E-Voting Allgemein
19. Februar 2009
Stimmen nachträglich editiert und Wahlzettel während der Wahl verändert
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1234507356955
13. Dezember 2008
Wahlcomputer lassen Stimmen verschwinden
Wahlmaschinen des Herstellers Premier Election Solutions (eine Tochter des Konzerns Diebold) unterschlugen nachweislich Stimmen bei der Auszählung. Nachdem der betroffene US-Bundesstaat Ohio eine Klage gegen den Hersteller einreichte, gab ein Sprecher der Firma den Software-Fehler zu; er war bereits seit zehn Jahren im System. Systeme der Firma Diebold werden in 34 Bundesstaaten der USA eingesetzt.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/12/12/ddn121208votingweb.html
13. November 2008
I vote for the old-fashioned way of balloting in elections
One of the dafter ideas to become conventional wisdom during the first dotcom bubble was that our political system suffered some flaw that would be curable by letting people vote from their desktops or mobiles. Amazingly, this still seems to be official policy. Michael Wills, the minister charged with constitutional reform, conceded to Parliament last month that no new pilots of e-voting are planned. However, further work on e-voting "will be funded as necessary". He said the government is still "taking stock" of previous local pilots.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/balloting-election
30. Oktober 2008
Paper Ballot Has Marylands, Virginias Vote
It was just a few years ago that electronic voting machines were heralded as a computerized panacea to the hanging chad, a state-of-the-art system immune to the kinds of hijinks and confusion that some say make paper ballots vulnerable. But now, after concern that the electronic voting machines could crash or be hacked, the two states are swinging away from the systems, saying paper ballots filled out by hand are more reliable, especially in a recount.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102904105.html
29. Oktober 2008
Wahlmaschinenfiasko in Finnland
Bei den Kommunalwahlen in Finnland, die am Sonntag stattfanden, wurde in drei Gemeinden ein elektronisches Stimmabgabesystem getestet. Wie das finnische Justizministerium berichtete, kam es dabei zu erheblichen "Usability-Problemen".
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Wahlmaschinenfiasko-in-Finnland--/meldung/118109
http://www.effi.org/blog/2008-10-28-finnish-evoting-votes-lost.html
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F31%2F2327246&from=rss
28. Oktober 2008
Finnish e-voting fiasco: votes lost
Today, the Ministry of Justice revealed that due to a usability issue, voting was prematurely aborted for 232 voters. The pilot system was in use in three municipalities; this amounts to about 2 per cent of the electoral roll. Seats in the municipal assemblies are often determined by margins of only a couple of votes.
http://www.effi.org/blog/2008-10-28-finnish-evoting-votes-lost.html
18. Oktober 2008
More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.
This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain".
http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180251?page=1&build=cache
17. Oktober 2008
Report on the Sequioa AVC Advantage
The fraudulent firmware can steal votes during an election, just as its criminal designer programs it to do. The fraud cannot practically be detected. There is no paper audit trail on this machine; all electronic records of the votes are under control of the firmware, which can manipulate them all simultaneously.
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/report-sequioa-avc-advantage
7. Oktober 2008
Analyse: Wahlcomputer wirken sich offenbar ungünstig auf Wahlbeteiligung aus
Bei den Kommunalwahlen am 28. September in Brandenburg sind in Gemeinden, in denen Wahlcomputer eingesetzt wurden, meist weniger Bürger zur Wahl gegangen als in den übrigen Städten und Gemeinden. "Wie schon bei den Landtagswahlen in Hessen hat sich der Einsatz von Wahlcomputern ungünstig auf die Wahlbeteiligung ausgewirkt", meint der Frankfurter Physiker und Software-Spezialist Ulrich Wiesner in einer Analyse der Ergebnisse.
30. September 2008
E-Voting in Brandenburg: Überforderte Wähler und Wahlvorstände
"Die Wahlvorstände waren in der Regel mit der Situation komplett überfordert", zieht der CCC ein erstes Fazit, und vielerorts haben man eine "Vertrauensseligkeit in die Technik" beobachten müssen. In zwei Stimmbezirken sei die Stimmabgabe "nach einigem hektischen Gebastel und einem kompletten Neustart der gesamten Prozedur" erst etwa dreißig Minuten nach Öffnung des Wahllokals möglich gewesen.
9. September 2008
Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines
"The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released the video that shows the attacks carried out against the Sequoia voting system. The video shows an attack where a virus-like software spreads across the voting system. The coolest part of the video is the one that shows how the 'brainwashed' voting terminals can use different techniques to change the votes even when a paper audit trail is used.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/09/1426246
7. August 2008
Missing votes spark lawsuite
The touch-screen voting setup used in half of Ohio's 88 counties doesn't work properly, and the former Diebold Election Systems should pay as a result, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said in a court filing yesterday.
