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Chapters

| 1 — Introduction To Voting Problems | 2 — Essays On Voting Problems | 3 — Direct Recording Electronic Voting |

| 4 — Trust Our Election Officials? | 5 — Lies, Damn Lies, and Mail In Elections | 6 — Pitfalls Of Statewide Voter Registration Databases |

| 7 — Building Better Ballot Boxes | 8 — Voting Problems In The 2002 Elections | 9 — Voting Problems In The 2003 Elections |

| 10 — Voting Problems In The 2004 Elections | 11 — Voting Problems In The 2005 Elections | 12 — Voting Problems In The 2006 Elections |

| 13 — Voting Problems In The 2007 Elections | 14 — Voting Problems In The 2008 Elections | 15 — Election Web Sites And Problems |


 

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1,100 mail ballots forwarded in Douglas County, Colorado

2002 election problems

Absentee ballot requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins recount by 139

Broward County, Florida, discovers glitch in election

Conflict probe launched in California's voting machine buys

Elections are scarier than a terrorist threat

Elections chief refuses to test vote machines in Palm Beach County, Florida

Florida

Florida's Broward County finds 100,000 lost votes — results unchanged

How to vote in one easy step — use chisel, tablet

Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, election mix-up

The re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Various news reports

Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized, report says Miami-Dade County, Florida, misled by ES&S

Wellington candidate sues, seeks new vote in Palm Beach County, Florida

2003 election problems

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs, Colorado, election

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Various news reports

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

2004 election problems

A worker at a Toledo, Ohio, election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for election

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals due to known ES&S software bug

Election problems in Craven County, North Carolina, due to ES&S software glitch

Election study finds widespread ballot counting problems

Electronic voting a mess in March California primary

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primaries

Electronic voting down for the count in Riverside County, California

Florida

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Gaston County elections director resigns after 13,000 votes are missing

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November election after 13,000 votes missing

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

North Carolina takes the lead in November election problems

North Carolina's ballot blues

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter fraud probed in 47 counties in Colorado

2005 election problems

1,200 phantom votes haunt election in Pitkin County, Colorado

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County, Colorado

Larimer County, Colorado, voting centers not answer to all voting problems

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

NAACP vote hearing details new flaws in Lucas County, Ohio

Various news reports

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

2006 election problems

22,000 in Jefferson County, Colorado, mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Colorado vote-security goals called unachievable

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Daily voting news for June 7th

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Early worries forecast Election Day 2006 fiasco as Tom Cole's replacement is no improvement in Denver, Colorado

Election error sparks resignation, recount in Williamson County, Texas

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

In Ohio they know how you voted

Maryland election judge and other comments on the 2006 primary election

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Montrose County, Colorado, Clerk violates election laws in November 2006 election

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Security added for voting machines in Colorado at last minute

Security plans for only 37 of 64 Colorado counties approved by Sec. of State prior to November 2006 election

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Various news reports

Vote our way with DREs or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Wisconsin primary election plagued by computer problems

Wrong PIN number halts election and absentee ballots found in drawer after election in Delaware County, Indiana

2007 election problems

1,100 mail ballots forwarded in Douglas County, Colorado

Denver election critique delivered by post office in mail ballot election

Optical scanners miscount, recount changes results for Greenwich, Connecticut, town meeting candidate

The vote's in the mail in Denver, Colorado

Various news reports

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, mail ballot election

Voters in Boulder, Colorado, sent wrong ballot style or two ballots in mail ballot election

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver, Colorado, city election

2008 election problems

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A better ballot box?

A million votes in the electoral trash can

A modern democracy that can't count votes

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

ABC News published election results 24 hours before election on November 2, 1998

Absent without leave

Absentee ballot

Absent without leave

Absentee votes accidentally counted twice in White County, Indiana

Absentee voting does not increase voter turnout

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Adding insult to injury

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Ballots found in drawer after November 2006 election in Delaware County, Indiana

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Blunder by Colorado Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Colorado voter database under scrutiny after candidate's petition signatures cannot be verified

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Corrupts secret ballot

Denver voters had hard time following directions for marking ballots. They used red ink not read by scanner, markers that ran through to other side, and circled or X'd their choices, instead of drawing narrow line to connect two arrows.

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Denver's voter registration list in question

Do not satisfy five essential criteria for sound and honest elections

Elderly often exploited by others to commit absentee ballot fraud

Enables buying and selling votes

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

First requirement for election fraud is to obtain a ballot

In 1998 former Democratic congressman Austin Murphy of Pennsylvania was convicted of absentee-ballot fraud in a nursing home

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district in 2004 election

In 2004, a worker at a Toledo, Ohio, election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

In Palm Beach County, Florida, Theresa LePore claimed 37,839 absentee votes counted but only 29,000 ballots had been received

Losing ballots by the thousands

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Mail ballots not the answer for Denver, Colorado, election woes

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

Nursing home abuses

Optical scanner breaks down while counting absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Problems with optical scanners

Proliferation means secret ballot is increasingly a thing of the past

Requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Studies show no change or decrease in turnout

The ballot gatherers

They go AWOL

Tool of choice for those engaging in election fraud

Virtually no way to discover if ballots have disappeared

Vote buying and selling corrupts 2003 mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

Voter fraud epidemic

Why mail ballots are a bad idea

Absentee votes worry officials as November 2, 2004 nears

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Accenture

A risk to the national security of the United States

Accenture-ating the positive (and it doesn't look good)

Bombs in United Kingdom

Bugs in Accenture's system for Colorado Department of Labor rile lawmakers

Can't design or build voter registration databases

Colorado agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Colorado and Accenture will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Colorado contracts with Accenture to help transform unemployment insurance delivery system

Colorado disaster

Colorado faces new glitches on computer contracts

Colorado scraps Accenture voter registration system

Colorado's choice of Accenture draws criticism

Controversy swirls around Wisconsin's voter list contract with Accenture

Database debacles in Colorado

Delays plague Wisconsin list of voters

Denver Post — Letters to the editor

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Elections officials gave Florida flawed felon voter list

Epitome of incompetence

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended in Colorado

Florida to cancel two multimillion-dollar technology contracts

Florida voter database disasters

Full refund due Colorado from Accenture on late voter registration database

Hacked Canadian vote

Kansas disaster

Legislative hearing on SURE voter registration system in Pennsylvania

Marine Corps disaster

Marines tell Accenture to stop work

Marines terminate contract

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

New voter rolls arouse more fears in Florida

No stranger to influence peddling in the United States

Offshore company captures online military vote

Pennsylvania voter registration database disaster

Problems with SURE voter registration system in Pennsylvania

Sinks in British quagmire

Software bugs delay Accenture's voter registration system in Wisconsin

Software froze up, failed to print poll books, delayed elections, and mailed voter cards to incorrect addresses in Arkansas for at least three years.

Software froze-failed to print poll books and operate on ES&S machines in Arkansas

Texas

To build voter registration and election management system for Pennsylvania

To consolidate voter registration databases in Kansas

To face legislative scrutiny for failed projects in Colorado

Voter database behind schedule in Wisconsin

Wins Marine Corps logistics pact

Wisconsin disaster

Wisconsin finally ends deal with voting vendor in December 2007

Wisconsin lawmaker pushes to drop Accenture's contract for voter registration system

Wisconsin's statewide voter registration system (SVRS)

Wyoming disaster

Wyoming media release (the official propaganda)

Wyoming Secretary of State Meyer — State wanted too much, voter registration system dies

Accuracy

Hand recounts

Ackerman, Elise

Blind voters rip e-machines

Additional layers of complication with electronic voting

Alabama

Bob Riley

Judge in Baldwin County "discovers" 7,000 votes too many had been given Democratic candidate for governor

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County

Alaska

Democrats defend public's right to see election data

District vote totals don't match final, official results in 2004 election

In 20 of 40 State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district

Security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Vote counting and securing democracy in Alaska

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter turnout percentage in 16 election districts is over 200% in the 2004 election

All the president's votes?

Americans with disabilities call for election systems featuring both accessibility and security

An election spoiled rotten

Any programmer can write code that displays one thing on a screen, records something else, and prints yet another result

Appoint committees of the unqualified

Arizona

Cost

Election officials refuse to answer Senate questions about Maricopa County 2004 primary election

Arkansas

Accenture software froze up, failed to print poll books, delayed elections, and mailed voter cards to incorrect addresses for at least three years.

Chaos in primary on ES&S machines

Election officials claim problems are minor

Damaged optical scanner permanently lost nearly 700 votes in Pike County

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County

Optical scanners record bogus overvotes in two counties

Report on 2006 primary meltdown rips ES&S

Comments

Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Waldenburg mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

As elections near officials challenge balloting security

ATM network for voting —A non-starter

Audits

Post-election audit results in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties after November 2005 election

Aurora, Colorado, mental health centers tries for stealth election to raise taxes

Avoiding detection of election fraud

Appoint committees of the unqualified

No records, no proof, no problem

Sign non-disclosure agreements with your vendors

Use your own judges if it goes to court

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Back room counting of ballots occurs without citizen oversight and often by relatives or cronies of county clerk in mail ballot elections

Backdoors

Diebold VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

EJF perspective on how major this problem is

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

Bad ideas for voting

Adding up the cost of electronic vote counting

Avoiding detection of election fraud

Conclusions

Conduct many elections

Direct recording electronic voting

Do away with secret ballots

Early, absentee, or mail balloting

Electronic voting machines

Electronic voting machines commonly invent or lose ballots

Exit polls

Increasing voter turnout

Internet voting

Just keep coming

Just say no to recounts

Letting voting machine companies run the election

Make election day a holiday

Problems with optical scanners counting ballots

The way it was when voting worked

Voting centers

Bald-faced lies about black box voting machines and the truth about the Diebold rob-georgia file

Ballot gatherers

Ballot king was paid by Orlando Mayor Dyer, other politicians to collect absentee ballots in Florida

Ballot opacity

Black stripe on back could be read through ballot as a vote

Denver voters had hard time following directions for marking ballots and used markers that ran through to other side

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Ballot tracking and inventory

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California

Ballots misprinted then repaired with correction fluid by ES&S in 2006 Arkansas primary

Barry, Dave

How to vote in one easy step — use chisel, tablet by Dave Barry

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Basic voting principles

Beauprez, Jennifer

Firms mum on hacker attacks — FBI seeks to ease fears on reporting

Behler, Rob

Told by Diebold to avoid Prof. Brit Williams during testing in Georgia

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Bigger than Watergate

Binker, Mark

Printers failed on ES&S DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Blame the voter

Delays in counting absentee ballots in November 2006 Riverside County, California, election attributed to voters

Husband and wife given different ballots in Crawford County, Arkansas, and official blames the voters

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Blind voters rip e-machines

Bloated registrations —including dead people — clog up voters' rolls across Colorado

Blunder by Colorado Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Bolstad, Erika

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Boulder County, Colorado, can't count ballots with Hart voting machines

Bousquet, Steve

New voter rolls arouse more fears in Florida

Boutin, Paul

Hack the vote — How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 elections

Bragg, Chris

Voting machine tester departs, leaving questions

Bribery of a North Carolina Election Director

Brodsky, Ellen

Clerk notes election irregularities in Broward County, Florida

Brown, Kay

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Brubaker, Paul

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Building better ballot boxes

A better ballot box?

