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Black Box Voting
  • Kim Zetter , Wired Threat Level

    Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year. The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, filed the civil antitrust lawsuit (.pdf) in... » read this article
  • Susan Pynchon , VoteTrustUSA

     [updated January 21, 2006] I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan). The Leon... » read this article
  • Ernest Partridge , Crisis Papers

    Like biologists with evolution and atmospheric scientists with global climate change, those who warn us that our elections have been stolen and will be stolen again must now be wondering, “just how much evidence must it take to make our case and to convince enough of the public to force... » read this article
  • Blogged by Brad , BRAD BLOG FRONT PAGE

    More on Ohio's Staggeringly Impossible '05 Results The Corporate Media Continues to Not Care, But a Rightwing Blogger Finally Does... The Corporate Mainstream Media may not give a damn about our democracy. Neither might the bulk of our politicians on both the Left and Right side of the aisle. But...... » read this article
  • Jean G. Braun , Axis of Logic Exclusive

    Former Secretary of State James Baker III, as campaign manager for George W. Bush in 2000, repeatedly met the media and used the term "recount" during the Florida election debacle. The "recount" referred to those ballots assembled by Vice-president Al Gore, which had been discarded because of chad-gorged machines and... » read this article
  • Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin and Dan S. Wallachs , IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

    Editor’s Note: Please don’t let the February, 2004 date dissuade you from reading this important abstract from the analysis of an Electronic Voting System. It is as valuable and even more timely now, than when it was first published in July, 2003 and again in February, 2004. What follows is an... » read this article
  • Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent , Reuters

    May 3, 2004 - (Washington) Nuance and tone may be different, but no matter who wins this year's presidential election, political realities will limit the victor's policy options in the U.S. battle against terrorism, political analysts say.   The "war on terror" is a central campaign topic, and President Bush... » read this article
  • Kim Zetter , Wired News

    March 29, 2004-In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington, searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual, when she made a startling discovery. Clicking on a link for a file transfer protocol site belonging to voting... » read this article
  • Editorial , New York Times

    March 29, 2004-When Katherine Harris had to decide which candidate won Florida in 2000, many people were disturbed to learn she was both the state's top elections official and co-chairwoman of the Florida Bush-Cheney campaign. This year, that kind of unhealthy injection of partisanship into the administration of a presidential... » read this article
  • Marc Eisen , The Progressive

    It wasn't supposed to be this way. After the Florida debacle in the 2000 Presidential election, Congress agreed in 2002 that voting practices had to be made more secure and accurate. But now we are approaching the 2004 election with an even more suspect voting technology than the notorious punch-card... » read this article
  • Bob Fitrakis , Free Press

      March 17, 2004 - The subject line on yesterday’s email read: “Another mysterious accident solves a Bush problem. Athan Gibbs dead, Diebold lives.” The attached news story briefly described the untimely Friday, March 12th death of perhaps America’s most influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail in the... » read this article
  • Margaret Kimberley , The Black Commentator

    In the year 2000 America was treated like a pesky third world nation in need of regime change. Those who had been out of power for eight long years chose not to endure that humiliation any longer. They decided to win and they weren’t going to let something as insignificant... » read this article
  • Editorial , New York Times

    March 14, 2004-As Floridians went to the polls last Tuesday, Glenda Hood, Katherine Harris's successor as secretary of state, assured the nation that Florida's voting system would not break down this year the way it did in 2000. Florida now has "the very best" technology available, she declared on CNN.... » read this article
  • Brian D. Barry , CommonDreams.org

    March 4, 2004-I've always wondered what sound Democracy would make if it died. Last night, I found out in Santa Clara, California. The sound it makes is a deafening silence, and it sent chills up and down my spine. This sound scared me more than anything I've ever heard in... » read this article
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