TN: Devaney Sees Democratic Plot in Election Protests
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2010/08/devaney-sees-democratic-plot-i.html
State Republican Chairman Chris Devaney suspects Democrats are protesting "a handful of errors" in the Aug. 5 elections to set the stage for challenges to the losses they anticipate in November, reports Chas Sisk.
UT: State to promote online voter registration in September
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700058947/State-to-promote-online-voter-registration-in-September.html
WA: Software glitch blamed for delay in primary results in Whatcom County, across state*http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/18/v-lite/1306365/software-glitch-blamed-for-delay.html
State elections officials say a programming error accidentally sent most of the Web traffic to just one of the state's six servers at the digital archives in Cheney. While the other five sat essentially idle, the overload slowed and then overwhelmed the single server.
WA: Top 2 system produces some all-in-the-family races
http://blogs.sos.wa.gov/FromOurCorner/index.php/2010/08/top-2-system-produces-some-all-in-the-family-races/
National
Pac-Man Hacked Onto a Touch-Screen Voting Machine Without Breaking 'Tamper-Evident' Sealshttp://www.bradblog.com/?p=7998
International
2010 Australian Election Results a Bush vs. Gore Repeat
http://thenewsoftoday.com/2010-australian-election-results-a-bush-vs-gore-repeat/1240/
In what is clearly the closest election for Prime Minister in Australia in over 70, the results could take weeks to decipher.
AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE A SECRET BALLOT SYSTEM(interesting paper in pdf)
http://www.hschapman.org/pdfs/Styles%20of%20Voting/postal%20voting%203.pdf
So long as we are disposed to consider ourselves a great democracy, we should ensure that our secret ballot is in every respect a secret ballot; and not yield that secrecy to an ever increasing number of postal and declaration votes that cannot by any stretch of imagination be considered to be secret. ~ Dr. Amy McGrath, President H.S.Chapman Society
India: Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source *
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/electronic-voting-researcher-arrested-over-anonymous-source By J. Alex Halderman - Posted on August 22nd, 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.
The story took a disturbing turn a little over 24 hours ago, when my coauthor Hari Prasad was arrested by Indian authorities demanding to know the identity of that source.
India: Governments Hide Information; People Take Risks for Democracy
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/governments-cover-up-people-continue-to-take-risks-and-pay-for-democracy/
India: Indian e-voting expert Hari Prasad arrested for exposing flaws in a "stolen" voting machine*http://www.indianevm.com/blogs/?p=402
Today, at wee hours Maharashtra police landed up at the residence of Hari Prasad in Hyderabad, a technologist and Technical coordinator of VeTA to arrest him. The arrest was made on the flimsy charge of "theft of EVM' used for vulnerability demonstration by Hari Prasad and a team of security researchers that included Alex Halderman, professor of computer science, University of Michigan and Rop Gonggrijp, a security researcher from Netherlands along with a team of their colleagues
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Over the past one year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been lying blatantly and willfully to ensure continued use of EVMs at all costs. It attributed all kinds of qualities to its EVMs: "totally tamper proof, perfect, fail safe and requiring no improvement" etc. etc. When Hari Prasad agreed to meet the ECI's challenge to demonstrate tamperability of EVMs, the ECI backed out imposing silly, unscientific restrictions.
India: Naidu wants consensus on EVM ban
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/hyderabad/naidu-wants-consensus-evm-ban-385
The Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, asked the Election Commission (EC) to convene an all-party meeting on banning the use of Electronic Voting Machines after doubts were raised by political parties.
Mr Naidu preferred use of traditional ballot papers in the elections. He also criticised the EC for the arrest of Mr Hariprasad, who had showed, on a stolen EVM, how the device can be manipulated
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