Bad ideas for voting just keep coming

Encrypted ballots

To register doubts, press here

Trust, but verify

Burks, Lisa

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

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Caldara, Jon

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Want to know how I voted? Look it up

California

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County

Blind voters rip e-machines

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Conflict probe launched in voting machine buys

Cost

Diebold's TSx machines fail in California in 2005

Election fraud alive and well in Santa Ana (Orange County)

Electronic voting a mess in March 2004 primary

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County election

Electronic voting down for the count in Riverside County

In October, 1998, 16,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were discovered in Los Angeles County

Monterey County registrar Tony Anchundo pleads no contest to 43 criminal charges

Recount in 2004 Riverside County primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County

Vote fraud investigations in Carmel and Monterey County go nowhere

Voter fraud hotline and handbook

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

What can happen when transparency exists

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch for Sequoia DRE

Canada

Hacked Canadian vote

Carroll, Vincent

The vote's in the mail

Casey, Sean

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Centralization of state voter registries hands an all-too-tempting monopoly to whichever party controls the office of secretary of state

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Chaum, David

Encrypted ballots

Chicago rules of election fraud

Choate, Alan

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Ciber

No test methods specified for majority of requirements or how they would find bugs of check hacking defenses when testing voting machines for New York

Temporarily banned from testing voting machines for not following quality-control procedures and not documenting all required tests

Clark, Deborah

Pinellas County Florida Supervisor of Elections just can't seem to get the hang of running an election

Pinellas County, Florida, finds Supervisor of Elections worked for voting machine manufacturer

Clark, Ken

Kings County, Washington, frequently used backdoor to modify Diebold voting database

Claussen, Nick

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Cole, Thomas

Charged with felony theft, forgery, and embezzlement while working as computer technician for Denver Colorado Election Commission

Collins, Michael

Votes at risk in some states

Colorado

1,100 mail ballots forwarded in Douglas County during 2007 election

1,200 phantom votes haunt November 2005 election in Pitkin County

22,000 in Jefferson County mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

47 of 64 counties report voting irregularities in November 2004 election

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs election

Accenture and state will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Accenture database debacle

Accenture to face legislative scrutiny for failed projects

Agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Amendment 28 for mail ballot elections

Arapahoe County Clerk just elected — now recall him

Arapahoe County Clerk's affair dividing office

Arapahoe County has spent $200,000 in effort to oust clerk Baker

Arapahoe County ousts clerk in a rout

As bad as the 1904 election?

Aurora election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora election official could face fine, jail

Aurora mental health centers tries stealth election to raise taxes

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver election

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver

Bloated registrations —including dead people — clog up voters' rolls across the state

Blunder by Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Bugs in Accenture's system for Department of Labor rile lawmakers

Chaffee County Democratic voter in Precinct 2 given Republican ballot for Precinct 15 on DRE in voting center

Choice of Accenture draws criticism

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Contracts with Accenture to help transform unemployment insurance delivery system

County clerks breaking election law on signatures

Denver auditor expands review of election board

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft, forgery, and embezzlement

Denver election chief's exit sought

Denver Election Commission loses voter records

Denver election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Denver Post — Letters to the editor about Accenture

Denver's voter registration list in question

Doofus of the Month award given to Arapahoe County Clerk

Doofus too dumb to quit in Arapahoe County

Doubting Thomas in El Paso County

Drew Durham unfit for public office... a man with a history of racism and ideological zealotry

Early worries forecast Election Day 2006 fiasco as Tom Cole's replacement is no improvement in Denver

Election rule written by unqualified political appointee

Election watchdog could face charges in Boulder County

Election watchdog won't face charges in Boulder County

Eroding the cornerstone of democracy

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended for Accenture

Free Al Kolwicz!

Full refund due from Accenture on late voter registration database

Garfield County investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

Hanging chads looking better all the time

Individual appointed by SoS to certify voting machines has no training in computer science or security

Key voting machine certification document altered

Secretary of State responds

Larimer County voting centers not answer to all voting problems

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten counties

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Mail ballots not the answer for Denver election woes

Mesa County list of voters raises doubts

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Montrose County Clerk and Hart InterCivic representative don't even know how to plug in voting machines Election Day 2006

Montrose County Clerk doesn't bother to run logic and accuracy tests before November 2006 election

Montrose County Clerk violates election laws in November 2006 election

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Optical scanner breaks down while counting absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Phantom voters

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs

Report spreads blame for voting ills in Boulder County

Return of the stealth election

Scraps Accenture voter registration system

Second try at voter registration database, SCORE II

Secretary of State Buescher — Voting rolls were merged, not purged when SCORE II voter registration database implemented

Secretary of State whimsically changes voting machine certification

Security added for voting machines at last minute in 2006

Security plans for only 37 of 64 counties approved by Sec. of State prior to November 2006 election

Standing on principle is not mal-intent as Boulder County Clerk claims

State election computer fails test

State elections director resigns amid Ethics Watch investigation

State faces new glitches on computers in Accenture contracts

The urge to purge

The vote's in the mail in Denver

U.S. bars Ciber from testing electronic voting machines

Uncharted territory with mail ballots

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, 2007 mail ballot election

Voter database under scrutiny after candidate's petition signatures cannot be verified

Voter fraud probed 47 counties in Colorado's November 2004 election

Voter registration database, SCORE II, has 5.8 million voters listed but only 3.5 million voters in state

Voters in Boulder sent wrong ballot style or two ballots in mail ballot election

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver city election

Vote-security goals called unachievable in 2006

Voting from the grave

Voting machine certification done by totally unqualified political appointee

Voting machine examiner proven incompetent

Voting machine tester John Gardner departs Sec. of State's office, leaving questions

Voting machines missed mark

Want to know how I voted? Look it up in Boulder County

When allies become enemies, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson turns on her protege

Commonly-observed problems with electronic voting machines

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Computer security

Critic gets the old heave-ho

Firms mum on hacker attacks — FBI seeks to ease fears on reporting

Gambling on voting

If you want to win an election just control the voting machines

Threats from computer voting

Where are the protections against hacking computer voting systems?

Conduct many elections

Conflict probe launched in California's voting machine buys

Connecticut

Optical scanners miscount, recount changes results for Greenwich, Connecticut, town meeting candidate

Corn, David

Diebold wines and dines election officials

Corral, Oscar

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2002 election mix-up

Corry, Charles

Bad ideas for voting just keep coming

Basic voting principles

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft — Why public trust is an issue here

Doubting Thomas

If you have confidence in the accuracy and reliability of electronic voting machines you're way too friendly with Jack Daniels, or you've been smoking far too much of that Maui Wowee

Internet voting for military an open invitation to election fraud

Introductory comments on voting problems

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Vote fraud — Is our house any different?

Why mail ballots are a bad idea

You can have an honest election, or you can have a mail in/absentee ballot election, but you can't have both at the same time

Costs

Adding up the cost of electronic vote counting

DRE voting is extremely expensive

Florida's ES&S iVotronic machines impossible to upgrade

Guilford County, North Carolina, spent $3.4 million ($2.1 million HAVA) on voting equipment first used in 2006, but by 2008 elections county must spend another $1.4 million

Hidden costs of $130,000 associated with flash cards required for trilingual ballot in Florida

How much taxpayer money is involved?

Palm Beach County, Florida, pays $14.4 million for ES&S iVotronic voting machines that fail miserably

Passaic County, New Jersey paid $4.9 million ($3.8 million HAVA) for 650 Sequoia machines in 2005

Rhode Island spends $5 million on ES&S AutoMark machines for handicapped voters that don't work

Spend millions on voting machines and then have to hand count the ballots

Switch to electronic voting will cost New York state $200 million

Couch, Mark

Colorado agency seeks salvage fund for Accenture orphan code

Colorado and Accenture will not sue each other over a multimillion-dollar jobless insurance system

Colorado faces new glitches on computers

Faulty system's fix-it deadline extended in Colorado

Coup d'état by computer

Crazy way to run an election

Crummy, Karen

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Voter fraud probed in Colorado

CSTARS

Millions needed for new car title system in Colorado after Accenture/Microsoft joint venture fails

Culp, Bill

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig during 2004 presidential election

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Daly, Kay

Vote early, vote often

Damron, David

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals

Davey, Monica

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

Davis, Darrell

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Dead men voting

In South Dakota fraud wanders off the reservation

Review of West Virginia May 2006 primary election finds the dead can still vote

Delaware

Denver election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Denver's voter registration list in question

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Diebold

246.48% turnout is acceptable to report generator

25% of machines failed in 2002 pre-election testing in Georgia

Additional layers of complication with blended voting systems

Are background checks done on technicians they hire?

As elections near officials challenge balloting security

As of 2006 is there any rational, informed individual in the United States who believes one word from a Diebold representative?

Audit log

Avi Rubin analysis of code

Bald-faced lies about black box voting machines and the truth about the rob-georgia file

Black Box Voting report on voting machine test in Florida

Black Box Voting report on voting machine test in Florida — Grade "F" — For complete failure

Blended system didn't in September 2006 primary in Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Blended voting systems

Chairman and C.E.O. Walden O'Dell is a Bush pioneer and raised at least $100,000 for Bush

Chose not to fix security holes documented in January 2004 Maryland report

Company representative defends their record

Concerns about Georgia, Ohio elections

Consistent unexplained circumstantial evidence

Consultant convicted of embezzlement

Cost

Crazy way to run an election

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Dieb-throat

Difficulties of installing paper trails in TSx DREs

Director of G.E.S., Michael K. Graye, arrested in 1996 in Canada on tax-fraud and money-laundering charges involving $18 million and then indicted for stock fraud in US

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

District vote totals don't match final, official results in 2004 election in Alaska

DRE supervisor smart cards all had same password

Electronic poll books did not synchronize and repeatedly crashed in September 2006 primary in Maryland

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in DREs before March 2004 California primary

Engineer admits anyone can access server through Microsoft Access

Evidence of method

Evidence of motive

Evidence of opportunity

Evidence of prior conduct

Expense of voting with blended system

Failure in California of TSx machines in 2005

Fantasy becomes reality

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November 2004 election after 13,000 votes missing

GEMS central tabulator contains stunning security hole

How backdoor was originally discovered

How they woo state officials

How to rig an election in the United States

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district

In 2000, G.E.S. hired Jeffrey Dean as senior VP despite fact that he had served time on 23 felony counts of embezzlement

Insider alleges company plagued by technical woes

John Elder, convicted cocaine trafficer who served five years in prison, is printed-products manager

Kids prick open a scandal

Machines freeze before votes can be tallied

Maryland State election director blames election judges for disaster in September 2006 primary with Diebold poll books

Microsoft Access database

More GEMS problems, and why current solutions/explanations won't work

Multiple sets of books

Nearly one-third of TSx machines failed in August 2005 test in California

Negative votes can be entered via GEMS

New security risks found in voting systems

No less than five people involved with the management and development of voting systems are convicted felons

Ohio

Audit shows that on 72.5% of TSx machines the digital tally did not match paper records in Ohio May 2006 primary

Optical Scan Accumulator Adaptor for blended voting systems is vaporware

Physical security measures found to be totally inadequate in September 2006 primary in Maryland

Poll worker told to shut up and not question the numbers in September 2006 Carroll County, Maryland, election

Preliminary report on the performance of the "blended" or "dual" system in Flagler County, Florida

Problems with GEMS central tabulator

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Rob Behler

Rob-georgia FTP site

Security bombshell

Sliding finger bug traced to COTS Windows "drag and drop" feature

Solutions to GEMS central tabulator problem

Spokesman admits backdoor inserted intentionally

Taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

The face of modern ballot tampering

The perfect crime

Tries to sell election system division but fails, then renames division hoping to delude voters

TSx printer can only record ~75 votes before paper roll must be changed by a trained technician

Usability flaw detected in software in Utah County, Utah

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Vote totals don't add up in Alaska's 2004 presidential election, differ by 101,378 votes

Voting machine life expectancy

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

Voting system integrity flaw

VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

Walk right in, sit down, and compose your own tally vote counting system

Wines and dines election officials

Wireless connectivity at polling places

Dieb-throat

Dill, David

Georgia can only hope for the best with Diebold voting machines

Outrage that world's most powerful democracy doesn't have an election system so transparent its citizens know it can be trusted

The Diebold bombshell

Why am I always being asked to prove these systems aren't secure?

