http://bit.ly/bhkGdh
WV: Few service members use online voting
http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/201005120065
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Just 17 U.S. military service members took advantage of a new program in Kanawha County that allows military personnel serving overseas to cast ballots online in local elections.
WV: Online Voting Becomes Reality In West Virginia (video shows i-voting process)
http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=79658
Estonian diplomat: E-voting can be tricky
http://www.euractiv.com/en/elections/e-voting-can-be-tricky-estonian-diplomat-warns-interview-494113...One party tried to organise a kind of collective voting, where they put up voting tents with computers. The idea was that people who were voting for the first time would be assisted by the party personnel. You can imagine what the advice could be.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/11/173242/120
Online bank thefts more than doubled in 2009
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/05/11/online-bank-thefts-more-than-doubled-in-2009
International
IN: Should India ban electronic voting machines?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Should-India-ban-electronic-voting-machines/136144/0/
Philippines: Damaged cards delay tally: Updating of results suspended
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/05/12/4782711.htm
May 12, 2010 -- Canvassing of election returns (ERs) from some 76,347 clustered precincts cannot proceed after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday found out that there were some damaged compact flash cards in still unidentified areas.
Philippines: Too soon to call 2010 elections successful
http://blogs.gmanews.tv/robert-verzola/index.php?/archives/4-Too-soon-to-call-2010-elections-successful.html
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of local races also await to be settled.
Already news is coming in about delayed Election Returns (ERs), malfunctioning, missing or otherwise questionable memory cards, and other indicators of potential or emerging problems.
UK: Action Point 1: Sack the Chairwoman of the Electoral Commission
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/05/action-point-1-sack-chairwoman-of.html
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission has written and uttered many weasel words over the last few days, trying to excuse herself from any blame at all.
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And I would then look at postal voting and do whatever needs to be done to ensure that the terrible things that have happend in the past two elections can never be repeated.
UK: Electoral Commission called in over Bristol electoral polling mishaps
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Electoral-Commission-called-city-polling-mishaps/article-2145730-detail/article.html
UK: Council's conduct of elections "an embarrassment", say Hackney MPs
http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2010/05/11/councils-conduct-of-elections-an-embarrassment-say-hackney-mps/
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