Electronic voting

Says Deal Needs 'Additional Scrutiny' From Consumers And Congress

October 9, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), the Chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised new concerns Friday over Diebold’s proposed sale of its voting machine business to its biggest competitor, and announced that his Rules Committee staff would begin a formal review of potential problems posed by the merger.

Schumer announced he would be seeking input from state and local election officials to investigate the deal’s impacts on the administration of elections across the United States. The findings will be compiled into a public report that could be shared with the Department of Justice.    » read more »

Guidelines to Assist in Testing Voting System Accuracy, Reliability and Security

June 1, 2009 -- GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Version 1.0, specifying how electronic voting machines are built and tested. The EAC has made the draft revision available for public comment today, with a final version expected by the end of 2009.    » read more »

Feb. 11, 2008 -- Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today signed bipartisan legislation that will allow Secretary of State Mike Coffman to begin the review and recertification process for electronic voting machines that the Secretary decertified in December.

House Bill 08-1155's chief sponsors were Rep. David Balmer, R-Centennial, and Sen. Ken Gordon, D-Denver.    » read more »

October 02, 2007 -- (Frankfort, KY) -- Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, chair of the State Board of Elections and Kentucky’s Chief Elections Official, received a report today commissioned by Attorney General Greg Stumbo that, among other things, encourages Kentucky to move to optical scan voting machines as Grayson has advocated.    » read more »

October 02, 2007 -- Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo today released to the State Board of Elections and Secretary of State Trey Grayson an independent expert report detailing needed improvements to Kentucky’s electronic voting system certifications. (Click here to view letter to Grayson: http://tinyurl.com/2hnbby)    » read more »

September 18, 2007 -- (Frankfort, KY) The Kentucky State Board of Elections (SBE) met today and re-examined voting systems from three voting system vendors: Election Systems and Software, Hart InterCivic, and Premier

Election Solutions. All three systems were recertified by a unanimous vote of the State Board upon the recommendation of the state’s voting system examiners team consisting of a county clerk, an expert in computer science, and a person who is knowledgeable in election procedures and law in Kentucky.    » read more »

September 18, 2007 -- Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo today presented his investigative report to the State Board of Elections and Secretary of State Trey Grayson calling for improved testing and security upgrades for Kentucky’s electronic voting systems.

The report’s key findings include the following:

* Cooperation between state officials is essential to restore public confidence in voting systems.
* Kentucky’s electronic voting systems suffer from serious security vulnerabilities, according to independent researchers in Florida and California.    » read more »

August 28, 2007 -- Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo today announced that his office’s recently launched investigation into electronic voting machine irregularities has yielded a surprising result – Jefferson County voters have been using an uncertified voting system, apparently for at least the last three elections.    » read more »

New Mexico Governor Richardson Calls Transition to Paper Ballot a Success

August 21, 2007 (Santa Fe) -- SANTA FE – Independent researchers from the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, the University of New Mexico and the University of Utah issued a report today on the administration of the 2006 General Election and the state’s transition to a paper ballot voting system.    » read more »

Says Changes Recommended by Voting Machine Examination Committee Must First Be Adopted and Machines Re-tested by NJIT

August 10, 2007 -- Trenton, NJ – The New Jersey Voting Machine Examination Committee has rejected immediate certification of voter verified paper record systems for electronic voting machines in use in 20 of the state’s 21 counties, recommending a number of fixes before the machines could be used in elections. The committee said the systems met core criteria, but certain shortcomings needed to be corrected before approval.    » read more »

August 08, 2007 -- (Frankfort, KY) On a day when thousands of Kentuckians read about Secretary of State Trey Grayson’s plan to provide greater accountability in Kentucky’s elections process, Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo again issued reckless allegations to garner headlines while stating that he does not support Voter Verified Paper Records (VVPRs) for Kentucky elections.    » read more »

August 08, 2007 -- Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo today demanded that electronic voting machine manufacturers immediately correct security flaws identified in an independent review by experts in California.

The Attorney General’s letters to Hart InterCivic and Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (click here) require the voting machine makers to immediately upgrade their products or face a lawsuit by Kentucky.    » read more »

August 08, 2007 -- Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo today called on Secretary of State Trey Grayson and the State Board of Elections to immediately reexamine electronic voting systems to determine whether they are “defective or unacceptable” because of their vulnerability to tampering.    » read more »