July 19, 2004
Ohio Stops New Diebold Systems
The Ohio Secretary of State ordered three Ohio counties to halt their purchase of Diebold Systems based on new security tests. The new Ohio report will be published when the study is complete.
Evoting is stalled in Ohio because of the problems revealed over the last year. According to the AP story, thirty-one Ohio counties had planned to replace their machines, but most backed out as the November election neared.
July 18, 2004
Computer Ate My Vote Day Draws 150 Activists and 16,000 signatures
On Tuesday, July 13, activists in Texas joined thousands of people in 19 states sending a message to policymakers demanding auditable voting machines.
In Texas, 16,388 petitions were presented to the Secretary of State. A press event at the Capitol drew over 150 activists, cheering the remarks of paper ballot activist Bev Harris and Rice computer security expert Dan Wallach.
The story received coverage around Texas, including:
* Houston Chronicle
June 16, 2004
Austin-American Statesman: Debate slows adoption of electronic voting systems
A front page story in the Austin American Statesman on Sunday, June 13 by
by Kirk Ladendorf covers growing opposition to unverified voting in Texas. Registration is required to view the story online.
Electronic voting, once hailed as insurance against any more hanging chad disasters, has become a target for a growing group of grass-roots activists who say the systems can't be trusted and are a threat to democracy.In Austin and across the Internet, critics and some computer experts are spreading their convictions that electronic voting systems aren't secure and could allow elections to be hijacked.
The criticism has brought the fledgling electronic voting industry to a near-standstill. Election officials in several states have halted use of some systems and required new testing and changes for others.
February 28, 2004
Austin Chronicle Covers Evoting
Lee Nichols of the chronicle covers the local controversy surrounding electronic voting.
"The main point about the Hart InterCivic machine is the same main point that electronic-voting activists and computer security professionals have been making across the board, which is, without a voter-verifiable paper trail, no all-electronic voting system can be considered really secure and reliable," says Adina Levin, director of the Cyber Liberties Project of the ACLU-Texas and chair of the E-Voting Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation of Austin. "
