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NIST: Internet voting not yet feasible
"Malware on voters' personal computers poses a serious threat that could compromise the secrecy or integrity of voters' ballots," said Belinda Collins, NIST senior advisor for voting standards.
Small coding mistake led to big Internet voting system failure
The main security weakness that let University of Michigan researchers take control over a planned city of Washington, D.C. Internet voting system pilot for overseas voters in 2010 was "a tiny...
British Columbia may launch Internet voting pilots
The Canadian province of British Columbia may be inching closer to instituting Internet voting following a Nov. 21 recommendation by Elections B.C., the governmental organization responsible for
Internet voting pilot could launch in Canada after 2013
The organization responsible for conducting federal elections in Canada says it wants to undertake a pilot of Internet voting in a special election sometime after 2013. Elections Canada, in an Aug.
A warning against over simplification of federal websites
A coincidental spate of recent reports have pointed to the sometimes lacking quality of federal websites, even though public satisfaction with them generally has been around 75 percent for the past
Rulemaking getting short shrift on federal websites, says study
Federal agency web designers must resist the temptation to create sites that just meet the needs of primary users at the expense of rulemaking visibility, says a study commissioned by the
Pretty Good Democracy suggests path to Internet elections
Internet voting systems can guarantee high levels of privacy or vote verifiability, but not both, said Vanessa Teague, an honorary fellow in the University of Melbourne's department of computer
Sunstein: E-dockets should be better
Members of the public attempting to find the same proposed regulation docket on various federal websites can't always do so due to lack of a consistent naming conventions and search criteria,