1. August 2008
Effi's e-voting 'shadow report' in English (Finnland)
In addition, the audit of the system found that it may be possible to find out how an individual has voted, if an attacker would get access to the electronic ballot box and certain encryption keys, both of which are planned to be archived for several years.
Electronic Frontier Finland's shadow report compares the Finnish e-voting system with the Council of Europe recommendations for e-voting, and argues that the fully electronic voting system, which will be used in the Finnish e-voting pilot, does not meet these recommendations.
http://www.effi.org/blog/2008-09-01-evoting-report-in-english.html
9. Juli 2008
French latest to realize the perils of e-voting
A study conducted by a researcher in France has uncovered that polling locations which use electronic voting machines exhibit a higher number of discrepancies than those using conventional paper ballots. Unsurprising to those who have followed the problems plaguing e-voting since its introduction, the revelation has fueled renewed calls for greater scrutiny of electronic voting technology in France.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080709-french-latest-to-realize-the-perils-of-e-voting.html
2. Juli 2008
London mayoral election: doubts over 41,000 votes counted by machine
The results of the London mayoral elections have been called into question after independent observers cast doubt on the hi-tech process used to count ballot papers.
A report today from the Open Rights Group (ORG), which closely monitors the use of electronic voting systems, claims that problems with the technology could have resulted in as many as 41,000 ballots going unaccounted for in the May elections.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/02/london.mayor
19. Mai 2008
Niederlande verzichten auf Wahlcomputer
Der niederländische Ministerrat hat beschlossen, Wahlen in dem Land künftig nur mit Papier und Bleistift abhalten zu lassen, solange es keine geeignete Alternative gebe. In einer Mitteilung heißt es, der Ministerrat folge damit einem Vorschlag des Innenministeriums. Er zieht die Konsequenz aus einem Bericht zu Wahlcomputern, den eine unabhängige Untersuchungskommission im vergangenen Herbst vorgelegt hatte.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Niederlande-verzichten-auf-Wahlcomputer--/meldung/108050
23. April 2008
NJ Voting Machine Tape Shows Phantom Obama Vote
I've written before (1, 2, 3) about discrepancies in the election results from New Jersey's February 5 presidential primary. Yesterday we received yet another set of voting machine result tapes. They show a new kind of discrepancy which we haven't seen before – and which contradicts the story told by Sequoia (the vendor) and the NJ Secretary of State about what went wrong in the election.
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/nj-voting-machine-tape-shows-phantom-obama-vote
19. März 2008
Evidence of New Jersey Election Discrepancies
This doesn't add up. The machine says the Republican ballot was activated 60 times; but it shows a total of 61 votes cast for Republican candidates. It says the Democratic ballot was activated 362 times; but it shows a total of 361 votes for Democratic candidates. (New Jersey has a closed primary, so voters can cast ballots only in their own registered party.)
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/evidence-new-jersey-election-discrepancies
7. Februar 2008
Kritiker sieht Zusammenhang zwischen Wahlcomputereinsatz und Wahlbeteiligung
Bei den Landtagswahlen in Hessen am 27. Januar sind Wähler in Gemeinden, die Wahlcomputer eingesetzt haben, seltener zur Wahl gegangen als in den übrigen Städten und Gemeinden.
15. Dezember 2007
Report: Ohio voting machines have 'critical flaws,' could undermine ’08 election
One of the most important swing states in America still can’t safeguard the vote. So says a new report, commissioned by Ohio’s top elections official, that found all five voting systems used in the Buckeye State to have “critical flaws” that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Ohio_voting_machines_have_critical_1215.html
09. November 2007
Praktische Angreifbarkeit des Hamburger Wahlstift-Systems
Der Chaos Computer Club zeigt in einem Video, dass elektronische Wahlstift-Systeme in Praxis angreifbar sind. Solche Systeme wurden bei Wahlen in Hamburg ausprobiert. Das zuständige Ministerium zeigte sich von dieser Vorführung wenig beeindruckt, dieses System entspricht den Anforderungen eine demokratische Wahl voll.
