"As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" Boss Tweed
This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.
Web Sites
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Black Box Voting
Web site managed by researcher and activist Bev Harris. Besides reports of development on the issue of unverifiable voting, the site contains links to news articles and PDF files of Harris' book, Black Box Voting.
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California Voter Foundation
Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization promoting and applying the responsible use of technology to improve the democratic process.
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Commonweal Institute
Special project on "Voting Issues" by a nonprofit organization devoted to "advancing ideas for the common good"
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Electronic Voting
Web site managed by security specialist Rebecca Mercuri
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Verified Voting
Campaign, founded by Prof. David Dill of Stanford University, to defend verifiable election results
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Vote Fraud And Election Issues
Section of the Equal Justice Foundation web site
News Reports
- General News
- Battle of the ballot heats up
Alan Boyle, MSNBC, 30 August 2004
- Poll: Voters Want Paper Trail
Laila Weir, Wired News, 25 August 2004
- The downloading of the president '04
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 24 August 2004
- Rolling Down the Highway, Looking Out for Flawed Elections
Adam Cohen, New York Times, 8 August 2004
- Voting software company submits code to NIST
William Jackson, Government Computer News, 29 June 2004
- Report Calls for Fixes in High-Tech Voting
John Schwartz, New York Times, 30 June 2004
- Digging for E-Voting Skulduggery
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 25 June 2004
- CA Secretary of State Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 15 June 2004
- Security Problems Persist in Voting Machines
Niall McKay, Security Wire Perspectives, 17 May 2004
- Virtual Voting
Elsa Wenzel, Mother Jones, 6 May 2004
- E-Voting's Flaws Out In Open
CBS News, 1 May 2004
- The Vexations Of Voting Machines
Viveca Novak, Time, 26 April 2004
- How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 29 March 2004
- Black Box Backlash
George Howland Jr., Seattle Weekly, 10 March 2004
- An Insider's View of Vote Vulnerability
Avi Rubin, Baltimore Sun (in Common Dreams), 10 March 2004
- Computerized voting seen as threat
Doug Saunders, Toronto Globe & Mail, 2 March 2004
- Electronic Vote Faces Big Test of Its Security
John Schwartz, New York Times, 28 February 2004
- Sparks fly in e-voting debate
Alan Boyle, MSNBC, 16 February 2004
- How Safe Is Your E-Vote?
Lee Nichols, Austin Chronicle, 20 February 2004
- Electronic voting unreliable without receipt, expert says
Stephanie Chasteen, Stanford Report, 18 February 2004
- For some, doubts linger about Georgia's new vote system
Dick Pettys, Associated Press (in USA Today), 17 February 2004
- Paperless ballot may not be answer
Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 February 2004
- US election could be hit by hackers
Caroline Overington, The Age, 17 February 2004
- Hi-tech voting machines 'threaten' US polls
Tim Radford and Dan Glaister, The Guardian, 16 February 2004
- Electronic elections: What about security?
CNN, 21 January 2004
- E-Voting Critics Grow Louder
Elizabeth Heichler, PC World, 15 December 2003
- Electronic voting no magic bullet
Marsha Walton, CNN, 12 December 2003
- Machine Politics in the Digital Age
Melanie Warner, New York Times, 9 November 2003
- A better ballot?
Mary Wiltenburg, Christian Science Monitor, 3 November 2003
- State buys voting machines critics call flawed
Sean Cockerham, Anchorage Daily News, 1 November 2003
- College removes Diebold memos
Matthew Fitting, Swarthmore Phoenix, 23 October 2003
- Poll Perils
Brien Colgan, Ithaca Times, 1 October 2003
- Critics Challenge Computer Voting
Jakob Schiller, Berkeley Daily Planet, 30 September 2003
- E-Voting Audit Ready for Public
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 18 September 2003
- Inside An E-Voting Whitewash Conference Call
C. D. Sludge, Scoop, 23 August 2003
- SAIC Connected To E-Voting Whitewash
C.D. Sludge, Scoop, 23 August 2003
- Bev Harris at center of high-tech voting debate
Keith Ervin, Seattle Times, 21 August 2003
- Computer voting viewed skeptically
Ann McFeatters, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7 August 2003
- Proprietary voting computers: Threat or menace?
