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e-Voting

A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)
This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense's FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program).

Call for Paper Trail Backup System
"As e-voting grows, calls for paper trail delay cards' demise." Boston Globe article on concerns about eVoting.

Diebold Election Systems
Diebold Election Systems is an e-Voting Solutions Provider.

Dutch Authorities to Make Internet Voting Software Public
Thom de Graaf, Dutch minister for government reform, has decided to make public (under the general public license), the source code of the software used in Internet voting, reports OSOSS, the Dutch association that promotes open source software and IT standards in government.

Electronic Voting Bibliography
Webpage containing information and links to papers, books, articles, blogs, etc., on electronic voting.

E-voting Challenge: Chain of Custody  
Article describes how establishing chain of custody of a ballot may determine the success of e-voting.

e-Voting in India
"Indians have been selling campaign material for decades in Delhi's busy Sadar bazaar."

Geneva Pioneers Swiss Internet Voting
Geneva has become the first canton (state) in the Swiss federation to allow voting on federal issues via the Internet.

Information on e-Voting Machines and Court Cases
This link has information sheets on many of the e-voting machines being purchased by jurisdictions for the upcoming election, as well as links to information about court cases related to e-voting.

Internet Voting Gets the Oxford Blues
Advocates and opponents of electronic voting locked horns in Oxford on Monday, at a debate about the thorny issue of e-elections.

Internet Voting in Sweden
The Swedish Election Technique 2000 Commission recently presented its final report. Here, it is suggested that experiments with Internet voting are carried out to gain more experience with the use of technology in elections.

Internet Voting: Early Efforts
The concept of Internet voting in the United States emerged in 2000 with Alaska and Arizona pioneering the way.

Maryland Judge in Favor of e-Voting Machines
This is an article about a Maryland judge that finds touch screen voting more accurate than previous methods of voting.

Ohio e-voting Results  
Ohio spent $1.9 million to test its voting machines. It didn’t go too well.

Reliability of e-Voting Systems
This news article is a scary eye opener on the reliability of e voting systems in US. The writer talks about how it was discovered later on that the companies in-charge of the voting machine systems had high officials with questionable backgrounds and how easy it was to go online and change the votes.

Security and e-Voting
Article in PC World about the safety of e-Voting.

Texas Voting Machine "Closed Door Meetings"
A video showing some of Texas Secretary of State's closed-door meetings to certify voting machines.

The Geneva Internet Voting System
Under the impulse of the Swiss federal government, three cantons began working in the field of online democratic rights In March 2001, the Geneva State Council officially launched the project by choosing its partners (pdf).

Video: CBS News
Story describes the doubts of over e-voting in 2008.

Video: E-voting in Estonia
Reuters piece describes how Estonia is embracing e-voting.

 
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