http://scvotinginfo.com/ivotronic-machines-manufactured-in-sweatshop.html
Obviously, the State Election Commission has been put in a difficult position, preferring not to admit we spent the majority of our $48.5 million in HAVA and state funds on a shoddy product to run the most important function in our democracy.
TN: Election Expert Testifies at Trial on August Election Irregularities*
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/100610-election-expert-testifies-at-trial-on-august-election-irregularities MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An expert on election procedures testified in Chancery Court she believes more than 10,000 ballots cast in the August Election could be questionable due to alleged mistakes in the voting process.
TX: Woman, 81, jailed in vote-fraud case
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_dead_sisters_identity_104377524.html http://tinyurl.com/26y8pof
Bexar County deputies Monday night arrested a woman accused of using her long-dead sister's identity to vote twice in the 2008 general election.
Mary Ann Comparin, 81, was released from Bexar County Jail on Tuesday after posting $10,000 bail, officials said. She faces one count of illegal voting.
WI: Early Ballot Mailer Upsets Votershttp://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/104376809.html
Terry, a Milwaukee resident, got a mailer with City Hall's address and a big plea to cast an early ballot.
Internet Voting Watch
Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, Encryption Key *
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/voting-system-hacked/
An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack.
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The hack left lots of traces that an intrusion detection system should have caught. Nonetheless, it went unnoticed for two business days until Friday afternoon when several testers directed election officials to the Michigan fight song playing on their $300,000 voting system.
Michigan prof explains how D.C. online voting system was hacked
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2010/10/prof_explains_how_dc_online_vo.html
The University of Michigan computer science professor who led the team that successfully infiltrated an Internet voting trial held by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has stepped forward to describe how he did it.
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The researchers, once inside, changed the ballots that had already been cast to select their preferred write-in candidates -- famous real and fictional computers, including HAL 900 of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the Master Control Program from "Tron." They also installed a "back door" that allowed them to view votes that came in.
Internet Voting Faces The Music: Hats off to D.C. and Michigan
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/internet-voting-faces-the-music-hats-off-to-d-c-and-michigan/
Testers submitting votes complained of the annoying music playing on their computer after voting...
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There are several states planning Internet voting pilots under the MOVE Act. We and others have warned of the theoretical risks of Internet voting and specifically the pilot provisions of the otherwise valuable MOVE Act. Will this clear demonstration of vulnerabilities cause states and Congress to sing a different Internet voting tune? We hope so, yet we doubt it.
Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot - By J. Alex Halderman
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-internet-voting-pilot
The specific vulnerability that we exploited is simple to fix, but it will be vastly more difficult to make the system secure. We've found a number of other problems in the system, and everything we've seen suggests that the design is brittle: one small mistake can completely compromise its security.
The meaning of Alex Halderman's successful attack on the DC Internet voting system
by Dr. David Jefferson Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chairman, Verified Voting http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6781
It is now clear that Halderman and his team were able to completely subvert the entire DC Internet voting system remotely, gaining complete control over it and substituting fake votes of their choice for the votes that were actually cast by the test voters. What is worse, they did so without the officials even noticing for several days.
Verified Voting Lauds Successful Test Hack of Internet Voting Pilot
http://blog.verifiedvoting.org/2010/10/06/973 Verified Voting applauds the decision of the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics to suspend their plan to offer overseas voters the dangerous option of returning their voted ballots by a "digital vote by mail" Internet voting system. The District's plans to continue other Internet-based ballot return methods (including email and fax) for the District's military and civilian overseas voters still raise concerns among voting security experts.
D.C. Internet Vote Scheme Hacker: 'Within 36 Hours We Had Total Control of Server, Ability to Change Votes, Reveal Secret Ballots'
University of Michigan's J. Alex Halderman fesses up...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8109 ..your Congress has allocated millions of federal tax-dollars via the Military and Overseas Voting Empowerment (MOVE) Act to pay for these Internet Voting pilot project experiments which use real voters in real elections as guinea pigs to test this unoverseeable technology.
Details Of How The DC Online Voting System Was Hacked: Small Vulnerability, Huge Consequenceshttp://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101006/01583711306/details-of-how-the-dc-online-voting-system-was-hacked-small-vulnerability-huge-consequences.shtml
They also changed all the votes to write-in candidates they liked and set the system to automatically change all future votes to the same candidates. You can see the ballot that they used to replace all of the votes below.
Boing Boing: Alex Halderman's totally epic hack of the DC internet voting system pilot program http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/05/alex-haldermans-tota.html
DC tries online voting system, only to have it hacked to death. Instantly.
http://sayencrowolf.net/2010/10/dc-tries-online-voting-system-only-to-have-it-hacked-to-death-instantly/
National
Why don't Hispanic registered voters vote?
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archive/2010/10/why_dont_hispanic_voters_vote.shtml http://tinyurl.com/34b4sm9
Exclusive: Foreign-Funded "U.S.' Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/05/foreign-chamber-commerce/
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