Voting News: India's Electronic Voting Controversy
Voting News: India's Electronic Voting Controversy. Suit seeks to void Shelby TN election
India's Electronic Voting Controversy. Suit
seeks to void Shelby TN election
Posted: 26 Aug
2010 04:29 PM PDT
Democrats ask court to void Shelby
County Tennessee's August election. Vote-total discrepancies
not mere error, suit alleges...On Australia's national
cliffhanger: "It's not a good sign when the best way out may
be a fresh election."...Verified Voting "On India’s
Electronic Voting Controversy". India's officials should
address the voting machine vulnerabilities rather than
punish experts who reveal them..
All this and more in today's voting news below...
CO: Aspen changes
course on election reform
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/142161
But on a 3-2 vote, the council decided to drop the
winner-take-all method, making the question on November’s
ballot an up-or-down referendum that will either retain IRV
or go back to the 45/50 percent method, in which a runoff is
held one month ...
CT: Candidate files complaint in
close election recanvass. Update: Another candidate
complaint
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/candidate-files-complaint-in-close-election-recanvass/
Via CTNewsJunkie, Ken Green has filed a complaint in the
Hartford election, where election night results had him
winning by two votes and a close vote racanvass has him
losing by two votes. His complaint alleges several
questionable machine counts . irregularities, and potential
chain of custody issues.
DC: Washington, D.C. On-Line News Source “Greater Greater Washington” Advocates IRV http://www.ballot-access.org/2010/08/26/washington-d-c-on-line-news-source-greater-greater-washington-advocates-irv/
FL: Volusia judicial race headed for recount
(machine count?)
County Council District 3 race may also
be recounted
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-volusia-judicial-election-recount-20100825,0,3809197.story
NV: Election official: Every vote counted (Mohave
County)
http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2010/08/25/news/local/doc4c74b80359519079538495.txt
..It’s not that they’re not counting correctly but,
every once in a while, a roller gets stuck and it’s not
taking a ballot. Sometimes it’s as easy as turning it off
and turning it back on,” Tempert said.
NY: Counties
gear up for first statewide use of new voting
machines
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20100822/NEWS01/8220328/Counties
+gear+up+for+first+statewide+use+of+new+voting+machines
http://tinyurl.com/36ys49j
Bo
Lipari of New Yorkers for Verified Voting says the message
notifying people they have over-voted is cryptic and doesn't
explain the consequences of keeping the ballot --
essentially that no vote will be counted for that
office.
OH: Sheriff’s office: Hacking fears unfounded
on Election Night (Butler Co)
http://www.journal-news.com/news/hamilton-news/sheriffs-office-hacking-fears-unfounded-on-election-night-880261.html?cxtype=rss_local-news
The sheriff’s office announced Wednesday, Aug. 25,
that its investigation is complete into the May 4 special
election in which elections servers were unable to deliver
tabulated results to the website due to a large volume of IP
addresses interrupting the system.
TN: Democrats ask
court to void Shelby County August
election*
Vote-total discrepancies not mere error,
suit alleges
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/aug/26/democrats-ask-court-to-void-august-election/
They are asking a Chancery Court judge to declare the
election void, to seize all equipment for further review, to
make sure that winning candidates are not sworn in and to
allow current elected officials to continue in their
posts.
...
"Thus according to (the Election
Commission's) own records, 6,802 more votes were cast than
individuals who participated in the August 2010
election,"
International
Australia: This
tiptoe along the precipice has an awful lot of
downsides
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/this-tiptoe-along-the-precipice-has-an-awful-lot-of-downsides-20100826-13u4n.html?rand=1282820514720
It's not a good sign when the best way out may be a
fresh election.
India:
On India’s
Electronic Voting Controversy
http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6772
How this controversy plays out is conjecture, but the
essential story – the early, almost under-the-radar
concerns about electronic voting, followed by expert public
demonstration of the ultimate dangers of e-voting, followed
by more widespread outcry – should be familiar to American
ears.
India: Court rejects Hari Prasad's bail in EVM
case (tv newscast)
http://newstoday.smashits.com/video/rq6cxIM1nw8/court-rejects-hari-prasad-s-bail-in-evm-case.html
Hari Prasad, the man who proved Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) can be rigged, was sent to two-day police
custody on Thursday. Hari Prasad, had applied for bail on
medical grounds following his arrest earlier this week. But
his bail was rejected.
India: Democracy
imperilled
http://www.dailypioneer.com/278669/Democracy-imperilled.html
The arrest of Hari Prasad, a technologist whose research
helped prove beyond doubt that Indian EVMs are vulnerable to
fraud, sends out a dangerous signal: That anybody who
challenges the Central Election Commission runs the danger
of persecution and prosecution in our democracy
...
Mr
Prasad’s arrest also shows how many of our fundamental
freedoms are slowly being taken away without our knowledge.
Equally, it’s ironical that the state is virtually
powerless against a dangerous man like Abdul Nasser Madani
but swoops down on an individual who asked uncomfortable
questions concerning national interest.
India: Hari
Prasad’s arrest smacks of vendetta by the ECI, VeTA
demands immediate acquittal http://www.indianevm.com/blogs/?p=422
Peeved by the EVM researchers’ research findings that
“India’s EVMs are vulnerable to fraud”, Election
Commission hit back at the critics with the vengeance
unknown to the scientific community around the world. Arrest
of Hari Prasad Technical Coordinator of VeTA on charges of
theft, house trespass or house breaking etc. under sections
380, 454 and 457 smacks of intolerance and
vendetta.
...
Why do we say this is a case of
vendetta? Because this is not the first time that an EVM has
gone missing from the ECI (several dozen EVMs were stolen in
the past according to ECI’s own response) but never in the
past such drastic action was taken.
India: Citizens,
speak up! UPA govt is framing a national whistle-blower
act
http://rtigroupaligarh.blogspot.com/2010/08/citizens-speak-up-upa-govt-is-framing.html
India: EC defends arrest of engineer who exposed EVM
flaws
http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/4558/
Or is it witchhunt?
Instead of arresting, the EC
ought to have heard the matter and examined it, said BJP
spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad.
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