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E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-10-03

A federally funded group of voting system experts called on the United States' Election Assistance Commission, which oversees the nation's state-run elections, to revamp its recommended process for evaluating the security of electronic voting devices.

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E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines 2005-10-05
Jody Holder
While I applaud the reporting on the comments issued by ACCURATE, I must take issue with the single link regarding the report of very few problems that occurred in the November, 2004 election. Notice that the date of the linked-to article was immediately after the election. Too soon to accurately gauge the number of reports of failures, irregularities, lost votes, and anamolies. In fact there were widespread problems throughout the country that emerged in the weeks after the election.

A compendium of the news reports can be found at both verifiedvoting.org and votersunite.org.

Both Maryland and Georgia had many more problems than originally admitted to by their election officials. That fact became known because local activists filed public record requests or freedom of information requests.

Some examples of the problems can be found at TrueVoteMD.org and blackboxvoting.org, among many other websites.

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