSx printer can only record ~75 votes before paper roll must be changed by a trained technician

Usability flaw detected in software in Utah County, Utah

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Vote totals don't add up in Alaska's 2004 presidential election, differ by 101,378 votes

Voting machine life expectancy

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

Voting system integrity flaw

VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

Walk right in, sit down, and compose your own tally vote counting system

Wines and dines election officials

Wireless connectivity at polling places

Dieb-throat

Dill, David

Georgia can only hope for the best with Diebold voting machines

Outrage that world's most powerful democracy doesn't have an election system so transparent its citizens know it can be trusted

The Diebold bombshell

Why am I always being asked to prove these systems aren't secure?

Dillman, Don

Statement on Palm Beach County Florida November 2000 ballot

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs

Disabled voters

Blind voters rip e-machines

Discovery of 100,000 missing ballots described as minor software thing

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals

Do away with secret ballots

Dobbs, Lou

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary e-voting debacle

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Does Florida's latest election fiasco portend another Bush theft in November?

Doofus of the Month award

Doofus too dumb to quit in Arapahoe County, Colorado

DRE voting

A bad idea

All the president's votes?

Americans with disabilities call for election systems featuring both accessibility and security

Around the states

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California, one of the first to go to DREs

Blind voters rip e-machines

Broward County, Florida, voters touching the McBride selection on ES&S iVotronic and it kept checking Bush

Burke County, North Carolina, voters cast 34,604 ballots, but only 30,762 votes for president were recorded in 2004 election

Candidates names left off ballots in several North Carolina counties in 2004 primary

Clerks cast doubt on new voting machines in New Jersey

Common problems with DRE voting machines

Did you erase your own vote?

Difficulties of installing paper trails

Don't reliably prevent overvotes or prevent unintentional undervotes

Down for the count in Riverside County, California

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold machines before March 2004 California primary

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Experience in August 2006 Colorado primary leaves voter with no trust in the system at all

FEC rejected Naegle's recommendation

Generating undervotes on DREs

Hack the vote — How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 elections

Just say no to recounts

Lost electronic votes in New Mexico — A cautionary tale

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Pay millions for the machines then do a hand count to check them

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Problems tabulated by state and county

Programming errors

Recount follies in Riverside County, California

Recount in 2004 Riverside County, California, primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Unassisted voting for the handicapped

Vote our way or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voters don't trust electronic voting in Nagodoches County, Texas

Voters frequently given wrong ballot style at voting centers

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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