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More than 61% of the nation’s voters this fall will use electronically enhanced voting systems aimed at avoiding a repeat of the disputed 2000 election, but the changes won’t be enough if the tally is close, according to a new study. The study released Thursday by the political consulting company, Election Data Services, said 50…

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry Ice Cream, is launching a grass-roots campaign to require paper receipts for all electronic voting machines. The campaign, run by Cohen’s Web-based group TrueMajority, kicks off Tuesday in Washington. About 400,000 people have already joined the group, though. Cohen and computer security expert Dan Wallach hope to convince…

At the next European Parliament elections in June, Ireland’s voters might find themselves registering their choice with the push of a button rather than a stroke of a pen — a change which has traditionalists fuming. Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen, whose remit also takes in elections, has insisted that the so-called “e-voting system”,…

It has recently come to light that despite the assurances given by Minister Cullen T.D. – “The equipment and software for the voting machines has been tested by two international institutes for compliance with internationally accepted standards” – the reports themselves are of questionable relevance. Having previously cited 6 such reports, the clarification that there…

SEATTLE – Researchers argued the pros and cons of electronic voting this weekend with the fervor of candidates on the campaign trail — but agreed on at least one point: This year’s presidential balloting has the potential to suffer more glitches than the infamous 2000 election