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Voting News: TN Election fiasco. Internet voting? 'Pleash just help me inshert..key in the lock'

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TN: Commission requests 'independent' review of Aug. 5 Shelby election*
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/aug/09/commission-requests-independent-review-aug-5-shelb/ The Shelby County Election Commission on Monday asked Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons to "refer an independent agency to review the Aug. 5 election."

And Shelby County Democratic Party chairman Van Turner said attorneys for the commission have reached an agreement to allow plaintiffs in a lawsuit to inspect voting equipment prior to final certification of the elections.
...
The commission said the problem occurred because a database of early voters for the May primaries was incorrectly loaded into electronic polling books, rather than the database of early voters from the Aug. 5 election. Therefore, some voters were told the computers showed that they had already voted.

TN: Voting glitch affects as many as 5,000(Shelby)
May election information entered into electronic polling books instead of July
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/aug/05/shelby-county-election-commission-says-early-votin/

TN: Maury County officials don't know what caused vote tally problem, say count is accurate*http://www.whnt.com/news/sns-ap-tn--votingproblem,0,5359127.story
The Daily Herald reports that shortly after the polls closed a precinct update caused the vote totals for several county and state candidates to drop. The problem was first spotted by a Daily Herald reporte

TN: Crossover voting law muddies primary waters
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100805/NEWS0201/8050337/Crossover-voting-law-muddies-primary-waters Tennessee's party primaries are open to all comers, creating openings for opposition-party maneuvering that could skew results and scramble the state's political landscape.

TX: Vote Centers: Expert's report and public hearing today
click here
vote_centers_expert_s_report_and_public_http://tinyurl.com/37jyuak
At the Commissioners court meeting today, the court will hear Dr. Robert Stein of Rice University present his report on the use of Vote Center in the November, 2009 election.
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Collin County's use of a much larger number of 'super precincts' could help mitigate much of the issues that would wreak havoc (and have done so) in a more traditional Vote Center... that is IF the voters can find a parking place, and IF the VoteSafe software performs as promised.

TX: SOS: County Elections showed no sign of irregularities
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/08/07/conroe_courier/news/blackbox080810.txt
A claim that Montgomery County election officials run "an illegally sloppy operation" was not substantiated by a review conducted by the Texas Secretary of State's Office

UT: Postage-stamp politics: GOP looking for a lead
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50061359-76/mail-vote-county-wright.html.csp
Salt Lake County Republican Party Chairman Thomas Wright smiles, skims several vote-by-mail applications from the top to show the signatures and says he'll be back in a week with several thousand more just like them.

VA: Roanoke seeks 'bailout' from Voting Rights Act
www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/256275
The Roanoke Electoral Board wants to move some of its precincts, but the Voting Rights Act makes that costly.
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Brenda Hale, president of the NAACP's Roanoke branch, said she sees both pros and cons of the proposal but wants to make sure the public gets a chance to weigh in.

Internet Vote Watch

Canada: BETTER BALLOTS Wednesday August 11 à ‚¬ Metro Hall
http://councilofcanadianstoronto.blogspot.com/2010/08/weekly-updates-august-8-2010.html
...We'll be directing people to existing campaigns such as VoteToronto, Fair Vote and iVote Toronto where they already exist, and we'll be creating new groups for options like term limits, lower voting age, online voting, ranked ballots (instant runoff), weekend voting, etc. where they don't already exist.

Wikileaks Fiasco Exposes Gaping Holes in Cyber Domain
http://defensetech.org/2010/08/09/wikileaks-fiasco-exposes-gaping-holes-in-cyber-domain/

Is the Wikileaks fiasco the first defeat for the United States in the cyber warfare domain? Exploring this question shows just how little we have planned for, created doctrine for, and are ready, able and willing to respond to threats to the United States in the cyber domain.

US National Institute of Standards and Technology's workshop in Washington DC on however overseas citizens should vote.

Prof. Ron Rivest(MIT):
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/UOCAVA/2010/Presentations/RIVEST_2010-08-05-uocava.pdf
Remote voting is trade-off between franchise and risk
The risks of "internet voting" more than negate any possible benefits from an increase in franchise

FVAP Views on Solutions & Challenges
NIST-EAC-FVAP Workshop on UOCAVA Voting Systems August 6th, 2010
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/UOCAVA/2010/Presentations/CAREY_FVAP_Presentation_to_NIST-EAC-FVAP.pdf

"Recommendations for future electronic voting projects include:
working up to a large scale system starting with a small number of states or limiting
capabilities;

MD: New System Lets Md. Absentee Voters Print Out Their Ballots, Even Overseashttp://baltimore.citybizlist.com/YourCityBizNews/detail.aspx?id=88552
[blank ballots only at this time]

UK: Cyberwar and other global risks
http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/2010/07/cyberwar-and-other-global-risks.html
The Defence Secretary has told Parliament he will need to switch resources from conventional military tasks to tackling cyber threat
[presentation on cyber crime, cyber war, cyber fraud by Dr. Ian Brown of Cambridge U]

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