Dillman, Don

Statement on Palm Beach County Florida November 2000 ballot

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs

Disabled voters

Blind voters rip e-machines

Discovery of 100,000 missing ballots described as minor software thing

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals

Do away with secret ballots

Dobbs, Lou

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary e-voting debacle

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Does Florida's latest election fiasco portend another Bush theft in November?

Doofus of the Month award

Doofus too dumb to quit in Arapahoe County, Colorado

DRE voting

A bad idea

All the president's votes?

Americans with disabilities call for election systems featuring both accessibility and security

Around the states

Audit shows that on 72.5% of Diebold TSx machines the digital tally did not match paper records in Ohio May 2006 primary

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California, one of the first to go to DREs

Blind voters rip e-machines

Broward County, Florida, voters touching the McBride selection on ES&S iVotronic and it kept checking Bush

Burke County, North Carolina, voters cast 34,604 ballots, but only 30,762 votes for president were recorded in 2004 election

Candidates names left off ballots in several North Carolina counties in 2004 primary

Clerks cast doubt on new voting machines in New Jersey

Common problems with DRE voting machines

Did you erase your own vote?

Difficulties of installing paper trails

Don't reliably prevent overvotes or prevent unintentional undervotes

Down for the count in Riverside County, California

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold machines before March 2004 California primary

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Experience in August 2006 Colorado primary leaves voter with no trust in the system at all

FEC rejected Naegle's recommendation

Generating undervotes on DREs

Hack the vote — How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 elections

Just say no to recounts

Lost electronic votes in New Mexico — A cautionary tale

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Pay millions for the machines then do a hand count to check them

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Problems tabulated by state and county

Programming errors

Recount follies in Riverside County, California

Recount in 2004 Riverside County, California, primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Unassisted voting for the handicapped

Vote our way or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voters don't trust electronic voting in Nagodoches County, Texas

Voters frequently given wrong ballot style at voting centers

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch

Drew, Christopher

U.S. bars Colorado lab from testing electronic voting machines

Dugger, Ronnie

How they could steal the election this time

Durham, Drew

Unfit for public office... a man with a history of racism and ideological zealotry

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Early voting

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Does not increase voter turnout

Election error sparks resignation, recount in Williamson County, Texas

Like having a judge announce that any juror may vote and go home when juror decides they have heard enough evidence

Like judging winner of a 15-round boxing match in the 16th round

Election Assistance Commission

Former EAC chair states there are no standards and system ripe for stealing an election

Simply ignoring voting problems as state issues

Election databases

Election day, RIP?

Election fraud

A million votes in the electoral trash can

Absentee ballot requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Alive and well in Santa Ana (Orange County) California

Altering the audit log

Appoint committees of the unqualified

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Avoiding detection

Bad voter registration lists can cover any kind of fraud

Ballot box stuffing is facilitated by mail ballot elections

Broward County, Florida, voters touching the McBride selection on ES&S iVotronic DRE and it kept checking Bush

Cannot be entirely prevented but it can be minimized

Chicago rules

Colorado county clerks breaking election law on signatures

Consistent unexplained circumstantial evidence

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains stunning security hole

Diebold VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

EJF perspective on how major backdoor problem is in voting systems

Election canvass

ES&S software loses 70,000 votes in 2004 Broward County, Florida, election

Ethnic cleansing of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that spoil votes

Evidence of method

Evidence of motive

Evidence of opportunity

Evidence of prior conduct

Ex-con game — How Florida's felon purge list was itself felonious

Falsified voter registrations are common with mail-in forms

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Florida voter registration forms

Fraud-o-matic

Gambling on voting

Global eye — vanishing act

Hacked Canadian vote

Hacking the vote

How the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) functions

How they could steal the election this time

How to rig an election in the United States

How to steal an election

Identity theft can be used in mail ballot elections

In 1998 former Democratic congressman Austin Murphy of Pennsylvania was convicted of absentee-ballot fraud in a nursing home

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district in 2004 election

Independent testing authorities constitute a Potemkin village to falsely assure states and voters of voting system security

Internet voting for military an open invitation to election fraud

It is a recorded fact that every system of balloting established in America has been gamed and rigged

It's really a matter of trust

Leon County, Florida, Ion Sancho allows hacker Harri Hursti to test Diebold security

Louisiana commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Mail ballots enable buying and selling votes

Minimizing

More likely in small, local, and special elections

Motor voter

Multiple sets of books

No control over how software enters a voting machine and no adequate standards

Or incompetence?

President of voting machine company, Ransom Shoup II, convicted in 1979 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia.

Proliferation of similarly programmed e-voting systems invites opportunities for large-scale manipulation of elections

Register the family cat then get absentee ballots

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Sign non-disclosure agreements with your vendors

South Dakota poll worker faces forgery charges

Target of FBI sting operation in West Virginia

Test in Leon County, Florida, demonstrates Diebold memory cards can be undetectably altered

The ballot gatherers

Thomas Cole charged with felony theft, forgery, and embezzlement while working as computer technician for Denver Colorado Election Commission

Those who might seek to fix elections include hackers, candidates, zealots, foreign governments and criminal organizations

Those who vote determine nothing, those who count the vote determine everything — Josef Stalin

Using absentee ballots

Variants for the new millennium

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts 2003 mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Vote early and vote often-2

Vote of no confidence

Vote whores

Voter fraud probed 47 counties in Colorado's November 2004 election

Voter turnout percentage in 16 Alaska election districts is over 200% in the 2004 election

Voters may be disenfranchised by selectively purging voter registration roles or intercepting mail ballots

Votes for sale

Voting fraud in South Dakota

Voting from the grave

Voting machine security

Voting machines delivered several days before election and stored in homes or insecure polling stations

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Want to rig an election?

West Virginia haven

What you can do

Why precinct voting stops fraud

Election issue web sites (listed alphabetically)

Election judges grapple with new voting machines

Election officials

Gross incompetence makes one a victim instead of a criminal

Election officials and voting system vendors

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Election processes

Election officials appear to lack fundamental knowledge of how their election machinery operates

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

Perspective

Election study finds widespread ballot-counting problems in 2004 election

Election watchdog could face charges

Election watchdog won't face charges

Electioneering

Facilitated by mail ballot elections

Elections and power

Elections are only as honest as the people running them

Elections are scarier than a terrorist threat

Elections run smoothly in surprising places

Electronic poll books

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Diebold electronic poll books did not synchronize and repeatedly crashed in September 2006 primary in Maryland

Voter in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who had applied for absentee ballot did not show up in electronic poll book as having voted

Electronic vote machine certification criticized

Electronic voting

1.6 million presidential votes lost in 2000 election by inaccurate tabulating equipment

4,439 votes irretrievably lost in Carteret County, North Carolina, on Unielect machine due to programming error

A better ballot box?

A mess in March 2004 California primary

Absentee ballots go AWOL

Accumulating precinct results when touch screen and optical scanners are used in same polling place

Adding up the cost of electronic vote counting

Additional layers of complication

Advantage of paper ballots negated

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California, one of the pioneers of electronic voting

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins hand recount by 139

Blended systems with DREs and optical scanners at polling place

Blind voters rip e-machines

Broward County, Florida, voters touching the McBride selection on ES&S iVotronic DRE and it kept checking Bush

Bug in ES&S software begins subtracting votes after tally hits 32,500

Bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Clerk notes election irregularities in Broward County, Florida

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Compared to hand counted paper ballots

Component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primaries

Computerized voting companies have precipitated a crisis for the integrity of democracy

Coup d'état by computer

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft, forgery, and embezzlement

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Down for the count in Riverside County, California

Election judges work longer hours and don't understand the technology

Election problems in Craven County, North Carolina, due to ES&S software glitch

Equipment problems tabulated by state and county

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Even in principle, what procedures could be used to make possible an honest certification that an e-voting system works properly, is safe against intrusion, and is free of clandestine cheating features

E-voting train wreck — The 2008 Horry County, South Carolina Republican primary disaster

Expense

Final voting results expected one week after September 2002 electronic election in Florida

Former EAC chair states there are no standards and system ripe for stealing an election

Gambling vote glitch mars 2004 vote tally in Broward County, Florida

Bug discovered in 2002 but never fixed

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

General and problems with central tabulator

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

Human (or was it machine?) errors mar September 2002 Florida primary results

Human error is an overworked excuse for problems machines were supposed to prevent

Identified problems and issues

If you have confidence in the accuracy and reliability of these machines you're way too friendly with Jack Daniels, or you've been smoking far too much of that Maui Wowee

Imagine, people expect that the votes they cast in any election be counted. How novel. How quaint.

Impossible to simultaneously satisfy contradictory requirement of secret ballot and uniquely identifying voters

Inadequate poll worker training and other precinct-level problems

Incorrect PIN number halts electronic voting in November 2006 general election in Delaware County, Indiana

Known problems with electronic voting equipment

Looking under the e-voting rock

Loss of private vote

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Machines commonly invent or lose ballots

Machines have very limited lifespans

Mistakes leave election officials with no recourse

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County, Florida, of system that uses touch-screen machines in the polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

Montrose County Clerk doesn't bother to run logic and accuracy tests before November 2006 election

Nearly one-third of Diebold TSx machines failed in August 2005 test in California

No match for the natural stupidity of election officials.

