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ANNE BROACHE, CNET NEWS - Democratic senators on Wednesday made another
push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but
they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential
election. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a
contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such
changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called
voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only
six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year,
she called for enacting such changes by 2008.
"Pushing the date back to the 2010 elections will give us more time to
reach a bipartisan consensus with voting reform advocates and local and
state officials to enact a new law that provides for increased accuracy
and accountability at the polls without raising the specter of creating
major new errors," she said at the start of a hearing here in the Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration, which she leads.
After listening to a rash of concerns about the bill's approach at
Wednesday's hearing, Feinstein said it may be necessary to move any
proposed deadline for a paper trail mandate "out a little farther.". . .
http://news.com.com/Senators%20to%20abandon%2008%20e-
voting%20paper%20trail%20mandate/2100-1014_3-6198789.html?tag=st_lh
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FLORIDA BALLOTS STILL EASILY HACKABLE
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida's optical scan voting
machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could
allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a
government-ordered study obtained by The Associated Press. At the
request of Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Florida State University
information technology laboratory went over a list of previously
discovered flaws to see whether the machines were still vulnerable to
attack. . .
The lab found, for example, that someone with only brief access to a
machine could replace a memory card with one pre-programed to read one
candidate's votes as counting for another, essentially switching the
candidates and showing the loser winning in that precinct. "The attack
can be carried out with a reasonably low probability of detection
assuming that audits with paper ballots are infrequent," the report
said.
Browning asked Diebold Elections Systems to address the problems by Aug.
17, and expressed confidence that the company will do so before next
year's primary election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_re_us/voting_machine_woes
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ANNE BROACHE, CNET NEWS - Democratic senators on Wednesday made another
push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but
they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential
election. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a
contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such
changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called
voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only
six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year,
she called for enacting such changes by 2008.
"Pushing the date back to the 2010 elections will give us more time to
reach a bipartisan consensus with voting reform advocates and local and
state officials to enact a new law that provides for increased accuracy
and accountability at the polls without raising the specter of creating
major new errors," she said at the start of a hearing here in the Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration, which she leads.
After listening to a rash of concerns about the bill's approach at
Wednesday's hearing, Feinstein said it may be necessary to move any
proposed deadline for a paper trail mandate "out a little farther.". . .
http://news.com.com/Senators%20to%20abandon%2008%20e-
voting%20paper%20trail%20mandate/2100-1014_3-6198789.html?tag=st_lh
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FLORIDA BALLOTS STILL EASILY HACKABLE
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida's optical scan voting
machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could
allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a
government-ordered study obtained by The Associated Press. At the
request of Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Florida State University
information technology laboratory went over a list of previously
discovered flaws to see whether the machines were still vulnerable to
attack. . .
The lab found, for example, that someone with only brief access to a
machine could replace a memory card with one pre-programed to read one
candidate's votes as counting for another, essentially switching the
candidates and showing the loser winning in that precinct. "The attack
can be carried out with a reasonably low probability of detection
assuming that audits with paper ballots are infrequent," the report
said.
Browning asked Diebold Elections Systems to address the problems by Aug.
17, and expressed confidence that the company will do so before next
year's primary election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_re_us/voting_machine_woes
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