http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=14359
US. EAC News #31 8-3-09 EAC on YouTube, Comment on 2005 Vol.Voting Sys Guidelines, VVPAT accessibility and more
http://votingnews.blogspot.com/2009/08/eac-news-31-8-3-09-eac-on-youtube.html
US. Federal Voting Assistance Program Newsletter Sept 2009.
The Federal Voting Assistance Program is engaging in a more aggressive communications strategy that utilizes social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to reach our more than 6.1million Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)voters.
http://www.fvap.gov/resources/media/sept09vin.pdf
Afghanistan. Fears of Fraud Cast Pall Over Afghan Election
...many Afghans remain doubtful that the Aug. 20 election will take place at all.
...Election officials insist that the election will go ahead. But they concede that the insecurity will prevent as many as 600 polling centers, or roughly 10 percent, from opening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/world/asia/04election.html?_r=1&hpw
It could be tampered with by installing a program through a Trojan Horse: Netindia
Amidst questions being raised on reliability of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the issue being raised in the Supreme Court, Netindia, a Hyderabad- based Software Company, demonstrated that the machine could be easily tampered.
http://voiceofsikkim.com/2009/08/03/evm-could-be-tampered-with-by-installing-a-programme-through-a-trojan-horse-netindia/
India. EVMs cannot be tampered with, reasserts Election Commission
New Delhi, Aug 3 : Amid charges of manipulation of electronic voting machines(EVMs), the Election Commission has reasserted that EVMs are fully tamper proof and even invited 'doubting parties' all over the country to its headquarters this week for a demonstration of the machines so as to put the controversy at rest 'once and for all'.
www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-85330.html
Namibia. Electronic Voting Will Take Time - MPs
http://allafrica.com/stories/200908030042.html
Philippines. Election 2010: Public Counting & Code Review
Aug 4 Pablo Manalastas. Since COMELEC is a sublicensee of Smartmatic, which in turn is a licensee of Dominion, with only a binary license, COMELEC could not fulfill this sacred duty of source code review in an environment in which "political parties may conduct their own review , because there is no source code to review.
Is Smartmatic liable under Philippine laws for its misrepresentations of facts? Is COMELEC, under advice from the CAC, fooling the People?
http://filipinovoices.com/election-2010-public-counting-code-review
Philippines. Fingerprint scan to support security of automated polls
Comelec evaluating lowest bidder
A FINGERPRINT scanning system would be set up alongside next year s automated elections to block unauthorized voting, with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) currently evaluating the lowest calculated bid for the project.
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW080409/content.php?id=071&src=2
Russia. Voting by Phone Possible in Elections
03 August 2009 Voters may be able to cast their ballots by cell phone as early as March 2010, Vladimir Churov, the country s top elections official, said at the Seliger youth camp on Sunday. ...Gennady Raikov, the Central Elections Commission s official overseeing electronic voting, told Interfax that a law would be passed by the end of the year to allow electronic voting. He said the technical aspects of the system were already developed.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/380092.htm
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