North Carolina's ballot blues

Number one problem is programming errors

Off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

Pennsylvania voter attacks voting machine

Polling problems in September 2002 Florida primary seen as crisis

Post-election fix is virtually impossible

Preliminary report on the performance of the Diebold "blended" or "dual" system

Problems for a blind voter in 2006 with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Problems tabulated by state and county

Problems with direct recording election or touch screen machines

Problems with optical scanners

Proliferation of similarly programmed systems invites opportunities for large-scale manipulation of elections

Recount in 2004 Riverside County, California, primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary e-voting debacle

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Serious unresolved issues with Miami-Dade primary election mar prospects for clean November 5, 2002 election

Summary of commonly-observed problems

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2002 election mix-up

Those who vote determine nothing, those who count the vote determine everything — Josef Stalin

To register doubts, press here

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Translucent double-sided ballots apparently misread by optical scanner in Denver Colorado election

Trilingual ballot causes problems with ES&S iVotronic machines in Florida election

Trusting trust

U.S. bars Colorado lab from testing voting machines

Unnecessary complexity

Use of uncertified and untested software

Vote counting

Vote our way with DREs or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voters don't trust electronic voting in Nagodoches County, Texas

Voting equipment manufacturers

Voting glitches found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, after March 8, 2005, special election

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Voting machine security

Voting machines maker, ES&S, blamed in September 2002 primary problems in South Florida

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

We have foolishly placed our democracy in the hands of some nameless "technician," working for a private company on secret software that is not visible to anyone, with no public oversight

What else can go wrong?

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in 2006 in Athens County, Ohio?

Why should such secret and illegal methods of counting ballots be used?

Electronic voting machines

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

Eleven states did not release official ballot counts in the 2000 presidential race

Eligible votes may not be counted

Embezzlement

Diebold consultant convicted of embezzlement

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Errors

Florida vote count in November 2000

ES&S

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

Automark system required different size ballots than Optech scanners in 2006 primary election in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Blamed in September 2002 primary problems in South Florida

Broward County, Florida, voters touching the McBride selection on iVotronic and it kept checking Bush

Bug in software begins subtracting votes after tally hits 32,500

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Coup d'état by computer

Damaged optical scanner permanently lost nearly 700 votes in Pike County, Arkansas

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals due to known software problem

Election problems in Craven County, North Carolina, due to a software glitch

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Florida's iVotronic machines impossible to upgrade

Gambling vote glitch mars 2004 vote tally in Broward County, Florida

Bug discovered in 2002 but never fixed

How to vote in one easy step — use chisel, tablet

In Ohio they know how you voted

iVotronic in Florida

iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Misprinted ballots repaired with correction fluid

Most disorganized bunch ever to run an election in Arkansas

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel former owner and present part owner

Optical scanners record bogus overvotes in two Arkansas counties

Pinellas County, Florida, finds husband of Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark worked for ES&S

Polling problems in September 2002 Florida primary seen as crisis

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems for a blind voter with iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems with trilingual ballot in Florida

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips vendor

Republican votes given to Democrat by programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Serious unresolved issues with Miami-Dade primary election mar prospects for clean November 5, 2002 election

Tom Eschberger granted immunity from prosecution in Arkansas Secretary of State kickback scheme

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Undervotes reveal problems with iVotronic in six 2004-2005 elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Voting glitches found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, after March 8, 2005, special election

Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized, report says Miami-Dade County, Florida, misled by firm

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Eschberger, Tom

Granted immunity from prosecution in Arkansas Secretary of State kickback scheme but still with ES&S management

Ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls

E-voting train wreck — The Horry County, South Carolina Republican primary disaster

Ewegen, Bob

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Ex-con game — How Florida's felon purge list was itself felonious

Exit polling

Problems

Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

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Face of modern ballot tampering

Fantasy becomes reality

Farah, Joseph

Voter fraud epidemic

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Final voting results expected one week after September 2002 electronic election in Florida

Fisk, Michael

Despite 10% undervote in 2004 presidential race, Adams County, Idaho, Clerk refuses to investigate and is angered by request he do so

Fitrakis, Bob

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Fixing vote problems

Florida

2004 election problems

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Abstracts from Florida Democratic Party news release after September 2002 primary

Accenture disasters

Accenture's new voter rolls arouse more fears in Florida

Anti-fraud steps Florida may wish to consider implementing

Black Box Voting report on Diebold voting machine test in Leon County

Broward County failed to send out 60,000 absentee ballots after Jeb Bush replaces Democratic election supervisor with a Republican

Clerk notes election irregularities in Broward County

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County sites

Crazy way to run an election

Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County's web site posted wrong totals due to known ES&S software bug

Dixie County Supervisor of Elections convicted of election fraud

Does Florida's latest election fiasco portend another Bush theft in November?

Election problems — 2002

Bay County Democrat wins recount by 139

Broward County discovers glitch in election

Broward County finds 100,000 lost votes — results unchanged

Elections are scarier than a terrorist threat

Elections chief refuses to test vote machines

How to vote in one easy step — Use chisel, tablet

Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized, report says Miami-Dade County misled by ES&S

Wellington candidate sues, seeks new vote

Elections officials gave Accenture flawed felon voter list

Ex-con game — How Florida's felon purge list was itself felonious

Final voting results expected one week after September 2002 electronic election

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County

Herbert Thompson experiment in Leon County

Human (or was it machine?) errors mar September 2002 Florida primary results

Bay County

Broward County

Duval County

Escamba County

Hillsborough County

Miami-Dade County

Okaloosa County

Orange County

Palm Beach County

Pasco County

Seminole County

Union County

Volusia County

Imagine, people expect that the votes they cast in any election be counted. How novel. How quaint.

In Palm Beach County Theresa LePore claimed 37,839 absentee votes counted but only 29,000 ballots had been received

Law requires that precinct votes be totaled at the precinct

Leon County Clerk Ion Sancho allows hacker Harri Hursti to test Diebold security

Low-carb leader will get my vote

Madame Butterfly flies off with ballots — Florida fixed again

Mix-up in Miami-Dade County of system that uses touch-screen machines in the polls and cards read by optical scanners for absentee ballots

More than 100,000 votes went missing one election day

Observations and concerns derived from Department of Law Enforcement investigations

Pinellas County ballot box sat ignored in office

Pinellas County finds Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark worked for voting machine manufacturer

Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark just can't seem to get the hang of running an election

Polling problems in September 2002 primary seen as crisis

Preliminary report on the performance of the Diebold "blended" or "dual" system in Flagler County

Serious unresolved issues with Miami-Dade primary election mar prospects for clean November 5, 2002 election

Statement on Palm Beach County Florida November 2000 ballot

Systemic errors in 2000 presidential election

Systest "expert" who helped certify machines hired to review why they didn't work in Sarasota after November 2006 debacle there

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2002 election mix-up

Test election in Leon County

The re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

To cancel two multimillion-dollar technology contracts, one is with Accenture

University of Florida professor sees red over absentee ballot

Vote counts in November 2000

Vote fraud

Baker County 1990 school board election

Cases of interest

Daytona Beach 1993 commission election

Dixie County 1988 Supervisor of Elections election

Dixie County 1992 sheriff's election

Hardee County 1992 sheriff's election

Hialeah 1993 November mayoral elections

Lafayette County 1984 county commission election

Miami, November 1997 mayoral elections

Vote spoilage

Voter fraud issues — A Department of Law Enforcement report and issues

Voting glitches found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County after March 8, 2005, special election

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County

Voting machines maker, ES&S, blamed in September 2002 primary problems in South Florida

Floyd, Chris

Global eye — vanishing act

Flynn, Kevin

Blunder by Colorado Secretary of State detours voting for RTD by absentee ballot in November 2006 Denver election

Folded ballots

Former EAC chair states there are no standards and system ripe for stealing an election

Forward to the past — junk the machines, count votes manually

Foster, Phil

Indicted in 2001 in Louisiana on conspiracy charges for elections kickbacks while working for Sequoia

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Fowler, Jerry M.

Louisiana commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Fraud

Absentee ballot requests seized in Marion County, Indiana — probe launched

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

Ballot box stuffing is facilitated by mail ballot elections

Ciber banned from testing voting machines for not following quality-control procedures and not documenting all required tests

Consistent unexplained circumstantial evidence

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig during 2004 presidential election

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft, forgery, and embezzlement

Diebold VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

EJF perspective on how major this problem is

Election canvass

Elections are only as honest as the people running them

Evidence of method

Evidence of motive

Evidence of opportunity

Evidence of prior conduct

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Florida voter registration forms

Hacked Canadian vote

How to commit election fraud

In 1998 former Democratic congressman Austin Murphy of Pennsylvania was convicted of absentee-ballot fraud in a nursing home

In 20 of 40 Alaska State House Districts more ballots were cast than there are registered voters in the district in 2004 election

In October, 1998, 16,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were discovered in Los Angeles County

Independent testing authorities constitute a Potemkin village to falsely assure states and voters of voting system security

Louisiana commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

Monterey County, California, registrar Tony Anchundo pleads no contest to 43 criminal charges

Multiple sets of books

Of all possible voting methods, mail ballots carry the greatest risk of fraud

Recount in 2004 Riverside County primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships

South Dakota poll worker faces forgery charges

Systest "expert" who helped certify machines hired to review why they didn't work in Sarasota, Florida, after November 2006 debacle there

Test in Leon County, Florida, demonstrates Diebold memory cards can be undetectably altered

Thomas Cole charged with felony theft, forgery, and embezzlement while working as computer technician for Denver Colorado Election Commission

Those who might seek to fix elections include hackers, candidates, zealots, foreign governments and criminal organizations

Toe ethics line, vote machines' testers told

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts 2003 mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter fraud epidemic

Voter fraud probed 47 counties in Colorado's November 2004 election

Voter turnout percentage in 16 Alaska election districts is over 200% in the 2004 election

Voting fraud in South Dakota

Voting machine security

Why precinct voting stops fraud

Fraud-o-matic

Free Al Kolwicz!

Fund, John

Absent without leave

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Gambling on voting

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Gao, Helen

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primary

Gardner, John

Does not have IT engineering background

More about his history

Returns unexpectedly to El Paso County Clerk's office as IT manager

Saga and corruption continues

Voting machines missed mark during certification as he has no training in computer science

While Denver District Court deemed Gardner's work in 2006 troubling enough to order a retest for 2008, competency of Gardner's testing for 2008 elections remains unexamined

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November 2004 election after 13,000 votes missing

Gathright, Alan

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Georgia

25% of Diebold machines failed in 2002 pre-election testing

All the president's votes?

Concerns about elections with Diebold machines

Cost

DeKalb County Sheriff Dorsey orders murder of man who defeated him in November 2000

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Illegal patches in 2002 election

Max Cleland

Rob Behler told by Diebold to avoid Prof. Brit Williams during testing

Rob-Georgia Diebold FTP site

Gideon, John

Daily voting news for June 7, 2006

Diebold's TSx failure in California

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country

Global eye — vanishing act

Goldfarb, Zachary

As elections near officials challenge balloting security

Goodnough, Abby

Orlando, Florida, mayor and judge indicted in absentee ballot case

Government Accountability Office

Report confirms key 2004 election problems

Governmental bodies or associations (listed alphabetically)

Greene, Lisa

Pinellas County, Florida, finds Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark worked for voting machine manufacturer

Greene, Susan

Voter fraud probed in Colorado

Gumbel, Andrew

All the president's votes?

Down for the count in Riverside County, California

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Hack the vote — How to stop someone from stealing the 2004 elections

Hacked Canadian vote

Hacking the vote

Canada

Herbert Thompson experiment in Leon County, Florida

Hursti hack

Leon County, Florida, Ion Sancho allows hacker Harri Hursti to test Diebold security

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

Poll workers use DRE as an encoder in November 2006 Utah election

Want to rig an election?