Robin Miller, NewsForge, 29 July 2003
- Bald-Faced Lies About Black Box Voting Machines
Bev Harris, Scoop, 10 July 2003
- US election fraud scandal looms?
Egan Orion, The Inquirer, 9 July 2003
- Bigger Than Watergate
C.D. Sludge, Scoop, 8 July 2003
- Engineer Blows Whistle Over Tainted Voting Booths, Files Lawsuit
2600 News, 27 February 2003
- Problems During Elections
- Lost Votes in N.M. a Cautionary Tale
Dan Keating, Washington Post, 22 August 2004
- Voting machine faults ignored
Tamara Lush, St. Petersburg Times, 21 July 2004
- New electronic scanners miscounted some county votes
Gig Conaughton, North County [CA] Times, 7 April 2004
- Diebold error forces elections board to reprint 150,000 ballots
George J. Tanber, Toledo Blade, 26 February 2004
- Touch-screen gets a mixed Md. response
Ryan Davis, Baltimore Sun, 3 March 2004
- NC E-Vote machines lost absentee votes in 2002
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 9 February 2004
- Diebold machines used uncertified software in California election
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 17 December 2003
- Suspect Code Used in California Voting Machines
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 6 November 2003
- Fairfax Judge Orders Logs Of Voting Machines Inspected
David Cho, Washington Post, 6 November 2003
- Volusia County Memos Disclose Election 2000 Vote Fraud
Alastair Thompson, Scoop, 24 October 2003
- Electronic vote not up to speed in Toledo primary
Fritz Wenzel, Toledo Blade, 10 September 2003
- Security Concerns
- Demo shows value of a paper trail
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 12 August 2004
- E-Voting Causes Concern
CBS News, 8 July 2004
- Glitches Resurface in Fla. E-Voting Machines
Fox News, 8 July 2004
- Feds Look Into Reliability of E-Voting
Associated Press (in Fox News), 5 May 2004
- Report: Maryland voting system vulnerable to hackers
Tom Stuckey, Associated Press (in USA Today), 1 February 2004
- Flaws Remain In Election Systems
Associated Press (in CBS News), 22 January 2004
- Flaws continue to hamper computerized voting
Wendy M. Grossman, Scientific American, 19 January 2004
- Federal remote voting system called flawed
CNN, 21 January 2004
- Experts voice doubts about voting machines
Anjeanette Damon, Reno Gazette-Journal, 5 December 2003
- Researcher says e-voting can’t be counted on yet
William Jackson, Government Computer News, 3 December 2003
- New Coalition Raises Concerns About E-Voting
Elizabeth Heichler, PC World, 21 November 2003
- California voting machines must provide a paper trail
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 21 November 2003
- California orders independent audit of e-voting machines
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 11 November 2003
- Psst? Wanna get a look at some vote-counting software?
