Problems in Maryland Just Now Surfacing?
It appears, if this report pans out, that there were massive systemic failures across Maryland involving Diebold AccuVote-TS machines last November; problems including lost votes, multiple machine fai... Read More
Exit Poll Post Mortem
Paul Velleman at left2right has an interesting analysis of the exit poll data from the November presidential election. His conclusions: (1) Discrepancies between exit polls and votes cannot be expla... Read More
More Information Surfaces About ES&S “Counting Backwards” Feature/Bug
More information has surfaced in a letter from ES&S to Guilford County, NC, Board of Elections (provided by Joyce McCloy, PDF here and text here): We would like to explain in further technica... Read More
Changes Found in Alabama Recount
The statewide recount on a measure to remove segregation-era language from Alabama’s constitution is turning up variations from the official canvass, with changes exceeding 100 votes in at least thr... Read More
Waiting to Vote
One of the underreported stories from last week’s election was the effect of long waiting lines at polling places. Many polling places in Ohio, for example, had lines of three hours or more. Though ... Read More
Lack of Paper Trail Ruins North Carolina Election
Just in case you thought that lawsuits about pregnant chads were the worst possible election outcome, here’s a story about the consequences of e-voting without a proper paper trail. A bug in e-votin... Read More
Open Source Software in E-voting
(This is a highly abbreviated version of a forthcoming paper) Approximately one year ago, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley handed down the first open source software mandate (PDF) of ... Read More
Failures that should not have happened
Three congressmen asked the GAO to investigate problems reported with e-voting. This is a good thing. When a plane crashes, crash investigators descend upon the scene to learn what went wrong so that ... Read More