http://www.ccc.de/press/releases/2007/20071109/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAiQxW4Ny4
2. August 2007
Halt e-voting, says election body
Web and phone voting pilots should be stopped until security and testing have been improved, the Electoral Commission has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6926625.stm
28. Juli 2007
California Report Slams E-Voting System Security
Researchers commissioned by the State of California have found security issues in every electronic voting system they tested, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Friday.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/135199/california_report_slams_evoting_system_security.html
22. Juli 2007
E-vote 'threat' to UK democracy
British democracy could be undermined by moves to use electronic voting in elections, warns a report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6229640.stm
3. November 2006
California eVoting: Push Here to Vote (Again)
A little yellow button on the back of Sequoia voting machines provides a manual override that lets a single person vote multiple times.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3641671
30. Oktober 2006
Dutch government scraps plans to use voting computers in 35 cities including Amsterdam
The government on Monday banned the use of one common type of computer voting machine, fearing that secret ballots may not be kept secret. It ordered a review of all electronic machines after the Nov. 22 election.
Government Renewal Minister Atzo Nicolai said the move was necessary after an investigation found the machines made by Sdu NV emitted radio signals that a technology-savvy spy could use to peek at a voters' choices from a distance of up to several dozen meters (yards).
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/30/europe/EU_GEN_Netherlands_Voting_Machines.php
5. Oktober 2006
Niederländische Bürgerinitiative knackt Nedap-Wahlcomputer
Der niederländischen Bürgerinitiative "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" (Wir vertrauen Wahlcomputern nicht) ist es kurz vor den bevorstehenden Parlamentswahlen am 22. November offenbar gelungen, einen Wahlcomputer des Typs Nedap ES3B so zu manipulieren, dass dieser bei der Auszählung der Stimmen das Wahlergebnis verfälscht.
18. September 2006
Diebold voting machines opened with hotel minibar key
The key that controls access to a standard Diebold voting machine is a common key that can be ordered from the Internet, also used to open hotel minibars.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/18/diebold-voting-machi.html
5. September 2006
In Search of Accurate Vote Totals
The county recently adopted Diebold electronic voting machines that produce a voter-verified paper record of every vote cast. The investigators compared the vote totals recorded on the machines after this year’s primary with the paper records produced by the machines. The numbers should have been the same, but often there were large and unexplained discrepancies. The report also found that nearly 10 percent of the paper records were destroyed, blank, illegible, or otherwise compromised.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05tue1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
31. Juli 2006
Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine
"The folks at Open Voting Foundation got their hands on a Diebold AccuVote TS touchscreen voting machine. They took it apart (pictures here), and found the most serious security flaw ever discovered in this machine. A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the built-in, verified EEPROM."
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1646246&from=rss
11. Mai 2006
Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines
The hole is considered more worrisome than most security problems discovered on modern voting machines, such as weak encryption, easily pickable locks and use of the same, weak password nationwide.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/election_machin_1.html
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3. Dezember 2008
Nachbetrachtung E-Voting-Enquete
„Ein bereits eingesetztes E-Voting-System des BRZ wird in Zusammenarbeit mit Scytl eingesetzt werden, wie bereits berichtet. Der Auftrag kam vom Wissenschaftsministerium, das von INSO, e-voting.cc und dem Institut für Verwaltungsmanagement unterstützt wird, interessanterweise ohne erneute Ausschreibung, da das BRZ auch ohne den Weg über das Bundesvergabeamt beauftragt werden kann (siehe auch BGBl. Nr. 757/1996, zuletzt geändert durch BGBl. I Nr. 79/1998, § 2 Abs 6).“
papierwahl.at/2008/12/03/nachbetrachtung-e-voting-enquete/
3. Dezember 2008 - futurezone.orf.at
Bundesrechenzentrum wickelt E-Voting ab
„Das Wissenschaftsministerium hat das Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ) mit Anpassung und Betrieb der vom spanischen Anbieter Scytl zugekauften Wahlsoftware sowie der Sicherheitsüberprüfung während der Abstimmungen betraut.“
„Wir wollten rechtliche Auseinandersetzungen und die damit verbundenen Verzögerungen vermeiden", so ein Sprecher des Wissenschaftsministeriums zu ORF.at. Nun habe man zum Instrument der In-House-Vergabe gegriffen. "Das Bundesrechenzentrum ist unser Leading Partner", so der Sprecher.“
„Nach Auskunft des Bundesrechenzentrums gegenüber ORF.at stammt die eingesetzte Software vom spanischen E-Voting-Anbieter Scytl. Auch ein Konsortium unter Teilnahme von Siemens hatte sich um den wichtigen Auftrag bemüht. "Wir haben uns für Scytl entschieden, weil die Firma auf dem Weltmarkt führend in Sachen E-Voting ist", so der Sprecher des Wissenschaftsministeriums.“