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 30 October 2003
- Report: Touch-screen's flaws can be overcome
Luis Monteagudo Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 September 2003
- Elections chief tightens vote security
Keith Ervin, Seattle Times, 25 September 2003
- An open invitation to election fraud
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 23 September 2003
- Voting devices' security at issue
Clint Swett, Sacramento Bee, 7 September 2003
- More Calls to Vet Voting Machines
Louise Witt, Wired News, 4 August 2003
- New voting machines flawed, experts claim
Toledo Blade, 25 July 2003
- Study: Voting system flawed
Cumberland Times-News, 25 July 2003
- Scientists: High-tech votes can be hacked
Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security, 25 July 2003
- Election fraud risks attract wide notice
Egan Orion, The Inquirer, 25 July 2003
- US researchers critical of electronic voting systems
The Age, 25 July 2003
- Researchers Call Electronic Voting System Flawed
Roy Mark, InternetNews, 25 July 2003
- E-voting system flaws 'risk election fraud'
New Scientist, 25 July 2003
- Security Of E-Voting Systems Seriously Questioned
George V. Hulme, Information Week, 24 July 2003
- Voting machine fails inspection
Robert Lemos, CNET News, 24 July 2003
- Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program
Bev Harris, Scoop, 8 July 2003
- System Purchases, Laws, and Political Issues
- Lawsuit
heats up e-voting debate in California
Dan Verton, Computerworld, 16 July 2004
- Riverside Cty CA registrar resigns in wake of e-voting scandal
Andrew Gumbel, LA City Beat, 24 June 2004
- E-Voting Woes Prompt Virginia Study
Robert MacMillan, Washington Post, 24 May 2004
- Florida elections official warns of glitches that may scramble vote auditing
Matthew Haggman, Miami Daily Business Review, 13 May 2004
- A state's troubled foray into electronic voting
Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2004
- High-Tech Voting System Is Banned in California
John Schwartz, New York Times, 1 May 2004
- California Secretary Of State Bans Electronic Voting
KCRA, 30 April 2004
- Calif. secretary of state pulls plug on some electronic voting
Jim Wasserman, Associated Press (in the San Diego Union-Tribune), 30 April 2004
- The inside story on California Diebold decertification
Bev Harris, Scoop, 23 April 2004
- California officials recommend decertifying Diebold
Paul Festa, ZDNet,22 April 2004
- California Moves to Boot Diebold
Kim Zetter, Wired News (in Truthout), 22 April 2004
- Official says CA was forced to certify voting machines by defiant county officials
Gig Conaughton, North County Times, 16 March 2004
- New voting machines cause concern for some
Tamela Baker, Hagerstown Herald-Mail, 27 February 2004
- Maryland Approves Electronic Voting Machines Despite Security Flaws
Nia Davis, Montgomery County Sentinel, 19 February 2004
- Touch-screen machines attract bipartisan opposition in Ohio
Jim Provance, Toledo Blade, 18 February 2004
- California lawsuit challenges e-voting
Associated Press (in CNN), 18 February 2004
- Doubts Linger About Georgia's New Voting System
WTVM-TV, 16 February 2004
- Touchscreen ballots don't have to be recounted, Florida official claims
Brendan Farrington, Associated Press (in USA Today), 12 February 2004
- Boxer wants new voting machines to produce printed ballots
Edward Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 December 2003
- States scrutinize e-voting as primaries near
Paul Festa, CNET News, 8 December 2003
- San Diego County to buy 'touch-screen' voting machines
Gig Conaughton, North County Times, 9 December 2003
- Republicans Back E-Vote Bill HR2239
Wired News, 19 November 2003
- E-voting given go-ahead despite flaws
New Scientist, 25 September 2003
- Counties pushing punch cards into extinction
Alan Gathright and John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 September 2003
- Maryland Tests E-Voting Security
Wired News, 6 September 2003
- E-Vote Machines Face Audit
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 12 August 2003
- Computer Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference
Lynn Landes, Scoop, 2 August 2003
- Input sought on voting system for Ohio
Fritz Wenzel, Toledo Blade, 26 July 2003
- Manufacturers
- Diebold Rep Now Runs Elections
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 30 September 2004
- Voting Machine Makers Wine and Dine Officials
press release, Institute for Public Accuracy, 2 September 2004
- Consumer Reports: Unusual Items on Diebold Financial Ledgers
Bev Harris, Black Box Voting, 31 August 2004
- Diebold May Face Criminal Charges
Kim Zetter, Wired News (in Truthout), 23 April 2004
- 2 felons' roles in county elections questioned
Keith Ervin, Seattle Times, 11 February 2004
- E-voting firm reports computer break-in
Alan Boyle, MSNBC, 29 December 2003
- Group Seeks E-Voting Standards
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 16 December 2003
- 'Gouging' memo leaves Diebold red-faced
Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 16 December 2003
- Firm sold unverified lists of registered voters
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 11 December 2003
- Electronic voting vendors band together
Grant Gross, ComputerWorld, 10 December 2003
- Nachi worm infected Diebold ATMs
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus, 24 November 2003
- Students buck DMCA threat from Diebold
Declan McCullagh, CNET News, 3 November 2003
- E-Vote Protest Gains Momentum
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 29 October 2003
- Diebold memos now hosted by 30 schools
Matthew Fitting, Swarthmore Phoenix, 30 October 2003
- Students Fight E-Vote Firm
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 21 October 2003
- Firm's attempts to down hyperlinks an attack on free speech, says EFF
Paul Hales, The Inquirer, 17 October 2003
- Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election?
