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  • Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source

    J. Alex Halderman Freedom to Tinker Aug 22 2010


    About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India's electronic voting machines. Indian election authorities have repeatedly claimed that the machines are "tamperproof," but we demonstrated important vulnerabilities by studying a machine provided by an anonymous source.

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  • Group Calls on Sharpton for Voting Flap

    Les Smith Fox News Memphis Aug 18 2010


    Just hours before the official certification of the August Primary and County Election results, Memphis may be receiving a visit from political activist Al Sharpton. Sharpton may bring national exposure to what his organization believes was the reason thousands of people might have been illegally turned away at the polls on August 5th.

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  • Online Voting: All That Glitters is Not Gold (Unless You're a Vendor)

    Dan McCrea Huffington Post Jul 20 2010


    Voting over the internet seems like a cool idea whose time has come. But, it depends on who's doing the talking.

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  • The Supreme Court and Corporate Free Speech

    Adam Cohen Time Magazine Jul 7 2010


    When the Supreme Court ended its term last week, its ruling extending gun rights was the big news. But the real headline of the term was the court's decision earlier this year giving corporations and unions sweeping new rights to spend money to elect candidates to office. It is not an overstatement to say that the 5 to 4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which was handed down in January, could permanently change American democracy.

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  • DOJ Urged to Preserve S.C. Election Records

    Rebecca Abrahams Huffington Post Jun 22 2010

    South Carolina's primary election for Republican governor heads to a runoff today amid calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the ES&S iVotronic voting machines used in the June 8, 2010 Democratic primary election for U.S. Senate were faulty or corrupt.
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  • Voting Integrity Groups Call for Investigation of South Carolina Voting Systems

    Jun 16 2010

    In light of questions raised around results of the South Carolina Democratic Party primary race for US Senate, Common Cause and Voter Action request the South Carolina State Elections Commission take immediate steps to launch an investigation of the state's voting systems, as well as preserve voting data for a thorough investigation.

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  • S.C. Democrats To Deliberate Mystery Nominee's Fate

    Peter Overby National Public Radio Jun 16 2010

    Democrats in South Carolina are still wondering just what happened last week when they picked their nominee for U.S. Senate.

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  • US scientists 'hack' India electronic voting machines

    Julian Siddle May 18 2010

    Scientists at a US university say they have developed a technique to hack into Indian electronic voting machines.

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  • Dominion Voting Systems, Inc. Acquires Premier Election Solutions Assets From ES&S

    May 19 2010

    Transaction Approved by the U. S. Department of Justice, Will Significantly Increase Competition in the United States Voting Systems Industry

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  • 3 million overseas and military voters will be able to cast ballots on Internet this fall

    Ian Urbina New York Times May 9 2010

    Nearly 3 million overseas and military voters from at least 33 states will be permitted to cast ballots over the Internet in November using e-mail or fax, in part because of new regulations proposed last month by the federal agency that oversees voting.

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