Wireless connection used for connection to voter database in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Hadden, Douglas

Voters handicapped in Pawtucket County, Rhode Island

Hand counting

Forward to the past — junk the machines, count votes manually

Keep it simple

Hand recounts

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Handicapped voters

Americans with disabilities call for election systems featuring both accessibility and security

And mail ballot elections

Blind voters rip e-machines

ES&S AutoMark voting machines don't work in Rhode Island

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Unassisted voting for the handicapped

Hanging chads

From perspective of 1989

Hanging chads looking better all the time

Hargrove, Thomas

Doubting Thomas

Election study finds widespread ballot counting problems

Elections run smoothly in surprising places

Many counties have highly inaccurate voter lists

Oregon's comedy of errors

Thousands of ineligible voters are still registered

Too many votes go uncounted

Votes at risk in some states

Harris, Bev

Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains stunning security hole

Disturbing pattern of Republican upset with electronic voting machines

Rob-georgia Diebold FTP site

Hart Intercivic

Boulder County, Colorado, can't count ballots with Hart voting machines

Key voting machine certification document altered in Colorado

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

Representative in Montrose County, Colorado, incompetent, didn't even know how to plug in machine Election Day 2006

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, 2007 mail ballot election

Hartmann, Thom

If you want to win an election just control the voting machines

Harvey, Allyn

1,200 phantom votes haunt election in Pitkin County, Colorado

Hasson, Judi

Marines tell Accenture to stop work

Hawaii

Help America Vote Act

Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb

Herrin, Chuck

Some questions for our elected officials

Hoover, Tim

Missouri violates federal voter registration laws

How Diebold woos state officials

How I spent my afternoon in the theater of the absurd

How much taxpayer money is involved?

How they could steal the election this time

How to hand count paper ballots

How to rig an election in the United States

How to steal an election

Ethnic cleansing of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that spoil votes

Register by mail

Register the family cat and in many states

Rigging an election

Variants for the new millennium

Vote of no confidence

Human (or was it machine?) errors mar September 2002 Florida primary results

Human, Katy

Colorado vote-security goals called unachievable in 2006

Election judges grapple with new voting machines

Security added for voting machines in Colorado

Toe ethics line, vote machines' testers told

Hursti, Harri

Demonstrated votes could be changed on Diebold memory cards

Hacking the vote in Leon County, Florida

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Idaho

Only 2,063 of 2,283 ballots cast in Adams County registered a vote for president in 2004, a 10% undervote

If you want to win an election just control the voting machines

Illinois

Chicago rules of election fraud

Imagine, people expect that the votes they cast in any election be counted. How novel. How quaint.

Imse, Ann

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Increasing voter turnout

Motor voter

Same-day registration

Statewide voter registration

Independent testing authorities

Are not independent and they have no authority

Chosen by NASED and voting equipment manufacturers

Constitute a Potemkin village to falsely assure states and voters of voting system security

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals due to known software problem

Electronic vote machine certification criticized

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primary

Gambling on voting

Gambling vote glitch mars 2004 vote tally in Broward County, Florida

Bug discovered in 2002 but never fixed

How to reform the system

More information surfaces on Carteret County, North Carolina, problem

Indiana

Absentee ballot requests seized in Marion County — probe launched

Absentee votes accidentally counted twice in White County

Incorrect PIN number halts electronic voting in November 2006 general election in Delaware County, Indiana

Jackson County finds 1,664-vote error in ballot count

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts 2003 mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

Internet voting

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

Hacking the vote

Hazards of online voting

Internet and electronic voting

Offshore company captures online military vote

Open invitation to election fraud

Pentagon experiment in 2000 cost taxpayers $74,000 per vote

Revisited

Security and identity theft risks of the DoD's interim voting assistance system

Saudis dump U.S. voter firm

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

U.S. to test expat cybervoting

Introductory comments on voting problems

Iowa

It's really a matter of trust

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Jacoby, Jeff

How to steal an election

Jefferson, David

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

ATM network for voting — a non-starter

Internet voting revisited — Security and identity theft risks of the DoD's interim voting assistance system

Jones, Douglas

Election officials appear to lack fundamental knowledge of how their election machinery operates

How to steal an election

The Diebold bombshell

Thoughts on computers in voting

Just say no to recounts

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Kansas

Accenture contract cancelled in March 2005

Accenture disaster

Accenture to consolidate voter registration databases

Keating, Dan

Lost electronic votes in New Mexico — A cautionary tale

Kentucky

Candidate for sheriff in Pulaski County killed the incumbent in April 2002 before the election

Key voting machine certification document altered in Colorado

Kickbacks

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Conflict probe launched in California's voting machine buys

Louisiana commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Microvote DREs sold to Mecklenburg County, NC, were known to be defective and were source of lawsuit between Microvote and Pennsylvania

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Voting machines maker, ES&S, blamed in September 2002 primary problems in South Florida

Kill the messenger

Boulder County, Colorado, claim mal-intent when subjected to citizen critique

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

Kilzer, Lou

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Known problems with electronic voting equipment

Koester, David

Vote counting and securing democracy in Alaska

Kolwicz, Al

Boulder County officials not deterred by public ridicule.

Election watchdog could face charges

Election watchdog won't face charges in Boulder County

Eroding the cornerstone of democracy

Free Al Kolwicz!

Key voting machine certification document altered in Colorado

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Landes, Lynn

2002 elections — Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

Networks simply fake the exit polls

Offshore company captures online military vote

Langeland, Terje

Phantom voters

Larimer County, Colorado, voting centers not answer to all voting problems

LePore, Theresa

Chose to supervise her own election in September 2004 without poll watchers

Claimed 37,839 absentee votes counted but only 29,000 ballots had been received

Claims the March 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida, went well despite 78 vanishing votes

Elections chief refuses to test vote machines in Palm Beach County, Florida

Madame Butterfly flies off with ballots — Florida fixed again

Lies, damn lies, and mail in elections

Lobbying

Diebold wines and dines election officials

Lofholm, Nancy

Mesa County list of voters raises doubts

Logue, Andrea

Florida to cancel two multimillion-dollar technology contracts

Long-term neglect

Looking under the e-voting rock

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Lost electronic votes in New Mexico — A cautionary tale

Lost votes

4,439 votes irretrievably lost in Carteret County, North Carolina, on Unielect machine

Election study finds widespread ballot-counting problems in 2004 election

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Louisiana

Commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Phantom voters

Review of certified election returns led to restoration of 662 votes for president that had been miscounted in easily detectable errors made by local officials

Sequoia vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme

Lubell, Sam

To register doubts, press here

Lynch, Colum

United Nations cites misconduct in firing elections chief

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Madame Butterfly flies off with ballots — Florida fixed again

Mail ballot elections

1,100 mail ballots forwarded in Douglas County, Colorado

81,000 voters not sent ballots for 2003 Colorado Springs, Colorado, election

A bad idea

Absentee votes worry officials as November 2, 2004 nears

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Adding insult to injury

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Ballot box stuffing is facilitated

Ballot gatherers

Ballot tracking and inventory impossible

Ballots can and are collected from voters by special assistants who may or may not deliver the ballots for counting, or who may help the voter fill out their ballots

Big bar code backfire in Denver, Colorado, election

Colorado county clerks breaking election law on signatures

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Compromise voter's privacy and security

Contradictory instructions given to voters on how to mark ballots

Cost, voter turnout, and convenience

Dead men voting — In South Dakota fraud wanders off the reservation

Denver election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Denver's voter registration list in question

Do not increase voter turnout

Electioneering

Enables buying and selling votes

Exit polls are eliminated

Extraneous marks on ballots, e.g., coffee or food stains

Facilitate manipulating the vote count

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Handicapped voters

Here's proof that method not secure

Ineligible ballots from voters who have moved or are otherwise ineligible, e.g., in prison, are counted

Intimidation

Losing ballots by the thousands

Loss of secret ballot

Loss of secret balloting in Boulder County, Colorado

Mail balloting invites fraud, intimidation

May actually decrease voter registration and turnout

No independent check possible on whether voter received proper ballot style, or whether ballot they receive has all applicable issues and candidates included (or excluded)

No independent election judges or poll watchers

Not a secret ballot

Oregon's comedy of errors

Oregon's vote-by-mail fails to fulfill its promise

Poll watchers are ineffective

Preferred way to cheat is with mail-in ballots

Problems arose in Colorado November 2005 election in 10 counties with use of wrong ballot marking instruments

Problems using optical scanners to count mail ballots

Problems with ballot marking instruments

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Signatures and excuses

The vote's in the mail

Toner or ink transfer during mailing may result in overvote or unintended vote

Total loss of ballot inventory and control is inherent

Uncharted territory for Colorado

University of Florida professor sees red over absentee ballot

Unknown numbers of ballots are lost either in the mail or after receipt by clerk

Virtually no way to discover if ballots have disappeared

Vote buying and selling

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, 2007 mail ballot election

Voter disenfranchisement

Voter fraud epidemic

Voter has no idea whether their ballot was received and counted as marked

Voter intimidation by government, employers, unions, political parties, neighbors, special interests, relatives, and others is enabled and encouraged

Voter registration problems with mail ballots

Voters in Boulder, Colorado, sent wrong ballot style or two ballots in 2007 mail ballot election

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver, Colorado, city election

Voting fraud in South Dakota

Why secrecy envelope doesn't make votes secret in mail ballot elections

Why they are a bad idea

Wrong writing instruments are often used by voters at home to mark ballots, which results in scanner errors

You can have an honest election, or you can have a mail in/absentee ballot election, but you can't have both at the same time

Mail ballots not the answer for Denver, Colorado, election woes

Maine

190 counties had more than 100% of the population registered to vote in 1996 presidential election

Make election day a holiday

Management techniques used in well-run counties to minimize lost votes

Many counties have highly inaccurate voter lists

Marine Corps

Accenture contract terminated

Accenture disaster

Accenture wins logistics pact

Tells Accenture to stop work

Mark, Roy

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Marley, Patrick

Accenture voter database behind schedule in Wisconsin

Delays plague Wisconsin list of voters

Maryland

Cost

Diebold electronic poll books did not synchronize and repeatedly crashed in September 2006 primary

Diebold physical security measures found to be totally inadequate in September 2006 primary

Diebold tells poll worker told to shut up and not question the numbers in September 2006 Carroll County election

Election judge and other comments on the 2006 primary election

Many voters dissatisfied with electronic voting in 2006 primary election

My day at the polls — Baltimore primary 2006

State election director blames election judges for disaster in September 2006 primary with Diebold poll books

Voter in Anne Arundel County who had applied for absentee ballot did not show up in electronic poll book as having voted

Massachusetts

McCabe, Mike

Accenture-ating the positive

McCloy, Joyce

Comments —Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

North Carolina's ballot blues

McCollum, Michael

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

McCuen, Bill

Arkansas Secretary of State pleads guilty to taking bribes in computer voting equipment case

McKibbin, Mike

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Mercuri, Rebecca

A better ballot box?