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 13 October 2003
- VeriSign tapped to secure Internet voting
Robert Lemos, CNET News, 29 September 2003
- Duval Cty elections officer sues Diebold for failing to get certification
First Coast News, 26 September 2003
- Representatives of the computer vote-counting industry dominating standard-setting process
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 29 September 2003
- Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org
Egan Orion, The Inquirer, 24 September 2003
- Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities
Alastair Thompson, Scoop, 12 September 2003
- Vote of trust: VoteHere touts safeguards to allay fears
George Erb, Puget Sound Business Journal, 8 September 2003
- Diebold Voting Machines Phone Home During Election
Bev Harris, Scoop, 4 September 2003
- Diebold sends wrong ballots to Renton absentee voters
Angela Galloway, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 September 2003
- New Security Woes for Diebold
Brian McWilliams, Wired News, 7 August 2003
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Respond to Diebold Analysis
press release, Ascribe, 1 August 2003
- Diebold Rebuttals Don't Stand Up
Bev Harris, Scoop, 29 July 2003
- The Real Scoop On Diebold
Fintan Dunne, Scoop, 25 July 2003
- Diebold Voting Systems Grossly Insecure
Slashdot, 24 July 2003
Commentary
- Is E-Voting Fundamentally Flawed?
Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine, 13 October 2004
- The Magic Voting Touch
editorial, Washington Post, 20 September 2004
- The Hand-Marked Ballot Wins for Accuracy
Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times, 19 September 2004
- Error Warning: Voting System Concerns
Jill S. Farrell, Free Congress Foundation
- Let's Act in the the Democratic Emergency
Ronnie Dugger, CommonDreams, 30 July 2004
- Fear of Fraud
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 27 July 2004
- Insurance for Electronic Votes
editorial, New York Times, 23 July 2004
- Has the Time Come for Touchscreen Voting?
David Pogue, New York Times, 8 July 2004
- Electronic Voting – Not Ready for Primetime
Howard Dean, AlterNet, 29 June 2004
- Who Tests Voting Machines?
editorial, New York Times, 30 May 2004
- Voting Machines for New York
editorial, New York Times, 18 May 2004
- A simple way to make computer voting safer
Bev Harris, Seattle Times, 4 May 2004
- A Compromised Voting System
editorial, New York Times, 23 April 2004
- Vote Theft in 2004: Deja Vu All Over Again
Margaret Kimberley, Black Commentator, 19 April 2004
- Americans Don't Vote, Machines Do, & Ballot Printers Can't Fix That
Lynn Landes, Baltimore Chronicle, 16 April 2004
- Electronic voting was a fiasco
Pamela Smith, North County Times, 15 March 2004
- Diebold voting machines already have printers built in
Robert X. Cringely, PBS, 11 March 2004
- Florida as the Next Florida
editorial, New York Times, 14 March 2004
- Common Cause Statement On Voting Machines
Common Cause, 2 March 2004
- E-Voting: The Deafening Silence of Democracy Dying
Brian D. Barry, CommonDreams, 4 March 2004
- Out with the Old Voting Machines?
