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[News] [Rival] Windows in Electronic Voting Enables Manipulation, Finds Study

Expert opinion confirms manipulatability of voting computers

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| The Chaos Computer Club has submitted to the German Federal 
| Constitutional Court a 54-page expert opinion detailing 
| serious flaws in the voting computers manufactured by the 
| Dutch company Nedap, the German weekly newsmagazine Der 
| Spiegel reports in its upcoming edition. 
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90954/from/rss09


Related:

Dutch FOI disclosures reveal the odd business of evoting

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| "The Dutch have had evoting for years, and it has always had pretty
| lax monitoring. [After the hacks were broadcast] the government
| got interested and started asking for checks on the software."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/17/foi_dutch/


Diebold Weighs Strategy for Voting Unit

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| Diebold Inc. saw great potential in the modernization of elections
| equipment. Now, analysts say, executives may be angling for ways
| to dump its e-voting subsidiary that's widely seen as tarnishing
| the company's reputation.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIEBOLD_VOTING?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
| 
| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows,"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257


Polling places turn to paper ballots after glitches

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| Pennsylvania's Lebanon County also extended polling hours
| because a programming error forced some voters to
| cast paper ballots.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html


Would open source make elections fair?

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| I will line up and use a Diebold voting machine, like everyone
| else in Georgia, and hope that the vote count is accurate. But
| that's all it will be, a hope. As last week's HBO special
| revealed the machines and (more important) the system is both
| closed-source and easy to hack.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=834


Estonia votes via the Internet

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| Eligible voters then receive ballots for their area as an HTML site on
| their displays; an ActiveX or Java applet serves as the election client.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/85987/from/rss09


Diebold quietly repaired voting machines

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| The unpredictable freezes don't cause votes to be lost, officials
| said, but they confuse voters and election judges who sometimes
| wonder whether votes cast on a frozen machine will be counted.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in
| several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a
| "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years
| earlier, according to published reports Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines


E-Voting Raises New Questions in Brazil

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| Some Brazilians are lobbying the tribunal to switch from Windows CE to
| an open-source operating system for the voting machines, since Microsoft
| Corp., citing trade secrecy, won't allow independent audits to make
| sure malicious programmers haven't inserted commands to "flip" votes
| from one candidate to another.
| 
| [...]
|
| Fontoura confirmed that Brazil is considering a move away from
| crosoft's proprietary code -- "We are studying the possibility of using an 
| open-source program like Linux in future elections. This would make the 
| entire process much more transparent and far less expensive," he said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060929/brazil_electronic_voting.html?.v=2

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