Any programmer can write code that displays one thing on a screen, records something else, and prints yet another result

Critic gets the old heave-ho

Merritt, George

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Denver election critique delivered by post office

Denver's voter registration list in question

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver city election

Voting machines missed mark

When allies become enemies, Donetta Davidson turns on her protege in Colorado

Meyer, Jeremy

Aurora election official could face fine, jail after stealth election cancelled in Colorado

Michigan

Iosco County had 22,901 registered voters even though no more than 16,779 residents of voting age

Mississippi and Michigan tied for having largest number of counties with impossibly bloated voter lists

Microvote

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

DREs sold to Mecklenburg County, NC, were known to be defective and were source of lawsuit between Microvote and Pennsylvania

Military

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

DoD votes for Accenture's eDemocracy

Internet voting an open invitation to election fraud

Marine Corps experience with Accenture a disaster

Offshore company captures online military vote

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

U.S. to test expat cybervoting

Minimizing election fraud

Misprinted ballots repaired with correction fluid

Mississippi

Issaguena County is most-overregistered county in the United States

Mississippi and Michigan tied for having largest number of counties with impossibly bloated voter lists

Missouri

Some counties have more registered voters than eligible citizens

Violates federal voter registration laws

Mistakes with new computer technology leave election officials with no recourse

Mocine-McQueen, Marcos

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Montana

Monterey County, California, registrar Tony Anchundo pleads no contest to 43 criminal charges

Moore, John

Accenture wins USMC logistics pact

Morgan, Curtis

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Morgan, Lucy

Elections are scarier than a terrorist threat

Morgante, Michelle

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Morris, Mark

Missouri violates federal voter registration laws

Moscow Times

Moss, Michael

Absentee votes worry officials as November 2, 2004 nears

Motor voter

Election fraud

Registers illegal aliens

Murder and elections

Candidate for sheriff in Pulaski County, Kentucky, killed the incumbent in April 2002 before the election

DeKalb County, Georgia, Sheriff Dorsey orders murder of man who defeated him in November 2000

Man consumed by thirst for political power sentenced to life in prison for1998 shooting death of his election opponent, a state senator in Tennessee

My day at the polls — Baltimore, Maryland primary 2006

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NAACP vote hearing details new flaws in Lucas County, Ohio

National security

Concern when military logistics contract given to foreign firm employing numerous foreign nationals

Coup d'état by computer

Overriding concern when foreign nationals are employed to control American elections

Unnamed technicians hired by machine manufacturers are paid to run elections

Nebraska

Charlie Matulka

Chuck Hagel

Neumann, Peter

Internet and electronic voting

Perspective on election processes

Nevada

Comparison of voting machine security with gambling machines

Gaming control board testing

New Jersey

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County

New Mexico

Did you erase your own vote?

DRE programming errors

Lost electronic votes — A cautionary tale

New security risks found in Diebold voting systems

New York

No test methods specified by Ciber for majority of requirements or how they would find bugs of check hacking defenses when testing electronic voting machines

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

New-fangled voting

No independent election judges or poll watchers

No records, no proof, no problem

North Carolina

4,500+ votes irretrievably lost in Carteret County

Ballot blues

Board of Elections relied on advice of voting machine salesmen and turned deaf ear to good advice and warnings of computer scientists

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County votes, voters

Election director Bill Culp convicted of accepting bribes

Election director bribed

Election problems in Craven County due to a software glitch

Fixing vote problems

Gaston County elections director resigns after 13,000 votes are missing

Gaston County investigates election tally errors in November 2004 election after 13,000 votes missing

More information surfaces on Carteret County problem

Printers failed on ES&S DRE voting machines in three counties during November 2006 election

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County

Takes the lead in November 2004 election problems

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O'Day, Ed

Bribery and kickbacks in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Voting machine salesman extraordinaire

O'Neil, Deborah

Pinellas County, Florida, finds Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark worked for voting machine manufacturer

Offshore company captures online military vote

Ohio

Audit shows that on 72.5% of Diebold TSx machines the digital tally did not match paper records in May 2006 primary

Concerns about elections with Diebold machines

Cuyahoga County election staff convicted in recount rig during 2004 presidential election

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County

Ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls

In 2004 a worker at a Toledo election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

NAACP vote hearing details new flaws in Lucas County

Paper ballot rolls blank on voting machines in Lucas County in November 2005 election

Registering While Black

Report exposes Cuyahoga County May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

They know how you voted

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County?

Olinger, David

Accenture to face legislative scrutiny for failed projects in Colorado

Colorado's choice of Accenture draws criticism

Olson, Elizabeth

U.S. to test expat cybervoting

Olvera, Javier Erik

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

One man, one vote

Open and honest elections

Optical scanners

Ballot opacity

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County, Colorado

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins hand recount by 139

Choice of marking instrument affects whether vote is counted

Comal County, Texas, optical scanner found that three different candidates had won their races with exactly 18,181 votes

Damaged optical scanner permanently lost nearly 700 votes in Pike County, Arkansas

District vote totals don't match final, official results in 2004 election in Alaska due to Diebold programming error

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Extraneous marks on ballot

Folded ballots

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Hand recount in Scurry County, Texas, showed wrong candidate given landslide victory by machines

Have their own special problems

Likely not more accurate than ±7%

Lost votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Overvotes

Persistent rumors that machines give undervotes and overvotes to candidate of programmer's choice

Problems in several Oregon counties

Problems tabulated by state and county

Problems with

Problems with these machines counting ballots

Recount changes results for Greenwich, Connecticut, town meeting candidate after miscount by optical scanners

Scanning errors when counting ballots in mail ballot elections are often ignored

Scratches or dirt on scan head can cause votes not to be counted

Translucent double-sided ballots apparently misread by optical scanner in Denver Colorado election

Wrong writing instruments are often used by voters at home to mark ballots

Oregon

Comedy of errors

Vote-by-mail fails to fulfill its promise

Orlando, Florida, mayor and judge indicted in absentee ballot case

Otter, Faun

Diebold — The face of modern ballot tampering

Overvotes

Aren't reliably prevented by DREs

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins hand recount by 139

Extraneous marks on ballots counted by optical scanners

Missing category in Diebold blended system

Optical scanners

Oregon's comedy of errors

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Paine, Thomas

Voting rights

Palast, Greg

An election spoiled rotten

Ex-con game — How Florida's felon purge list was itself felonious

Madame Butterfly flies off with ballots — Florida fixed again

The centralization of state voter registries hands an all-too-tempting monopoly to whichever party controls the office of secretary of state

The re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

Vanishing votes

Paper ballot rolls blank on voting machines in Lucas County, Ohio, November 2005 election

Paper ballots

Encrypted ballots

Paulson, Steven

Colorado county clerks breaking election law on signatures

Colorado election computer fails test

Pennsylvania

Accenture disaster

Accenture to build voter registration and election management system

In 1998 former Democratic congressman Austin Murphy was convicted of absentee-ballot fraud in a nursing home

Legislative hearing on Accenture's SURE voter registration system

Problems with Accenture's SURE voter registration system

Voter attacks voting machine

Perelli, Carina

United Nations cites misconduct in firing elections chief

Perspective on election processes

Florida vote counts in November 2000

Perspective on election processes with computers

Phantom votes

1,200 phantom votes haunt November 2005 election in Pitkin County, Colorado

Louisiana

Pilgrim, Kitty

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Pitfalls of statewide voter registration databases

Poll books and voter registration rolls are corrupt with no independent check possible

Poll watchers

Control of fraud and ballot box stuffing

Polling workers say the problems with poll books are obvious

Poovey, Bill

Electronic vote machine certification criticized

Precinct voting

Why precinct voting stops fraud

Preferred way to cheat is with mail-in ballots

President of voting machine company, Ransom Shoup II, convicted in 1979 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia.

Problems for a blind voter with DRE in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Problems tabulated by state and county

Problems with Diebold's GEMS central tabulator

Purging voters

Ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls

Mainly Democrats

Racist effects

The re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

The urge to purge

West Virginia purging voter rolls

Pynchon, Susan

A crazy way to run an election

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Quillen, Ed

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

New-fangled voting

Quote

Benjamin Disraeli on lies and statistics

Benjamin Franklin on voting and democracy

Dr. Martin Luther King on voting rights

Greg Palast

Mark Twain on lies and statistics

Thomas Paine on primary right of voting

Winston Churchill on imperfections of democracy

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Raftery, Miriam

Diebold insider alleges company plagued by technical woes

Re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

Register the family cat then get absentee ballots

Reinink, Amy

University of Florida professor sees red over absentee ballot

Reliability

Report on the April 1, 2003, mail in election, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Arithmetic errors abound

Attachments

Background

Ballot tracking

Computer errors

Cost savings and who got ballots

Election fraud or incompetence

Election records unavailable

Measuring voter turnout

Not a secret ballot

Poll watchers

Problem summary

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

Rhode Island

Voters handicapped in Pawtuckett County

Richmond, Todd

Wisconsin finally ends deal with voting vendor Accenture

Rob-Georgia

Rose, Melody

Oregon's vote-by-mail fails to fulfill its promise

Ross, Karl

Voting machines in 2002 primary criticized, report says Miami-Dade County, Florida, misled by ES&S

Rouse, Karen

Arapahoe County Colorado has spent $200,000 in effort to oust clerk Baker

Rubin, Avi

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs

Internet voting revisited — Security and identity theft risks of the DoD's interim voting assistance system

My day at the polls — Baltimore, Maryland primary 2006

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Sanity in the election process

Schlueb, Mark

Ballot king was paid by Orlando Mayor Dyer, other politicians to collect absentee ballots in Florida

Schooler, Dean

Standing on principle is not mal-intent

Sealover, Ed

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs, Colorado, election

Searls, Tom

West Virginia purging voter rolls

Secret ballot

Ballot inventory and control

Do away with them

Essential to open and honest elections

In Ohio they know how you voted

Key voting machine certification document altered in Colorado that now allows ballot to be linked to voter

Loss of secret ballot in mail ballot elections

University of Florida professor sees red over absentee ballot

Want to know how I voted? Look it up with Sequoia eSlate

Why secrecy envelope doesn't make votes secret in mail ballot elections

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

Security added for voting machines in Colorado at last minute in 2006

Sequoia

A low-cost, low-quality, out-of-state election mail vendor according to Colorado postmaster

Ballot postage problem revealed for absentee ballots in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, election

Big bar code backfire on absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Blind voters rip e-machines

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Denver, Colorado, election critique delivered by post office in 2007 mail ballot election

Did you erase your own vote?

Down for the count in Riverside County, California

Edge DRE's and BRC/ES&S/Sequoia Optech Eagle IIIP scanners did not blend as expected in September 2006 primary in Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

Large number of undervotes on DREs in Palm Beach County, Florida

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

Myth of proprietary software

Optech Eagle in wards 258, 259, and 265 displayed 586 total ballots cast, printed 576 total ballots cast, and poll books show 588 ballots distributed to electors in September 2006 election in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Optical scanner breaks down while counting absentee ballots for November 2006 election in Denver, Colorado

Phil Foster indicted in 2001 in Louisiana on conspiracy charges for elections kickbacks while working for Sequoia

Problems in Palm Beach County, Florida

Problems with DREs freezing up, difficulties selecting candidates, smart cards rejected, and manipulation of voting machines by poll workers

Recount in 2004 Riverside County, California, primary called a reprint, not a recount, and an empty formality suitable only for banana republics or dictatorships.