Ned Benton, Larchmont Gazette, 26 February 2004
- Lifting the Curtain on E-Voting
Mark Lewellen-Biddle and Danielle Taylor, MediaChannel.org, 1 March 2004
- The Results Are in and the Winner Is . . . or Maybe Not
Adam Cohen, New York Times, 29 February 2004
- Would you like a receipt with that election?
Stephanie Chasteen, EurekAlert, 15 February 2004
- E-lective Alarm
Dale Keiger, John Hopkins Magazine, February 2004
- Georgia's “Faith-Based” Electronic Voting System: Something's Rotten in the State
Heather Gray, CommonDreams, 12 February 2004
- How to Hack an Election
editorial, New York Times, 31 January 2004
- Paperless voting invites fraud
J. Howard Crews, North County (CA) Times, 27 January 2004
- The Perils of Online Voting
editorial, New York Times, 23 January 2004
- Democracy at Risk
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 23 January 2004
- The Promise (?) of Electronic Voting
American RadioWorks, December 2003
- Trust in Voting Machines -- But Verify
editorial, Washington Post, 22 December 2003
- Voting Machines Gone Wild!
Mark Lewellen-Biddle, In These Times, 11 December 2003
- Why the Best Voting Technology May Be No Technology At All
Robert X. Cringely, PBS, 11 December 2003
- The Odd Conflict over E-Voting
Business Week, 12 December 2003
- A Paper Trail for Voters
editorial, New York Times, 8 December 2003
- Voting process too important to leave to technology
Andrew Kantor, USA Today, 5 December 2003
- More voting machine troubles
editorial, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 5 December 2003
- Hack the Vote
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 2 December 2003
- Electronic Voting Debacle
Scott Granneman, The Register, 18 November 2003
- Maybe Hanging Chads Weren't So Bad After All
David Pogue, New York Times, 13 November 2003
- Better ballot boxes? Not so fast
Francis Volpe, Carlisle Sentinel, 4 November 2003
- MIT snared in dispute over voting machines
Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, 30 October 2003
- Sequoia E-Vote Software Leaked Online
Kim Zetter, Wired News, 29 October 2003
- Mock the Vote
Andrew Gumbel, LA City Beat, 29 October 2003
- E-Voting Machines and Fuzzy Math
Spyware Info, 21 October 2003
- All the President's votes?
Andrew Gumbel, CommonDreams, 14 October 2003
- E-voting: Democratic or dangerous?
Richard Black, BBC, 8 October 2003
- The end of vote-rigging? Not necessarily
John Sutherland, The Guardian, 6 October 2003
- Will Electronic Voting Machines Steal the 2004 Election?
BuzzFlash (in AlterNet), 1 October 2003
- Oval Office outrages just keep coming
Harley Sorensen, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 September 2003
- Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver GW Another Election?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! (audio/transcript of radio broadcast), 4 September 2003
- The Business of E-Voting and How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office
Jason Leopold, CommonDreams, 2 September 2003
- Hack the Vote
Bill Machone, PC Magazine, September 2003
- Safeguarding the Vote
Doug Pibel, Yes Magazine, Summer 2003
- Safeguarding Maryland's Votes
editorial, Washington Post, 9 August 2003
- Trustworthy Voting
editorial, eWeek, 4 August 2003
- A Soft Touch -- for Voter Fraud?
editorial, Washington Post, 3 August 2003
- The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away
Thom Hartmann, AlterNet, 30 July 2003
- The Voting Rights Struggle of Our Time
Kim Alexander, AlterNet, 30 July 2003
- Beyond Voting Machines: HAVA and Real Election Reform
Miles Rapoport, AlterNet, 30 July 2003
- A Voting and Democracy Primer
Don Hazen, AlterNet, 23 July 2003
- We Need Modern And Secure Voting Systems
Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, MoveOn Bulletin, 19 July 2003
- The Techno-Voting Nightmare
Rob Kall, OpEd News, July 2003
- Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace
Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III, AlterNet, 13 May 2003
- Rigging the Vote
Peter Coyote, Coastal Post, May 2003
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