Technical problems delay vote tally in March 2006 primary election in Chicago

Translucent double-sided ballots apparently misread by optical scanner in Denver Colorado election

Vice president indicted in elections kickback scheme in Louisiana

Want to know how I voted? Look it up

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch

Serious unresolved issues with Miami-Dade primary election mar prospects for clean November 5, 2002 election

SERVE

Shamos, Michael

No control over how software enters a voting machine and no adequate standards

Shelby, Michael

Election officials in Arizona refuse to answer Senate questions

Shnayerson, Michael

The election

Signatures

Denver's missing voter records contain their signatures

Simons, Barbara

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

Internet voting revisited — Security and identity theft risks of the DoD's interim voting assistance system

The Diebold bombshell

Singh, Shruti

Accenture sinks in British quagmire

Sleepovers

Leave voting machines vulnerable to tampering

Sludge, C. D.

Bald-faced lies about black box voting machines and the truth about the Diebold rob-georgia file

Smith, Charles

Saudis dump U.S. voter firm

Smith, Jeff

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country

Soaries, DeForest

Former EAC chair states there are no standards and system ripe for stealing an election

Some questions for our elected officials

South Carolina

E-voting train wreck — The 2008 Horry County Republican primary disaster

South Dakota

Dead men voting — In Daschle's home state fraud wanders off the reservation

Poll worker faces forgery charges

Voting fraud

Spoilage

~54% of spoiled ballots are cast by African Americans

A million votes in the electoral trash can

Depends on race of voter

Election canvass

Extraneous marks on ballots cannot be read by optical scanners

Stalin, Josef

Those who vote determine nothing, those who count the vote determine everything

Statement on Palm Beach County Florida November 2000 ballot

Stealth elections

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Aurora, Colorado, mental health centers

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Send out ballots only to likely supporters of your issue

Stewart, Warren

New Mexico — Did you erase your own vote?

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Stolen voting machines

67 memory cards for Diebold DREs disappeared in November 2002 from Fulton County, Georgia

Diebold vote counting codes stolen in June 2000 in Georgia

Georgia

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Straight party ticket

How undervotes can be generated on DREs

Summary of commonly-observed problems with electronic voting machines

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Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR)

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, election mix-up

Tennessee

Man consumed by thirst for political power sentenced to life in prison for1998 shooting death of his election opponent, a state senator.

Testing

Colorado voting machine testing and certification a farce

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs

Texas

41,000 votes lost in 1998 general election in Dallas County

Accenture

Alice is where operatives stuffed Ballot Box 13 with 200 votes to save Lyndon B. Johnson's political career.

Another state cancels another Accenture contract

Comal County optical scanner found that three different candidates had won their races with exactly 18,181 votes

Election error sparks resignation, recount in Williamson County

Hand recount in Scurry County showed wrong candidate won landslide victory

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County

Robertson County finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots in 2003 election

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas

Voters don't trust electronic voting in Nagodoches County

The election

Thoughts on computers in voting

Thousands of ineligible voters are still registered

Tiboni, Frank

Marines tell Accenture to stop work

Marines terminate Accenture contract

To register doubts, press here

Toe ethics line, vote machines' testers told

Too many votes go uncounted

Touch screen voting machines lose unknown number of votes in Dallas, Texas

Transparency

What can happen when it exists

Trust our election officials

ABC News published election results 24 hours before election on November 2, 1998

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for 2004 election

Arapahoe County Colorado has spent $200,000 in effort to oust clerk Baker

Arapahoe County, Colorado, Clerk just elected — now recall him

Arapahoe County, Colorado, Clerk's affair dividing office

As bad as the 1904 election in Colorado?

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Bribery of a North Carolina election director

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Clerk notes election irregularities in Broward County, Florida

Clerks cast doubt on new election machines in New Jersey

Colorado state elections director resigns amid Ethics Watch investigation

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig during 2004 presidential election

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft

Why public trust is an issue here

Denver Colorado Election Commission computer technician charged with theft, forgery, and embezzlement

Denver election chief's exit sought

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Despite 10% undervote in 2004 presidential race, Adams County, Idaho, Clerk refuses to investigate

Diebold wines and dines election officials

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs (ITAs)

Discovery of 100,000 missing ballots described as minor software thing

Dixie County, Florida, Supervisor of Elections convicted of election fraud

Doofus too dumb to quit in Arapahoe County, Colorado

Election Assistance Commission simply ignoring voting problems as state issues

Election officials and voting system vendors

Election officials appear to lack fundamental knowledge of how their election machinery operates

Election officials in 10 counties refuse to review ballots or check for missing votes in 2004 election study

Election officials in Arizona refuse to answer Senate questions about 2004 primary in Maricopa County

Elections chief refuses to test vote machines in Palm Beach County, Florida

Electronic vote counting

Eleven states did not release official ballot counts in the 2000 presidential race

Eroding the cornerstone of democracy

Gaston County, North Carolina, elections director resigns after 13,000 votes are missing

How I spent my afternoon in the theater of the absurd

Human (or was it machine?) errors mar September 2002 Florida primary results

Intimidation tactics

Key voting machine certification document altered in Colorado

Louisiana commissioner of elections convicted of accepting kickbacks from e-vote vendors

Madame Butterfly, Theresa LePore, flies off with ballots — Florida fixed again

Mesa County Colorado list of voters raises doubts

Monterey County, California, registrar Tony Anchundo pleads no contest to 43 criminal charges

North Carolina Board of Elections relied on advice of voting machine salesmen and turned deaf ear to good advice and warnings of computer scientists

Paper ballots

Pinellas County Florida Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark just can't seem to get the hang of running an election

Pinellas County, Florida, ballot box sat ignored in office

Pinellas County, Florida, finds Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark worked for voting machine manufacturer

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Review of certified election returns led authorities to restore 662 votes for president in Louisiana and West Virginia that had been miscounted in easily detectable errors made by local officials

Richard Kirby, clerk for Calhoun County, West Virginia, accidentally erased 229 votes for Bush

Some questions for our elected officials

Standing on principle is not mal-intent as Boulder County Colorado Clerk claims

Thomas Cole charged with felony theft, forgery, and embezzlement while working as computer technician for Denver Colorado Election Commission

Toe ethics line, vote machines' testers told

U.S. bars Colorado lab from testing electronic voting machines

United Nations cites misconduct in firing elections chief

Voter fraud is epidemic

Votes at risk in some states

Voting glitches found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, after March 8, 2005, special election

Voting machine security

We are appalled

West Virginia — almost heaven (for vote fraud)

Trust, but verify

Trusting trust

Turned away at polls

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U.S. bars Colorado lab from testing electronic voting machines

U.S. to test expat cybervoting

Uncounted votes

Discrimination against minorities

Undervote

2.9% undervote for president in 2000 Florida election

7% undervote for president in 2000 election in Grant County, Oregon

Bay County, Florida, Democrat wins hand recount by 139

Burke County, North Carolina, voters cast 34,604 ballots, but only 30,762 votes for president were recorded in 2004 election

Did you erase your own vote?

DREs don't reliably prevent unintentional undervotes

Elections run smoothly in surprising places

Generating undervotes on DREs

Large number of undervotes on Sequoia DREs in Palm Beach County, Florida

Lost electronic votes in New Mexico — A cautionary tale

Management techniques used in well-run counties to minimize lost votes

Missing category in Diebold blended system

Only 2,063 of 2,283 ballots cast in Adams County, Idaho, registered a vote for president in 2004, a 10% undervote

Oregon's comedy of errors

Proper markings on ballot essential for optical scanners

Should be investigated whenever it exceeds 2% in major elections

Suspicions should be aroused when undervote in presidential race exceeds 2 percent

Too many votes go uncounted

Voting glitches found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, after March 8, 2005, special election

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

Unger, Stephen

Forward to the past — junk the machines, count votes manually

Unielect

4,500+ votes irretrievably lost in Carteret County

More information surfaces on Carteret County, North Carolina, problem

United Kingdom

Accenture disaster

Accenture sinks in British quagmire

United Nations

Cites misconduct in firing elections chief

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Use of uncertified and untested software

Use your own judges if it goes to court

Utah

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County in November 2006 election

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Vanishing votes

78 votes disappeared in March 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida

Vanity Fair

Vankin, Jonathan

Vote of no confidence

Venezuela

2005 election plagued by problems including poll officials replaced by political party agents, presence of armed forces at polling stations, and widespread confusion among voters about how to use voting machines

Virginia

Appalachia ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Voluntary standards

Vote buying and selling

Vote counting and securing democracy in Alaska

Vote early, vote often

At least 122 voters voted absentee and then showed up to vote at polls in November 2004 Colorado election

Vote fraud

Bad voter registration lists can cover any kind of fraud

Basic types of fraud encountered

California hotline and handbook

Chicago rules of election fraud

Election whores

ES&S software loses 70,000 votes in 2004 Broward County, Florida, election

Ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls

Florida Department of Law Enforcement report and observations

Greater impact on local elections but affects the integrity of our democracy in all elections

Hacking the vote

How to steal an election

Is our house any different?

Mail ballots enable buying and selling votes

Register the family cat then get absentee ballots

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

See election fraud or fraud tabulations

Vote early, vote often

Vote of no confidence

Votes for sale

Voting from the grave

Vote of no confidence

And so on...

The FEC rejected Naegle's recommendation

Vote our way or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Vote rigging

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Stealth elections

Votec

22,000 in Jefferson County, Colorado, mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, 2007 mail ballot election

Voter disenfranchisement

Eligible voters are disenfranchised when someone else returns their mail ballot without their knowledge or consent

Of one-third of registered voters as ballots are only mailed to active voters

Voters may be disenfranchised by selectively purging voter registration roles or intercepting mail ballots

With mail ballot elections

Voter eligibility

Voter fraud epidemic

Voter registration databases

22,000 in Jefferson County, Colorado, mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

27 states have counties with bloated lists

Accenture — Epitome of incompetence

Accenture can't design or build voter registration databases

Accenture software froze up, failed to print poll books, delayed elections, and mailed voter cards to incorrect addresses in Arkansas for at least three years.

An election spoiled rotten

Bloated registrations —including dead people — clog up voters' rolls across Colorado

Centralization of state voter registries hands an all-too-tempting monopoly to whichever party controls the office of secretary of state

Chicago voters frequently register in more than one precinct

Colorado voter database under scrutiny after candidate's petition signatures cannot be verified

Colorado voter registration database, SCORE II, has 5.8 million voters listed but only 3.5 million voters in state

Colorado's second try at voter registration database, SCORE II

Communication glitch delays early voting at some Broward County, Florida, sites

Denver's voter registration list in question

Election databases

Ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls

Ex-con game — How Florida's felon purge list was itself felonious

How to steal an election

Many counties have highly inaccurate voter lists

Mesa County Colorado list of voters raises doubts

Missouri violates federal voter registration laws

Phantom voters

Polling workers say the problems are obvious

Purging

The urge to purge

Thousands of ineligible voters are still registered

Trouble with rolls

Turned away at the polls

Vanishing votes

Voter registration problems with mail ballots

Voter turnout percentage in 16 election districts in Alaska is over 200% in the 2004 election.

West Virginia purging voter rolls

Wireless connection used for connection to voter database in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Voter turnout

81,000 voters not sent ballots for 2003 Colorado Springs, Colorado, mail ballot election

Is not increased by early or absentee voting

Make election day a holiday

Studies show absentee ballots either have no effect or decrease turnout

Too many elections

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver, Colorado, city election

Votes accurately recorded and counted

Votes at risk in some states

Votes for sale

Voting centers

A solution in search of a problem

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Experience in August 2006 Colorado primary leaves voter with no trust in the system at all

Larimer County, Colorado, voting centers not answer to all voting problems

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Require use of an electronic poll book

Voters frequently given wrong ballot on DREs

Voting equipment manufacturers

Voting equipment problems tabulated by state and county

Voting fraud in South Dakota

Voting from the grave

Voting machine security

Colorado testing and certification a farce

Dirty little secrets of voting system testing labs

Voting machine tester John Gardner departs Colorado Sec. of State's office, leaving questions

Voting machines

Montrose County, Colorado, Clerk doesn't bother to run logic and accuracy tests before November 2006 election

Sold in much the same way as other government contracts through intensive lobbying, wining, and dining

Voting machines issued days to weeks before election and remain unguarded

Voting machines missed mark

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Voting principles

One man, one vote

Reliability

Secret ballot

Voter eligibility

Votes accurately recorded and counted

Voting principles

Voting problems

2002 elections

Florida

Re-election of Jim Crow — How Jeb Bush's team is trying to steal Florida again

Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and "way-off" polling results

Technician's error, not machines, to blame in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2002 election mix-up

Various news reports

2003 elections

81,000 voters not sent ballots for Colorado Springs, Colorado, election

Error spurs total vote recount in Boulder Colorado

Garfield County, Colorado, investigation uncovers many miscalculations

Robertson County, Texas, finds voter fraud and illegal voting with absentee ballots

Various news reports

Vote buying and selling of absentee ballots corrupts mayoral race in East Chicago, Indiana

2004 elections

A worker at a Toledo, Ohio, election office found 300 completed absentee ballots in a storage room more than a month after the vote

Absentee voting practices result in felony charges against Orlando, Florida, mayor, judge, campaign manager, and others

Alaska security officer refuses to release voting records for election

Appalachia, Virginia, ex-mayor and cronies plead guilty to fixing election using bribes and absentee ballots

Chaos in Arkansas primary on ES&S machines

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election staff convicted in recount rig during presidential election

Democrats defend public's right to see election data in Alaska

Discrepancies found in numbers of Gaston County, North Carolina, votes, voters

Distrust fuels doubts on votes, Orange County, Florida, web site posted wrong totals due to known ES&S software bug

Election problems in Craven County, North Carolina, due to ES&S software glitch

Election study finds widespread ballot counting problems

Electronic voting a mess in March 2004 California primary

Electronic voting bug plagued San Diego County, California, election

Electronic voting component wasn't fully tested in Diebold DREs before March 2004 California primaries

Electronic voting down for the count in Riverside County, California

Florida

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigating voting fraud in Duval and six other counties

Gambling vote glitch mars tally in Broward County, Florida

Gaston County, North Carolina, elections director resigns after 13,000 votes are missing

Gaston County, North Carolina, investigates election tally errors in November election after 13,000 votes missing

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

North Carolina takes the lead in November election problems

North Carolina's ballot blues

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Re-vote likely after electronic voting error in Alameda County, California

Vote counts don't add up in Alaska, differ in presidential race by 101,378 votes

Voter fraud probed in 47 counties in Colorado

2005 elections

1,200 phantom votes haunt election in Pitkin County, Colorado

Ballot testing finds potential problem with folded ballots in Boulder County, Colorado

Larimer County, Colorado, voting centers not answer to all voting problems

Machine errors result in hand recounts in ten Colorado counties

NAACP vote hearing details new flaws in Lucas County, Ohio

Various news reports

Voting glitches in ES&S iVotronic machines found in six recent elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida

2006 election problems

Electronic voting off to rocky start in Crawford County, Arkansas

Maryland election judge and other comments on the 2006 primary election

2006 elections

22,000 in Jefferson County, Colorado, mistakenly told they didn't vote in November 2006 election

Aurora, Colorado, election official charged in wake of canceled election

Aurora, Colorado, election official could face fine, jail

Balloting trying patience in Riverside County, California

Centralized voting merits further study in San Mateo County, California (as managed by Dumb and Dumber)

Colorado vote-security goals called unachievable

Colorado, Denver, and absentee ballots, one city's experience

Daily voting news for June 7th

Denver, Colorado, Election Commission loses voter records

Diebold taking blame for invalid November 2006 election results in Fairfield County, Ohio

Early worries forecast Election Day 2006 fiasco as Tom Cole's replacement is no improvement in Denver, Colorado

Election error sparks resignation, recount in Williamson County, Texas

ES&S AutoMark machines don't work for handicapped voters in Rhode Island

ES&S iVotronic's cast ballot for wrong candidate in Cleburne County, Arkansas

Fayette County, West Virginia, programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Glitches hit Sequoia Systems in Denver and across country in 2006

In Ohio they know how you voted

Mistake found in November 2006 Denver, Colorado, absentee ballot, answers transposed on Ref. F

Montrose County, Colorado, Clerk violates election laws in November 2006 election

Newfangled machines, old-fashioned voters lead to election night delays in Nacogdoches County, Texas

New-fangled voting gives voter wrong ballot

Printers failed on DRE voting machines in three North Carolina counties during November 2006 election

Problems for a blind voter with ES&S iVotronic in Guilford County, North Carolina

Problems found on 24 voting machines in Essex County, New Jersey

Report exposes Cuyahoga County, Ohio, May 2006 primary electronic voting debacle

Report on 2006 primary meltdown in Arkansas rips ES&S

Republican votes given to Democrat by ES&S programming error in Baldwin County, Alabama

Return of the stealth election in Colorado

Security added for voting machines in Colorado at last minute

Security plans for only 37 of 64 Colorado counties approved by Sec. of State prior to November 2006 election

Usability flaw detected in Diebold software in Utah County, Utah

Various news reports

Vote our way with DREs or take the highway in Monterey County, California

Voting machines stolen in Barbour County, Alabama

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Wisconsin primary election plagued by computer problems

Wrong PIN number halts election and absentee ballots found in drawer after election in Delaware County, Indiana

2007 election problems

Denver election critique delivered by post office in mail ballot election

The vote's in the mail in Denver, Colorado

Voters' list idles 100,000 in 2007 Denver, Colorado, city election

2007 elections

1,100 mail ballots forwarded in Douglas County, Colorado

Optical scanners miscount, recount changes results for Greenwich, Connecticut, town meeting candidate

Various news reports

Vote-counting machines hit glitch in Boulder, Colorado, mail ballot election

Voters in Boulder, Colorado, sent wrong ballot style or two ballots in mail ballot election

2008 elections

A modern democracy that can't count votes

Essays

Introduction

Introductory comments

Summaries

Systemic errors

What is never trouble-free is the combination of computers and humans

Voting system integrity flaw

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Wagner, David

A security analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)

Internet voting revisited — Security and identity theft risks of the DoD's interim voting assistance system

Waldenburg, Arkansas, mayoral candidate voted for himself on ES&S iVotronic in Poinsett County but receives zero votes

Walk right in, sit down, and compose your own tally vote counting system

Want to know how I voted? Look it up

Want to rig an election?

Washburn, John

2006 Wisconsin primary election plagued by computer problems

Washington

Diebold VP Jeff Dean was convicted of 23 felony counts of theft by planting back doors in his software and using "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection

Washington, April

Bugs in Accenture's system for Colorado Department of Labor rile lawmakers

Wasserman, Harvey

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 election problems

Way it was when voting worked

Weak equipment

Web sites

Election issue web sites (listed alphabetically)

Weinstein, Lauren

Hacking the vote

Sanity in the election process

West Virginia

Almost heaven (for vote fraud)

Death no impediment to voting

Election fraud target of FBI sting operation

Fayette County programming errors lead to all-night hand count of votes

Lincoln County assessor pleads guilty to election fraud

Lincoln County clerk pleads guilty to election law violations

Logan County clerk admits he sold his vote

Logan County sheriff and police chief plead guilty to buying votes

Mayor pleads guilty to paying off Logan County magistrate

Purging voter rolls

Review of certified election returns led to restoration of 662 votes for president that had been miscounted in easily detectable errors made by local officials.

Southern WV notorious as place where dead rise up every two years on Election Day

What can happen when transparency exists

What else can go wrong?

What you can do

What's so hard about counting votes?

When allies become enemies, Donetta Davidson turns on her protege in Colorado

Where are the protections against hacking computer voting systems?

Why did so much go wrong on Election Day in Athens County, Ohio?

Why mail ballots are a bad idea

Why secrecy envelope doesn't make votes secret in mail ballot elections

Williams, Brit

Rob Behler a disgruntled former Diebold employee

Wisconsin

2006 primary election plagued by computer problems

Accenture disaster

Accenture's statewide voter registration system (SVRS)

Accenture's voter database behind schedule

Accenture-ating the positive (and it doesn't look good)

Ballot totals added wrong for wards in same location in 2006 primary election in Milwaukee County

Controversy swirls around voter list contract with Accenture

Delays plague Accenture's list of voters

Diebold blended system didn't in September 2006 primary in Winnebago County

ES&S Automark system required different size ballots than Optech scanners in 2006 primary election in Milwaukee County

Finally ends deal with voting vendor Accenture in December 2007

Lawmaker pushes to drop Accenture's contract for voter registration system

Sequoia Edge DRE's and BRC/ES&S/Sequoia Optech Eagle IIIP scanners did not blend as expected in September 2006 primary in Waukesha County

Sequoia Optech Eagle in wards 258, 259, and 265 displayed 586 total ballots cast, printed 576 total ballots cast, and poll books show 588 ballots distributed to electors in September 2006 election in Milwaukee County

Software bugs delay Accenture's voter registration system

Wrong PIN number halts election and absentee ballots found in drawer after election in Delaware County, Indiana

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch

Wyoming

Accenture disaster

Accenture media release (the official propaganda)

Secretary of State Meyer — State wanted too much, Accenture voter registration system dies

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You can have an honest election, or you can have a mail in/absentee ballot election, but you can't have both at the same time

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Zetter, Kim

Did e-vote firm patch the Georgia election?

Lost electronic votes could flip Napa County, California, race

Wrong time for an e-vote glitch

 

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| Vote Fraud and Election Issues Book | Table of Contents | Site Map | Summaries |

Chapters

| 1 — Introduction To Voting Problems | 2 — Essays On Voting Problems | 3 — Direct Recording Electronic Voting |

| 4 — Trust Our Election Officials? | 5 — Lies, Damn Lies, and Mail In Elections | 6 — Pitfalls Of Statewide Voter Registration Databases |

| 7 — Building Better Ballot Boxes | 8 — Voting Problems In The 2002 Elections | 9 — Voting Problems In The 2003 Elections |

| 10 — Voting Problems In The 2004 Elections | 11 — Voting Problems In The 2005 Elections | 12 — Voting Problems In The 2006 Elections |

| 13 — Voting Problems In The 2007 Elections | 14 — Voting Problems In The 2008 Elections | 15 — Election Web Sites And Problems |


 

Last modified 6/14/09